Comments by Steven P. Rader | Eastern NC Now

This is little more than a Stalin Show Trial. They did not even bother with sending it to a committee to investigate. No more due process than in the old USSR. I cannot imagine SC or Wyoming voters sending that pair back. The others may have more liberal districts. If House Republicans had had any backbone, they would have countered by offering impeachment articles against "the Big Guy" for his collusion in corruption with his son Hunter.

Commented: Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 @ 8:04 pm By: Steven P. Rader

I wonder whether the initial break-in might have been done by BLM or ANTIFA provocateurs, assuming that pro-Trump demonstrators would get caught up in the moment and swarm in.

That thought comes from a very similar event while I was working in the Republic of Moldova with the pro-western political parties. The Communists had won the 2009 Parliamentary election through cheating and fraud, and students started a peaceful protest against the election fraud in the Great National Square in Chisinau between the Presidency and the Parliament. Party activists joined in. Then a group of unknown people showed up equipped with bags of rocks, and stormed the Presidency, forcing their way in and starting to vandalize it, then repeating the performance on the Parliament building. Only later were the provocateurs positively identified as Communist agitators who had previously been photographed in demonstrations against the pro-western parties. Too many students and others got caught up in the moment and followed the provocateurs inside, while the provocateurs themselves quietly slipped away.

The public relations aspects of this incident do not help the President, which is why is was more likely organized by his opponents, who would assume that Trump supporters would get caught up in the moment and join in.

Already, according to Tom Lamprecht on WTIB this evening, two of those who entered the Capitol have been identified in photographs from several months ago when they were participating in BLM demonstrations. One of those two was even sitting in Pelosi's chair during this incident after having been a BLM protester earlier.

Commented: Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 @ 8:20 pm By: Steven P. Rader

It looks like Congressman Murphy is still undecided on whether he will join the challenge, and has sent out an email asking constituents for their opinions, so please contact him and ask him to stand up for honest elections by objecting to electors from fraud tainted states. That was the word a couple of hours ago, anyway, at the swearing in of GOP state legislators from around the 3rd Congressional District held at Ndw Bern.

While you are at it, send messages to Burr and Tillis as well.

Commented: Monday, January 4th, 2021 @ 3:35 pm By: Steven P. Rader

These are a start. Many are already in election law, but that law was not followed this past election.

Mail in voting should be severely curtailed. Even Jimmy Carter's commission on voting problems identified that as a major source of fraud. Many European countries do not allow any mail-in voting at all.

We badly need to clean up our voter registration lists, which in some counties, even in NC have more people registered than there are adults of that age group present according to the census. This is how dead people, people who have moved, and illegal aliens vote. New voter registrations whould be in person with an ID. Online voter registration is a recipe for fraud.

Penalties for election fraud need to be hiked, There should be mandatory jail sentences for anyone who runs poll watchets out of a room where wither voting or ballot counting is going on. Cases need to be prosecuted, not swept under the rug as too often happens now.

New registrants should have to prove citizenship in order to register to vote.

Ballot harvesting needs to be eliminated. The drop boxes the Democrats instituted are nothing but a way to facilitate illegal ballot harvesting.

Commented: Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 @ 8:05 am By: Steven P. Rader