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Good morning, I’m still reporting on politics.
Welcome to the Utah Primary-slash-Caucus – the land of Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck.
I’ve always followed elections closely. So my wife went to bed and I stuck it out waiting for the Utah returns. But since midnight, I had noticed that Utah numbers had been stuck on only 2% of the precincts reported.
Though I wasn’t contemplating doing a report on this, I decided to do some reading while I waited up.
In Tuesday’s election in Utah, registered Republicans had two voting options: stand in lines to participate in the state caucus, or for the first time, vote online. The Utah Caucus/Primary was billed as the nation’s largest online election ever.
The day before the election, the online version of Wired magazine had even done one of their typical stories on it. They reported that as of Monday morning, 59,000 had chosen online voting.
The title of Wired’s story was disturbing: “Utah’s Online Caucus Gives Security Experts Heart Attacks”.
The story opens up this way:
“Security researchers pretty much uniformly agree that letting people vote online is a very bad idea, one that is fraught with risks and vulnerabilities that could have unknowable consequences for the future of democracy.”
“This week, the Utah GOP is going to give it a whirl anyway.”
But right out of the box I noticed a slight problem.
Who paid for the experiment? The Utah GOP paid more than 80,000 to purchase the equipment – not state election officials.
It seems that the internet voting system came from Smartmatic Group, which is based in England. The Chairman of Smartmatic is Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, who is also on the board of George Soros’ Open Society and is a personal friend of Soros. Brown has served as a former #2 in the United Nations, currently sits in the House of Lords, and has served as vice-chairman of Soros’ Investment Funds.
This would be the same Soros group, who, along with the Hillary Clinton campaign is suspected of funding something else – hundreds of paid thugs – known in polite circles as demonstrators – paid to follow the Trump Train across the nation to disrupt and destroy – if possible – the gigantic Trump rallies.
So that’s strike one against the Utah GOP’s online voting effort.
Strike two is that President Obama is a big fan of online voting. In 2014, he created a commission to generate a report about how best to ensure online voter integrity.
Ok, so right off the bat, that’s two strikes against Utah GOP’s electronic vote initiative.
And here’s strike three.
This popped up on the Free Republic site at 01:43, right in the middle of my reading-up on the topic of Utah voter fraud.
A voter identified as M. Thatcher wrote that he had chosen to go stand in line and participate in the Caucus.
He was able to enter the caucus room with:
“No checking credentials, IDs, NOTHING.”
The Presidential ballots were then passed out on the take-one-and-pass-it-down system.
Thatcher was sitting on the end of his row and so ended up with extras.
“I literally had over 50 ballots in my hand.”
He photographed some of them.
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“We were told to mark our vote and place our ballot in a tin can. They then asked for a volunteer to hold the can. At this point, most people filed out the door.”
“I cast ONE vote, then stuck around to see what would happen with the votes.”
Thatcher then asked if he could watch the vote count. He was told “No”.
So he left the room and wandered over to check his friend’s precinct caucus to see if it was as disorganized. As he walked into the room, he was handed another ballot.
“Again, no credential check, no ID check, NOTHING.”
Thatcher declined to vote again, and went back to his precinct caucus to see what the results were:
“74% Cruz, 14% Trump, 11% Kasich.”
As he left the building, Thatcher overheard results coming back from other precincts.
“Overwhelmingly numbers for Cruz... Like 70-90% or more.”
“Bottom line... They basically are going to post whatever the hell numbers they want.”
“There were no apparent controls, no credential checks, no ID checks, and ballots being handed around like napkins.”
“UTAH RESULTS ARE A COMPLETE SHAM.”
So, I had started my research about 1 am EST. At that time only 2% of the vote had been posted. Now, it is 04:18 am, and the latest Utah vote tally as displayed on the Fox ticker is: Cruz 68.9, Kasich 16.8, Trump 14.2 with 75% of the vote tallied.
I’m Still reporting from Washington. Good day.
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In the past, I have found the fact checking website – Snope s -- a useful source for quickly ferreting out bogus material.
However, I’ve heard they are not completely trustworthy in that they have a strong left bias, but have never had occasion to face it head on – until now.
