This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.
Most Americans assume that our system of government could never fail, but the truth is that it is failing right in front of our eyes. In order for our system of government to work, people need to be able to believe that their votes will count and that the outcomes of our elections will be fair.
For over 200 years, most Americans did have faith in the system, but now things are rapidly changing. Here in 2020, we appear to be heading for a hotly contested result in the presidential election, and many on the losing side are inevitably going to believe that the election was stolen from them. And day after day we just continue to see more examples that indicate the security of our elections is being compromised on a widespread basis. Not too long ago, I wrote about the military ballots for Trump that had been discarded in a dumpster in Pennsylvania and the ballots that were discovered in a ditch in Wisconsin. And now today I came across a report about how memory sticks that are “used to program Philadelphia’s voting machines” were stolen from a warehouse…
A laptop and several memory sticks used to program Philadelphia’s voting machines were stolen from a city warehouse in East Falls, officials confirmed Wednesday, setting off a scramble to investigate and to ensure the machines had not been compromised.
Though it remains unclear when the equipment was stolen, sources briefed on the investigation said the items vanished this week. The laptop belonged to an on-site employee for the company that supplies the machines. It and the USB drives were the only items believed to have been taken.
We will want to watch the results coming out of Philadelphia very carefully because the winner of Pennsylvania is probably going to win the presidency.
In 2012, 100 percent of the vote went to Barack Obama in precinct after precinct in Philly, and it will be very interesting to see if a similar pattern emerges during this election.
Elsewhere, James O’Keefe has just exposed an absolutely shocking “cash-for-ballots harvesting scheme” in Minnesota. Apparently, people were being paid lots of money to collect absentee ballots from elderly individuals and fill them out for preferred Democratic candidates. The following comes from a Newsweek report…
“Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman,” Mohamed says in the video. “I have 300 ballots in my car right now.”
“Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car is full. All these here are absentee ballots. Look, all these are for Jamal Osman.”
Mohamed can be seen showing white envelopes on his car’s dashboard in a video from July 1. Later in the Project Veritas video Mohamed says, “Money is the king in this world… and a campaign is driven by money.”
How can an election be legitimate when there is this sort of vote-buying going on?
And now with tens of millions of ballots going through the mail in 2020, it is going to be easier to “harvest” ballots than ever before
I just have such a bad feeling about what is going to happen in November.
For weeks, the mainstream media has been trying to convince us that President Trump will probably have a lead on election night but that Joe Biden will win once all of the mail-in ballots are finally counted.
Of course, it could take a really long time for all of those ballots to be counted, and meanwhile, all sorts of monkey business could be happening in the background that we don’t know anything about.
In the end, one side is going to end up bitterly disappointed and will feel like the election has been stolen. If Trump wins many Biden supporters will believe it was because all of the votes were not fairly counted and if Biden wins many Trump supporters will believe that there was widespread fraud involving mail-in ballots.
We could very easily end up with a scenario where both candidates are declaring victory, and that could set up a very ugly constitutional crisis. In one of his recent articles, James Howard Kunstler detailed one way that this could all play out…
I do believe that Trump will have a lead on election night.
In fact, it could be a very big lead.
Trump has been trashing voting by mail for months, and this is going to encourage most of his supporters to vote in person. In fact, during the first presidential debate, Trump once again talked about potential problems with mail-in votes…
In the final segment of the contentious debate between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, Trump launched into an extended argument against mail voting, claiming without evidence that it is ripe for fraud and suggesting mail ballots may be “manipulated.”
“This is going to be a fraud like you’ve never seen,” the president said of the massive shift to mail voting prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.
And the Republican National Committee has also been making disparaging statements about voting by mail…
‘We always expected to be behind at this point as Democrats have made it their mission to push for an all-mail election that brings fraud and chaos into the system,’ said Republican National Committee spokesman Mike Reed. ‘You’ll see Democrats predominantly vote by mail, and our voters will come out in droves to vote in person, especially on Election Day.’
Those that follow my work on a regular basis already know how I feel about voting by mail. I believe that Americans should be required to vote in person whenever possible because voting by mail just opens up so many opportunities for things to go wrong.
