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November 4, 2024
Election 2024
Election Integrity

What Were Those Ballot Box Fires About?

Authorities in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, are investigating incidents involving incendiary devices found in ballot boxes, marked with messages supporting Gaza and Hamas. The first occurrence was reported on October 8 in Vancouver, where a device with “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza” notes was placed in a drop box. In the early hours of this past Monday, additional devices ignited in two more locations—Portland and another in Vancouver—similarly marked “Free Gaza.”

A law enforcement source, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed the messages to the Associated Press. However, both the Portland and Vancouver Police Departments have refrained from commenting, redirecting inquiries to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The federal agency’s Portland office states it is actively investigating these incidents, which are believed to be related. According to police, the incendiary devices were attached externally to the ballot boxes.

The suspect is described as a white male between 30 and 40 years of age, balding with short hair, and reportedly an experienced metalworker. Surveillance footage previously identified the suspect driving a black or dark-colored Volvo S-60, model years 2001 to 2004. The vehicle lacked a front license plate and had an unreadable rear plate.

The October 8 incident resulted in no ballot damage. However, the Portland arson damaged three ballots, while the Vancouver attack affected hundreds. Greg Kimsey, Clark County’s elected auditor, reported that officials retrieved approximately 475 damaged ballots from the Vancouver box, although the exact number of ballots destroyed remains uncertain. Kimsey condemned the acts, labeling them a “direct attack on democracy.”

Clark County sits in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, which is currently in a heated race between incumbent Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) and her Republican challenger, Joe Kent. Gluesenkamp Perez narrowly defeated Kent for the seat during the 2022 midterm election.

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Authorities in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, are investigating incidents involving incendiary devices found in ballot boxes, marked with messages supporting Gaza and Hamas. The first occurrence was reported on October 8 in Vancouver, where a device with "Free Palestine" and "Free Gaza" notes was placed in a drop box. In the early hours of this past Monday, additional devices ignited in two more locations—Portland and another in Vancouver—similarly marked "Free Gaza." show more
November 2, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Georgia GOP Says Fulton County is Violating State Ballot Drop Box Law.

The Georgia Republican Party is alleging Fulton County election officials are keeping certain voter centers open in predominantly Democratic-heavy areas over the weekend to accept absentee ballots in what they say violates Georgia law. In a statement issued late Friday night, the Georgia GOP announced they have filed a lawsuit against Fulton County for violating state election law, which restricts the use of ballot drop boxes after the early voting period ends.

“It has come to our attention that Fulton County election officials are planning to open four election offices this weekend “to accommodate voters seeking to hand-return their absentee ballots,” the Georgia GOP says, continuing: “This is a blatant violation of Georgia law, subsection (d) of Code Section 21-5-385. O.C.G.A § 21-2-382 which states ‘all drop boxes shall be closed when the advance voting period ends.’ This must be stopped immediately and those willfully breaking Georgia law should be held accountable.”

“Fulton County’s patently illegal acts give us no choice but to immediately file suit,” the state Republican Party adds.

Georgia state election mandates an early voting period beginning on “the fourth Monday immediately prior to each primary or election” and ending ” on the Friday immediately prior to each primary, election, or runoff.” However, voters are allowed to mail or hand in absentee ballots at any point “before the day of the primary or election.”

The Georgia GOP’s complaint appears to be contingent on the concern that Fulton County voter centers are acting as ballot drop boxes in all but name and that local election officials are using conflicting statutes to unlawfully extend the early voting period beyond its legally mandated conclusion.

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The Georgia Republican Party is alleging Fulton County election officials are keeping certain voter centers open in predominantly Democratic-heavy areas over the weekend to accept absentee ballots in what they say violates Georgia law. In a statement issued late Friday night, the Georgia GOP announced they have filed a lawsuit against Fulton County for violating state election law, which restricts the use of ballot drop boxes after the early voting period ends. show more
October 28, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Ballot Drop Boxes Set on Fire.

At least two allegedly secure ballot drop boxes have been set on fire in Oregon and Washington State—destroying an unknown number of ballots contained inside. The most recent incident, in Clark County, Washington, saw a ballot drop box billowing smoke as numerous ballots burned in the early morning hours on Monday.

Concerningly, Clark County sits in the hotly contested 3rd Congressional District, currently held by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA). However, President Donald J. Trump won the district during the 2020 presidential election. The race is currently a toss-up between Gluesenkamp Perez and her Republican challenger, Joe Kent, a United States Army Special Forces veteran.

“This morning at about 4:00 AM, Vancouver Police responded to an arson at a ballot box located at 3510 SE 164th Ave. It was reported that the ballot box was smoking and on fire,” local police confirmed in a statement. They added: “Officers arrived and located a suspicious device next to the box. The ballot box was smoking and was on fire. Members of the Metro Explosive Disposal Unit (MEDU) arrived and safely collected the device, and the fire was extinguished.”


