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Oct 5·edited 19 hrs agoLiked by Josh Mitteldorf

If exit polling becomes officially part of the election process, wouldn't exit polling be the target of the same kind of nefarious actions as the actual voting? Government is evil and attracts evil.

* Edit b/c I forgot to use a question mark at the end of a question. Doh! *

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I agree. We've already seen the first stages of this.

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Call me cynical, Josh, but I believe that a large swath of Democrats (my lifelong [pre-2020] party, btw), whether they would admit it or not, believe that such cheating would be warranted to keep Trump out of office. It's part of the Trump Derangement Syndrome (which I had and cured myself of) that believes Trump is THE "existential threat" (the result of years of fear-mongering and a Trump-hating press). So, as much as I'd love to see a bipartisan effort to address the current flaws in elections, I suspect it won't be done anytime soon, alas.

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I've heard similar claims from some (former) election integrity activists I know.

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As Mike Benz recently said, it used to be the Republicans were the Party of war and aligned with the Intelligence Community, but today it is the Democrats. While Bush/Cheney stole 2004 in Ohio, the Democrats (and RINOs, i.e., Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, many of the R Governors, etc.) stole 2000 with the help of the entire Establishment in lockstep claiming it was the most secure election in history.

Meanwhile, Georgia is still in the courts battling to keep the many missing ballots from 2000 hidden from the public, after numerous outrageous examples of intentional fraud, including repeatedly scanning the same ballots to force a match of the machine and hand counts. The Democrats are suing there to block a simple verification of machine counts by hand counting the ballots (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-elections-rules-lawsuit-democrats-2024-ballots/).

And in Nevada and elsewhere the ACLU is suing to stop any attempts to clean up the voter rolls after the Democrats have gotten many illegals onto the rolls (https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/02/nevada-election-chief-blocks-inspection-of-suspect-voter-names-in-swing-state/)

Follow Garland Favrito in Georgia who is spearheading a lot of the efforts there, https://x.com/VoterGa and Georgians for Truth https://x.com/Georgians4Truth. In Nevada, Robert Beadles of Washoe County is at the center of the efforts to adjudicate the fraud and his case has worked its way up through the courts, which have all rejected it, now to the SCOTUS, where someone took an interest (https://x.com/RobertBeadles/status/1840835890773446925).

It would be wonderful if the SCOTUS would actually HEAR election cases, and not reject them out of hand.

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Most Americans are unaware that we had very rampant election fraud in our own history. It seems Dems naively assume people just won't cheat -- even as THEY cheat (2,000 mules). Questioning election integrity is verboten -- likely proof that the election apparatus lacks integrity. Did the Dems steal the 2020 election? -- Absolutely -- by covering up the truth of the Hunter Biden laptop: that alone would have been the end of Old Joe. Now, we don't hear a peep about Kamala Harris' brother-in-law, who makes Hunter look like a virgin compared to the graft this guy is involved in. There is no election integrity if the government itself has become a corrupt mafia organization. (an MGO?) https://nypost.com/2024/08/23/opinion/kamalas-brother-in-law-fleeced-taxpayers-for-billions-to-give-to-left-wing-groups-and-lawyers/#:~:text=Joe%20Biden%E2%80%99s%20son,%20Hunter,%20may%20be%20the%20current%20world-class%20champ

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Schrodinger's rigged election... (Psst, the action that matters is well underway, already. Election day will be the announcement.)

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Tina Peters will die in prison.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/03/trump-election-conspiracist-tina-peters-sentenced.html

She is serving 9 years for simply opening the black box, after the fact, to Trump's team.

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The Wikipedia page on her is probably one of the most honestly comprehensive that they have ever hosted. The judge should be removed from the bench for practicing character assignation without a justification.

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I refuse to believe that! I think the case will overturn on appeal - they have another activist in black robes to create a media frenzy to excite the Dem base, but the case is absurd.

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If you know an appeals judge that hasn't sold out like all of the judges that have been trashing her for years, you should make sure she knows about him/her. If you'd read the Wikipedia page, you'd know how entrenched Mesa County Colorado is against her.

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