And here we go- lol On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 6:50 PM Nicholas Ribush <nickrib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ICYMI! Laura Berland's piece appeared in yesterday's *Lincoln Squirrel > *(please > subscribe). > > Last Thursday a group hosted by Lincoln residents Tom and Edith Risser > came to Bemis Hall to make a presentation on “election integrity.” I > decided to go see what it was all about. > > Upon entering Bemis, a man who seemed to be involved in the logistics of > the event, upon seeing my mask, asked me if I was sick (not in a caring > way). I responded “No, and I’m trying to keep it that way,” to which he > responded, “Good luck with that.” Not off to a good start. Over the next > few hours we would hear a lot about our individual liberties being eroded, > but I guess my individual decision to protect myself from deadly disease is > an affront to others’ “liberty” and not worthy of respect. > > The first speaker spent a long time questioning the legitimacy of the > voting process in Massachusetts, deriding the evils of mail-in voting > (haven’t members of the military voted via mail for a long time?) and > urging the audience to oppose the implementation of permanent mail-in > voting. She suggested that many town clerks across the Commonwealth are > hiding something, although it wasn’t clear exactly what they are hiding. > The speaker reported that one clerk told her “she had seen things.” The > speaker didn’t share what those “things” were. She also took issue with > Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s well-documented grants across the > country for voting logistics in 2020. Zuckerberg is a name that can > certainly rile folks up. > > The second speaker suggested nefarious things were going on in Rhode > Island, particularly at universities. We saw lots of charts and slides and > heard lots of phrases like “this raises questions” and “this is > interesting” and “we’re not making any accusations, but we really need to > look into this.” > > What we weren’t shown was any actual evidence of voter fraud. No reams of > ballots that demonstrated that dead people voted, or people voted in more > than one place or that voting machines were manipulated. There was no > explanation of how their claims of voter fraud squared with the results > from Cyber Ninjas, the company hired by the Arizona GOP-led Senate to carry > out the audit (and which received roughly $6 million in donations from > Trump supporters). Cyber Ninja issued results showing that Biden should > have been credited with 99 more votes and Trump’s total was improperly > inflated by 261 ballots. > > The third speaker revealed what seemed to be the underlying objective of > this exercise when the Biden bashing started. These folks clearly were not > happy with the results of the 2020 election. Well, I didn’t like the > results of the 2016 election, but I didn’t question the vote tally. The > third speaker told us that because he saw 55,000 people at a Trump rally > the night before the election (and he assured us that he knew what 55,000 > people looked like), that there was no way Trump could have lost fair and > square. > > By this time, I was worn down with fatigue, so I departed, thereby missing > the star attraction of the evening — a man dressed up in full Revolutionary > War garb. This guy looked impressive, tall, and commanding, but I was > pretty sure I wasn’t going to be getting any new information. I was > beginning to think this all fell into the realm of theater. I love theater > but not theater pretending to be something else. > > When I go in to cast my vote in Lincoln, I’m always impressed by the > organized process and how confident I feel in our voting system. We all > want our elections to be fraud-free and fair, but if you can’t point to an > actual problem, then there’s no fix to be made. Simply undermining > confidence in the voting process by suggesting that nefarious things are > going on is a danger to our democracy and, to that extent, we should pay > attention to this effort. > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. > Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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