Lin Wood Files Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief Against Georgia Secretary of State

Last night attorney Lin Wood filed an Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief against the Georgia Secretary of State.

The great Lin Wood filed an emergency motion for Injunctive Relief against the Georgia Secretary of State. Wood tweeted this out this morning:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/lin-wood-files-emergency-motion-injunctive-relief-georgia-secretary-state/In his motion Wood claims that the Secretary of State signed an agreement with the Democrat party, including Hillary’s attorney Marc Elias, but the Secretary had no right to sign the agreement. This ‘right’ lies with the Legislative body.

We wrote about this four days ago:

In today’s filing Woods shares more information on what is going on in Georgia. Wood notes on pages 4 and 5 of his filing that the law is clear in Georgia – the Legislature makes the election laws and has a law in place on how to deal with absentee ballots:

The convoluted new process was confusing and enabled the Democrats to force through thousands of bogus absentee ballots.

The current result is a mess in Georgia.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/lin-wood-files-emergency-motion-injunctive-relief-georgia-secretary-state/

In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight

In tribal areas, Native American nonprofits illegally offered gift cards, electronics, and other 'prizes' in an effort to get out the vote—for Joe Biden.

It should surprise no one that Nevada has problems with election security and voter fraud, especially after the state mailed an absentee ballot to every registered voter this year whether he requested one or not, then received back more than eight times as many mail-in ballots as they did in 2016. That’s part of the reason Republicans in Nevada filed another lawsuit on Tuesday alleging widespread voter fraud and irregularities.

The mass mailing of unsolicited ballots is of course a recipe for fraud, even more so in a state where the voter rolls contain tens of thousands of people who haven’t voted or updated their records in more than a decade. This is how you get dead people voting, as we reported here at The Federalist and as Tucker Carlson noted last week.

But there’s another, less sensational but perhaps more consequential election scandal in Nevada that hasn’t yet made headlines, even though it’s been hiding in plain sight for weeks now. Under the guise of supposedly nonprofit, nonpartisan get-out-the-vote campaigns, Native American voter advocacy groups in Nevada handed out gift cards, electronics, clothing, and other items to voters in tribal areas, in many cases documenting the exchange of ballots for “prizes” on their own Facebook pages, sometimes even while wearing official Joe Biden campaign gear.

Simply put, this is illegal. Offering voters anything of value in exchange for their vote is a violation of federal election law, and in some cases punishable by up to two years in prison and as much as $10,000 in fines. That includes raffles, free food, free T-shirts, and so on.

The GOTV Effort In Nevada Was Blatantly Criminal

Yet the Nevada Native Vote Project’s Facebook page contains post after post of voters receiving something of value in exchange for proof they cast a vote or handed over an absentee ballot. In one post, two men display $25 Visa gift cards they received after dropping off absentee ballots, presumably to someone who works for the Nevada Native Vote Project.

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/18/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/

Dear Fed: Stop Lying That Low Rates Benefit Poor People

Fed Chair Powell was asked yesterday what the Fed can do to help reduce income inequality? Powell’s answer, like the Fed's token answer to just about everything these days, was to keep rates low for longer. His logic was that that low borrowing costs would reduce interest payments, especially for low wage earners, and provide greater disposable income.

But while that sounds good in theory, the reality is the world doesn't work that way at all. As the FT wrote last year, when central banks allow interest rates to approach, or fall below, what is quaintly termed “the zero lower bound” there are clear losers. Banks are presuming that households, obedient to monetary policy theory, will borrow more money at still lower rates. In fact, the reality is that “lower for longer” prevents a robust recovery because it makes economic inequality worse.

This is especially true in the US. Many American households are already living hand-to-mouth, with more debt than they will ever be able to repay. All lower interest rates do is make it harder for those who might be able to save a little to get a healthy return that might provide financial resilience today and a secure retirement in the longer term.

Low interest rates are tough on vulnerable households; negative rates are brutal. The simple mathematics of what happens to a small savings account shows why post-crisis monetary policy has made inequality so much worse.

While we will spare readers the simple math of compounding savings at the historic 5% rate of interest vs the current ZIRP, we will merely jump to the conclusion that "n a world of ultra-low rates, most households have no hope of wealth accumulation, no matter how much they save. Indeed, they are better off being profligate."

There is another reason why low rates crush lower income segment and in fact lead to even greater wealth inequality. As Bloomberg's Vincent Cignarella writes, banks provide less credit, not more, when rates are low. And this could hold back a recovery among low-income families.

The chart below shows total U.S. consumer credit, which remains below pre-pandemic levels. Without fiscal stimulus, this is likely to decline further, as it did into May.

So, as Cignarella concludes "instead of providing relief to low income earners and closing the inequality gap, low rates for a lot longer may actually exacerbate it."

