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With November coming up, I'm looking for reasons to give a shit and trust our election process. Looking for reasons to have hope that, even if the country does go down the shitter fully, itll be what the people wanted and not swindled and stolen like 2020.

We know the pillow guy got groped by the fbi, but it seems there's been other stuff happening.



Election Software CEO Arrested Over Data Theft, Storing Data on Servers in China​


The head of Konnech Corp., a Michigan-based software company, was arrested on Oct. 4 for allegedly stealing and storing personal data of Los Angeles County election workers on servers in China.

Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested in Michigan on charges of stealing “the personal identifying information” of Los Angeles County election workers, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.


Investigators also seized computer hard drives and other digital data relevant to the case. The office stated that it would seek Yu’s extradition to Los Angeles.

According to the office, Konnech won a five-year, $2.9 million contract with Los Angeles County in 2020 for an election worker management system—named PollChief software—that was used by the county in the last California election.

The software was designed to assist with poll worker assignments, communications, and payroll, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.

Under the contract, Konnech was supposed to securely maintain the data and only provide access to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. But investigators found that the company stored the data on servers in China.


“In this case, the alleged conduct had no impact on the tabulation of votes and did not alter election results,” Gascón said. “But security in all aspects of any election is essential so that we all have full faith in the integrity of the election process.”

Alleged Ties to CCP​

The New York Times reported on Oct. 3 that Konnech had become the target of allegations that the company has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and had given China access to the personal data of 2 million poll workers in the United States.

The software company denied having any ties to the CCP and said all of its data was stored on servers in the United States, according to the report.


Yu’s arrest comes weeks after Konnech filed a lawsuit on Sept. 12 against True the Vote, a nonprofit vote-monitoring organization in Texas, for making “false and racist accusations” against the company.

True the Vote lauded Los Angeles County’s “rapid action” in the case and said Konnech had obtained an emergency temporary restraining order (TRO) to limit the organization’s ability to speak about the litigation.

“True the Vote was sued last month by Konnech to try to silence our organization, including obtaining an ex-parte TRO, conducted in secret so that True the Vote had no opportunity to contest it,” the organization said in a statement. “Today, Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested based on alleged evidence of the very activities he and his organization attempted to suppress.”
 

Former Congressman Sentenced to Prison for Stuffing Pennsylvania Ballot Boxes​


Despite declarations of safe and secure elections, history shows that past Pennsylvania elections weren’t immune from corruption.

For example, former U.S. Rep. Michael “Ozzie” Myers, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election, and orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania elections from 2014 to 2018.


Myers was sentenced on Sept. 27 by U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $100,000 in fines, with $10,000 of that due immediately, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero.

Directly after the Sept. 27 hearing in Philadelphia, Myers, 79, was taken into custody.

Myers served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1976 until 1980, when he was caught taking bribes in an FBI sting operation. That was part of an old, completed investigation.

The Sept. 27 sentencing was a new matter in which Myers admitted that he bribed Domenick J. Demuro, a Democratic judge of elections for the 39th Ward, 36th Division in South Philadelphia, over several years to add votes for certain Democratic candidates.

Some candidates’ campaigns had hired Myers, while others were candidates that he favored. He admitted that he was paid consulting fees in cash or checks, then used portions of these funds to pay election officials to tamper with election results.

This included judicial seats and various federal, state, and local offices.

Myers also admitted to conspiring to commit election fraud with another former judge of elections, Marie Beren, a Democrat, in the 39th Ward, 2nd Division in South Philadelphia.

“Beren … was the de facto Judge of Elections and effectively ran the polling places in her division by installing close associates to serve as members of the Board of Elections,” Romero said in the statement. “Myers admitted that he gave Beren directions to add votes to candidates supported by him.”

Beren and Demuro were charged separately and previously pleaded guilty.

How It Worked​

Myers told the court that on most election days, he drove Beren to the polling station to open the polls. During the drive, Myers told Beren which candidates he supported so she knew which candidates should get fraudulent votes.

While the polls were open, Beren told in-person voters to support Myers’s candidates and to cast fraudulent votes in support of Myers’s preferred candidates on behalf of voters she knew wouldn’t be physically appearing at the polls, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.

