US Election 2022: Expect the Steal in These States. By Darren Beattie.
In the late hours of November 3, 2020, Donald Trump seemed to have done the improbable: against the unified opposition of bureaucracy, academia, media, and military, against unprecedented big tech censorship, and against the superior funding and organization of the enemy, he seemed to have won a second term. The polls had once again proven themselves to be nonsense, and the 45th president held small but substantial leads in the key Rust Belt states that had brought him victory in 2016.
Bookies gave Trump roughly 75% odds of a second term, and on PredictIt Trump’s odds of victory peaked at above eighty percent. …
But then:
You all know what happened next. In a never-before-seen development in American politics, counting in key states went on for days on end. Over the course of those extra days, Trump’s leads in Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania shrank and then vanished. Legal efforts to block what was unfolding and contest certain questionable ballots went nowhere, and on January 20, it was Joe Biden who took the oath of office.
Republicans have rightly complained about evidence of fraud, whether it was mysterious pauses in counting, unmonitored ballot drop boxes, or mass harvesting of mailed-out ballots. But the truth is, if there was a steal, it was one that the GOP enabled through its own incompetence.
As chronicled by Mollie Hemingway in her book “Rigged”, the time to secure the 2020 election wasn’t on November 4, but in the months before it, when governors, judges, and state election boards cavalierly changed the rules and basic process of how elections were conducted, using Covid-19 as a blanket excuse. During those months, the GOP legal effort was slapdash and poorly organized. Come election night itself, instead of having a professional legal team ready to go, the campaign was stuck having Jared Kushner desperately calling around for a “James Baker-like figure” to save the campaign. Instead, he got Rudy Giuliani’s melting hair. …
Pennsylvania 2022:
Two years ago, Pennsylvania’s election process probably featured more red flags than any other closely contested state. The state took a whole week to count its votes, with Biden only overtaking Trump’s large election-night lead on Friday morning. Pennsylvania let votes count even if they arrived after Election Day, even if they had no postmark, and even if they didn’t have a matching signature. Twenty Pennsylvania counties used millions of dollars donated by Mark Zuckerberg to finance their election activities, including the famous unsupervised “Zuckerboxes,” which made it virtually impossible to enforce the state’s relatively strict limits on ballot harvesting. When Trump supporters tried to independently monitor drop boxes, state attorney general Josh Shapiro (now running for governor) threatened them with prosecution.
So, what are things like two years later? Pennsylvania’s Republican legislature passed bills to ensure signature verification and photo ID, and to ensure proper poll-watching… but Democratic governor Tom Wolf vetoed those bills. So in Pennsylvania this cycle, things are substantially like they were two years ago. And, yep, the state is even warning that it’s going to take a long time to count ballots again. …
Arizona and Georgia 2022:
Not all states are so bad. In Arizona and Georgia, Republican-controlled state governments reacted to the questionable events of 2020 by wising up. Arizona banned same-day voter registration (just a precaution, as it wasn’t in use before), created a new tracking system for early ballots, and passed new requirements to present photo ID when dropping off an early ballot. Georgia passed a law sharply restricting the use of ballot drop-off boxes, to prevent the fiasco of entirely unmonitored 24/7 boxes used in 2020. Georgia also banned Brad Raffensperger’s stunt of sending an absentee ballot to all voters in the mail, and finally required the use of ID for absentee voting as well as in-person. …
Michigan and Wisconsin 2022:
Michigan and Wisconsin have had Democratic governors who could block any legislation, so they’ve been restricted to petition the courts for election security victories. And there have been some victories: Notably, in Pennsylvania a GOP lawsuit has blocked the state’s absurd attempt to tally undated mail-in ballots. But on the other hand, Wisconsin officials just charged a former election official with fraud after she revealed how trivially easy it is to fraudulently obtain ballots in the state …
Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and Colorado 2022:
Nevada is going all-mail for the first time this year, with all the potential trouble that entails. Washington, Oregon, and Colorado are all-mail too, making races in those states at a high risk of being stolen. …
Is the fix in?
The regime has already spent months setting its preferred narrative for how election night will unfold. Just like in 2020, it is propagandizing the public about how “perfectly normal” it is to take ages to count votes. Forget everything intuitive about how an election should go, and be prepared for counting to take days, maybe weeks! …
It’s a clever way to set expectations. No matter how shady things look on election night, if anyone complains or (God forbid) files a lawsuit, the Biden administration is poised to spring out, point its collective finger, and shout “Aha! They’re disputing the election, just like we all warned you!”
What’s our message here? First, whatever the polls say, and however great the results first look on Election Night, be ready for the steal. Recent polling has indicated major GOP momentum in places the party hasn’t won victories in years. According to polls, Lee Zeldin has nearly pulled even in New York, and one poll even puts him ahead of the unelected witch currently occupying the governor’s mansion. The races for senate seats in Washington and Colorado, and governor’s seats in Oregon and Michigan, have all very abruptly tightened…
Be most ready for shenanigans with the mail-in vote. To the extent any fraud occurred in 2020, it probably wasn’t from hacked voting machines or anything that spectacular. The simplest method of fraud was more hands-off: the practice of sending out million of absentee ballots with no ID required and ample allowance for ballot harvesting. If fraud occurred, it was decentralized and hard to prevent, and as a bonus it led to an elongated counting process which just made it that much easier for anything untoward to sneak through.
We’ll have a fair idea by late Tuesday night.
