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I don't know guys. Was in downtown Chicago yesterday. ZERO Harris/Walz gear or signs. Not that they won't win IL. This is a marathon with large potential close to election day to get the names at least in peoples faces. Hillary and Biden were much more prominent in Chicago during their runs in '16 and '20.

There's weird enthusiasm for Trump this run here in IL. I think people don't care about backlash from Karen's. Won't tilt the tide likely, but I believe it bodes well for Wisconsin being neighbors with the state. The shift here might be 1-2pts, but if you even get 1pt in WI Harris loses the state likely.

Also got in a discussion with a couple of blacks at a friends house. I've met them before. One from Illinois and one from Mississippi. I was drinking and was just blunt and asked them, you do realize Kamala is not black? I think I converted two voters that night just on that. Then the fact they're in the tree trimming/cutting industry. Again being blunt, your vote for Harris would be for Juan to take your job. I could see the light bulb turn on.

I don't like talking politics with friends. Don't put signs up in my yard. All my personal friends are voting Trump. Friends of my wife's that I'm friends with, I avoid it. But I'd guess 80% are Trump voters. I do think there's massive, massive cheating in Cook County, IL (Chicago). Dems have had cheating down for half a century in IL. It should be a swing state in my opinion.

Until IL can fix Cook, it's a dark blue state for ever.

https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/police-find-72-stolen-campaign-signs-at-home-in-charlevoix-county-27-year-old-charlevoix-man-apple-airtag-election-donald-trump-kamala-harris-jd-vance-tim-walz-democrat-republican-gop

CHARLEVOIX COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A 27-year-old Charlevoix man was arrested for larceny after police allegedly found 72 stolen political campaign signs at a home on Tuesday.

Prosecuting Attorney Christopher Tholen said an "adjacent county" has recently been investigating several thefts of signs.

"After reporting one of these thefts a homeowner placed an Apple 'AirTag' into a replacement sign and a camera was installed over the area of the sign," Tholen said.

Tholen said the sign with the Apple AirTag was stolen on Monday and was tracked to a residence in Charlevoix County on Tuesday.

"Police executed a search warrant at that residence and found 72 political campaign signs within that home—all advocating for the same presidential candidate," Tholen said. "The resident of that home was found to drive a vehicle that matches a vehicle shown on camera stealing the campaign sign."

The resident, a 27-year-old Charlevoix man, was arrested on larceny charges, as well as charges of concealing stolen property.

Tholen said that while police were at the residence, the man's aunt arrived at the home.

"She was interviewed by police and stated that she had told the man that she would pay him $10 for each sign he took that belonged to the presidential candidate. She claimed that this was a 'joke,'" Tholen said.

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/lawfare-is-jihad-against-our-country

You think the bankers are up to no good? No band of scoundrels has brought more chaos and grief to the life of this republic than the claque that gathers darkly under the banner of “Lawfare.” Its public face is Lawfaremedia.org, run by Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings senior fellow, but that gang functions only to lend a false-front of decorum to the operations of its Democratic Party activist lawyer-army led by Field Marshal Marc Elias, architect of the ballot fraud that has caused Americans to lose faith in their elections.

Marc Elias was the original expeditor of the RussiaGate hoax in 2016 from his perch at Perkins Coie, then Hillary Clinton’s campaign law firm, which laundered payments to Christopher Steele, front-man for Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS political PR shop, which concocted the fraudulent “dossier” and set in motion a train of DC intel blob legal shenanigans aimed at defenestrating Donald Trump from the White House — the Mueller Investigation, impeachment, etc.

While all that was going on through the Trump term, and with the Covid-19 Op providing cover, Mr. Elias engineered the 2020 changes in many states’ election laws and bylaws to permit large-scale mail-in voting, organized ballot-harvesting activities, and introduce the use of drop-boxes for receiving bundled votes. He and his George Soros-financed staff lawyers sued states that attempted to require voter-identification, and provided legal protection for Mark Zuckerberg’s $419-million-dollar assault on election precinct staffing in swing states. When the 2020 election concluded suspiciously, Mr. Elias and his gang joined lawsuits in every case where the balloting was contested and got more than sixty of them dismissed on the basis of “standing,” without the merits of the cases being heard. This is Lawfare.

