Release the Kraken

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What could possible go wrong when you hand out ballots like candy, suspend signature verification and don't even require any proof of identity to get a ballot?

Nearly 15 Million Mail-in-Ballots Unaccounted for in 2020 Election, Report Says


BY MATTHEW VADUM

August 18, 2021 Updated: August 18, 2021

In the November 2020 general election, whose chaotic results have been vigorously disputed, almost 15 million mail-in ballots went unaccounted for, according to a good-government group that focuses on electoral integrity.

The research brief by the Indianapolis-based Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) notes that as the nation dealt last year with the CCP virus (which causes COVID-19), various U.S. states “hastily pushed traditionally in-person voters to mail ballots while, at the same time, trying to learn how to even administer such a scenario.”

PILF describes itself as “the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity,” existing “to assist states and others to aid the cause of election integrity and fight against lawlessness in American elections.”

Former Justice Department civil rights attorney J. Christian Adams, now president of PILF, said the results don’t bode well for mail-in voting.

“These figures detail how the 2020 push to mail voting needs to be a one-year experiment,” Adams said in a statement.

Bills pending in Congress such as H.R. 1, the proposed “For The People Act,” “risk inflating these numbers even further, pushing our election system toward error, disenfranchisement, and ultimately widespread doubt about election outcomes,” Adams said.

“Some of the counties with the least experience in administering mail voting rejected the most ballots nationwide. If continued, 2020-style chaos will become the norm.”

PILF says it had warned that lost ballots would be an even bigger problem in 2020 compared to previous years. In total, elections in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 saw more than 43.1 million unaccounted for mail-in ballots.

Federal data compilations show that during the 2020 election, there were 14.7 million ballots whose whereabouts were deemed “unknown” by election officials, according to the brief.



To gather the data, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission asked local officials how many ballots were not returned as voted, were undeliverable, or were otherwise “unable to be tracked.”

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) inspector general most recently reported that only 13 percent of mail ballots in the 2018 general election used the official tracking system, which means there is a wide variety of things that can happen to a ballot in the “unknown” column.

“A ballot can be put in the wrong mailbox and land in an unfriendly neighbor’s trash. It can be thrown out with your unpaid bills. It can be left outside for the wind to carry the last mile (like seen in Nevada in 2020). Election officials simply do not know what happened. Unknown ballots are the greatest blind spot in the American electoral system,” the brief states.

In the 2020 election, there were 14.7 million “unknown” ballots, along with 1.1 million undeliverable ballots, and 560,814 rejected ballots.

PILF put these figures in perspective by noting that President Joe Biden carried Arizona by 10,457 votes, yet Maricopa County, the state’s largest county, reportedly sent ballots to 110,092 outdated or wrong addresses. The post-voting audit process in Maricopa is still in progress.

The scenario roughly repeated itself in Nevada, a state where Biden prevailed by 33,596 votes, even though Clark County “bounced” 93,279 ballots.

“The lesson is clear: increased reliance on mass mail voting must correlate with aggressive voter registration list maintenance,” the brief concludes.

The report notes that many counties across the country had large numbers of “unknown” ballots.

In California, Los Angeles County had 1,491,459 such ballots, followed by Orange County (482,940), Riverside County (454,911), San Diego County (317,614), San Bernardino County (274,937), Santa Clara County (251,840), and Sacramento County (241,367).

Clark County, Nevada, had 724,708 such ballots. Essex County, New Jersey, had 248,290 unknown ballots, and Maricopa County had 229,123 ballots in the unknown category.

[dadudaman4]

I'd like some coherent non I hate Dems and everything about them thoughts on this. While I agree it's a disaster, what else coulda been done? It's been 20 years and I read, I believe, over a trillion dollars spent. If there "army" was going to roll over as quickly as it did after all of this I don't know how any other solution wouldn't have resulted in the same outcome. Not blaming Trump/Obama/Biden, really am tired of the blame game, of which I am guilty as well, so seriously how could this have been handled better?

