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After the 2000 election, a bi-partisan majority felt there were deficiencies in US elections, and a bi-partisan naitonal commission headed by former Democrat US President Jimmy Carter was set up to recommend measures to improve it. Since then, the Democrats have gone the opposite direction of Carter's recommendations and made things worse. They have used control of states where they were in the majority to do that and in other states have tried to use the courts to do so. As a result, the flawed 2020 election made 2000 look pristine.

For example, photo voter ID is an international gold standard for election integrity, used in every developed country in the world on a national basis EXCEPT the US. Democrats have fought that tooth and nail here in the courts. We are just now finally getting a watered down version of it in North Carolina after years of trying. Many lesser developed countries also use photo voter ID, and indeed it was used in all eight of the foreign elections where I served as an international election observer.

Then there are mail-in ballots which Jimmy Carter twenty years ago identified as being particularly prone to voter fraud. Instead of tightening them up as Jimmy Carter recommended, the Democrats have gone loosey-goosey with them, making voter fraud much easier. Indeed, a few Democrat controlled states have gone ALL mail-in ballots. None of the foreign elections where I served as an international election observer allowed any mail-in ballots at all.

There are other examples where the Democrats have gone the opposite direction from the Carter Commission's recommendations, and in doing so, they have made our elections less secure.

The biggest red flag in 2020 was kicking Republican election observers out of the ballot counting rooms in mulitiple key big urban counties in swing states. In none of the eight foreign elections where I was an international election observer was there ever even a hint of kicking out party election observers or civil society election observers. That is something that would be expected in a Third World police state.

Commented: Friday, September 1st, 2023 @ 11:56 am By: Steven P. Rader

none of this is true.

Commented: Friday, September 1st, 2023 @ 9:21 am By: Big Bob

Right you are RH on all points, especially about the hurricane metaphor, which is dead on.

This conflation of everything that is useful in the Leftist addled mind at some lower level of its painful work process, which also has purely destroyed the journalism industry within the Corrupt Corporate Media.

Commented: Friday, September 1st, 2023 @ 10:16 am By: Stan Deatherage

The Biden thugs are using a gun control bill that RINO Thom Tillis voted for as their justification for this totalitarian move against our gun rights. Biden and Tillis both need to be tossed out of office. They are two peas in a leftwing pod. Damn the difference.

Commented: Friday, September 1st, 2023 @ 6:49 am By: Rino Hunter

Stan, you won in the same election. If you think the election was so bad, step down. It’s the only honorable thing to do. I won’t hold my breath

Commented: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 8:50 pm By: Big Bob

The Constitution provides for each state's general assembly to provide for elections, and in most states each county is a body politic of that state, and thus responsible for the local integrity of each election.

If a state is corrupt, as many are now, then counties have a far easier time plying their associative corruption.

That is why I cannot see how the Left cannot understand Election Integrity, and its importance.

As a Leftist Big Bob is good for providing his special political muse.

Commented: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 6:42 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Say goodnight Gracie...

Commented: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 4:25 pm By: Big Bob

Why isn't the so called Law enforcement, putting someone in Jail for Breaking the Law? Are they now Lawless? We need to Fire them , and find True Law Projects!?

Commented: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 3:24 pm By: Syndi

WHY do the laws of our country and our constitution not apply to ANY of the current administration?

Commented: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 2:57 pm By: Mel

The climate charade has always been a political ploy since it was revived in the 1980s. A Swedish physicist concocted it in the 1890s and it got no traction then. When a British scientific magazine mentioned this old and discredited theory in an article, Prime Minister Thatcher saw it as useful in battling her enemies the coal miner unions and the arab oil sheiks and to help in promoting her vision of nuclear power, so her government put out a bunch of grant money. It was totally politically motivated, but they knew if they set out a pig trough of money, scientists will come running with their tongues hanging out for grants, and they did. Since then, the globalists at the UN, WEF, and elsewhere have seen the benefit to keep the money flowing to advance their agenda, as have the Russians and Chinese.

The globalist totalitarians have even been floating the idea of climate lockdowns.

Former Czech Republic president and prime minister Dr. Vaclav Klaus said it best when he described climate alarmism as "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today." President Klaus has written a book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles: what is in jeopardy - climate or freedom?" that has been published in eight languages.

If Margaret Thatcher had known who would have picked up on this charade, I suspect she would never have gotten it started with the politically motivated money she put into it.

Commented: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 12:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

I’m sorry, but you sound so childish. Elections all over the country are run just like BCs. Some times you win, sometimes you lose. Man up
The whole thing was a lie. Roodes just lost in court. My bet, many others will to. Stop lying

Commented: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 9:55 am By: Big Bob