This time around, 2024, Mr. Elias has done everything possible to ensure that millions of illegal aliens stuffed into swing states will have their putative identities attached to harvested mail-in ballots from addresses such as Walmart parking lots and storage units, and has filed lawsuits wherever a state threatens to require proof of citizenship for voting. He has also filed sixty peremptory lawsuits to obstruct attempts to audit any election count after November 5 — as if it is an affront to democracy to even ask questions about official misconduct.

A parallel Lawfare scam underway is the Democratic Party-sponsored 65 Project that seeks to disbar Trump-adjacent lawyers who attempt to challenge any voting irregularities in this year’s election. Its mission statement reads:

"The 65 Project is a bipartisan effort to protect democracy from these once-and-future abuses by holding accountable Big Lie Lawyers who bring fraudulent and malicious lawsuits to overturn legitimate election results, and by working with bar associations to deter future abuses by establishing clear standards for conduct that punish lies about the conduct or results of elections."

Notice the term “Big Lie” to foreclose any inquiry at all into election fraud. That half the people in this country accept such an Orwellian con tells you the vital role played by the perversion of language in the Democratic Party’s war against the citizens of this land. Exactly who is to say, in advance of the event, that any objection to a vote count is fraudulent and malicious? Answer: the people who have maliciously committed fraud. The Democrats have been grooming the public for years with that phrase, the Big Lie, in exactly the same way that pedos groom innocent pubescents who accept the authority of any grown-up, no matter what debauchery they are subjected to.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3187544/green-party-presidential-candidate-files-suit-over-ohio-decision-not-to-count-votes-for-her/

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has filed a lawsuit in federal court over the decision of Ohio election officials not to count votes for her after her running mate was named by the national party after a state administrative deadline.

Cleveland.com reports that the lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. district court in Columbus by Stein, the person named as her running mate on the state ballot and three Ohio voters. It alleges that the decision infringes on their constitutional rights to free speech, association, and equal protection and the voting rights of the Ohio-based plaintiffs.

Patrick says

Yep. Counting ballots is an additive exercise. There should never be any subtraction.

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1845875690614542467

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1845944356156432469

But there really won't be any election fraud in favor of the Democrats. You can bank on that one!



Fulton Judge Strikes Down Seven New Election Rules, Including Hand-Counting of Ballots After Polls Close and Mandatory Video Surveillance of Drop Boxes, Claiming It is “Illegal, Unconstitutional and Void”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/fulton-judge-strikes-down-seven-new-election-rules/

https://san.com/cc/virginia-officials-threaten-to-reject-election-results/?lid=i1ab0il69bcu

The fraud is on in California. No ID voting, rigged voting machines, mail in ballots encouraged and, of course, the DROP BOXES for reimbursed ghetto apparatchiks to drop multiple faked ballots from dead people, illegal hordes and non existent buildings or existent nursing homes. They don't need the extended counting in California because the fraud is so generic and so baked in. They announce winners early, and I doubt they even count the paper ballots filled out on election day, no need.

Maybe at our polling place this year, they will have the Dem Karen of Doom Kommie Bitch overlooking as usual with decrepit old people (maybe they will be legally blind this time) and fresh faced CCP young Chinese manning the ballot printing machines.

I sure hopium there is a karma boomerang for these traitors, but I'm not holding my breath. They don't hide the rigged voting any more, just waft the breath of threat on you if you comment. I think that the 'white hats' are saving California for last due to the severity of the infestation and rot.

Well, rampant, purposeful, flagrant, audacious, mocking, ostentatious, oppressive, obvious, in your face voter fraud IS a conceivable reason.

https://t.me/WeTheMedia/109935

Does Michigan have more registered voters than it has eligible voters?

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/polls-show-democrats-have-slight-lead-in-early-vote-rigging

U.S. — Early voting polls from swing states like Pennsylvania and Michigan indicated that Democrats are clinging to a slight lead in early vote-rigging.

According to election officials in key counties across the two states, the news is rather surprising, given the Democrats' strong performance in vote-rigging in the last several election cycles.

"The Democrats are still leading in early vote-rigging, but just barely," said ballot counter Dan Kratz, who was in charge of putting up posterboards to block people from watching the ballots being counted in 2020. "Honestly, I'm just intrigued to see the Republicans putting up more of a fight. Usually, the Democrats just run away with everything by rigging the election, but this year could be a close one."

