The Fight for Election Integrity Continues -- Audits, Criminal Investigations, Legislative Reform

a reply to: Boadicea

Proves her past "rules" may have been controlled opposition. Bingo 😁

a reply to: xuenchen

Sorry All -- I've been busy celebrating my birthday, enjoying my family and getting my veggie gardens going... and enjoying every minute! Whenever I started feeling guilty about not tending my thread, I reminded myself that I cannot stop doing all the things that I'm fighting for... like celebrating, enjoying my family, reveling in the gardens blooming with iris and roses and aloe and wildflowers, planting our veggies for nurturing our bodies with the fruits of the earth... and breaking in a new laptop.

So I have several links saved on my phone, which is charging right now, that I need to open on here, and then I can get them posted. By tomorrow morning -- I promise!

It's getting ugly here. The long knives are coming out. And of course all is not what it seems.

a reply to: Boadicea

I have been reading this thread from the start, you have been doing a good job with helping me keep up with all of this. enjoy your life and downtime and thank you for the effort.

a reply to: xuenchen

Sorry Xuen -- I don't know why I replied to you instead of my thread. D'oh!

a reply to: EmeraldCoastFreedm

Thank you -- I appreciate the positive words for the thread and your well wishes 🍺

I'm sure you also noticed I've had good company and it's been a team effort all the way. Rather a motley team, but we've been a team nonetheless! So big thanks and appreciation to all the rest too 🍻

a reply to: Boadicea

Yep I haven't replied here because it is so much easier to read news posted.

Good morning!

Let's start with Liz Harris being expelled from the AZ House yesterday. Plenty of articles about it:

Liz Harris Expelled From Arizona State House Of Representatives For Lying, Damaging Integrity Of Institution

On Wednesday, Arizona State Representative Liz Harris was expelled from the Legislature after being found to have damaged the integrity of the institution by the Ethics Committee.

Republicans called it a sad but necessary action in light of the fact that Harris was collaborating with conspiracy theorists who accused innocent public officials of being involved in a money laundering scheme with Mexican drug cartels and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

More regarding the Ethics Committee:

Ethics Committee, Election Skeptic Finds Harris Damaged Integrity Of House

On Tuesday, the Arizona State House Committee on Ethics formally determined that Rep. Liz Harris engaged in disorderly conduct, violating rules of the Arizona House of Representatives and “damaging the institutional integrity of the House.”

The Committee’s finding was unanimous, and seems to be shared by many legislative Republicans and Democrats alike.

The Committee has referred its Report to all Members of the House.

A couple things to keep in mind about Liz Harris --

1 - Liz Harris is the person who organized and conducted the voter canvass after the 2020 election.

You can read the actual report here. An AZ Voter Guide description for Liz Harris summarizes the findings --

A few of the more glaring Canvass findings included:

· Registered voters at vacant lots, schools, government and commercial buildings, PO Boxes with no valid primary address, AND EVEN AT fast food restaurants

· Phantom votes coming from addresses voters did not live at

· Voters who confirmed that they had voted but their vote was lost and not counted

· Votes counted of people who said they did NOT vote

· Modifications of voting methods (ex. A person voted in person on Election Day and a mail-in-ballot was recorded for him in place of the in-person vote.)

· Numerous instances where voters received multiple illegal mail in ballots

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2 - Liz Harris also vowed not to vote on ANY legislation until a new election was held --

Recently elected Arizona House Republican says she will not do her job unless the 2022 election is redone

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3 -- I'm pretty sure that Liz Harris is part of the Election Integrity Project here in AZ, although I cannot find any links right now, so I might be mis-remembering.
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Anyway, until more comes out, remember that Liz Harris has been a thorn in the cheating cheaters' sides for some time. They were just itching to get her out of the House one way or another.

Generally speaking, the House has no right to override the will of the people and their choice of Representative for breaking their rules. Take away committee assignments, turn off her mic, make her sit in the corner -- penalize her within the rules of the House. But expelling her entirely is completely out of line.

ETA: The worst part of all this? The cheating cheater Republicans on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will be responsible for choosing her replacement. It will be up to the Precinct Committeemen in her district to provide three candidates to the BofS. Let's hope that the Precinct Committeemen choose wisely.

a reply to: Boadicea

I haven't been following the revelations, but did the real-estate money laundering thing not prove to be true? I was under the impression there was a paper trail. And Happy Birthday!

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Boadicea

I haven't been following the revelations, but did the real-estate money laundering thing not prove to be true? I was under the impression there was a paper trail.

My understanding was that the "paper trail" was limited. They confirmed the real estate transactions (public records), but banking records and other financial records that could confirm sources and specific dollar transfers and whatnot were not (obviously) available for examination. There are probably more complications that I'm forgetting.