If after watching and reading the news of the past few weeks you cannot come up with one thing that would/could have changed the outcome of the debacle that unfolded, then I cannot help you. Pretty much anything different that could have been done would have improved upon what happened. Anything. Here's a couple of suggestions right off the top of my head: How about not leaving a fortified Bagram air base without notice to our allies and forcing us to use and defend a public airport? How about getting the civilians out before you take out the last remaining active forces? How about you not putting in a strict departure date before you can be assured everyone will be able to get out? How about letting our allies know what we were doing or not doing? How about accepting the Taliban's offer of us controlling Kabul, at least until we had an organized departure procedure? Biden f*cked up our withdrawal in just about every conceivable way. It could not have gone any worse if you or I had been in charge.

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Here is what they found in Pennsylvania before the audit. If you can't explain these anomalies you are better off just trying to ignore them.

Over 120,000 unreconciled votes

15,000 mail-in ballots sent out of state

1,823,148 mail-in ballots were sent out and 2,589,242 were sent back

21,000 confirmed dead voters

Over 300,000 voter registrations removed from the SURE system after November 3

Canvassing effort in Montgomery County found 78,000 phantom votes

Over 10,000 people voted by mail whose ID doesn’t exist in the SURE system

Over 29,000 Duplicate Registrations

7,857 Registrations whose DOB changed in 2020

55,823 voters backfilled into the SURE system

4,458 voters whose registration date changed in 2020

1,059,547 Voters whose only vote on record was the 2020 election

[MAL]

I'd like some coherent non I hate Dems and everything about them thoughts on this. While I agree it's a disaster, what else coulda been done? It's been 20 years and I read, I believe, over a trillion dollars spent. If there "army" was going to roll over as quickly as it did after all of this I don't know how any other solution wouldn't have resulted in the same outcome. Not blaming Trump/Obama/Biden, really am tired of the blame game, of which I am guilty as well, so seriously how could this have been handled better?

Here is about $85 Billion things he could have done differently. I read somewhere that the following equipment cost you personally almost $400 if you are a taxpayer.

Here is a more complete list of US-supplied and left behind equipment list now controlled by Taliban:

-2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAP’s
They have enough armored vehicles to take their entire army on a road trip.

-75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M35, Ford Rangers, Ford F350, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles etc
I could use a new truck if their giving them away...please Joe..."come on man"

-45 UH-60 Blachhawk Helicopters
-50 MD530G Scout Attack Chopper
-ScanEagle Military Drones
-30 Military Version Cessnas
-4 C-130’s
-29 Brazilian made A-29 Super Tocano Ground Attack Aircraft
208+ Aircraft Total
Joe just gave a bunch of terrorists their own Air Force.

-At least 600,000+ Small arms M16, M249 SAWs, M24 Sniper Systems, 50 Calibers, 1,394 M203 Grenade Launchers, M134 Mini Gun, 20mm Gatling Guns and Ammunition
-61,000 M203 Rounds
-20,040 Grenades
-Howitzers
-Mortars +1,000’s of Rounds
Don't try to tell me that Democrats are anti gun...they would just rather see a terrorist with a gun than a Republican.

-162,000 pieces of Encrypted Military Communications Gear
-16,000+ Night Vision Goggles
-Newest Technology Night Vision Scopes
-Thermal Scopes and Thermal Mono Googles
-10,000 2.75 inch Air to Ground Rockets
-Reconnaissance Equipment (ISR)
-Laser Aiming Units
Our troops won't be safe on the battle field for a decades after they get done selling our tech to China.

-Explosives Ordnance C-4, Semtex, Detonators, Shaped Charges, Thermite, Incendiaries, AP/API/APIT
-2,520 Bombs
Now they can strap their children in some real explosives' before they send them into a crowd.

-Administration Encrypted Cell Phones and Laptops all operational
The cell phones can be used to ignite the kid when he/she gets close enough to a gathering of Americans.

