Justsomeguy

Pray. Pray again. And then yet again. The bad guys don’t like God.

Buy a flag and fly it, and get one on your car somewhere. It identifies you to the good guys and ticks off the bad guys. As more of us do this, you will realize you aren’t the minority you think you are.

IF you are inclined, buy a firearm of your choosing, learn to use and maintain it and then put it in the safe. You don’t need it now, but the bad guys know people are buying them and they don’t like that. Think about getting a license to carry., but realize that carrying takes an active commitment to a safe mindset. Of course some of you have been legally carrying for a while, and you folks already know the score on this issue.

Talk about things that don’t seem right to you with your friends and neighbors. We’ve been led to believe that if we don’t think things are right, that we are somehow nutty. We believe that because we have let the other side do all the talking. You are not alone, most of your neighbors are concerned too. You just don’t know it because you don’t talk with each other about such stuff.

Write or call at least one of your employees everyday. I don’t care what you call them about, but I’m certain there is something they are doing or not doing that displeases you. They are like spoiled children and will not accept your discipline at first, it will take repetition. Lots of repetition. If you have time, call more than one. Notice I didn't tell you what to call them about. I have faith that the average Americans will do the right things and only need to take the time to engage. The bad guys have been engaged now you have to or you will be run over.

Go to at least one meeting a month. We haven’t done that, but the bad guys did. They even had meetings about what they were going to try to get done at those meetings. I don’t care if you choose the school board meeting, the city council meeting, or the water board, but go somewhere where the decisions are being made or where the decision makers are.

Treat your dollars like they are bullets that need to be shot at the good guys and kept away from the bad guys. Buy from your neighbors and local companies whenever possible.

Use cash whenever possible. Using credit cards, debit cards, and even crypto currency injects a third party into your transaction and that gives them power. That gives them the ability to approve or deny your purchase. You must normalize cash or you will lose the ability to use it and that gives the bad guys lots of power over you.

Choose your financial institutions wisely. Smaller local and regional banks are likely better than their large nation wide competitors, but please remember, all are under Federal control and that causes problems.

I hate to recommend this because they offer some very good products, but they are using those offerings to their advantage, not yours. Please ditch Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street. You may think we have competitive markets. We don't. In tech for instance, we have Microsoft, Apple, and Google competing. What if I told you that Blackrock was the largest single investor in all three? Still think we have a diverse tech system? It's that way in most industries. In fact, Blackrock is the largest single investor in over 400 of the fortune 500 companies. Vanguard is right behind them and then State Street. Now we have a 3 companies with a huge amount of power in every industry. They are using your money to leverage their desired social outcomes with these companies by voting your shares. Blackrock and Vangaurd coordinate their social engineering efforts and control over 17T in assets. You need to get your companies pension and 401K funds away from them too, although I admit the alternatives are only better in the margins.

Vote. Yes I know the polls are rigged. I’m working on it and so should you. We know they're rigged because we had a huge amount of people show up to vote and they had to go into overdrive to cheat their way to victory. Go vote and drag everyone you know to go vote. Don’t forget the primaries. We are getting smoked because bad politicians are being selected in the primaries. Nobody votes in them and that means the bad guys either don’t have to cheat or they can cheat small. Right now the bad guys are picking them for you, and they aren’t picking people that have your interest in mind.

Recruit all your friends and family to do these things. Numbers matter.

I've spoken a few times before the Tarrant County Commissioners. Most of what I've had to say hasn't been earth shattering, It has simply been an effort to remind them that while there have been no large moves made locally, that there were a number of people here still concerned about the 2020 election. The one item of substance that I had discussed was the preservation of programming and data from the election equipment so that it would be overwritten in an update that was planned. As it turned out, the scheduled update had been moved up and I did not have time to get the court on record over the issue. There were some local attorneys that were concerned by this and they filed for an injunction to make certain that the information was protected. I was trying to avoid a suit, but the information should be protected now.

A couple of weeks ago I stated that it was time to start talking in earnest about my concerns and the County Judge, Glenn Whitley,  referred me to Mr. G.K Maenius, the County Administrator to start that process. It took a while for that meeting to get scheduled, but it finally happened today. We'll have to see how it goes, but a conversation has been started and at least a few expectations set. I didn't get any guarantees of consideration, but I didn't get thrown out on my tail either. The one thing that seemed to surprise him right off was my request that the ballot images be published on the web. That is a very forward idea, but it has been done in San Francisco. There are actually a number of ways that can be done, and I made no specification. For now a table has been set.

I left two packages with him. The first was a list of things that I consider first steps to improve security and transparency and contained these two documents:
frustrations.pdf    Proposals for changes to the Tarrant County Election System.pdf

The second was a proposal to have the Commissioners call on the Secretary of State to increase the scope of his audit. The idea that our elections have not been audited in any meaningful way is simply unconscionable to me. Everything in the real world gets audited. I also see no reason why officials that we elect, should not want to demonstrate their administration of such an important function is anything but exemplary.  The following documents were left to support that request. 

Tarrant County Audit Call.pdf TCGOP Audit Resolution.pdf Additional Statements of Work for SoS Audit.pdf rasmussen-4.pdf MSM Articles on Election Vulnerabiites.pdf Three Cases for Full and Complete Audits.pdf

I've spoken a few times before the Tarrant County Commissioners. Most of what I've had to say hasn't been earth shattering, It has simply been an effort to remind them that while there have been no large moves made locally, that there were a number of people here still concerned about the 2020 election. The one item of substance that I had discussed was the preservation of programming and data from the election equipment so that it would be overwritten in an update that was planned. As it turned out, the scheduled update had been moved up and I did not have time to get the court on record over the issue. There were some local attorneys that were concerned by this and they filed for an injunction to make certain that the information was protected. I was trying to avoid a suit, but the information should be protected now.

