The Kraken is released on Georgia and Michigan

Sidney Powell has dropped the bombshell cases in Georgia and Michigan

These cases are specifically suing the State officials. In Georgia, they are going after the Governor, Brian Kemp, and the Secretary of State, Brad Raffensberger. In Michigan, it is also the Governor, Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson.

“The scheme and artifice to defraud was for the purpose of illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to make certain the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States.”

John Solomon on JustTheNews

Powell’s (Georgia) suit made a variety of allegations, including that:

  • At least 96,600 absentee ballots were requested and counted but were never recorded as being returned to county election boards by the voter. “Thus, at a minimum, 96,600 votes must be disregarded,” the suit said.
  • Kemp and Raffensperger “rushed through the purchase of Dominion voting machines and software in 2019 for the 2020 Presidential Election” without due diligence and disregarded safety concerns.
  • “There is incontrovertible physical evidence that the standards of physical security of the voting machines and the software were breached, and machines were connected to the internet in violation of professional standards and state and federal laws.”
  • Fulton County election workers used a claim of a water leak to evacuate poll watchers and workers for several hours on Election night, even as “several election workers remained unsupervised and unchallenged working at the computers for the voting tabulation machines until after 1:00 AM.
  • State officials in a settlement with Democratic parties made changes to election procedures that violated both state law and the U.S. Constitution.

Read the suits in full at Sidney Powells site:

The Kraken is released on Michigan!

The Kraken is released on Georgia!

There are agents of China and Iran:

As explained and demonstrated in the accompanying redacted declaration of a former electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic intelligence, the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent US general election in 2020. This Declaration further includes a copy of the patent records for Dominion Systems in which Eric Coomer is listed as the first of the inventors of Dominion Voting Systems. (See Attached hereto as Exh. 8, copy of redacted witness affidavit, 17 pages, November 23, 2020).

This starts with US intelligence, involves Dominion and shifted hundreds of thousands of votes from Trump to Biden:

Expert Navid Keshavarez-Nia explains that US intelligence services had developed tools to infiltrate foreign voting systems including Dominion. He states that Dominion’s software is vulnerable to data manipulation by unauthorized means and permitted election data to be altered in all battleground states. He concludes that hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump in the 2020 general election were transferred to former Vice-President Biden. (Exh. 26).

The expert Navid Keshavarz-Nia– is a high level cyber security man who has led or worked with the CIA, NSA and FBI etc. In a story from September 2020, the NY Times lavishes praise on him saying those who worked with him said, [he] “was always the smartest person in the room.”

Burst water pipes, that didn’t burst, helped to clear the room

A burst water pipe that cleared the counting room turned out to be, at most, a toilet overflowing in another building.

It was widely reported that “As of 7 p.m. on Wednesday Fulton County Elections officials said 30,000 absentee ballots were not processed due to a pipe burst.”31 Officials reassured voters that none of the ballots were damaged and the water was quickly cleaned up. But the emergency delayed officials from processing ballots between 5:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.

Plaintiffs have learned that the representation about “a water leak affecting the room where absentee ballots were counted” was not true. The only water leak that needed repairs at State Farm Arena from November 3 – November 5 was a toilet overflow that occurred earlier on November 3. It had nothing to do with a room with ballot counting, but the false water break representation led to “everyone being sent home.” Nonetheless, first six (6) people, then three (3) people stayed until 1:05 a.m. working on the computers.

More to come on that one, no doubt. History awaits….

UPDATE: The Daily Mail UK has at least mentioned these two laws cases, but essentially reduced them to a bunch of “spelling mistakes” by someone who was “thrown off the Trump team”. There were 2709 comments when I looked, but reassuringly — without fail, all the most popular ones were scathing of “liberals” and the Daily Mail. It’s like the days of ClimateGate but 1,000 times bigger.

 

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241 comments to The Kraken is released on Georgia and Michigan

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    PeterS

    Finally some real evidence has been tabled. Now we shall see if the states brush it under the carpet and do nothing instead of arresting the officials involved. If nothing happens I suppose it will go to the Supreme Court but then the officials will escape criminal prosecution, I think.

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      David Wojick

      It is very hard to brush a trial under the table. The charges must be answered. Unless the Judge throws the case out on summary judgement, which is automatically the first motion the defendants will make.

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        David-of-Cooyal-in-Oz

        Our news sources are at least trying to hide this news.
        As of 0800 hrs Sydney time both Oz ABC and SMH (Sydney Morning Herald) have managed to produce zero stories about the cases.
        Cheers
        Dave B

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          No surprise here. The whole “nothing to see here” and lack of reporting is deliberate, but I do not think that the ABC et al have thought through the consequences if Trump assumes govt.

          Their wilful misreporting or lack of reporting will then fuel a “Trump coup” narrative, whereas reporting objectively here would then have low information people at least aware of what is happening, and little surprise. Sudden surprises always provoke a lot of reaction. Quite frankly I am certain that many within the ABC are aware of this and deliberately have adopted this false narrative. Then they can move into the “Trump coup” story and pretend to be shocked….

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          sophocles

          and when they, the Legacy Media, eventually — if ever — discover that they also have Zero Credibility and it stays NIL, they will act oh so surprised. `Legacy Media‘ is not a joke. At all.

          I’ve read both Sydney’s Georgia and Michigan charge sheets and they both spell Treason in large letters.

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      Matthew Wall

      When has any polly in the US been held accountable?

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        PeterS

        Good question. Not just the politicians but also officials and others. I find it very odd that people can allegedly commit a major fraud without being charged as such under the existing laws. The evidence is clear cut with affidavits and videos to demonstrate that alleged crimes have been committed. Yet people in question are still free. If one videoed a bank robber committing a crime and witnesses with sworn affidavits presented themselves that the crime was allegedly committed, wouldn’t that lead to an instant arrest of the robber and the prosecutor then has to present the evidence in the court to try and prove the alleged crime was actually committed? So what’s different about the alleged fraudulent vote and counting acts conducted, captured on video and witnessed by many others?

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          Greg Cavanagh

          There seems to be a clear demarcation of types of crimes.

          The police will attend to any minor crime involving cars, drugs, guns and sometimes violence.

          The police never get involved in blue collar crimes (I’m talking US here). These seem to require the politicians getting involved with the CIA, FBI and judges. These seem to be bought off way before getting anywhere near a conviction. And yes, the police are always notably absent.

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        Broadie

        Politicians are held responsible at the next election.

        The US system is designed to be imperfect, thus acting to slow the actions of any level of Government allowing ‘we the people’ time to organize to defend the Constitution and the principles it enshrines.

        The only means to subvert this protection mechanism was to stop the people from walking their dogs, meeting at the office coffee machine, talking to the hairdresser, and generally controlling the information passed between citizens. Enter Big Tech & Fake News with COVID.

        Time will tell if ‘We the People’ can successfully protect what has worked for the USA from the Socialist ‘Nirvana’ we know will fail, enslave and impoverish them.

        Jo has been able to act as an important message source in this ‘War’ and is very brave to host this information.

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      Stanley

      There are so many typographical errors in these documents that it makes you wonder if they are real. Where is “District of Colombia”, I thought it was spelled “Columbia”? Fifth-rate law students?

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        Broadie

        Have you listened to Mark Latham speak on the current state of our education system.

        The US has a similar problem with illiterate teachers. Trump is under attack from the Teachers Unions for attempting to give schools some independence and the parents a choice.

        Where does the Legal Profession go to find a person proficient in English? India? China? the Philippines?

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        DennisA

        Massive amount of work gone into this large volume in such a short time. Unfortunate typos etc but they do not detract from the evidence presented. Proof reading was clearly not possible in the time scale.

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      Walter J Culver

      Folks – This is getting sillier and sillier. The matter is closed on the states that have certified their elections. Here’s the status of the key states that Trump (and his surrogates) have been contesting:

      – Georgia – CERTIFIED 20 Nov.
      – Michigan – CERTIFIED 23 Nov.
      – Pennsylvania – CERTIFIED 23 Nov.
      – Nevada – CERTIFIED 24 Nov.
      – Arizona – To certify Monday, 30 Nov.
      – Wisconsin – To certify Tuesday, 1 Dec.

      The Certificates of Ascertainment are, or within hours will be in our the U.S. archives permanently.

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        And potential massive fraud with hundreds of witnesses, videos, statistical evidence are irrelevant. And legal decisions have never been overturned, or appealled, or changed in the SCOTUS.

        But you really hope none of these things matter. And fraud is OK.

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    Thank you Jo for continuing to highlight this.

    The mainstream media are still nowhere to be seen. Rats do their best work in the dark, and Facebook/CNN/Twitter/Google and now even Fox, are doing their level best to ensure no light is shed on this terrible situation.

    I had liked Laura Ingraham but her disgusted segement the other day leads me to be believe she actually has no principles after all. Now joining Tucker in the pantheon of Quislings….

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      GD

      Rats do their best work in the dark, and Facebook/CNN/Twitter/Google and now even Fox, are doing their level best to ensure no light is shed on this terrible situation

      Coupled here in Australia, with all of our free-to-air media, especially the government-funded ABC, along with Channels 7, 9, and 10.

      Only Sky gives brief coverage of this fraud, with Alan Jones being the only Sky presenter to stand with Trump. Murray, Bolt et al have also caved to the prospect of a Biden presidency.

