Well he won’t be AG obviously, but going by Biden’s history, there will be no retribution, no charges, no jail time.
That they took it upon themselves without notifying anyone else at all is a big clue.
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None with Sinclair, but 2 in a Nexstar duopoly - one of the big 3 local station mid market owners using political influence. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/12/company-that-owns-your-local-news-might-also-influence-federal-politics/ Note that Wilkes Barre is NEXT DOOR to a certain Scranton, PA. Who might want to plant this story near Scranton? https://www.stationindex.com/tv/markets/wilkes+barre-scranton
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How deliciously ironic.
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The false flag option. We are 5+ weeks in front of voting day. Somehow there are 9 military mail votes into a rethug county before the Penn court throws the Greens (?) off the ballot? I’m siting on my deck now. Somewhere in the olfactory radius a skunk has popped a bubble. Waddaya think?
ETA. Will will we find out the contractor was a business student at PSU? Not a Chance. It will remain mistery .
a temporary seasonal contractor had “incorrectly discarded” the Uniformed Military and Overseas Voters Act (UMOVA) ballots into the trash.
Ha, contractor my butt! This was obviously an employee of the Official and Very Real (Not Fake) Worldwide Antifa Corporation, Inc. And there’s no doubt he was acting on direct orders from Antifa Worldwide’s CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board, George Soros.
Hell, for all we know, it was Soros himself who flushed these ballots (tens of thousands!) from President Trump’s military men. After all, sometimes Soros gets bored with just directing his employees to do sick burns on MAGA and decides to get in on the action himself.
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Just got a notice from the state department of state that the ballots are ready to go out. Should have it within two weeks. Glad to enlighten when it comes. I’m listed to get mail ballots for the duration of the covid fun.
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Reminds me of when I worked in a restaurant long ago.
It was an old building, high ceiling, loose windows, cold in the winter. The batch cook arrived early in the morning, before everyone else, and had developed the habit of turning one of the stove’s gas burners on “high” to warm the place up a little bit. One day, one of the owners came in early, saw this, and told the cook not to do it.
A few days later, the owner again came in early and noticed that the kitchen scale’s plastic face plate was missing. (The scale sat on the stove.) The cook didn’t know why it was missing, didn’t know where it was. The owner went through the trash. At the bottom of the trash, inside a empty heavy-duty bean bag, he found a melted plastic face plate.
Except those ballots were thrown out in accordance with a court ruling that the Republicans fought for.
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emphasis mine:
Philadelphia’s top elections official is warning of electoral chaos in the presidential battleground state if lawmakers there do not remove a provision in Pennsylvania law that, under a days-old court decision, requires counties to throw out mail-in ballots returned without secrecy envelopes.
OH SNAP
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ETA: @hollisbang already went there, post no. 55
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“Hooray for the private sector!”
Continuously they hector.
“They’re better,” they say,
“And require less pay.”
“Beep, beep” goes the lie detector.
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Not to forget, the ballots were not opened. The republican us attorney disclosed the ballot content which to me indicates the rethuglican us attorney opened them and accurately communicated the votes or lied, thinking this a good opportunity to get some gold stars from his bosses.
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They can forklift Trumpvote stacked pallets,
They can throw away all naked ballots,
In spite of all they have boasted,
Their pork is well roasted,
And should be served with sour grapes and chopped shallots.
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But, but, if the ballots were “naked”, they can be tossed, right? If the ballots were in their privacy sleeves, then how would anyone know who the ballots were for? The other two apparently were in the privacy envelope, and the reporting indicates that nobody knows who those ballots were for.
Ah, but there is a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor, Grey’s Law:
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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Then there is incompetence AND intentional malice.
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From a propaganda POV it’s being used just like the Reichstag Fire was. To arouse irrational fears in whomever might listen and buy in, which is plenty in MAGA country…
That it’s being used so conveniently in this way says to me it was planned. The grossly misleading “press releases” where we first heard about it really screams that for me. Not just an opportunity, a created one… it stinks of Roger Stone-styled ‘dirty trickery’.
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According to the press release they had been discarded “in the office trash”. That most likely means either they were sitting in a wastebasket and seen by someone walking by or sitting nearby. When they were discovered, the civil servant who saw them immediately notified her supervisor and the contract employee was sent home (to never return) and an internal investigation began.
A coworker or supervisor in a government office who handles sensitive materials would be alert to seasonal, temporary staff and take notice of them not handling documents properly. It doesn’t require dumpster diving to walk by a trash can in an elections office mailroom and see unopened ballots had been tossed there.
Part of the response to the incident was to place all garbage from the building, for the three days in which the contractor was on site, in a dumpster, which was secured by County staff. Then every bag of trash in the dumpster was searched by the FBI, the county D.A.'s office, the state police, and county staff.
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Biden has stated that he would be hands off with respect to his AG. If the AG goes after disBarr and BLOTUS IMPOTUS, Biden would have to go back on his word to interfere. Many, many laws have been broken. The real question is who will he nominate for AG? I think Schiff would be good, and we all know his position on the ongoing corruption.
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The ballots were not found in the dumpster. They were found in the trash. Just to be clear on this point.
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