U.S. Voting Rights Activist Stacey Abrams Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

[Shabibilicious]

 

U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

FILE PHOTO: Stacey Abrams speaks at Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 18, 2020

 

Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche

Mon, February 1, 2021, 8:08 AM

 

 

By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche

OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote nonviolent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said on Monday.

Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the U.S. presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, former White House adviser Jared Kushner.

 

"Abrams' work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights," said Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway's parliament.

King, a Baptist minister who became a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, won the Nobel prize in 1964 and remains among its most famous laureates.

"Abrams' efforts to complete King's work are crucial if the United States of America shall succeed in its effort to create fraternity between all its peoples and a peaceful and just society," Haltbrekken said.

Thousands of people, from members of parliaments worldwide to former winners, are eligible to propose candidates, and a nomination does not imply endorsement from the Nobel committee in Oslo.

Other candidates this year include Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the World Health Organization and climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.

The U.S. Black Lives Matter movement, as well as Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" about the Vietnam War, U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and WikiLeaks, have also been nominated, as have pro-democracy and civil rights campaigners from Belarus to Poland and Hungary.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which decides who wins the award, does not comment on nominations, but nominators can choose to reveal their picks.

Prominent former U.S. winners include Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, and former vice president, Al Gore.

The 2021 laureate will be announced in October.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/u-voting-rights-activist-stacey-130850201.html

 

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[md11fr8dawg]

Could not think of a better person to nominate, except, oh wait BLM, yeah that's the ticket. Let's make the prize even more worthless than it was when Obummer got it for what? NOTHING!! Maybe, if you voted for Biden, they'll let you vote for the peace prize nominee.

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It's turned into the treason prize 

[8th ID]

maybe she can accept the award from her jail cell.

[Shabibilicious]

2 minutes ago, 8th ID said:

maybe she can accept the award from her jail cell.

 

The accompanying million dollar prize will come in handy in the slammer....for smokes and such.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[md11fr8dawg]

Might help her win the Presidency of Cellblock #2!!!

Edited February 1, 2021 by md11fr8dawg

[md11fr8dawg]

I believe I read that she was nominated because she played the race card the most of anyone in the 2020 election!!!

[Shabibilicious]

2 minutes ago, md11fr8dawg said:

I believe I read that she was nominated because she played the race card the most of anyone in the 2020 election!!!

 

I think it said she was continuing the work the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.....striving for equality for all, particularly with respect to voting rights.

 

GOR V, then BV

[md11fr8dawg]

Well, that's not what King's wife thinks. Perhaps it was the massive mail in ballots she sent out to all those vacant lots in GA that were returned and counted. Martin would have LOVE that!!

[Shabibilicious]

3 minutes ago, md11fr8dawg said:

Well, that's not what King's wife thinks. Perhaps it was the massive mail in ballots she sent out to all those vacant lots in GA that were returned and counted. Martin would have LOVE that!!

 

That would be an interesting read, particularly since she passed away 15 years ago......have a link?

 

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[md11fr8dawg]

Sorry Shabs, my mistake, it was his niece Alveda. 

[Shabibilicious]

17 minutes ago, md11fr8dawg said:

Sorry Shabs, my mistake, it was his niece Alveda. 

 

You know how nieces can be......you think everything is great and then, Boom!, an earth shattering tell-all hits the book stores.  

 

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Edited February 1, 2021 by Shabibilicious

[Markinsa]

3 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

I think it said she was continuing the work the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.....striving for equality for all, particularly with respect to voting rights.

 

GOR V, then BV

 

You mean, one vote for Trump is worth, .65 votes for Trump & 1.35 votes for Biden?  MLK is rolling over in his grave. 

[Shabibilicious]

24 minutes ago, Markinsa said:

 

You mean, one vote for Trump is worth, .65 votes for Trump & 1.35 votes for Biden?  MLK is rolling over in his grave. 

 

Georgia results were counted and recounted 3 times....audited, and investigated by the GBI...with near zero cases of election fraud found.....short of overturning the election results and awarding the state to Trump, what do you want? 

