McConnell: "We didn't mean THAT kind of ballot security!
- Thread starter The Barbarian
- Start date
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
Billboard on I-65 in Hart County, Kentucky:
Foxfire
Well-known member
"Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bills"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-received-donations-from-voting-machine-lobbyists-before-blocking-election-security-bills/ar-AAEUGcx?li=BBnbcA1&fbclid=IwAR3W7Z0AHZEeP-APNjXYW8Cnc9p0pmqijx_ouQpZ1TjXYuBJpGXIOiAArcQ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell-received-donations-from-voting-machine-lobbyists-before-blocking-election-security-bills/ar-AAEUGcx?li=BBnbcA1&fbclid=IwAR3W7Z0AHZEeP-APNjXYW8Cnc9p0pmqijx_ouQpZ1TjXYuBJpGXIOiAArcQ
Ballot security is the republican party's worst nightmare. This is why our ballot machines will be open to Russian hacking until McConnell and Trump are removed by voters.
Mueller has pointed out that the Russians are continuing their efforts to undermine our political processes, and they are gearing up to influence the 2020 elections again.
At this point, it's McConnell's only hope of retaining power.
Mueller has pointed out that the Russians are continuing their efforts to undermine our political processes, and they are gearing up to influence the 2020 elections again.
At this point, it's McConnell's only hope of retaining power.
I don't hate Trump and never have, but McConnell is a sleazebag. His family is dependent on Red China for it's wealth. He and his wife were worth $3.1 million when she first became Secretary of Transportation under GW Bush. Now their net worth is somewhere between $9 and $36 million. With the lax reporting laws that's about as close as it can be figured. Elaine's father sits on the board of the state-owned shipping company of Red China and since Bush appointed her the Chao family has purchased 10 large cargo ships from Red China in very favorable deals. So favorable that the Red Chinese government basically guaranteed their success from day one by making sure their ships stayed busy all the time. In other words, by giving them enough of Red China's shipping business in the Pacific Ocean to make them profitable. Then they appointed Elaines sister to sit on the board of the main state-owned bank in China. She's the first foreigner to ever sit on the board as she is an American citizen.
Since that time McConnell has pushed legislation very favorable to Red China and fought anything that reduces China's interests. In other words he has been representing Red Chinese interests for at least a couple of decades.
Almost forgot one thing. Elaines' father father gave her and Mitch a gift of somewhere between $5 and $25 million dollars and he is tied very closely to the Red Chinese government. So, the only problem I have with Anna's posts on Mitch is that she's aligning him with the wrong enemy. Mitch isn't subservient to Putin. He's subservient to Xi. In my mind he sold out decades ago and stopped representing the US in favor of Red China.
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
McConnell isn't a leftist. However, he has rather openly admitted his interest in cheating in elections, having just killed a ballot security bill that would have put checks on paperless ballot machines. That would have made republican cheating much harder.
Wednesday was the day when Georgia Republican Brian Kemp was hoping to get himself certified as his state’s next governor, despite the steady shrinkage of his narrow majority as provisional ballots are counted. But two federal judges have stepped in to cast doubt on the results, and given Democrats a bit of hope.
First, U.S. District Court judge Amy Totenberg stepped in and stopped the state’s certification, at least until week’s end, while instructing Georgia’s election administration office (supervised by Kemp until he finally resigned after claiming victory on November 7) to cooperate in helping provisional voters fix problems with their ballots, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution explains:
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg’s order calls for a hotline for voters to check if their provisional ballots were counted, a review of voter registrations, and updated reports from the state government about why many voters were required to use provisional ballots….
Totenberg said she’s providing “limited, modest” relief to help protect voters. The order preserves Tuesday’s deadline for county election offices to certify results and the Nov. 20 deadline for Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden to certify the election. The ruling enjoins Crittenden from certifying the election before Friday at 5 p.m.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018...fication-of-brian-kemp-as-georgia-winner.html
The State of Georgia refused to certify Kemp after numerous ballot irregularities were found, including unsecured electronic ballot machines with no paper confirmation, voter suppression, and failure to count all votes.
Apparently, that's the case in Georgia. Ballot security was pretty much nonexistent, and documentation was "lost", qualified voters were turned away, and republicans "forgot" to count provisional ballots.
