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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.
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 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.

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.

Yesterday’s New York Times featured an anguished story headlined, “Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey.” The article was a hysterical, over-the-top reaction to what even it admitted was not news.
“The Justice Department will monitor polling sites in California and New Jersey ahead of the Nov. 4 election,” the Times reported, “to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.” This, the Times felt, “will likely heighten tensions as voters weigh in on some of the nation’s most closely watched races.”
It will heighten tensions if the Times has anything to say about it, that is.
November’s cool weather also delivers a few off-year elections. In California, voters will decide Proposition 50, which seeks to amend the state’s constitution to let the Golden State bypass its independent mapping agency and gerrymander five new Democrat districts before next year’s Congressional midterms. ...
“Deploying these federal forces appears to be an intimidation tactic meant for one thing: suppress the vote.”
Neither the Times nor Gavin Newsom’s spokesmoron quoted a single person who felt intimidated by the DOJ observers, or even suggested who those people might be. Maybe gnomes, or headless horsemen. The answer was left, apparently, to partisan readers’ hyperactive imaginations.
The only “news” was that, after receiving specific and detailed complaints from Republican elections officials, the DOJ said it will send an unspecified number of poll watchers to five counties in California and one in New Jersey. Only six counties.
The complaints were textbook election issues. For example, New Jersey’s GOP complained to the DOJ after Democrat members of the Passaic County Board of Elections blocked the use of security cameras in ballot storage areas and refused to require a sign-in log for workers with access to mail-in ballots. (Of course.)
The DOJ is just doing its job; responding to official complaints from a handful of counties. That’s it, that’s the whole story. But it was enough to provoke panic and hysteria among Democrats, although the article itself admitted that there is nothing whatsoever unusual about the DOJ’s announcement.
“Election monitoring by the Justice Department is not uncommon,” the Times finally conceded. “Election officials say such monitoring has been conducted in the past under both Republican and Democratic administrations,” it continued, adding that just two years ago, “in 2022, under the Biden administration, the DOJ monitored compliance with federal voting rights laws in 64 jurisdictions in 24 states.”
Even LA County’s registrar responded with an inoffensive statement, saying that federal monitors, “like all election observers,” were welcome, and adding that “the presence of election observers is not unusual and is a standard practice across the country.”
The article even confessed that, shockingly, in last November’s election, 81% of voters in California used mail-in ballots, raising questions about who exactly would even be there to be intimidated. The Times noted darkly that, “MAGA Republicans have maintained a relentless focus on voter fraud and have trained election observers to aggressively search for possible irregularities at polling places.” We’re all praying that’s true, and I’ll bet that’s another 80/20 issue in the GOP’s favor.
81% of voters in California used mail-in ballots











AG Bonta, SOS Weber Celebrate Appellate Decision Striking Down Huntington Beach’s Voter ID Law
Californians can’t do anything without an ID – except vote ...
Requiring Voter ID is disenfranchising voters according to California’s Attorney General.
How about the state Motor-Voter law? Offering voter registration opportunities at the California Department of Motor Vehicles has caused many Californians to question the integrity of our election system, and most of those would gladly show ID to vote.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal law prohibits states from counting ballots that arrive after Election Day.
President Donald Trump has long railed against mail-in voting and has argued that allowing ballots to be counted after Election Day creates opportunities for fraud. He’s claimed that the practice undermines voter confidence by making it impossible to quickly announce final results.
However, the laws of about 30 states authorize counting mail-in ballots after Election Day, with officials contending that the grace period aids voters — including military personnel — whose ballots are delayed for reasons outside their control.
The Supreme Court announced in a routine order list Monday that it will grant review in challenges the Republican National Committee and the Mississippi Libertarian Party filed against that state’s law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive within five business days after the election.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the challengers and struck down the Mississippi law last year, holding that it is at odds with a trio of federal laws establishing a uniform, nationwide day for voting in federal elections.
We're Not Making This Up: Watch Jasmine Crockett Warn Trump Could Use Dominion Voting Machines to Rig Election
https://www.westernjournal.com/not-making-watch-jasmine-crockett-warn-trump-use-dominion-voting-machines-rig-election/
We're Not Making This Up: Watch Jasmine Crockett Warn Trump Could Use Dominion Voting Machines to Rig Election
Good! Now both sides want voting machines eliminated, right?




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Trump continues to insist there was mass fraud, but all media simply dismisses his claim as "false" without any reasoning or evidence.
I'm pretty damn sure Biden's election was fraudulent.
Update: after 2000 Mules presented the evidence, I'm 100% sure that Biden's election was fraudulent. See https://2000mules.com/