Comments about the 2-10-26 Gillespie CEC meeting, where we voted to flip from hand counting to electronic voting machines for early voting.
A quorum is 8, not 7.
The sole purpose of this emergency... View MoreComments about the 2-10-26 Gillespie CEC meeting, where we voted to flip from hand counting to electronic voting machines for early voting.
A quorum is 8, not 7.
The sole purpose of this emergency meeting was to flip us away from hand counting to machine counting. It was the 2nd official meeting called for that purpose, and there was also a 3rd, unofficial meeting for the same purpose.
Those pushing us to flip from hand counting to electronic voting machines invested huge amounts of time, meetings, and multiple phone calls to pressure us to change.
Those of us who participated via Zoom did not attend in person so we could kill the quorum so we could not be flipped back to machines.
Up until Tuesday's meeting, the pro-hand-count CEC members had the votes to kill the effort.
Unfortunately, someone persuaded a pro-hand-count member.
That means that the majority of the Republican Party's election will not be hand counted.
Do you understand what happened? Sixty-five to eighty-five percent of the Republican party's votes will NOT be hand counted, thanks to Bruce Campbell and the others pushing it.
One of the points the leadership made was the number of volunteers who had signed up to hand count. Those of us who were actively contacting people--instead of spending inordinate amounts of time trying to change our counting method--were going through lists of those who had counted last time, and we were building a good number of counters. We would have had plenty of volunteers by the time the election would have rolled around, 3 weeks after Tuesday's meeting.
But, I believe strongly that harping endlessly on the number of volunteers was a pretense to panic the CEC into flipping some or all of the counting back to the machines.
With hand counting, no matter how long it takes, we can trust the results. If we only had half the volunteers that we had the last time, then it would have taken twice as long, but the results would still be truthworthy, unlike with the electronic voting machines. But, I think we would have had way more than that.
Transparency
Electronic voting machines have zero transparency. You have no idea what is happening inside them. You put in the ballot, a flag pops up on the screen, and then nobody knows if or how your votes are counted. You just have to trust that everything is OK. There is no way to verify what happened. At the end of the day the machine prints out a little ticker tape declaring the numbers.
You have no way to verify those numbers, unless, of course, you hand count all the ballots, which you are not allowed to do.
Verifiable
To contrast, with hand counting, on election day, on a precinct level, (early votes are counted in a separate location all together) ballots are sorted into batches of 50, each batch has a tally sheet for each race and each vote, including under and over votes.
The counting is done out loud and witnessed by 4 other people, who sign their names in a affidavit swearing to their truthfulness, also supervised by the Election Judge and Alternate.
Then there is a tally summary sheet, where all the numbers are totaled and tracked by batch number, with cross checking features.
Finally, there is a return sheet where all the batch summaries are totaled, again, with cross checking features.
Every document is signed by whoever touched it, and there may also be a counting captain, with the election judge supervising. At each level of paperwork, you can trace back the source of each number to verify how that number was calculated.
If necessary, you can go all the way back to the batch of ballots and physically verify the count.
You can compel a counter to testify in court, and criminally penalize them if they cheat.
If someone is cheating, you have the opportunity to see them doing it.
With electronic voting machines, you have none of that. You just have to trust that everything was done correctly; hence, the electronic voting machines are completely non-transparent, with zero verifiability.
Machines: Trust “Just Because I Told You So”
The only trust factor is that a number of people tell you that you can trust them. Nothing else. The voter, the election judge, the clerks, the elections administrator, nobody can personally verify or observe anything; just hope that all those people are correct who are telling him that it is.
Audit
The CEC also agreed to do a full audit of the ballots, possibly days or weeks after the election, after the ballots have been sitting in the elections department. Who knows who will have access to them during that time?
The audit has nothing to do with hand counting the election; early voting counting will be done on election day by the electronic tabulators. The term "hand count audit" is misleading, making it seem like there is some connection to hand counting the election; there is no connection.
Of course the numbers will match, this time. Then we'll hear about how we can trust the machines, and all the fuss about not trusting them is proven to be false. But, these are electronic devices that can be secretly altered, and no one will know what happened. They are fundamentally a non-transparent, untrustworthy process, contrary to what the Texas constitution requires.
The whole point of hand counting is that the process in every election must be fully transparent and verifiable, not that there was 1 election where the results were verified, and now we can continue forever with zero transparency and zero verifiability.
Remember why we decided to hand count in the first place.
Do you remember the election fraud of 2020?
Do you remember that the election was stolen from Donald Trump?
Do you remember that the Biden junta occupied the federal executive branch, not because of a lack of volunteers, but because of large scale election fraud, including fraud from electronic voting machines?
Do you remember that we were all designated domestic terrorists because election fraud enabled that criminal to overthrow the executive branch of the federal government?
Do you remember Dominion before all references to it were blocked? That had nothing to do with volunteers.
Do you remember the "F" fraud curve, when the counting was stopped so the numbers could be changed, and Trump went from leading, to losing? That wasn't the number of volunteers, that was election fraud.