      Good on you Alan! A sole voice of sanity in a wilderness of lies and obfuscation.

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        OriginalSteve

        Ive been keeping everyone I know updated about whats going on…now that we have some hard evidence, I’m sure my friends and family will be intrigued about whats going on.

        Media black out or not, this stuff is pure dynamite…and I’m making sure people are hearing about it.

        If it gets too bad, all of you might get another “new” virus I suspect….anything to stop the trial…they will have multiple strategies in place to try and derail thier evil activities coming to light.

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          John in Oz

          now that we have some hard evidence

          The affidavits and videos showing fraudulent activities have been available for at least 2 weeks or more.

          Nothing from the Democrats calling for investigations, just platitudes of ‘togetherness’ from the newly created ‘Office of the President Elect’.

          There is also no mention in the media of the 4 years of protests/violence from the Left, as if it never happened.

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            Walter J Culver

            Folks – I have not read all of the 104 pages–I have better things to do–but in what I have read I don’t see anything here that’s particularly new.

            Trump has filed ~100 lawsuits, of which the great majority have been withdrawn. About 40 have led to judgements, and only 1 has been successful (on minor issues).

            Their problem uniformly is that their assertions do NOT equate to evidence. The Rule of Evidence is usually taught 1/2 law school, and it applies! If a lawyer pushes too hard to turn faulty assertion/witness-observation into faulty evidence, the lawyer can be punished under federal Rule 11. So of the many unresolved lawsuits, the word “fraud” has been expunged in all of them by Trump’s lawyers, even going back to revise them remove claims of fraud. “Fraud” has made good TV theater, terrible jurisprudence.

            I see many of the claims here to be warmed-over failed tries or so preposterous as to have no hope of success. And I’ll bet $100 on that.

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              OK Walter hasn’t read the suit but knows it’s “old” stuff.
              Walter doesn’t realize that the Trump campaign hasn’t filed “100 suits” (his supporters have filed some all by themselves) but Walt is here to provide smog fog and bad information.
              Ergo Treat Walt’s legal opinion as advertising.

              Walt, up at the top of a thread you need to raise your game. I will not let you hijack and dilute discussion with empty no-knowledge bluster repeated.

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              Yes Walter,

              it also appears that the Kraken documents don’t have any substantive claims that require a judgement.

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              sophocles

              Thank you Walter.

              I’ve read both suits — in Full.

              Hint: on this blog, you need to.

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      Walter J Culver

      Not true. As soon as Powell’s challenge was filed, here’s a small sample of the media that reported it in a prominent way: CBS, Fox, Detroit News, Bloomberg, The Hill. The others gave page 19 mention of it, which in my opinion is far more than it deserves.

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    PeterPetrum

    Fantastic stuff, Jo. Thank you for pursuing this so thoroughly and comprehensively. Nowhere else on the Australian media can I find such comprehensive coverage. We are blessed by your diligence.

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    Tristan

    Oh man, this is gonna be good. I wish it was televised.

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    crakar24

    unfortunately news does not meet the guidelines for publishing on twitter/facebook/MSM

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    crakar24

    Im am no lawyer but this looks like a pretty solid case i wonder what GA thinks?

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      Analitik

      And Small Footprint. And Simon.

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      David Wojick

      Cases always look solid when you only read one side. I wonder how long defendants have to reply. That is if the Judge does not throw the whole thing out. Time is of the essence but these are complex arguments. There should be lots of depositions taken and experts to hire and do quick studies. Normally a case like this would take many months. Unfortunately the potential time crunch, coupled with the gravity of the case, encourages the Judge to find a reason to dismiss the case.

      Most Judges do not like hard cases. Of course if it were dismissed that would instantly be appealed.

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        Forrest Gardener

        Yes. And wouldn’t it be a brave US Supreme court that nullifies the election for fraud after Biden was inaugurated.

        My first guess is that the bad guys went to great lengths to make their omelette impossible to unscramble in the time available.

        My second guess is that Trump’s side wants the argument to be about whether any reasonable legislature could possibly certify the results. That’s not an easy argument either because certification is pretty much a tick the boxes exercise. The big thing in favour of the argument is that election officials and judges changed the rules without proper authorisation.

        But if they can push Biden below the magic 270 then it goes to the house to decide and Trump would almost certainly prevail.

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          Analitik

          After inauguration, the Presidency would not be overturned – there is precedent for this. There is a firm time limit on these legal actions to affect the election outcome which is one reason I think Sidney Powell split hers off from the main Trump effort.

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            Forrest Gardener

            One thing about Supreme Courts is that they have unique authority to decide that previous matters were wrongly decided or limited to their facts.

            But I agree with the rest of your points which is why I said it would be “brave” for the US Supreme Court to nullify the election after the inauguration.

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        Lawrie

        I am no expert on law here or there but if it was proven that that votes were stolen, transferred or lost as a result of these claims it would still make Joe’s Presidency illegitimate. It would also ensure that Dominion machines were removed and that another more secure voting system was instituted. Charges of impropriety against election officials would still stand and hopefully jail time would discourage future skullduggery. It could be interesting to see how many Democrats were elected to various positions including Congress and Senate with help from Dominion. Imagine a completely fair election in 2022 where Republicans controlled both houses and started investigating Joe and Hunter. The Republicans would win in 2024 and eviscerate Twitter, Facebook and Google. How wonderful.

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          Walter J Culver

          BUT first Trump would have had to file suit with an allegation of FRAUD. There was none. For example, you would expect his most important lawsuit–for the large number of electoral votes of Pennsylvania–to be the most fully developed, but no mention of fraud there. It was thrown out by Judge Brann (a hard and fast Republican) in the lower court in a very harsh finding, and then dismissed on appeal unanimously by the three Republican-appointed judges of the Third Circuit, also with a very harsh finding.

          So this key suit, to disqualify 2.5 million in PA, was rejected by all 4 GOP-appointed judges, with this aside: “The Campaign NEVER alleges that any ballot was fraudulent or cast by an illegal voter“, which is about the only was you could disqualify that many voters:
          https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/politics/trump-pennsylvania-lawsuit-appeal/index.html

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      John

      NPCs don’t think GA and the others will be waiting for instructions.

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      I think it is amateurish bloocks (SIC)

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      Walter J Culver

      Not much. GA certified its election on 20 Nov and has long since filed its Certificate of Ascertainment with the U.S. Archives, where it’s now in the permanent records of the U.S.

      And, this is part of the context:

      “Trump Official in Charge of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Says 2020 Election Was the Most Secure in U.S. History”

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    Matty

    Should make Tucker Carlsen happy…..

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    Forrest Gardener

    Winning a legal battle is a matter of getting in a good clean hit. Each of the issues in the summary above is a good clean hit but on their own may not be enough to declare the election null and void in Georgia. If that is true then the court would have be to convinced about the scheme and artifice. To make that fly you would need to explain how the court should know that the issues really are linked. Either that or argue that the issues are so plainly connected that coincidence cannot explain it.

    It would be even more of a stretch for the US Supreme Court to order that Trump won the state. My best guess would be that the court might hold that no reasonable state could certify the election results. If that happens in a couple of states then neither candidate will reach 270 votes and the House of Reps decides. By a quirk of the US constitution each state gets one vote and Trump is very likely to prevail.

    I’m not actually sure the claim constitutes a Kraken. But I do look forward to seeing the defence. How will each criminal explain why they acted the way they did?

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      Jojodogfacedboy

      President Trump is not looking to reverse the votes.
      He wants each State to be uncertified in that the State broke their Constitutional Obligation.

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        Forrest Gardener

        Reversal of the result is in the relief sought in this claim.

        I agree though that this is not a claim filed on behalf of Trump. It is filed on behalf of the nominated republican electors and just happens to seek to favour Trump.

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      Matty

      I’m assuming that having US election data sent around the world in real time is a bellringer by normal media standards – Powell seems to be saying that they can prove this occurred. Would that demand a full audit/inquiry of all effected states, because we know how that will end?

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      PeterS

      Is intimate knowledge of the security flaws, such as providing internet access to the voting systems even if breaches are not proven sufficient for the officials in question to be charged with criminal offences?

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        David Wojick

        I think you have to prove intent, which is very hard unless you have them saying it. Negligence might be possible. I know very little about criminal law. My work has all been on the civil side.

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          Forrest Gardener

          Intent is not an element in all offences. For example strict liability applies to drunk driving.

          The issue of intent was instrumental in the FBI falsely exonerating Hillary of the email server scandal. Intent was not an element of the offence so her proclaimed lack of intent was not a defence.

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          PeterS

          Why do I have to prove intent when there is evidence of the intent on video and witnesses with sworn affidavits are presented to allege the intent of a crime was executed? The perpetrators in question should now be arrested and charged, and the prosecutor will present the case to the court to try and prove that the actual intent resulted in a crime against the laws.

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            Forrest Gardener

            PeterS there are some offences where intent is critical. A simple (but unrelated) example is that intent is the difference between manslaughter and murder.

            In this case intent is the difference between clear evidence that a bunch of blundering idiots each performing the role they were given and a conspiracy among dem activists to defraud.

            Like you I don’t see the issue of intent to be particularly important. We’ll just have to wait to see how all of this unfolds.

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              RossP

              Apparently under US electoral law it is not up the claimant to prove illegality , it is up to the defendant to prove legality.
              Given many of the law/rule changes the state officials made for this election are unconstitutional I think they have a problem on the legality front. (only the state legislators can make or change rules for elections.)