Sources cited several factors for the Democrats' failure to rig the election more easily, including the fact that even the people who are normally in charge of forging Democrat ballots are having a hard time bringing themselves to write in "Kamala Harris" on ballots cast for dead people and nursing home residents.

"It's honestly getting harder — I just hate that cackle," said Democrat election operative Jimmy Jackson. "I keep pushing anyway. Another day, another few hundred forged Kamala ballots."

At publishing time, the Democrats had begun to take a more commanding lead in early vote-rigging after bringing several truckloads of illegal immigrants across the border to help fill out ballots.

I was reading in Plutarch that Cato the Younger oversaw a Roman election in which he noted that a large number of votes were submitted with the same handwriting, so he had the election invalidated. There is nothing new under the sun. Well, maybe the new thing is that the 2020 election was obviously fraudulent, but the law is not being enforced, with the novel excuse that no one protesting the fraud has any legal standing.

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Election train wreck incoming. If they can't defraud it, they'll blow it up and hope the frauds can be resurrected from the ashes. However, Trump wants the votes, so get out there and vote into the Storm no matter what.

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/a-big-store-pig-in-a-poke-with-a

Do you really think they’d allow the endless prosecutions they deserve? Do you really think they want to give back the money they stole?

Do you think they would allow a landslide which gave us the power to investigate?

No and no and no and no.

Instead, for the past 12 years, we have been undergoing something called a Parallel Election. This happens everywhere, up and down ticket, but most particularly in swing states which determine the direction of the country, and drilling down, in the Pivot Counties within those states that decide the direction of the state.




During the 2016 election, the old tricks which could move an election between 6% and 10% failed, given the surge for Trump. Therefore, a new more organized and fiendish scheme was devised[1]. Hitherto, the thieves had moved the country by increments into “equally divided”, bouncing back and forth between one side and another, making sure that, whatever happened, the Uniparty stayed in power.

Trump destroyed that.

The country is not evenly divided between right and left. It is easily 60-65% populist (right and left) now. Easily. This is probably true in every Western democracy. Every Western democracy is stolen. Every single one. ...

After the 2016 election, fresh Soros money flooded into State and local Attorney’s offices, and new legislation, written by Soros money was brought forward in every single swing state. In Pennsylvania, the dismantling of election regulation wasn’t driven by the DNC, it was driven and effected by RINO Never Trumpers, including Doug Mastriano. 31 Senate bills were introduced that weakened election laws, the bills written by “Democracy PAC”, a Soros-funded outfit.

In Pivot Counties, the day-to-day steal was run by the people who sit on County Councils or who work for the Board of Electors. The 2020 con demanded a conspiracy so huge that afterwards, the famed con, the Mississippi Hustle took place where elected officials at all levels “lost” reelection, resigned or retired. As if by magic, they all received job offers from private outfits with lucrative and unusually hefty signing bonuses for turning against President Trump.[2]

This is what happened in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada. And into their places moved highly paid operators who refined the scam for the ‘22 and ‘24 elections.

A few weeks ago, I described the magic glitch programmed into Dominion voting machines, discovered on machines in Colorado:

“This is how it worked. A few thousand votes into the process, the machine was programmed to create a new database and it moved most already cast votes into that database, after which it began to change votes using the 2010 census. Prior, the operators had identified people whose records showed on said 2010 census, had never voted. They registered them to vote and they voted for them. The packet traffic into every single precinct from China (mostly) during the night of November 3rd was massive, hundreds of thousands of trackers into every precinct, checking totals, altering votes thousands of times in every single county.”

A parallel election. Effected on machines invented, made and sold by literal communists. The software of which we are not allowed to view because it is “proprietary”. ...

All the little local precincts that used to count votes were decommissioned. All votes were brought in and counted in the Big Store, a warehouse out of the public eye, with few windows

120,000 fake votes were manufactured and brought into the Big Store by Post Office contractors. (We all saw the photographs.)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/02/usps-driver-says-trailer-thousands-ballots-disappeared/

They were held back until they found out how many votes Biden required.

The "Pidgeon Drop" in most basic terms, is substituting one item, or container, for another item, or container.

The “Kansas Shuffle”. Stenstrom observed pallets of ballots moving up and down the three elevator banks, over and over again.

