Paper ballots are considered the gold standard of vote counting. Three states in the U.S. use them, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. Other states claim to use them, but they are not reliable. Some just issue receipts repeating what the voter intended, but offering no guarantee that is what is recorded. Quite a few states offer nothing, just a smile and thank you to the voter, no assurance at all that the vote was even recorded, much less counted.
In the three states mentioned, voters hand-enter their choices on ballots, and the ballots are then run through optical scanners to tally the vote. It is not fool proof, as the scanning software can be corrupt, but the ballots are stored under lock and key for at least 22 months for recounts and perhaps study or statistical sampling. I think that 22 months storage is the law.
So it struck me as odd that Harris not only won Colorado, but by a large margin, 54-43. Historically Colorado has been a swing state. The margin tells me that there was a large backlash of voters who did not so much support Harris as reject Trump. The latter has gone out of his way to offend people. I can see him triumphing easily in places like Utah and the deep South, but Pennsylvania? Michigan? Wisconsin?
Out of curiosity, I looked up the election margins in Oregon (55-42) and Washington (58-39), the two other states that have paper ballots and optical scanners and ballot storage under lock and key. Then I checked California, whose elections are not secure, and found another easy victory for Harris (57-40).
What to make of it? I cannot say much, since I don’t think elections are honest anyway, but it does appear a bit fishy that Trump, who is deliberately provocative, won so handily. I wonder if we had a real election that we might be saddled with Harris.
Anyway, here is an article that can be seen as a kind of primer on voting by use of paper ballots. I found it short and interesting, even amusing.
Piece of Mindful 
no voter ID in most of the democrat states…..so it may calculate the correct vote but if you have no ID, and you can vote multiple times….what would you expect?
Remember..california had a recall election as Newsome destroyed california…but that was rigged. People were leaving Cal and NY in droves as the dem destruction was so bad. Have you seen videos of SanFran (KAmala) and Wisonson (WAlz)…..cities in disrepair…so much for the Dem lies….the cities of decay tell a real story.
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David: Your comment went to moderation because you are a first-timer. After that hurdle, it won’t happen again.
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One might say Harris getting ‘only’ 57% of California suggests Trump has far wider support than thought. Miles suggests that idea.
My interest was held by the blasé attitude of the pundits, suggesting they needn’t keep up the façade of believing Harris had any real chance or substance. They appeared to have known the landslide was coming. They just weren’t allowed to call certain ‘battle ground’ states when it was obvious Trump had won those easily. Likely the advertisers wanted their monies worth and so the obvious had to be denied hours after it was clear to any rational mind the show was over.
Better yet, the only tears shed by the libtard media was in assessing their obvious irrelevance as their relentless Trump bashing had zero effect. A real blow to the propaganda ministry. The major news outlets and networks were routed by podcasts.
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I am siding with Mark on this. At this point, we need to realize we are being gamed, so no reason to look too deep into the results of the election. Window dressing, as many have said.
However, the support for Harris was very real, and hatred/fear of Trump quite real. Almost everyone I know supported Harris (in Massachusetts), with some exceptions. Counting lawn signs it was 75/25 Harris. And you are right, Trump was exceptionally offensive, and nearly the equivalent of the fictional Charles Manson in polite society.
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There’s another possibility. Say we accept elections are +/-10% of real public opinion, which I believe they are based on lifetime experience. To make the simulation work, it does work best by hewing close the reality on the ground of public opinion.
That said, I noticed Biden and the Democrats lost about 12 million votes. That is a lot of votes! And I honestly believe the Democratic base has not moved much, since there is a large number of people with a palpable fear of Trump.
So could it be the party of the ultra-vaccinated are the victims of their own success? Vaccinate every 6 months says their leaders. 20% die-off in 4 years of their base is not unreasonable. And the Trump base voters were therefore more likely to survive Corona-gate.
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I’ve never bought into VARES and the mass vax injuries. Here in Frisco everyone submitted and I saw no evidence of any of it. I work in a major medical complex and there was nothing amiss, even in deep 2020, save for the suffocating screening processes. Vax damage was the flip side of the fabricated Covid crisis. It kept a certain amount of skeptics believing the virus was real.
In my mind, any Harris support was merely anti-Trumpism. I watched Harris from the beginning rise from her knees and she ran virtually unopposed her entire career until Tuesday. There was never anything there but work for Maya Rudolph- (who is now looking for work, I imagine)
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Interesting observation. I thought of some other reasons the party of the jack-ass is basically self-immolating:
So depopulation can be acheived in other ways.
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Hi Tyrone, if you wouldn’t mind I’d like you to clarify your statement on vax injuries. I’m somewhat surprised you are labeling vaxxes are fake, by implication, considering personally I had very severe reactions to 2 of the 3 doses of covid vax I took (voluntarily until that point!). Because there is monumental evidence that vaxxes are dangerous and harmful, so you are saying the Covid one was harmless? This also contradicts the MM theory of targeted genocide, which is not outlandish.
