Monday, August 23, 2021

RED SKELTON'S RECIPE FOR THE PERFECT MARRIAGE

RED SKELTON'S RECIPE FOR THE PERFECT MARRIAGE
 
1. Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, have a little beverage, good food and companionship. She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays.
2. We also sleep in separate beds. Hers is in California and mine is in Texas.
3. I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
4. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary. "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said. So I suggested the kitchen.
5. We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
6. She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets, and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.
7. My wife told me the car wasn't running well because there was water in the
 carburetor. I asked where the car was. She told me, "In the lake."
8. She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off.
9. She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" The driver said, "No, jump in!".
10. Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce.
11. I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was 'Always'.
12. I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her.
13. The last fight was my fault though. My wife asked, "What's on the TV?"
I said, "Dust!".
 
Can't you just hear him say all of these?
I love it. These were the good old days when humor didn't have to start with a four letter word or political. It was just clean and simple fun. And he always ended his programs with the words, "And May God Bless"with a big smile on his face

 

Colorado Election Conspiracy Group Going Door-to-Door in Search of 'Phantom Ballots'

Colorado Election Conspiracy Group Going Door-to-Door in Search of ‘Phantom Ballots’

Members of a QAnon-linked election fraud conspiracy group — some of whom are armed — are knocking on doors of voters across Colorado, attempting to find evidence of voter fraud.

The group, called the U.S. Election Integrity Plan (USEIP), states unequivocally that the 2020 election was stolen and that members “do not consent to be governed by those elected through fraud.”

Volunteers are going door-to-door all over the state, including Mesa, El Paso, and Weld counties, using public voter lists to identify precincts from which they believe ballots were fraudulently cast and asking residents to confirm their addresses, whether they participated in the 2020 election, and if so how they cast their vote.

The USEIP, which has partnered with the Colorado GOP on local events, just released its “County & Local Organizing Playbook.” The manual states that some of its early volunteers were sex criminals, but that it has since implemented a background check as part of its vetting process. USEIP did not respond to an email request for comment submitted via its website. This article will be updated with any response received.

When a person signed up, we would check their social media and call them to do a gut check’ on the person,” the group stated. “This process was in place for many months, until we learned (roundaboutly) that there were a couple of people in our group, who were volunteering for our events, who had a criminal history of sexual misconduct. Since our events are always open for people to bring their kids, we couldn’t continue to be so relaxed in our approach…It’s unfortunate that we must check volunteers for pedophilic leanings, but welcome to 2021.”

On the Western Slope, this effort is being led by Cory Anderson, an anti-government “Three Percenter” militia member and former leader of “Bikers for Trump Colorado,” whose wife Jacqueline is the first vice-chair of the Mesa County Republican Party. 

Anderson explained his work with the U.S. Election Integrity Project (USEIP), election-conspiracy group, at an April 24 presentation featuring Dr. Douglas Frank, a part-time math teacher who pushed an extreme election fraud conspiracy theory at a pair of Colorado events.

The presentations were organized by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) former campaign manager, Sherronna Bishop, and USEIP. 

Anderson says he’s leading a team of over 20 volunteers who are going door-to-door in Mesa County, looking for evidence of election fraud by asking voters if they indeed cast a vote last November. 

The following clip is from Frank’s full presentation, posted by Bishop. It begins immediately after Frank concludes his remarks. 

Bishop introduces Cory Anderson as “not only security but he’s going to be training all the counties around the state in this voter integrity project.”

Anderson describes viewing Frank’s presentation as “being redpilled,” which is slang popular with QAnon followers and the alt-right, for being introduced to and believing a conspiracy theory. 

He goes on to say USEIP has 17 county captains across Colorado and the goal is to go out and prove Frank’s theory by finding “all those phantom voters.”

