Category: Election Integrity

Election Integrity matters in national, state and local elections. Much of this concerns the 2020 election and matters involving Delaware County, Pa.

Suit Seeks Lifetime Ban On 2 Chesco Commissioners

Suit Seeks Lifetime Ban On 2 Chesco Commissioners — Chesco resident William R. Borton, Sept. 11, filed a petition for declaratory judgement in the county’s Common Pleas Court that Chester County commissioners Marian Moskowitz and Joshua Maxwell be forever banned from holding public office in Pennsylvania.

Ms. Moskowitz and Maxwell in their role as members of the Board of Elections certified the Nov. 8, 2022 election while petitions for recounts were outstanding, says Borton in his filing.

Judge Jeffrey Sommer scheduled a hearing, Nov. 21, and the Election Board was immediately informed via a hand-delivered copy of the order.

Election law expressly states that boards of elections may not certify while recount petitions are pending.

Ms. Moskowitz and Maxwell filed a request on Nov. 23 asking the court to dismiss the petitions but Sommer scheduled a hearing on Dec. 5.

Regardless, the board certified the election on Nov. 28 despite Commissioner Michelle Kichline’s vehement dissent out of concern that it would be a violation of election law.

Her dissent can be seen here starting at 1:08:20

Suit Seeks Lifetime Ban On 2 Chesco Commissioners
Chesco Commissioners Josh Maxwell and Marian Moskowitz Nov. 28

Borton, in his filing says a recount could have been done in a day.

Sommer dismissed the recount request on Dec. 12, and those seeking them appealed to Commonwealth Court, which overturned Sommer’s decision.

Ms. Moskowitz and Maxwell then appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court which vacated the Commonwealth Court decision without a hearing.

Justices Sallie Updyke Mundy and P. Kevin Brobson dissented. Justice Mundy noted that the action of the court broke with its traditional process.

Borton wants the lifetime ban based on Section 1851 of the state election code which provides that Any person who shall, while a candidate for office, be guilty of bribery, fraud or willful violation of any provision of this act, shall be forever disqualified from holding said office or any other office of trust or profit in this Commonwealth.

This should especially apply to members of election boards, he says.

Ms. Moskowitz and Maxwell are seeking re-election this November.

The docket number is 2023-067732-M.

Eastman Disbarment Trial Gets Vote Fraud Evidence Into Court

Eastman Disbarment Trial Gets Vote Fraud Evidence Into Court — The California Bar is trying to disbar Trump attorney John Eastman and his trial has gone on for four weeks.

Eastman is an attorney who had been dean of Chapman University School of Law. His distinguished career began with clerking for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

The disbarment attempt is to due to his defense of President Trump’s claims that massive vote fraud cost him the 2020 election.

Well, the Bar rested its case last week and Eastman is getting his bats.

Rachel Alexander of the Star News Network reported how former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman testified on Eastman’s behalf and has revealed that:

  • Wisconsin Speaker of the House Robin Vos, a Republican, who tasked Gableman with the investigation did not want Gableman to make a serious effort.
  • Officials from the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) ignored the law requiring bipartisan observers present when collecting votes from nursing homes and other assisted living facilities, to the point where a sheriff referred these election officials for criminal charges.
  • Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech & Civic Life (CTCL) provided five of Wisconsin’s largest cities, gave $8.8 million employment contracts that gave CTCL access to vote information not readily available to citizens. The contracts included financial penalties for failure to comply.
  • Ballot drop boxes were illegally placed and used for the casting of illegal ballots.
  • That there was evidence of coordination in Wisconsin between election officials and Democratic Party officials
  • There were 7 million people registered to vote in the Wisconsin but only 4.5 million were eligible.

Eastman also testified. He said he believed electronic voting machines in Colorado’s Mesa County flipped the vote from Trump to Biden in the 2020 election.

Eastman noted that machines flipped the vote in Michigan’s Antrim County but this was treated merely as a mistake. He noted thought that since the log files had been deleted this couldn’t be shown definitively.

