Colorado Officials Catch Stolen Ballots Being Filed

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/mesa-county-colorado-ballots/2024/10/26/id/1185549/

Colorado elections officials say advanced ballot matching technology has allowed them to stop as many as a dozen stolen ballots from being filed early in the presidential election.

The ballots were stolen from Mesa County voters and filled out without them knowing, according to Secretary of State Jena Griswold, reported ABC News Saturday.

"On Tuesday, October 23, the Department of State learned that at least 12 ballots appear to have been intercepted before reaching voters," she said in a statement. "Those ballots were voted and then returned to the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder via USPS mailboxes."

The plan was thwarted when the state's voters signature verification system caught the discrepancies with the signatures on some of the stolen mail ballots after they were returned to the clerk's office.

Election officials reached out to the voters to let them fix the issue, but the voters said they had not yet voted.

Three stolen ballots, however, passed the verification process and were filed successfully, reported ABC News.

As a result of the discovery, the county is reexamining the nearly 30,000 ballots it has already received, reported Colorado Newsline, quoting an estimate from the county clerk's office.

"This attempt at fraud was found and investigated quickly because of all the trailblazing processes and tools Colorado has in place, like signature verification, ballot tracking, and the curing process," Griswold said. "Every eligible Colorado voter will be able to make their voice heard this election."

She said the voters who had their ballots stolen would receive new ballots.

The Mesa County District Attorney's office is investigating the matter.

Griswold, who is a Democrat, would not answer a question about whether a suspect or suspects have been identified, or whether the votes were cast in favor of Republicans or Democrats.

In Colorado, all active registered voters get a ballot in the mail. This year's ballots went out starting on Oct. 11, with voters being able to return them by mail or drop them off at a polling location or in a drop box.

The voter signatures on the ballot envelopes are compared with signatures on official documents, such as driver's licenses.

Mesa County Clerk Bobbie Gross, a Republican, accused Griswold of releasing the information prematurely.

She acknowledged that her office is "investigating attempted election fraud," but said that prematurely releasing the information "could compromise our ability to hold those responsible accountable."

"While we understand the secretary of state's desire to make public statements, this is our community and our investigation," Gross said.

Griswold, responding to Gross' remarks, said that with less than two weeks left before Election Day, "we took action to alert voters potentially affected by this scheme."

She added that she was "proud" to appear at the press conference with Matt Crane, the Republican executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association and the Colorado County Clerks Association "to ensure voters have accurate information and quell any disinformation on this situation."

Trump on Rogan: 'Enemy From Within' Greater Threat

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/joe-rogan-donald-trump-kamala-harris/2024/10/26/id/1185560/

Former President Donald Trump appeared on "The Joe Rogan Experience" Friday night and said the greater threat to the United States comes from the "enemy from within."

Speaking to host Joe Rogan about renewing open lines of communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which Trump touted as an accomplishment over former President Barack Obama, the Republican nominee said that more so than the concern of enemies abroad, if you have a "smart president," "we have a bigger problem, in my opinion, with the enemy from within."

"And it drives them crazy when I use that term," Trump continued. "We have people that are really bad people that I think want to make this country unsuccessful."

Without naming explicitly who the enemy from within was, Trump suggested that this internal threat came from the ones promoting the illegal immigration crisis.

Trump's "enemy from within" term has roused play as political fodder for Democrat nominee Vice President Kamala Harris as a political sticking point. Speaking Wednesday from her official residency at the Naval Observatory in the final stretch of the 2024 general election, Harris compared Trump to Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler while at the same time saying his invocation of "enemy from within" was targeted at "American citizens," "judges," and "nonpartisan" poll workers.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned Harris' remarks on X, writing: "This is the kind of inflammatory poison that divides our nation and inspires assassins. It's particularly ironic since Biden/Harris have just pushed through DoD [Department of Defense] Directive 5240.01 giving the Pentagon power — for the first time in history — to use lethal force to kill Americans on US soil who protest government policies. If you want to understand a politician, the words from her mouth have little relevance. Look at her feet."

On Saturday, Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, told NBC News' "Meet the Press" that the term "enemy from within" refers to leadership in the U.S. that has led to an open southern border, not meeting recruiting goals in the military, and high grocery prices.

>>21839647

Yeah, it's a poll, but reflects the same sentiment you posted.

Seems the MSM's are going to push people into violence after the elections.

So gear up and be ready.

Rasmussen Poll: About Half of Voters Expect Violence After Election

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rasmussen-poll-trump-harris/2024/10/25/id/1185480/

About half of the country's voters say they expect violence to emerge after the Nov. 5 general election no matter who wins the presidency, Rasmussen Reports survey results show.