USEIP’s goal is to gather data the group members believe will prove the unsubstantiated allegations made by Frank, who has become a minor celebrity in the election conspiracy world. Frank claims to have discovered an algorithm he insists was inserted via software hacking into the voting machines of every county in Colorado, as well as many other states, in order to cast ‘phantom ballots’ for President Biden. 

Frank told the Colorado Times Recorder, “I’m saying that people printed ballots and mailed them in on behalf of people that were unlikely to have returned to ballot.”

Frank traveled to Colorado in April to present to conservative activists in Grand Junction and Denver. His evidence consists of graphs for each county that purport to show more votes cast than registered voters, a claim debunked by county clerks and election experts. Nevertheless, his presentation so appealed to USEIP’s conspiracist members that they have organized members to download and create walk lists from publicly available voter data and canvass neighborhoods, asking Coloradans to confirm their identity and participation in the 2020 election.

Both USEIP’s website and the first page of its volunteer manual proclaim, “We Are The Plan,” a QAnon conspiracy slogan intended to encourage followers to stay active despite Trump no longer holding office. 

The group is issuing its own ID badges to its volunteers and building a database of photos of voters’ residences. As progressive blog Colorado Pols recently reported, USEIP El Paso County Captain Charity McPike told volunteers attending a July 24 canvass in Colorado Springs, “We are attempting to line up security. However, anyone who carries protection might want to let us know so we can offer your cell phone numbers to those who are concerned.”

USEIP is also working with the Colorado Republican Party on its “Election Integrity Operations.” A USEIP member runs the state GOP’s program and has given joint presentations along with the group founder, Ashley Epp.

Bishop posted an Instagram video just before she left last week for My Pillow CEO’s Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium, a three-day election fraud conspiracy conference, at which she informed her viewers on USEIP’s voter verification efforts in Mesa County are finished. 

“We just finished and we’ve found some problems, but the problems aren’t with the clerk, they’re with the system,” wrote Bishop.

Last week the Andersons, Bishop, and other USEIP members traveled to South Dakota on conspiracist Mike Lindell’s private jet to participate in his Cyber Symposium. Embattled Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is now under criminal investigation by both local and federal authorities for leaks of confidential election information, also attended the conference, almost certainly also via Lindell’s jet.

Neither Mr. Anderson nor Ms. Bishop immediately responded to requests for comment. This article will be updated with any response received.

Hoping Sleepy-Joe Would Become President, Osama Bin Laden Banned Al-Qaeda From Attempting to Kill Biden Because His Incompetence Would "Lead The US Into a Crisis"

Hoping Sleepy-Joe Would Become President, Osama Bin Laden Banned Al-Qaeda From Attempting to Kill Biden Because His Incompetence Would “Lead The US Into a Crisis”

Osama bin Laden banned al-Qaeda from trying to assassinate Joe Biden because – even over a decade ago – it was obvious he would be a completely incompetent president that would ‘lead the US into a crisis.’

The comments were discovered in a message that bin Laden wrote to an aide identified as ‘Brother Shaykh Mahmud’ (real name Atiyah Abd al-Rahman) in 2010. The 48-page letter was found with a massive amount of other documents by US special forces in Pakistan when the terrorist leader was killed in 2011.

In it, he explains al-Qaeda’s plans to shift resources away from operations in other Muslim countries so they can coordinate more terror attacks against the United States.

Bin Laden wanted to use the freed up manpower to create two hit squads that would be tasked with planning and carrying out attacks on high ranking American officials if they were to make a trip to the middle east. Obama and the former head of the CIA, David Petraeus, were the jihadist’s two prime targets.

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The express goal was to take out the then-current president and key figureheads around him so that the “totally unprepared” Biden would become the new commander in chief. 

Excerpts from the bin Laden letter:

‘Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there. 

‘Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis.’

‘As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war’s path.’

The documents were first made public in 2012, but have recently resurfaced with a newfound credibility to them ever since Biden’s ineptitude and weakness orchestrated the massive failure in Afghanistan that we are currently enduring.

