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Arizona 2020 Vote Audit Finds Potentially Election-Shifting Numbers Of Illegal Ballots

While the reports made several significant findings supporting former President Trump’s complaints about the 2020 election, the corporate media ignored those aspects of the audit.

On Friday, the Arizona State Senate released the final reports on the results of the Maricopa County Forensic Election Audit. While the reports made several significant findings supporting former President Trump’s complaints about the 2020 election, the corporate media ignored those aspects of the audit to focus instead only on the results of the hand recount.

As broadly reported, the audit established “there were no substantial differences between the hand count of the ballots provided and the official canvass results for the County.” Maricopa County, which represents Arizona’s most populous county thanks to its county seat of Phoenix, had provided Biden a 45,000-vote advantage in the state, propelling Biden to a victory by 10,457 votes. So the media presented the recount as confirming Biden’s victory in the state.

Left unmentioned, however, were the numerous findings of problems with the election and, most significantly, evidence indicating tens of thousands of ballots were illegally cast or counted. A report entitled “Compliance with Election Laws and Procedures,” issued by Senate Audit Liaison Ken Bennett, highlighted several issues, of which two were particularly significant because of the number of votes involved.

First, Bennett excerpted the Arizona statutory provisions governing early ballots. Those provisions require early ballots to be accompanied by a signed affidavit in which the voter declares he is registered in the appropriate county and has not already voted. The statute further mandates that a voter “make and sign the affidavit,” and directs the early election board to check the voter’s affidavit.

Significantly, “if the affidavit is insufficient, the vote shall not be allowed.” The secretary of state’s Election Procedures Manual reinforces this point, stating: “If the early ballot affidavit is not signed, the County Recorder shall not count the ballot.”

In his report, Bennett noted that “while the Audit scope of work did not include comparing signatures with voter registration records for each voter, it did identify a number of missing signatures on ballot envelop affidavits, which to the extent the ballots in such envelopes were tallied, would violate the above statutes and procedures.”

Although Bennett did not elaborate on the issues related to affidavit signatures or the numbers of affected ballots, in a 99-page report, Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai detailed numerous anomalies.

First, Ayyadurai analyzed the early voting ballot return envelopes, on which voters were required to sign an affidavit within a signature block. That review revealed more than 17,000 duplicate images of the return envelopes. When the duplicates were eliminated from the review, Ayyadurai’s company, EchoMail, concluded that Maricopa County had recorded more than 6,545 early voting return envelopes than EchoMail determined existed. EchoMail also concluded that another approximately 500 of the envelopes’ affidavits were left blank.

Ayyadurai also highlighted several implausible statistics, such as that while there was a 52.6 percent increase from 2016 to 2020 in the number of early voting ballots, Maricopa County reported a decrease in signature mismatches of 59.7 percent. “This inverse relationship requires explanation,” the report noted, and then recommended a full audit of the signatures.

Bennett’s report on election law compliance highlighted several additional issues, but of particular note, in light of the audit report, was his reference to Arizona’s statutory requirements for individuals to be considered eligible voters, as delineated in Articles 1, 1.1, and 2 of the Arizona election code.

“The Audit identified numerous questions regarding possible ineligible voters,” Bennett noted, while adding that because “these determinations were made from comparisons between the County’s final voted information and private data sources,” the cooperation of Maricopa County and further investigation would be necessary to “determine whether ineligible persons actually were allowed to vote in the 2020 election.”

The referenced articles of the election code discuss voter registration requirements and the requirement for individuals to be registered to vote at their address of residence, although individuals moving within 29 days of the election remain properly registered to vote in the county in which they previously resided. However, students, members of the military, and others temporarily living at another address remain properly registered at their permanent home address.

Also of significance is the Arizona secretary of state’s Election Procedures Manual, which according to the audit provides that “ballot-by-mail must be mailed to voters by first-class, nonforwardable mail.”