And many on the left are starting to realize this too. For example, the following comes from a recent article by Derek Thompson…
Mail votes require several steps, and different steps in different locations, including postmarking the ballots, signing in various places, and using the proper number of envelopes. For that reason, it can confuse first-time voters, and even experienced voters used to queuing at local high schools. Two studies of the 2018 midterm elections in Florida and Georgia found that young and minority voters are especially likely to have their mail ballots rejected.
For most of 2020, Democrats have been relentlessly promoting voting by mail, but now they are beginning to understand that could result in hundreds of thousands of their votes being thrown out. In fact, it is being reported that more than half a million votes were “disqualified” during the 2020 primaries…
In the 2020 primaries, more than 550,000 mail and absentee ballots were disqualified, a much higher number than four years ago. The problem is especially severe in some swing states. More than 23,000 mailed ballots were rejected in the presidential primaries in Wisconsin—more than Donald Trump’s margin of victory in that state in 2016. Deep-blue districts have had the same problem: New York City alone threw out more than 84,000 ballots this primary season.
In the end, Democrats could be sabotaging their own efforts by pushing mail-in voting so much. If Democrats vote by mail in much higher numbers than Republicans, they will also likely have their votes disqualified in much higher numbers too.
Right now, Democrats are requesting mail ballots at a much higher rate than Republicans are in quite a few key swing states…
Of the more than 9 million voters who requested mail ballots as of Monday in five critical states where the data is available – Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maine and Iowa – 52 percent were Democrats, 28 percent were Republicans, and 20 percent were unaffiliated.
Additional internal Democratic and Republican Party data obtained by The Washington Post shows a similar trend in Ohio, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, the paper reported.
Many Republican operatives are deeply concerned about these numbers, but perhaps they shouldn’t be.
If Republicans show up in person at the polls in tremendous numbers, that could give Trump an enormous lead on election night.
Of course, Joe Biden will definitely not concede no matter how large the lead looks, and that will set the stage for weeks of legal wrangling over the counting of votes in multiple states.
Ultimately, we will probably have to wait a long time to see if the Democrats can come up with enough “mail-in ballots” to overcome Trump’s lead.
But this process is not going to be good for our nation no matter who ends up winning.
In fact, it is likely that millions of Americans will be so turned off by what happens that they will lose faith in the system permanently.
And once faith in our system is gone, it will be nearly impossible to get back.
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Beginning Of The End? You mean Bankruptcy?
@JimmyCrackCorn
JimmyCrackCorn,
The Germans get pretty pissed when someone tries to remove them from power! Seriously, throughout history the Germans as well as other Europeans, Asians, Indo Europeans, and Central and South Americans, as well as Africans have all practiced acts of domination throughout history. Apparently you have an extremely limited understanding of history. BTW, it was Alan Aldrich and Nelson Rockefeller that created the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve Act was passed by congress and the President, and the Morgans, Rockefellers, and Mellons were the largest beneficiaries at that time. So, it is not as if the Germans object to Tyrany, the Germans just seem to object to the fact that they are not the Tyrants. See King Charles I and King Charles V. Had to take over the The Germans had Catholic church as well! No wonder the Brits, Swedes, and Russians left it ! Oh, and then the Germans that controlled the Catholic church sent the Spaniards to enslave people all over the world in the Spanish Inquisition! And BTW, who is it that is controlling the EU? Germany again! Trying to prevent Brexit. The Germans have really serious control issues. Since I happen to live in the state with the highest German population, McCarthy Dahmerville, I can state that this is true. The problem is that compete strangers and aquaintances feel entitled to try to dictate through brute force tactics which also include illegal crimes and rights and property violations how others live. You can thank Wisconsin for the Patriot Act, sponsored by James Sensenbrenner! And You can thank Wisconsin for the Department of Homeland Security, created by Tommy Thompson! RNC former chair, Renice Preibus, another person from Wisconsin! And you can thank Wisconsin for Eugenics, and the John Birch Society, and the Sewer Socialists with Mayor Meyer, and The American Nazi Party, with Arthur Jones! Deceased Israeli PM Golda Meier, she is from Wisconsin too! It just keeps happening! Really FUBAR cultue! The German Jews are no different from the German Nazis in many cases. They are pretty much the same, except that they hate each other! It’s the damned Germans! Religion is irrelevent! They are control freaks!
