The Potpourri

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Crime is the whole reason for the Democratsā€™ desperation. There was no ā€œpolicyā€ the past four years, only crime. The Covid operation was a mass murder. The open border was not something that just happened, like a spell of bad weather. It was a colossal racketeering operation. They worked it hard. ā€œJoe Bidenā€ paid dozens of NGO cut-outs to systematically jam more than ten million sketchy interlopers into the country, and then support them lavishly with cash payments when they got here.

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Yeah, we wouldnā€™t want to train any native Americans (i.e. white Christian males) to have these STEM skillsā€¦better to keep them stupid, weak and controllableā€¦afterall, we donā€™t want another holocaust on our hands.

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I was under the impression that foreign STEM workers were mainly brought in under H1 visas ā€“ essentially a form of under-paid servitude, bound to a specific employer with no legal ability to take a better job with another employer.

Presumably all those big Demoncrat-donating high tech companies want to keep their low cost H1 visa worker bees, not to see them given a better class of visa. I predict trouble in (Leftie) paradise.

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Two birds with one stoneā€¦whatā€™s not to like? :slightly_smiling_face:

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This is a non-partisan issueā€¦maybe Republicans are just better at hiding their involvement and intentions.

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Trump doesnā€™t appear on the first page or screen. RFK Jr appears on the first screen.

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How are the candidates normally arranged? I guess it would be better to randomize the list for each voter to avoid order bias.

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MIT Election Lab on ballot order effects

In 1975, California moved from listing incumbents first on the ballot to listing candidates based on a randomized order. Under this approach, candidates are listed in alphabetical order, but instead of using the traditional alphabet, state officials list candidates according to an alphabet generated by drawing 26 letters in random order (Cal. Elec. Code Ā§ 13112(a) (2003)). Californiaā€™s supreme court outlined the rationale for this change in Gould v. Grubb, holding that ā€œa significant advantage accrues to a candidate by virtue of a top ballot position.ā€ The court cited work by James W. Scott, who studied 10 districts in California without incumbents running and concluded that approximately 5 percent of each candidateā€™s vote share could be attributed to their position on the ballot. The court required statewide elections to adopt a process that gave every candidate an equal chance of appearing first on the ballot.

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Political yard signs - I have come to despise them! One in my neighborhood says ā€œHarris Walz - Of Courseā€ - Typical of the arrogance of the left. Though I never put out either yard signs (or bumper stickers [which are passĆ©] and for fear of being defaced or attacked by the self-righteous/tolerant enlightened ones), Iā€™m recently tempted to put one out:
ā€œMy vote is democratic, provided you approve of my choiceā€. = Our Democracyā„¢
Actually, for many years I have been saying that bumper stickers are emblematic of what they say in that they are shallow and incredibly tenacious.

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I neglected to mention the astounding waste of money on scores of millions of these signs. Also neglected by the lefty virtue signalers is their favorite issue of plastic waste - how many tons of that wind up in those dreaded tiny pieces, everywhere?

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I was just thinking about the profligacy in these signs.

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Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock.com and an early proponent of stolen-election claims in 2020, said he has donated as much as $60 million to election-integrity efforts, including to the America Project, a nonprofit he launched with former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn. That $60 million hasnā€™t been publicly disclosed and isnā€™t included in the $140 million tracked by the Journal.

In the 12 months through March 2020, the Servant Foundation, a Kansas-based nonprofit, directed hundreds of millions of dollars in grants mostly to religious organizations. It gave just $11,000 that year to a then-fledgling organization called the Conservative Partnership Institute, which aimed to support conservatives.

The following year, the Conservative Partnership Institute launched the Election Integrity Network, which it said would serve as a hub for volunteers, elected officials and activist groups focused on ā€œsecuring the legality of every American vote.ā€ The network also recruits and trains poll watchers and workers.

The Servant Foundationā€™s contributions to the institute shot up. It gave $1 million in the year ending March 2022 and $5.4 million the year after. It donated another $700,000 to three other groups that describe themselves as focusing on election integrity and voter fraud.

The Servant Foundation, which is also known as the Signatry and bills itself as a Christian ministry, is funded in part by Green, the billionaire founder of Hobby Lobby. Green also helped fund the ā€œHe Gets Usā€ TV advertising campaign, initially operated by the Servant Foundation, that aims to enhance Jesusā€™ appeal across partisan lines and to younger audiences.

The Election Integrity Networkā€™s efforts were on display in the 2022 midterm elections in Maricopa County, Ariz. In an episode of her online show last year, Mitchell said the groupā€™s poll watchers had ā€œfull coverageā€ of all the countyā€™s election observer slots in that election.

Sixteen days after that election, the group posted on its website a 50-page report about what it said were ā€œtechnology, equipment, management and leadership failures in epic proportions,ā€ which Mitchell said had ā€œrobbed countless voters of their political voices.ā€

Online databases, including one known as EagleAI NETwork, have fueled the effort. EagleAI pulls in data from 29 state voter rolls, county property records, the National Change of Address database and other sources. It highlights names that it says could be improperly registered voters, inviting users to investigate them and flag them to election officials.

The Secretive Billionaire Network Funding ā€˜Stop the Stealā€™ 2.0: GOP donors have given more than $140 million to nearly 50 groups working on election integrity; ā€˜another crusade of oursā€™

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