These statutory provisions and procedures prove significant because the audit revealed that 15,035 mail-in votes in Maricopa County were from voters who had moved prior to the registration deadline, another 6,591 mail-in-votes came from voters who had moved out of Arizona prior to the registration deadline, and 1,718 mail-in votes came from voters who moved within Arizona but out of Maricopa prior to the registration deadline.

One of three scenarios seems possible here: First, the mail-in ballot was delivered to the old address and then provided to the named voter, who had only temporarily relocated. Such votes would be legal and entirely proper.

Second, the mail-in ballot was delivered to the old address and then provided to the named voter, who had permanently moved, but failed to timely update his registration record yet signed an affidavit attesting to a false address of residence. Such votes would be illegal.

Or third, the mail-in ballot was delivered to the old address, and then someone other than the named voter cast the vote. Such votes would be both illegal and fraudulent.

Neither Maricopa County nor the state of Arizona knows how many of these 23,000-plus votes fall within each of these three scenarios. And that’s a problem.

As I wrote when similar problems, albeit with more conclusive evidence, were unearthed in Georgia, “Elections are too tight and the populace too divided for ‘close enough for government work’ to cut it anymore. The American voting system must be reformed to ensure security, transparency, replicability, and election officials’ uniform compliance with state election law.”

Sixteen years ago, both Democrats and Republicans would have agreed on these goals, as the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform’s report “Building Confidence in U.S. Elections” confirms. That commission, co-chaired by Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican James Baker III, spoke of “the administration of elections as a continuing challenge, which requires the highest priority of our citizens and our government.”

Unfortunately, rather than acknowledge the problems the Maricopa County audit revealed and rise to the challenge of ensuring they are not repeated, while also investigating areas of potential fraud and illegal voting, Democrats and some Republicans pretend the hand recount’s confirmation of the official vote tally ends the matter.

The corrupt press likewise pushes this narrative: The audit confirms Trump lost, and that is all there is to the matter.

But this isn’t about Trump, just as the 2005 report on building confidence in American elections wasn’t about Al Gore. This is about election integrity and our democracy because, as the commission wrote not even 20 years ago:

The vigor of American democracy rests on the vote of each citizen. Only when citizens can freely and privately exercise their right to vote and have their vote recorded correctly can they hold their leaders accountable. Democracy is endangered when people believe that their votes do not matter or are not counted correctly.

The Arizona audit ended nothing including, sadly, the view held by half of our country that their votes do not matter and are not counted correctly—and that many politicians and members of the press don’t care.

Mission is for all Christians, not just the ‘called’

(Christian Today) ‘Mission’ is a pretty loaded term in Christian circles and conjures different images for different people. Churches have ‘mission partners’, people are ‘sent out on mission’. What springs to mind for you when you hear the word ‘mission’? Is it people hiking through the jungles of Bolivia to reach some distant tribe? Or setting up churches in unreached places? Is it university event weeks or church outreach events?

When you think about mission, do you ever think that it is something for you to engage in?

If you asked me that question a few years ago I probably would have said no. But then I found myself leaving my home and comfortable job in Scotland and being parachuted into the heart of an incredibly multicultural community in Birmingham. I began to see that mission was so much more than I had thought. Mission isn’t just an activity you do; mission is the way you live — mission is worship.

In the Church the prevailing spiritual atmosphere is that ‘mission’ is for specific people that are ‘called’ and in the Western world, the spiritual atmosphere is one of hostility to the gospel. These things need to change.

During my time in Birmingham with the missional movement Operation Mobilisation (OM), I met a retired Caribbean lady. She is probably one of the least retired ‘retired’ people I have ever met. She lives in an area of Birmingham that is rife with tension and crime and is an unofficial leader in the community. The Lord had laid on her heart the beatitude ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God’. People come to her with their struggles and conflicts and younger people come looking for a mentor. In all these things she represented Christ. She had a heart for prayer and a desire to change the spiritual atmosphere. Each day she would look to the Lord and say, “Use me as you want today”. Her life was an act of worship to the lord. Her life was a life of mission. Not a mission that involved leaving her community, but a mission that was amongst them; living out the love of Jesus where he had placed her, with the gifts He had given.

