Category: Election 2023

What Happened at the Northhampton County Election Board — Someone described as is very active in Northampton County (Pa) politics sent this to our friend Kim Kennedy who sent to us. What we find puzzling is the claim by the board’s solicitor that it is mandated to certify elections by a deadline. Certify, after all, has a meaning:

• To confirm formally as true, accurate, or genuine.
• intransitive verb To guarantee as meeting a standard.

A board can’t declare something to be true if it believes it isn’t, unless the board knows its lying. The mandate makes our entire election system a lie.

Overview of Nov. 21 Northampton County (Pa.) Election Board Meeting

The Board meeting had to be moved to the cafeteria due to well over 100 citizens participating in the meeting, spilling into the hallway.  I arrived about 2 pm to meet with people I had emailed to come early in order to strategize and pass out an agenda, issues to raise and PIN materials  by Bill Rodebaugh.   A press table was set on the side for 4 staff, including LV Live News and Armchair writers, MCall, Bernie O’Hare and a young man who was quite busy on the phone.  I made connections for the future with all plus a photojournalist, passing my card out to them and all in the room who was interested.  (There was some conflict initially with a few in the audience decrying the reporters putting their pictures in the news.  The answer was that “it is a public place and photos are allowed. Call my editor.”)

Eventually it became very warm in the room as the meeting dragged on for four hours till seven pm.  Many left after the “Courtesy of the Floor”.  I noted to a lawyer that the certifying of the election came before the comments and he was unconcerned, stating the certification was mandatory implying that  comments would not change that.  I spoke to a Republican Board member and asked this to be changed and it was, not only due to my input but aided by it.

Notable persons in the audience I saw: Glenn Geissinger, Ryan and Milou Mackenzie, Annamarie Robertone, Tom Giovanni,, Andrew Azan, Tom Carroll, Charles Dertinger, Kevin Danyi, Matt Munsey,  and Dr. Tom Little.  It was largely a mix of LVTP, PIN, and NCRC members with about ten Democrats and several unattached voters.

The process of counting the votes was delayed till that very day due to the “machine glitch”.  The county’s 300-plus machines in all 156 precincts flipped “yes” and “no” selections for the two candidates on the printout that voters reviewed on the machine before taking the final step to cast their ballots. No other contests on the ballot were affected, swore Executive McClure at the prior Council meeting.  Counting the provisional ballots — about 2,400 total — occurred over the previous few days.  44,791 votes were cast on voting machines and 25,587 by mail.  Votes statewide must be certified at the county level by Nov. 21 and submitted to the state no later than Nov. 27, which may have accounted for most of the passion in the room.

There were 45 persons signed up to speak, but three left early. Many of the 45 were quite upset with the county-wide election irregularities that were unable to be fixed and the county having had no backup plan.  Voters are at their “peak of mistrust” with the voting system. “  The third speaker complained of switched poll books and machines at Williams Township. I spoke after her and was unable to fully get through Frank DeVito’s two page comment, so the applause surprised me. Others addressed issues including lack of emergency ballots (10 to 25 at most at the polls.), one and a half hours of locked doors at Forks Twp. (a federal offense actually!), people told not to vote at Hanover Twp., that Republicans are the usual victims of error, lack of transparency , and poor communication with election judges.  Representative Milo Mackenzie was very passionate about this unAmerican election and demanded McClure’s resignation or there will be national repercussions in 2024.  She stated “This is not a Communist country.

It was noted that the “glitch” proved the machines could be programmed to commit fraud.  Many demanded paper ballots be used.  Glenn Geissinger, NCRC chairman, noted that turning people away from the polls constituted voter suppression and implored the Board not certify the election and not to use these machines again. Geissinger said his research would result in a lawsuit if he finds large numbers of voters were disenfranchised by the machine failures. One asked for a do-over election and about seven who had either won their elections or had their Saucon Valley candidates elected asked to certify the election.  Since there was only one microphone to be passed among 8 persons at any time, there was further delay in hearing all the issues, explanations and apologies. 

It was obvious that the election judges lacked training in some cases. The decision was made to train every judge, clerk and poll worker in person for the next election. Even though Judge Sam Murray gave a Court order to follow early in the day, communication was poor and not all were able to follow the orders.  All provisional ballots were said to have been counted.

Only party chairs were informed of the L&A (logic and accuracy) testing and apparently no Republican showed up, only County and Election Systems and Software (ES&S) staff.

The ES&S VP, Alex Carbullido, apologized profusely and said there would have been no way to fix all the machines on election day.  In 2019 the problem was the touch screens were too sensitive which made it difficult to vote one’s choice.  In both elections the problem was blamed on human error.

The Board stated they were not consulted on procedures, not informed at the moment and their previous recommendations to Council had been ignored. Scott Hough whose term ends the end of this year along with the other four members, was especially incensed, had many questions and was the only Board member to refuse to sign the certification of the election, so it passed 4 to 1 over many objections.  He said there was no way to know how many voters were turned away which put the election results in question.  Hough said he had also requested a special meeting for the public to be heard but his request was denied by the Registrar, Christopher Commini. He also asked again for a special meeting to thrash out solutions and Dertinger promised to look into it. 

Board member Daniel Lopresti also wanted a written report from ES&S on what had happened, provision of enough paper ballots and better communication with the poll workers.  