He asked: “What practical reason could there be for moving tens of thousands of ballots on dozens of rolling racks going up and down multiple elevator banks to manually inspect the signature blocks of mail-in ballots to ensure there was something scribbled there, when a multimillion-dollar machine was purchased (by Zuckerberg) and configured to automagically scan tens of thousands of envelopes per hour and inspect, image, and evaluate all aspects of the exterior envelope?”

The shuffling of votes up and down elevators made it possible for the 100,000 fake votes to be added into the system, and counted on the first floor BlueCrest sorter ballot intake.

All the ballot images were destroyed. Against regulation. The one woman, Tina Peters, who saved the ballot images was just jailed in October 2024, for ten years. She is a 69 year old grandmother with a record of impeccable community service.

This same thing happened in in Delaware County, Philadelphia, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Ohio, Florida and North Carolina.

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/november-5-the-pennsylvania-cheat

Since the Democrats have not disbanded the criminal wing of their party, we have to assume they are going to try the same tricks they used to ‘fortify’ the 2020/2 elections and then some.

Election theft is an anti-story, which is to say, if you are employed by Baghdad Bob, (Sundance’s name for the corporate media), if you mention suspicions, you are not only fired, you are blacklisted for all time. Driven out of the cult, and mocked.

If you type the word: Dominion, a bot picks you up and down-ranks your post or story.

The absence of the legacy media means that citizens have stepped up. In Pennsylvania, Leah Hoopes and Greg Stenstrom were Republican poll watchers in 2020 in Delaware County, Penn, from here on called Delco. The agonizingly delayed vote in Delco gave Pennsylvania to Biden, which gave Biden the win. It was a hot spot, a pivot county, a must win county for Biden.

So it was stolen.

Stenstrom, a fraud investigator and former naval officer, was brought into the fray by Hoopes, a business owner and Republican committee woman who was suspicious of the Zuckerberg money flooding the county. She recruited law enforcement and former military to be involved as poll watchers. Which means that the description of the process of the steal was detailed and ordered.

Afterwards, Stenstrom and Hoopes, wrote, in my opinion, the best book on election fraud. Called The Parallel Election, A Blueprint for Deception, they build a detailed, sourced drama that has elements of Oceans 11.

Eight days ago they released The Big Con. https://vimeo.com/1018791025

... These six categories form the skeleton of the steal.

1. Mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting:
In 2016 Delaware County sent out 12,439 mail-in ballots. In 2020, they sent out 124,114, an 898% increase. In 2019 Pennsylvania passed Act 77, which eliminated requirements for mail-in ballots. Anyone who wanted one, got one.

France did away with mail-in ballots because citizens were losing trust in their elections. ...

2. USB Drives and Tabulators
USB drives are used to transfer data from precinct voting machines to central tabulating systems. For the 2020 election, Attorney-General Josh Shapiro, now Governor of Pennsylvania, groomed early by the Clinton machine for political glory, moved central counting in Delco to the Wharf Building, a former headquarters of Fidelity. It had a confusing layout, many floors, included elevators secreted behind doors and proved impossible to surveil by poll workers.

The tab machines have firmware that can be hacked to manipulate vote counts or change the vote.

3. Dirty Voter Rolls
As below. Dead, moved away, at camp ground, at commercial building, bulk drop, out of state, out of county, felon, migrant halfway house, etc. Ballot harvesters submit fraudulent ballots for individuals long gone. Again, these fraudulent voter registrations are enough to overwhelm any Trump vote in the swing states. You will see listed the categories of illegal addresses. These votes will not be voted by the registrant. ...

4. Bluecrest Sorters - Process Mail-in Ballots
Bluecrest Sorters were purchased by Zuckerberg. Parascript software is installed to automatically verify most signatures. This was deemed necessary to “save” the poll workers fingers. Some of these are equipped with a ballot extraction module, a Pitney Bowles program that opens the envelope and removes the ballots. Those extracted are taken into a back room, out of the supervision of poll watchers, and further checked.

a) Signature verification means Bluecrest Sorters are illegally connected to the internet. ...

b) Opened envelopes are taken into a room and “adjudicated” in secret. Hoopes and Stenstrom have videos from a whistleblower that show the ballots trashed, and new ballots being filled out.