We also cannot underestimate the role of worship through music as a part of mission. Music is incredibly powerful. A song or artist can unite strangers, create a movement, or communicate a vision. Music brings us hope and joy — remember the people singing from the balconies in Italy at the start of the pandemic? Music is a gift from God and is of God. Psalm 22 v3 says,

‘Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel’. God is present in our worship. As we worship, we invite the Holy Spirit to minister to the people we are with. Worship shapes the spiritual atmosphere. Public worship is a statement of who God is and our identity as his worshipers. David’s Tent is a 72-hour non-stop worship event for people all over the globe, which took place later August 2021, and is a perfect example of this. An international community coming together in a public act of worship. This doesn’t just impact them in their walk and strengthen their community, it bears witness to God. It is missional.

Music has the power to cut across cultures. The area of Birmingham I spent time in with OM was an almost exclusively Islamic area. But at Christmas time we went out together to sing carols. As we sang, we began to engage with local communities. Barriers began to be broken down and people started to ask questions.

So, mission is worship. It isn’t just an activity you do, it’s the way you live. Whether by music and the public worship that testifies to the Lord or the worship of steady obedience and prayer, living out the love of Christ each day.

But what does this have to do with you today? What does worship in mission mean in your context? In a culture where so many people seem hostile to the gospel, how do we change the spiritual atmosphere?

Firstly, be encouraged! You already are! This upcoming generation is one of the most globally minded generations the planet has ever seen. There is huge opportunity for young followers of Jesus to live out His love as they advocate for His world, the people who live in it and communicate how God cares for them. So, keep going! Keep demonstrating and speaking of God’s love.

There are also huge opportunities to worship through social media. It is a community where you can use your skills and creativity to witness to God and to speak of him in your context – it is a platform that transcends cultural differences and gives you access to people around the globe.

You can use your skills and the context God has put you in to worship him in a missional lifestyle. As we step out to demonstrate the love of Jesus in every day life, it forces us to look up and look around to the community we are in, as we begin to worship God by living a life of mission alongside them.

New York Deploys National Guard To Staff Hospitals After Nurses, Doctors Canned Over Vaccine Mandate Effective Tonight

The state is bracing for shortages while some hospitals have already been affected

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is signing an executive order that will allow her to deploy medically trained National Guard members in order to deal with staffing shortages. New York healthcare services, including hospitals, are anticipating shortages after unvaccinated workers will be fired effective tonight. New York also plans to call upon retired health care workers, recent grads, and those licensed in other states and countries.

As National File previously reported, Hochul was mulling an emergency declaration as the state’s healthcare sector vaccine mandate is set to take effect. “We are taking all the steps preemptively in anticipation of what I call a preventable staffing shortage,” Hochul said on Monday. “To all the other healthcare workers who are vaccinated, they also deserve to know that the people they’re working with will not get them sick,” she added.

Hochul also called upon the federal government to “expedite visa requests” so that the state can import healthcare workers from other countries. New York State Public Employees Federation President Wayne Spence cast doubt over whether the governor’s plan would sufficiently fill the holes caused by the mandate. “I don’t think there’s enough people to go around to plug the holes because a lot of nurses have left New York State as of last year,” Spence said.

In Buffalo, Erie County Medical Center Corporation said about 5 percent of its hospital staff and 20 percent of nursing home workers had been put on unpaid leave for not being vaccinated. Northwell Health, the state’s largest health care provider said it has begun removing unvaccinated workers from its system. Other healthcare facilities have already started to experience shortages as well, including one hospital that had to stop delivering babies after multiple nurses from the maternal ward resigned.

A federal judge recently issued a temporary restraining order against the portion of the state’s vaccine mandate that does not allow for religious exemptions. Hochul rejected the decision, saying that religious exemptions are not sufficient. “I’m not aware of a sanctioned religious exemption from any organized religion, in fact they are encouraging the opposite,” Hochul said. The governor, who stepped in after Andrew Cuomo’s resignation, recently called the vaccine a gift from god. She added that those who haven’t been vaccinated aren’t “listening to god” or “what god wants.”