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        Walter J Culver

        No! No more than your simply owning a gun makes you more of a suspect in a shooting than your neighbors.

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      crakar24

      It lays the ground work for the EO which is the kraken

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      Peter

      While the courts can determine an outcome here, the legislatures are entitled to act independently, and quickly. Having seen the Pennsylvania legislatures hearing yesterday, i expect that they will take responsibility, based on their own assessment of the facts and evidence available to them. If a number of the other states legislatures do the same then Trump could be awarded their respective states electoral college votes as well, which may get Trump >270 votes, which means he is elected. , or alternatively both candidates get less than 270, at which point it goes to congress with a single vote per state electing the President.

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        Walter J Culver

        Factually wrong on three counts: (1) The state legislatures are NOT entitled to act independently about who wins. By their own states’ constitutions, the popular vote in each state determines the electors who go to the electoral college. (2) It is the executive branch of government in each state, thru its election boards that determines who won the plurality of the popular vote. That includes certifications of the vote. (3) Only if the candidates are tied in the national electoral votes does it go to the House of Representatives, who determine the president, who here would be Biden, and the Senate, who determines the vice president. Control of the Senate is uncertain pending a runoff in January for Georgia’s 2 senators.

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          Peter

          Thanks Walter but i do not think you are right about that, either way i am sure we are going to all find out !

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          Forrest Gardener

          Three swings and three misses Walter.

          For a start do you remember the dems encouraging state legislatures to send faithless electors when Hillary lost in 2016? That covers your points 1 and 2. And it goes to the house of reps if no candidate enjoys 270 votes which covers your point 3.

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            Walter J Culver

            Gardener – I think you’ve just proven my points. It certainly wasn’t many Democrats who pushed sending faithless electors to the Electoral College in 2016. Remember, the 2016 election was 8 Nov and Hillary conceded to Trump on 9 Nov. Whatever nuts proposed the “faithless electors” trick got no air under their wings. And each state’s constitution prohibits that anyway, e.g., Google “Pennsylvania statute on elections”, where the 1st entry is PA election statute 1937 Act 320: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&yr=1937&sessInd=0&smthLwInd=0&act=320&chpt=15 , specifically “there shall be elected by the qualified electors [voters]of the Commonwealth, persons to be known as electors of President and Vice-President.”

            Click it and you’ll see there’s no provision for the legislature to intervene. The election board sets the detailed rules and it’s part of the executive branch .

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    John R Smith

    I sincerely pray that Prester John is coming, but I doubt it.
    I live in one of the very blue east coast states.
    Hate to say it, but voting here is a joke.
    A couple of years ago the machine changed my vote in front of my eyes.
    I had to call one of the election judges over.
    He corrected it, smiled, and said “they just do that sometimes”.
    This last time, there was barely any opposition to choose from.
    That had page long referendums written in bureaucratic indecipherable Doublespeak.
    All for borrowing vast amounts of money for alleged do gooding.
    That’s it for me, I’ll never get that 30 minutes of my life back and I’m running short.
    The smiling faces preaching love and harmony always turn out to be the evil ones.
    SSDD.
    It’s just Global now.

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    Fuel Filter

    The lawsuit in Georgia is about 150 pages long, but here’s the upshot, thanks to a comment at CTH (I only go to pg 95 or so…).

    Those who wish to read it, here’s the link.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/26/sidney-powell-files-lawsuit-against-state-of-georgia-for-election-rigging-links-and-pdf/comment-page-1/#comments

    Here is what Sid Powell is asking for in pages 100-102
    *****

    For these reasons, Plaintiff asks this Court to enter a judgment in
    their favor and provide the following emergency relief:

    Pg 100
    1. An order directing Governor Kemp, Secretary Raffensperger and the
    Georgia State Board of Elections to de-certify the election results;

    2. An order enjoining Governor Kemp from transmitting the currently
    certified election results to the Electoral College;

    3. An order requiring Governor Kemp to transmit certified election
    results that state that President Donald Trump is the winner of the
    election;

    Pg 101
    4. An immediate order to impound all the voting machines and
    software in Georgia for expert inspection by the Plaintiffs.

    5. An order that no votes received or tabulated by machines that were
    not certified as required by federal and state law be counted.

    6. A declaratory judgment declaring that Georgia Secretary of State
    Rule 183-1-14-0.9-.15 violates the Electors and Elections Clause,
    U.S. CONST. art. I, § 4;

    7. A declaratory judgment declaring that Georgia’s failed system of
    signature verification violates the Electors and Elections Clause by
    working a de facto abolition of the signature verification
    requirement;

    8. A declaratory judgment declaring that current certified election
    results violates the Due Process Clause, U.S. CONST. Amend. XIV;

    9. A declaratory judgment declaring that mail-in and absentee ballot
    fraud must be remedied with a Full Manual Recount or statistically
    valid sampling that properly verifies the signatures on absentee
    ballot envelopes and that invalidates the certified results if the
    recount or sampling analysis shows a sufficient number of ineligible
    absentee ballots were counted;

    Pg 102
    10. An emergency declaratory judgment that voting machines be
    Seized and Impounded immediately for a forensic audit—by
    plaintiffs’ expects;

    11. A declaratory judgment declaring absentee ballot fraud occurred
    in violation of Constitutional rights, Election laws and under state
    law;

    12. A permanent injunction prohibiting the Governor and Secretary
    of State from transmitting the currently certified results to the
    Electoral College based on the overwhelming evidence of election
    tampering;

    13. Immediate production of 36 hours of security camera recording of
    all rooms used in the voting process at State Farm Arena in Fulton
    County, GA from 12:00am to 3:00am until 6:00pm on November 3.

    14. Plaintiffs further request the Court grant such other relief as is
    just and proper, including but not limited to, the costs of this action
    and their reasonable attorney fees and expenses pursuant to 42
    U.S.C. 1988.
    *****

    Howz ‘bout them apples?

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    Look Here

    “I wish it was televised.”

    It was

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    Fuel Filter

    Oh, regarding that Nazi b!t€h Gretchen Witmar, just in case you folk Down Under don’t know, she is also in the middle of:

    a) an impeachment effort in the Michigan Legislature AND,

    b) a grassroots effort to recall her that, from what I understand, has almost enough signatures to put the issue on the next
    ballot

    She has also, due to her draconian decrees on #s of folk who can gather (churches, Thanksgiving dinners, etc) opened herself up to 1st Amendment lawsuits (absolute right of people to “gather”). The Gov of NY (Angel of Death) was slapped down today by SCOTUS on his arbitrary limit for Thanksgiving on those very grounds.

    She is in deep you-know-what no matter which way she turns.

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    Deano

    I worry about how much evidence has already been destroyed. I’m no computer geek but I wonder if whatever operating system Dominion voting machines run on would allow cheating software to replaced with a fair version without leaving any record, even deep in its system files of this occurring? After all, it’s probably only a few lines of code here and there that would make the difference and that could be done in 2 milliseconds remotely and be classified as an ‘update’.

    My 92 year old mother still doesn’t trust computers and I continue to be impressed by her wisdom!

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      Lawrie

      It surely comes down to reconciling the number of votes cast and counted and how many ballots were posted, returned and of course kept including the envelopes. They cannot see who voted for whom but they can recount the paper votes under scrutiny by both parties.

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        Graeme No.3

        Well I think that 103% of registered voters in Michigan actually voting might get some mention. What if the plaintiffs were to bring a parade of people from Michigan saying they had NOT voted?

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          Deano

          I can see your point. 103% voter turnout in a non-compulsory election where getting 60% is probably considered excellent.

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        Walter J Culver

        Georgia and Nevada, for example, did both a hand recount of the votes and a forensic examination of their Dominion voting machines under DHS-approved methods and found no problem.

        DHS is the agency in Trump’s administration charged with gov’t-wide coordination–including the FBI and our 17 intelligence agencies–to secure our elections.

        You’re talking enormous resources there, at the very front end of software and hardware and process security. And by the way, the procedures demand ALL records be kept under a strict chain-of-evidence protocol.

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          Where are the logs from election day then? you know there are none…

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            Walter J Culver

            There are lots more things of things required to do the certify. The long checklist has to be verified or the states cannot certify their votes, including the states that Trump won. Yet the Certificates of Ascertainment were sent onto the Archives.

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    Fuel Filter

    Ok guys…this is gonna be a looooooong one, but it’s worth every penny.

    Bear with it till the end. Believe me, it WILL BE WORTH IT!!!

    Any legal minds out there, speak now or forever hold your peace.

    http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/11/mailvox-analysis-of-powell-filing.html

    Here we go…..
    ********
    An experienced attorney analyzes Sidney Powell’s legal filing in GA concerning the electoral fraud aided and abetted by GA politicians and election officials. The 104-page PDF complaint can be found here. Note that she also filed a lawsuit in MI, which is not analyzed here.

    I have been a practicing attorney for 25+ years. The last 15 years I have spent mainly federal court representing persons accused of crimes, so I am quite familiar with federal court, federal procedure and other matters. Here is my take on Ms. Powell’s complaint….
    {snip]

    6. What now? The plaintiffs are asking for an evidentiary hearing. That would allow them to present evidence in the form of witness testimony, expert testimony and exhibits that would support their claim. Because it is a civil case, they only have to prove their case by a preponderance of evidence, that is, they only have to prove that it was more likely than not that there was fraud and that the fraud influenced the election. They do not have to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. 