 

GO RV, then BV

[Markinsa]

I want the "FULL" truth to come out concerning the Election, I want the Evidence that was submitted to the Courts, that the Courts did not look at, presented to the American People.  I want the ballots examined by Independent Auditors, not PRO V&V, who did the audit for Georgia, which was in bed with Dominion.  

 

Tell me something, if there was nothing wrong with the ballots, why did the democrats refused to let Republican's review and challenge any ballots, and put them in places where they couldn't even see the ballots?  And don't say Covid, because the counters were sitting right next to each other.

 

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[Shabibilicious]

1 minute ago, Markinsa said:

I want the "FULL" truth to come out concerning the Election, I want the Evidence that was submitted to the Courts, that the Courts did not look at, presented to the American People.  I want the ballots examined by Independent Auditors, not PRO V&V, who did the audit for Georgia, which was in bed with Dominion.  

 

Tell me something, if there was nothing wrong with the ballots, why did the democrats refused to let Republican's review and challenge any ballots, and put them in places where they couldn't even see the ballots?  And don't say Covid, because the counters were sitting right next to each other.

 

 

Yeah I watched that soundless video....All those allegations were investigated as well.

 

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[Markinsa]

Just now, Shabibilicious said:

 

Yeah I watched that soundless video....All those allegations were investigated as well.

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Really?  Prove it.

[Shabibilicious]

12 minutes ago, Markinsa said:

 

Really?  Prove it.

 

I'm sure it won't satisfy your needs, for you surely have a different "qualified" source list....but here's some links anyway.

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/video-doesnt-show-election-fraud-in-georgia/

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/video-georgia-election-false-fraud_n_5fcac976c5b619bc4c330575

 

https://www.ajc.com/politics/5-georgia-election-fraud-claims-explained/HG7LECMRRZGBNH6VNLYI4H5R6A/

 

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/no-smoking-gun-ben-domenech-admits-georgia-election-surveillance-video-is-not-enough-to-overturn-election-results/

 

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/politics/georgia-election-officials-show-frame-by-frame-what-really-happened-fulton-surveillance-video/T5M3PYIBYFHFFOD3CIB2ULDVDE/

 

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[Markinsa]

No, The Georgia Vote-Counting Video Was Not ‘Debunked.’ Not Even Close

A Big Tech-backed 'fact' 'checking' outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence for Republicans' claims of significant election problems in Georgia. It didn't.

 

By Mollie Hemingway

DECEMBER 7, 2020

 

A Big Tech-backed “fact” “checking” outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence in support of Republicans’ claims of significant election problems at a Thursday Georgia Senate hearing. It didn’t. Not even close.

 

Newly discovered security footage from Georgia’s State Farm Arena showed dozens of ballot counters, media, and Republican observers leaving en masse at the same time from the ballot-counting area for Fulton County. After they left, a small remnant of about four workers began pulling trunks containing thousands of ballots from underneath a table with a long tablecloth and running them through machines.

 

The footage supported claims from Republicans that they were told counting had stopped for the night, only to find out hours later that it had kept going on. You can and should watch the 12-minute portion of the testimony from Jacki Pick here.

On Friday morning, a group called Lead Stories published a “hoax alert” falsely claiming to have debunked the security video. The Washington Post, Newsweek, and other outlets followed along, criticizing non-leftist journalists for giving the video traction. In fact, none of the claims made by the Republicans were debunked.

 

Lead Stories’ “fact” “check” says government officials told them everything was fine with the counting, that the ballots were in “containers — not suitcases,” and that “party observers were never told to leave because counting was over for the night.”

 

Leaving aside whether relying solely and uncritically on government officials’ claims constitutes anything close to a “fact” “check,” let’s look at the claim that party observers were never told that counting was over for the night. In Lead Stories’ regurgitation of the government officials’ claims, only the people who cut open the absentee ballot envelopes were sent home, while ballot counters and scanners were retained and kept working — and no one told the press or other observers they were done counting.