Over the last 3 weeks, I produced a series of four YouTubes about the possibility of unvettable immigrants being flown into Pennsylvania on UPS so-called Quick-change or Combi jets. Pennsylvania has the largest population of the 6 states that officially approve of such activity.
Nov. 23, 2015 - MM201 – Is UPS Shipping Refugees?
Nov. 28, 2015 - SR 462 – UPS Refugee Update
Nov. 29, 2015 - SR 463 – UPS Refugee Flights Confirmed
Dec. 8, 2015 - SR 470 – UPS Denies Flying in Illegals
How this all started out was a few weeks ago, an anonymous person, coming out of a doctor’s appointment across the road from the UPS Cargo terminal at the Harrisburg airport after dark said he was shocked to see hundreds of people deplaning from a UPS cargo jet and immediately being whisked away by chartered busses.
He jumped in his car and explained what he had seen as he followed two of the busses, using his cell phone to video what he could.
After my second piece appeared on Nov. 28, UPS officially responded in the Comments section of that YouTube:
"UPS operates a cargo airlines. The company has not been involved in any passenger flights into or out of Harrisburg, PA, or any other airport. The claims to the contrary are based on misinformation."
Interestingly, Steve Gaut is actually the Vice-President of UPS Public Relations.
I’ve invited him to link to me on Linked-in so we could discuss this, he hasn’t responded.
The worst part of UPS comment is the part I highlighted “or any other airport.”
It is impossible for me to believe that Steve does not know that UPS actually ran a passenger airline for a number of years using Quick Change cargo planes. In fact, one of the hubs for the UPS Airlines was in Pennsylvania!
Here is a Feb. 20, 2000 story that ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s web version, Philly.com:
“UPS has operated five of its planes as passenger aircraft since 1997 and has based two in Philadelphia since the spring of 1998 for the weekend use of Apple Vacations and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.”
Ok, so at least that part of Steve’s statement is … just not right.
The Combi aircraft concept has been around in the military for decades and the concept is still in use in the airline industry today.
Only 14 months ago, airline executive Satyendra Pandey, of GoAir a low-fare airline based in Mumbai, India wrote an article about Quick Change aircraft for Linked-In:
“The QC configuration has been used in … Europe, [the] United States and Canada where airlines operate a passenger flight configuration during the day and fly the same aircraft as cargo aircraft during the off-traffic hours.”
But here comes the good part.
“Some of the well-known users of such a system are Air Canada, Europe Airpost, and UPS Cargo.”
Source: http://tinyurl.com/gu5pu5m
So it is possible that UPS still flies Combi aircraft to this day.
I explain my reasoning in the other 4 videos, but it’s basically that wascally Obama may be trying to sneak in as many of his buddies as he can in his last year in office, before the doors slam shut.
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So now Snopes has jumped into the middle of this mess with deeply flawed analysis that dubbed the story: False.
Incredibly, the Snopes analyst sweetened the UPS denial quote – to exclude the part that is now a proven falsehood.
This story was researched by Brooke Binkowski. By her own account she is an award-winning journalist who has written for – oh my – NPR, CNN, and CBS.
Binkowski’s sentence introducing the UPS denial is an interesting piece of contradictory prose. Referring to the anonymous video that kicked all this off, she wrote:
“As the video at no time shows people, it is difficult to discern who they are or whether they have actually been loaded onto buses from UPS planes, as the video’s narrator claims.“
Yes, it is difficult to discern who a person is if you can’t see them. And if you can’t see them loaded into busses, how can you be sure they are in the busses?
“However, in a statement, a spokesperson from UPS flatly denied that the passengers were unloaded from their planes.”
Well, if the UPS spokesman “flatly denied” it, then why even bother to investigate further?
But it gets even worse.
“The narrator of the video can be heard saying he had just returned from a doctor's appointment; that means he was not getting off a plane.”
Uhhh, Brooke, your powers of deduction would put Sherlock Holmes to shame.
She presses on with her analysis:
Brooke, he wasn’t on the airplane! He was across the road at the doctors office, looking across the road at the airplane stopped next to the hanger on nothing but bare concrete.
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