There is no evidence of significant voter fraud or other irregularities from last week’s election. That lack of evidence is why Trump and other GOP officials have gone “0 for 6” in lawsuits in closely run states, the Washington Post reported Tuesday evening.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-irregularities-claims/2020/11/08/8f704e6c-2141-11eb-ba21-f2f001f0554b_story.htmlFor the record: CISA sees no evidence. Read over related election rumors knocked down by CISA’s “Rumor Control” site, here.
https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol#postInternational observers say no evidence. Read the reports by the Organization of American States and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/PreliminaryReportoftheOASEOMUSA2020.pdfhttps://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/9/6/469437.pdfOfficials in every state say no evidence. The
New York Times called up lead election officials from every state on Tuesday. They found “no evidence that fraud or other irregularities played a role in the outcome of the presidential race, amounting to a forceful rebuke of President Trump’s portrait of a fraudulent election.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/politics/voting-fraud.htmlWhat the Times did discover: “Republicans in many states were engaged in a widespread effort to delegitimize the nation’s voting system.”
That includes Georgia, where voters will return to the polls in January to vote in two Senate runoffs, all eight of the candidates elected to serve in Congress next year called for an investigation into the election that elected them.
https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1326275981443784710/photo/1It also includes Texas, where the Republican lieutenant governor is offering a reward of up to a million dollars for evidence of fraud.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/10/texas-dan-patrick/(His counterpart in Pennsylvania tweeted Tuesday evening that he found unmistakable evidence, though it’s not the party affiliation that Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is seeking.)
https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1326311204923576321https://t.co/9OjqYOMFYy?amp=1South Dakota’s governor joined the GOP’s alleged fraud squad, too, and is fundraising off the election noise. But “it appears the donations are set to flow into her own reelection account,” the Associated Press reported.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-south-dakota-elections-campaigns-b922c257150cb723f738d2591524279bAnd in Pennsylvania, an alleged whistleblower completely recanted his claims of voter fraud when questioned by investigators from the Postal Service’s inspector general on Monday. This would be the allegation of voter fraud that was publicized and advanced — even to the level of Attorney General Bill Barr — by South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham over the weekend.
https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/1326289047933816836https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-voter-fraud-affadvit-pennsylvania-joe-biden-1545820Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, Trump’s lawyers admitted to a judge they have no evidence of election fraud or “undue or improper influence” on voters. Read that court dialogue, here.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1326345253360635904BTW: Six in 10 Republicans affirm Biden won the election, according to a new poll from Reuters/Ipsos, published Tuesday. And all told, 80% of surveyed Americans are onboard with the election results
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll/nearly-80-of-americans-say-biden-won-white-house-ignoring-trumps-refusal-to-concede-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN27Q3ED?il=0&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social---------------------------------------------
We got your voter fraud, right here! ...Evidence Suggests Several State Senate Candidates Were Plants Funded by Dark Moneyhttps://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/11/11/evidence-suggests-several-state-senate-candidates-were-plants-funded-by-dark-money/?outputType=ampMIAMI – Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?
Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three such candidates in three Florida Senate district races, two of them in Miami Dade County, were shill candidates whose presence in the races were meant to syphon votes from Democratic candidates.Comparisons of the no-party candidates' public campaign records show similarities and connections that suggest they are all linked by funding from the same dark money donors, and part of an elaborate scheme to upset voting patterns.
In one of those races, District 37, a recount is underway because the spread between the Democratic and Republican candidates is only 31 votes. The third party candidate received more than 6300 votes.
That third party candidate is Alexis Rodriguez, who has the same last name as the Democratic incumbent senator Jose Javier Rodriguez. The Republican challenger is Ileana Garcia.
Alexis Rodriguez falsified his address on his campaign filing form last June. The couple who now live at the Palmetto Bay address say they have been repeatedly harassed since then by people looking for Rodriguez, who hadn’t lived there in five years.
Local 10 visited Rodriguez’s place of business Tuesday, where Rodriguez lied about his identity. Pretending to be a business partner, Rodriguez shed little light on his sudden candidacy in the District 37 race and lack of fundraising or campaigning.
Local 10 began investigating Rodriguez’s candidacy because of a hunch by Executive Producer Natalie Morera de Varona last month. She was collecting candidates' headshots for election broadcast graphics and was curious why a candidate was nowhere to be found, not returning phone calls.
A search of campaign documents filed by Rodriguez led to a money trail and campaign finance connections with other no-party third candidates in Florida Senate District 9 in Central Florida, and District 39 in Miami-Dade.
The District 39 candidate is 81-year-old Celso Alfonso, a retiree who named the woman he calls his wife as campaign treasurer. She owns a day spa, and the home where we found Alfonso Tuesday afternoon.
He, too, lied about his identity at first, and finally admitted to being the candidate.
Alfonso claimed he had a lifelong dream to be in public service. He said he filed on his own, that no one assisted him.
A comparison of candidates Alfonso and Rodriguez show unusual similarities.
Both filed as No Party Affiliated candidates, yet both had recently been registered Republicans.Both qualified as candidate on the same day, June 12, 2020, by paying a qualifying fee.
Both listed Gmail addresses with identical patterns: first initial, last name and district number and 2020.
Both list one single contribution to their campaign; both contributions are $2000 self-loans, presumably to pay the filing fee.
Both candidates' support appears to come from the same Political Action Committee, “Our Florida” - that have no previous political contributions or expenditures listed. It is the PAC that paid for campaign fliers for the candidates, all done by the same Clermont, Florida mail house, Advance Impressions.
Celso Alfonso gave conflicting answers about campaign fliers, first claiming there were none, then claiming his own campaign paid for them, though that expenditure is not listed in his campaign finance report. An unlisted campaign expenditure could be a campaign finance violation.
That $370,000 PAC expenditure to the printing house on Oct. 5 is the sole expenditure of “Our Florida”. And the PAC’s only contributor is an entity called Proclivity, whose $370,000 contribution is listed two days earlier.
Proclivity lists an address that traces back to a mailbox in a UPS Store in Atlanta.
Florida law allows the group to keep people behind its money private.
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I smell the stench of treachery in our midst ...
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."