Eastman said that in Pennsylvania the government gave advance warning to Democratic Party officials in violation of the law.

He also said that in Pennsylvania, along with Georgia, bipartisan teams of observers were prohibited from going into nursing homes, which led to massive, one-sided turnout from those nursing homes.

He said that then Attorney General Bill Barr, who claimed there was no fraud in the election, did “precious little in the way of investigations that would give credibility to such a statement”

The trial is expected to continue next week and is being livestreamed here.

Hat tip Rasmussen Reports.

Eastman Disbarment Trial Gets Vote Fraud Evidence Into Court

Eastman Disbarment Trial Gets Vote Fraud Evidence Into Court

Fayette County Election Machine Update

Fayette County Election Machine Update — A request for an emergency injunction was denied this afternoon, Aug. 31, by Fayette County (Pa) Common Pleas Court Judge John F. Wagner to prevent voting machines and other materials from being flown away to who knows where.

Wagner cited lack of standing by plaintiffs, said plaintiff Gregory Stenstrom.

Stenstrom, an election integrity activist from Delaware County, filed jointly with Jon R. Marrietta, Jr.

Marrietta was a candidate in the May 16 Republican primary battle for Fayette County commissioner.

Marrietta’s 5,206 tally was 121 behind Scott Dunn and 554 behind Dave Lohr.

The top two advance to November.

Wagner denied the injunction request.

He told the county representatives, however, “I don’t need to issue you an order to tell you that no election machines or materials are to leave Fayette County.”

Stenstrom said that multiple whistleblowers reported that a medium-sized cargo jet and Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Beech King Air made unscheduled landings about 9:30 a.m. at Connellsville Airport, and that aircrews said they were there to load county election materials onto the cargo jet.

Shapiro was supposedly attending an unpublicized meeting regarding a project, said Stenstrom.

He was reportedly at the meeting for a short time then disappeared for about four hours.

The planes were flown to Arnold Palmer Airport in Latrobe about 25 miles away, Stenstrom says.

The county says the error rate in the May 16 primary for six selected precincts was 1 of 1,489 Republican ballots or .07 percent.

Stenstrom and Marrietta say the error rate was 9.09 percent for mail-in ballots and 1 percent for in-person ballots for an aggregate of 1.72 percent. They say the law requires a county-wide recount for an error rate over .5 percent.

They had asked that certification of the primary be delayed but the county board of elections certified the results last night in an unadvertised meeting.

Stenstrom says this violated the Sunshine Act.

He said they will be appealing to Commonwealth Court.

Stenstrom said he is helping Marrietta because of his integrity and courage.

Documents, videos and photos of what is going on across state can be found at Patriot.Online.

Fayette County Election Machine Update --
The Pennsylvania Governor’s Beech King Air 350 at Arnold Palmer Airport this morning

Fayette County Election Machine Update

Fayette County Election Machines Taken To Airport??

Fayette County Election Machines Taken To Airport?? — A request for an emergency injunction was filed this morning, Aug. 31, to stop Faytette County, Pa.’s election machines from being airlifted to parts unknown.

Petitioners are Jon R. Marrietta, Jr., a candidate for Fayette County commissioner, and election integrity activist Gregory Stenstrom.

“Plaintiffs were notified by a whistleblower at the local airport that all Fayette County Voting machines for all 77 precincts are being removed from Fayette County this morning, and a plane large enough to fit all machine and election equipment is waiting on tarmac,” the plaintiffs say.

Faytette County is south of Pittsburgh and Republican stronghold — just like Fulton County, Pa.

Fayette County Election Machines Taken To Airport??

Election Fraud Revealed In Chester County?

Election Fraud Revealed In Chester County? — ChescoUnited discussed , Aug. 10, a canvass of 144 of the 3,115 who voted in 2022 in Chester County, Pa. despite being recorded as having had a change of address.

About 70 percent in the canvass appeared to have moved away for good.