The decision to withdraw US troops from the country while the Taliban was primed for a takeover will undoubtedly go down as one of the worst foreign policy decisions in history. Not only did he arm the insurgents with their massive stockpile of elite weaponry, he left thousands of US citizens in the country to fend for themselves as they try to reach evacuation flights to go home.

Americans have taken notice and for the first time since he became fraud-in-chief his approval rating dropped below 50% in all the major polls. The majority of voters also believe that he is NOT mentally and physically capable enough for the job.

The rest of the world is also furious. Foreign news are saying he is a ‘humiliation’ to the US and has faced intense backlash from global leaders because millions are expected to flee the terror state and resettle in their countries.

And no surprise the radicals in his Administration are running cover.

In the end and a decade after he died, Bin Laden got what he hoped for – A Biden presidency.

He was only half right though. Feeble Ol’-Joe has led the WORLD into a crisis.

Friday, August 20, 2021

Exclusive: Report confirms 2020 abuses and RNC deploys 'year-round' election integrity unit

Exclusive: Report confirms 2020 abuses and RNC deploys 'year-round' election integrity unit


A months long investigation into the 2020 presidential vote has found that Democrat-run cities and states used the COVID-19 crisis to change the rules that likely helped Joe Biden’s ascent to the White House.

The Republican National Committee report found several cases in which Democrats used the virus as an excuse to scuttle voter identification rules, flood mailboxes with ballots, and limit poll watching and vote-count observations.

“The pandemic brought chaos and comprehensive changes to voting processes beginning in the spring primaries and lasting through the post-election process,” said the 23-page report from the RNC’s Committee on Election Integrity, created by party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.

“Democrats, including some public officials, used the pandemic as a pretense to achieve long-sought policy goals, such as expanded mail voting and the elimination of key safeguards, specifically for absentee voting, such as witness and ID requirements,” added the report provided to Secrets.

It was focused on the voting process and key areas in which state voting laws were abandoned, not on county-by-county claims of voting fraud.

McDaniel, who has weathered criticisms over the election, immediately set up a new election integrity unit that will challenge future voting schemes and advise states on election reform.

She told us, “The RNC established an election integrity committee to examine how Democrats attack election integrity — and more importantly, to lay out a blueprint for protecting our elections from the far-left.”

McDaniel applauded the panel’s leaders, Chairman Joe Gruters and Co-Chairwoman Ashley MacLeay, and said, “Republicans believe in making it easier to vote and harder to cheat, and we’re building a historic election integrity operation to do just that.”

Since the election, several in the GOP led by former President Donald Trump have challenged election results and drawn attention to states where rules were lifted because of the coronavirus. No elections, however, have been overturned.

The issues found in the report, shown below, are technical but amount to improper changes, said the RNC, which provided this list of highlights:

  • Democratic leaders leveraged the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to water down election integrity safeguards by ramming through last-minute changes to the election process.
  • Many changes were enacted by courts that disregarded long-standing laws, by Democratic governors who abused their emergency powers, and by officials such as secretaries of state who ignored state laws duly passed by their legislatures.
  • Some public officials used the pandemic as a pretense to expand mail voting and eliminate key absentee voting safeguards such as witness and ID requirements. Policies such as automatically mailing ballots to all voters and waiving ballot delivery deadlines also led to chaos and decreased confidence in our elections.

The committee also took note of the millions dumped into election coffers by liberals such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Now on alert, the RNC plans to fight back. It already spent $40 million on election integrity initiatives during the 2020 contests. It is building from there.

Officials said that a "year-round election integrity operation" will be created. They said that will include "hiring in-state election integrity directors, monitoring state and county-level election processes to ensure laws are being followed, training thousands of poll watchers to observe all steps in the elections process, and continuing to engage in lawsuits that protect and promote election integrity."

The report issued several recommendations that McDaniel is acting on and the party sharing with states eyeing reform legislation.

