Voters in Mid-Term Elections Report Watching Their Ballots Mysteriously Switch to Other Candidatem

Voters are reporting that after voting, they are watching their ballot mysteriously switch right before their eyes.

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 Matt Agorist

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 September 5, 2018

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Savannah, GA — A rather shocking, but not surprising report this week out of Georgia reveals the unsettling state of America’s election and voting system. Voters in Georgia are now reporting that after they confirm their votes, they watch on the screen as their ballots mysteriously switch to the opposite candidate.

Later this month, a federal judge will hear the case against the Georgia government for their utter failure at maintaining sound election processes and their lack of maintaining a paper ballot record as well.

According to WSAV, the Secretary of State, Brian Kemp is facing a federal lawsuit because he’s reluctant to make the change before the upcoming November 6 election. While Kemp says he does agree the system needs updating, he’s fighting to delay it citing confusion and cost.

However, the voters and multiple lawmakers and citizens disagree. After all, what price tag could be associated with the cost of democracy?

“I don’t think there’s any question that we need to spend a little bit of extra to make sure we have safe and secure elections,” Representative Buddy Carter/(R) Georgia 1st District said.

In 2017, an investigation into Georgia’s voting system determined that it was in serious jeopardy. However, lawmakers failed to act and we are now seeing the inevitable results of such a failure.

Democrat candidate Lisa Ring told WSAV that she’s had voters tell her that they have watched their vote changing right in front of their eyes.

“We’ve heard reports all over the state of these old machines often not taking a persons vote, it’ll change. Change the vote. And, sometimes, if people don’t catch it, we don’t know if the vote is being recorded accurately,” said Ring.

On top of mysteriously changing votes is the fact that when voters show up at their assigned polling stations, they have been closed, or found that they have been expunged from the roll.

Georgia’s decaying voting system should serve as a wake up call to those who may still have faith in America’s ostensible system of democracy. While the investigation found problems in 2017, the Secretary of State has known about these severe flaws and even hacking attempts since 2016.

As the Free Thought Project reported during the 2016 election cycle, Georgia’s secretary of State Brian Kemp penned a letter to then DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, asking the director if he was aware that DHS had attempted to hack into the server hosting the state’s voter registration database, and if so, why was DHS doing so. Weeks later, he received a reply, confirming that DHS had attempted to hack their systems a total of 10 times.

Atlanta’s WSB-TV spoke with Kemp at the time who said, “We need to know! We’re being told something that they think haven’t figured out yet, nobody’s really shown us how this happened.” The attacks came in February (2nd, 28th), May (23rd), and November (7th, 8th), totaling 10 in all, with the two latest attacks coming on the day before and the day of the presidential election.

As TFTP previously reported, a professor from Princeton University and a graduate student proved electronic voting machines in the U.S. remain astonishingly vulnerable to hackers — and they did it in under eight minutes.

Professor Andrew Appel, a Princeton University computer science professor who has studied election security, and grad student Alex Halderman took just seven minutes to break into the authentic Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine Appel purchased for $82 online — one of the oldest models, but still used in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia.

Appel noted that the only “reasonably safe” voting method is paper ballots as they can be counted alongside the electronic tally. However, crucial swing states, as Appel notes, rely on more vulnerable paperless touchscreen voting which does not back up any of the numbers.

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“Then whatever numbers the voting computer says at the close of the polls are completely under the control of the computer program in there,” Appel wrote in a blog post entitled “Security Against Election Hacking.” “If the computer is hacked, then the hacker gets to decide what numbers are reported. … All DRE (paperless touchscreen) voting computers are susceptible to this kind of hacking. This is our biggest problem.”

China vows to expand ties with incoming Zimbabwean gov't

Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-01 23:09:01|Editor: mym





HARARE, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday hailed the peaceful election in Zimbabwe and vowed to expand ties with the incoming government for mutual benefit of the two countries.

Head of the Chinese observer group to Zimbabwe Liu Guijin told reporters in Harare that the peaceful and credible polls will boost Chinese investments into the southern African country, which is eager to revive its economy after being in the doldrums for close to two decades.