    The court may refuse an evidentiary hearing, in which case Plaintiffs would appeal and argue that they should be given hearing. Given the evidence laid out, I expect that the court will at least order an evidentiary hearing that will be conducted on an expedited scale. (it helps that there’s an evidentiary hearing set in Nevada). After the evidentiary hearing, the court can grant their request, which would be to de-certify the election and force a manual re-count/audit overseen by independent auditors to verify each vote. Or the court could deny it. Realistically this case is likely to be appealed, which is one reason that the District (trial) court is likely to hold an evidentiary hearing. Because an appeal is almost certain no matter who wins the case, the judge’s legal decision in this case is likely not nearly as important as the judge’s factual decisions. The judge’s factual decisions will likely be relied upon by appellate judges even if they disagree with the judge’s legal conclusions. If there is an evidentiary hearing, pay careful attention to the judge’s factual findings, especially as described below.

    7. What to look for. There are a few things to watch for if there is a hearing. For one, federal (NOT state, and this is hugely important for federal jurisdiction) law requires that all records related to the election of a President, VP and senators be kept for at least 22 months after an election. If the court sets a hearing, watch for a request for that evidence. If the court orders an evidentiary hearing, I would expect the court would order that evidence provided to the Plaintiffs and to the court. If that evidence is not provided, that is, if the Georgia Division of Elections does not have the data that is required by the federal statutes, there will be hell to pay. I cannot imagine that anybody would be so monumentally stupid as to either erase such information or to not keep such information. However, Plaintiffs specifically allege that the voting machines do not keep copies of original paper ballots and are designed to avoid this audit trail. See ¶98 of the complaint. This is one area where the complaint’s rushed nature is an issue, although the complaint does not appear to be filed because it’s missing the blue ECF numbers showing it has been filed. Maybe the copy I got is just a leaked rough draft. 

    In making this allegation, the complaint quotes some findings and includes a footnote that should have the citation for what was quoted. That particular footnote, number 14, is missing. Having worked with Word to include footnotes, it would not surprise me if it were deleted accidentally during formatting. If this is the complaint that gets filed, I expect that given the time constraints Plaintiffs counsel will soon seek to file an amended complaint and include footnote 14. If that footnote is still missing, it looks really bad for Plaintiffs. If that footnote is included and their allegations about the lack of a paper trial in Dominion machines is true, that single factual finding alone is enough to derail any certified election results from states relying upon Dominion machine. I am not joking. The statute that requires election officials to keep records is a criminal statute, meaning that election officials who willfully do not keep such records can go to prison. Whether they will or not is not the issue. The issue is that this will be a crucial matter to look at because if nothing else, Plaintiffs can say, “Here are major voter irregularities and if the defendants had followed the law, this court would have had the evidence to determine whether these irregularities are just an odd statistical coincidence or based on fraud. But defendants deprived the court of the ability to do its job despite their clear legal obligation to do so.” That’s not really where the defendants want to be. 

    The plaintiffs will also seek to compare votes cast with voter registration, specifically people that have moved from Georgia and are no longer eligible to vote. Plaintiffs allege that over 20,000 votes were cast by people who had moved out of Georgia and were no longer eligible to vote. Strike those 20,000 votes as illegitimate and who knows what happens to Biden’s lead. These two issues are huge because they are black and white. There can be no reasonable dispute. Either they have the records or they don’t. Either 20,000 votes were cast by non-residents or they weren’t. If Plaintiffs can prove these two points, the court is likely to give them wider latitude about other matters. If they can’t prove these two points, Plaintiffs will find their case is much harder than anticipated.

    8. After that, there are other evidentiary issues on which the court may or may not take evidence. Plaintiffs make a big deal about how the ‘water leak’ at election headquarters was fraudulent and resulted in only a few people being along with voting machines for several hours. I anticipate the court will take some evidence on that but it won’t be enough for Plaintiffs to prove that the voting machines were unsecured on election night through the defendants’ fraud. Plaintiffs will have to prove that during that time votes were actually altered in some way, that is, deleted or switched from one candidate to another or added or something and they must prove that the number of altered votes would be within the margin of error for the Biden victory margin. This ties in with the audit trail. Put another way, if Plaintiffs can show that: 1) the water leak was non-existent; 2) that as a result of the ‘water leak,’ the machines were in the hands of just a few people for several hours; 3) that in those hours the voting pattern changed dramatically and unpredictably, then Georgia better have those machines and those machines better have an audit trail or some judges are not going to be happy.

    There are similar lawsuits pending in several other states and issues dovetail with this one. A judge in Nevada has ordered an evidentiary hearing on December 3. That hearing focuses upon fraud in mail-in ballots, which is not so much the focus here. The focus here is more on problems with Dominion software, which will be harder to prove, although the lack of an audit trail will be crucial for this issue. Plaintiffs will catch a big break if the judge who did the litigation on Dominion software gets this case because the judge will know the issues with Dominion and have the background to get up to speed quickly. If the judge who handled the Dominion litigation handles this one, she would be able to get an opinion out fairly quickly because she already wrote a 150 page opinion about the problems with Dominion. If she gets an opinion out while litigation about Dominion is pending in other states or appellate courts, look for Plaintiffs/Trump to use the decision to try to influence the other cases involving Dominion, especially if she makes a factual finding that the machines do not have an audit trail and this is by design.

    I have no idea about the likelihood of success. Plaintiffs make an excellent argument. That is, what they allege is indeed serious. It’s not a complaint that you read and wonder “What the hell were these lawyers smoking when they filed this?”

    On one last note in an already too-long email, it will be irony of ironies if the Dominion software litigation in Georgia turns out to be the key to this whole thing when it was Democrats themselves who started that litigation in response to the 2017 election. 

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      David Wojick

      Great analysis! Sounds like my concern may be unjustified, namely that the Judge will say it is all just speculation and hearsay, and throw it out. That is what happened with a lot of the State level suits.

      What a great Thanksgiving!

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      sophocles

      Thanks for your analysis, FF. Fills in some `holes’ and gaps nicely.

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      Walter J Culver

      Mr. Fuel Filter – It is NOT true that Dominion’s various machines–central to elections in 11(!) states–leave no paper trail. So don’t expect to see that missing reference you mention to point to a non-biased 3rd party.

      Our DHS here in the U.S., thru its assigned election agency CISA–and aided by the enormous resources of our 17 intelligence agencies and the FBI–is the czar appointed in charge of U.S. election-security. That combined talent pool is far, far too smart and experienced to permit the absence of a paper trail.

      But for security reasons DHS is not going to disclose much about what protections they’ve mandated–both preventive and forensic. All I can find from DHS is this top-level set of assurances of 13 Nov: “Trump Official in Charge of “Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency” Says 2020 Election Was the Most Secure in U.S. History” (see https://apnews.com/article/top-officials-elections-most-secure-66f9361084ccbc461e3bbf42861057a5).

      But with all the stuff thrown against Dominion’s wall, I was sure that Dominion would have to more fully respond publicly, and indeed I found this video of a media interview of 22 Nov with Dominion by the very conservative Fox News: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1056220984839652. Starting at timestamp -8:14:

      Interviewer: How do you know that it [a security breach] couldn’t have taken place?”

      Dominion Executive: “Look, when a voter at the polling place votes on a Dominion machine, they fill out a ballot on a touch screen. They are given a printed copy which they then give to a local election official for safekeeping. If any electronic interference had taken place, the tally reported electronically would not match the printed ballots, and in every case where we’ve looked at – in Georgia, all across the country – the printed ballot [in a hand recount], the gold standard in election security, has matched the electronic tally.”

      Obviously, for absentee/mail-in ballots, the touch screens are filled in by surrogates or the ballots OCR-read under the watchful eyes of both parties’ lawyers.

      So the no-paper-trail claim is utter nonsense, easy to refute–as it has been in some court cases already.

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        And yet even before this election at least one Professor of election security was warning that Dominion machines can change the paper trial after a voter had left the booth.

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    Jim

    Interestingly, the same played out four years ago, but the election was declared free and clear. The same types of interference have been noted in the election cycles since the introduction of other then manual counting of votes. And that goes back a long ways.

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      Mike of NQ

      I wouldn’t say ‘the same played out 4 years ago’. Sidney Powell has 250+ sworn affidavits, 4 years ago there was only 1 – outside of political influencers. In 2016 there were no strange stoppages with unusual spikes all favouring one candidate, no coordinated approach across all swing states at 11:00pm on election night to block GOP observers from witnessing the count. No water leak evacuations with evacuations only applying to GOP representatives. In 2016, we didn’t go to bed with Hillary winning, only to wake up the next morning with Trump winning after discovering 338,000 had been loaded between 2:00am and 6:00am favouring Trump 99.5 to 0.5%. The main complaint in 2016 was the Russians hacking certain media platforms to convince voters to vote for Trump through coercion. This doesn’t come close to complicit media and big tech suppression. A recent poll suggests if the media was close to balanced, 17% of people who voted for Biden would have voted for Trump. That’s the election, right there.

      The cheating is so obvious it defies all belief.

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        David Wojick

        Most importantly the enormous volume of mail in ballots, processed on an emergency basis with no planning, is without precedent. There is simply no comparison with 2016.