Were Republican Poll Watchers and the Media Told Counting Had Stopped For The Night?

Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer has consistently said that’s what happened at State Farm Arena, beginning hours after the election:

That claim, which he has repeated consistently, is backed by sworn affidavits from two Republican observers, who further allege they were kept an unreasonable distance from the ballots even while they were at State Farm Arena, making it completely impossible to meaningfully do their jobs. (The video, which shows the room from four different angles, fully supports the claim that poll watchers were kept away from meaningful observation of ballot handling.)

 

The observers say that they arrived for their observation jobs around 8 p.m. They say in the first half of the 10 o’clock hour, a woman with blonde braids who appeared to be a supervisor “yelled out” to those present in the room that they would stop working for the night and would resume in the morning. The Republican poll watchers said they asked Fulton County Elections Spokesperson Regina Waller questions about the status of the ballot count multiple times but that she refused to answer.

 

Lead Stories, however, says, “There was never an announcement made to the media and other observers about the counting being over for the night and them needing to leave, according to [Frances Watson, chief investigator for the Georgia Secretary of State], who was provided information by the media liaison, who was present.” While Lead Stories doesn’t name the media liaison, the media liaison who was present that night, according to the affidavits, was Regina Waller, the Fulton County public affairs manager for elections.

 

OK, so on the one hand you have sworn affidavits from observers saying that supervisors told ballot counters to go home for the evening shortly after 10 p.m. and a video showing everyone leaving en masse at that time. And on the other hand, you have two government officials promising that no one was told that counting was over. Is there any other evidence to consider?

Well, on election night, ABC News reported that ballot counters were sent home at the time that the Republican observers said everyone was told counting had stopped. Their source? Regina Waller:

 

 

The Republican poll watchers’ story matches this election night reporting perfectly. And it wasn’t just ABC that reported counting was being delayed. Many media outlets reported on counting delays. See, for example, “Fulton County stopped counting absentee ballots for the night.”

 

Local NBC journalists on site that night independently confirmed “they were told counting was done for the night” and given no indication it would continue before the next morning. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution even reported of a “plan” to stop scanning ballots at the same time the poll watchers said things were shut down:

They planned to stop scanning absentee ballots at 10:30 p.m. and pick it up back in the morning. No official could explain before press time why Fulton was stopping its count of absentee ballots at that time, only saying that was the procedure.

 

‘As planned, Fulton County will continue to tabulate the remainder of absentee ballots over the next two days. Absentee ballot processing requires that each ballot is opened, signatures verified, and ballots scanned. This is a labor-intensive process that takes longer to tabulate than other forms of voting. Fulton County did not anticipate having all absentee ballots processed on Election Day,’ the county spokeswoman wrote in a statement.

Some debunking there, guys. The video supports the claim from the affiants.

 

Incidentally, most of the linked stories include mention of a major election day story of a burst pipe delaying vote counting. Some even said it was reportedly a water main.

 

In a new affidavit, the aforementioned Watson swore, “Our investigation revealed that the incident initially reported as a water leak late in the evening on November 3rd was actually a urinal that had overflowed early in the morning of November 3rd.”

 

She also said that her investigation shows that the press and observers “simply left on their own,” although she later said workers put ballots underneath the table because they thought that counting was stopping for the evening. “This was done because employees thought that they were done for the night and were closing up and ready to leave,” she claimed.

Was a State Election Board Monitor Present While Partisan Observers Were Gone?

A Newsweek story quoted someone saying that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office claimed that a designated election observer was “at that spot all night, the entire time.” Lead Stories emphasizes that while partisan observers may not have been present, an “unnamed state election board monitor” was present:

A state election board monitor, who asked for his name not to be used due to safety concerns, told Lead Stories on the phone on December 3, 2020, that he was present at the vote counting location beginning at 11:52 p.m., after leaving briefly at earlier in the evening. He then stayed until about 12:45 a.m., when the work that night was completed.

 

The deputy chief investigator for the secretary of state’s office was present beginning at 12:15 a.m. November 4, he said.