 Board Solicitor Richard Santee explained it was mandatory for the Board  to certify the election and send the results to Harrisburg by the 11/27/23 deadline as they had no discretion or authority in the matter.  The process is controlled by the administration.  The Board spent hours taking the heat for an election they did not actually run.  The District Attorney could act on election complaints from the Board, but only a Common Pleas Judge could overturn an election. 

It was also noted that the Nazareth area will be split into four voting districts.

(Dertinger has since resigned and I’ve been speaking with others who believe other races were fixed.)

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/elections/2023/11/close-to-100-complaints-and-counting-from-northampton-county-voters-republicans-say.html?e=98275ceb8a4a379c2349eb4bcfb4eda0

What Happened At The Northhampton County Election Board

More Details About Lansdowne Dropbox Incident courtesy of Greg Stenstrom’s Facebook page. Greg notes that the county Democrats are smearing the concerned citizen as an “election denier” when just a minute or two of calm explanation and a card with a contact number would have made the issue never happen. By the way, Delaware County, Pa. has more ballot dropboxes than Philadelphia and Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) combined.

We received a call regarding a gentleman who had reported two Delaware County employees stuffing the Lansdowne, PA, drop box with Mail in Ballots yesterday, and investigated.

In fact, it was a pick up of ballots, but it is clear why the gentleman saw it differently. When he was approaching in his car, what he saw was a female with two handfuls of envelopes in her hand putting them in a bag that was sitting on top of the drop box.

By the time he parked and got out of his vehicle, the drop box was closed, no ballots were in sight any longer, and the employees were walking away, and refused to even acknowledge him.

What he subsequently reported were handfuls of ballots disappearing into what appeared to be the top of the box, when they were going into the bag obscured from the gentleman’s view.

The narrative the Board of Elections has since crafted is that a crazy “election denier” threatened their employees, was screaming, and made false accusations regarding the Boy Scout and Girl Scout who were innocently “doing their job.”

What the video shows, and the interview I had with the gentleman revealed, was that he is retired, was driving to a spot to take his dog to walk, keeps an eye on his neighborhood, personally knows the police chief (and everyone else in Lansdowne, where he has lived his whole life), and saw an unidentified male and female at a drop box with what appeared to be ballots disappearing into the top of the box.

When he asked them what they were doing, they just turned their backs and insolently walked away from him without responding. He told them he had called the police, but that didn’t phase them, and the male finally responded by aggressively shoving his ID in the gentleman’s face, and then getting in the County van and leaving.

This is a prima facie example of the state of our government today. “Excuse me, what are you doing?”, with the response either being no response at all, or “F*** you” (read some of our court filings – the “F U” is not an overstatement).

Now, lets discuss what could have de-escalated and resolved the matter in a couple of minutes. “Excuse me, what are you doing?” “Hello sir, we’re County employees making a daily drop box pick up of Mail in Ballots.” “Were you putting ballots in, or taking them out?” “We were picking up. If you have any more questions, we have to rush to our next stop, but everything is on video camera (point to the camera), and you can call this number or let the responding officer call it, to sort things out.”

Instead, when the gentleman spoke to the police, and they in turn called the Board of Elections, the Director told them the gentleman would have to file a “Right to Know,” and that the police would only get the video after he “reviewed it.”

Then the harassment. The Director calls the gentleman and accuses him of threatening and intimidating “his” employees, interfering with them, tells him he checked with the police and that they told him the gentleman was a crank who regularly called them, told him they were considering further action against him, and that if he wanted the video, he would have to file a Right to Know request.

Two days later, the BOE finally releases the video, first to the news media “exonerating” the little angel who had shoved his ID in the gentleman’s face, without any mention that the same male was arraigned and released on $20,000 bail for assault and harassment charges the day before.

I have been dealing with 3 years of the same insolence, obstruction, contempt, and defiance by a handful of election officials and opposing lawyers who refuse to comply with law or even Court orders, and resulting (Pro Se) litigation.

Not a single RTK from either me, or the people I have worked with has been granted without a 2-6 months of delays, appeals, litigation, and even when finally ordered to comply with a records request, getting more defiance and litigation.

The gentleman that reported what he saw, which was reasonable, although in error (this time), had the courage to stand up for the rest of the People who remain silent, and demand accountability from “our government,” and should be applauded, not ridiculed.

I spoke to him this afternoon, and he was understandably a little rattled from the experience, which I told him was the entire point of the exercise, and thanking him for his vigilance service.

Attacking and gaslighting those brave enough to be counted is technically a tactic called ICD – “Isolate, Contain, and Destroy” – but otherwise known by most people as “bullying,” intimidation, and intentional chilling other citizens from exercising their rights.

It doesn’t work on me. I’m reserved and very deliberate in action, which is why I normally lay back before saying anything on a matter I don’t have all the facts for, to act on decisively.

And, that’s also why people call us. We help as many people as we can – regrettably too often more than we can handle – do the work we can do, as a civic duty (no charge) – and roll on.

Not a single material fact regarding election fraud that we have reported has been refuted or disproven since November 3rd, 2020 – not one. 6 wins, 0 losses, when sanctioned, and the only case remaining in PA for the Nov 2020 election, and cases for 2022 and 2023 elections still in progress.

New material facts of election law violations, and potential fraud that will require litigation will be coming out by Monday regarding the “little angels” in Delaware County.

Still in the fight. Semper Fi.

More Details About Lansdowne Dropbox Incident

More Details About Lansdowne Dropbox Incident