As it now stands, the CEC has voted to return to the machines that helped accomplish all of the above.
Our CEC's vote put everything in place that enabled Biden to seize power in the first place.
We on the right like to complain about all the RINOs in Congress. They sell out. They have no guts. They don't care about the Constitution. They talk all day about what they are going to do when they are in power, but when they actually have power, they do nothing.
The CEC's vote Tuesday cannot be blamed on Dade Phelan, Mike Johnson, John Cornyn, Dustin Burrows, or any of the other weak Republicans. We can't blame Epstein or Soros. We can definitely blame Bruce Campbell, but he didn't do it by himself.
Note, there is one solution, for this election, at least. You can vote on Election Day instead of early voting.
If you vote on Election Day, your vote will be hand counted.
It will be interesting to see how many people know what is happening, understand this concept, and care enough to actually vote on Election Day.
Jeremiah 5:31 KJV
[31] The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Total collapse of Gillespie county CEC.
EV will be counted on electronic voting machines, there will be a hand count "audit" some time after the election of all the EV ballots.
Could be worse. Prec... View MoreTotal collapse of Gillespie county CEC.
EV will be counted on electronic voting machines, there will be a hand count "audit" some time after the election of all the EV ballots.
Could be worse. Precincts will still be hand counted with paper poll books.
Their arguments:
—(one guy said) Computers are with us to stay, we trust them with everything else, we can trust them for this, too. Can't be rid of them.
—We don't have enough counters (panic panic panic).
Mostly they didn't say anything, because they knew they had it all sewn up, and they didn't need to say anything.
We could fix this by eliminating early voting, or by transporting the EV ballots to their respective precincts to be counted.
Sad day, but there’s always the next election.
If we don’t fix this, the left will flip Texas, and we won’t know how, and won’t be able to recover. The Republicans who kept these machines will have played a role.
Friends, the European censorship complex is working full swing to eventually crush American media such as X, WhatsApp, Facebook, and so on, to destroy them, force them into censoring content, or remov... View MoreFriends, the European censorship complex is working full swing to eventually crush American media such as X, WhatsApp, Facebook, and so on, to destroy them, force them into censoring content, or remove them from their areas of control, causing those companies great economic harm.
Trump and our federal government need to be preparing for this to happen to try to prevent it, and we need to be aware of it, so we can develop censorship proof means of mass communications.
What the censorship coalition is promoting will be far worse than it was in 2020 and 2021 when most of us were censored, up through when Elon bought X, and Trump came back in to power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQuF7LBqT7A
Dear Republican Presidential Nominee For The 2028 Election
Dear Republican presidential nominee for the 2028 election: I am here from the future to tell you why you just got crushed, as the EU censor-plex completely encircles the MAGA movement and the White H
We need to be clear, Pretti was a communist moron participating in the Color Revolution that is presently under way. He assaulted a vehicle, and spitting on a person is generally considered assault, ... View MoreWe need to be clear, Pretti was a communist moron participating in the Color Revolution that is presently under way. He assaulted a vehicle, and spitting on a person is generally considered assault, as well. He may have been interfering in an ICE operation. ICE operations to deport illegals are part of Trump's most important agendas.
But, as an American, he absolutely had the right to protest armed to the teeth, with as much firepower as he could carry, and with as many magazines as his wicked little heart desired.
We on the right need to stop surrendering our principles just because of politics.
Rights belong to everyone; not just our side, and not just when it's convenient for our narrative.
Trump tends to make comments. We need to let him know that the particular comments he made are unacceptable; that they express the violation of Constitutional rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3dj9eNBBkg
The Delphi process/consensus building technique of group manipulation:
Participant Selection:
• Pre-selecting people likely to support the desired outcome
• Excluding or limiting voices that might ... View MoreThe Delphi process/consensus building technique of group manipulation:
Participant Selection:
• Pre-selecting people likely to support the desired outcome
• Excluding or limiting voices that might dissent
• Including token opposition to create appearance of fairness
Question Design:
• Framing questions with loaded language that presupposes the desired answer
• Offering false choices that exclude unwanted options
• Using leading questions that make the predetermined outcome seem logical
Information Control:
• Selectively summarizing responses between rounds (emphasizing agreement, burying dissent)
• Misrepresenting the degree of consensus (“most participants agree…”)
• Withholding or downplaying contrary evidence or opinions
• Presenting fabricated or exaggerated “expert consensus”
Social Pressure Tactics:
• Characterizing dissenting views as outliers, uninformed, or unreasonable
• Creating bandwagon effect by prematurely declaring “emerging consensus”
• Using anonymity to hide that there’s actually significant disagreement
• Applying time pressure to prevent thorough consideration
Iterative Manipulation:
• Using successive rounds to wear down opposition
• Gradually shifting language toward predetermined conclusion
• Making dissenters repeatedly justify their position while supporters coast
Outcome Presentation:
• Declaring victory when desired result emerges, even if minimal actual agreement
• Framing the conclusion as participant-driven rather than facilitator-imposed
The goal is making participants believe they collectively reached a conclusion they were actually steered toward.
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