However, I do wish the usury would stop, regardless of religion, race or ethnicity.
Andrea Iravani
Couldn’t post on Unz because of hacker.
This has been a long time coming. The unprecedented cheating and fraud of the left along with the stupid, spinelessness of the right make this a lose-lose situation. If the R’s manage to win despite all the fraud and rigging of the system, the D’s riot and start kinetic aciton in the homeland. If the D’s manage to steal the election, . . . what? The R’s should act like the D’s have for the past 4 years which will bring down the wrath of the D police state, which should lead to defensive kinetic action from the R’s.
There will be violence regardless of who wins. The dems would love it and try to bring in the UN to deal with it. How has that worked around the planet?
“WILL THE 2020 ELECTION BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT?”
Actually, the beginning of the end was when an America hating, non-citizen Muslim was NOT VETTED and allowed to run for office and be elected to the office of president. That was the seed that has since sprouted and grown into our current demise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=XOGWbzUM-y8&feature=emb_logo
“But this process is not going to be good for our nation no matter who ends up winning.
In fact, it is likely that millions of Americans will be so turned off by what happens that they will lose faith in the system permanently.”
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
― attributed to Lincoln and Cicero
Ever since kindergarten, and, probably, since the church nursery, I have seen incompetent authority showing just enough sympathy for the devil to prolong the argument, indefinitely.
I feel that politics is most likely a means to waste the monies and criminal energies of ambitious nobodies.
Triangulation may manifest itself as a manipulative device to engineer rivalry between two people, known as divide and conquer or playing one (person) against another:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_(psychology)
“Facilitators” (from out of the blue) steer group discussion toward predetermined outcomes. The Delphi Technique is analogous to delegates in representative govt:
http://www.iror.org/delphied.asp
Glen Beck has a great presenttion on the DEMONRATS’ end plan. This looks like the “election” plan by the left to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MqzRNatyOg
In my arrogant opinion, the Fed and the banking cartel (the powers that be) will not allow a harris/biden administration as this will destroy the paper-backed financial markets and banking sector. Therefore, DJT will be re-selected as POTUS. If voting really did matter it would not be allowed (Twain). It does not matter who votes but who counts the votes (Stalin).
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. –Joseph Stalin
No, the end began in 1913.
this used to be such a great site.
Real time chat , good folks to talk to.
What the hell happened?? Adds , censorship.
I used to post here everyday.
Above
2008-2016
I recently was lectured about voting for evil. A stranger from Neb and I got to talking about the election and when he found out why I had voted for Trump, he then lectured me on the dangers of voting for the lessor of two evils ( his words, not mine ), evil is still evil, so he said that he does not vote anymore for any reason.
If the “D’s” win this election, they will complete the leftist-communist transformation of this CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC to a Demonrat hellhole. The “norms” and traditions of our govt. will change to a manipulated (extra states & extra D senators) congress, a “packed” (more D justices) Supreme Court, and perpetual Demonrat governance.
Folks that do NOT want the type of governance on display in our major cities (Demonrat-run), should vote for someone else. The Demonrat-run MAD MAX scenario will not be fun for most folks.
The beginning of the end began back in 1861. Think about it.
Asnswer: No. Our system has been socialism under the banner of democracy since the US started handing out money to people, foreign governments and corporations.
The pretend freedom comes from their allowing elections where the people vote for the greater socialist who promises even more handouts, stolen from the working earners.
The solution is to deport all haters of America, end all handouts to everything and everyone, end all personal taxation and fees, put all people that can’t earn a wage along with any form of antisocial behavior including anyone that does drugs, anyone with a felony, put them all behind maximum security for life. The only way to a perfect society is to eliminate the garbage.
But, I don’t want a welfare or socialist state.
I just want another Big Donnie stimulus check, more Big Donnie bank bailouts, more Big Donnie unemployment bonuses, more Big Donnie farmer bailouts, more Big Donnie DoD handouts, more Big Donnie executive orders concerning the ACA (just so he can claim it as his own), more Big Donnie billions to the pharmaceutical companies for covid vaxes….and on and on.
Saaaaaay…seems like he is a big socialist after all.
Giant Meteor 2020
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don’t you geniuses know what you’re supporting and voting on?
get ready for the ride of your lives!
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