An assault on American voters is underway

[China]

On 11/11/2021 at 2:23 PM, China said:

Dominion Voting Sues Fox, Seeking Election Evidence From Murdochs

 

Dominion Voting Systems Inc., the company falsely accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election, sued Fox Corp. in an effort to gain access to Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s documents about its coverage of the contest.

 

Dominion is trying to find out how much Murdoch and his eldest son, Fox Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lachlan Murdoch, were involved in Fox News’s broadcasting of bogus claims that Dominion conspired with foreign hackers to flip millions of votes away from then-President Donald Trump.

 

Dominion sued Fox News in March, but the network has balked at searching the Murdochs’ documents, Dominion said in a suit filed in Delaware state court.

 

“Indeed, Fox News has disclaimed any responsibility for searching or producing the Murdochs’ documents, or working to facilitate any discovery from Fox Corporation at all -- despite Fox Corporation’s clear involvement (through Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, and others) in managing Fox News, including through editorial input and control,” Dominion said.

 

The searches are warranted because the Murdochs “exert direct control” over editorial decisions at Fox News, which Dominion accused of pushing the conspiracy theory to avoid losing viewers who supported Trump, according to the complaint, filed Monday. The claims were repeatedly made on-air by Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s main lawyers in the fight to overturn the election results, and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell.

 

“The filing today changes nothing of substance in this case,” Fox Corp. said in an emailed statement. “Fox is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and we will continue to vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court.”

 

Dominion is fighting to salvage its reputation even as millions of Americans continue to believe the conspiracy theory, which helped trigger the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot by a mob of Trump’s supporters.

 

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Follow-up:

 

Murdoch emails loom large in Dominion Voting lawsuit against Fox News

 

Did Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch influence Fox News’ coverage of claims about two voting technology companies – knowing that those claims were false?

 

That has become a significant question in defamation lawsuits filed by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems Corp against Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp.

 

The plaintiffs are asking for more than $US4 billion ($5.6 billion) in damages from the media giant, on-air talent such as Maria Bartiromo and guests including Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, lawyers aligned with former US President Donald Trump.

 

Smartmatic and Dominion are seeking communications from Fox Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, the company’s executive chairman and chief executive, to help prove that Fox News either knew statements it aired were false, or acted with reckless disregard for whether they were true or false.

 

That is the standard of “actual malice,” which public figures must prove in order to prevail in defamation cases.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

Trump allies are angling for election jobs up and down the ballot. That could have consequences in 2024

 

As former President Donald Trump prepares for a potential comeback bid in 2024, his allies are flocking to election jobs all the way down to the local level in key battleground states, raising new concerns that the election officials who blocked Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election won't be there the next time around.

 

Trump himself has endorsed candidates for secretary of state and attorney general -- statewide races that play a crucial role in administering elections -- who have spread his lies about 2020. But in addition to statewide roles, Trump's acolytes are pursuing local election posts, even trickling down to the precinct level, and seeking to gain more prominent roles in state GOP parties and state legislatures ahead of the 2024 presidential campaign.

In Michigan, for instance, several new Republican appointees to county canvassing boards who have said they wouldn't have certified the 2020 election are replacing the GOP members who did certify the election result. One appointee in Macomb County urged Trump after the election to invoke the Insurrection Act and suspend the Electoral College meeting to set up military tribunals to investigate claims of election fraud.

 

Michigan is a microcosm of a broader, nationwide strategy being carried out by Trump allies like Steve Bannon, who has advocated for Trump's backers to infiltrate local Republican Party positions as well as election posts.

"We're taking over the Republican Party through the precinct committee strategy. We're taking over all the elections," Bannon said on an episode of his "War Room" podcast last month.
"We're going to get to the bottom of three November and we're going to decertify the electors," he continued. "And you're going to have a constitutional crisis. But you know what? We're a big and tough country, and we can handle that, we'll be able to handle that. We'll get through that."

 

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[China]

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

 

[Larry]

Is that seriously a post he made?  

[China]

‘Slow-motion insurrection’: How GOP seizes election power

 

In the weeks leading up to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a handful of Americans — well-known politicians, obscure local bureaucrats — stood up to block then-President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn a free and fair vote of the American people.

 

In the year since, Trump-aligned Republicans have worked to clear the path for next time.

 

In battleground states and beyond, Republicans are taking hold of the once-overlooked machinery of elections. While the effort is incomplete and uneven, outside experts on democracy and Democrats are sounding alarms, warning that the United States is witnessing a “slow-motion insurrection” with a better chance of success than Trump’s failed power grab last year.

 

They point to a mounting list of evidence: Several candidates who deny Trump’s loss are running for offices that could have a key role in the election of the next president in 2024. In Michigan, the Republican Party is restocking members of obscure local boards that could block approval of an election. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the GOP-controlled legislatures are backing open-ended “reviews” of the 2020 election, modeled on a deeply flawed look-back in Arizona. The efforts are poised to fuel disinformation and anger about the 2020 results for years to come.

