Voter cleanup

How frustrating it is to learn of illegal or corrupt practices happening in real time while also knowing that nothing is done about it. Many of us believe that some of our elections have been corrupted, but we don't have the power to stop it.

Judicial Watch does have the ability to get things accomplished in the legal arena. Using various actions, they've worked on cleaning up voter rolls in several states. Their lawsuits in Oregon and Colorado led to the elimination of 1.1 million ineligible names recently, people who had died or moved away or were otherwise ineligible to vote.

Added to other initiatives, they have managed to get a total of over six million voter names across the country off the voter rolls--names which should not receive a mail-in ballot for the above reasons. 

It's good to know that somebody in a position to make a difference is getting things done.

from Judicial Watch

Cooping

 Voter fraud was not invented during our own time. 

In American elections of the 19th century, fraud took the form of "cooping," a clumsy but effective way to cheat with paper ballots. In fact, it seems that a famous writer and poet of the time was involved.

Then, as now, the goal was to multiply votes for the favored candidate. Intoxicated people in bars were held in a central location (a "coop") and forced, in their drunken condition, to repeatedly vote. After each trip to the ballot box, they would be dressed in different clothes or otherwise disguised--to obscure their identity--and sent back to vote again.

Edgar Allen Poe, sadly, suffered from alcoholism and depression. Four days before his death, he was found distressed and disoriented near a voting site in Baltimore. He was not wearing his own clothes. He seems to have been a "cooping" victim (image).

Bad actors will do whatever unjust or illegal scheme they can devise to win elections, whether the election is decided by paper ballots or modern computer technology. 

Human corruption continues in our own time. Many oppose a precaution as simple and wholesome as showing identification (ID) when voting. Even people of good will can be deceived into voting against common sense.

from Mind Matters

Fallen

How the mighty have fallen: Minnesota's governor (photo) says he will never run for elected office again. He has two years left in his position and he apparently plans to stick it out although many wish he'd make his exit now.

This is a man who ran for Vice President of the country just fifteen months ago. Tremendous fraud was discovered since then. Violence and terrible rhetoric have seized Minneapolis.

We'll see what his party wants to do with him, but it might be that he's done trying to manage these crises.

from Daily Wire

Quits Harvard

Harvard University has lost its credibility among American taxpayers. As the federal government removes billions of dollars of public funding, they counter with the claim that they can do whatever they want to do under the umbrella of free speech and academic freedom. 

Yes, they have free speech but we don't have to pay them billions for misleading students and breaking civil rights law. 

 

A psychiatrist who taught in their medical school felt compelled to break away a year ago. He explained his understandable reasons:

"I stopped teaching at Harvard last year [2024] primarily because of its anti-truth-seeking culture, radical left-wing bias, racial and gender discrimination, and prevailing anti-intellectualism . .  Harvard has strayed from its foundational mission of unbiased truth-seeking . . ."

He doesn't hold back: "Harvard remains in denial of its own radicalism. It sneers and looks down on most of America and on American values like color-blind equality, meritocracy, free speech, hard work, and individual responsibility." 

from "Harvard Insider Blows Whistle: This Place is Totally Corrupted"

Anti-trust 2

 (cont'd from yesterday's post)

Congressman Cicilline is chair of the House Judiciary's subcommittee on Anti-Trust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. They released a 400+ page report claiming the tech companies violate anti-trust law. 

"Google, for instance, is effectively the only search engine in town, bolstering its own products in searches, downgrading those of competitors, and “extorting” companies that want to get seen by users."

Cicilline's opinion: "Simply put, they have too much power. This power staves off new forms of competition, creativity, and innovation . . Their dominance is killing the small businesses, manufacturing, and overall dynamism that are the engines of the American economy."

His solution: break them up. It remains to be seen whether Congress will agree.

photo

from Brown Alumni Magazine

Anti-trust 1

Rhode Island Congressman David Cicilline grew up seeing the occasional mafia member at his family dinner table. His father was, in plain terms, a "mob lawyer" who represented a crime organization.

He became a lawyer, a public defender, and then a politician who advocated for causes. Back in the 1990's he was a "leading force in an effort to dismantle the system powering the political machine of [his own party]." 

The "culture of corruption" in Rhode Island included cronyism. Lawmakers were allowed to "create commissions and boards tasked with doling out millions of dollars in contracts, and then appoint the members [of] those bodies or even serve on them themselves." The state constitution did not separate powers to prevent conflict of interest.

Now Cicilline has a new cause. The U.S. Congress has been investigating anti-trust violations among tech companies. Last July he took the opportunity during a hearing to blast Google's CEO with this question, "Why does Google steal content from honest businesses?"

from Brown Alumni Magazine

(cont'd tomorrow)