A change of address doesn’t necessarily mean an illegitimate vote. A student returning from college or someone who divides his time between two homes could be in the address change database and still legally vote in Chesco.

The canvassers said, however, they could only ascertain that for about 30 percent.

Which means 70 percent very well may be illegitimate voters.

This is a pretty strong indication of fraud.

Considering the willingness of people to hack an ID for a few thousand dollars why would anyone even question the possibility that some might conspire to steal a government with access to a billion or trillion dollars?

Also revealed was that 40 percent of the world still does not have access to electricity or gas for cooking, and relies on biomass which would be things like wood, charcoal, crop waste and dung.

These are far more polluting that electricity and gas.

Did you know that a natural gas energy plant takes up only a twentieth the land as one that uses solar power?

Election Fraud Revealed In Chester County

Election Fraud Revealed In Chester County?

Gettysburg Hearing Can’t Be Used Against Trump

Gettysburg Hearing Can’t Be Used Against Trump (Corrected Version) — Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Erdos, July 31, ruled that a tweet and comments President Trump made regarding a legislative hearing on the election held in Gettysburg, Nov. 25, 2020 can’t be used against him from a defamation suit filed by former Delaware County, Pa. Voting Machine Warehouse supervisor James Savage.

Judge Erdos said Trump claim that elections in Delaware County were rigged was protected by presidential immunity.

Remaining as defendants are Rudy Giuliani, Jen Ellis and Delco poll watchers Leah Hoopes and Greg Stenstrom.

Why is this case being held in Philly? Savage was employed in and lived in Delaware County when the alleged defamation occurred, after all, and Mrs. Hoopes and Stenstrom remain Delco residents.

Gettysburg Hearing Can't Be Used Against Trump (Corrected Version)

Pennsylvania law allows plaintiffs to chose any county in the state to file their case.

Judge Erdos in a June 20 hearing in which he dismissed a bizarre request by Savage’s attorney Conor Corcoran for a protective order against Mrs. Hoopes and Stenstrom, noted that none of the various cases regarding 2020 election fraud allegations ever went before a jury and that the eyes of the world will be on Philadelphia when this case goes to trial.

Considering the indictments against Trump filed, yesterday, Aug. 1, by Special Counsel Jack Smith alleging that the President conspired to defraud the government, impede Congress and violated persons right to vote for saying the 2020 election was rigged, it seems a whole lot of cases regarding 2020 are now going to be going to trail.

Wonder if Smith considered that before filing his indictments. He was under a lot of pressure after all being as how Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer had just testified to Congress that Joe Biden listened in on his son’s business meetings and met with the corrupt mayor of Moscow’s filthy rich widow after his which his little boy got a $40 million investment.

Trump Dropped From Delco Defamation Suit

Delco Envelope Examination Ends; County Praised

Delco Envelope Examination Ends; County Praised — An examination of ballot envelopes in Delaware County, Pa. at The Wharf in Chester ended soon after noon, today, July 19.

The envelopes were from the May 16 primary election. The examination took about seven hours over two days with six stations. The examiners — all volunteers — photographed each envelope signature.

The request had been made by Delaware County Council candidate Joy Schwartz and poll watchers Greg Stenstrom, Leah Hoopes and Paul Rumley.

Stenstrom said they found no discrepancies between the 25,000 vote tally reported by the county and the number of envelopes. He thanked the county and praised the county poll workers for their cooperation and assistance.

Stenstrom said they will process the data and report back.

Mrs. Schwartz and the poll watchers made the request to examine the envelopes shortly after the election, which the county perversely fought for nearly two month taking it all the way to Commonwealth Court.

Stenstrom said the envelope images are stored on the county’s BlueCrest sorters and dozens of man-hours — including paid county labor — would have been saved if the Delco just gave them the images on a disk.

He had also made this point at the 9-hour hearing, Nov. 28, before Judge Barry Dozor.

Delco Envelope Examination Ends; County Praised
Greg Stenstrom, Erik Kocher, Scott Thomas, Joy Schwartz and Maria Fine at the cancelled envelope exam, June 2. In the background is the symbol for the Philadelphia Union soccer team which has its headquarters at The Wharf.