Many of the recommendations are common sense but opposed by some Democratic lawmakers who instead are using reforms to paint Republicans as proponents of limiting voting. The committee’s top recommendations:

  • Clean up their voter rolls.
  • Eliminate same-day and automatic voter registration.
  • Enact ID requirements for all voting methods, while ensuring officials educate the public on ID requirements and provide free IDs to those few without one.
  • Only use voting systems that produce a paper record of a voter’s selections that is reviewable pre-tabulation and auditable post-election.
  • Prohibit ballot harvesting.
  • Enact uniform and enforceable standards for rejecting and accepting absentee ballots.
  • Enhance cybersecurity requirements for voting systems, including that they have no wireless, network, or internet connectivity at any stage of the election process.
  • Allow political parties and state legislatures to have standing to bring or intervene in election-related litigation.
  • Prohibit the acceptance or the use of any non-governmental, third-party, or private money, grants, or gifts from outside sources to assist in the administration of an election.

 

I’m Not Going To Wear A Mask In A County Where No One Is Dying Of COVID

 

I’m Not Going To Wear A Mask In A County Where No One Is Dying Of COVID

Wearing a mask to 'save lives' even though nobody is dying from COVID is on caliber with calling a man 'she' because he playacts as a woman. 
Kylee Zempel
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There’s nothing quite like the feeling of being ordered to do something absurd and being helpless against it. That was exactly the feeling that washed over many residents of Dane County, Wisconsin, on Tuesday when an unelected decisionmaker decreed that just two days later, a mask would be required for entry into virtually every indoor space.

The blow might have been softened and resulting ire lessened if there were any reason to believe this action was going to save lives in the county that’s home to Wisconsin’s capital city of Madison. But it’s hard to improve a daily death average of zero.

That inescapable reality — that almost nobody is dying of the Wuhan virus in one of the most vaccinated counties in the country, yet breathing uninhibited is verboten — is the premier form of gaslighting from the ruling class of power-drunk elites.

For a year and a half, well-meaning Americans have complied with anti-science executive decisions and been scorned when they merely disagreed with the conventional wisdom pouring out of the corporate press. Each time, lawmakers and bureaucrats weaponized private businesses to do their dirty work, ordering them to enforce mask-wearing and social distancing and to keep the peasants in line.

They got away with all of that, despite the mitigation measures causing catastrophic side-effects such as a waxing mental health crisis, a massive surge in drug overdoses, and a huge blow to the education and other cognitive development of the next generation, the extent to which we will not possibly be able to ascertain for years to come.

Life is a game of tradeoffs, and there may be some formula of factors that makes the above trade-offs worth it. But what is Dane County trying to prevent? Whom is it trying to protect?

Tuesday’s order prompted a look at the numbers, which revealed an incredible sustained straight black line at zero — ZERO deaths for the seven-day average since the middle of May, when the seven-day average was a whopping single death. The last time the weekly average was higher than one was before Valentine’s Day. Only one death has been attributed to coronavirus in this county of more than half a million people in the last two weeks, with deaths across the entire state down 34 percent in the same timeframe. See for yourself:

dane county

That’s why, when one of the unelected Dane County health tyrants unilaterally decided it’s time to mask up again — for everyone including the vaccinated and even toddlers as young as 2 years old — weary residents were driven to rage and worse, to despair.

What on Earth are logical residents to do when the anti-science authoritarians in power refuse to relent with disruptive rules? What are they to do when there’s no end in sight and to obey is to betray what they know to be rational and true?

The exasperation runs deep because a healthy person wearing a mask among healthy people is way more than an inconvenience.  To obey the absurd mask rules is to play into the delusions and games of the sadistic ruling class. Wearing a mask to “save lives” even though nobody is dying is on caliber with calling a man “she” because he playacts as a woman. It feels wrong because it is.

