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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gasbags-wednesday-august-6-2025-c

Yesterday, Politico ran a story headlined, “Appeals court upholds Texas law requiring ID numbers to cast mail-in ballots.” The sub-headline understatedly said, “Unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel is a setback for civil rights groups.” It’s a setback, all right.

One of the great mysteries of the nascent twenty-first century is the wholesale acceptance of the notion that showing up to vote in person is some kind of terrible burden. But the logic of exceptions carried the day, and now we must all grapple with a voting system as slippery as a hog rubbed down with gallons of P. Diddy’s baby oil.

The pig just got a little less slippery. Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit said it had “no difficulty” finding Texas’s 2023 law requiring an ID number (like a driver’s license number) to be provided along with the voter’s name and address on any valid mail-in ballot. ...

But the Fifth Circuit disagreed. “The number-matching requirements are obviously designed to confirm that every mail-in voter is who he claims he is,” the Court wrote in its straightforward, nine-page order. “And that is plainly material to determining whether an individual is qualified to vote.”

Things could go a lot differently in Texas next midterms. On top of this ID requirement, Texas also recently survived the judicial gauntlet with another law requiring mail-in ballots to be received and counted by Election Day. ...

The Times’s story did not mention whether the “voter’s rights activists” will attempt an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. I hope they do, since that would cement the ID requirement nationwide. Either way, the ID law becomes effective in the meantime. So get ready.

Patrick says

another law requiring mail-in ballots to be received and counted by Election Day. ...

Patrick says

will attempt an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. I hope they do, since that would cement the ID requirement nationwide

It won't cement the law nationwide. Just allow other states to do the same or not.

https://x.com/JimWalshLD19/status/1953538890574479398

One out of 7 Registered Voters in WA Is ILLEGAL Under Federal Law.
And the number may actually be worse.
Glen Morgan delivers the receipts.
This is a big problem. WA needs to Require Proof of Citizenship When People Register to Vote!

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/tectonics-wednesday-august-13-2025

Arrest alert! On Monday, the Detroit News ran a story headlined, “Two Hamtramck City Council members charged with election fraud.” Remember the thing that was just a conspiracy theory? It happened again.

According to the story, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office stated that

six people worked together during the 2023 municipal election and received blank absentee ballots signed by recently naturalized citizens. Those six people would write in the name of the candidate they preferred.

Following a visit to Hamtramck by the FBI two months ago, the local DA appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the case, and this week, the charges against City Councilmen Mohammed Hassan and Muhtasin Sadman ensued. Both are Democrats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtBdppVoWJs

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115049485680941254

I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. Remember, the States are merely an “agent” for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do. With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women’s Sports, Transgender and “WOKE” for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON’T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aug 18, 2025, 4:17 AM

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crying-uncle-wednesday-august-27

Trump, in another obvious setup question, asked Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about the “burn bags of information having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was— when will that come out?” Gabbard replied, “we are finding documents, literally tucked away in the back of safes in random offices, in these bags and in other areas.”

https://x.com/TheStormRedux/status/1960395626430017663

It’s like a deep state scavenger hunt! Bottom line— more disclosures are definitely coming.

And— how hilarious is it that the deep staters trusted each other so little that they all kept the burn bags instead of incinerating them? I can’t wait for the movie.

Still more BS "news about forthcoming news" which is extremely slim on actual facts.

Patrick says

Still more BS "news about forthcoming news" which is extremely slim on actual facts.

Like a BRICS announcement.

Pulling the flush handle on the Soros Fecal Impaction/CCP election frauds.

That's the general idea, moron. Lower participation by those who are not citizens and should not be voting in the first place.

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1964403666393412075?t=hkc8K8WBQsxoEudv7HtIVQ&s=19

Just once? I hear cat ladies' cats manage to get in 10 mail in votes apiece.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/09/06/california-woman-registered-her-dog-and-it-voted-by-mail-in-ballot/

It's true:

Laura Lee Yourex, a 62-year-old woman from Costa Mesa, California, was charged with registering her dog to vote and casting mail-in ballots in the dog's name. The 2021 ballot was accepted, while the 2022 ballot was rejected. Yourex faces up to six years in state prison if convicted.

