Maricopa County's party-specific voter turnout heat maps raise new election integrity concerns(posting UndercoverDC article next)

Kari Lake lawsuit challenging election in Maricopa County cites poll in which 58.6% of Republican voters in county "reported having issues while trying to cast a ballot on Election Day," compared to 15.5% of Democrat voters.

By Natalia Mittelstadt

Updated: December 16, 2022 - 12:07am

Maricopa County, Ariz., uses in-person voter turnout data from prior elections for planning where to place vote centers for future elections,but the county also categorizes the data by political party, raising election integrity concernsthat voters of different parties could possibly have different Election Day experiences based on their location.

On Monday, a picture of a Republican in-person Election Day and early voting turnout heat map at Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) was tweeted by Kari Lake's campaign Twitter account, linking to an UncoverDC article.

Citing the Republican voter turnout heat map, the tweet posed the question: "Why would you need one for Republican voters but not Democrats?"

Later Monday, Maricopa County released a picture of the Republican voter turnout map beside the Democratic map and an all-voter turnout map. Lake's campaign account then deleted their original tweet and retweeted another account's post of the full picture, captioning it: "Consider our concerns rested for now on this issue." (UncoverDC also updated their article with the new information.)

When reached for comment about the heat maps on Monday, a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Elections Department told Just the News:

"Maricopa County elections uses heat maps from past turnout to make data-driven decisions on the best places to have voting locations in future elections.

"The Maricopa County Recorder's Office has a Geographic Information System (GIS) team that makes all of the maps in-house. We use the turnout data by party for elections such as the Presidential Preference Election, which is a party-only election. We use the all-voter maps for future planning for Primary and General elections.

"In the MCTEC hallway, we have a Democratic In-Person Voter Turnout Map, a Republican In-Person Voter Turnout Map, and an All Voter In-Person Turnout Map. We also have maps on early voting in-person turnout by day, which help us ensure future early voting sites are also located where voters live."

The spokesperson provided two photos, one of the three maps side-by-side on the hallway wall, and another photo of "early voting in-person turnout by day."

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/election-integrity-concern-maricopa-county-uses-party-voter-turnout-heat

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UPDATE: Maricopa Had A Democratic “Heat Map” Too… That Makes it Worse==

(so one mistake fucked up this expose, no one reads the 2nd article)

By Adam Carter / Tracy Beanz

December 12, 2022

Earlier today, UncoverDC reported about information shared out by Richard “The People’s Pundit” Baris. The column was specifically about a photograph he took showing a “Heat Map” inside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center

(MCTEC) titled:

When Baris shared the picture on his Inside The Numbers (Episode 307) podcast, he stated at the 3:55 min mark:

“And for people who say, ‘Oh, I think the Democratic map is right to the right.’ It’s not.

That is not a map of Democratic voting in Maricopa County. If I remember correctly, that was a map of early drop locations and where there was drop boxes from 2020. If I remember correctly that is what it was. But no, there was no Democrat election day map”

It appears, however, Baris did not remember correctly. Since our story was first published, photos have emerged of the full, blue-shaded map off to the right of Baris’ original photograph. It appears to, in fact, be a comparable heat map showing “General Election 2020 In-Person Democratic Voter” turnout.

In a sort of inverse “Republicans Pounce” reaction, Hobbs supporters are using the existence of the Democratic map to attack and discredit the story as a whole. As UDC noted in our original column—this was an interesting,

but immaterial detail to the story.

“First and foremost, election officials would have no valid reason to need to track where voters would be expected to turnout by party.

Maybe a case could be made election officials might want to know information about total voter turnout in order to best allocate their resources, but there is absolutely no good reason for the partisan break up.”

~ From UDC’s column ‘Rich Baris: Maricopa Had A “Heat Map” of Expected Republican Voters’

Baris himself noted at the time in his podcast,

“And even if there was [a Democratic map], it really wouldn’t matter. Because why would a county allocate resources to learn something like this? And did you really just think it’s a ‘coinkydink’ that the problems were concentrated in those areas? If so, I’ve got a bridge to sell you, folks … I have a bridge to sell you. That is crazy.”

Anyone discounting the entire story—based on Baris’ misrecollection—has failed to explain how the presence of the Democratic map would have prevented Maricopa officials from tampering with election equipment destined for Republican-heavy polling locations. If anything, this is more problematic.