The things we say or don’t say, wear or don’t wear, and do or don’t do are based on more than religious conviction. They’re based on a fundamental worldview of whether we’re committed to living within the bounds of reality. We shouldn’t govern ourselves based on what our neighbor thinks of us. We should live according to what is good and right and true based on evidence and truth, and we make trade-offs.

If you live in Dane County, you know that East Washington Avenue, the three-mile thoroughfare west of Sun Prairie that leads to the Capitol, is a disaster zone, known for crashes, hit-and-runs, and reckless driving including drag racing at all hours of the night. With five fatal accidents so far in just the first eight months, 2021 has proved to be the most dangerous year on East Wash in at least a decade. Just more than a month ago, two pedestrians were fatally struck on that road within the same week, a tragic reality but a higher number than Dane County’s weekly COVID death average of zero.

Yet each day, thousands of drivers and plenty of pedestrians and bicyclists still opt for East Wash, risks and all. Drivers might get a ticket if they drive too fast and pedestrians might need to double-check for the all-clear before they trust the crosswalk, but they assume the risks and act accordingly.

What happens if those same people, most likely vaccinated, assess the risks of COVID and then try to go out to dinner without a mask or attend church or use their gym? They’ll be forced to mask up or be denied entry. Within the latest Dane County order is a directive for private businesses to enforce the new rule because nobody is allowed to individually assess virtually nonexistent risks from COVID.

This is an outrage, and maybe we’re partly to blame for ever agreeing to mask in the first place, or at least for continuing to mask after “two weeks to flatten the curve.” We can’t do anything about our conduct last year except to learn from it, but we can think about how the choices we make today will empower callous bureaucrats to exercise tyranny over our lives tomorrow.

We all have some choices to make. Maybe my maskless self will be excused from my favorite coffee shop or denied entry to the hair salon, and I’ll have to suck it up. But what about activities that are harder to avoid, like getting groceries or using public transportation? At what point do we stop putting on a mask just to avoid confrontation despite knowing that at this point, it’s all a farce? If not after a year and a half and zero average deaths, then when?

It’s way beyond time to reclaim truth and live according to our principles, not someone else’s lies. We must refuse to wear a mask in counties where nobody is dying from COVID. Today, that’s Dane County. Tomorrow, it could be wherever you live.

Everything Wrong with Simone Biles’ Pro-Abortion Instagram Story

Everything Wrong with Simone Biles’ Pro-Abortion Instagram Story

Simone Biles has always been an uncontroversial and undeniably talented Olympic athlete, beloved and admired by the entire world. That is, until this summer’s 2021 Olympics in Japan. During the Olympics, she withdrew from some competitions and, after the Olympics, she strongly advocated in favor of abortion. The first act was a personal decision but the second act, because of her prominence, could have profound repercussions and needs to be addressed.

As we all know, Biles stepped down from some Olympic competitions this year due to mental health concerns. Some will speculate that she “quit” because she felt unfairly scored. Others will say a combination of intense pressure, an aching body, and unbelievably difficult routines led to legitimate safety concerns.

I won’t pretend to understand what it feels like to be a 24-year-old internationally recognized athlete, often deemed the “best in the world,” competing on a worldwide stage. However, Biles and I are both type-A personalities. We are our worst critics, and we’re constantly competing with ourselves. With that in mind, I can only imagine the immense pressure Biles feels and how that affects her mental wellbeing.

But as a new advocate for mental health, Biles is doing an incredibly poor job of addressing one of the worst culprits of women’s mental health issues today – abortion.

This week, Biles posted on her Instagram story a request asking for “unpopular opinions.” One Instagram user replied, “abortion is wrong ,” to which Biles responded with a rant about how she is pro-choice, especially after experiencing the broken foster care system.

Biles’ first mistake is likening adoption to foster care. She rolls her eyes at the thought of adoption as a beautiful, life-affirming solution to an unexpected pregnancy. As the child of an adopted man, I can personally attest to the tremendous value of adoption. I would not exist without it. On top of that, foster care and adoption are not synonymous.