-Pallets with Millions of Dollars in US Currency
What is it with OBiden administration and giving pallets of cash to Terrorists.

-Millions of Rounds of Ammunition including but not limited to 20,150,600 rounds of 7.62mm, 9,000,000 rounds of 50.caliber
No point in giving them guns if you don't give them ammo.

-Large Stockpile of Plate Carriers and Body Armor
-US Military HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment Biometrics
And now they can spot your face in a crowd from a mile away.

-Lots of Heavy Equipment Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Excavators
This will come in handy when they have to bury the Americans that Biden left behind.

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Has anybody heard any thing about this. I don't know who Emily Miller is and I can't confirm this.

Emily Miller

@emilymiller
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Aug 29
"We’re dealing with Kabul. There’s 7 buses of female American citizens. The CG refused to open the gate. We have a congressman with us and he had the state department reach out. MG Donahue refused. 10 minutes ago the females were taken by the Taliban. They are likely dead now."
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Update from special ops leader on just the women on the bus - “I was told they are safe.” He said State Department involved.

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This sounds like the beginning of a movie where the villain is an American politician.


Michael Yon@MichaelYon
11 hours ago
Army Colonel, “Yes, we are f**king abandoning American Citizens”


COL US ARMY to Rick Clay and to me in final hours. Rick had three jets on ground in Kabul. I had arranged Taliban bringing American mother and three American children all the way to gate. Turned away by American Army.

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Judge Orders New Election After STAGGERING 78% of Mail-in Ballots Discovered As Fraudulent — Multiple Arrests Made

By McKenna Dallmeyer

How long are Democrats going to try and pretend like election fraud isn’t a real thing? What is the average lifespan of a Democrat?

The more that states and counties investigate their own elections the way that they’re supposed to, the more they’re finding out that it’s all been a sham that liberals have been stealing elections right out from under the people.

In Mississippi, they found that in one city, the results were proven to be a lie because 78% of the mail-in votes were determined to be fraudulent.

In the sixty-four-page order, Judge Jeff Weill not only calls for a new election but also finds evidence of fraud and criminal activity, in how absentee ballots were handled, how votes were counted, and the actions by some at the polling place.

In his ruling, the judge said that sixty-six of eighty-four absentee ballots cast in the June runoff were not valid and should never have been counted. Nicholas Holliday was declared the winner by a 37 vote margin. Robert Devaull challenged the results in court.

Judge Weill found many irregularities with absentee ballots. He issued a bench warrant for notary Dallas Jones, who notarized absentee ballots. During a hearing, Jones admitted violating notary duties.

“When you have an absentee ballot, there’s an envelope, you vote, fold the ballot, put it in an envelope, lick the flap, sign across the flap, then notary signs your election certificate, she testified that she didn’t sign in front of anybody, didn’t see anybody sign it, she just notarized it, just stamped them,” said Lydia Quarles, attorney for Robert Devaull.

Now, if other cities would continue this due diligence and investigate the elections and the ballots in their own cities, I’m sure that people would learn that they’ve been hoodwinked as well.

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Can you imagine the message of terror that they are sending to all that appose them while they are flying a US Black Hawk helicopter with someone that helped us in the war against terror dangling from a rope tied around his neck?

"What we are seeing happening in Afghanistan is a precursor to more to come and the reports from that region are getting worse by the day. In an absolutely horrible video that was posted on Twitter, it shows the Taliban using a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter to hang someone.

This is happening under Biden’s leadership.

This hanging comes after the last U.S. completely withdrew all troops from the ground in Afghanistan.

It appears the Taliban is showing the Afghan people the consequences of treason and also taking a jab at the United States for leaving billions of dollars worth of equipment in Afghanistan."


Full article and video here.

https://threepercenternation.com/202...-hang-someone/

[dadudaman4]

The lack of any semblance of advance planning for our troop withdrawal is galling. Biden looks more and more like a senile, weak fool with each passing day. Remember, he said "America is back." What a farce and an international embarrassment he has made us. The midterms cannot come soon enough so we can put an end to this lunacy.

