He may retain the security clearance to read and know the contents of them, but he doesn't have unlimited authorization to own them and take them with him. They are government docs - DoD and military plans, etc. - Trump or any other president can't just cart around printouts of them as they wish. That would be a security disaster.
This video is kind of a mess... The guy is really not explaining anything well enough to understand what's going on at all.
First of all, he says they counted the ballots by hand, then ran them through the machine and got a lower number, so there are missing ballots? If the machine spits out lower number, we need to know a lower number of what? Is the machine detecting fewer pieces of paper, or are there ballots with undervotes (not selecting a candidate for a race) so that vote totals don't match number of ballots? Without knowing what we're comparing it's hard to draw any real conclusion.
Second, the bit about them looking for ballots doesn't make any sense. If they got a lower number from the machine count all the ballots should still be physically present. But then he goes on about how they're missing. Like does he think the machine shredded them? Or they got packed up and mailed to the other town? What? The man said he was physically there watching them do this hand count and machine check so that whole bit of the story seems shady.
If you put a stack of 300 ballots in a tabulator and get a result of 200, that would trigger some kind of checking process. If it's a simple matter of the machine giving us a wrong count, you would know that because the stack is still 300. This sounds more like some kind of human error - a miscount, or mixing up a stack of ballots or something.
Third, the guy is really imprecise with terminology. He starts by saying they did the count of 'votes' then switches to missing 'ballots'. Those are different things! Then he says they find the missing ballots, they 'showed up' in some other township, but when he relays what that township told him he only mentions that their reported results from poll books and counting matched. It's all too vague and imprecise to make me feel like he has any idea what he's talking about.
It honestly sounds a lot like some weird human error/mix up that this guy saw, misunderstood, and then completely botched the storytelling on, but it's impossible to tell. A 4-minute news hit from someone who watched something they didn't understand is just not enough to go on here. If this was an actual thing, can't the reporter call the actual town officials and get the count report to see what discrepancy was?
This isn't coming from anyone with actual power though. It's just the party organization for the county, not any actual county officials. Hence, essentially it's meaningless signaling.
Is this the big 'in two days' announcement we were promised last week? A podcast?
Cool.
No, I haven't seen this document yet, but I do think you're drawing some wildly speculative conclusions.
A memorandum of understanding is essentially just a statement that two parties agree on something. It's not legally binding, and it's certainly not going to impact US sovereignty.
You're quoting a press release, not the actual document. It's a vague sentence because it's a talking point. It holds no legal sway or authority, the actual document is needed for any type of conclusion you want to draw.
Like the other poster said, this is most likely a lot of flowery language saying 'we have some shared roots and still genuinely like each other and want to remember our history, let's keep doing that'. It'll lead to some cute sister city ceremonies and trading of some plaques and flags in some parks. Some cross-promotion to boost tourism back and forth and get some extra dollars flowing. That sort of thing, and that's pretty much it.
You're right, and that's what the canvassing process is there for, and it would catch something like this being used.
In the specific case of Detroit (Wayne County), there was a discrepancy of 433 votes spread out over 179 precincts. That is MUCH more likely explained by sporadic cases of people not signing in correctly, joining the wrong line, entry errors, etc. It's not feasible that this kind of tech vulnerability could be used on that many separate machines in such small numbers to have some kind of real effect.
I get what you're saying but there are other fail-safes built into elections. Each polling place compares the number of people who show up to the number of ballots they collect. Districts and states as a whole do this too - there is a record of every registered voter who showed up to a polling place, or sent in an absentee or mail ballot. That number of voters is a known quantity.
If there were an 'arbitrary number' of ballots just printed out and added to the stack, there would be a mismatch between the number of ballots they have to count and the number of people who were recorded as voting. That would be noticed and looked into.
So yes it's a vulnerability when viewed in a vacuum but elections aren't run in a vacuum.
The report describes vulnerabilities only in a specific version of some ballot-marking devices & software. Few districts even use these kind of ballot-marking devices, and nearly all that do produce a paper ballot for the voter to review before turning it in. These devices have nothing to do with counting/tabulating votes; those are different machines.
All of the vulnerabilities described would have required someone to have physical access to each machine they wanted to affect.
Later on in the mitigations section it says that all the vulnerabilities laid out have been fixed in further updated software/firmware versions that have already been released.
So it's a report about a small-scale problem that has already been fixed that has nothing to do with vote counting infrastructure.
While the statement Major patriot made might be true in a technical sense, using this report as proof of any of the 2020 vote count manipulation theories is a stretch at the least. I would argue it reaches "fake post" territory because the intention is clearly to have people think the government just admitted all of Dominion is insecure, when in reality this is a run-of-the-mill minor bug report.
The full report would be the best place to start. This looks like a screenshot of part of one table in it.
You need to be more careful when reading things like this, all your numbers and percents are wrong. First off, the top of the image says it's an analysis of post-authorization adverse event reports. So this is only breaking down the specifics of cases that were reported as 'adverse events', which can mean any number of things from light to serious. It specifically is ONLY looking at cases where someone reported that something went wrong, NOT the entire number of people jabbed.
Second, the top of the table itself says (N=42086). That means there were 42,086 adverse cases reported total, among everyone in the reporting period who got the shot. Out of that 42k, only 274 cases involved 270 pregnant women. This doesn't mean that only 270 pregnant women got the shot. It means that out of the much larger number of pregnant women that got the shot, 270 of them had 'adverse events' reported. And then out of those 270, a certain number were serious and some were not or not specified what even happened.
The image posted here doesn't give enough info to know the correct denominator, but it's not 75/270. Far more than 270 pregnant people took the vaccine. It's 75/some big number, which makes the % much smaller than you're saying.
Sadly, these kind of things (spontaneous abortion, stillbirth) happen A LOT MORE THAN YOU THINK even in completely normal pregnancies, so when you're tracking hundreds of thousands to millions of shots being given over a period of months, you are bound to overlap with some of those cases.
Either way posting a topic heading wailing 30% is one of two things: 1) lying to make things look worse than they are, which is bad and gives fodder for attacks, or 2) not understanding what you're reading and blowing things out of proportion, which makes us all look silly.
I've both been through and taught in US public middle schools. This kind of theme week happens all the time for all kinds of reasons. Homecoming week, Olympics week, Japan week, Constitution week, Black history week, random local/state history events, it goes on. It's all just goofy optional stuff kids can do for fun. It's not like the math teacher is 'training' them during math class. They just picked some easy random 'themed' stuff and based on the tweet they let kids pick whether or not to participate in various things during their free period.
I mean has no one here BEEN to school themselves? Did your teachers sit there and brainwash you or 'train you in group think?'
That's not a daily schedule though? It's titled "pride week SEL FIT sessions" and it lists a bunch of teachers and their rooms and what's happening in each.
SEL is a pretty common acronym in education that refers to Social & Emotional Learning. A quick search indicates that FIT in Austin schools means Flexible Instructional Time, so if kids don't want to do nail painting they can simply go to a different room and study or play games or whatever.
What makes you think that anything in that post is making children feel uncomfortable or that they have to do it? Every indication is that these are voluntary activities, no one is forcing kids into it.
Did you... read the article? These are ballots people requested and either never sent in or sent in too late. It's not like the election administrators just decided not to count some set of 200k votes. There's just that many people who requested a ballot and then literally didn't vote (or tried to vote but were too late). There is nothing to count there no matter what the margin was.
This headline is a grift.
Special counsels are never appointed by Congress though? If Smith isn't real then neither were Mueller, Durham, Hur, Weiss, etc.