The monitor only claims to have been present in the processing room from 11:52 p.m. on election night to 12:45 a.m., the following morning, or less than an hour. That means there were neither partisan monitors nor the state election board monitor for more than an hour after ballots began being scanned at 10:35 p.m.

 

What the “fact” “check” shows, then, is the monitor admitting he wasn’t present for much of the time in question, contrary to claims made by the Secretary of State’s office. For whatever it’s worth, the same monitor is the subject of an affidavit from another witness, devoted exclusively to concerns about the monitor’s conduct prior to the late hours on election day, according to a member of the Trump team. The claims include that he was sleeping on the job and staring at his phone.

 

Incidentally, Fulton County had such massive problems managing elections earlier this year that they were fined and forced into a settlement agreement that included a requirement that they be independently monitored, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

To avoid the fine, Fulton must maintain verifiable levels of operational competence by properly processing absentee ballots; keeping a force of 2,200 properly trained poll workers; providing at least 24 early voting sites; striving to process 100 voters per hour at any site; having a technical support staff member at every site; and creating a post-election audit.

 

The consent order also requires Fulton to regularly update the Board on its pool of poll workers.

 

The issue in the consent order requiring the most negotiation was over an independent elections monitor.

 

They agreed on Carter Jones, who spent time in Africa helping countries improve their elections…

The U.S. Department of Justice also sent an election monitor to Fulton County.

 

Contrary to the media impression that a state monitor is sufficient oversight, the press and partisan observers are just as if not more important. The false public claims about a pause in counting led to the departure of the press and Republican observers.

 

As for the deputy chief investigator who arrived at 12:15 on Nov. 4, when the ballot-scanning activities were nearly completed, the video shows the person entering the large room, glancing around, and talking on his phone. At no point have the “fact” “checkers” or other media figures asked what prompted an investigator to be dispatched to the State Farm Arena at that time.

 

The Trump legal team, for its part, said the Fulton County situation violated Georgia laws that require election tabulation to be open to public view. The witness affidavits say the denial of meaningful access to the counting process kept Republican observers from being able to actually observe what happened. The Republican observers, the press, and the public were kept to a roped-off area too far from the ballot activity to matter, which doesn’t comply with Georgia law, they say.

There Are Much Bigger Georgia Claims

While conspiracy theories about election fraud abound — ranging from The New York Times’ claim that there was no election fraud anywhere in the entire country to dramatic claims of a global conspiracy involving voting machines, the Trump campaign’s official claims are sober and serious. State Republican Chairman David Shafer and President Donald Trump filed a criminal complaint in state court on Friday regarding tens of thousands of votes that they say were fraudulent.

 

Trump and Shafer allege, for example, that votes came from:

• 2,560 felons,
• 66,247 underage registrants,
• 2,423 people who were not on the state’s voter rolls,
• 4,926 voters who had registered in another state after they registered in Georgia, making them ineligible,
• 395 people who cast votes in another state for the same election,
• 15,700 voters who had filed national change of address forms without re-registering,
• 40,279 people who had moved counties without re-registering,
• 1,043 people who claimed the physical impossibility of a P.O. Box as their address,
• 98 people who registered after the deadline, and, among others,
• 10,315 people who were deceased on election day (8,718 of whom had been registered as dead before their votes were accepted).

The lawsuit further alleges that mail-in ballots received nearly no scrutiny as standards for contesting questionable ballots were made unreasonably difficult.

A Note On Lead Stories

The “fact” “check” was originally written by Alan Duke and Hallie Golden, although Golden’s name was removed from later versions of the story. Golden is a freelance writer whose work regularly appears in The Guardian, a left-wing publication. Duke, a CNN entertainment reporter, retired from the left-wing outlet after 26 years.

 

Earlier versions of the story included a mathematical error about whether the votes that were counted after observers left State Farm Arena could have affected the outcome of the election. The authors falsely wrote that they couldn’t have, when they could have.