The preliminary report reveals that an incendiary device appears to have set the fire. At the moment, no suspect or motivation for the fire has been identified. According to the Clark County elections auditor, hundreds of ballots were in the drop box at the time of the fire, as the last pickup occurred at 11 AM on Saturday.

With many states expanding their early and mail-in voting timelines, election officials have insisted that ballot drop boxes are safe, secure, and adequately monitored. However, the two fires in Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, undermine this assertion.

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At least two allegedly secure ballot drop boxes have been set on fire in Oregon and Washington State—destroying an unknown number of ballots contained inside. The most recent incident, in Clark County, Washington, saw a ballot drop box billowing smoke as numerous ballots burned in the early morning hours on Monday. show more
August 5, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Election 2024

WATCH: Hidden Camera Reveals Muslims Used Voter Fraud To Gain Power In This U.S. State.

In a series of undercover videos, Democrat lawmakers and left-wing activists candidly describe how Muslim activists gamed state election laws—and in many instances violated those laws—ostensibly to the benefit of the Democratic Party. They detail how Muslims in the state have used a combination of voter fraud, ballot harvesting, and intimidation to gain power in several of the state’s cities.

Karen Majewski, who served as the Mayor of Hamtramck from 2006 until 2021, claims that Muslim candidates would fill out the absentee ballots while sitting in the voter’s dining room. “The absentee ballots are being filled out in people’s dining rooms by the candidates,” Majewski says in the undercover video. Under Michigan law, only close family members or an election official can handle a voter’s absentee ballot and deliver it to a drop box.

According to Majewski, both Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel and federal officials are investigating instances of election fraud perpetrated in the state’s Bangladeshi and Yemeni communities. However, she notes that government officials have declined to address the problems in the past.

In another video, Lynn Blasey—a former candidate for Hamtramck’s city council, claims the Mulsim community held a secret meeting before the 2021 election where absentee ballots were auctioned off to the candidates, with the highest bidder subsequently winning their respective elections.

It should be noted that Hamtramck became the first Muslim-majority city in the United States in 2013, with a population primarily drawn from Yemen, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. In 2021, Hamtramck became the first U.S. locality to elect an all-Muslim city council and mayor. However, some progressive activists now feel betrayed after Muslim lawmakers barred LGBTQ displays on city property in June of last year.

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In a series of undercover videos, Democrat lawmakers and left-wing activists candidly describe how Muslim activists gamed state election laws—and in many instances violated those laws—ostensibly to the benefit of the Democratic Party. They detail how Muslims in the state have used a combination of voter fraud, ballot harvesting, and intimidation to gain power in several of the state's cities. show more
June 12, 2024
Election Integrity

4 Arrested, Charges Filed 5 Years After Democrat Ballot Stuffing.

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, Democratic Party official, a city council member, and two campaign workers face criminal charges for allegedly perpetrating a ballot-stuffing scheme in the town’s 2019 Democratic mayoral primary. The charges stem from a plot to ensure incumbent Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim would win the primary race. He narrowly defeated State Senator Marilyn Moore by just 270 votes.

Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee Vice Chairperson Wanda Geter-Pataky and City Council Member Alfredo Castillo—along with campaign workers Nilsa Heredia and Josephine Edmonds—are charged with unlawful possession of absentee ballots and additional election-related violations. Three of the four also face charges of witness tampering.

RIGGING THE ELECTION.

An investigation by the Chief State’s Attorney’s office into the 2019 election scandal found evidence of extensive illegalities: Geter-Pataky reportedly failed to sign as an assister on an absentee ballot application she completed for a voter and allegedly misrepresented absentee voting eligibility requirements. The office also notes that she instructed a citizen not to vote in person and claimed she would retrieve the citizen’s absentee ballot. Additionally, Geter-Pataky purportedly told the citizen to keep quiet about the matter.

Heredia is accused of directing voters on absentee ballot candidate selections and misrepresenting eligibility requirements. She admitted to investigators that she did not submit an absentee ballot distribution list to the City of Bridgeport Clerk’s Office.

Castillo allegedly failed to maintain an absentee ballot distribution list and did not sign as an assister. Though initially denying involvement, Castillo later admitted to helping fill out portions of a ballot application.

Edmonds is accused of being present when four voters filled out absentee ballots and taking possession of them. Additionally, she allegedly failed to keep an absentee ballot distribution list and instructed a witness not to testify truthfully.

IT HAPPENED AGAIN.

Geter-Pataky is also suspected of being involved in a nearly identical scandal that resulted in the town’s 2023 mayoral election having to be held three times. Once again, Ganim was eventually re-elected despite numerous ballot irregularities. In September 2023, video evidence surfaced allegedly showing a city employee and Ganim supporter placing multiple absentee ballots into a ballot box during the Democratic mayoral primary.