Foster care is a complicated and often broken system, but the ultimate goal of foster care is to remove children from toxic situations and return them to their families when that situation is rectified. Adoption, on the other hand, is a process in which a child is permanently placed with another family. With adoption, birth mothers have many options, ranging from open to closed adoption. Many adoptive families are even willing to pay for a variety of the mother’s expenses during the pregnancy and birth. Does the foster system need to change? Absolutely. But that does not negate the beauty and necessity of adoption.

Biles’ second mistake is using her position of power and influence to deceive little girls into thinking abortion is okay. Young girls, especially those from minority communities, look up to Biles as a role model. We know the Spiderman quote – “With great power comes great responsibility.” And Simone Biles is, quite frankly, functioning as an irresponsible role model. Her advocacy for abortion – which intentionally kills an innocent preborn baby and harms mothers – could lead to irreparable harm for countless women and children whom Biles will never come to know.

Abortion has significant consequences, both physically and mentally. It can lead to severe cramping, heavy or persistent bleeding, internal organ damage, loss of fertility, breast cancer, infection, immune system inhibition, and even death. Additionally, there can be emotional and psychological repercussions associated with abortion including grief and regret, isolation, substance abuse, insomnia or nightmares, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, and even suicide.

The abortion industry has also victimized countless minority communities. Abortion kills more Black Americans than any other cause of death, including AIDs, cancer, violent crimes, accidents, and heart disease combined. In fact, Michael Novak, from the American Enterprise Institute, said, “America’s black community would now number 41 million persons” if not for abortion. That means the Black population would be 35% larger if abortion hadn’t killed a significant number of Black babies.

Planned Parenthood was founded on the racist beliefs of known eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who even spoke at KKK events. She sought to “purify” the American population through birth control for “the gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extinction, of defective stocks – those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”

Planned Parenthood’s racist legacy even continues today, accepting donations to specifically kill Black babies and opposing legislation that would make race-based abortions illegal. Additionally, almost 80% of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are placed within walking distance of minority communities.

As Toni McFadden, formerly Students for Life Action’s Minority Outreach and Healthy Relationships Director said, “The same harm of slavery continues today as another class of people are robbed of their human right to life—the preborn—and it is for them that I fight.”

When Biles publicly advocated for abortion due to a challenging experience in the foster care system, she essentially told little girls worldwide that death is better than difficulty. That they need abortion to be independent and successful. That abortion is inconsequential.

As a mental health “role model,” Simone Biles does a grave injustice to the many women who will suffer and even die after an abortion.

Biles is undeniably a successful victor over a broken foster care system. Instead of justifying the deaths of millions of preborn children, she should be inspiring others to have hope and triumph beyond their circumstances. Biles should champion reform of the foster care system instead of expressing a defeatist attitude because many people will experience some form of suffering in their life. Despite the hardships, life is beautiful and worth living – just as it has been for Biles.

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Fact Check: Lindell's 'Truth vs. The Big Lie' Numbers Flat-Out Contradict Douglas G. Frank's Theories About Phantom Voters Being Used To Inject Votes | Lead Stories

Fact Check: Lindell's 'Truth vs. The Big Lie' Numbers Flat-Out Contradict Douglas G. Frank's Theories About Phantom Voters Being Used To Inject Votes

Fact Check


Fact Check: Lindell's 'Truth vs. The Big Lie' Numbers Flat-Out Contradict Douglas G. Frank's Theories About Phantom Voters Being Used To Inject Votes Doesn't Add Up

Did "corrected" vote totals from the 2020 election presented by Mike Lindell at his election fraud Cyber Symposium as "Truth" support the theory that fake ballots were injected into every state's official election returns? No, that's not true: Lindell's "Truth" totals add up to the same number of votes he calls "The Big Lie," which are the final tallies that have appeared in multiple official and unofficial sources. Those tallies were compiled without the aid of the data Lindell used in declaring the election was hacked. It is nonsensical that Lindell's "Truth" tally would match "Big Lie" tallies in state after state, since he and a Ph.D. chemist ally named Douglas Frank claim to know that many fake votes were injected in order to change the result.