 

A later purported “fact” “check” said it wasn’t true that Republican poll watchers swore affidavits that they were told to leave the center. Lead Stories falsely stated that these claims were the “cornerstone” of Trump’s challenge of Georgia. In fact, the legal claim filed by the Trump team only mentions Fulton County telling the press and other election observers that they were going to stop counting ballots and resume counting in the morning once, on one page of the 64-page complaint.

 

Again, those claims have been corroborated, not debunked, by multiple press accounts from election night. As for the affidavits, they make the same claim — that Fulton County election officials falsely said they were stopping the count when in reality they were continuing to count through the night after observers left. The affidavits further state that they were unable to get answers to basic questions from officials.

 

Lead Stories claims it is funded by Facebook, Google, and ByteDance. The latter is the Beijing-based and China Communist Party-linked company known for TikTok. Facebook and Google have suppressed journalism deemed harmful to Trump’s 2020 election opponent Joe Biden. The Trump administration has said TikTok’s ties to the Chinese Communist government makes it a national security threat.

 

NOTE: In a Kafka-esque twist, Facebook is now using Lead Stories to censor this story critical of Lead Stories.

 

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is a senior editor at The Federalist. She is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College and a Fox News contributor. She is the co-author of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court. Follow her on Twitter at @mzhemingway

[Markinsa]

[Shabibilicious]

Fact check: Pennsylvania mail-in ballot claim

The claim: Pennsylvania recorded more mail-in votes than ballots requested

A claim made by President Donald Trump and his supporters on social media is that Pennsylvania election officials reported more mail-in votes for the 2020 election than the number of ballots requested.

Users on Facebook are sharing a screenshot of a viral tweet from Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano that purports to show data shared by the Pennsylvania Department of State. Data is laid out in a chart, with vote totals for Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, with a timestamp of 8 p.m. Nov. 24. 

Mastriano adds the chart "was posted on our Department of State dashboard but had since been deleted."

Below the chart is this question: "Pennsylvania reports having mailed out 1,823,148 ballots, of which 1,462,302 were returned. Yet total mail-in voters number 2,589,242? From where did the extra 1,126,940 votes come?"  

 

"Why did PA take the data they posted down from the State Website? Because the numbers show more mail in ballots than they even mailed out. It’s all right before us!" wrote one user. 

USA TODAY reached out to Mastriano and the Facebook users for comment.

The numbers are real but they are a mix of data from the state's primary and general elections. And the data is still on the state's website.

Fact check: Nevada's AG did not admit to changing signature verification manually in election

 

 

Over 3 million mail-in ballots requested

The Pennsylvania Department of State's site and a tally by the U.S. Elections Project show that over 2.6 million mail-ballots were returned by the deadline in Pennsylvania.

Election results as of Nov. 28 show that 1,995,691 mail-in ballots went to Biden; 595,538 mail-in ballots for Trump; and 24,783 mail-in ballots to Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen. That puts the total mail-in vote count at 2,616,012. Neither Biden's nor Trump's votes match the tallies in Mastriano's chart.

 

A total of over 6.9 million Pennsylvanians voted by mail or in person at polling locations, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.

In a news release on Oct. 27, the deadline to apply for a mail or absentee ballot in the state, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's office said more than 3 million voters had applied to vote by mail.

The U.S. Elections Project reports that mail ballot request rates were 1,941,131 for Democrats; 784,851 for Republicans; 25,367 for a minor party; and 336,175 for independents, putting the total number requested at 3,087,524.

 

Where the numbers originated

The number used in the post likely comes from election results of the state's June 2 primary in Pennsylvania.

A data set from the Pennsylvania Department of State on the primary election shows that 1,823,148 mail-in ballot requests were made, the exact number used in the post to claim that Pennsylvania mailed out that number of ballots for the 2020 general election.

The number of ballots returned as claimed in the post likely originated from primary election data, as well. According to a report from the Pennsylvania Department of State, nearly 1.5 million voters cast their vote by mail-in or absentee ballot in the Pennsylvania June primary.

There are no extra votes, as claimed.