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A Bridgeport, Connecticut, Democratic Party official, a city council member, and two campaign workers face criminal charges for allegedly perpetrating a ballot-stuffing scheme in the town's 2019 Democratic mayoral primary. The charges stem from a plot to ensure incumbent Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim would win the primary race. He narrowly defeated State Senator Marilyn Moore by just 270 votes. show more
May 15, 2024
William Upton
Election Integrity

Wisconsin’s NeverTrump GOP Leader is Emboldening Election Riggers & Helping Ballot Drop Boxes Make a Comeback.

The Republican Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, Robin Vos, appears determined to protect a state election official who abused her authority to allow illegal voting procedures to take place in the state during the 2020 election. Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) administrator Megan Wolfe unilaterally cleared the way for the use of ballot drop boxes — without the backing of any Wisconsin law or statute. Additionally, Wolfe is alleged to have openly colluded with far-left election non-profit groups and allowed local election clerks to incorrectly register some voters as “indefinitely confined” in abrogation of state law.

While the Wisconsin Republican Speaker has at least given vocal backing to calls for Wolfe’s resignation, it appears that is as far as he’s willing to go. In fact, Vos purposefully assigned the articles of impeachment against Wolfe to an assembly committee so that the issue would die there. The committee has not taken action on the articles since November last year.

SPECIAL SESSION IMPEACHMENT.   

Despite a detailed account of numerous instances where Wolfe either bent or twisted state law in favor of Democratic candidates in Wisconsin’s 2020 election, Speaker Vos has thus far refused to call legislators in for a special session to impeach and remove Wolfe. However, impeaching Wolfe isn’t an insurmountable hurdle akin to the Mayorkas impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. The State Assembly only requires a majority vote, and two-thirds of the State Senate is needed to convict and remove. Republicans hold a comfortable majority in the State Assembly and a super-majority in the State Senate.

Vos’s refusal to call a special session to impeach and remove Wolfe is even stranger when considering the nature of her appointment to the WEC. Wolfe’s re-nomination was actually rejected by the State Senate, with lawmakers effectively firing her. However, the Wisconsin Supreme Court intervened, allowing Wolfe to remain in office, stating that an appointee cannot be removed if a replacement is not confirmed by the legislative body. Sen. Chris Kapenga (R), the President of the Senate, has stated it is his view that Wolfe is not legally entitled to her appointment, with her re-nomination having been rejected.

Additionally, lawmakers in the state legislation contend a special session would allow them to address a bevy of election integrity issues. These measures include passing a resolution that would ban the use of drop boxes, requiring human signature matching, and a clean-up of voter rolls.

VOS’S SHADY CONNECTIONS. 

The Republican Speaker has been an outspoken critic of former President Donald J. Trump. Vos pledged to do everything possible to prevent Trump from securing the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Even more concerning, however, is the Speaker’s connections with a Chinese Communist Party front group. Vos serves on the board of the State Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF), which is affiliated with the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC).

Vos’s anti-Trump statements, connections to Chinese communists, and refusal to take action against Wolfe’s illegitimate appointment to the WEC have resulted in a growing recall movement against him. Currently, the effort is just 2,000 signatures short of the number required to be filed on May 28, 2024, to start the recall process.

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The Republican Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, Robin Vos, appears determined to protect a state election official who abused her authority to allow illegal voting procedures to take place in the state during the 2020 election. Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) administrator Megan Wolfe unilaterally cleared the way for the use of ballot drop boxes — without the backing of any Wisconsin law or statute. Additionally, Wolfe is alleged to have openly colluded with far-left election non-profit groups and allowed local election clerks to incorrectly register some voters as "indefinitely confined" in abrogation of state law. show more
May 13, 2024
Ed Kozak
Election Integrity

Ballot Drop Boxes May Be Back With State Supreme Court Hearing Oral Arguments TODAY.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will today hear oral arguments on a crucial case involving the future of absentee ballot drop boxes in the state’s elections. The case presents the court’s liberal majority with a chance to reverse a ruling from less than two years ago, which significantly curtailed the number of such drop boxes.

If the court, with its current 4-3 liberal majority, reverses the earlier ruling, it could lead to a return of widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes in time for the upcoming presidential election. Democrats and progressive groups have filed numerous briefs urging the court to reverse the 2022 decision. Conservative groups, along with the Wisconsin GOP, are pressing to uphold the current restrictions.

The Wisconsin GOP Chairman, Brian Schimming, warned about potential “hijinks” and concerns about the security of drop boxes. Moreover, he indicated that a change this close to the elections could fuel confusion.

The state high court ruled in 2022 that only the state Legislature—currently under Republican control—has the authority to make rules concerning absentee ballot drop boxes and not the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Priorities USA, a Democratic group, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn this ruling. The current liberal majority on the court has agreed to review whether the prior ruling was wrongly decided.

Many of the ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin in 2020 were financed by Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and overwhelmingly favored Democrats. Last month, Wisconsinites voted to amend their constitution to prevent state election officials from using private grants to administer elections.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will today hear oral arguments on a crucial case involving the future of absentee ballot drop boxes in the state’s elections. The case presents the court's liberal majority with a chance to reverse a ruling from less than two years ago, which significantly curtailed the number of such drop boxes. show more