[HuffHall]

Can you imagine the message of terror that they are sending to all that appose them while they are flying a US Black Hawk helicopter with someone that helped us in the war against terror dangling from a rope tied around his neck?

"What we are seeing happening in Afghanistan is a precursor to more to come and the reports from that region are getting worse by the day. In an absolutely horrible video that was posted on Twitter, it shows the Taliban using a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter to hang someone.

This is happening under Biden’s leadership.

This hanging comes after the last U.S. completely withdrew all troops from the ground in Afghanistan.

It appears the Taliban is showing the Afghan people the consequences of treason and also taking a jab at the United States for leaving billions of dollars worth of equipment in Afghanistan."


Full article and video here.

https://threepercenternation.com/202...-hang-someone/

This was proven to be "fake news"

https://www.thewrap.com/afghanistan-...cruz-crenshaw/

[HuffHall]

Now I know I'm living in bizzaro world

https://www.businessinsider.com/ann-...mp-wuss-2021-9

[dadudaman4]

The issue has not been about ending our military participation in Afghanistan, the issue is how it should have been done. That is where Biden completely and utterly failed. He had plenty of time to do it properly. Instead, he either received bad advice from his advisors or failed to heed it (much more likely). We have armed the Taliban for years to come and in doing so have made them a much more dangerous and effective destabilizing force in the region. Kudos all the way around to the Biden administration for this incredibly successful mission.

[MAL]

This was proven to be "fake news"

https://www.thewrap.com/afghanistan-...cruz-crenshaw/

I am glad to hear that I was duped. But it is not fake news that the Taliban is going for joy rides in our air craft...and what was the reason for the stunt...terror or something else?

[MAL]

Now I know I'm living in bizzaro world

https://www.businessinsider.com/ann-...mp-wuss-2021-9

Ann has been pissed at Trump for a long time...I think it started with the wall not getting finished 2 or 3 years ago..don't quote me on that, but Ann is on your team now.

[MAL]

This is disgusting. I can't believe that I haven't heard of this before. It's not related to the discussion, but when Snopes claims something is "false" it is usually true...and when you read the debunking article it confirms the fetal tissue is used to develop new flavors in food.

Were Food Companies Caught Using Aborted Babies in Flavor Additives?

Pro-life activists claim products from Pepsi and other major food producers are 'manufactured using the tissue of aborted human babies.'

• David Mikkelson

• Published 18 March 2012

Products from Pepsi and other major food producers are 'manufactured using the tissue of aborted human babies.'Rating


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In April 2015, the quack web site Natural News rebeat the drum of a several-year-old contoversy by publishing a misleading article (which was republished by a number of other equally disreputable web sites) holding that major food companies such as Pepsico sell products “manufactured using the tissue of aborted human babies”:

Every time you purchase mass-produced processed “food” from the likes of Kraft, PepsiCo, or Nestle, you’re choosing, whether you realize it or not, to feed your family not only genetically engineered poisons and chemical additives, but also various flavoring agents manufactured using the tissue of aborted human babies.

It’s true: A company based out of California, known as Senomyx, is in the business of using aborted embryonic cells to test fake flavoring chemicals, both savory and sweet, which are then added to things like soft drinks, candy and cookies. And Senomyx has admittedly partnered with a number of major food manufacturers to lace its cannibalistic additives into all sorts of factory foods scarfed down by millions of American consumers every single day.

Other similar articles purport to offer a “List Of Companies Using Fetal Cells From Aborted Babies To Flavour Products.”

