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Once Truly Golden
In the far-flung northwestern corner of America in the Emerald Triangle renowned for cannabis production, the battle to restore the essence of our republic’s democratic process of free and true elections has been waged for years. Tea party patriots, dread-locked rastafarians, pony-tailed hippies, refugees from Laos and a cast of characters out of the old West are trying to wrestle the American dream of liberty back from an entrenched and corrupt government controlled by Democrats.
The once truly Golden State of California boasted the best of everything: jobs, education, food, entertainment and a very high quality of life for American families. With its 55 electoral vote dominance and 53 U.S. Congressional Representatives payload, California became the winner takes all target for those willing to corrupt the crown jewel for their own means and for communism. Call it by any name, liberalism, socialism or progressivism but it is the same result—communism.
Like Ping Pong
After Ronald Reagan won two terms as President, coincidentally a new plan was hatched. Voting should no longer be manually counted, it should be done by machines, which quickly evolved to voting directly on machines. Two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich led the way bankrolled by California billionaire H.F. Ahmanson with both Diebold Election Systems headquartered in Ohio and Election Systems and Software (ES&S) headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska and thus controlled 80% of the voting in the U.S.
Now the ball was in play. Finger pointing began, it was the Republicans controlling the elections, then it was the Democrats, back and forth like ping pong. Key electoral races could be won, by the persons running the elections offices, for local races, and more by those controlling the voting machines and the software that ran it all.
Suddenly the crown jewel, California once the bastion of conservatism, the state that gave America Ronald Reagan, was for the taking. And they did so by using the newest technology, computer tabulating voting machines and strategically placed election officials and staff.
Inaccurate Vote Counting Scanners
In Humboldt County a world-renowned destination for cannabis connoisseurs within the Emerald Triangle, an unusual collaboration occurred during the 2008 Presidential election. The Humboldt Election Transparency project was able to convince the local elections officer to let them recount all the ballots after the election. In fact, the county even purchased a high end $25,000 scanner for them to use.
They found that the Diebold Accu-vote ballot counting scanners weren’t accurate at all! In fact, it had deleted 197 votes and deleted its audit trail with no trace it even happened. The report was immediately sent to the newly elected Secretary of State Debra Bowen who had already commissioned a "Top to Bottom Review" of California's electronic voting systems, to determine their security.
What the University of California computer science teams revealed were unreliable systems that were vulnerable to being hacked. Bowen de-certified the systems to accolades from the public for her courage. Yet, by December 2009 under intense pressure by the manufacturers Bowen re-certified Diebold Accu-Vote and ES&S use if 42 protocols were implemented.
The King of Graft
That brings us to the heart of the Emerald Triangle, Trinity County, “King of Graft” known as the most corrupt county in California outside of Los Angeles. Trinity County was once a self-sufficient logging, mining and ranching motherlode of prosperity and independence until the Democrats took over. And they did it through control of the black ballot box—namely the Diebold Accu-Vote machines.
Now it boasts an economy of over $1 billion a year producing cannabis, all black-market underground with not a dime going to the county unless you count the corrupt law enforcement authorities taking their share via federal programs of “interdiction”. And the interdiction is well planned, right after the harvest, after all the buds are carefully trimmed, do the authorities show up and do their own harvest, where the bulk of the plant is weighed for impoundment and destruction, but the valuable buds disappear, sometimes via law enforcement helicopters right out of fields.
Deep State Farming
Yes, the deep state has their own way of “farming” in Trinity County. They “farm” for green backs as well siphoning off government mandate funds via “contracts” from a county of just 14,000 that receives $120 million a year but has not built one building in decades. Locals ran for office but could never seem to win against the strategically placed outsiders.
Sometimes entire communities were purged from voter rolls during key races. In fact, in 2014 an entire retirement community of veterans from WWII and Korea were purged even though they vote each election even having a “voting party” where they get together for a BBQ and to mark their vote by mail ballots. Except that year, they didn’t get any ballots. Not a one. They had been purged… illegally.
No More Mr. Nice Cowboy
After one of them, a cowboy, was told by a retired county Supervisor, don’t waste your time running for office, “we” decide who gets elected, the rag tag group of patriots and cannabis growers decided to get certified in election observation, using the Election Integrity Project organization. They had their manuals and I.D.s at the ready and watched each polling place and things were a lot wilder than their manuals and training had prepared them for.
In the middle of voting, the elections officer came to the largest polling place, removed the black ballot box and put in its stead another one to the protest of a contingency of election observers. She waved them off and left for the elections office with the already voted ballots inside the box. This is was an important election that included the county sheriff race and the elections officer! Calls and hundreds of written complaints into the Secretary of State’s office even by lawyers garnered only a “nothing to see here” response. The investigator assigned to Trinity due to the complaints confided that the newly elected Secretary of State, Democratic Party activist Alex Padilla, warned him he wanted no reports on any fraud, voter or election. And you guessed it, the usual suspects won.