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'Arizona Senate Committee Passes SEVEN Election Integrity Bills – Including Ballot Fraud Countermeasures, Ballot Images Will Be Public Records:
Published January 26, 2022
Seven critical election integrity bills were passed by Republicans on the Arizona Senate Government Committee Monday.
The Arizona audit discovered evidence of over 700,000 ballot discrepancies and law violations that occurred during the 2020 Presidential Election, and the Arizona Legislature is working to secure elections in 2022 and beyond. Many in the legislature look to recall the fraudulent 2020 Presidential and Vice Presidential Electors this session.
The audit is still ongoing, but The Arizona Senate delivered election-changing evidence of fraud to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich four months ago. Arizona anxiously awaits the results of his criminal investigation.
The Gateway Pundit reported on the call to action days before the Government Committee considered twelve bills, eight of which passed and will now move to the Senate floor after additional hearings.
The brand new election security measures received loud rounds of applause. Attendees of the meeting were asked to do “jazz hands” instead of clapping to keep order in the meeting room.
Trump-endorsed Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake was also there to speak on a bill.
On Monday, The Senate Government Committee voted yes on SB1008, SB1009, SB1012, SB1013, SB1054, SB1119, SB1120, SB1133.
Seven bills passed concentrated on elections. The remaining bills were rescheduled for the committee due to time.
The newly passed legislation covers recount margins, adds currency grade fraud measures to ballots, makes ballot images public records, prevents elections by mail, and fights illegal voters using the “federal only” loophole.
Republicans on this committee outnumbered Democrats 4:3, and every bill passed on party lines. Democrats did not vote for a single election integrity measure.
If passed in full, SB1119 and SB1120 will make ballot images available to voters and require ballots to be printed with ballot fraud countermeasures. These bills are designed to make elections fully transparent with an auditable trail of secure ballots.
The Gateway Pundit reported on these election integrity measures unveiled by Arizona State Representative and Trump-endorsed candidate for Secretary of State Mark Finchem.
Arizona Senate Majority Whip Sonny Borrelli introduced these bills in the Senate.
Ballots do not contain voters’ personal information, and they will remain anonymous but publicly available for the 22-month record retention period under SB1119. “We vote in private, but we count in public, and your ballot is a public record, and it should be made that transparent,” said Arizona State Senator Sonny Borrelli.
Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake also commented on this bill, saying,
Lake: I’m going to be on the ballot, and I’m worried about what happened to President Trump happening to me and others, Democrat and Republican. And I urge you to support this bill and any other bill that would shore up our elections.
SB11120 will require counties to use standardized ballots with 19 different security features, including a holographic design and watermarks. The new ballots will also have QR codes that enable voters to track their votes using a smartphone.
The bill will standardize the ballots and make it easier to audit the vote.
The Arizona Senate-led audit of Maricopa County discovered that the County used ten different paper types in the 2020 election. Ballots should be standardized in a way that cannot be replicated.
The estimated cost is a mere 25 cents per ballot.
Democrats voted no on these bills citing bandwidth and price concerns.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/breaking-arizona-senate-committee-passes-seven-election-integrity-bills-including-ballot-fraud-countermeasures-ballot-images-will-public-records/
Blasts of flashing radio waves coming from mysterious nearby object in space
26-Jan-2022
"That was completely unexpected," says one scientist. ‘It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that
Scientists have spotted a “mysterious” object letting out giant blasts of energy, three times an hour.
Whatever the object is – which is relatively nearby, at 4,000 lightyears away – it is nothing like astronomers have ever seen before.
“This object was appearing and disappearing over a few hours during our observations,” said Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, who led the research
“That was completely unexpected. It was kind of spooky for an astronomer because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that.
“And it’s really quite close to us—about 4000 lightyears away. It’s in our galactic backyard.”
The object could be a neutron star or a white dwarf, astronomers speculate, that has an incredibly powerful magnetic field.
It is spinning around quickly in space so that the beam of radiation flashes towards us three times every hour. For one minute out of every twenty, it becomes one the brightest radio sources in the whole sky.
A student at Curtin University, named Tyrone O’Doherty, was the first to spot the object using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in outback Western Australia. Since it was found, it has turned out to perplex the astronomers who have studied it.
“It’s exciting that the source I identified last year has turned out to be such a peculiar object,” said Mr O’Doherty, who is now studying for a PhD at Curtin.
“The MWA’s wide field of view and extreme sensitivity are perfect for surveying the entire sky and detecting the unexpected.”
There are a wide array of different objects in space that turn off and on, which are given the name “transients”. Usually, they come from the death of a massive star or the flickering remnants that are left behind when that happens.
They can go fast – like a neutron star, called a pulsar, which can flash on and off in miliseconds – or they can go slowly, happening over a few days, as in the course of supernovae.
But something in the middle, like the new object, is very unusual.
There are yet more mysteries about the object. It is incredibly bright, but smaller than the sun, and shoots out highly-polarised radio waves. That would indicate that it has a very strong magnetic field.
Taken together, those characteristics seem to match an object known as an ultra-long period magnetar. But such an object has never actually been seen before – and it came as a surprise.
“It’s a type of slowly spinning neutron star that has been predicted to exist theoretically,” said Dr Hurley-Walker.
“But nobody expected to directly detect one like this because we didn’t expect them to be so bright.
“Somehow it’s converting magnetic energy to radio waves much more effectively than anything we’ve seen before.”
Scientists are now watching the the area intently in the hope that it will switch back on. If it does, they will be able to point telescopes towards it in the hope of learning more.
They will also look through the archives of observations from the MWA to see whether there are other examples of such objects that have been missed in the past. “More detections will tell astronomers whether this was a rare one-off event or a vast new population we’d never noticed before,” said Dr Hurley-Walker.
A paper describing the research, ‘A radio transient with unusually slow periodic emission’, is published today in Nature.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/radio-waves-flashing-sky-space-b2001161.html