In order to register to vote in California, an eligible voter must fill out a form with identifiable information, political preference, and attest to their citizenship under the penalty of perjury. While proof of residence is required for first-time voters to cast a ballot in a federal election, it is not required to cast a ballot in a state election.

The case was reported by the Orange County District Attorney's Office after a resident self-reported the crime to the Orange County Registrar of Voters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4H65C9AjEE

Massive Mail-In Voter Fraud EXPOSED Caught Stuffing The Drop Box.

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Yep, looks like this time they are serious and I wonder if they will try to drag this out to 2029 in hopes that another Biden is in the White House

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/doj-suing-oregon-maine-voter-data-states

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https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-power-of-god-compels-you

By the way, and in case you missed it, Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed Martin, on or about September 5, visited Tina Peters in her cell in the Colorado State Prison at Pueblo. Peters (who turns 70 today), the former Mesa County Clerk convicted in 2024 of nine felony counts related to a security breach of voting equipment (stemming from efforts to "prove" 2020 election fraud claims), was sentenced to nine years in prison. The DOJ has filed a “review” of her conviction in federal court. I wouldn’t want to be Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State, who spearheaded Tina Peter’s prosecution for daring to voice concern over election fraud.

Then, just this week, the same Ed Martin paid a call to the Fulton County, GA, election headquarters to initiate federal grand jury proceedings to access 148,000 ballots held under seal and unexamined in a county warehouse since the 2020 election. The ballots have long been suspected of irregularities and possible fraud. “Joe Biden” won the state by 11,799 votes out of 5,017,000 cast (a 0.23% plurality), and thus the national election — as did both of Georgia’s Democratic senators, Jon Ossof and Raphael Warnock.

The courts GA also formally and quietly dropped the 'election interference' case against Trump. The one the disgraced prosecutor whose name I can't remember was prosecuting.

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1969041696940859805

Finally. Juan O Savin pundit has been saying for a long time that they have in witness protection many of the technicians who were first line in the machines and election frauds with the actual original data, and they will be revealed in testimony. This will give Trump the justification for establishing independent Federal elections with citizen ID, paper ballots, same day voting, and same day counting (possibly with military oversight). The Democrats will not be able to install their fecal impactions in Federal elections in 2026. It is the end of many of them, because opposing candidates will step forward knowing that their runs for office won't be in vain.

Why the long tease, I don't know, but timing is important and release into the public forums are important, too.

Tina Peters was railroaded for doing her job in saving tainted election data in the Colorado elections.

Of course, arrests and prosecutions, or it is just noise and wind in sails as usual.



https://x.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1971265276491772001

Dominion and their boundless well of MI6/City of London fiat dollars lawfare anybody exposing their frauds. Soros and Dominion used to be right down the hall from each other in the same office building in Toronto, one of three Dominion main headquarters (mother is in Venezuela from whence Dominion was sired). Soros INC has moved to Europe hence, because the dogs of karma are pursuing them.

Hopefully, Trump will put an end to the machines in Federal elections along with mail in ballots, to perform a debridement of Congress of many Soros Fecal Impactions and psychos.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gold-fingered-friday-october-10-2025

Associated Press headline: “Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories.” And another puzzle piece just dropped into place.

As you read this next segment, remember how well and for how long we’ve all been taught that even questioning the legitimacy of electronic voting systems is tantamount to election denialism, which is the next worst crime after insurrection and asking questions about masks on Facebook.

Back in the spring, President Trump signed an executive order calling for sweeping voting reforms, including an auditable paper trail for all cast votes. Federal judges (of course) shut that right down, holding that states and Congress set election procedure, not the Executive Branch.

But two days ago, a newly formed company named Liberty Vote suddenly and unexpectedly announced it had bought electronic voting manufacturer Dominion and would move the headquarters from Canada to St. Louis. Liberty’s press release promised to restore trust to voting systems, reintroduce “hand-marked paper ballots,” and adjust company policies to follow Trump’s executive order on voting procedures.

Liberty is owned by former St. Louis elections director and Republican voting systems manufacturer Scott Leiendecker.

Leiendecker was the Republican election director for the St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners from 2005 to 2012. He is also the founder and CEO of KNOWiNK, an non-partisan elections technology company based in St. Louis, which makes products like Poll Print and Poll Pad, used in polling sites across the United States.