Further, the Pennsylvania Department of State did not remove data from the presidential election from its website. The site shows that all the data is publicly available online and it does not match up to the numbers used in the claim. 

Fact check: Trump lawyer Sidney Powell falsely stated he won election 'by a landslide'

Our ruling: False

The claim that Pennsylvania recorded more mail-in votes than ballots requested is FALSE, based on our research. Numbers from the Pennsylvania Department of State show that over 2.6 million mail in ballots had been counted and over 3 million voters requested mail ballots by the Oct. 27 deadline. The false figure used in the claim originates from the number of mail in ballots requested for the Pennsylvania primary election or the number of registered Democrats that requested a mail ballot. 

 

Our fact-check sources:

• Pennsylvania Department of State, Nov. 3, 2020 Presidential Election Unofficial Returns Statewide
• U.S. Elections Project, Nov. 20, Pennsylvania Early Voting Statistics
• Pennsylvania Pressroom, Nov. 17, Pennsylvania Announces Record Turnout For Nov. 3 Election 
• Gov. Tom Wolf, Oct. 27, Pennsylvanians Urged to Hand-Deliver Mail Ballots Immediately
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Sept. 24, 2020 Primary Election Mail Ballot Requests Department of State
• NBC Philadelphia, Oct. 19, Pennsylvania Mail-in Ballot Requests Hit 2.8 Million, Including 700,000 GOP Voters
• Pennsylvania Department of State, Aug. 1, Pennsylvania 2020 Primary Election Act 35 of 2020 Report

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/28/fact-check-pennsylvania-ballot-claim-mixes-primary-general-election-data/6450032002/

 

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[caddieman]

17 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Georgia results were counted and recounted 3 times....audited, and investigated by the GBI...with near zero cases of election fraud found.....short of overturning the election results and awarding the state to Trump, what do you want? 

 

GO RV, then BV

They looked into all the 10s of thousands dead people voting in GA and they found some. And when I say some.........they found 2......yep two. 

Edited February 2, 2021 by caddieman

[Shabibilicious]

Georgia Republicans Launch ‘Stop Stacey’ to Counter Abrams’ 2022 Organizing

 

 

Ryan Mills

Updated Mon, February 1, 2021, 6:45 PM

 

 

Republicans in Georgia have had just about enough of Stacey Abrams it seems.

The Democratic activist and media darling has been lauded by liberal leaders for helping President Joe Biden turn Georgia blue in November and following that up by electing two left-wing U.S. senators in January, giving Democrats control of all elected levers of power in Washington D.C.

On Monday, a group of Republican strategists in Georgia and elsewhere announced the formation of Stop Stacey, which they describe as a “national, grassroots organization of engaged conservatives” that will “stand up to the left and prevent a complete left-wing takeover of Georgia – and America – in 2022.”

According to a menacing video on the website StopStacey.org, the group’s intent is to: “Stop higher taxes. Stop government healthcare takeover. Stop the assault on election integrity. Stop the radical left. Stop the new DC swamp. Stop Stacey Abrams.”

 

Biden has praised Abrams’ work in Georgia, saying “nobody in America has done more” to help the Democrats in 2020. Georgia Republicans also begrudgingly acknowledge that Abrams changed the game in the state, while some in their party grew complacent.

“She’s built a network, an infrastructure in terms of voter mobilization efforts on the ground here in Georgia that has made life very difficult for Republicans,” said Stephen Lawson, a spokesman for Stop Stacey. “From registration to mobilization, and really the ground game as well, she’s made Georgia a purple state, so it’s incumbent on us to push back, and to mobilize our supporters, our base, as well as communicating to independent and swing voters just about how radical her record is.”

Lawson said the group’s focus will be on exposing Abram’s liberal record in the media and through advertising, conducting opposition research, holding events, and letting Georgians know about the “deep and extensive, shady network of Hollywood elites and liberal billionaires like George Soros who are financing her operations.”

“We’re going to be fighting back and punching back very hard,” Lawson said.