Zimbabweans went to the polls Monday to elect a president, National Assembly members and councilors.

Results announced so far show that the ruling ZANU-PF party led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa won a parliamentary majority. Presidential election results are expected by Aug. 4.

"For Zimbabwe, this is an important moment and I hope that this election could be a new start for peace, development and prosperity," Liu said.

He said the peaceful and democratic election would send a good and strong signal to the Chinese investors.

"Definitely we could expect more investments from China, more entrepreneurs both public and private coming to invest because for any foreign investor a peaceful environment, a consistent policy and a stable government are so very important," he said.

"Chinese entrepreneurs and business people could be an effective partner of the Zimbabwe entrepreneurs and businesses. I see great potential for us to expand our cooperation," Liu said.

China, he added, had been helpful in Zimbabwe's development processes and "definitely we are going to do so with the new government of Zimbabwe and make our contributions to Zimbabwe's transition and development."

Meanwhile, Liu said a constructive opposition was essential in Zimbabwe and Africa to foster democracy and development.

He urged the opposition in Zimbabwe to desist from violence and to resolve any electoral disputes through legal channels.

The former Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe also stressed the need for people of Zimbabwe to work together regardless of political affiliation.

"The spirit of working together is highly needed in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is bestowed with rich natural resources, well educated people and a multiparty system and I think if people could work together, different political parties work together and they can make a huge difference."

The Chinese envoy spoke as running battles ensued Wednesday afternoon between police and opposition supporters in the capital Harare protesting against alleged rigging of the election.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine explains why the accusation of embezzlement against Puigdemont is unfounded

The article, entitled 'conspirator and creative', recommends the German justice to read the book 'Operation Urns', journalists Xavi Tedo and Laia Vicens


The Frankfurter Allgemeine, one of the most influential newspapers in the field of politics in Germany, today published an article in which defends the thesis that the Spanish justice, will be very difficult to prove the alleged crime of embezzlement that wants to impute to Carlos Puigdemont This is the only letter that the Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena has to ask for the delivery of the Catalan president, since the German justice has already ruled out the crime of rebellion.


The article, entitled 'conspirator and creative', recommends the German justice - which must decide whether to deliver Puigdemont in Spain for embezzlement - to read the book Operation Urns, journalists Xavi Tedo and Laia Vicens. It is explained that it was not the government who made the purchase of the polls, but a Catalan, under the pseudonym of Luis, who paid 100,000 euros to acquire them. Later, a network of thousands of volunteers managed to take the ballot boxes to Catalonia, hide them and distribute them on October 1st. "According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung investigation, at least seven million voting tickets also came from France," he adds.


On the other hand, the article reaffirms that there was no misappropriation based on the statements of Santi Vila, who told the Supreme Court that the referendum had been financed with private money, and those of the Spanish Finance Minister, Cristóbal Montoro, who in a recent interview in the newspaper El Mundo said that the polls had not been paid with public funds.



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TO DELETE A SENATE PARLIAMENT OR YOUR VOTE IS BLANK more necessary than ever

This email must be e - mailing until the next election to run and not stop circulating, everyone wins. 

 Curious, but he had not fallen on it! The world is full of geniuses. 

What if in the elections for the government to open the polls appeared empty envelopes all the votes for the Senate?  

The logical interpretation is that the Spaniards' we do not want senators !!! and therefore would disappear and we would save unnecessary Senate.  

Would you join the idea? 

'Well , spreading it to enjoy !!! 

MUST GIVE IDEAS TO SAVE .....
Senate we send the ballot blank. And so it may remove SENATE, because if does not leave any name chosen, may not be appointed a senator. Keep that in mind. 

* NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, have SENATE SENATORS GERMANY ONLY 100 *. 

*USA. STATE SENATOR FOR EACH *. 

The great theoreticians INTERNATIONAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SAY IS AN UNNECESSARY * CAMERA * * * and is dispensable * IN EXTINCTION *, 

THEN WHY WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN A 260 SENATORS?    

