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Last night Linwood decided to expand their post election review hand count to include races up and down the ballot, in line with Minn Stat 206.89, and the down ballot race review with subdvision 3 of that statute.
That’s now FIVE (5) cities in Anoka County that are doing this. (Rumor is the County Canvassing Board may not honor the request—to be determined!)
I imagine this work is giving the Office of the Secretary of State serious headaches because that office, at least its head, is there to give the semblance of elections while preserving the secrecy and black box nature it currently is. It actually sometimes makes me really sad that we the people have allowed this state of affairs for so long. The actions that office has taken, particularly the head, are quite inappropriate.
Throughout 2022 they pretended and helped to put out propaganda pieces downplaying cast vote records (CVR) which are digital receipts that are a standard in these black box voting systems since 2005—part of the (bad) tradeoff from the openness of physical ballots to a proprietary system which counts 1, 2, 3, but in reality can do whatever it pleases with your ballot/vote-tallies/voice.
Then the legislature put CVRs in statute (without defining them, because they are already a national standard) and blocked access to the ballot images. Very sad.
All this, how the election codes get written, etc., is influenced if not orchestrated by the OSS. Any suggestion otherwise is frankly horse shit. It’s like suggesting that a plane crashed into the Pentagon when there were news reports on that day saying there was no plane.
So the fact that the Sec of State is maybe sleeping even less than before is something to think about… I think we the people are proving we are far from ‘a lost cause’ as he has openly stated in a Democracy Defender Summit trying to rally people to follow us around to cities, towns, counties.
In that same Summit he bragged about influencing the counties… I really don’t want to know how this is done, but I suspect part of it has to do with veiled threats of lawsuits. It’s very sad to think about.
So it makes me happy, yes, that lies are getting exposed, that underhanded tactics are being used against us, and also, for them, there’s really no where to hide, if you think about it.
But that’s not what makes me happy on what happens to be my birthday.
It’s more so the consistent work the ACEIT group does.
They meet weekly.
They go to council meetings.
They speak in open forums.
They give presentations.
Give and take phone calls to answer questions.
Help councils find the courage to make a vote on resolutions.
To expand hand counting.
Maybe to do other things too.
Think of the relationships between the people, the citizens and the city councils.
These are relationships that will last a lifetime.
Because relationships based on trust, not fear, have a way of doing that.
Also, there’s something even better, which is the value of going through a very difficult experience together. You start to love one another, not in the fake ways the zeitgeist talks about love, but the eternal kind.
The Minnesota Secretary of State has shown he does not care about voters or the people he’s supposed to serve nor the partners he has in offices around the state… or there wouldn’t be the pushback to good ideas that are being brought, all in line with the very weak election codes we have.
But the members of ACEIT have shown they do care about their neighbors, citizens, regular people like you and me, even those who don’t like what they are doing… because with real elections you have results that will be legit and a lot of politicians will get replaced quickly with people who want to actually serve for their neighbors.
Real elections will benefit everyone.
Except the elites of course. But their time is up very soon. (It may already be up, but we’re just waiting to find out... thought last night’s debate ‘performance’ was well done by both—it was also funny to see the moderator say at the beginning that Trump was elected 4 years ago, haha!)
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