Oil Prices Reach 3-Year High Amid Fuel Shortages

Oil prices on Tuesday hit a near-three-year high amid energy supply shortages, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Brent crude oil, the global price benchmark, rose above $80 for the first time since October 2018. Oil prices have surged 11 percent over the last month as limited natural gas supplies have heightened demand for other fuel sources, analysts say.

“Oil’s move is really to do with the global energy crunch coming out of the gas power market,” Norbert Rücker, head of economics at Swiss bank Julius Baer, told the Journal. “This is now spilling over into the oil market because of the expectation that this energy scarcity means we’re going to use oil for spillover demand.”

The spike in oil prices is part of a broader increase in energy costs that has driven the country’s inflation surge—energy prices have climbed 25 percent over the last year, the Labor Department reported this month. The elevated oil prices have also pushed up the average cost of gasoline, which rose from $2.186 to $3.187 over the last year, according to American Automobile Association.

President Joe Biden has faced criticism for the country’s limited fuel inventory and steep inflation. His administration this year prohibited new oil and natural gas leases on federal lands and barred construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would have expanded the amount of oil processed in U.S. refineries.

Some economists warn that energy prices will continue to spike as demand for fuel increases in the winter months. Goldman Sachs expects the Brent oil benchmark to reach $90 by the end of 2021, the bank reported Monday.

Why Did The US Postal Service Run A Covert Program Monitoring Americans’ Social Media Activity After January 6?

A new report indicates the United States Postal Service (USPS) ran a ‘covert operations program’ that monitored Americans’ social media activity following the January 6 Capitol riot.

Politico revealed in a striking column that the United States Postal Inspection Service’s Internet Covert Operations Program – or iCOP – sprang into action just five days after the events at the Capitol.

That the Postal Service has such a program is itself undoubtedly news to many.

Among their activities were sending bulletins to law enforcement agencies throughout the country “on how to view social media posts that had been deleted” and providing descriptions of their surveillance of posts on a ‘fringe’ social media network.

“Few Americans are aware that the same organization that delivers their mail also runs a robust surveillance operation rooted in an agency that dates back to the 18th century,” Politico writes.

They add that iCOP’s involvement in the days after January 6 “raises questions about how broad the mandate of the Postal Service’s policing arm has grown from its stated mission of keeping mail deliverers safe.”

US Postal Service Monitoring Americans’ Social Media

The question that immediately arises from this report is – What does the social media activity of the American people have to do with the United States Postal Service?

Yahoo first uncovered the sketchy program back in April, reporting that the USPS “has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests.”

Yahoo reported that the program was operating in March, but the Politico report reveals that the surveillance was up and running as early as January 11.

Are they doing this for Black Lives Matter rallies? Are they doing these for Antifa protests? Why did USPS swing into action days after the January 6 protest and not say, over the previous summer when cities were being looted and burned to the ground?

The original report, based on a document obtained by Yahoo, shows the USPS had analysts scour social media for “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies.

What constitutes an inflammatory posting fresh off the heels of the Capitol protest? Anything patriotic or pro-Trump?

Spying On Americans

Democrats spent the entire election season demanding that the United States Postal Service be saved from becoming the dying enterprise that it is, noting it was pivotal for democracy during the pandemic.

It’s no surprise at all that the federal government, shifting toward a new administration, would immediately weaponize the USPS against the American people.

President Biden is, after all, the man who liked to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act.

The ACLU describes the Patriot Act as “the first of many changes to surveillance laws that made it easier for the government to spy on ordinary Americans.”

Gaetz, Greene call on FBI to release 14,000 hours of footage from Jan 6

Reps. Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert have demanded answers from the FBI as to what their informants roles were on Jan. 6.

After reports emerged that the FBI had informants in the crowd during the Capitol riot on January 6, Reps. Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert have demanded answers from that agency as to what that informant’s role was.