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dear-fed-stop-lying-low-rates-benefit-poor-people

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Trump Claims Over Invalid Ballots

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear claims by President Trump's campaign challenging approximately 8,000 mail-in ballots, which the campaign insists should be disqualified because they were improperly filled out.

According to the claim, the ballots in question bear voter signatures, yet do not contain hand-written names, addresses or dates on the outside of their return envelopes.

The move comes after a lower court in Philadelphia denied the campaign's request on Friday, finding that voters' names and addresses were already pre-printed on the envelopes, while state election law left the definition of 'filling out' a ballot ambiguous, according to Bloomberg.

On Wednesday, the highest court in the state agreed to exercise emergency jurisdiction to rule on whether those ballots should be disqualified - and will not consider any allegations of fraud and irregularity.

Of note, there are two Republicans and five Democrats on the PA Supreme Court.

As Bloomberg notes, however, the Trump campaign has not had a lot of luck with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which ruled before a bid by the campaign to disqualify mail-in ballots which were postmarked before Election Day but received up to three days after. Meanwhile, the court also ruled on Tuesday that Republican poll watchers weren't entitled to stand a specific distance while monitoring ballot-counts for potential fraud.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pennsylvania-supreme-court-agrees-hear-trump-claims-over-invalid-ballots

Georgia Recount Monitor Catches 9,626-Vote Error During Hand Recount

A recount monitor in Georgia discovered a 9,626-vote error in the hand recount in DeKalb County, according to the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.

“One of our monitors discovered a 9,626-vote error in the DeKalb County hand count. One batch was labeled 10,707 for Biden and 13 for Trump—an improbable margin even by DeKalb standards. The actual count for the batch was 1,081 for Biden and 13 for Trump,” David Shafer wrote on Twitter on Nov. 18.

“Had this counting error not been discovered, Biden would have gained enough votes from this one batch alone to cancel out Trump’s gains from Fayette, Floyd, and Walton,” Shafer added, referring to the three Peach State counties which discovered memory cards with uncounted votes on Monday and Tuesday.

Shafer said that two official counters signed off on the miscounted batch. GOP attorneys turned over an affidavit (pdf) on the incident to the Georgia secretary of state and requested an investigation.

“We were limited to one monitor for every 10 counting tables and we were kept some distance from the tables. There is no telling what we missed under these unreasonable restrictions,” Shafer said.

[ZH: more on this]

3rd monitor, a Democrat: "Hundreds of these ballots seemed impeccable, with no folds or creases. The bubble selections were perfectly made … only observed selections in black ink, and all

happened to be selections for Biden."

Source: https://t.co/YpkvsPeKLE pic.twitter.com/uOkXmchhjC

— Ivan Pentchoukov (@IvanPentchoukov) November 18, 2020

Biden’s margin of victory in this batch of votes (99.9%) bested Bashar al-Assad’s 2007 margin (97.6%) and Raul Castro’s 2008 margin (99.4%). It matched Kim Jong-il’s 2009 margin (99.9%).

— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) November 18, 2020

FLOYD COUNTY, GEORGIA! pic.twitter.com/mIZ5rmdkvw

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020

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Fayette, Floyd, and Walton counties discovered uncounted votes on Monday and Tuesday with each batch favoring President Donald Trump. The discovered votes cut former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead in the state by more than 1,400 votes.

Georgia’s deadline to complete the recount is at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. The state is scheduled to vote on whether to certify the results of the 2020 election on Friday.

The recount in progress was initiated by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger based on a new law that calls for an audit of one race after each election. The Trump campaign has challenged the recount process, asserting that it is meaningless unless it includes an audit of the voters’ signatures.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/georgia-recount-monitor-catches-9626-vote-error-during-hand-recount

Dems attacking QR on Newsmax

This Member of 'The Squad' Just Praised Communism As Their Ranks Grow In House

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., a progressive legislator a part of the “Squad,” on Tuesday celebrated Angela Davis, a civil rights activist who once worked with the Communist Party USA and the Black Panther Party.

Pressley tweeted an image that revealed she introduced Davis for a virtual speaking event held by Health Law Advocates – a public interest law firm giving pro bono legal services to Massachusetts.

The event was a benefit breakfast, according to the HLA, which is hosted yearly as a primary source of corporate and individual gifts for Health Law Advocates.

Davis has spent decades struggling for civil rights. She was an active member of the Black Panther Party, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Communist Party USA.

Then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan attempted to discharge her from a teaching position at the University of California, Los Angeles, due to her ties to the Communist Party – though students and staff rushed to her defense.

Davis was also indicted with killing, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy charges after authorities tied her to the acquisition of weapons that were later used by three inmates who took a judge and juror hostage during their trial in 1970 for killing a prison guard.

Law enforcement officials responded with a wave of denunciations and the

inmates and judge died. Davis was blamed for giving weapons used in the incident and was put on the FBI list until she was captured in 1972.