             
 Does the average citizen ..... WHAT THESE MEN ARE ENGAGED? 

THUS * we will save 3,500 MILLION EUROS EACH YEAR *.

 * OTHER OBJECTIVES *: ELIMINATE ALL pension of deputies, senators. AND OTHERS "founding fathers". 

With that, and cut 30% of heading 4, 6 and 7 of the State Budget 
(transfers to unions, political parties, blackout and various foundations) 
over 45,000 million euros would be saved and would not need to touch pensions nor the salaries of officials, nor would it cut 6,000 million Euros in public investment. 

* With half the money the state would save these measures *, the crisis would end in SPAIN. 

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French Election A Catastrophe For World Peace

Paul Craig Roberts

Marine Le Pen’s defeat, if the vote count was honest, indicates that the French are even more insouciant than Americans.

The week before the election the Russian high command announced that Washington had convinced the Russian military that Washington intended a preemptive nuclear first strike against Russia. No European leader saw danger in this announcement except Le Pen.

No European leader, and no one in Washington, has stepped forward to reassure the Russians. In the US apparently only my readers even know of the Russian conclusion. Simply nothing is said in the Western media about the extraordinary risk of convincing Russia that the US is preparing a first strike against Russia.

Nothing in the 20th century Cold War comes close to this.

Le Pen, as Trump did prior to his castration by the military/security complex, understands that military conflict with Russia means death for humanity.

Why were the French voters unconcerned with what may be their impending deaths?

The answer is that the French have been brainwashed into believing that to stand for France, as Marine Le Pen does, is to place patriotism and nationalism above diversity and is fascist.

All of Europe, except for the majority of the British, has been brainwashed into the belief that it is Hitler-like or fascist to stand up for your country. For a French man or woman to escape the fascist designation, he or she must be Europeans, not French, German, Dutch, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese.

Brainwashed as the French are that it is fascist to stand up for France, the French voted for the international bankers and for the EU.

The French election was a disaster for Europeans, but it was a huge victory for the American neoconservatives who will now be able to push Russia to war without European opposition.

This Election Circus Is A Disservice To The People

Via Adam Johnson:

"Total mentions all 4 debates:

• Russia/Putin 178
• ISIS/terror 132
• Iran 67
• ...
• Abortion 17
• Poverty 10
• Climate change 4
• Campaign finance 3
• Privacy 0"

The candidates are not the first to blame for this. The first to blame are the moderators of such debates, the alleged journalists 8and their overlords) who do not ask questions that are relevant for the life of the general votes and who do not intervene at all when the debaters run off course. The second group to blame are the general horse-race media who each play up their (owner's) special-interest hobbyhorses as if those will be the decisive issue for the next four years. The candidates fight for the attention of these media and adopt to them.

I didn't watch yesterday's debate but every media I skimmed tells me that Clinton was gorgeous and Trump very bad. That means she said what theywanted to hear and Trump didn't. It doesn't say what other people who watched though of it. Especially in the rural parts of the country they likely fear the consequences of climate change way more than Russia, ISIS and Iran together.

Another reason why both candidates avoided to bring up the issues low in the list above is that both hold positions that are socially somewhat liberal and both are corporatists. None of those low ranked issues is personally relevant to them. No realistic answer to these would better their campaign finances or their personal standing in the circles they move in. Personally they are both east coast elite and don't give a fu***** sh** what real people care about.

As far as I can discern it from the various reports no new political issues were touched. Clinton ran her usual focus group tested lies while Trump refrained from attacking her hard. A huge mistake in my view. He can beat her by attacking her really, really hard, not on issues but personality. Her disliked rate (like Trump's) is over -40%. She is vulnerable on many, many things in her past. Her foreign policy is way more aggressive than most voters like.  Calling this back into mind again and again could probably send her below -50%. Who told him to leave that stuff alone? Trump is a major political disruption. He should have emphasized that but he barely hinted at it for whatever reason.

The voters are served badly -if at all- by the TV debates in their current form. These do not explain real choices. That is what this whole election circus should be about. But that is no longer the case and maybe it never was.