Florida’s Gaetz said that he and congressional colleagues are asking for the release of footage from that day, about 14,000 hours of it. Gaetz and Greene have been adamant that those who are being held on charges stemming from that January day should be treated humanely.

It turns out that the FBI had an informant inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. Documents showing this fact were released, though the informant’s name was not released. However, that person was affiliated with a Midwest chapter of the controversial group Proud Boys.

That informant met up with other Proud Boys chapters at the Washington Monument on January 6, and entered the Capitol with the crowds. That person left through a window at the Capitol after police told him someone, likely Ashli Babbitt, a Trump-supporter who was killed by Capitol Police, was shot.

That informant also said that the Proud Boys did not plan to use or incite violence during January 6 and rejected the idea that they had planned to attack the Capitol. The FBI also found that there was “scant evidence” to suggest that there had been any plans of a coordinated attack.

Recently, the Biden administration had tried to stop the release of surveillance footage from that day, claiming that to release the footage posed a security risk as it shows the interior of the Capitol, a building that was open to the public until recently.

But US District Chief Judge Beryl Howell ruled in favor of the release of the tapes, saying that the prosecutors’ arguments were too speculative and their security concerns too broad. Prosecutors said that the release of the footage would “compromise the security of the United States Capitol and those who work there.”

“Hundreds of cases have arisen from the events of January 6, with new cases being brought and pending cases being resolved by plea agreement every week,” Howell wrote. “The public has an interest in understanding the conduct underlying the charges in these cases, as well as the government’s prosecutorial decision-making both in bringing criminal charges and resolving these charges by entering into plea agreements with defendants.”

WATCH LIVE: Pentagon Leaders Testify on Afghanistan Withdrawal

The Pentagon’s top leaders are testifying Tuesday on the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, and U.S. Central Command commander Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie will testify in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee at 9:30 a.m. ET.

It will be the first time Pentagon leaders will testify publicly on the U.S.’s withdrawal from the country that saw a hastily-mounted non-combatant evacuation operation during which 13 American service members were killed by an ISIS suicide attacker.

In addition, the leaders will likely face questions on the U.S. military drone strike that killed 10 innocent Afghan civilians, but was aimed at preventing another attack against U.S. forces.

Florida sues Biden administration to end catch-and-release policies

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday announced that the state of Florida is suing the Biden administration over its “unlawful and destructive” catch-and-release policies. 

Speaking at a press conference, DeSantis also said he will sign an executive order to prohibit state agencies from “aiding and abetting” the federal government in settling illegal immigrants in Florida. 

The governor criticized President Joe Biden for reversing many of his predecessor’s immigration policies, notably former President Donald Trump’s remain-in-Mexico policy for asylum-seekers and the reimplementation of catch-and-release. 

“The reversal and weakening of our policies have amounted to an open invitation for folks all across the world to just simply come through the southern border illegally and basically get a ticket to ride to the interior of the country,” DeSantis told reporters.

The governor observed that the number of immigration law enforcement encounters at the south west border has risen from 78,000 in January to over 210,000 in July, an increase of 171%.

“That’s the highest monthly total in more than 20 years and there’s no sign of it slowing down. You have another 208,000 in August and that was, again, close to another record,” DeSantis said. 

“It’s very clear that open borders is the Biden administration policy,” he added.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed the lawsuit against the Biden administration Tuesday in the Pensacola Division of the Northern District of Florida, Fox News first reported. Florida is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its sub-agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as DHS Secretary Alejandro Maorkas and officials in charge of ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

The lawsuit accuses the Biden administration of “harming the state’s quasi-sovereign interests and forcing it to incur millions of dollars in expenses” by relocating illegal aliens to Florida. The state also argues that the federal government is violating U.S. immigration law by abusing its “parole authority” to release aliens into the interior of the U.S. before their court dates instead of detaining them until a decision is made about whether they may be admitted into the country by claiming asylum. 

“The government is not free to ignore the clear commands of Congress,” the lawsuit states, according to Fox News. “It has claimed that it lacks the resources and detention capacity to process the surge of migrants at the border.”