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    TdeF

    In a first past the post system, moving votes from one candidate to the other is devastating, much more than dead people, ballot harvesting, trashing military votes, losing votes, stuffing ballot boxes, postdating. These are real votes which have been used to elect the opposition and it is all possible with computers at a higher level. The extraordinary shutdowns in the middle of close polling are the surest sign that votes are being shifted rapidly and secretly.

    The legal position if any of these suits are upheld is very interesting. And the silence of the media is as damning as it was before the election. You would not even be aware that there was a concern.

    And Hillary always urged Biden not to concede under any circumstances, concede as she did. Why?

    I thought maybe because it was likely a very tight race. Now in hindsight it seems much more likely that geriatric Biden might stupidly concede before the votes could be adjusted in his favor. In hindsight, this was a nation wide DNC plan to cheat at every level, even after counting. After all so many of the DNC, FBI and CIA and Justice Department were looking at jail for their spying and fraud in the FISA court. Biden had to win for it to go away.

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      Yonniestone

      The real irony is unlike Epstein the players behind this ruse might have actually hung themselves.

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      PeterPetrum

      Your final para is spot on TdeF. I saw a clip of Biden saying “I don’t need you to help me win, I need you to help me after I win”! The silly old duffer gave the game away there. I wonder how much the DNC told him about what they had planned. Just enough to convince him that it was OK to stay in his basement and only poke his nose out occasionally, I suspect.

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    Anton

    Serious typos in each of the first two lines of the Georgia Kraken. But the rest is better…

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    Matthew Wall

    I’m assuming these State officials got voted in. Therefore these saps got what they wanted. No problem.

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    It really says a lot about the level of delusion amongst Republicans and Trumpistas that they have to start suing each other in order to prove their own mythical voter fraud.

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      Sporty
      Delusion”
      You mean like the four year old Trump Russian Collusion Delusion ?

      There is already more statistical and affidavit evidence of fraud in the 2020 election than in all other presidential elections, combined, since I was born in the 1950s.

      You Dumbocrats have had five years to prove yourselves to be angry socialists, willing to charge Republicans with crimes when there is no evidence of any crime. And call our president every name in the book, acting like juvenile delinquents.

      You Democrats were fooled by Trump — his “always fight back” obnoxious behavior inspired Trump Derangement Syndrome.

      And that Syndrome finally revealed what horrible people leftists are.

      They don’t even pretend to be polite, or fair, any more.

      They have two standards of justice: One for Democrats, and another for Republicans.

      I have asked my Michigan Congressman to sponsor a bill to deport all US Democrats to Australia, but Australia wanted too much money to take them. Sort of like trying to sell ice to Eskimos.

      Leftists ruin everything they touch.

      And they touched the 2020 election.

      In many illegal ways.

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      Forrest Gardener

      You do realise that friendly law suits were the primary instrument of fraud in the climate wars, don’t you? In case you don’t it went like this…

      1. government department wants an outcome but does not have the power to make decision;
      2. activist organisation sues government department to force them to make decision;
      3. parties agree to settle the dispute with the government department making the decision;
      4. activist judge fails to properly scrutinize settlement agreement and in effect legislates from the bench.

      There was a veritable plague of this behaviour at one stage.

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      David Wojick

      Slarty, for a delusion, the arguments are mighty detailed and precise. You might try a different word.

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      Meglort

      Looks like the muppet show is back.

      Should you not be down at the park looking for little kids or dressing in black and then attacking old ladies with walking frames or mums with prams?

      The lying fiddlers usually hang out here:
      http://www.smh.com.au/

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      crakar24

      I hope they pay you well

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    GD

    Trump’s on the rump,
    not over the hump
    and Biden’s looking like winning

    but truth be told,
    there’s no way he will fold
    despite all the media spinning

    the fraud is immense
    the vote makes no sense
    the numbers are totally wrong

    but the global elites
    continue to bleat
    that President Trump is gone

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    Mikky

    William Briggs (“statistician to the stars”) has been involved, as he has been in the climate “debate”, he is revealing some election analysis details on his blog:

    https://wmbriggs.com/post/33655/

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    Simon

    The Kraken will inevitably turn out to be just a damp squid 🙂

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    Blueytoo

    Michigan filing shows ballot totals reported with up to three decimal places!

    Time for full sources code discovery.

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    Blueytoo

    Michigan filing shows ballot totals reported with up to three decimal places!

    Time for full source code discovery.

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    Neil Hampshire

    Can’t understand this!

    Sidney claims Dominion machines “doctored” to produce Biden win.
    A hand count confirmed that Georgia was still a Biden win

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      Peter C

      Good question.

      I suspect there is an answer involving a rigged hand count.

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      RossP

      Neil

      It was reported the recount workers were told by the Secretary of State ( a Republican !!) to not really worry and put in the original figures (the origin of that was one of the workers)

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      A hand count of a batch of 1,000 ballots, for an example may find that 1,000 ballots were counted by the machines.
      So what?.
      All 1,000 of those 1,000 ballots could be illegal “votes”
      A hand count will detect only if all the ballots were counted.
      Not if all the ballots were legal votes
      In scientific terms, you’re a doofus.

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        Analitik

        This.

        after picking their candidates, instead of tapping a button that says “cast ballot,” they’ll click on a button that says “print your ballot.” The printer attached to the machine will then print a ballot on a full sheet of paper, which voters can then review for accuracy before inserting into a scanner for tabulation

        With the Dominion system, the vote sheet gets printed out after the user enters their vote. This means the machines can print out an incorrect vote (as previously stated above by John R Smith here) and the voter may well not notice before scanning or the machines can just print out false votes.

        https://www.govtech.com/security/Georgia-Awards-107M-Voting-Machine-Contract-to-Dominion.html

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      Kalm Keith

      A handcount of a mess such as can occur without a full and certified chain of custody from beginning to end is meaningless.

      I do a handcount every day and it’s always the same: Two.

      KK

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      RickWill

      The hand count has only just started. There was a sample audit that found 2600 votes, about 70% for Trump.
      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-georgia-recount-idUSKBN2832XC

      The new recount, which is not expected to alter certified results that show President-elect Joe Biden won the election, will end at midnight on Dec. 2, according to Gabriel Sterling, the Georgia official who oversees voting systems. The recount will be conducted by electronic scanners.

      There is likely to be an issue with mail in votes.

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        Walter J Culver

        The new recount is not another hand recount. It’s a perfunctory machine recount with the nickel and dime errors previously found in the only hand recount of a week ago corrected. Nothing amazing should be found. And GA certified on 20 Nov and sent its Certificate of Ascertainment on to the National Archives.

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      TedM

      Because the fraudulent ballots were still there. A recount of intermingled legal and fraudulaent votes proves nothing This was made clear before the recount.

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      Neil Hampshire

      Just one response.
      Many comments seem to think that comparing the Dominion machines to the hand doesn’t matter because the the ballots themselves were fraudulent.
      Look what the Kraken has written

      “Kemp and Raffensperger “rushed through the purchase of Dominion voting machines and software in 2019 for the 2020 Presidential Election” without due diligence and disregarded safety concerns.”

      The bulk of her case centres on the machines yet the hand count confirms the machine counts were correct

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    David Wojick

    The silly UK press story is likely what we will see at first as this litigation proceeds. The Legacy Media (there is no MSM) have already firmly established the framework that it is all nonsense, a Trump tantrum, as they call it. Their reporting will fit that storyline as long as possible. And it will be easy to get experts to say such.

    The breakthrough will just be when they finally admit it is happening. Until the Courts act, that is. Then it may be a very different story indeed.

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      PeterS

      Yes it needs to be proven in the courts, and if necessary all the way to the US Supreme Court, assuming the alleged stolen election is true, which by all the evidence displayed so far indicates that to be the case. However, we haven’t yet seen all the evidence and unlikely to until after the courts have made their decisions, if at all. In any case, there is now sufficient evidence to cause one to doubt the election process was conducted in a legal manner and thus a thorough investigation needs to be performed to charge those responsible to election fraud. The trouble of course is it will take months, which is too late for this election process and Biden might still become President. This is a defining moment in history where Lincoln’s statement the government is of the people, by the people, for the people is now walking on very thin ice. Let’s hope it turns and walks back or else the US will enter some volatile times likely leading to much bloodshed. If it does then the MSM will have much blood on their hands for covering up, aiding and abetting this whole charade.

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        Walter J Culver

        Evidence? Really? That’s been the problem. In 24 days there’ve been lots of assertions, but nothing that would pass the test of the Rules of Evidence. Affidavits have been thrown about for weeks in many states that use the same software and nearly the same of ballot rules. …Nothing. And as for Sidney Powell, she may be closer to federal Rule 11 censure than proving anything.

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      The Russians did it
      The Russians did it
      Trump is Russian
      Trump is Russian
      Democrat Fight Song

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    Blueytoo

    Sidneys michigan filing is more interesting because the trump lead was bigger.

    Vote count feeds with 3 decimals. Oops who forgot to send them as integers?

    Large ballot dumps.

    Dodgy ballot numbers 2 times the “winning” margin.

    Twitter flags links to the filing as “warning this site is a security risk”.

    So when might mainstream journalists demonstrate ability to read????

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      BlueyToey
      Here in Michigan we do sophisticated election fraud
      Three decimal places.
      That’s scientific fraud.
      We are scientific crooks.
      In every other state the fraud has no decimal places.
      Those are the loser crooks.

