"Biden won the popular vote by 5+ million & got 306 electoral votes.
Trump lost the popular vote by 2+ million & got 306 electoral votes."
More debunking of the election fraud lies.
Even Trumps own homeland security cybersecurity division says so.
On a related note reports today that the head of that division is rumored for the axe. Seriously.
Biden moves forward with transition as US grapples with Covid surge – as it happened | US news | The GuardianDHS cybersecurity agency: 2020 election 'was the most secure in American history'
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – a part of the Department of Homeland Security – said the 2020 election “was the most secure in American history”.
In a joint statement with several other agencies, CISA assistant director Bon Kolasky said: “When states have close elections, many will recount ballots. All of the states with close results in the 2020 presidential race have paper records of each vote, allowing the ability to go back and count each ballot if necessary ... This process allows for the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors.”
“There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” the statement reads.
“If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.
Key Points
- NBC News projected Joe Biden will win Arizona, making him the first Democrat to carry the state since 1996, when Bill Clinton was reelected.
- Otherwise, known for GOP stalwarts such as late Sens. Barry Goldwater and John McCain, the state has been solidly Republican since the 1950s.
- Arizona has 11 Electoral College votes. Trump won the state by slightly more than 3 percentage points in 2016.
Arizona election results 2020: Biden projected to win over Trump
A postal worker whose allegation of ballot-tampering was at the center of Republican efforts to challenge the outcome of the presidential election has admitted to investigators that Project Veritas actually penned the affidavit laying out his claims. A two-hour audio recording released by Project Veritas on Wednesday shows Richard Hopkins being interviewed by federal investigators over his claim, first publicized by Project Veritas, that he had overheard a postmaster instructing workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, to backdate mail-in votes to meet the Election Day deadline. The audio had been touted by the conservative group as proof that Hopkins was manipulated by investigators but still stood by his allegations, despite House Democrats saying earlier this week that the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General told them Hopkins admitted to fabricating the claims.
But instead, it captured him doing the very opposite, according to The Washington Post. When he was asked if he wanted to stick with his claim about ballot-tampering, Hopkins said, “At this point? No.” He said his allegation had stemmed from “assumptions” he made after overhearing tidbits of staffers’ conversations in the mail facility. Hopkins told investigators not only that his affidavit was written by Project Veritas but that he wasn’t even entirely sure of what the group had included in it because he was in “so much shock I wasn’t paying that much attention to what they were telling me.” A spokesman for Project Veritas acknowledged having a hand in the affidavit but insisted that the “affidavit was drafted with Mr. Hopkins’ input and requested revisions,” according to the Post.
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The trump crime syndicate and their enablers are far from over. Don't be lulled into thinking that the GOP is really interested in a transition. They're not. It's a ploy of false hope played over and over again that starts out as a few congressman opposing trump - usually Collins, Graham, Romney, McConnell et al - but days or weeks before crunch time, they flip every time, citing some lame excuse, and we're thrown in to chaos again, which is exactly where the villain thrives. The media always falls for this false hope. And they are doing it again.
Same old weary conspiracy theories...
The theatre has always remained the same, only the players change.
The sad thing is that they know what they are doing is futile, but their base - which is now the trumpanzees - will still be banging on about "owning them libtards" with no thought at all for the embarrassment being caused to their country. And absurdly these think they are "patriots".
You may have heard that Judge Alito ordered Pennsylvania ballots received after the extended deadline to be segregated. The court has now ruled that a mix of those votes won't be counted for certain reasons (lack of ID, validity of extension to the deadline).
These votes were not included in the proper vote, which Biden leads by 60,000 votes, so it literally makes no fucking difference to the result.
Conservative headline?
US election updates: Michigan court rejects Trump attempt to block certification of votes, as his North Carolina win is confirmed
President Donald Trump has won North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes, after a Michigan state court rejected a request by his supporters to block the certification of votes and appoint an independent auditor in Detroit.
Mr Trump's victory in North Carolina brings him to 232 electoral votes.
Meanwhile, the Michigan ruling is a setback for Mr Trump and Republicans who have been trying to overturn Mr Biden's victory in the November 3 election by preventing officials from certifying election results.
Somebody need to explain to trump, that every other Republican got re-elected, except for him.
reflect on that Mr. President for a minute.
Trump has conceded!!!!
OK not really...but he has put Giuliani in charge of campaign lawsuits related to the outcome of the election so basically the same thing.