Rasmussen asked voters, "How likely is it that there will be a violent reaction after the election if Kamala Harris is elected president?"

Fifty-one percent said it's likely, including 26% who said it's very likely, that there will be a violent reaction if Harris is elected president, Rasmussen Reports found. Another 38% said violence is not likely, while 11% said they are not sure.

Asked the same if former President Donald Trump wins the White House, 47% said violence is likely, including 23% who said it's very likely. Another 44% said violence is not likely, while 8% said they are not sure, according to results released Thursday.

Rasmussen also asked voters whether most news media outlets report about politics in a way that tends to make America more united or more divided. Only 10% answered "more united," with 79% saying "more divided."

Eighty-four percent of Republicans, 70% of Democrats, and 83% of unaffiliated voters said the way most news media outlets report about politics tends to make America more divided.

Among those who said they plan to vote for Harris, 71% said it's at least somewhat likely there will be a violent reaction if the vice president wins, and 56% of Trump voters said it's likely there will be a violent reaction if the former president wins.

Supporters of both Harris and Trump are less likely to expect post-election violence if the opposing candidate wins.

In a party breakdown, 64% of Democrats, 41% of Republicans, and 46% of unaffiliated voters said it's at least somewhat likely there will be a violent reaction if Harris wins the election, and 53% of Republicans, 41% of Democrats and 48% of unaffiliated voters believe a violent reaction is at least somewhat likely if Trump wins.

The Rasmussen survey found that Black voters are more likely to expect a violent reaction if Harris wins the election, while Hispanics are more likely to think a Trump victory would provoke a violent reaction.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey was conducted Oct. 17 and 20-21 among 2,956 likely voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Japan Votes With New PM on Shaky Ground

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/japan-votes/2024/10/27/id/1185572/

Japan voted on Sunday in its tightest election in years, with new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his juggernaut Liberal Democratic Party facing potentially their worst result since 2009.

Opinion surveys suggest the conservative LDP and its junior coalition partner risk falling short of a majority, a result that could deal a knockout blow to Ishiba.

The 67-year-old former defence minister took office and called a snap election after being narrowly selected last month to lead the LDP, which has governed Japan for almost all of the past seven decades.

But voters in the world's fourth-largest economy have been rankled by rising prices and the fallout from a party slush fund scandal that helped sink previous premier Fumio Kishida.

"I made my decision first and foremost by looking at their economic policies and measures to ease inflation," Tokyo voter Yoshihiro Uchida, 48, told AFP on Sunday. "I voted for people who are likely to make our lives better."

Ishiba has pledged to revitalise depressed rural regions and to address the "quiet emergency" of Japan's falling population through family-friendly measures such as flexible working hours.

But he has rowed back his position on issues including allowing married couples to take separate surnames. He also named only two women ministers in his cabinet.

The self-confessed security policy "geek" has backed the creation of a regional military alliance along the lines of NATO to counter China, although he has cautioned it would "not happen overnight".

Several polls by Japanese media have found that the LDP and its coalition partner Komeito might struggle to get the 233 lower house seats needed for a majority.

Ishiba has set this threshold as his objective, and missing it would undermine his position in the LDP and mean finding other coalition partners or leading a minority government.

"We want to start afresh as a fair, just and sincere party, and seek your mandate," Ishiba said at a rally on Saturday.

Local media speculated that Ishiba could potentially even resign immediately to take responsibility, becoming Japan's shortest-serving prime minister in the post-war period.

The current record is held by Naruhiko Higashikuni who served for 54 days four days more than British leader Liz Truss in 2022 just after Japan's 1945 defeat in World War II.

In many districts, LDP candidates are neck-and-neck with those from the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the second-biggest in parliament, led by popular former prime minister Yoshihiko Noda.

"The LDP's politics is all about quickly implementing policies for those who give them loads of cash," 67-year-old Noda told his supporters on Saturday.

"But those in vulnerable positions… have been ignored," he added, accusing the government of offering insufficient support for survivors of an earthquake in central Japan.

Noda's stance "is sort of similar to the LDP's. He is basically a conservative," Masato Kamikubo, a political scientist at Ritsumeikan University, told AFP.

"The CDP or Noda can be an alternative to the LDP. Many voters think so," Kamikubo said.

Ishiba has promised not to actively support the candidates running in the election despite being caught up in the funding scandal.

"I want to focus on young candidates rather than those who have had a long career, because they may bring something different," said a 63-year-old voter who gave her surname as Taniyama, adding she had "made my decision by elimination".