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    wokebuster

    Thanks Jo. Can’t believe I read a legal document. Is there anything more boring than legal speak but it has to be done. Civilisation depends on it.

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      PeterS

      Yes it’s boring which is one reason why too many people don’t give a damn about politics, which creates situations like we are seeing today with the way the MSM is reporting the US elections. I hope it can be resolved peacefully but I doubt it because there are those who do take politics very seriously.

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    David Maddison

    Apparently Twitter has banned all links to the cases.

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    Drapetomania

    “…the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections..”

    Yet I can hide my IP 100% of the time if required and I know zilch about computers..but we have to believe that “agents” acting on behalf of someone else..did not know how to hide their identity?
    This is not to say someone could have hacked it from another country..but ID them to a specific country is just not credible.. 

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      Meglort

      A VPN is not a true layer 2 network, it is still running over the TCP/IP network.
      That is what the “V” is referring to.

      They do not need to know your IP to determine the origin of the connection which the underlying layer 3 stack provides to allow packet routing.

      All you need to do is trace the route which is simple to do regardless of encryption.
      Encryption is applied at a higher level of the OSI model.

      Proving the connection is simple.
      This explains it:
      https://vpnstore.com/layer-2-vpn-vs-layer-3-vpn-difference/

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    Drapetomania

    “…the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran in order to monitor and manipulate elections..”

    Yet I can hide my IP 100% of the time if required and I know zilch about computers..but we have to believe that “agents” acting on behalf of someone else..did not know how to hide their identity?
    This is not to say someone couldnt have hacked it from another country..but ID them to a specific country is just not credible.. 

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    RossP

    Two things to add.

    This is a copy of a tweet from Millie Weaver :

    ” I’ve been in D.C. for the past 2 weeks with my whistleblowers and have been privileged to see what’s coming.

    What’s going to be revealed is so immense it goes far beyond election fraud.”

    Secondly. One of the expert affidavits (I think) :

    https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.15.pdf

    It seems the only defence HO has sent out to the troll army is to mention the spelling mistakes !! I’ve seen it everywhere.

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      crakar24

      we would have got a draft copy are these people really that stupid or do they think we are?

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        Greg Cavanagh

        I think this question isn’t about stupidity. It’s about how the msm report on it, or the lack thereof.

        Once known; the court of public opinion lies entirely in how the msm report on the matter and how it is framed.

        The question then becomes, why does the msm do what they do? The finger points to who controls the media and what they want from it.

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      Brenda Spence

      A lot of interesting detail there!

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      RickWill

      Very detailed look into Dominion network.

      The case appears to have legs so it will be interesting watching it take its course.

      It seems crazy that any state would permit these sort of systems to count votes.

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        RickWill

        It is no wonder it took time for the Kraken to be released. There is considerable detail there that they would want to hold up in court.

        I cannot see this case being quickly resolved unless Biden drops out or it does not get to court. On the latter, the plaintiffs and their attorneys are not powder puffs. The plaintiffs are GOP representatives and the legal team has solid local representation.

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        Serp

        Analogous to the craziness that any state would dynamite its coal fired power stations and opt for sporadic generators on the advice of mountebanks and spivs; this is an increasingly miserable twenty-first century stretching out ahead of us.

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          GD

          Analogous to the craziness that any state would dynamite its coal-fired power stations and opt for sporadic generators on the advice of mountebanks and spivs

          Reminds me of South Australia, Victoria, and soon to follow, New South Wales.

          mountebanks

          An added benefit of reading Jo’s blog, along with science education, is that I learn new words. They may never come up in conversation but are simply glorious for their being in existence.

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    David Maddison

    The Republic must be saved!

    Trump 2020! Trump Jnr 2024!

    However, there is no doubt about the merits of the case. The question is, is it possible to find some decent patriotic judges prepared to follow the law and hear the case?

    If not, the Republic is finished along with Western Civilisation as we know it. If the Dem(on)s are successful in their coup to take over the United States, there will be no going back without a second American Revolution (but that would be ruthless suppressed).

    Also, this is a very good video by lawyer Leigh Dundas about the case. “The Man from Snow River” even gets a mention.

    https://youtu.be/8ZGRKgfwr9U

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    David Maddison

    Sadly, Georgia and Michigan have a total of 32 Electoral College votes.

    Trump has 232.
    Biden has 306 including the fraudulent votes.

    If both Georgia and Michigan were flipped to Trump, it would still make no difference to the overall fraud and the fake President Biden would be installed. He has already been coronated by the legacy media and social(ist) media.

    The only chance is to either get an honest count in a third state or the Supremes decide that due to a predominance of electoral fraud throughout the entire country that the entire election is declared invalid and the 12th Amendment was invoked as it was in 1824.

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      crakar24

      n the very worst case scenario 306 – 32 = 274, 274 – 20 = 254.

      Two scenarios:

      1, Not enough college votes for either candidate, Trump wins through house vote (soft coup fail), the left activate their military in BLM/Antifa (hard coup) America burns for a month or so Patriots win out in the end mainly through sheer weight of numbers. Sanity prevails, America takes revenge on the coup masters.

      2, Even if Biden gets through these challenges, I suspect someone in Georgia or Michigan are having long chats with their lawyers and discussing a why out of the mess they find themselves in, i expect some to roll over shortly and not declared to the public just yet but will at some later stage soft coup stopped election deemed null and void due to fraud and most likely a half baked hard coup will be kicked off and quickly put down.

      Just my 2 cents

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      RossP

      Pennsylvania has to go to Trump. There is no way the SCOTUS can ignore violations of the Constitution –ie. only the State Legislature can make the rules for elections. The State SC , the Governor, Secretary of State or judges have NOTHING to do with them. In Pennsylvania these people just ran all over the Constitution , so the SCOTUS have to correct that. All those hundreds of thousands of votes that came in after 8.00pm on election night have to be thrown out –it is the only solution.

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        Serp

        Isn’t it that the Pennsylvania result cannot be certified because of the overwhelming chicanery discovered?

        Say every Republican vote had been flipped and Trump scored zero then where would the authority actually to flip the result reside? Penalize a candidate because his supporters ran mad? No.

        The only recourse is to set aside the spurious result and forward no votes to the electoral college.

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    Peter C

    That affidavit looks most interesting!

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    GARETH LEWIS

    I continue to despair. It’s only civil action, no media coverage and it shall simply disappear into the Marxist informational hole along with:
    Fast and Furious
    Benghazi
    Acid-washed emails
    Epstein
    The enormous wealth of leading Democrats (especially Biden)
    Hunter’s laptop
    and many more.

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    crakar24

    11.
    Specifically, video from the State Farm Arena in Fulton County shows
    that on November 3rd after the polls closed, election workers falsely claimed
    a water leak required the facility to close. All poll workers and challengers
    were evacuated for several hours at about 10:00 PM. However, several
    election workers remained unsupervised and unchallenged working at the
    computers for the voting tabulation machines until after 1:00 AM.

    Thats fraud right there the judge has no need to read any further

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      PeterS

      Yes indeed. I still don’t get it. There is now much evidence to show crimes were allegedly committed. So, why aren’t the people in question arrested and charged so that the prosecutor can take it to court to try and prove actual crimes were committed? What am I missing here? are they just focusing on trying to overturn the election result? Perhaps they will focus on the criminal actions later.

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        crakar24

        yes, first priority is to stop Xiden from completing the Coup d’état, then you go after them through the EO. Thats when people start getting arrested

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          PeterS

          That’s risky since if Biden still somehow manages to become POTUS the next step to arrest and prosecute the offenders would be much harder. The arrests should be happening now, if anything to expose the fraud to the whole world in spite of the cover-up being successfully perpetrated by the MSM. No tone of my relatives and friends knows anything about all this and when I tell some of them they look at me as though I have gone mad.

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          PeterS

          Correction. A could of my friends do know about some of this and are Trump supporters but they still think it’s all over and Biden will be the next POTUS. The silence by the MSM is deafening. The lid needs to be blown clean off. Arrests please!

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            crakar24

            They said right from the beginning they need to convince the people because the MSM et al are fake news etc. This is all part of the process, basically in the end it will be the people who demand Biden go not the courts or at least i think that is the plan

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        Forrest Gardener

        That has a simple explanation.

        You need a law enforcement agency willing to prosecute. The FBI is in serious cover up mode. The DoJ is out to lunch.

        We saw the same thing (nothing) ad nauseum when the congress and its committees made referrals to the DoJ.

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    David Maddison

    “The Great Reset” is part of this and the overall plan of the Billionaire Socialists. Paul Joseph Watson talks about it. It is not a conspiracy theory, the Left / Elites such as Klaus Schwabb talk about it plus it is part of the official policy of the World Economic Forum.

    https://youtu.be/oQxaGm7eK4U

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    David Maddison

    Recounts are pointless. A recount of fraudulent ballot papers will still result in the same number.

    What is needed is a forensic audit to detect and remove fraudulent ballots. If the fraudulent ballots can’t be separated from the honest ones, as was the plan by deliberately mixing them up, then the whole batch must be discarded.

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      Ted O’Brien.

      If ballots were manufactured, those ballots would very likely bear a number of “fingerprints”. They would very likely be readily identifiable.

