NEWS FLASH: IT'S OK TO QUESTION THE ELECTION
By Mike Huckabee [reprinted from his mikehuckabee.com Web site]
With so little being reported on the 2020 election follow-up, one might think there wasn’t much going on. On the contrary –- it just depends on where you look.
At TOWNHALL, Wayne Allen Root has a remarkable opinion piece
about the election called “Why the American People Have Turned Against Biden,” citing evidence that Americans are finally questioning the election results and are no longer afraid to say out loud that they think something was wrong. That doesn’t mean we have definitive proof that the election would have turned out differently --- just that there is reason to question. This is NOT “the big lie.”
Here are a few examples of the anti-Biden backlash:
* The National Republican Congressional Committee has just announced its greatest April fundraising period ever, he says.
* According to a WASHINGTON EXAMINER poll, the enthusiasm for Republican candidates for 2022 exceeds that for Democrat candidates by double digits.
* The latest Democracy Corps poll of battleground states finds Biden’s approval among independents as only 34 percent.
* Voters in “Biden” state Pennsylvania voted overwhelmingly to dramatically limit the emergency powers of the Democrat governor.
* The latest CBS/YouGov poll found Republican support for Trump still at historic levels, with 67 percent saying they believe Biden was not the real winner of the 2020 election.
* According to McLaughlin & Associates, voters nationwide would prefer Trump over Kamala Harris 49 to 45 percent in 2024.
All this is after Biden has been office just over 100 days.
So why was there such resistance to looking at the election? As Mr. Root points out, “You’ve heard of jury nullification. This was simply a case of Trump nullification.” Some judges just hated Trump. Others feared for their lives and careers if they waded into the election issue, and even what it might mean to their families in this time of “cancel culture.” I would add that many judges adamantly did not want the judiciary to be involved (even though it was their job).
And those who don’t want the election results examined are digging in, hard. (That in itself is suspicious.) Last week we reported on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, who run the elections there and are infuriated that anyone wants to look at what happened. Now according to THE EPOCH TIMES
in a premium story, an attorney representing Maricopa County has sent a letter to Arizona state Sen. Karen Fann, formally demanding the preservation of all documents relating to the county’s audit of the 2020 election, with the implication that they might sue for defamation.
I’d imagine it’s already incumbent upon the Senate to preserve all those documents, but this letter makes it all seem sooooo much more dramatic.
It calls for them to preserve all communications between Fann and other officials “and any other member of the Senate or their staffs...and between you and your agents, including, but not limited to, Ken Bennett, Cyber Ninjas, CyFir, WakeTSI, and those firms’ various owners, officers, employees, agents, subcontractors or volunteers.”
The letter comes in response to Fann’s May 13 letter to the Board saying that a subcontractor for the audit had discovered that the entire database directory for one of the machines had been deleted. Although CNN and AP reported that the auditor, Ben Cotton, had backtracked from this allegation, Cotton later wrote to THE EPOCH TIMES saying that the directory had indeed been deleted, but that he had been able to recover it. In other words, he stands by his assertion, and so does Sen. Fann.
In other news, you might recall that last December, the Dominion Voting Systems CEO, John Poulos, swore up and down that Dominion voting machines are not connected to the Internet. But he did say that in some places they use “cellular modems” to transmit their results after hours. According to the DETROIT FREE PRESS, Poulos testified that “in some jurisdictions...cellular modems are used for very brief periods, after the polls are closed, to transmit unofficial results from the precincts to the county headquarters.” He also admitted under questioning that if there were Internet conductivity, it could pose a potential risk of hacking.
And now, sure enough, according to a letter
sent by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, they believe Dominion voting machines in Michigan use “modem transmission features” and “do not match the EAC-certified system configuration.”
According to a report in NATIONAL FILE, the EAC is an independent governmental agency created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, created in part to provide information and resources regarding election administration throughout the country. As they wrote to Rep. Posey: “Dominion has not applied through EAC for certification of a voting system configuration that includes modem transmission, so if Michigan’s Dominion systems use modem 4 transmission, their systems do not match the EAC-certified system configuration.” But apparently Michigan certified them, anyway, in accordance with their state law.
The Michigan House blocked three amendments put forward by Rep. Posey, so they never got to the floor:
1) prohibiting voting machines from being connected to the Internet
2) requiring election hardware and software to be American made, and
3) ensuring that election machines are fully auditable and that election officials could no longer deny audits due to propriety software or hardware issues.
Why wouldn’t everyone see the problem with voting machines being connected to the Internet? In hindsight, it’s easy to see that all of these provisions –- especially #1 –- should have gotten a vote, and the fact that they didn’t raises some big questions.
A month before the election, on October 2, in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission; along with 30 academics, security experts and election integrity experts –- including a computer science professor at the University of Michigan --- expressed “grave concerns” about this technology. They said election results would be vulnerable to hacking and also that election machines might be infected by malware.
“In short, they can wreak havoc on an election,’ the letter actually said.
Apparently, connecting to public networks EVEN BRIEFLY can open the system to attacks “that could impact current or future election results,” it said.
“The convenience of transmitting vote totals online does not outweigh the need of the American people to be assured their votes will be accurately transmitted and counted.”
Moving on, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs went on MSNBC
and spoke about working with “a bipartisan group of secretaries of state who are very closely watching what’s happening in Arizona to make sure it doesn’t happen in their states.” Why, I’d use the word “conspiracy” if I didn’t think it might get me canceled…
Finally, as reported in another EPOCH TIMES premium story, Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero ruled to unseal the actual absentee ballots stored in Fulton County. Yes, petitioners will get to look at them, and the judge will issue protocols for a fresh scanning of the ballots. “That seems to be something [the petitioners] have the authority and right to do,” he said. Thank you, Judge Amero.