5. Decentralization
The Democrats want to federalize voting in the U.S., so that there is a single system. Therefore, you will come across “random” “citizen” videos on social media, stating the voting must be federalized because every state and county has its own methodology. This is an attempt to centralize ballots so that chain of custody can be more easily over-written.

This takes supervision of vote counting out of individual precincts and takes the process into a massive system which is vulnerable to hacking at each step of the process.

Paper votes counted by local volunteers gives us clear chains of custody and post-election verification. Every vote is handled by an individual, the counts and recounts, checked and the boxes firmly sealed before being sent on. ...

6.Election Officials.
If you run through the various states where theft has been reported, as I have, including Michigan, Colorado, Arizona, you will run into a certain type of woman. There is a name for these types, but I call them the Long Bobs, or Lobs, which is a haircut that stylists have decided suits executive women who are of childbearing age. The haircut also signifies their belonging, their integration into the mainstream. But it is a fake integration. Time after time after time, these Soros funded, WEF trained women have used vicious tactics to silence operatives, pitilessly jailing people. Last month, Jenna Griswold, in Colorado put Tina Peters, a 69 year old grandmother with an exemplary record of community service, in jail for ten years. I think they are chosen because they look like teachers or principals of an elementary school. Harmless. They are anything but. In every single state, they have been carefully placed to turn back challenges. This is crude identity politics with Marxist purpose and a transparent political tactic of the hard left.

There are 3143 counties in the U.S., but you only need 20 counties to steal the election. States which have turned blue recently, have these women in power. It’s like an order went out on the Soros/WEFer/Clinton hotline. Get me a young hot mom-type. Make sure she is a rabid leftie but looks like the teacher you fancied when you were 12. ...

If everything Hoopes and Stenstrom assert in the Big Con and The Parallel Election - and their theory and evidence have been tested in the fire of an 890 day court battle - then the conspiracy to steal the election involves the highest ranking Democrats in the country. In the case of Reid Hoffman, Josh Shapiro, Stephan Pachikov, Kevin Madden, and Ashley Biden’s husband, Dr. Howard Krein, they are engaged in a criminal conspiracy against the fundamental right of the citizens of the United States of America. Or, in plain language, treason.

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/surprise-surprise-a4d

Of course, there’s no “pandemic” this time to cover for the trip that the Party of Chaos wants to lay on the country, no excuse for gross and glaring ballot fuckery, for the days of anxious uncertainty following an election. Everybody and his uncle expect a gigantic tantrum to follow November 6 if Mr. Trump somehow overcomes the tide of bogus harvested votes, illegal alien votes, phantom overseas votes, voting machine swapped votes, lost-and-found votes, last-minute rafts of votes, and other products of the Marc Elias election sabotage machine.

I am not so sure that the tantrum will materialize. Despite the orgy of Orwellian language inversions you have been subjected to in recent years, and the bending of reality it induced, you will know a real insurrection if you see it. You already know the real reason the Democratic Party went insane: its crime spree against the citizens of this land was so obvious and outrageous that a thousand Beltway bureaucrats are now going crazy in fear of prosecution. The tantrum everyone expects them to provoke would be a real insurrection and they are liable to find themselves in even deeper trouble for resorting to it.

Crime is the whole reason for the Democrats’ desperation. There was no “policy” the past four years, only crime. The Covid operation was a mass murder. The open border was not something that just happened, like a spell of bad weather. It was a colossal racketeering operation. They worked it hard. “Joe Biden” paid dozens of NGO cut-outs to systematically jam more than ten million sketchy interlopers into the country, and then support them lavishly with cash payments when they got here. ...

Will the Democrats’ Antifa street-army be allowed to terrorize the cities? I expect the remaining cops not de-funded in DC, New York, Chicago, and LA won’t hold back this time, no matter what mayors Muriel Bowser, Eric Adams, Brandon Johnson, and Karen Bass tell them to do. You will instead see the return of something that has been missing for years: a sense of duty to public safety and the common good. Won’t that be a surprise? And there will be nothing that the FBI can do about. It’s one thing to incite a riot among a mob of ordinary middle-aged folks moiling around the US Capitol. It’s another thing to try to subvert the police in carrying out their duties. New heroes will emerge and there will be no ambiguity about what happens. ...