The existence of the new organization, and its focus on a single un-elected activist, shows how concerned Republicans are about Abrams’ efforts heading into 2022. After losing her race for Governor to Republican Brian Kemp in 2018 (though she didn’t concede, claiming the election was stolen from Georgia voters), Abrams’ Fair Fight political action committee raised about $95 million dollars from 550,000 donors to benefit Democratic candidates. Abrams’ New Georgia Project, a voter registration group, claims to have registered “over 500,000 Georgians and counting,” according to its website.

That group is under investigation by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for allegations that it and other groups aggressively attempted to register ineligible, out-of-state and deceased voters. “I have issued clear warnings several times to groups and individuals working to undermine the integrity of elections in Georgia through false and fraudulent registrations,” Raffensperger said in an early-December news release.

New Georgia Project leaders have called the allegations nonsense.

Georgia has a lot at stake next year. Abrams is expected to make another run for governor against Kemp, who has been attacked by former President Donald Trump for not doing enough to overturn the November election. Republicans also will have a shot to unseat Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, who won a special election in January.

A number of Kemp-aligned operatives are working with Stop Stacey, which is an outside political group. Lawson said their goal is to stop Abrams from taking her efforts to the national stage.

“We know that Stacey Abrams, she has said she has national aspirations,” Lawson said. “We know that she ultimately has even bigger aspirations than running for governor. This is the next step on her political ladder. She’s been unsuccessful to this point herself, and our goal is to make sure it stays that way.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-republicans-launch-stop-stacey-170913691.html

 

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[coorslite21]

Finding a way to scam the system leads to a possible novel peace prize......only in America.....these days.... CL

 

Originally Posted by johnwk1 

With an important runoff election about to take place in Georgia, which will determine if our socialist revolutionaries will take control of the United States Senate, let us explore how Stacey Abrams found a way to defeat Georgia’s law forbidding ballot harvesting.

The phrase “ballot harvesting”, in general, is an activity where an activist shows up at your house, a homeless shelter, a nursing home, etc., and helps you to fill out your ballot, or simply collets it and later submits it with a bunch of other ballots obtained in the same way.

In 2019 a law was passed in Georgia regulating against “ballot harvesting”. It required the voter to personally mail their ballot or have it delivered by "the elector's mother, father, grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother, sister, spouse, son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandchild, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law or an individual residing in the household of such elector." In other words, the law was intentionally designed to stop a random activist from influencing and meddling in the casting of your ballot.

Well, leave it to Stacey Abrams, who to this very day does not accept she lost the election, to figure out a way to defeat H.B. 316, Georgia’s law designed to prevent ballot harvesting.

During the 2020 election, an activist group Stacey Abrams founded, “Fair Fight Action” convinced Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to ignore current voting practices, and to place hundreds of unregulated, unsupervised, ballot drop boxes throughout the State. And thus provided the opening for an illegal third party to obtain and introduce hundreds, perhaps thousands, of illegally harvested ballots into the system. Keep in mind it would only take a few hundred activists to collect hundreds of thousands of harvested ballots in a short period of time, and this is what Stacey Abrams has planned for Georgia’s Senate runoff race.

In fact, Stacey Abrams has recently boasted about Georgians having already requested over 600,000 mail in ballots. How many have been sent to homeless shelters, nursing homes, etc., where a ballot harvester will show up and offer a gift certificate to help complete the ballot and turn it in. Think this is outlandish? If so See: Massive voter fraud uncovered in Harris County, Texas

“They harvest ballots by mail from nursing homes, homeless centers, door to door in poor neighborhoods, often dressed as Census workers. Also, they offer $50 gift cards in front of stores asking people to take ballots by mail, acquired from the above, to sign and mail at a local post office. They hold ballots by mail in several locations where people forge signatures on the collected ballots by mail.”

And let us not forget Andrew Yang, actually encouraged people to move to Georgia to vote in the runoff election, which would be an intentional subversion of the law.

The bottom line is, these socialist revolutionaries will stop at nothing to seize control of our government and fundamentally transform the United States into a socialist wasteland like Cuba, Venezuela, etc. 

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Crooks and thieves.