Mitsuyuki Ikezoe, 86, said he had voted for the LDP because he was "worried North Korea or Russia may invade Hokkaido" in northern Japan.

But "Ishiba may be treated dismissively by the United States because he is new", and if Donald Trump becomes president again, "he will not give Ishiba the time of day," Ikezoe said.

Voter turnout as of 2 pm local time (0500 GMT) was 19.14 percent, down from 21.49 percent at the same time in the previous lower house election three years ago, according to the internal affairs ministry.

Polling stations will close at 8 pm (1100 GMT).

Roughly 20 percent of the country's population who have the right to vote already cast their ballots by Saturday in the early voting system, the ministry said.

>>21839822

It's called 'Buyers' Remorse'.

>>21839854

Trump told us during his interview with Rogan.

Witches & Warlocks at black masses.

A Thriller About Electing a Pope Draws Crowds at the Rome Film Festival Near the Vatican

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/conclave-vatican-rome-film-festival/2024/10/27/id/1185571/

With Pope Francis a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, the plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican.

How timely, then, that just across town in Rome, “ Conclave ” a thriller filled with back-stabbing, manipulative cardinals, quick to toss morality out of the window as they promote their candidate, is a top draw at the Rome Film Festival.

This might be a little too close to home — literally and figuratively — for Pope Francis.

Austrian-Swiss Director Edward Berger, who directed “All Quiet on the Western Front” (2022), adapted the film from the 2016 novel “Conclave” by Robert Harris. Berger puts an extraordinary Ralph Fiennes in the role of Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, dean of the College of Cardinals responsible for organizing the conclave.

The conclave is the centuries-old tradition in which, on the death of a pope, cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to participate in rounds of voting until they elect a new pontiff. Conclave comes from the Latin “cum clave,” meaning “with a key,” to indicate the Cardinals are locked in until they have chosen the new leader for the world's 1.3 billion Catholics.

The whole process is conducted under the spectacular frescoed ceiling painted by Michelangelo, and his masterpiece “The Last Judgment” depicting the fate of men heading to heaven or hell covers the wall behind the altar. During the entire process, the prelates are cut off from communicating with the outside world and must live in seclusion inside the Vatican.

Conclaves have a reputation as a no-holds-barred competition as cardinals make backroom deals to elect their favorites in secret ballots.

At the end of each round of voting, the ballots are thrown in a specially constructed stove in the Sistine Chapel, with a chemical added that will color the smoke.

The tens of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square awaiting the result will know whether or not a new pope has been selected by the smoke that appears from the chimney. Black means the cardinals have not yet selected a pope, white means a new pope has been chosen.

In “ Conclave ” Stanley Tucci plays Aldo Bellini, a progressive American cardinal fighting it out against the powerful conservative Cardinal Goffredo Tedesco played by Sergio Castellitto and Canadian Cardinal Joseph Tremblay played by John Lithgow. Nigerian Cardinal Joshua Adeyemi, played by Lucian Msamati, could be the first Black pope, but his homophobic views clash with the progressives.

While women remain excluded from the conclave and the highest circles of power at the Vatican, they provide assistance carrying out humble roles serving the cardinals during the conclave period. Isabella Rossellini plays a nun who surprises in her role of quiet observer who does not miss a trick.

While a thriller, the film often comes close to the real workings and current debates at the Vatican. As the stars of the film strolled down the red carpet, some wondered how the film would be viewed over at the Vatican.

“It's intriguing. Are they sitting there at the Vatican watching the news coverage of ‘Conclave’?” actor Fiennes said. “I am sure there are a few people in the Vatican who would be curious to see what the film is saying.”

Despite his age and serious health issues, including a bad knee which has forced him to use a wheelchair, Pope Francis does not appear to be slowing down. In August he took his longest and most challenging trip ever, traveling by air to four countries in the Asia-Pacific. This month he has presided over the synod, a three-week meeting of more than 360 bishops and lay people to discuss the future of the church.

But Francis is not immortal. Discussions on who could be his successor have already begun, but it remains to be seen if the next real conclave will be as thrilling as the film.

>>21839955

Question is, what is it she's calling Americans?

>>21839991

Like a said at the top of that:

Yeah, it's a poll,but reflects the same sentiment you posted.

>>21840036

They're keeping it close like that so when they flip the switch to steal it, no one will pay it much attention.

>>21840044

I wonder how long it'll take them to clean up the red, white, and blue, and put their rainbow shit back up once the rally is over.

>>21840063

He did answer what heCOULDanswer for the moment.

>>21840074

Won't be much longer now.

You'll see.