It means officials could have been able to cross reference to ensure equipment destined for Democratic-heavy polling locations was not tampered with, and in perfect working order before being sent out.

The other issue, as we quoted Baris in our prior column,

“As someone who does things like this for a living and plots this stuff. Do you have any idea how much money that costs? If I went to Datawrapper right now or Eye Maps and said, ‘I have a data set that’s 380,000 rows deep.’

[Do] you know how much it’s going to cost me to plot that, and then print out that map on that format in that big area? Why would you justify that expenditure if you’re MCTEC? Right! There’s only one reason why you’d do it. Let’s be honest.”

So having the second Democratic heat map just means the expenditure by Maricopa County was at least double the cost than previously believed. All this for information that no other election officials—to Baris’ knowledge—anywhere is collecting and plotting before election day. As Baris stated quoting an election official from Carteret County, North

Carolina (paraphrasing):

“No. Couldn’t justify the cost for something like that. Plus, it’s not relevant to what we do here. We count votes. We don’t predict where they come from.”

While it is unfortunate that Richard Baris uncharacteristically got this minor detail wrong— that led UDC to need to issue this correction— this doesn’t make the story any better. If anything, it’s gotten somewhat worse.

So Maricopa … you’ve still got some splainin’ to do.

https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/12/12/update-maricopa-had-a-democratic-heat-map-too-that-makes-it-worse/

Pulte is saying he and his family is/was smeared by Brandon Jones

Pulte seems to have evidence and needs help from researchers check out the thread.

(People thought it was crazy that Trump was using Twitter for foreign policy and firing employees, now we've got lawsuits working their way through Twitter.Trump is the best and always the first)

Pulte@pulte·3h

Today we’re making public SOME of the bots we believe “COO” Brandon Jones (who I’m suing, http://PulteLawsuit.com) is using to violate Twitter TOS, PulteGroup Ethics ($PHM), and potentially SEC/fed law.

@EverythingTaket

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@Stephen_Matthe

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@GoDetroitWin

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Pulte@pulte·3h

Mr. Jones, my lawyers assert, not only used multiple handles compromising a “bot network” but also used various display names and rotated them over time. This was to conceal his evil.

The following tweets are allegations and opinions based on true belief and intel. ⤵️

https://twitter.com/pulte/status/1605611430350184455?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

Pulte vs. Brandon Jones

1) Fortune 500 PulteGroup's Incoming COO Brandon Jones Running Bot Network

2) Stalking, harassing, and defaming The Pultes as part of nefarious smear campaign

3) Stole the identity of a deceased man to his conceal identity

4) Weaponized fabricated bot network to give the fake impression of engagement

5) Board needs indep. investigation to prevent Jones doing irreparable harm to the company & Pulte's

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Read The Lawsuit

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Link to full document

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/703bc094-ed1b-4420-b30b-78c9d76677b2/Pulte v. Jones - Complaint.pdf

House GOP locates emails, texts showing Pelosi office directly involved in failed Jan. 6 security

Democrat leadership blamed for ‘knee-jerk reaction’ and failing to equip police in security staffer’s email after tragedy.

Holy Shit and Yippee

By John Solomon

Updated: December 21, 2022 - 3:52pm

House Republicans gathered a trove of text and email messages showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office was directly involved in the creation and editing of the Capitol security plan that failed during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot and that security officials later declared they had been “denied again and again” the resources needed to protect one of the nation’s most important homes of democracy.

The internal communications were made public Wednesday in a report compiled by House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and Reps. Rodney Davis, Jim Banks, Troy Nehls, Jim Jordan and Kelly Armstrong that encompasses the results of months of investigation they did of evidence that had been ignored by the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee.

The report concludes the Capitol was left vulnerable on Jan. 6 as a result of failures by the Democratic leadership in the House and law enforcement leaders in the Capitol Police who allowed concerns about the “optics” of having armed officers and National Guardsmen visible to the public to override the need for enhanced security.

“Leadership and law enforcement failures within the U.S. Capitol left the complex vulnerable on January 6, 2021. The Democrat-led investigation in the House of Representatives, however, has disregarded those institutional failings that exposed the Capitol to violence that day,” it concluded.

It also corroborated prior reporting by Just the News that Capitol Police began receiving specific warnings in mid-December that there could be significant violence planned against the Capitol and lawmakers by protesters planning to attend the certification of the 2020 election results.