Given that Dominion successfully sued several conservatives for defamation, progressives should be very careful about being too critical about Liberty Vote. All that celebrating over Dominion’s court wins could circle right back to lawsuits against liberals.

As they say, what’s good for the goose is good for the Trump-deranged gander.

We’ve discussed before what appears to be a significant, national strategy for not just for holding ground but sweeping the 2026 midterms. This acquisition of Dominion, well in advance of next year’s elections, is completely consistent with that theory.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/dizzying-dichotomies-saturday-october

This week, as the Supreme Court continued hearing oral arguments, election integrity hardened again. On Wednesday, ABC ran a terrific story headlined, “Supreme Court likely to let candidates more freely challenge state election laws.”

Anyone who was not high on drugs during the stolen 2020 election cycle will recall case after case being tossed out by courts that summarily found the challengers lacked standing to dispute the votes, regardless of how many examples of fraud or how many affidavits from poll watchers they’d produced. Indeed, of the handful of cases where courts granted standing and considered evidence, the vast majority were decided in Trump’s favor.

The reason this insanely frustrating situation happened is that the current rule for establishing standing to dispute an election is extremely demanding. Candidates (not voters) must show that a particular problem is so widespread and so severe that it materially affected the election outcome— under a brutal ten-day deadline to assemble evidence.

Consider a hypothetical. In August, with months to go before the November election, Penciltucky’s local supervisor Karen Looney makes a critical rule change and announces voters can send in their votes telepathically. The Republican candidate Abe Justice sues— but the judge dismisses it, saying Abe can’t show that psychic voting would hurt his election. He must wait to see if he loses. Then, and only then, he’ll get ten days to figure out what happened, put his case together, assemble evidence, and file suit.

These rules cram candidates into an impossibly tiny box. If they file too soon, they get thrown out. If they file too late, they get thrown out. They get one brief window of ten days to mount an entire case— and that’s it. That is one reason why the 2020 election litigation was such a disaster: the rules gave liberal judges a million ways to quickly broom away the politically toxic cases.

The controversy that arrived at the Court yesterday was a perfect setup. The candidate, Michael Bost, is a Republican in a safe House seat. He challenged a new Illinois law allowing tardy mail-in ballots to be counted up to two weeks after election day. Critically, he freely admitted that in his conservative district, late-counted ballots would probably not prevent his election. It would just make things harder.

In other words, it was filed as a strategic lawsuit meant for the Supreme Court.

Unexpectedly, the lower courts all found Representative Bost lacked standing to challenge the Illinois law, since he couldn’t prove he would be harmed. First, he was too early: the election hadn’t happened yet. Second, he admitted that he’d probably win anyway, so he had no hope of proving the post-election-counting law would have any material effect on the outcome.

The only actual harm Bost could identify was that he’d have to hire poll watchers to monitor two weeks of late counting.

Most court watchers concluded from the Justices’ questions at yesterday’s oral arguments that all the conservatives and maybe even one of the liberals were ready to change the standing requirement to make it easier for candidates to bring cases, and to let them bring their cases well before an election, such as at the time a local election supervisor changes a rule or a state passes a new law.

Also, the majority of justices seemed to accept that, not only would it be much more efficient to let candidates raise pre-election challenges, but they also seemed ready to relax the “material effect” rule requiring challengers to show they were likely to lose. Justice Kagan, one of the court’s liberals, even proposed a new standard where even a winning candidate would only need to show he was at a disadvantage, even if the disadvantage was only “a diminished margin of victory,” or even just higher costs to run the campaign.

The Justices even seemed to back off from the current high evidentiary standard. “I’m sort of in sympathy with the view that this bar should not be all that high,” Justice Kagan said. “You shouldn’t have to say: Here are the polls that show I could lose as a result of this rule.”

If, as seems likely, the Supremes fundamentally change the rules of standing, it will open the courthouse doors for conservatives to immediately tackle laws facilitating fraud, like those related to mail-in ballots. The timing of a decision next year —still months before the 2026 midterms and two years before the next presidential cycle— is beyond fortuitous.

The single change of not requiring candidates to wait for results before challenging election laws could fix nearly everything that went wrong with the 2020 elections. Stand by.