A couple of weeks ago I stated that it was time to start talking in earnest about my concerns and the County Judge, Glenn Whitley,  referred me to Mr. G.K Maenius, the County Administrator to start that process. It took a while for that meeting to get scheduled, but it finally happened today. We'll have to see how it goes, but a conversation has been started and at least a few expectations set. I didn't get any guarantees of consideration, but I didn't get thrown out on my tail either. The one thing that seemed to surprise him right off was my request that the ballot images be published on the web. That is a very forward idea, but it has been done in San Francisco. There are actually a number of ways that can be done, and I made no specification. For now a table has been set.

I left two packages with him. The first was a list of things that I consider first steps to improve security and transparency and contained these two documents:
frustrations.pdf      20211220_proposals_for_changes_to_the_tarrant_county_ele-1.pdf

The second was a proposal to have the Commissioners call on the Secretary of State to increase the scope of his audit. The idea that our elections have not been audited in any meaningful way is simply unconscionable to me. Everything in the real world gets audited. I also see no reason why officials that we elect, should not want to demonstrate their administration of such an important function is anything but exemplary.  The following documents were left to support that request. 

20220102_tarrant_county_audit_call.pdf  20201104_audit_resolution_as_passed.pdf  additional_statements_of_work_for_sos_audit.pdf rasmussen.pdf press_articles_on_vulnerabiites.pdf three_cases_for_full_and_complete_audits.pdf

In some jurisdictions the ballot images from the Voting scanners are available via FOIA requests. Jeff O’Donnell, a very talented individual has acquired several sets of those and he's written a program that makes it possible to crowd source a recount of the election in those jurisdictions. The people doing this are average Americans that have volunteered their time. The program is written so that more than one person has to agree on the results of a ballot before the count is accepted as accurate. It is a well designed program by a competent programmer with lots of experience in critical industries and across the integrated technology spectrum.

The first run through for his program was Harding County NM. This is a small county and was a logical place for the first run of a project of this nature. The left columns in the chart below are what the volunteers counted. The right column is what is officially reported on the NM State web site. The difference is small and easily written off as some kind of minor mistake - an honest mistake perhaps? In this case the five ballots with no selection were turned into votes, and another one magically appeared. It only changed the margin by a tiny fraction and likely would be unnoticed at all, and if it was, it would likely be ignored as insignificant. The point is that it never should have happened.

This is how the perception that things are turning blue can slowly be created and also add a few votes to the chosen column without raising much suspicion. This was a county with 500 votes. What could you hide in a county with 5K or maybe even 500K votes? I do not believe this was an accident. Either the logic and accuracy testing on the tabulators wasn't done properly, or the programming was designed so such situations wouldn't be tripped during such a test. I'd like to know the answer, unfortunately that software is proprietary and we aren’t allowed to look at it. The way we find out what happened there is to audit the system. I only selected two races for brevity, but more were affected.

I see some confusion in some of the election integrity community about ballots. Hand marked ballots are considered to be the gold standard, but all of the areas that had the most issues used them. Even when hand marked ballots are used, they are still counted by machine or scanner. When we hear concerns about Dominion machines, it is the ballot scanners that are the concern. At least in this last election. All of the ballots in Maricopa county for instance were hand marked ballots that were then counted by machine. The issues in my mind are; is this a genuine ballot and it is tabulated correctly.

To my knowledge there is no county in Texas that hand counts ballots. All of them use either Direct Recording Equipment (DRE'S), which are truly evil devices in my view that should be banished forever - or scanners. The majority of counties use scanners of some type. I think where the "electronic ballots" get their bad reputation from is the DRE's. They generate the ballot - at least a graphical example of it on a screen. You vote on the machine, that same machine tabulates and stores the vote. It generates no paper ballot and for all practical purposes it can not be audited. There is never a paper ballot with a DRE. DRE's should go yesterday. With a sledge hammer. They are not in currently in use in Tarrant County, but are in several others.

Paper ballots, whether hand marked or machine written are generated in a number of ways.

They are preprinted ala Runbeck and other companies. All mail in ballots have to be generated in this manner and this is true for Tarrant County. This is the way we got our ballots at the local precincts before we started using the Duo's. We have seen issues with commercially preprinted ballots from a number of suppliers.

They can be printed on demand. I believe Denton is doing this and it was done in much of Maricopa. Instead of the devices we use, their voting centers printed the ballot for your precinct, you filled it out by marking the bubbles (with a sharpie?) and then put it in the scanner. There were issues with that and they'd take a few minutes to unpack.

They can be produced by an item such as the Duo that we use. These are Ballot Marking Devices or BMD's. We vote on the machine and it prints our ballots and we then put it into the scanner that tabulates it. FWIW, I'm not aware of any issues that have been identified with these ballots. That doesn't mean there aren't any, just that I don't know of them. I may get my head chopped off now because this isn't a popular view, but I actually like them in some ways.

It is theoretically possible to do a combination of the Duo and print on demand. Garcia has expressed an interest in doing so, but apparently Hart is resistant to the idea. They make more money on the Duo's

Hand marked ballots are in use in all of the jurisdictions where we have extensive problems. We do need to do away with the DRE's because there is no ballot. I believe that we need to improve the ballots so that they can't be easily duplicated and counterfeited. The Duo's kind of do that. The biggest problem with fake ballots would likely come via the mail in ballots, and reducing mail in voting would do much to solve that problem.