Ana Navarro Says DeSantis Won His Reelection Because He “Gamed the System”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/ana-navarro-says-desantis-won-reelection-gamed-system-video/

Maricopa County Election Judge Believes the Machines Were Programmed to Reject Ballots on Election Day

Michele Swinick was an election judge in Maricopa County on election day last week. Following the election Michele stepped forward to discuss what she experienced in Maricopa County on Election Day.

Michele worked at a center in a heavily Republican district. According to Michele, the tabulators worked perfectly well the night before the election. Then on Election Day they quit working. Only 1 in 10 ballots were accepted through the tabulators. The officials were told to put the defective ballots into a different section called “Door 3.”

Michele believes this was all planned. The election officials knew that republicans were going to come out in force on election day as they did in the primary. This was a planned operation.

UncoverDC reported:

Election judge Michele Swinick has come forward to report what she experienced in Maricopa County on Election Day. She worked Election Day as a judge at the Islamic Voting Center in Scottsdale, AZ. She reports that the center is heavily Republican, with “no party” designated voters as the second most populous demographic, followed by very few democrat voters, evidenced by the fact that she checked in very few of them on Election Day. She reports she spent the entire day checking in voters.

Swinick says that the tabulators all worked “perfectly” during the test the night before the election. The problem with scanning began immediately with the first ballots. Voters scanned their ballots between 4 and 12 times with very minimal success. Poll workers estimated about 1 in 10 ballots were being read for the first three hours of voting.

Voters were given options to either spoil their ballots and try again or drop them into a different section called “Door 3.” As per Swinick, their inspector had to empty the ballots from “Door 3” three times throughout the early afternoon because of the volume of ballots. Typically, ballots aren’t supposed to be removed from that box until polls close, but they made an exception because the box was jamming and became too full.

Swinick reports that the technician came to the center between 3:30 pm and 4:00 pm MT and rebooted the machines. After this, there were no further issues with ballots being run through tabulators. She reported that one of the poll workers told her, “Everything is now going smoothly with the tabulators.”

Per Swinick’s inspector, an offsite supervisor had advised “Because of the situation” to put all “door 3” ballots that had not been scanned through a tabulator into a separate black bag and to label them “misreads.” As a judge, Michele told UncoverDC that she personally signed the sticker placed over the bag’s zipper, and then these bags were sent to the tabulation center to be counted. Michele informed us that the normal process for a ballot that is “unread” is for poll workers to run the ballots through the tabulators one more time before sending them to the center. As per Swinick, this was not done.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/maricopa-county-election-judge-believes-machines-programmed-reject-ballots-election-day/

Dozens Of Children Worked Slaughterhouse Graveyard Shifts According To Labor Department

The company, Packers Sanitation Services, or PSSI (owned by Blackstone), is contracted to work at meatpacking facilities and slaughterhouses across the country. According to court documents filed Wednesday, the children were allegedly employed at three facilities in Nebraska and Minnesota, NBC News reports.

The company employs over 17,000 employees at more than 700 locations across the country, according to PSSI's website.

The investigation found that minors cleaned the killing floors and various machines — including meat and bone cutting saws and a grinding machine — during the graveyard shifts, according to the complaint.

PSSI employed at least a dozen 17-year-olds across the three slaughterhouses, fourteen 16-year-olds, three 15-year-olds, one 14-year-old and one 13-year-old, the complaint said. -NBC News

According to the complaint, an Aug. 24 investigation was launched after law enforcement officials were tipped off that the company may be employing children. Search warrants were executed at two plants owned by food processor JBS USA in Grand Island, Nebraska and Worthington, Minnesota - and at a poultry processing plant in Minnesota.

If true, the practice would violate the Fair Labor Standards Act, which prohibits employers from "oppressive child labor," as well as minors from working in any type of hazardous employment, reads the complaint, which asks the Federal District Court of Nebraska to issue a temporary restraining order as well as a nationwide preliminary injunction against the company to stop it from employing minors while the Labor Department investigates.

Initial evidence indicates the company may also employ more kids under similar conditions at 400 other sites across the country, in addition to the 31 minors employed at three sites that investigators already confirmed, according to the complaint.

The court partially granted the Department of Labor’s request in a Thursday filing. That order requires PSSI to “immediately cease and refrain from employing oppressive child labor” and comply with the Department of Labor’s investigation. -NBC News

According to PSSI, the company "has an absolute company-wide prohibition against the employment of anyone under the age of 18 and zero tolerance for any violation of that policy —period," with a spokesperson adding that the company mandates the use of the federal E-Verify system when it comes to new hires, "as well as extensive training, document verification, biometrics, and multiple layers of audits."

"While rogue individuals could of course seek to engage in fraud or identity theft, we are confident in our company’s strict compliance policies and will defend ourselves vigorously against these claims."

Company executives were reportedly "surprised" by the filing, after PSSI says it "has been cooperating with their inquiry, producing extensive documents and responses."

Interviews with the kids — which were conducted in Spanish, their first language, according to the complaint — revealed that several children began their shifts at the facilities at 11 p.m. and worked until 5, 6 or 7 a.m. Some worked up to six or seven days a week.

School records showed that one 14-year-old, who worked at the Grand Island facility from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. five to six days a week, from December 2021 to this past April, fell asleep in class and missed school after suffering injuries from chemical burns. At least two other minors also suffered chemical burns, the complaint states. -NBC News

"While Wage and Hour is continuing to pour over records to identify such children, it is slow, painstaking work. Yet, the children working overnight on the kill floor of these slaughterhouses cannot wait," states the complaint.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dozens-children-worked-slaughterhouse-graveyard-shifts-according-labor-department

Freight train derails at Inverleigh, west of Geelong, leaving dozens of containers strewn across tracks

A freight train has derailed west of Geelong, leaving dozens of shipping containers strewn across railway tracks.

Key points:

Eight wagons carrying dozens of shipping containers derailed

Up to 50 millimetres of rain fell in the area in the lead-up to the incident

Rail safety investigators will work to determine the cause

Sixteen wagons came off tracks between Inverleigh and Gheringhap about 5:30am.

The SES said nobody was hurt in the incident and there were no dangerous goods onboard.

The derailment happened close to a level crossing, which was temporarily closed, but has now reopened.

A State Control Centre spokesperson said there had been substantial damage to the tracks.

Victoria was hit by wild weather overnight, resulting in widespread flash flooding.

Inverleigh resident Robyn said there was torrential rain in the area overnight.

"There's at least 20 containers just everywhere and Inverleigh itself is pretty much awash with just water over the roads everywhere," she told ABC Radio Melbourne.

"The Leigh and Barwon [rivers] meet together in Inverleigh and it's just a lake."

Inspectors travel to the scene

The Melbourne to Adelaide rail corridor is closed while response crews and emergency services are on site.

The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) said it was working with freight customers on a recovery plan.

The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator has been notified and the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has taken control of the site.

The ARTC said it would provide further details and an update on when the interstate freight corridor would re-open once a full assessment of the area was completed.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-14/freight-train-derails-at-inverleigh-near-geelong/101649594