Davis spent 16 months in prison before she was cleared of all charges. She is considered a symbol for many activist movements, including Black liberation, anti capitalism, and feminism.

Pressley, along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., made what is known as “the Squad" on Capitol Hill. All are women of color who have had a growing progressive control within the Democratic Party. Davis previously defended Omar against attacks launched by President Trump.

Not everybody in the Democratic Party is fond of “The Squad.” Even as they celebrated their apparent victory in the presidential election, some Democrats spent the days after the voting complaining about the role "The Squad" and their leftist allies

played in reducing their party’s numbers in Congress.

Moderates have made no secret about their discontent over the derailing of what many Democrats presumed would be a “blue wave” in 2020. That raises questions about whether or not some of the party’s most popular figures will continue to be able to use the influence that is way out of proportion with their numbers in Congress, as they have in the last two years.

If so, and that is far from a reality, it might also mean that pro-Israel Democrats will finally start standing up to and marginalizing these radicals, rather than soothing them.

https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1021170-this-member-of-the-squad-just-praised-communism-as-their-ranks-grow-in-house?utm_source=c-alrt&utm_medium=c-alrt-email&utm_term=c-alrt-GI&utm_content=2L-ERZmi9oxPRph_qsEzpE4oHvl5em5bV9F0.A

‘Electronic Robin Hood’ Jeremy Hammond, Who Passed Stratfor Files to WikiLeaks, Freed From US Prison

The hacktivist’s release was delayed for more than a year after he was arbitrarily transferred from an early release program to Alexandria, Virginia, to testify before a grand jury. When he refused to cooperate with its probe of WikiLeaks, he was held in contempt alongside whistleblower Chelsea Manning.

After eight years in federal prison, Anonymous hacktivist Jeremy Hammond has been released from prison. The Jeremy Hammond Support Committee advocacy group tweeted on Tuesday he had been released from Tennessee’s Federal Correctional Institution, Memphis, into a halfway house in Chicago, Illinois.

In 2011, Hammond and a group of hackers with the Anonymous-affiliated group LulzSec hacked their way into the only servers of Texas-based intelligence contracting firm Strategic Forecasting Inc., better known as Stratfor, making away with more than 200 gigabytes of files, including emails, before destroying what remained of Stratfor’s database.

The company provided private intelligence services for the CIA and other US intelligence agencies, and the slew of documents LulzSec turned over to WikiLeaks revealed the extent to which the US intelligence community had become intertwined with big business to get around domestic surveillance laws.

The files revealed Statfor had been contracted to peep on activists with the Occupy movement, then in its heyday in cities across the United States, as well as activist groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Anonymous and, of course, WikiLeaks, too.

Then, in March 2012, more than a dozen federal police broke down Hammond’s door in southwestern Chicago and arrested him.

‘He Wanted to Expose and Confront Injustice’

Prior to the Stratfor hack, Hammond was already a well-known hacktivist and anarchist. In 2007, he described himself to Chicago magazine as an “electronic Robin Hood,” and he had years of experience protesting against white supremacist rallies, the 2004 Republican National Convention and more, according to a 2012 spotlight piece by Rolling Stone.

Indeed, Hammond described the Stratfor hack as a similar kind of purloining of information that should belong to everybody.

“I have always made it clear that I am an anarchist-communist – as in I believe we need to abolish capitalism and the state in its entirety to realize a free, egalitarian society,” Hammond told Rolling Stone’s Janet Reitman in a 2012 letter from jail, adding he hopes his actions would “push the struggle in a more direct action, explicitly anti-capitalist and anti-state direction.”

“He knew it was against the law, he knew that it could get him into trouble, but he was doing it because he wanted to expose and confront injustice,” Shadowproof journalist Kevin Gosztola told Sputnik in September 2019.

He eventually pleaded guilty to violating one count of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in a non-cooperating plea deal and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, plus three more under supervised release.

While in prison, Hammond tolerated abuse by guards and long periods of solitary confinement, which advocates derided as tortuous. Despite this, Hammond stuck with a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) program for years that would have secured for him an early release. However, in October 2019, just weeks before the program was concluded, Hammond was summoned to Alexandria by a federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its co-founder, Julian Assange, who had been arrested in London several months earlier and charged with a slew of crimes, including violation of the 1917 Espionage Act.

Hammond, like fellow whistleblower and WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning, refused to answer the grand jury’s questions, and the two were held in contempt in Alexandria City Jail. Sputnik reported from one protest outside the jail in February 2020, where demonstrators showed their support for the principled stands by Hammond and Manning against the grand jury’s probe. The following month, Hammond was ordered released from the contempt sentence by US District Judge Anthony Trenga, and he returned to Memphis to serve the remainder of his sentence.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202011181081205578-electronic-robin-hood-jeremy-hammond-who-passed-stratfor-files-to-wikileaks-freed-from-us-prison/