On Election Day, Myers kept in contact with Beren by cellphone, monitoring the number of votes cast for his candidates. Beren told him how many legitimate votes his candidates had. If voter turnout was high, Beren added fewer fraudulent votes. Sometimes, Myers told Beren to shift her efforts from one preferred candidate to another if it looked like his top preferred candidate was comfortably ahead.

“Beren and her accomplices from the Board of Elections would then falsify the polling books and the List of Voters and Party Enrollment for the 39th Ward, 2nd Division, by recording the names, party affiliation, and order of appearances for voters who had not physically appeared at the polling station to cast his or her ballot in the election,” a DOJ statement said.

“Beren took pains to ensure that the number of ballots cast on the machines was a reflection of the number of voters signed into the polling books and the List of Voters. After the polls closed on Election Day, Beren and her associates would falsely certify the results.”

Demuro was responsible for overseeing the entire election process and all voter activities in the 39th Ward, 36th Division in South Philadelphia.

The voting machines at each polling station, including in the 39th Ward, 36th Division, generate records in the form of a printed receipt documenting the use of each voting machine. This printed receipt, called the “results receipt,” shows the vote totals, and the judge of elections and other election board officials at each polling place attest to the accuracy of the machine results.

Myers admitted to bribing Demuro to add votes for certain candidates.

After receiving payments ranging between $300 to $5,000 per election from Myers, Demuro added fraudulent votes on the voting machine—also known as “ringing up” votes—for Myers’s clients and preferred candidates, thereby diluting the value of ballots cast by actual voters, according to the DOJ.

At Myers’s direction, Demuro added these fraudulent votes to the totals during Election Day, and later falsely certified that the voting machine results were accurate.

No Stranger to Prison​

In a 1980 FBI operation dubbed the Abscam investigation, undercover FBI agents disguised themselves as businessmen and Arab sheiks and ultimately criminally charged seven members of Congress, alleging the politicians had accepted money from the phony sheiks, promising favors in return.

Myers was among those charged and was sentenced to three years in prison.

The FBI had videotapes showing the members accepting cash or stocks. In one, an agent hands Myers an envelope stuffed with $100 bills amounting to $50,000, saying, “Spend it well.” Myers responds, “Pleasure,” according to a report at the Library of Congress.

In response, the House Ethics Committee unanimously recommended expelling him.

Convinced of his innocence, Myers took his case to the House floor, where he pleaded, “When you push the ‘yea’ button on the voting machine, it will have the same effect as hitting the button on the electric chair.”

Unmoved, the House voted 376–30 to expel him, the report said.

Myers was the first member to be expelled since the Civil War, and the first to be expelled for misconduct other than treason.

After leaving prison, he started a political consulting firm.
 
Feds should pick this up and charge him with treason.
edit: referring to the first article
 
With November coming up, I'm looking for reasons to give a shit and trust our election process. Looking for reasons to have hope that, even if the country does go down the shitter fully, itll be what the people wanted and not swindled and stolen like 2020.
just treat it like a funeral
pretend to care for the one day and go through the motions
 
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Better than being a Debbie downer all the time :flipoff2:.

And elections are mostly controlled at a local level. Things don't have to change everywhere. Like CA. Who gives a shit if the elections their are bought and swindled? Seems like people their have fully bent over for the progressive raping and pillaging.

Just needs to change where it counts. Arizona, for one.
 
So if our elections are a sham, and there is no reversing this, what keeps you going and gets you out of bed knowing that this train stops only at internment camps...and maybe gas chambers?
At the risk of getting st$ck all sticky in his/her britches, I get out of bed every day to make money and have fun while I can. Part of that fun is training myself to be a better shot. I will not get on the train. Bullets cost money, therefore I work. :laughing: and along comes all the "get off the porch" comments. No thanks. I'll stay right here and wait for them to come to me. Just like everyone else.

Do I think the ship is sinking? Yes. Can it be saved? No. Not without one of two options. Convention of states ( and then pray those people do it right) or bullets and blood. There is no other way.