You cannot claim, at the same time, that the "corrected" result has exactly the same total number of votes as the official one (just distributed differently between candidates) and then claim the difference was caused by fake votes being injected via an algorithm.

The claims were made over the course of his three-day Cyber Symposium in South Dakota and relayed in part in a post (archived here) published on Facebook on August 11, 2021. It opened:

Just emailed all PA Reps from the Symposium. Here it is!!!

This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:

Facebook screenshot

(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Thu Aug 12 16:22:29 2021 UTC)

Lead Stories assigned staff to watch the live stream of the three-day Cyber Symposium and paid to send a nationally-known cybersecurity expert to the symposium to analyze in person the data Lindell promised to release. Lindell says he has 37 terabytes of intercepted internet traffic (packet captures, often referred to as 'PCAPS') which he says will prove how fraudulent votes were injected into official state vote tallies in order to steal the election. Note that at the time of publication none of this data has been released, despite Lindell's earlier promises this would happen.

Over the first two days of the symposium, Lindell broadcast a series of charts showing numbers he said were the true results from the 2020 election, alongside those he called "The Big Lie." We compiled screen shots of his slides for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia from live streams of the event on rumble.com and other sources streaming the event:

LindellResults.png

(Source: screengrabs of Lindell's slideshow from Tue Aug 10 and Wed Aug 11, 2021 UTC and collected all in one image)

(NOTE: Lindell stated during the symposium that the totals for Alaska were mistakenly reversed on the slide shown above)

First, our fact checker noticed that the slide for Nevada was not like the other states: The vote total for Trump was the same in both the "Big Lie" and "Truth" analysis, while Biden's "Truth" number was lower than the official tally, resulting in Trump winning Arizona by their estimation:

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(Source: screengrab taken August 10, 2021 UTC)

For Lindell's "Truth" numbers to be correct, the wide-ranging attack on the election would have had to DELETE votes in Nevada. But, at the time the slide was displayed, Lindell and Frank insisted votes and voter registration had been ADDED for Biden in all 50 states. Their theory does not explain how, in Nevada, there are nearly 60,000 Biden ballots certified by the state.

The other possibility is that the data presented for the state of Nevada at the symposium is false or mistaken.

But that got us started on looking at his numbers closely.

Simple comparison of Lindell's "Truth" numbers to official tallies reveals a logic problem

To see if Nevada was an anomaly, we gathered all the "Big Lie" tallies from Lindell's slides into a spreadsheet and added the totals for both candidates, by state. Then we compared Lindell's number of total votes, by state, to the publicly available election tallies, by state, as reported in the Cook Political report, the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, and Wikipedia.

In almost every state, Lindell's "Truth" total matches the official and expert vote totals. Those are the totals he calls "The Big Lie".

Even including the data presented for Nevada, the totals are within .004 and .005% of each other. And, if we assume that the 57,758 vote discrepancy for Nevada was an honest mistake, the difference among the vote totals presented by Lindell amount to a nationwide discrepancy of 21,207 votes between Lindell's "Truth" total and that of Cook Political report totals, 24 votes between Lindell's "Truth" total and that collected by MIT, and not a single vote's difference between Lindell's "Truth" total and the totals found on Wikipedia at the time this fact check was written. That's 0 deviation between Lindell's total number of votes and the total found on Wikipedia (other than the glitch on Lindell's Nevada slide.)

That means that Lindell claims the total number of ballots cast in the election was largely correct, he only disagrees with who those ballots were cast for.

In the following chart, a yellow-highlighted FALSE shows any total that does not match Lindell's "Truth" total.