 

All this comes as the Republican Party has become more aligned behind Trump, who has made denial of the 2020 results a litmus test for his support. Trump has praised the Jan. 6 rioters and backed primaries aimed at purging lawmakers who have crossed him. Sixteen GOP governors have signed laws making it more difficult to vote. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll showed that two-thirds of Republicans do not believe Democrat Joe Biden was legitimately elected as president.

 

The result, experts say, is that another baseless challenge to an election has become more likely, not less.

 

“It’s not clear that the Republican Party is willing to accept defeat anymore,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and co-author of the book “How Democracies Die.” “The party itself has become an anti-democratic force.”

 

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[China]

The stupid...it burns!

 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that Democrats who move to red states should get a 'cooling off period' before being allowed to vote

 

Greene said Democrats moving to red states should be temporarily barred from voting.

 

Florida and Texas have received the largest influx of new residents relocating from other states.

 

Greene also once again discussed a "national divorce," in which blue and red states split.

 

On Wednesday, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene advocated that people moving from Democratic-leaning states to Republican-leaning states should be temporarily barred from voting.

The congresswoman tweeted that "brainwashed people" moving from California and New York "really need a cooling off period."

 

 

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[China]

3 hours ago, China said:

The stupid...it burns!

 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that Democrats who move to red states should get a 'cooling off period' before being allowed to vote

 

Greene said Democrats moving to red states should be temporarily barred from voting.

 

Florida and Texas have received the largest influx of new residents relocating from other states.

 

Greene also once again discussed a "national divorce," in which blue and red states split.

 

On Wednesday, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene advocated that people moving from Democratic-leaning states to Republican-leaning states should be temporarily barred from voting.

The congresswoman tweeted that "brainwashed people" moving from California and New York "really need a cooling off period."

 

 

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Greene, for her part, insisted in a Twitter thread that a so-called national divorce wouldn’t entail a civil war… but no after-the-fact attempt to do clean-up will change the fact that civil war is an easily drawn implication of her remarks. Overall, she has shown — even while complaining about a supposed lack of respect for Republicans — that she doesn’t respect hardworking people of the United States who vote for Democratic candidates. Greene insisted that she “will NOT apologize when I muse or discuss ideas that stop Democrat voters and donors, who are moving out of the ****holes they created with their Democrat votes and donations, from ruining GREAT red states by bringing your disastrous ideas and destructive votes with you.” She added that Republicans “don’t want your blue votes ruining our red home states!”

 

Expulsion Of Marjorie Greene From Congress Proposed By Colleague

 

[Captain Wiggles]

Party of limited government and constitutional freedoms. 🤣

[LD0506]

18 hours ago, China said:

Greene insisted that she “will NOT apologize when I muse or discuss ideas that stop Democrat voters and donors, who are moving out of the ****holes they created with their Democrat votes and donations, from ruining GREAT red states by bringing your disastrous ideas and destructive votes with you.” She added that Republicans “don’t want your blue votes ruining our red home states!”

 

But keep sending your $$$ here!

 

How very Taliban of her.....

[goskins10]

On 12/28/2021 at 5:04 PM, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

 

 

 

Here is Beau talking about this ignorance. Mostly preaching to the choir but he makes some good points as usual. 

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

 

[China]

Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting

 

Mark Finchem was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

 

He says he didn't go inside, but he snapped some photos of people who did.

 

"What happens when the People feel they have been ignored, and Congress refuses to acknowledge rampant fraud. #stopthesteal," he tweeted.

 

The Arizona state representative was there to share what he called "evidence" of an "irredeemably compromised" 2020 election with Republican lawmakers from his home state of Arizona. To be clear, Republican election officials in the state deemed the results "free, fair, and accurate" and even a discredited GOP-led "audit" run in the state's largest county agreed Biden won.

More recently, Finchem also appeared at a QAnon conference, and in speaking with NPR declined to describe what happened at the Capitol as a riot or an insurrection, instead making allusions to a sort of conspiracy involving law enforcement.

 

Now, he is running to oversee voting in Arizona in 2022.

 

And he's not alone.

 

An NPR analysis of 2022 secretary of state races across the country found at least 15 Republican candidates running who question the legitimacy of President Biden's 2020 win, even though no evidence of widespread fraud has been uncovered about the race over the last 14 months. In fact, claims of any sort of fraud that swung the election have been explicitly refuted in state after state, including those run by Republicans.

 

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[NoCalMike]

The MTG is batshiiiiii but in reality it's just another attempt to normalize and mainstream those kinds of things so in 2-3 election cycles, more members of the GOP will express the same ideas but in a different way in an attempt to win favor.   I think suspending your right to vote based on moving to another state cooooould be beyond the pale of ever catching on, but you never know.