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MM’s vax genocide claim is outlandish in my opinion. He just says it, repeatedly, and unless I missed it, provides no proof. As for your experience, I can’t say, but I will argue that people do not understand the power of suggestion and what can trigger mass hysteria and psychosomatic reactions that appear very real.
I suffered from a panic disorder many years ago and it affected me physically. There was nothing ‘real’ behind the physical disruptions- difficulty breathing, numbness in the extremities; basically my body reacting to extreme fear of death. But there was nothing physically wrong with me.
Legal drug pushers diagnosed me with depression and offered drugs. I refused thinking if it wasn’t real, I wouldn’t need drugs to kill it. Just like a fake virus that doesn’t need a fake vaccine.
I beat it, finally, after about six years of mental gymnastics and this fear has never returned. I can write it off as a mid life crisis, but the main takeaway was that we humans can be conned to the point of self-destruction over essentially nothing if our emotions aren’t kept in check.
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Nice try but your theory does not fly for many reasons. One being I am not susceptible to psychosomatic suggestions. Intellectual yes. However, I took way too many drugs that I am impossible to fool. Like telling me the oregano I’m smoking is getting me high, I’m not that stupid.
Moreover I had many flu vaccinations and experienced minimal side effects. First two Moderna does i was expecting nothing and it was a terrible experience. Moderna was using high doses of whatever they use, my colleagues reported similar issues with this vaccine. Third dose of Pfizer nothing, no side effects.
Moreover your premise of no physical harm is a false statement. Being stabbed with a one inch needle filled with fluids of any sort constitutues a traumatic injury, no matter no minimal they try to spin it.
Also, telling someone “it’s all in their head” is a form of gaslighting. C’mon man, we’re not that stupid.
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Second try. Your theory does not fly for many reasons. One being I am not susceptible to psychosomatic suggestions. Intellectual yes. However, I took way too many drugs that I am impossible to fool. Like telling me the oregano I’m smoking is getting me high, I’m not that stupid.
Moreover I had many flu vaccinations and experienced minimal side effects. First two Moderna does i was expecting nothing and it was a terrible experience. Moderna was using high doses of whatever they use, my colleagues reported similar issues with this vaccine. Third dose of Pfizer nothing, no side effects.
Moreover your premise of no physical harm is a false statement. Being stabbed with a one inch needle filled with fluids of any sort constitutues a traumatic injury, no matter no minimal they try to spin it.
Also, telling someone “it’s all in their head” is a form of gaslighting. C’mon man, we’re not that stupid.
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I can take your word for it like I can take the MSM’s word for it. From where I’ve been standing, I’ve seen nothing and I’ve only heard second/third hand hearsay.
If a jab of something throws your system into a tizzy, so be it. We aren’t all alike in everything. I just have no first hand admissible evidence.
As for gaslighting, that’s a reckless accusation. I’d repeat what I’ve been saying under oath but that’s as far as I can take it.
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Tyrone, my apologies for the insinuation. I found your view on vaccines unusual, and gave it a lot of thought last week. Your argument is plausible, especially if vaccines are used to cover up something else, whatever is causing humans to be sicker than they should be. Because I know a lot of sick people these days, whereas growing up in the 70s and 80s as a kid we rarely got sick. However the number of childhood vaccines required is completely out of control. I have no children, and can’t imagine making my kid get all those at best useless shots. Vaccines are a modern form of submission to authority, and similar to the outdated practice of paddling kids regularly. Because getting vaccinated as a child is somewhat traumatic, which is the intention.
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Moreover yes nothing was amiss in 2020 because there were no vaccines. 2021 was the year of vax rollout. I have first hand knowledge covid positive cases, and general sickness spiked over 10-fold in late 2021 within months of mass vaccination. So this was a harmless spike in illness post-vaccination? OK
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You’re wrong about nothing was amiss in 2020.
Check out Vorginia Stoner’s research:
https://www.virginiastoner.com/writing/2024/1/18/us-death-waves-2020-2021-places-of-death
The democide did take place, big time, and the data proves it.
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I wrote a post in 9/22* about a UN group called Macrotrends, a market research group that analyzes data from UN. They had an odd way of counting numbers:
Why would that be? Would they not be interested in population and excess death from all sources? Macrotrends, if you look over my work, says there were no excess deaths in 2020 or 2021. To hang on to credibility, they added the note above.
What I gathered, and of course I could be wrong, was that CDC was doing a big fib about Covid deaths – since there were none, they reclassified deaths from the usual sources like flu and pneumonia, diabetes, and heart disease, changing COD to Covid. CDC policy was, I read, that anyone who died within 45 days of testing positive for Covid was called a Covid death.
We did suffer some excess deaths in 2020 from stuffing tubes down people’s throats, effectively murdering them. But I maintain that no one died of Covid, as there was no virus, and that Macrotrends merely took note of reality.
* https://pieceofmindful.com/2022/09/09/the-illusory-pandemic/
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I don’t think anyone is a liar, but I also don’t have any evidence people passed away or developed health problems from Covid or the vaccines in my area. I visited medical facilities filled with old people. Except for a few that passed from old age, verifying with administrators, that all fully jabbed and boosted and are still alive today.