The election fraudsters had all paths covered, including the courts. They knew well that the courts would wind up a dead end.
Patrick says

The reason this insanely frustrating situation happened is that the current rule for establishing standing to dispute an election is extremely demanding. Candidates (not voters) must show that a particular problem is so widespread and so severe that it materially affected the election outcome— under a brutal ten-day deadline to assemble evidence.

Red October news is coming like a fire hose, but this is a nice development. Does that make the whole award against the pillow guy moot? Smartmatic was developed with voting machines in Venezuela, by the way. Venezuela declared war on us first.

So, when Walmart bribed Mexican officials to let them build stores in their jurisdiction (never mind that American politicians were stupid enough to give Walmart tax incentives to build in theirs) and yes some of the Walton family itself were involved...well all they did was appoint Hillary Clinton to their board of directors and the FBI investigation exceeded the time limit for the statute of limitations.

Some can say we have a justice system but really its for the little people.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/your-momma-saturday-october-18-2025

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal ran a wonderfully encouraging story headlined, “Smartmatic Indicted Over Alleged Bribes.” The sub-headline added context: “Voting-machine company earlier brought defamation suits against Trump allies over claims it rigged the 2020 election.”

Voting-technology provider Smartmatic and three executives were charged under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on Thursday, for conspiring to bribe foreign officials and money laundering in the Philippines— a much easier charge to prove than stealing the 2020 election.

Maximum penalties include up to 20 years in prison, plus the greater of $500,000 or twice the amount laundered and used for bribes.

Curiously, Smartmatic’s three charged executives are all linked to Venezuela. Two are Venezuelan citizens: Roger Alejandro “Piñata” Martinez and Elie Moreno. (Jorge Miguel Vasquez was the third). It’s too early to draw any pictures, but one begins to wonder whether dots are appearing between the 2020 election fiasco and the current military noose tightening around Venezuela’s dirty neck.

Last year, Smartmatic successfully sued Sidney Powell for defamation, after the courageous lawyer was unable to completely prove the company had thrown the 2020 elections for Biden. But her claims are worth briefly revisiting.

Powell specifically alleged that Smartmatic was directly involved with the Venezuelan government, and claimed its voting technology was designed under the direction of Hugo Chávez, the ideological predecessor of current president Nicolás Maduro (Maduro calls himself “son of Chávez”). Powell claimed that Smartmatic’s software was created in Venezuela to ensure Chávez (and Maduro) would never lose an election, and that Smartmatic’s technology was used to rig elections in Venezuela. The same technology, she said, was then used in the United States to manipulate votes in the 2020 election. Vox, 2017:

How Venezuela went from a rich democracy to a dictatorship on the brink of collapse

“How” indeed. The dictator who controls the electronic balloting controls the brink of collapse. The dots are practically begging us to connect them.

We know two things for sure. Two software companies were involved in the 2020 fiasco: Dominion and Smartmatic. This week, Dominion was suddenly sold to a former Republican election official who prefers paper ballots. Also this week, Smartmatic was indicted for bribing Philippine election officials, which should end its viability as an American provider.

Do you think the timing was coincidental?

Look at it this way. Even if there was no intentional, behind-the-scenes coordination, then some kind of growing animus toward these two electronic voting companies peaked this week. Their protected status is over. They may not face official consequences for whatever they did (or didn’t do) during the 2020 elections, but they are being corporately executed anyway.

Everywhere you look, the same hurricane is blowing. The monarchs, the mandarins, and now the machines — the same brutal winds are shearing off all the old guardians of unaccountable authority. It doesn’t matter whether you call it providence, probability, or payback; the pattern is unmistakable. The era of institutional untouchables is ending, not with a single explosion, but with a thousand simultaneous implosions. The Storm™ isn’t just coming anymore. It’s here, and it’s leveling the landscape.

It wasn't just the Philippines. The standard model for Smartmatic and Dominion were to deliver massive bribes to state officials to implement their fraud machines and software.

In Georgia, the bribes were delivered about 6 months prior to the 2020 elections to the SOS and governor and Raff the Burger and the machines were installed. They really didn't even try to cover up the corruption.

And, yes, Trump is just elevating the war to kinetics that was already declared on us by Venezuela through their engineering participations in election fraud. That, and the drug and fifth column illegal army gang infiltrations clinch it. The stealing oil stuff is secondary bullshit, and might represent reparations anyway for damage already done to us.