There was a time when America’s voting systems were trusted and secure and local election officials were trusted by citizens to perform their duties lawfully and impartially so that no matter who won, everyone accepted that the process was fair and transparent .
On January 10, 2020, NBC News reported that ES&S was utilizing 14,000 modems to establish internet connections for voting machines, including in the State of Kentucky. In February 2018, the New York Times detailed ES&S’s installation of remote access software on their election management systems. Further damning evidence surfaced in March 2018 when ES&S admitted, in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, that remote access software had indeed been installed on their election management systems. Furthermore, all computerized voting equipment can be hacked because all such equipment must receive programming before each election from memory cards or USB drives prepared on election management systems, which are often old computers connected to the internet running out-of-date versions of Windows. Computers are hackable.
CCM: There was a time when America’s voting systems were trusted and secure and local election officials were trusted by citizens to perform their duties lawfully and impartially so that no matter who won, everyone accepted that the process was fair and transparent.
ME: Murder of Robert Ross
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In Troy, New York, on March 6, 1894 during an election riot between pollwatchers and operatives of the local Democratic political ward boss who were engaged in repeat voting, a young poll watcher, Robert Ross, was shot and killed.
His brother, William, was also shot but survived.
Bartholomew Shea and John McGough were at the polling booth of the third district of the Thirteenth Ward. William and Robert Ross were present as poll watchers.
“The row started when one of the Shea gang sought to vote upon another citizen’s name and in a twinkling clubs and revolvers were flourished.”
“Many shots were fired and when the fight closed it was found that Robert Ross had been fatally shot, that his brother, William, [sic] received a bullet in the neck and that Shea and McGough, who fled from the scene, had each been slightly wounded.”
Shea and McGough were caught and arrested, at which time McGough initially claimed he had fired the shot that killed Ross, but later apparently withdrew this claim, only to repeat the claim years later, after Shea’s execution in 1896.
A New York Times report on the incident laid blame directly on former Troy Mayor Edward Murphy Jr., who had been elected to the United States Senate the previous year (he would serve one term), which included the following excerpt: “The gun that shot Robert Ross has been loaded on election day in Troy ever since ‘Boss’ Murphy’s gang began their systematic frauds, a dozen years ago.”
McGough and Shea were arrested and an original suspect in the shootings, John Boland, was released from custody.
The trial of Shea and McGough began on May 28, 1894.
Shea and McGough were convicted on July 4, 1894.
McGough was sentenced by a jury to 20 years imprisonment, and Shea was sentenced to death.
Several lengthy appeals and efforts to have Shea’s sentence commuted failed and he was executed in 1896.
Troy attorney Frank S. Black, a Republican, assisted in the prosecution of Shea and McGough.
The favorable name recognition he garnered propelled his successful candidacies for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1894, and governor of New York in 1896.
Have elections ever been fair hand count ?
CCM: Are US Elections Really Secure?
ME: As phrased, a hard question to answer, but taking the word “secure” to mean “action taken to guard against attack or loss,” or “to make sure something is protected from danger or threat,” the answer is clearly NO, especially when DEMOCRATS are involved, as we see in that story of ballot box stuffing and repeat voting using ringers above here, which takes us to a Fox News article titled “Maine Democrat who barred Trump from ballot met with Biden twice, called Electoral College ‘white supremacy'” by Kyle Morris on 31 December 2023, where we have as follows, to wit:
The Maine official who moved to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot on Thursday visited the White House this year to meet with President Biden and previously referred to the Electoral College as a “relic of white supremacy.”
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And what a real stupid statement that is, the Electoral College as a “relic of white supremacy,” given that in the DEMOCRAT-controlled third-world ****hole of New York state, one of the prominent electors for Joe Biden and Karmela Harris was none other than “TISH the TRUMP KILLER” James, the AFRICAN-AMERICAN New York Attorney General, but given she is a DEMOCRAT, we cannot expect this Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to have the brains God gave a goose, which raises the important question of how on earth did the people of Maine end up with this moronic ignoramus whose total knowledge of American history wouldn’t even wet the bottom of a child’s thimble as their secretary of state, and the answer to that question is given to us by the moron Shenna Bellows herself in the website for the Maine secretary of state, as follows:
“The Secretary is elected biennially through joint ballot of the Maine State Legislature …”
Now, given that the Maine House consists of 151 individuals, 80 of whom are DEMOCRATS, versus 68 Republicans, 2 Independents and currently 1 Vacancy, and of the 35 Senators of the 131st Maine Legislature, there are 22 DEMOCRATS and 13 Republicans, it is easy to see how the people of Maine ended up with this DANGEROUS DEMOCRAT IDEOLOGUE as their secretary of state, who just UNILATERALLY removed Trump from the ball0t in Maine, after independently making the following EXTRA-JUDICIAL (not forming a valid part of regular legal proceedings) determinations about January 6, 2021, to wit:
“And the weight of evidence that I reviewed indicated that it was, in fact, an insurrection.”
“And Mr. Trump engaged in that insurrection under Section Three of the 14th Amendment.”
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Put two and two together, and clearly based on that alone, a non-elected-by-the-people DEMOCRAT in Maine unilaterally making an EXTRA-JUDICIAL determination as to who can and can’t run in presidential elections in America, based on her FEELINGS alone, not the law, because OUR laws are something the DANGEROUS DEMOCRATS who are the TRUE ENEMIES of OUR Democracy, WHICH IS BASED ON FREEDOM OF CHOICE BY THE PEOPLE, NOT BY DEMOCRAT PARTY WHIMS, disdain and therefore disregard, MAKING IT UP AS THEY GO BY PULLING IT OUT OF THEIR ASSES, then very clearly, OUR ELECTIONS ARE NOT SECURE, which is to say they CLEARLY ARE NOT guarded against attack by this DANGEROUS IDEOLOGUE Bell0ws, nor has anything been done in Maine to make sure they were protected from danger or threat by this DANGEROUS IDEOLOGUE Bell0ws.
End of that story.