I am done voting. 49 year old, conservative, veteran, business owner, father and husband. Done. Whats the point. I doubt the repukes will win next month, but IF they do, do you really believe they will change anything that has happened the last 24 months? They won't. You know it and everyone here knows it. The 87k irs goons are here to stay. All the billions promised to zalinsky....gone. The oil and gas industry....fucked. The climate change agenda....not going anywhere. I could go on and on...

Probably triggered my fedboi awake from his nap. :lmao:
 
At the risk of getting st$ck all sticky in his/her britches, I get out of bed every day to make money and have fun while I can. Part of that fun is training myself to be a better shot. I will not get on the train. Bullets cost money, therefore I work. :laughing: and along comes all the "get off the porch" comments. No thanks. I'll stay right here and wait for them to come to me. Just like everyone else.

Do I think the ship is sinking? Yes. Can it be saved? No. Not without one of two options. Convention of states ( and then pray those people do it right) or bullets and blood. There is no other way.

I am done voting. 49 year old, conservative, veteran, business owner, father and husband. Done. Whats the point. I doubt the repukes will win next month, but IF they do, do you really believe they will change anything that has happened the last 24 months? They won't. You know it and everyone here knows it. The 87k irs goons are here to stay. All the billions promised to zalinsky....gone. The oil and gas industry....fucked. The climate change agenda....not going anywhere. I could go on and on...

Probably triggered my fedboi awake from his nap. :lmao:
I can respect that. Dont agree, as I do see glimmers of hope and pushback before violence, but I understand how you've reached that point.
 
The good people in CA give a shit. If that distinction eludes you, bless your heart.
It doesn't elude me. However, in the grand scheme of things, changing things in battleground states to right this ship for the good of the country, I would think, would take priority before going after a progressive stronghold.

So, it's not "forget california" but y'all are way down the rabbit hole and do things your own way, and the insanity coming from there can be nullified on the national level. Thats my hope anyway. Patch the ship up and keep it from sinking, then go after the saboteur.
 
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I voted for the last time nov 3rd 2020.. I see no point anymore.
Yeah! Give up and make the stealing easier or less necessary :bounce2:

Oh, wait - maybe that's a horrible idea :homer:

Also:

Whine as much as you want. But if you don't vote then you have no business whining.

Yep. Do your civic duty or shaddap about your elected officials :beer:
 
Whine as much as you want. But if you don't vote then you have no business whining.
Yep. Do your civic duty or shaddap about your elected officials :beer:
So the last 30 years of "civic duty" count for nothing? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. I'm still contributing through paying taxes, I can bitch. And keep thinking your vote counts......baaaaaah #wheresthefuckingsheepemojiaustin :flipoff2:
 
Voting is a fucking sham. I'll vote in the midterms, and I'll vote in the next presidential election, but if they get thrown anywhere near as bad as the 2020 election got thrown, they will be the last elections I participate in. There is no point in participating in something where the outcome is predetermined.
 
So the last 30 years of "civic duty" count for nothing? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit. I'm still contributing through paying taxes, I can bitch. And keep thinking your vote counts......baaaaaah #wheresthefuckingsheepemojiaustin :flipoff2:
The truth is that no single vote counts. That's not how voting works. Its the sum that matters. Paying taxes is a completely separate matter. Again, if you don't vote then you have no standing to complain about the outcome. NONE.
 
So the last 30 years of "civic duty" count for nothing?
That counts, absolutely :beer: . . . regarding the last 30 years.

You can complain about anyone elected in those elections :flipoff2:

If you don't use your vote, the Dems likely will :mad3:
 
It doesn't elude me. However, in the grand scheme of things, changing things in battleground states to right this ship for the good of the country, I would think, would take priority before going after a progressive stronghold.

So, it's not "forget california" but y'all are way down the rabbit hole and do things your own way, and the insanity coming from there can be nullified on the national level. Thats my hope anyway. Patch the ship up and keep it from sinking, then go after the saboteur.
GAWD I HOPE YER RIGHT....
You do realize where the veep started whoring herself out at, right?
Willie the pile Brown sux:grinpimp:
 
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