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      RickWill

      The recounts should correct machine adjustments. This is the NYT feed for Georgia:

      4463227,”eevp”:87,”eevp_source”:”edison”,”timestamp”:”2020-11-04T06:23:49Z”},{“vote_shares”:{“trumpd”:0.52,”bidenj”:0.467},”votes”:

      4463897,”eevp”:87,”eevp_source”:”edison”,”timestamp”:”2020-11-04T06:32:50Z”},{“vote_shares”:{“trumpd”:0.508,”bidenj”:0.48},”votes”:

      In those 9 minutes, the vote increased by 670 however Biden went up by 58343 while Trump went down by 53219.

      If this feed is reflective of what the machines were doing then there is something strange going on.

      A full recount might correct this change, which would give Georgia by about 100k votes.

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    Interesting POV by and American commentator (plagiarised in its entirety)

    They are coming for you Dominion. If you cant see that Sidney Powell and her lawsuits are all about EO 13848, then you are blind. I think you are seeing evidence of a major military operation being underway and it is going in phases:

    Phase 1:
    1) She is military lawyer who was born in Durham.
    2) Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity May 11, 2017 to January 3, 2018.
    3) Executive Order Amendments to the Manual for Courts occurred on March 1, 2018
    4) The exact title is “2018 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States”
    5) The military will be able to hire non-military legal experts to help with the tribunals (treason cases).
    6) Executive Order 13848 signed September 12, 2018
    7) Powell develops a relationship with General Thomas McInerney
    8) Even though retired, he was #3 in the Air Force and dedicated to Hammer & Scorecard

    Phase 2:
    9) On Election night, Trump and his campaign team assembled in the Eisenhower Building
    10) Know what is there? A SCIF facility.
    11) Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. (SCIF)
    12) SCIFs are NSA run that is the combination of all data collected from intelligence agencies.
    13) They were monitoring the fraud in real-time and the identified traitors.

    Phase 3:
    14) CIA removed from briefings.
    15) FBI removed from briefings.
    16) CIA server farm raided in Europe.
    17) CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) Bryan Ware fired
    18) DHS Cybersecurity head Christopher Krebs fired.
    19) Secretary of Defense Mark Esper fired.
    20) Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller consolidating all special forces under him.
    21) Gen. Scott Berrier installed as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency on October 2 2020
    22) General Flynn pardoned.
    23) General Flynn commanded every WET team in this nation and knows where the bodies are buried.

    Phase 4:
    24) Soros, Obama, Dominion, Smartmatic, China, Iran, Venezuela are all implicated via lawsuits
    25) Her charter is longer than the Dec 14th certification date.
    26) That coincides with the 45 day timeframe set up in 13848

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      Greg Cavanagh

      That would explain why they fear Flynn so much. They may have diddled the wrong person with this one 🙂

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        Analitik

        Plus it verifies my reasoning for why Powell’s suit was split off from the Trump electoral fraud suits. Those targeted by The Kracken are going to be nailed even if the Trump electoral fraud suits get delayed beyond the Electoral College (with Biden getting Inaugurated)

        25) Her charter is longer than the Dec 14th certification date.

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      Greg Cavanagh

      You’re probably already up with it Cracker, but here’s some more background to the EO.

      https://pennswordtwo.com/article/the-attempted-coup-of-the-united-states-presidency-revealed.html

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      Forrest Gardener

      In a note of caution the EO talks only of sanctions and embargoes against foreign states (not individuals). And if the fraud succeeds the new president can undo the sanctions, embargoes and the EO itself. Although that in itself would be a major scandal.

      The meat of the EO is in requiring various government entities to investigate interference in the election. It would cause sunlight to be cast onto the whole scam and would be extremely embarrassing for those involved.

      I agree about the military operation although the DNI has the lead role. I think Trump set out to blow the whole deep state to smithereens. Whether he wins or loses he may just succeed. I hope so.

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      Meglort

      It is kind of funny everyone thinking that the ops log would be public domain.

      The problem is that the idiot echo chamber convinces itself it knows what is going on.
      Even worse it thinks that it has a right to know.

      Nothing can stop what is coming.

      “All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” – Sun Tzu

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    Evidence Please Please

    Apparently, Sidney has cunningly made herself look inept by intentionally using typos and already rejected “evidence” in order to get people to read it — brilliant!.
    Trump has already congratulated her.

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    The only way that these suits can be improved is if they get Orly Taitz into help.

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      This guy helps to dissect apart how truly bad these lawsuits are

      https://twitter.com/questauthority?lang=en

      and reminds me of the many attempts to equate the votes sent to the media feed with the actual toll room voting. Media feeds are evidence of nothing. The kraken is truly a mess.

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        crakar24

        You finally awaken from your leftard stupor triggered by actual evidence and you produce a tweet in response.

        You got nothing GA and yet you still turn up rattling the sabers…………..i admire your stupidity

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          Oh well… if there is evidence then the case will win. If it doesn’t then I was right.

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            OK so we have gone from “there is no evidence” to “if there is evidence” baby steps GA, baby steps

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            Henning Nielsen

            Gee Aye; everything submitted to the court in terms of witness statements, etc. is evidence. Same thing for what the other side will present. It is for the court to decide which evidence is accepted and to what degree it has consequences for the outcome. Please note that in this case “resonable doubt” can be enough for the plaintiffs. But one must expect this and other cases to go all the way to SCOTUS.

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    Richard Ilfeld

    More likely, a Biden “presidency” with about as much resistance from the right as we’ve seen from the left the last four years;
    a serious effort at election reform in states where it is possible, and a proactive set of suits next election for election auditability.
    If the rule in place produce a non-auditable result before one would have standing to enjoin them.

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    Stephen@Aus

    Here we go again ….from Kraken to rehashed Kalamari (how do you spellthat, agane, Sydney Powell??? ;-D)))

    Jo, I’d just like to say “I’m a reliable witness, [and I’d like to think] you’re a reliable witness, practically all God’s children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation – which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about….” (from The Kraken Wakes / by John Wyndham 😉
      
    “…despite a horrific pandemic and massive economic disruption, ordinary democratic Americans have more to be thankful for this Thanksgiving than ever before….most of all we owe gigantic thanks to the 80 million decent Americans who voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. It is because of their courage and determination that our badly corroded but still functioning democratic apparatus has proved able to survive. As Ruth Ben-Ghiat makes all too clear, if we had gone any deeper into [another] four-year tunnel of doom, none might have escaped it.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/26/strongmen-review-ruth-ben-ghiat-donald-trump-fascism-hitler-mussolini-franco

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      crakar24

      Yep thats why Democrats are forcing people to stay in their homes over thanksgiving, open your mind and think for once

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      crakar24

      For your education

      fasc•ism făsh′ĭz″əm►
      n. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
      n. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.

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    Even assuming all the accusations by God’s side of the Kleptocracy are as true as the stories Hillary supporters circulated 4 years ago (and I believe most of what they sway about each other)… what of it? Lindsey Graham’s big mouth at the Amy Coney hearings tipped off women voters (remember the 19th Amendment?) that Republican National Socialism hoped to overturn the Libertarian Roe v. Wade decision. A lineup of former Wallace States and redoubts of Landover Baptist theocracies have been lining up for this ever since Justice Thomas joined in the recent weakening of individual rights with the Women’s Entrance version. Graham’s big mouth and redneck green teeth startled female voters into action.

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    RickWill

    This is an interview with a Michigan GOP observer:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m02bFbX5J5E

    It brings a somewhat different perspective about how the count was conducted. Tedious to watch but the BLM involvement in the count is something new to me.

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    RickWill

    Rudy has found his mojo – Very entertaining evidence.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBD0JpeKEw

    He actually runs through the numbers on mail-in ballots. About twice as many received as sent out. About 32k received before they were sent out. Some 8k received from those deceased.

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      RickWill

      The witnesses at this hearing are a mixed bag but with a consistent story on lack of access and poor practice on handling votes. Where does it go from here? Will the republican house in Pennsylvania review the State’s certification.

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    OldOzzie

    Armstrong Economics

    All is not lost. I do not think that Trump can win by overturning votes. There is no time for that. What is possible is to prevent these four states, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, from certifying Biden and that would throw the election into the House of Representative as was the case in 1824 where Trump would win. I have been warning that “Our model shows that 2020 will be the most violent political election since the 1960s.” Dead people voting has always been an issue. When I have been warning at our World Economic Conferences that by 2020, this would emerge as the most violent and corrupt election in American history, this forecast was made by Socrates.

    This has far surpassed anything I would have guessed When this is all over and done, a real investigation will show that countless millions were spent by Zuckerberg and others to overthrow Trump which may have been to prevent Facebook from being broken up. I pray that Trump wins so there can be a REAL cleaning of the swamp which extends far beyond just Washington. It is time many of these people are to be held accountable for trying to destroy our future.

    Wisconsin Petition: Wisonsin-pet-for-orig-action-11-24-20

    Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, the allegations are that more than 144,000 votes were illegally cast in the Nov. 3 election which included an estimated 96,000 from voters who listed themselves as “indefinitely confined” — and therefore not required to present a photo ID. The court papers allege that these people were not incarcerated. The petition also alleges that more than 12,000 votes cast for Republicans were not even counted. On top of that, what has surfaced is Mark Zuckerberg funding to overthrow Trump. It is further alleged that election officials violated state law by accepting more than $6 million from a nonprofit financed by billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. If true, he was funneling money to election officials to rig the election?

