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You are badly mistaken on the actual facts, Bob. Election procedures vary widely in the United States because our Constitution gives control of elections to the states and not the national government. Within states, there are areas that are well run and honest and those that are not. At the height of Mayor Daley's corrupt Chicago political machine, elections in downstate Illinois rural counties were honest and aboveboard.

After the 2000 election, a national commission was set up, chaired by Democrat former President Jimmy Carter to make recommendations on election security and ballot integrity. One of the recommendations of Carter's commission was that mail-in ballots provided a lot more opportunity for fraud than casting ballots at the polls on election day. They suggested that to the extent that mail-in ballots were used, it should be minimized.

So what did the Democrats push hard for in 2020, led by partisan Democrat lawyer Marc Elias? More mail-in ballots, the very thing Jimmy Carter said were most prone to fraud.

Having election observers present is a key to honest elections. But what did the Democrats do in 2020? In key counties in multiple states they either kicked or tricked Republican elections observers out of the counting rooms, or in some cases seated them so far away that it was impossible for them to observe the count. That is simply not something that is done when one is running an honest and aboveboard election.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 4:45 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The law applies to all. None are above it.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 3:36 pm By: Big Bob

The analogy is tried and true and supported by the SCOTUS and US law. That is a fact brother, not my opinion.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 2:03 pm By: Big Bob

Then we will agree to disagree. Honor your ancestors all you want. That's your right. However, Big Bob will never support taxpayer funding celebrating this, or any holocaust.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 1:56 pm By: Big Bob

Actually, Bolshevik Bob, YOU are like a holocaust denier, denying real history because it does not fit in with your extremist ideology. The holoscaust, historically and factually, did happen. Those who deny it for extremist political reasons are not to be trusted. Similarly, factually and historically there WERE free blacks in the South in the antebellum South and a significant number of them owned slaves themselves. To deny that because of your anti-white racist beliefs, you are similarly not to be trusted.

History is history. Facts are facts. They should not be denied because they are inconvenient to a political narrative or agenda.

Slavery was wrong, as General Lee wrote, that it was "an institution of moral and political evil." But that does not mean that all Southern blacks at the time were slaves. They weren't. And it does not mean that blacks were not slave owners. Some of them were.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 1:18 pm By: John Steed

Attempts to normalize or justify this awful chapter in American history reminds me of the Neo nazi holocaust deniers. it's just sick.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 10:13 am By: Big Bob

The Democrat scheme to manipulate the 2020 presidential election was based on urban counties in swing states. Beaufort County was NOT a target county due to not being a big urban county. Also, our local election staff, I am confidant, is above such corruption.

North Carolina did have some of its election integrity measures downgraded due to connivance between Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias and the Democrat controlled State Board of Elections, but some of that was reversed, and the Zuckerburg - Soros election mafia did not seem to run their ballot harvesting scheme here.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 10:51 am By: Steven P. Rader

Whether the policy is being advocated by an anonymous internet troll or by a "woke" politician (of either party), removing a reconciliation memorial from a cemetery is a horrible idea. Trampling on an act of reconciliation is actually promoting division. We have to ask ourselves, what are the motives of those promoting division?

Also, shutting down discussion of history (or anything else) is a dangerous thing. Totalitarian tyrants obliterate history and impose their own narrative. Free people engage in free debate and let logic dictate. The true study of history is not a hammer smashing a stone. It is more like reading an interesting mosaic of human stories.

Tearing down a culture in order to impose an authoritarian dream of utopia has been done before. It is a recipe for disaster.

Commented: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 8:51 am By: Charles Hickman

Was the 2020 BC election corrupt?

Commented: Monday, August 28th, 2023 @ 8:51 pm By: Big Bob

Ole Bobbie has been mighty silent on this subject since he was exposed as not having a clue on what he was talking about.

Commented: Monday, August 28th, 2023 @ 4:42 pm By: Rino Hunter

The usual suspect in gas price gouging, Speedway, has jacked their price up again this afternoon to $3.59, about 15 cents increase from where they were. No one else seems to have followed yet, so it is a good time to fill up. Murphy's Express is at $3.43, and the 76 Station on Bridge Street at $3.42. Duck Thru is at $3.44, but if you have their discount card, that makes it $3.39, as of right now the best price in town, and 20 cents a gallon less than Speedway.

Commented: Monday, August 28th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm By: John Steed

Big Bob: What kind of consequences are you predicting here for using one's guaranteed right to speak what they know to be true.

Commented: Monday, August 28th, 2023 @ 1:15 pm By: Stan Deatherage