Stan Casacio Hosts Debate Party — Stan Casacio hosted a debate watch party tonight, Oct. 25, at his Montco abode to see Democrat John Fetterman take on Republican Mehmet Oz in a head-to-head battle as to who would best represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate.
Among those making appearances was the legendary Dom Giordano of WPHT and Republican lieutenant governor candidate Carrie DelRosso.
Who won the debate? I give Fetterman a precious pumpkin smiley he can show his wife after his trip home on the short bus. In fact, the only bus that would be shorter than Fetterman’s is the one the people who vote for him ride.
Delco To Notify And Cure Mail-in Ballots — The Delaware County (Pa) Board of Elections, this morning, Oct. 25, unanimously approved to inform voters of problems with their mail-in or dropped off ballots and allow them to be fixed.
They described this as “notify and cure”.
Sounds reasonable but maybe this wasn’t the year to do it, considering the reputation the county got two years ago.
Also Director of Election Operation James P. Allen said the solar powered cameras monitoring the county’s 40 or so dropboxes work all night. He said there have been power failures at some locations but they have been quickly fixed. In some cases, the solar power was replaced with hardwire.
Among the citizens speaking were whistleblowers Leah Hoopes and Gregory Stenstrom, the authors of The Parallel Election, which describes some of what occurred in the county in November 2020.
They said they still have two court cases pending regarding election issues and that due to their whistleblowing they have been subject to smears and lies.
Colleen Vogel (phonetic spelling) who has a back ground in computer tech said (30:20 mark in video) that when she observed the logic and accuracy testing of the machines, the procedure was improperly followed according to the guidelines for the testing. She asked the board to address this twice but never got an answer.
She also said that according to guidelines the machines’ software and firmware needed to have been updated. She asked if they had the maintenance certificates for patching the many machines, and asked that, if so, it be publicized as the certificates are the first step in developing trust in information technology.
Allen said they didn’t do updates because the machines are on closed networks and nobody ever made any requests.
Can’t say that was the most comforting answer.
Ms. Vogel was rather quickly cut off when she pressed things (33:40)
In other matters, it was revealed that 60,000 mail-in ballots were sent out in Delaware County and about 30 percent have been returned. Also mandatory retraining for Judges of Election was approved if the judges had not been retrained since 2020.
Holy Myrrh-Bearers Christmas Basket Raffle — Holy Myrrh-Bearers Parish starts its annual Christmas Basket Raffle, Friday, Oct. 28. More than 30 beautifully prepared, themed raffle baskets will be auctioned off.
The baskets will be on display in the social hall of the church at 900 Fairview Road, Swarthmore Pa. 19081.
The raffle will take place at the St. Nicholas Dinner, Dec. 4.
Regular raffle tickets are $2 with 3 for $5, 8 for $10 and 17 for $20 options.
For the “big item” basket table tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20.
Tickets are available before and after the services on the weekend in the social hall and during the pierogie sale hours which are 10 a.m. – 2p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturdays.
Lesser Of Evils Discussed On Carmela — Carmela Ciliberti’s latest podcast concerns the lesser of two evils as it relates to the Nov. 8 election.
She will be voting straight Republican including for John Lawrence for the 13th District State House seat whom she constantly eviscerated in her primary battle with him.
Frankly, she eviscerated him in her podcast as well but she’s still voting for him as all sane people should considering his opponent.
Only fools say choosing the lesser of two evils is still evil at least with regard to elections. What’s evil is failing to mitigate evil.
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Bribe the public William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 10-25-22