The lawsuit alleges that Biden’s administration “has actively sought to eliminate measures that increase its resources and detention capacity, such as the Migrant Protection Protocols (also known as the ‘wait in Mexico policy’), and has even asked Congress to reduce the number of immigration detention beds available to it.” 

“Further, it is the Biden administration’s misguided policies that have encouraged more migrants to make the dangerous journey to the United States,” the lawsuit says. “The government cannot, therefore, use a purported lack of resources as an excuse to ignore congressional mandates.”

AG Moody notes in the lawsuit that Florida spends more than $100 million per year incarcerating criminal illegal aliens and also provides a number of other services to illegal aliens including education, substance abuse treatment, crime victim’s services, and emergency medical services. DeSantis said Tuesday that the record-breaking numbers of illegal immigrants coming to the U.S. under Biden’s watch are draining resources needed to maintain these services. 

Fox News reports Florida is asking the court to “hold unlawful and set aside” the federal government’s policy of “releasing arriving aliens subject to mandatory detention, of paroling aliens without engaging in case-by-case adjudication or abiding by the other limits on that authority; and of failing to serve charging documents or initiate removal proceedings against plainly inadmissible aliens who are being released into the interior of the United States.” 

Additionally, Florida wants the court to issue “permanent injunctive relief,” force the Biden administration to enforce to U.S. immigration law, and declare the current policy unlawful. 

“We have a disaster on the southern border that’s been apparent for many, many months. We would like to see the prior policies reinstituted,” said DeSantis. “We’re under no illusion that that’s going to happen, so we’ve got to take every effort we can to make sure we’re protecting the people of Florida and that’s what we’re doing here today.” 

The lawsuit follows a letter DeSantis sent to the Biden administration last month requesting that it stop settling illegal immigrants in Florida. 

A spokesman for DHS told Fox News that the agency’s policy is that single adults and families unlawfully present in the U.S. are removed under Title 42. If Mexico refuses to take the illegal aliens, they are transported to an ICE facility and released into the U.S. with either a notice to appear or a notice to report to an ICE office. 

“As part of the process, Border Patrol agents collect biometric and biographic information – fingerprints, photos, phone numbers, and an address in the United States – and run a background check to identify criminals or those who pose a public safety risk,” DHS said.

Migrants who follow instructions and appear at ICE begin their official immigration processing.

“Those who do not report, like anyone who is in our country without legal status, are subject to removal by ICE,” DHS said.

Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem Calls for the 2020 Election Results to be Decertified Based on the Plethora of Evidence Identified in the Senate’s Audit

Arizona State Representative and future Secretary of State, Mark Finchem, calls for the 2020 Results in Arizona to be decertified.

Yesterday we noted that Rep. Mark Finchem is calling for audits of the remaining counties in Arizona after the results of the Maricopa County were released.

After listening to the plethora of evidence provided during the Senate’s presentation on Friday, Rep. Finchem called for the decertification of the 2020 Election results in Maricopa County in a tweet.

Rep. Finchem provided the following document to The Gateway Pundit to share.

[This is a summary of where Mark started.]

On November 30th, members from the Arizona House and Senate held a Public Hearing on election Integrity that gave the public an opportunity to present evidence and sworn testimony to the panel regarding the 2020 general election. The mission of the Public Hearing on Election Integrity was to, “prove or disprove alleged discrepancies in the 2020 General Election.” Hundreds of Arizona citizens submitted sworn affidavits, under penalty of perjury, to the panel detailing inconsistencies they encountered during the election process. Members of the panel found that the evidence presented was sufficient to justify further examination of our elections.  It was our duty, as elected officials, to listen to the testimony on November 30th and proceed with an investigation called for by tens of thousands of constituents from all over Arizona. The Senate moved forward with a forensic audit on December 14, with the results released on Friday September 24th.