“Prior to that day, the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) had obtained sufficient information from an array of channels to anticipate and prepare for the violence that occurred,” the report noted.

You can read the full report here:

Banks said the GOP report helps counter a Democrat narrative that ignored security failures by police and political leadership, he said.

"Our report exposes the partisanship, incompetence and indifference that led to the disaster on January 6 and it the leading role Speaker Pelosi and her office played in the security failure at the Capitol," he said. "Unlike the sham January 6th Committee, House Republicans produced a useful report that will keep out Capitol and USCP officers safe with no subpoena power and no budget."

The report also does not sugarcoat the behavior of pro-Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. '

“On January 6, 2021, criminal rioters assaulted police officers, broke into the U.S. Capitol, damaged property, and temporarily interfered with the certification of states’ presidential and vice presidential electors at the Joint Session of Congress—a typically pro forma event,” it noted.

But its most explosive revelations involved text and email messages showing that two key staffers in Pelosi’s office attended regular meetings to discuss the security plan for Jan. 6 dating back to early December 2020 and that Pelosi’s top aide even edited some of the plans. Most of those discussions and meetings excluded Republican lawmakers in the House, the report noted.

“Then-House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving—who served on the Capitol Police Board by virtue of his position—succumbed to political pressures from the Office of Speaker Pelosi and House Democrat leadership leading up to January 6, 2021,” the report said. “He coordinated closely with the Speaker and her staff and left Republicans out of important discussions related to security.”… continued

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-locates-emails-texts-showing-pelosi-office-directly-involved-failed

link to final report

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-12/FINAL Report of Investigation.pdf

>>17993488

House GOP locates emails, texts showing Pelosi office directly involved in failed Jan. 6 security

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After the devastating events of Jan. 6 when Pelosi forced Irving to resign, a staffer in the House sergeant at arms office sent a stinging email suggesting theDemocratic leadership had made Irving and Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund the fall guys to cover up the failure of lawmakers to provided adequate security resources.

“For the Speaker’s knee-jerk reaction to yesterday’s unprecedented event (and God knows how Congress lives for its knee-jerk reactions and to hell with future consequences . . . ). to immediately call for your resignation . . . after you have been denied again and again by Appropriations for proper security outfitting of the Capitol (and I WROTE several of those testimonies, dangit) . . . and to blame you personally because our department was doing the best they could with what they had and our comparatively small department size and limited officer resources . . . and because other agencies stepped in to assist just a fraction too late . . . again, for Congress to demand your resignation is spectacularly unjust, unfair, and unwarranted,” the staffer wrote Irving, according to the email included in the report.

“This is not your fault. Or Sund’s fault. If anything, Appropriations should be hung out to dry,” the staffer added.

The GOP report directly challenges the story Pelosi gave in February 2021 that she had “no power” over Capitol Police or the security plan for Jan. 6. “Documents provided by the House Sergeant at Arms show how then-House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving carried out his duties in clear deference to the Speaker, her staff, and other Democratic staff,” it said.

It noted that Pelosi’s chief of staff Terri McCullough and another aide assigned to Pelosi’s staff, Jamie Fleet, head regular contact with police and the sergeant at arms over the security planning for Jan. 6 starting in early December 2020. At one point, McCullough was so involved she was asked to edit a security plan letter that was going to lawmakers a few days ahead of the tragic events.

“Irving sent the draft to McCullough and Fleet and requested any edits comments or concerns,” the report said “McCullough responded shortly afterwards with edits.”

The report faults Irving for being distracted by other responsibilities and a top intelligence official for the Capitol Police for making changes to intelligence analysis that kept front line officers from knowing the dangers they were about to face that day.

“Officers on the front lines and analysts in USCP’s intelligence division were undermined by the misplaced priorities of their leadership. Those problems were exacerbated by the House Sergeant at Arms, who was distracted from giving full attention to the threat environment prior to January 6, 2021 by several other upcoming events,” the report said.

>>17993488

Did the republicans hold this report back until the Democrats released Trump's Tax Returns???

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-12/FINAL Report of Investigation.pdf

>>17993488

House GOP locates emails, texts showing Pelosi office directly involved in failed Jan. 6 security

Democrat leadership blamed for ‘knee-jerk reaction’ and failing to equip police in security staffer’s email after tragedy.

Screenshots of article, House GOP locates emails, etc.