 

The right to vote has never been popular among the wealthy elites.  I don't think they have ever liked the idea that the working poor and even some of the middle class can potentially determine how things are fun.

 

"ownership society" is hardly a new concept within the right-wing.

Edited January 5, 2022 by NoCalMike

[China]

 

[Larry]

43 minutes ago, China said:

 

Probably vaporware. 

[Jumbo]

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/cyber-ninjas-company-led-arizona-025600651.html

 

Cyber Ninjas, company that led Arizona GOP election 'audit,' is shutting down

 

Cyber Ninjas, the company that led a partisan review of 2020 ballots in Arizona, is closing down following a scathing report by election officials and the threat of $50,000 a day in fines.

 

"Cyber Ninjas is shutting down. All employees have been let go," Rod Thomson, the company's representative, said in a text message Thursday evening

 

The Florida-based company, founded in 2013, has less than a dozen employees, according to its LinkedIn page.

A reporter for The Guardian earlier Thursday reported Cyber Ninjas' plans to shut down.

 

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah said he would impose a $50,000 fine against Cyber Ninjas every day until it hands over documents related to the so-called audit after the Arizona Republic newspaper filed a public records request, The Associated Press reported Thursday.

 

Jack Wilenchik, a lawyer for Cyber Ninjas, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

[China]

Let’s Just Take Republicans at Their Word When They Say They’d Overturn an Election

 

Mitch McConnell says it’s “ridiculous” to think GOP-controlled legislatures would subvert the will of voters. Uh, really?

 

On Tuesday, on the eve of the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell assured reporters on Capitol Hill that there was no risk that members of his party would attempt to reverse the results of a future presidential election. It was “ridiculous,” he argued, to even suggest that any state legislature would “want to overturn the counting of votes.”

 

“I think they assume that people who get elected to the legislature are idiots,” the Kentucky Republican said of his Democratic colleagues.

 

I mean, kind of. Last fall a Republican state representative in New Hampshire sent an email to his colleagues warning that the Covid-19 vaccine included a “living organism with tentacles.” A high-ranking Tennessee Republican state representative was ejected from a high school basketball game this week after attempting to pull down the referee’s pants. It’s a horror show out there. These are people who regularly have to be told how bodies work.

 

But whether or not these guys are “idiots” is not really the point. Politicians are measured by how they use their power, and on that point McConnell has already been proven wrong—Republicans at the state level have indicated quite clearly that they would support overturning the will of the people in a presidential election.

 

Just take Pennsylvania. In the run-up to the certification of the electoral college results last year, a majority of the Republican members of the Pennsylvania house of representatives—57 of them—signed a letter asking members of Congress to object to the counting of Pennsylvania’s electors. About a week later, when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a desperate legal effort to have the Supreme Court throw out the election results in four Biden-won states, Pennsylvania’s speaker of the house and house majority leader submitted an amicus brief in support of the thing McConnell says they’d never do. McConnell’s own Senate colleague, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, volunteered to argue the case. And 125 members of Congress signed their own brief in support.

 

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[Larry]

54 minutes ago, China said:

Let’s Just Take Republicans at Their Word When They Say They’d Overturn an Election

 

Mitch McConnell says it’s “ridiculous” to think GOP-controlled legislatures would subvert the will of voters. Uh, really?

 

Just pointing out - There's video of Peter Navaro claiming that his book completely exonerates Trump, and the GOP, from the blame for 1/6.  Because according to him, when the rioters breached the building, him, and hundreds of Republicans, had spent the previous month working on a plan where they were going to overturn the election "legally".  

 

In fact, according to him, when the rioters breached the building, Ted Cruz had already initiated his role in the script.  

 

They're literally using "but we were already implementing our plan to overturn the election" as a defense against their guilt for the riot.  

 

Edited January 7, 2022 by Larry

[LD0506]

21 hours ago, Larry said:

 

Just pointing out - There's video of Peter Navaro claiming that his book completely exonerates Trump, and the GOP, from the blame for 1/6.  Because according to him, when the rioters breached the building, him, and hundreds of Republicans, had spent the previous month working on a plan where they were going to overturn the election "legally".  

 

In fact, according to him, when the rioters breached the building, Ted Cruz had already initiated his role in the script.  

 

They're literally using "but we were already implementing our plan to overturn the election" as a defense against their guilt for the riot.  

 

 

Which is exactly the same kind of "skull full of bees" rationalization they use for everything they've tried for forty years. No surprise here.

 

Something I think gets overlooked is that these dullards ARE representing their constituents, the people voting them in are even dumber than they are. 

[The Evil Genius]

 

[Larry]

No need to. 
 

The USSC has literally ruled that US citizens do not have the right to fair elections.