Our focus from the November 30th hearing and since has been on transparency. We wanted to make sure our constituents had full disclosure regarding our elections. If they had questions, we would seek answers. Remarkably, our elections, both as a country and a state, have never undergone a full forensic audit before. We knew it would take time, but  accuracy was believed to be more important. If the audit showed no inconsistencies, then we could all move on. But, if the audit showed inconsistencies, we knew we would have to do everything in our power to find out what went wrong and develop solutions to address the problems.

One of our greatest freedoms of speech as citizens not subjects, is the right to vote. Having free and fair elections is the cornerstone of our democratically elected Republic. We owe our freedom to vote to every single veteran who fought for this country. Sadly, it is clear from the audit report released on Friday that our elections are far from fraud-free, fair, and secure.  With the information that has been presented, the only justifiable action is for our Attorney General to open a full investigation into the actions revealed in the Audit Report. The Arizona Legislature must also consider nullifying and reclaiming the 2020 Electoral College Electors.

We must all take a moment and thank the brave citizens who took time from their lives to attend the November 30th hearing. We also need to applaud the brave citizens —from both major parties— who spent endless hours working on the forensic audit. They were under constant scrutiny and were not paid a penny for their time as volunteers. We are forever grateful to these individuals, including the Arizona Rangers. They supplied first rate security during this forensic audit, all as volunteers.

It is a shame that the media, some political figures, and others who were against this audit from the beginning, did everything in their power to obstruct bringing answers to our concerned constituents. Name calling, libel, slander, defamation of character, lawsuits, personal attacks, hyperbolic media reporting, and threats were all on display during this process and continue today. It is a disgrace that rather than making this process a transparent and joint effort, they did everything in their power to put an end to this audit. Every media outlet that tried to destroy the lives of those involved in the audit should be held accountable and fired by their advertisers. Any political figure who defamed or obstructed those involved in the audit should be voted out of office. And every individual who knowingly colluded to run a fraudulent election must be held criminally responsible. We the people are sick and tired of corruption running rampant in our political environment. The days of the good-ole-boy network are over. For those who chose to continue ignoring the evidence presented, your disservice to the process is noted, and your credibility now lies in ruin on the plane of trust.

We look forward to a full investigation from the Arizona Attorney General and we pray that we can bring trust back to our election process.

Representative Leo Biasiucci, Dist. 5            Representative Mark Finchem, Dist. 11

Arizona House Majority Whip                       House Judiciary Committee

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[Below is related to elections machines.]

For additional background, In a filing made by Stark in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Case # 1:21-cv-01864, Philip Stark and Free Speech for People as the complainants allege that the Elections Assistance Commission, “[EAC] staff conducted a series of secret meetings with voting machine manufacturers. Those private companies advocated for a number of significant changes to the guidelines that would make them easier for manufacturers to meet. Among the changes was the loosening of several principal security requirements.” (Part 3 of the Complaint) The complainants further allege, “The EAC incorporated the changes requested by voting machine manufacturers into the final version of the voting system guidelines. The VVSG 2.0, as adopted by the Commission, incorporates several new provisions that reduce the cost to manufacturers while substantially weakening the security of voting systems as compared to the version of the guidelines that was submitted to the Board of Advisors, the Standards Board, and the public. Even though the changes were significant and not a logical outgrowth of the previously proposed version of the VVSG 2.0, the EAC voted to adopt the revised guidelines without submitting them or the modifications to any of the members of the Board of Advisors, the Standards Board, or to the public.” (Part 4 of the Complaint)

The EAC action comes after a report from the DEF CON 27 Voting Machine Hacking Village August 2019, where highly skilled and experienced cyber security officials successfully identified major vulnerabilities of every electronic vote tabulation and handling machine now in use across the United States. Election officials knew or should have known about the vulnerabilities found by these civi-minded professionals who alerted the world about the problems found. Voting Village participants were able to fined new ways, or replicate previously published methods, of compromising every one of the devices in the room in ways that could alter stored vote tallies, change ballots displayed to voters, or alter internal software that controls the machines.” (Pg. 4, Pa. 2)

“For these reasons and many more, we are calling on the House and Senate Members of both parties to come together and protect election integrity by prohibiting the use of this equipment as the primary means of counting votes,” says Rep. Mark Finchem (LD-11)

We cannot tolerate such open and brazen attempts to corrupt our county and state elections. Our ballots are at least as valuable as our currency, if not more so, and we must not permit the kind of activity we saw in the 2020 election,” Says Rep. Leo Biasiucci.

