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Sharpiegate Scandal Sees New Life – Readers Share that Sharpies Were Used Across the Country

Last week the Cyber Ninjas audit team performing the 2020 Election audit of the results in Maricopa County identified numerous issues already from their work. One issue related to the claims surrounding ‘Sharpiegate’.

Sharpiegate was the term used to identify concerns voters had in parts of Arizona where they were instructed to fill out their ballots with a sharpie pen. This was concerning to voters in Arizona and was made fun of by the press.

Last week the auditors in Arizona identified why there should be concerns with using a sharpie to fill out your ballot. They determined that sharpie pens bleed through ballots created with the wrong paper stock leading to erroneous counts of votes in the area where this occurs.

We’ve found evidence that sharpies were used across the country during the 2020 Election.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/sharpiegate-scandal-sees-new-life-readers-share-sharpies-used-across-country/

Dozens of School Districts are Using Millions in Federal Covid Relief Money to Give Public School Teachers Bonuses

School districts in California, Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas decided to use millions in federal stimulus money to pay out four-figure bonuses to their teachers and staff, despite objections from parents that claim it is a misuse of the funds.

Keep in mind that, especially in California, teachers held out for months to delay bringing in-person learning back by refusing to work while they still collected their paychecks.

Georgia was the first state to approve bonuses for teachers and staff approving $1,000 payments to 230,000+ employees, costing the state $230.5 million. The pricy initiative ate up almost 35% of the state’s stimulus money and was one of the state’s largest expenditures out of those federal funds.

The cash payments are being billed as an attempt to stop more teacher resignations as they deal with “low morale” over shifting back to in-person learning from a full year of worthless zoom classes.

School districts have very few restrictions on how they can spend their COVID relief money, which totaled $190 billion nationwide.

According to The Wall St. Journal:

Dozens of school districts and states are spending big chunks of their historic federal stimulus cash on one-time bonuses to teachers and staff, over the objections of some parents and others who claim such payments violate the intent of the federal funding.

Schools have until 2024 to spend stimulus dollars, which totaled about $190 billion, the largest-ever, one-year federal infusion of cash for public schools. While districts and states have started spending some of the $81 billion already dispersed to states from the most recent round of $122 billion in funding, many are deciding how to allocate the rest and under federal guidelines won’t receive those funds until their plans have been approved. Twelve state spending plans have been approved thus far.

Georgia’s state board of education approved the bonuses in March, around the time teachers typically sign contracts for the following year, to aid with recruitment and retention following a difficult time.

“We needed some sort of morale boost, and our answer was to provide that bonus,” said Matt Jones, chief of staff at Georgia’s state department of education.

After a full year of Zoom school, that saw too many teachers consistently laundering Marxist propaganda into the home, these school districts’ first priority is to spend the historic influx of cash on paying higher salaries to “boost morale.”

What about the children’s morale? Or their suffering education, for that matter?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/dozens-school-districts-using-millions-federal-covid-relief-money-give-public-school-teachers-bonuses/

Joe Biden wants amnesty, but US tally of illegal immigrants is deeply flawed

Having indulged an unhealthy interest in human migration for decades, I’ve been intrigued by how the number of illegal immigrants that journalists cite as living in the United States never changes.

For years on end, I’ve read that the population of America’s “undocumented” — a euphemism that seems to upbraid the receiving country’s bureaucrats for failing to issue its woefully overlooked residents the proper papers — is 11 million. With the artificial precision that often attends these unverifiable figures, which derive their authority from sheer repetition, some journalists will quote the number as 11.3 million.

Oh, there was a brief period about 15 years ago when that standard statistic rose to 13 million, but then it popped right back down to 11 again, without any headlines about a stampede of 2 million suddenly ploughing over the Mexican border in the southern direction.

But how do our well-informed correspondents know how many immigrants live illegally in the US? That 11.3 million figure originates from the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey.”

But these are the very residents notoriously averse to responding to census inquiries, regardless of assurances that being counted won’t lead to an unwelcome knock on the door from the cold-hearted immigration heavies at ICE. “Irregular” migrants have a vested interest in remaining invisible. Should you ask a crowd of such people, “Who’s not supposed to be here?” funnily enough nobody’s likely to raise a hand.

A TRIO of academics affiliated with MIT and Yale University set about trying to reproduce that oft-quoted statistic by other means. Their results were published in 2018. Employing a range of operational stats (such as deportations and visa overstays) and other demographic data (such as death rates and immigration rates) from 1990 to 2016, they first fed their computer model the most conservative assumptions possible.

As the study’s authors anticipated arriving at a number well below that eternally unchanging 11.3 million, confirmation bias alone would have helped produce a lowball estimate. Instead, even with all the inputs rigged at improbably low levels, the model still generated a population of illegal immigrants in the US of 16.7 million — 50 percent higher.

The modelers were astonished. As an on-again, off-again New Yorker, I’m not.

Yet the full range of their model’s outputs is more astonishing still. Accepting, unlike most journalists, that their data contained a large degree of uncertainty, the authors ran their model with a variety of credible inputs literally a million times. The results within a 95 percent probability lay between 16 million and 29 million, with 22.1 million as the mean — or twice as many illegal immigrants as the Census Bureau figures imply.

Mind, that Yale/MIT model produced half a million results in excess of 22.1 million, with a multitude spitting out estimates in the vicinity of 35 million or more. That would be more than 10 percent of the total American population, which experientially sounds about right.

https://nypost.com/2021/07/18/joe-biden-wants-amnesty-but-us-tally-of-illegal-immigrants-is-deeply-flawed/

Total of five Texas Democrats tested positive for COVID after fleeing state for D.C.

Two additional, fully vaccinated legislators tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday.

In addition to the three Texas Democrats who tested positive for COVID-19 following their trip to Washington, D.C., two more had positive tests on Sunday.

A total of five Texas Democrats who fled their state for D.C. in order to prevent a vote on an election integrity bill have tested positive for COVID-19, according to The Hill. The legislators had received backlash for taking a photograph of themselves on a private plane without wearing masks, but they said that because they were all vaccinated, they did not have to wear masks.

"In light of some positive COVID-19 tests over the weekend, the House Democratic Caucus has decided to go beyond CDC guidance and provide daily rapid tests for all Members and staff in Washington D.C. for this week," the Texas House Democratic Caucus said in a statement. "As part of this precautionary testing, today two additional members who were fully vaccinated tested positive."

https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/total-5-texas-democrats-tested-positive-covid-after-fleeing-state-dc