It took four years for slightly more than half of America to see that our country’s fate was in the hands of villains wrecking the joint. It looks like their depredations are nearly over. The USA really does not want to gurgle down the drain of history. We’re not ready to roll over and die. We’re waking up from an induced coma, starting to remember who we are. That has been the weird lesson of 2024. Surprise, surprise!

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/momentum-tuesday-october-22-2024

In another encouraging election integrity development, yesterday Texas’ terrific Attorney General Ken Paxton announced completing the first part of its investigation into Democrat fundraising platform ‘ActBlue.’ The press release was headlined, “Investigation Into ActBlue Uncovers Large Number of Suspicious Donations Through Obscured Identities and Untraceable Means; OAG Demands FEC Action.”

You may recall this summer’s news about James O’Keefe and his OMG citizen journalists who broke the ActBlue “smurfing” story. Apparently, ActBlue has been —knowingly or negligently— serving as a sort of money-laundering clearinghouse. Large donations, which could easily be foreign, were (are still?) being divided up into hundreds or thousands of small individual donations, made in random low-income people’s names.

The absurd results included cases like a 92-year-old woman living in an Alabama trailer who was apparently making dozens of daily donations, totaling nearly ten thousand dollars per day, to dozens of Democrat candidates and causes. When O’Keefe visited folks who were willing to talk, the donors denied making all those donations, logically insisting they couldn’t afford to do it even if they had that kind of time.

ActBlue responded in August by adding a requirement for the CVC code for credit card donations. Think about that. They weren’t even requiring a security code before then. When was the last time you used your credit card without that code?

The fact is, someone has obviously made vast amounts of illegal donations. There are for sure one or more rotten actors out there. If caught, they’d probably get life in prison, or worse. But Grandma Garland has never even held one of his DOJ press conferences or rambled about saving democracy by finding and convicting these fraudulent election interferers. Oddly.

AG Paxton announced that his office opened the investigation back in December of last year. Yesterday, he sent a formal demand to the FEC —including proposed new rules— to cut off ActBlue (or anyone else’s) ability to illegally launder money this way.

Bless James O’Keefe, for blowing up this story about the little blue smurfers.

https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/major-national-cybersecurity-exercise-on-election-day

Background: “AFCEA [Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International] Atlanta [Chapter] Homeland Security Conference on Critical Infrastructure, November 6-7, 2024, with a large scale cybersecurity exercise on November 5, 2024” (link in footnote)

—On Nov. 5, ELECTION DAY, there will be a special cybersecurity exercise at the Conference.

Get this. The exercise is described as a large-scale interactive event, with participants from federal, state, county, city government agencies, academia, and industry.

The exercise will simulate a cyber-attack on “critical infrastructure.”

That’s right. It’s a so-called “Jack Voltaic”-type exercise, which was developed to test responses to attacks on large infrastructures.

QUITE odd to schedule the exercise on Election Day.

QUITE odd to run an exercise simulating a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure ON ELECTION DAY, especially since electronic voting across the nation IS a piece of critical infrastructure.

IF bad actors were looking to mess with electronic voting, this exercise would create a reasonable cover and method.

If the actors wanted to rig electronic voting and needed an excuse to explain “anomalies” in the vote count, or to explain a sudden shut-down of key voting precincts, the cyber-exercise would provide those explanations.

“Well, you see, there was a temporary glitch owing to the fact that, parallel to Election Day voting, Homeland Security was running a crucial but unrelated cyber-exercise, and ‘wires were crossed,’ so to speak…”

“Nothing to see here, the problem was fixed, and the exercise proceeded, as did the vote count. Occasionally, these things happen. Homeland Security assures us that voting was not impeded…”

“Of course, some people are spreading rumors and conspiracy theories about ‘altered vote counts’. These accusations are entirely unfounded. The Homeland Security exercise had nothing to do with the vote count…”

“Accusations of vote rigging are very serious. They could be, in some cases, considered a form of election interference (if we, the government, want to shut people up and shut them down and obscure what we’re really doing)…”

—But again, scheduling a major Homeland Security cyber-exercise simulating an attack on critical infrastructure? ON ELECTION DAY? Really?

At the very least, it’s a great way for government to get people to distrust government.

https://nitter.poast.org/AGAndrewBailey/status/1848523609977077899#m