A thorough investigation and examination of ALL records by appropriate (and honest) legal authorities could probably prove or disprove much of what was alleged. But who's going to conduct such an investigation? (ETA: No one!) So the House can factually say that nothing has been proven, and should not have been presented in a public hearing without substantiation... knowing full well that a thorough investigation and examination has not and will not be conducted.

I do think it's noteworthy that no one is saying that the presentation was false or untrue. Harris has been accused of lying about her part in presenting it as she did, but not about the report itself.

And Happy Birthday!

Thank you!

I already posted about Maricopa County's investigation into the elections, and of course the County found that the County did nothing wrong... all those gosh darn errors happened all by themselves:

Maricopa County Report Identifies Glaring Election Errors as Lake, Finchem Challenges Continue

According to the report, the county expanded the length of the ballots from 19 inches during the primary election to 20 inches in the general election in order to include all of the required information. The increased ballot size in combination with the use of 100-pound ballot paper, the report concludes, was too great a strain on some older printers that were used.

Regarding the issue of ballots being printed for 19-inch paper rather than 20-inch, the report concluded that “ballots were re-sized as ‘fit to page,’ a process that entirely changed the location of the timing marks on the ballots and assured that neither the on-site tabulators nor the central count tabulators could read the ballots.”

It couldn’t be determined whether the reason for this change was “from a technician attempting to correct the printing issues … or a problem internal to the printers,” according to the report. However, during the investigators’ “testing, four printers randomly printed one or a few ‘fit to page’ ballots in the middle of printing a batch of ballots. None of the technical people with whom we spoke could explain how or why that error occurred.”

To me, the crux of the matter is how it happened. Despite Maricopa County's report, the machines did not change settings by themselves.

Hughes concluded: “An intentional change was made to the printers affecting the DAY OF Election ballots.”

Hughes told Just the News on Monday regarding McGregor’s report to Maricopa County: “The fact that she says these machines all failed the exact same way by reducing the size of the ballot” because the printers were working “so hard” that they “just independently decided” to have the same issues is “ridiculous.”

Also cited as a problem was the paper weight, which had been changed from 80# to 100# after the Sharpiegate bleed through fiasco in 2020 (which, of course, we're still being told never happened...)

More from Just The News:

Maricopa County report attributes Election Day issues to paper weight, ballot length

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Jen Wright (Esquire), formerly of the AZ AG's election integrity unit, has also weighed in on Maricopa County's report:

Former Arizona AG Attorney Denounces Maricopa County’s ‘Lackluster’ Investigation Dismissing the Printer Issues in the 2022 Election

Maricopa County officials tapped former Arizona Supreme Court Justice Ruth McGregor to investigate the printing problems in the 2022 election, and on Monday, the county released her report blaming the thickness of the ballot paper. Jennifer Wright, who was the Election Integrity Unit civil attorney for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office during the election and who performed her own investigation of Maricopa County’s election problems going back to the 2020 presidential election, told The Arizona Sun Times the report was “meaningless” since it did not include an analysis of the printer logs.

Wright tweeted on Monday, “The report proves printers failed, but doesn’t identify WHY some Oki printers experienced more problems than others. It seems to ‘exonerate’ MC without determining the ROOT cause of failure. It’s surface level stuff. It’s embarrassing. It would fail cross-examination.”

She further explained, “When a report simply confirms a problem exists but can’t explain why — it isn’t an investigative report, it’s an incident report. Would an insurance company end an investigation after determining the brakes failed? No! They’d find out why. Maintenance? Defect? Sabotage?”

The "why" the printers failed leads us directly back to "who" authorized the changes to the printer settings for Election Day. Maricopa County's report does not even pretend to address this!

Odds and ends:

Tracy Beanz of UncoverDC has weighed in on Kari's most recent motion on Twitter.

Kari's motion was in response to a demand for sanctions against her for bringing the lawsuit, specifically calling Kari's claim of 35,000 ballots being inserted into the count with no documentation "new" and "false." This specific reference opened the door to Kari correcting their claims, that it is not new and that it is not false.

Beanz posts and describes the various election chain-of-custody forms that were filled out, which forms were not filled out, and when and how these undocumented ballots appeared in the process.

Keep in mind that court precedents have declared that elected officials are presumed to be acting in good faith (foolishly and wrongly in my opinion, obviously!). As a private contractor, Runbeck Printing does not receive the same presumption of good faith.
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Judge Keeps Hamadeh’s Challenge Alive In Disputed Attorney General Race

The judge in Mohave County assigned to hear Abe Hamadeh’s election challenge against Kris Mayes in the race for Arizona Attorney General (AGO) issued a ruling Tuesday that keeps the case alive, albeit in limbo for another month.