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    David Maddison

    Excellent video. Please try to find just under 44 mins to watch it. There is still hope for a just outcome for the US election.

    https://youtu.be/lSoxJZXf3UI

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    CHRIS

    I have never seen such a mass of non-factual garbage that I have read on this topic. Conspiracy…conspiracy times 10 to the what power? Mr Donald Trump Esq has until December 14 to legally prove that the vote was a fraud. Hey, I don’t like Biden becoming President either…then the loony left will destroy the USA completely. But for heaven’s sake…GET A GRIP ON REALITY!! As I have previously said, the ONLY solution to this mess is for the USA to go back to manual voting, like we have in Australia. Unfortunately, because of the so-called “rights” of the 50 states superseding Federal laws on how-to-vote procedures, the US elections will always be a mess….so live with it

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      Meglort

      CHRIS, clearly these were not the droids you are looking for.

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      Tel

      Let me get this straight … you do not believe the vote was a fraud (because conspiracy theory and all that) so therefore we need to get back to manual voting because that’s much better and avoids the problem of all the fraud.

      Well that makes perfect sense.

      Tell me this though … why would the winning side of politics ever go changing whatever put them into power? Who would advocate manual voting when these machines are doing such a nice job?

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    crakar24

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/not-dominion-prone-attack-china-iran-also-connected-pro-obama-entity-known-acorn/

    I just keeps getting worse though a Obama connection does not surprise me.

    Waiting for GA to dismiss this with a tweet and Simon to enlighten us with more denial

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    Another Ian

    “5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms”

    https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/23/5-more-ways-joe-biden-magically-outperformed-election-norms/

    Via Tip of theSpear

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    Sidney Powell has dropped the bombshell cases in Georgia and Michigan

    I was thinking that the ambiguity of “dropped” would mean that this headline will appear again but from my reading of thing, these cases will get booted before they can be dropped and probably get the litigants into trouble.

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      crakar24

      your brain must be defective in some way

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      Henning Nielsen

      Gee Aye; you may have a point. But when you see the very serious crimes that Powell has accused (verbally but in public) leading Democrats of, it makes me for one more assured of her case. She is nobody’s fool, and she has climbed very far out on a limb here, opening up for charges against her which would likely ruin her carreer and reputation if she fails now. I don’t think she says more than she can document.

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    Blueytoo

    Just like the movies show multiple people need to put in launch codes for nukes, there is no excuse for both counter and observer to be securely electronically authenticated by the secure voting system. If the voting system cannot demonstrate full 2 person chain of custody audit log for all ballots cast, then any total is no better than an incorrect spreadsheet formula – garbage that looks ok.

    Any system not using integers for counting should be banned.

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    Betty Luks

    Jo,
    Thought your readers might be interested in the following

    • News
    “TRUMP WILL WIN – HERE’S WHY” By Howell Woltz
    https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/19050/trump-will-win-heres-why/
    November 24, 2020

    Caption under photo:
    209These forces swore to defend my home nation from enemies ‘both foreign and domestic’ – and those who foment coups and steal elections in my homeland and abroad certainly qualify as ‘enemies’

    Words fail me to describe the profundity of this news

    Legendary Special Forces (Green Beret) hero, Christopher C. Miller, has been appointed Acting Secretary of The Department of Defense by the President, following the sacking of Mark Esper.

    I just watched the ceremony and announcement of this momentous move on the Hallowed Grounds of Ft. Bragg in my home state of North Carolina, where monuments to Special Forces heroes past, stand in remembrance.

    Only a handful of insiders knew this move was coming, and Mark Esper—fired Secretary of Defense—was apparently not among them, though I’m sure he suspected his sacking was on the way.

    In fact, Esper might be considered the enemy for publicly opposing the president’s use of The Insurrection Act of 1807 to put down the Marxist BLM/Antifa/Democrat riots over the summer with military forces—if needed…

    Clue 3
    Sidney Powell used the term ‘Release the Kraken’ to describe what she is going to do to the Deep State Democrat and RINO scum—and most thought she was referring to the legendary mythological octopus-like giant.
    But she wasn’t.

    According to the CIA’s own information operations centre

    “Kraken is a Department of Defense cyber warfare program that tracks and hacks other systems to acquire evidence of nefarious actions of other nations and enemies.” (Hat tip to Pam Geller Reports)
    But we now know that the SCYTL server seizure was from a secret operation in Frankfurt—actually controlled by the CIA.

    It appears the CIA partnered in the Obama scheme with his mentor, George Soros, the CCP and Globalists seeking ‘the Great Reset’, which is Marxist-speak for an overthrow of the U.S. Government—and its president—to “fundamentally transform the United States” as Obama promised.

    So who in Sidney Powell’s orbit could possibly know about the secret CIA hacking program “Kraken”?

    It seems we must connect all the dots to get a better picture – including understanding just what The Great Reset is all about.

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    Michael O'BRIEN

    Aplayolo
    My first post. There are so many smart people here I am a bit embarrassed. However I would like to say that Facebook seems to think I am very dangerous and have shadow banned me for posting information about election fraud. Thank God for jonova.

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    Blueytoo

    Cant remember where this link came from, but interesting data analysis. Read it while you can.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1329543841217540096.html

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    This comment was posted by Walter J Culver but up at #1.1.2

    We discourage commenters from hijacking the top of the thread by hitting reply to the first comment rather than posting in turn. I asked Walt to post this “in turn” and promised to publish it if he did, but he hasn’t. So I’m posting it on his behalf now.

    I predict the judges throw out the whole Sidney Powell suit as a sloppy joke.

    The rampant typos and incorrect references are indicative of the lack of seriousness (or maybe lack of competence) in preparing the claim. But while those are an embarrassment that no REAL lawyer would want to suffer, they are repairable.

    What’s not repairable is the SUBSTANCE of the claim that prima facie fails to meet the Rules of Evidence. And if she presses the claim in its current substantive shambles too hard, she is punishable under federal Rule 11.

    Jo Nova criticizes me for drawing judgement without reading every word of Powell’s claim. Don’t have to, just as a ball bearing manufacturer doesn’t test every ball bearing to ascertain process Quality. A statistically relevant sampling-test is what’s used.

    Here’s one of my sampling-tests of Powell’s Kraken, leading me to dismiss it:

    Powell makes a big deal of an affidavit by Navid Keshavarz-Nia that claims fraud because of the use of Dominion voting machines. And it is indeed critical from multiple perspectives.

    1. If valid, it damages the results in the many states that use the Dominion machines.
    2. It would be the FIRST claim of fraud that would get anywhere. None of Trump’s other suits even contain the word “fraud” any more, as far as I’ve seen.
    3. It would support Powell’s wild-eyed claims that there’s an international conspiracy of breath-taking scope at work, involving Venezuela(?), and supported by thousands of Americans (some very prominent), and that the conspiracy has succeeded in undermining the most treasured part of our democracy–i.e., our free and fair elections. …Much to Putin’s delight!

    BUT UNDER THE LAW, KESHAVARZ-NIA’S AFFIDAVIT FAILS THE RULES OF EVIDENCE IN JUDGING THIS ELECTION!!!

    In his affidavit in the Kraken, the non-relevance appears on his page 5: “15. I have not been granted access to examine any of the systems used in the 2020 Election.”

    So, Keshavarz-Nia does not actually KNOW what’s in the specific voting machines used.

    Recall that since the Russian attacks on our 2016 elections, our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was charged to work with the election vendors and the states to assure the sanctity of our future elections. …All fully supported by the enormous resources of our 17 intelligence agencies.

    That included assuring
    – Security patches were installed in voting machines and other equipment if needed, and
    – Standardized forensic methods were available after the fact to ascertain the ballots had been indeed protected.
    Keshavarz-Nia obviously has no idea what changes were made. That is protected by our highest security clearances.

    On 13 Nov, (Trump’s) DHS reported to the American people:

    “Trump Official in Charge of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Says 2020 Election Was the Most Secure in U.S. History”
    https://apnews.com/article/top-officials-elections-most-secure-66f9361084ccbc461e3bbf42861057a5

    Following DHS guidance GA, for example, recounted the ballots by hand, and it rechecked machines for security integrity.

    [Tthis comment is short on logic. For example the ball bearing manufacturer MAY throw out an entire production batch when several balls fail random quality testing no? It baffles me that some people can’t stand for a few weeks delay to prove election integrity! Why is that Walter? Are you one of those weak-of-values type?]ED

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      Jo says:

      If Dominion machines were created for fraud, isn’t it up to the states that bought them to prove they are secure now and not able to be used to cheat? The ball is in their court.

      Powells witnesses show a reasonable preponderance of evidence that Dominion machines should not be used in any election anywhere.

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      Simon

      If there was fraud, there would be a mismatch between the the machines’ tally and the paper ballots. Nobody has discovered significant variation in manual recounts. Many voters would notice if their paper ballot was inconsistent with who they voted for.
      None of the damp squid affidavits are from anyone doing a genuine audit. CISA, DHS, and individual states have completed audits and no-one from these investigations have come forward with issues.

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      Walter J Culver

      Re my ball bearings example, I respectfully suggest “ED” Google the technique of Statistical Process Control, which for 100 years has been the common practice in the manufacture of low-value, high-precision items like standalone ball bearings, which go on to become very high value in next-level assemblies of jet-engine turbines and axle journals.

      [What did I say about ball bearings that is not respectful of the aforementioned process controls?]ED

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