The report is 141 pages

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-12/FINAL Report of Investigation.pdf

>>17993488

Key findings from House Report on J6

Doubling Down may not be such a good idea at this point, don't you think?

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1605658154624335872?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

>>17993626

If they didn't call people for 50 years conspiracy theorists constantly, and then double down when they were proven true over all those years, and the double down on their proclaiming innocence and SOP, and then double down on persecuting innocent people, that sorry excuse for a explanation would maybe worked. But the credibility is burnt to a toast.

When you wake up more than a 100 million citizens left and right, there's a slight problem with treating them condescendingly, it just doesn't work anymore.

>>17993663

I know, now it's like Conspiracy Theorist is a title of respect now, whoever is advising them is someone that has been around for 50 years, he says, "well this always worked for us". Kek,

Honestly their replies have been so separated from the reality of what is happening.

>>17993705

the first 7 were bots

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1605677332324237313?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

>>17993908

It's amazing how many times in so many states, "the documents you're asking for have been misplaced, the ballots you are asking for have disappeared, the log files don't exist"Is this entire country and every election official that incompetent? And why would a court even accept that answer? Make them find it all. These are federal records, they cannot be misplaced.

https://twitter.com/KariLakeWarRoom/status/1605674708094947329?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

Chris Krebs is the bot everyone criminal wishes they had

https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1605609437087109121?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

The FBI would have been much better off by not addressing anything at this point

This statement might be in the category of “Famous Last Words”

Jake Gibson

@JakeBGibson

FBI Statement: "The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries.

As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers.

The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."

2:45 PM · Dec 21, 2022

https://twitter.com/JakeBGibson/status/1605651093517701122?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

>>17993930

Yep double down, always

Are politicians willing to start an unending war, to hide their money laundering and get rid of Trump? Yep, seems like it!

My kids are not going to fight a war in Eastern Europe.

No thanks. Tell Putin and Zelensky to get in the Octagon together.

Greg Price@greg_price11·6h

Nancy Pelosi just sent this letter to lawmakers about Zelensky's visit to the Capitol tonight,where she compares his visit to Winston Churchill visiting Congress in 1941 to ask America to go to war in Europe.

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1605611737935253516?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1605625424540602368?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

Stelter still thinks anyone cares about his opinion. Zucker ruined his brain, made him believe he's smart.Bless his heart!

https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1605394354348392449?s=20&t=9HLSZuvr3PQts0i6YLzfug

Marine drill instructors may go gender neutral

Corps leaders remain concerned about the logistics of implementing such changes.

By Ben Whedon

Updated: December 21, 2022 - 3:39pm

An academic report recommends that the Marines drop gender-based identifying language for drill instructors in the Corps training programs.

Two years after the Corps originally commissioned the report from the University of Pittsburgh on efforts to integrate the service, the final product advocates following in the steps of other branches and dropping designations such as "sir" or "ma'am," and replacing them with the individual's rank and surname.

"Instead of saying 'ma'am' or 'sir,' recruits in these Services refer to their drill instructors using their ranks or roles followed by their last names. Gendered identifiers prime recruits to think about or visually search for a drill instructor's gender first, before their rank or role," it reads, according to the Marine Corps Times.

"Gender-neutral identifiers are an unambiguous, impartial way to circumvent these issues," it continued. "Employing gender-neutral identifiers eliminates the possibility of misgendering drill instructors, which can unintentionally offend or cause discord. By teaching recruits to use gender-neutral identifiers for their drill instructors, Services underscore the importance of respecting authoritative figures regardless of gender."

The report observed that male Marine recruits remained effectively the standard against which the Corps measures all its recruits. The Corps currently has the lowest percentage of female members among all the service branches.

Corps leaders, however, remain concerned about the logistics of implementing such changes.

Marine Corps Training and Education Command chief of staff Col. Howard Hall told the outlet that such reforms would have to be adopted gradually and with the support of all components within the Corps. saying, "[a]ll of a sudden, we change something at recruit training, and recruits start coming in and using a different identifier. It’s not something we would change overnight."

"Again, we’ve got a history of 'sir, ma'am, sir, ma'am. If we change something at the root level, how do we make the corresponding change at the Fleet Marine Force? So it's not ours to implement alone," he said.

The Corps has not set a timeline for making any decisions based off of the report.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/marine-drill-instructors-may-go-gender-neutral