It begins.
‘Tis election day, with all the attendant discord we’ve come to expect.
A caller very early today left a message for me that Cambria County voting machines are not properly scanning ballots and he’d get back to me with any updates. That was about half an hour ago (8 a.m.-ish).
He got back to me with an update at 9. This is a poll watcher, by the way. He’d been told flash drives distributed by election officials for voting machines were not working. Supposedly couriers were being sent out with fresh flash drives – to all county polling places – in an attempt to correct the problem.
The county Republican office is trying to get voting hours extended to help address this problem. In theory, people showing up where voting machines are not working still can fill out a provisional ballot, although this source has heard people are being allowed to leave with ballots and then bring them back, creating a nightmare break in chain of custody.
I’ve bumped into similar problems in the past and we’ve all seen videos of people in various states hitting touchscreens to vote for Republicans and having the vote register instead for the Democrat opponent. One such example I saw came from early voting in Kentucky this election.
My plan had been to head out late morning to vote, thereby giving early arriving voters a chance to move through the system and then allowing me to beat the noon rush. My son will go out to his polling place at that time. This failure of the machines puts a crimp in that strategy.
I’m hoping for a pleasant experience, but anticipating the worst.
And I wonder aloud – again — why we can’t have paper ballots, proof of voter eligibility and same-day results? Other countries do it.
Need more counters? Hire more workers? And not necessarily virtually all Democrats, as is the case documented in such hotbeds of Democrat vote counting massage as Fulton County Georgia (Atlanta), downtown Philadelphia or Detroit.
While waiting to go out to vote, I hit my new favorite web site citizenfreepress.com. I stumbled onto this font of information recently and make it a must-visit often each day. It’s Drudge before Drudge went totally Woke.
I also like zerohedge.com, but this citizenfreepress.com effort posts a more timely, never-ending list of links to interesting stories and social media posts.
Already today, there was note of a James O’Keefe (formerly Project Veritas) hidden camera sting of a Philadelphia operation insisting people could vote as long as they are residents of the city, giving them some sort of bogus ID number, and sending them across the street to where a voting worker told the undercover person this was correct procedure.
Also, there are reports of four court-appointed Republican election workers being thrown out of a Philadelphia precinct, long lines of (supposedly) Trump voters in Bucks County, and problems at a two-district polling place in Allegheny County that had proper paperwork and officials to operate just one polling place.
The good news is that late last night podcast king Joe Rogan endorsed Trump, taking some wind out of those Democrat sails. Rogan’s recent three-hour interview with Trump had 38 million views in the first three days. Rogan’s audience hits hard the Trump demographic of young male voters.
Kamala Chameleon passed on Rogan for a long time, then tried to set up a shorter, one-hour interview on her turf. Rogan declined and now he’s endorsed Trump.
Trump was in Pittsburgh and three other stops yesterday with his closing argument and I watched parts of all four rallies courtesy of Real America’s Voice cable channel, a welcome part of my satellite television package.
My take is that Trump is winning — in Pennsylvania and around the nation. We may never know due to the sort of demonstrable election misconduct and/or malfeasance we already are getting. Meanwhile, Democrats whine because non-citizens are not allowed to vote, or suspect votes are not allowed to trickle in days or weeks late and still be counted.
Remember all this the next time the leftists want you to accept blindly strange results from suspect elections.
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