In order to debunk such claims, we need first provide a couple of definitions:

• Human Embryonic Kidney 293 cells, commonly known as HEK 293, are a specific cell line which, as the name denotes, were derived from the kidney cells of an aborted human embryo in 1972. This cell line is widely used in efforts such as cell biology research and biotechnology/pharmaceutical development.
• Senomyx is a U.S.-based biotechnology company focused on “discovering and developing innovative flavor ingredients for the food, beverage, and ingredient supply industries,” primarily additives that amplify certain flavors and smells in foods

A controversy over Senomyx originated with the pro-life organization Children of God for Life back in March 2011, which maintained that Senomyx used HEK 293 in its flavor ingredient development efforts (citing a 2002 paper by company researchers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as evidence). That organization called for a boycott of major food companies (including Nestle, Campbell’s Soup, Kraft Foods, and PepsiCo) that had partnered with Senomyx:

Senomyx website states that “The company’s key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products … Using isolated human taste receptors, we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor.”

Senomyx notes their collaborators provide them research and development funding plus royalties on sales of products using their flavor ingredients.

“What they do not tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 — human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors,” stated Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director for Children of God for Life, a pro-life watch dog group that has been monitoring the use of aborted fetal material in medical products and cosmetics for years.

“They could have easily chosen COS (monkey) cells, Chinese Hamster Ovary cells, insect cells or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors,” Vinnedge added.

It’s important to note here that — whatever one might think of fetal stem cell research in general, and regardless of whether or not Senomyx uses HEK 293-derived cells in its development efforts — neither Pepsi nor any other U.S. food company is manufacturing or selling any consumable products “that are actually made using the cell tissue of unborn babies that were murdered through abortion.” What we’re talking about here is a cell line derived from a single (healthy, aborted) fetus over forty years ago: claiming that current food products employing flavorings derived from research based on the HEK 293 cell line “are actually made using the cell tissue of unborn babies” is like saying that possessing a digitized image of a photocopy of a picture of a Beethoven manuscript is the same as “owning a document in Beethoven’s own handwriting” — the original is not present in substance, only in a multi-generational, representational form. CBS News noted such in a mid-2011 report on the Senomyx controversy (which for some reason primarily focused on PepsiCo):

[Senomyx] appears to be engineering HEK cells to function like the taste-receptor cells we have in our mouth. This way, Senomyx can test millions of substances to see if they work as different types of taste enhancers without subjecting human volunteers to endless taste tests.

To non-scientists this may sound a bit strange, but the reality is that HEK 293 cells are widely used in pharmaceutical research, helping scientists create vaccines as well as drugs like those for rheumatoid arthritis. The difference here is that Senomyx’s work for Pepsi is one of the first times the cells have (potentially) been used to create a food or beverage. (And it’s important to note that no part of a human kidney cell are ever a part of Senomyx’s taste enhancers or any finished food products.)

For Debi Vinnedge, who runs the anti-abortion group Children of God for Life, that doesn’t matter. “It’s the eeew factor. It strikes a really strong reaction in people,” she said in an interview.

Even though HEK 293 cells trace their origin to a single fetal kidney back in the 1970s — everything since has come from cultured cell lines — Vinnedge considers their use unethical because it indirectly creates a market for aborted fetuses and encourages scientists to hunt for new embryonic cell lines. She argues that Senomyx could use other, non-fetus-based cell lines, such as those from animals.

Science and medicine writer Matthew Herper offered a similar explanation in Forbes:

The fetus-derived cell line we’re talking about was created around the time I was born. This is 35-year-old technology. And it is widely used in cell biology. And there is no way you’ll consume them or that the cells would cause any health problems.

The cells, called HEK 293 cells (that stands for human embryonic kidney) were taken from an aborted fetus in the 1970s in the Netherlands. Bits of chopped up DNA from the adenovirus, a virus that causes a pretty severe cold. The kidney cells were forced to take up bits of DNA using a technique invented in 1973 that used a calcium solution. The resulting cells don’t act much like human cells at all, but they are very easy to work with and have become workhorses of cellular biology. That’s why they’re used in the development of drugs and vaccines. No new fetal tissue has been used to keep the cell culture going; the use of this cell line isn’t leading to new abortions.