It's why McConnell howls about ballot security, until an actual ballot security bill reaches the Senate. Then he kills it.
Ballot security is his worst nightmare.
:rotfl:
Using the highly sophisticated technique of buying Facebook ads.
At this point, it's Barbarian's only hope of staying in the conversation.
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
Senate Finds Russia Attempted to Interfere in Elections in All 50 States in 2016
The day after former special counsel Robert Mueller told Congress that Russians are tampering with U.S. election infrastructure “as we sit here,” the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that determined that Moscow targeted elections in all 50 states in 2016, an extent much greater than previously revealed.
The 67-page report concluded that there was no evidence of votes being changed at the polls, although in Illinois, “Russian cyberactors were in a position to delete or change voter data.” The report also stated that there is “an unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure” as Russia searches for security flaws in states’ election software. Even as we approach the next election, the intelligence community is unclear as to why Russia — which had breached U.S. election infrastructure in 2014 — hacked into the polls without acting. The report states that the GRU, Moscow’s foreign military-intelligence agency, could have been testing out vulnerabilities “for use at a later date.” This was the main concern of the NSA, DHS, and FBI.
Also new to the report was the detail that Russian officials requested to send election observers to the U.S. for the 2016 election, as is routine for the U.S. State Department to do in other countries. The request was a red flag for the Intelligence committee, as most election machines are offline — meaning that the easiest way to directly tamper with votes would be by physically accessing them, rather than attempting to hack into individual devices at the ballot.
Meanwhile, Democrats have proposed two bills that would help provide election security in 2020, requiring campaigns to alert the intelligence community and the Federal Election Commission if they receive offers of assistance from abroad, as the Trump camp did in 2016. But on Wednesday, Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked the motion, which was seconded by Mitch McConnell on Thursday. McConnell called the bills “partisan legislation”; in his testimony, Robert Mueller called Russian interference the “new normal.”
The day after former special counsel Robert Mueller told Congress that Russians are tampering with U.S. election infrastructure “as we sit here,” the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that determined that Moscow targeted elections in all 50 states in 2016, an extent much greater than previously revealed.
The 67-page report concluded that there was no evidence of votes being changed at the polls, although in Illinois, “Russian cyberactors were in a position to delete or change voter data.” The report also stated that there is “an unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure” as Russia searches for security flaws in states’ election software. Even as we approach the next election, the intelligence community is unclear as to why Russia — which had breached U.S. election infrastructure in 2014 — hacked into the polls without acting. The report states that the GRU, Moscow’s foreign military-intelligence agency, could have been testing out vulnerabilities “for use at a later date.” This was the main concern of the NSA, DHS, and FBI.
Also new to the report was the detail that Russian officials requested to send election observers to the U.S. for the 2016 election, as is routine for the U.S. State Department to do in other countries. The request was a red flag for the Intelligence committee, as most election machines are offline — meaning that the easiest way to directly tamper with votes would be by physically accessing them, rather than attempting to hack into individual devices at the ballot.
Meanwhile, Democrats have proposed two bills that would help provide election security in 2020, requiring campaigns to alert the intelligence community and the Federal Election Commission if they receive offers of assistance from abroad, as the Trump camp did in 2016. But on Wednesday, Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked the motion, which was seconded by Mitch McConnell on Thursday. McConnell called the bills “partisan legislation”; in his testimony, Robert Mueller called Russian interference the “new normal.”
Projection. Projection. And even more Projection.
And now Mitch puts his alignment with Russia in the Congressional Record...
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
Umm- not by people who are intelligent enough to understand the definition of traitor is something different
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
Anna, in her realization that trump's impeachment isn't going to happen, is desperately lashing out, and has latched onto McConnell
She's insane
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
@JudgeRightly Two images in a row is spamming? Good to know. So one image at a time is okay?
Because political cartoons and memes convey ideas through images and/or by a distillation of words, they can add to the conversation and are a nice break from all text. I could type it out, I guess, like this:
His name is Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. He will be known by historians as a man with no conviction except for the pursuit of power at all cost. He will be known as the Republican leader who broke the senate and hurt the county for his personal gains. He will be known as the politician who defended Russian tactics over the security of the country. But, in the end he will be remembered as a TRAITOR
What about a thread dedicated to political cartoons? Would that be acceptable? Seems like we used to have a thread like that here once.