Judge Lee Jantzen has ordered oral arguments to be held May 16 in Hamadeh’s long pending motion for a new trial in his battle to show he -not Mayes- would have received the most votes Nov. 8, 2022, if valid ballots had not been rejected and if other ballots had been tabulated properly.

The more evidence we can get on the record, the better for all of us.
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Hobbs Accused Of “Recklessly” Vetoing Electronic Voting Systems Bill

Majority Leader Borrelli is calling out Hobbs for what he says is “her continued blatant political games after she vetoed a bill that would have established oversight, security and transparency on electronic voting systems.”

SB1074 would have created standards for electronic equipment when used as the primary method for tabulating votes in any election. This bill would have required equipment to meet or exceed the standards set by the U.S. Department of Defense and would have put oversight in the hands of the auditor general and the counties.

Specifically, according to the text of the bill:

Prohibits the use of electronic voting equipment as the primary method for tabulating votes in any city, town, county, state or federal election unless:
a) the equipment meets or exceeds the standards set by the U.S. Department of Defense regarding cybersecurity;
b) all parts of the equipment are manufactured in the United States; and
c) all source codes for the equipment are submitted and maintained on file by the Auditor General.

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Finally --

MAJOR NEWS: The Gateway Pundit Wins Historic First Amendment Lawsuit, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Agrees to Settlement

The back story:

Maricopa County officials sought to prevent TGP reporter Jordan Conradson from attending briefings following the 2020 midterm elections. Jordan is widely regarded as the most fearless and honest reporter in the state of Arizona. Maricopa County claimed The Gateway Pundit’s coverage was not reputable after TGP and Conradson had forced a county official from office through our previous exclusive reporting.

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court overturned the initial ruling by Obama-appointed Judge John Tuchi.

The Court of Appeals concluded the county’s refusal to grant a press pass to TGP and Conradson was based on viewpoints expressed in his writings, and said it violated the First Amendment.

The Washington Post has also reported on the settlement of $175,000 and future access by The Gateway Pundit to Maricopa County facilities and events.

originally posted by: Boadicea

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court overturned the initial ruling by Obama-appointed Judge John Tuchi.

The Court of Appeals concluded the county’s refusal to grant a press pass to TGP and Conradson was based on viewpoints expressed in his writings, and said it violated the First Amendment.

I wonder if any xcalibur members would be upset over a corrupt judge on the other side of the aisle? Prolly not.

a reply to: network dude

I wonder if any xcalibur members would be upset over a corrupt judge on the other side of the aisle? Prolly not.

Good question. Very good question!!!

Is it just me, or does it seem like we're entering a new phase of censorship here... not just social media, but mainstream media?

It's impossible to report honestly and thoroughly if no one is allowed to report anything negative. I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E.

originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: network dude

I wonder if any xcalibur members would be upset over a corrupt judge on the other side of the aisle? Prolly not.

Good question. Very good question!!!

Is it just me, or does it seem like we're entering a new phase of censorship here... not just social media, but mainstream media?

It's impossible to report honestly and thoroughly if no one is allowed to report anything negative. I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E.

Even worse.

Self censoring.

a reply to: JinMI

Even worse.

Self censoring.

True.

Which then begs the question how many reporters are actually CIA or FBI or another three-letter-agency with the express purpose of obscuring, spinning and censoring facts and truth?

a reply to: Boadicea

If the twitter files are an indication, there could be a James Baker working in any of them.

a reply to: JinMI

So true. It's not even about rogue agents or reporters any more. We are no longer talking about isolated incidents, but systemic and institutional protocols, MOs and SOPs.

As they say, it's not a glitch -- it's a feature.

originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: JinMI

Even worse.

Self censoring.

True.

Which then begs the question how many reporters are actually CIA or FBI or another three-letter-agency with the express purpose of obscuring, spinning and censoring facts and truth?

As far as I can tell, project Mockingbird has only grown over the years.

At this point, I'm guessing that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of loyal agents and operatives working within the mainstream media.

Btw, I also noticed that the integrity board made no claims that the information presented by Jacqueline Breger, on behalf of Liz Harris, was at all false. They seemed embarrassed more than anything.

a reply to: IndieA

At this point, I'm guessing that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of loyal agents and operatives working within the mainstream media.

I gotta wonder just how much Kari knows and personally saw for herself during her time as a Fox News anchor. She quit shortly after the 2020 election -- in March 2021 if I remember correctly.

originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: JinMI

So true. It's not even about rogue agents or reporters any more. We are no longer talking about isolated incidents, but systemic and institutional protocols, MOs and SOPs.

As they say, it's not a glitch -- it's a feature.

And we cant do a damn thing about it.

"We" exposed it. Nothing is being done.