LindellResultsSheet.png

(Source: Lead Stories spreadsheet created with Google Sheets, using data displayed at Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium August 10 and August 11, 2021)

If three trusted sources of the official election results that Lindell calls "The Big Lie" show the same total numbers of presidential votes in each state, that means Lindell and Frank's "Truth" analysis did not account for any of the fake ballots Lindell and Frank claim they have shown were injected into the vote totals by Chinese hackers.

Frank was featured in Lindell's film "Scientific Proof" in which Frank marries Lindell's claim that he has evidence voting machines were hacked to Frank's statistical analysis. Frank says the hackers used 2010 census data and past election results to build plausible voting patterns by which to pump up the vote for Biden with fake votes.

But if the "Big Lie" vote total is the result of adding votes, those hacked-election official totals should be significantly higher than Lindell's "Truth" totals. Instead, it appears Lindell and Frank took the certified election results and just rearranged each candidate's tally without subtracting the votes both men claim they can prove were added in.

Lead Stories emailed questions about the data puzzle to the address by which Lindell has communicated with us multiple times in recent months. That message was sent August 12, 2021 and we will add his response, as appropriate, when we receive it.

Lead Stories also emailed questions to Frank, via the address he uses on his church and business website, on August 12, 2021. Lead Stories also texted a request for information to the phone number for Frank we found on his church website, and also called the number in an attempt to leave a message. Frank's explanations will be included when we receive them.

The election hack that injected fraudulent fake votes, as described by Frank in advance of the Cyber Symposium:

On the opening day of the symposium, Frank said he has been a guest speaker in 13 states and is working with 30 more to show how he used his training as a Ph.D. analytical chemist to find unnaturally consistent patterns of voter registration and voting in the 2020 presidential election. Frank says it is proof that hackers stole the election from Donald Trump by using digital backdoors to the election registration system to add fraudulent phantom voters who were used to boost the number of votes for Biden.

The following is a slide displayed at the Cyber Symposium to summarize Frank's claim:

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(Source: Frankspeech.com screenshot of presentation at Cyber Symposium taken August 11, 2021)

Here, from a YouTube video, (archived here) is how Frank says the hack was carried out, by adding votes:

... at the beginning before the election each county registration rolls are artificially inflated. For example, people who have passed away you don't remove them from the registration role so that gives you extra voters or people that have moved away you can put them back in and that gives you extra voters ... they can't vote anymore because one's moved away or one's passed away but yet we somehow are still receiving ballots from people like that so those are called phantom ballots or phantom voters and so that's the first thing is you inflate the registration rolls ...they inflate the registration rolls and then during the election they monitor what's happening and insert those phantom ballots appropriately as needed and they start with predictions ahead of time so they have targets they're shooting for and that makes it easy to back-calculate what they're doing because you can see them reaching their targets and then after the election they have to do cleaning up afterwards and we have proof of each one of those steps.

Frank's theory, that fake voters and fake votes were added, is not reflected in the charts Lindell offered as the "True" numbers of votes.

Although Frank describes a plot he says hurt Republican incumbent Donald Trump, the Republican-led Oversight Committee of the Michigan State Senate refuted claims Michigan's election was hacked (claims repeated by several speakers at the Cyber Symposium) and in its June 23, 2021, report on its investigation, singled out Frank by name as having spread false information.

Dr. Frank's conclusions are not sound for several reasons. Census data is not recent, and people do not only move away (as he frequently contends) but others do move into an area. Coupled with same day registration the notable red flags he spotted in the data are easily explained, e.g. young people do not vote as readily as older citizens, people's movements create disparities between registrations and the census, etc.
The patterns he sees are not unexpected or unusual to elections or human behavior in general.
His theories depend on the ability to hack into the tabulators before or during and/or at the end of the election.
Many of the counties he and others identified as having been hacked do not even have modems or make any online connection to submit results. Those that do, do not connect the modem, which is physically separate from the Dominion tabulator, until after the polls are closed and the tabulators have printed the official results."