For me I realized this was a financial event, they needed something to distract the public. When the yields went over a certain limit back in 2019 the money makers needed to put the pandemic into play. They knew in advance it was going to happen. Almost everything we watched on the tele and internet was controlled theater. They bought some time, but another event has a high probability of happening as everything upticked way to fast. Most likely military theater this time around. Gotta ramp up more Quantitive Easing, so they can keep kickin that can down the road. Need another event to start it off.
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Also, it’s VAERS, not VARES.
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I haven’t seen any huge obvious ill effect from the vax among people I know, but it’s not a large group. The health issues that do come up, it’s hard to know if they would’ve happened anyway. But then I read an article like NC ran recently, and see all the horror stories in the comments. I don’t think these are bots, many are regular commenters who seem to be real people. Psychosomatic? Maybe, but many took it voluntarily and were big believers in modern medicine. Maybe they just got exposed to anti-vax ideas and it got their subconscious worked up? I agree that’s very real, it’s happened to me – but it’s still hard to think that accounts for many of the issues they describe.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/11/an-honest-discussion-of-covid-vaccine-side-effects-is-overdue.html
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Edit – I mean psychosomatic symptoms in general have happened to me, not vax related specifically.
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I am surprised by Colorado going that heavily for Kamala. I guess they could easily game the small number of votes in the critical counties (in other swing states), if they wanted to. But I lean towards thinking they mostly just game it by scripting the whole staged drama in the run-up to voting. If Trump is too low in the polls, they get Walz to make a fool of himself in some pheasant shooting with a Beretta comedy hi-jinx. Or give Kamala some egg on her face. And give Trump some good PR with the McDonald’s thing, etc. Or have the whole media attack him on some point everyone can see through, at least the non zealots.
I was listening to radio news reports early Wednesday morning the day after, and they mentioned all these false bomb scares that had briefly shut down around 30 polling stations around the country, overnight. I was expecting that to develop into a story, accusations of shenanigans, but it was just a blip so far. Maybe it’ll come up in some twist or turn later, in some lawfare or something.. but it doesn’t seem headed that way currently.
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what if, the Uniparty gave up, hoping it would lead to people becoming passive about improving the election process, thereby leaving the cheating basically intact to be used in future elections? Trump said he owes it to the American people to ensure a free and fair election system. It can be achieved, a guy by the name of Joe Lange on Substack mentioned a country that did just that. If I can find the article I will post it.
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Those who, with superiority and without shame, off-handedly dismiss and gaslight (in support of agencies/pharma/govern ment/cult programming), anyone and everyone irrespective of their suffering/knowing of what was experienced/lived through/witnessed — regarding the mass debilitating/deadly experimentation on the human population FOR GENERATIONS… is of the above mentioned demographic, and truly, experiences a different reality.
Attempting to get this demographic to see/admit anything beyond their nose/program, is impossible, akin to spitting in the wind. So I don’t even try. This post is for those who can see (beyond themselves, beyond the matrix reality trap/program).
I submit a little piece of ghoulish delight, matrix reality programming from the HEART ASSOCIATION – from – NINE YEARS AGO… WHEN NO ONE had yet heard of CHILDREN ROUTINELY SUFFERING HEART ATTACKS.
This little peek into the darkness of a foundational reality is full of truly evil bits of programming. Some would call premonitory – but it isn’t – it is preparatory programming of a new upcoming reality that the ghouls at the HA were banking on.
My granddaughter, a previously very healthy 11 year old, was one of the ‘chosen’ of this new diabolical plan/experiment. And they would, if they could, dance disco around her while pounding her little chest to the beat.
Standard media did everything it could to keep all reporting of child deaths from surprise heart attacks (following the injection) from public view. I saw a lot of what it tried to hide as I was associated with a group attempting to bring this information TO the public view. I watch a child, beloved student and superb track runner, 13 die – dead in his tracks – at the end of a run.
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE – MR./MS. GASLIGHTER – THAT RUNNING HAS ALWAYS HAD INHERENT DANGERS AND COULD CAUSE DEATH? Like that’s a common FACT I missed all these 60+ years of life?
WHY DO YOU THINK IT WAS SO IMPORTANT TO KEEP METICULOUS RECORDS OF THE INJECTIONS DIFFERENT LOT #’s?? HELLO? Anyone out there might be able to guess that one? Or do I have to SPELL it out?
Please excuse me, I love people, I love children, I love truth, it matters to me if someone suffers, lives or dies. I told my family at the beginning of 2020 WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT ACCEPT THE BIOWEAPON. They didn’t listen to me. Did the same for friends. Also sent everyone a detailed compilation of indisputable facts supporting my plea. Most did not listen. And from my little group there were/are life altering consequences. And from what I witnessed, different locations did show different levels of consequence.
People suffering, getting hurt, because they fall for the program/lie, is a sadness for me. Too many cannot see and I am unable to manage being in the thick of that battle and come out unscathed, so I changed my life to make the reality I experience more doable.
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