A tiny company called Senomyx has been working to use this new technology to create food additives. Senomyx has isolated receptors found on cells that detect taste, and added them to the HEK cells. This allows them to test thousands of potential taste additives to see whether they might taste sweet or savory with a speed that would be impossible with human taste testers. Synomyx has announced collaborations with Pepsi, Nestle, and Coca-Cola.

Senomyx themselves were circumspect about publicly addressing the issue of their whether they actually used the HEK 293 cell line in their research, although reporters investigating the subject noted references to HEK 293 in the company’s patents. For example, Laine Doss wrote in the Miami New Times that:

Asked about the [Children of God for Life’s] action alert, Gwen Rosenberg, vice president of investor relations and corporate communications for Senomyx, said, “We don’t discuss details of our research, but you won’t find anything on our website about HEK293.” I asked Rosenberg if Senomyx had a position on stem cell research. “We’ve never been asked that,” she replied, “We don’t have a position on anything. We’re dedicated to finding new flavors to reduce sugars and reduce salt. Our focus is to help consumers with diabetes or high blood pressure have a better quality of life.”

Though Rosenberg states there is nothing on the company website linking Senomyx with HEK293, a little Googling turned up a patent issued in 2008 for “Recombinant Methods for Expressing a Functional Sweet Taste Receptor,” in which a line item mentions HEK293.

And Melanie Warner wrote for CBS News that:

Is this claim true? Neither Pepsi nor Senomyx returned calls, so we don’t know the companies’ side of the story. But a perusal of Senomyx’s patents suggests that it may well be. All but 7 of the company’s 77 patents refer to the use of HEK 293 (human embryonic kidney) cells, which researchers have used for decades as biological workhorses.

In 2010 Senomyx entered into a four-year collaborative agreement to develop sweet enhancers and natural high-potency sweeteners for PepsiCo beverages, but it’s unclear whether PepsiCo has ever marketed any food products that include additives (of any kind) developed by Senomyx. It wasn’t until March 2014 that Senomyx announced the first fruits of their partnership with PepsiCo, a sweetness-enhancing “flavor modifier” known as Sweetmyx, but we’ve seen no subsequent announcement that PepsiCo has begun using Sweetmyx, and that additive appears to be a purely synthetic one:

Q: How exactly does Sweetmyx work?

A: Our tongue’s taste receptors work somewhat like pieces of a puzzle. When sugar hits our tongue a molecule of it will connect with a sweet taste receptor, stimulating the nerve pathway and creating the sensation of sweet. Sweetmyx hijacks that pathway by agitating and exciting that sweet taste receptor with another chemical that works when it’s in the presence of sugar. So in a way, it increases your receptor’s sensitivity to sweet taste sensations.

Q: Is Sweetmyx natural?

A: Although Senomyx has both “natural” and artificial flavoring additives in their pipeline, from what I’ve been able to surmise, S617 (the company’s moniker for Sweetmyx) is not a naturally derived sweetness enhancer. It appears to be artificially synthesized from chemicals.

Pepsi’s official response to the Senomyx issue was to point inquirers to their Responsible Research Statement, which stated that “PepsiCo’s research processes and those of our partners are confidential for competitive reasons. However, PepsiCo does not conduct or fund research that utilizes any human tissue or cell lines derived from human embryos.”

We contacted the Media Relations department at PepsiCo and posed some specific questions to them about their relationship with Senomyx but received only non-specific answers in response:

PepsiCo has a relationship with Senomyx to help us reduce sugar in future products. Senomyx does not provide ingredients to PepsiCo, nor does it manufacture PepsiCo products.

Senomyx is required to abide by our responsible research statement for any work they conduct for PepsiCo. As with each of our research partners, Senomyx is also required to meet all relevant industry and government regulatory standards in the work it performs for PepsiCo.

We can’t speak on behalf of another company or address speculation about work involving other companies.

Senomyx did not respond to our request for additional information.

• David Mikkelson

• Published 18 March 2012