“Will this be inconvenient for County Recorders in some counties? Probably. Will the State have to step in and provide funding for the counties to pay for hand tabulation? Probably. But if we want the assurance of fraud-free elections that do not have the potential for a cyber security breach, it is a step we must take.

The Legislature passed SB-1819, amending Sec. 5 Title 16, chapter 4, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, A.R.S. § 16-504, that requires, “COUNTERMEASURES THAT ARE CONTAINED IN AND ON THE PAPER USED FOR BALLOTS SHALL BE ISO 27001 CERTIFIED, ISO 17025 CERTIFIED OR ISO 9001:2015 CERTIFIED.  BALLOT FRAUD COUNTERMEASURES SHALL INCLUDE THE USE OF AT LEAST THREE OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. UNIQUE, CONTROLLED-SUPPLY WATERMARKED CLEARING BANK SPECIFICATION 1 SECURITY PAPER. 2. SECURE HOLOGRAPHIC FOIL THAT ACTS AS A VISUAL DETERRENT AND ANTI-COPY FEATURE. 3. BRANDED OVERPRINT OF ANY HOLOGRAM THAT PERSONALIZES THE HOLOGRAM WITH CUSTOMER LOGO. 4. CUSTOM COMPLEX SECURITY BACKGROUND DESIGNS WITH BANKNOTE-LEVEL SECURITY. 5. SECURE VARIABLE DIGITAL INFILL. 6. THERMOCHROMIC, TRI-THERMOCHROMIC, PHOTOCHROMIC OR OPTICALLY VARIABLE INKS. 7. STEALTH NUMBERING IN ULTRAVIOLET, INFRARED OR TAGGANT INKS. 8. MULTICOLORED MICRO-NUMISMATIC INVISIBLE ULTRAVIOLET DESIGNS. 9. UNIQUE FORENSIC FRAUD DETECTION TECHNOLOGY THAT IS BUILT INTO SECURITY INKS. 10. UNIQUE BAR CODE OR QR CODE THAT IS ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO THE VOTER AND THAT TRACKS THE VOTER’S BALLOT AS IT IS PROCESSED.”

Trump Says Onslaught Of Democrat-Proposed Legislation Is Destroying America

The 45th president has called on congressional Republicans to stop Democrats from passing their spending packages. Donald Trump released a statement Monday, noting the Democrat proposed so-called infrastructure bill allocates only 11 percent to actual infrastructure.

Trump stressed that Republicans have all the cards to stop that “non-infrastructure” bill. He added, the 19 GOP senators who voted in support of that bill made a mistake and they should not do that again. Trump went on to say the onslaught of Democrat legislation is destroying America.

Meanwhile, a new study found that Joe Biden’s legislative agenda could cost the U.S. 3.5 million jobs. That’s according to Texas Public Policy Foundation, which looked at the economic estimates of the Build Back Better Plan.

The study focused on Texas, Arizona and West Virginia. It found that Texas alone will get hit the hardest, losing an estimated 467,000 jobs and gaining $394 billion in debt. The foundation also said the national debt would grow $4.5 trillion.

This comes as Joe Biden himself has acknowledged his economic agenda and a government funding measure may not pass by the end of this week.

“It may not be by the end of the week,” said Biden. “I hope it’s by the end of the week, but as long as we’re still alive, we’ve got three things to do: the debt ceiling, continuing resolution and the two pieces of legislation. If we do that, the country is going to be in great shape.”

Biden made the remarks Monday as the government nears a potential shutdown and as Democrats hope to vote on their $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill that has caused controversy on both sides of the aisle. The House is also expected to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill this week.

Congress must pass a measure to fund the government by Thursday before the fiscal year ends.

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