The criminal and member of the trump crime syndicate Roger Stone is back in the picture. This time he is behind the propaganda campaign "Stop the Steal".
Stop the Steal's massive disinformation campaign connected to Roger Stone and Steve Bannon - CNN
What an utterly disgusting not-so-secret cabal
Cujo, news just for you.
GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid on electors
Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump. Their comments effectively shut down a half-baked plot some Republicans floated as a last chance to keep Trump in the White House.
State GOP lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have all said they would not intervene in the selection of electors, who ultimately cast the votes that secure a candidate’s victory. Such a move would violate state law and a vote of the people, several noted.
“I do not see, short of finding some type of fraud — which I haven’t heard of anything — I don’t see us in any serious way addressing a change in electors,” said Rusty Bowers, Arizona’s Republican House speaker, who says he’s been inundated with emails pleading for the legislature to intervene. “They are mandated by statute to choose according to the vote of the people.”
The idea loosely involves GOP-controlled legislatures dismissing Biden’s popular vote wins in their states and opting to select Trump electors. While the endgame was unclear, it appeared to hinge on the expectation that a conservative-leaning Supreme Court would settle any dispute over the move.
Still, it has been promoted by Trump allies, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and is an example of misleading information and false claims fueling skepticism among Trump supporters about the integrity of the vote.
The theory is rooted in the fact that the U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures the power to decide how electors are chosen. Each state already has passed laws that delegate this power to voters and appoint electors for whichever candidate wins the state on Election Day. The only opportunity for a state legislature to then get involved with electors is a provision in federal law allowing it if the actual election “fails.”
If the result of the election was unclear in mid-December, at the deadline for naming electors, Republican-controlled legislatures in those states could declare that Trump won and appoint electors supporting him. Or so the theory goes.
The problem, legal experts note, is that the result of the election is not in any way unclear. Biden won all the states at issue. It’s hard to argue the election “failed” when Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security reported it was not tampered with and was “the most secure in American history.” There has been no finding of widespread fraud or problems in the vote count, which shows Biden leading Trump by more than 5 million votes nationally.
Trump’s campaign and its allies have filed lawsuits that aim to delay the certification and potentially provide evidence for a failed election. But so far, Trump and Republicans have had meager success — at least 10 of the lawsuits have been rejected by the courts in the 10 days since the election. The most significant that remain ask courts to prevent Michigan and Pennsylvania from certifying Biden as the winner of their elections.
But legal experts say it’s impossible for courts to ultimately stop those states from appointing electors by the December deadline.
“It would take the most unjustified and bizarre intervention by courts that this country has ever seen,” said Danielle Lang of the Campaign Legal Center. “I haven’t seen anything in any of those lawsuits that has any kind of merit — let alone enough to delay appointing electors.”
Even if Trump won a single court fight, there’s another potential roadblock: Congress could be the final arbiter of whether to accept disputed slates of electors, according to the Electoral Count Act of 1887, the law outlining the process. In the end, if the Democratic-controlled House and GOP-controlled Senate could not agree on which electors to accept, and there is no vote and no winner, the presidency would pass to the next person in the line of succession at the end of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence’s term on Jan. 20. That would be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.
“If this is a strategy, I don’t think it will be successful,” said Edward Foley, a constitutional law professor at Ohio State University. “I think we’re in the realm of fantasy here.”
But unfounded claims about fraud and corruption have been circulating widely in conservative circles since Biden won the election. Asked this week if state lawmakers should invalidate the official results, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said, “Everything should be on the table.”
DeSantis urged Pennsylvania and Michigan residents to call state lawmakers and urge them to intervene. “Under Article 2 of the Constitution, presidential electors are done by the legislatures and the schemes they create and the framework. And if there’s departure from that, if they’re not following the law, if they’re ignoring law, then they can provide remedies as well,” he said.
Republican lawmakers, however, appear to be holding steady. “The Pennsylvania General Assembly does not have and will not have a hand in choosing the state’s presidential electors or in deciding the outcome of the presidential election,” top Republican legislative leaders, state Sen. Jake Corman and Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, wrote in an October op-ed. Their offices said Friday they stand by the statement.
The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly, Robin Vos, has long dismissed the idea, and his spokesperson, Kit Beyer, said he stood by that position on Thursday.
In Michigan, legislative leaders say any intervention would be against state law. Even though the GOP-controlled legislature is investigating the election, state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey told radio station WJR on Friday, “It is not the expectation that our analysis will result in any change in the outcome.”
GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid on electors
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