Delco Envelope Examination Ends; County Praised

Mainstream Publications Now Airing Vote Fraud Suspicions

Mainstream Publications Now Airing Vote Fraud Suspicions — John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist points out that the poison injected into America’s veins in 2020 is not going away and that any Republican seeking to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination better recognize it as to have a prayer of a chance.

Even that would likely be futile.

Simple logic shows that the honorable thing is to support the one who was wronged, not attack him.

Davidson says the election wasn’t taken from Trump but from the American voter. He fudges a little about it having been stolen but is definitive that it was fixed.

“After all, the people and institutions that rigged it have freely admitted what they did,” he writes. “They suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, censored what Americans could say on social media, introduced unprecedented changes to our voting system under the pretext of pandemic precautions, and poured hundreds of millions of dollars into putatively nonpartisan local election offices through Mark Zuckerberg-connected nonprofits for the sole purpose of turning out Democrat voters in swing states.”

And he certainly doesn’t dismiss the possibility of out-and-out theft.

“Plenty of them will always believe, not without reason, that 2020 was stolen outright,” he says. “Many millions more believe, with even more reason, that it was rigged unfairly against Trump and that the same forces are at work now to rig it against whomever the GOP nominee turns out to be.”

Our leaders — especially in the judiciary — must leave their pleasant bubbles and see the seething anger held by the many who once considered FBI agents and federal prosecutors to be heroes.

Officials must bend over backwards regarding election transparency.

They must stop fighting right-to-know requests like cornered rats.

Why doesn’t Delaware County, Pa. want the public to see its correspondence with its ballot printer, Fort Orange Press of Albany, N.Y.?

Why can’t candidates verify that the ballot envelopes have proper signatures?

That these simple things are being fought can’t be taken as anything but proof that our votes are being stolen.

We are going to call out by name Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Justice Michael H. Wojcik.

Two days ago, he presided over a hearing concerning access to ballot envelope signatures.

Rather than resolve the matter by ordering access to these public records, he dumped it on Delaware County Common Pleas Court.

He accepted Delco lawyer Manley Parks argument that Commonwealth Court wasn’t the proper venue since only county officials were involved. This is despite the county seeking, and getting, direction from the Department of State.

Put all the cards on the table now. If it should turn out that nothing untoward happened, or if it did it was minor, a crisis is averted.

If it should be found that the vote fraud was real and decisive, don’t become a co-conspirator.

Mainstream Publications Now Airing Vote Fraud Suspicions

Delco Ballot Envelope Signature Case Kicked To Common Pleas Court

Delco Ballot Envelope Signature Case Kicked To Common Pleas Court— Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Justice Michael H. Wojcik ordered, this afternoon, July 11, the case to see envelope signatures from the May 16 primary be heard in Delaware County Common Pleas Court.

Defendants were Al Schmidt, secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Delaware County; Delaware County Park Police Department; Delaware County Director of Elections James Allen; and Delaware County Park Police Chief John S. Diehl.

Schmidt is off the case now.

Plaintiffs were originally Republican County Council candidate Joy Schwartz; and certified poll watchers Gregory Stenstrom, Leah Hoopes and Paul Rumley. Four other Republican candidates have joined, however.

The county and state were represented by lawyers while the plaintiffs represented themselves.

The government lawyers claimed that Commonwealth Court was not the proper venue as allowing access to the records was solely a county responsibility and the secretary of the state could not compel action.

If the state government was involved Commonwealth Court would be the venue.

The plaintiffs say there is a 14,289 ballot disparity between what was observed being counted at the county’s Wharf Centralized Counting Center and the 24,289 recorded the night of the May 16 election.

A request to examine the ballot envelopes was fought by the county before it conceded to it. This June 2 examination was called off, however, when the county insisted on covering the envelope signatures with masking tape. These are not just public records but the only way to determine if the envelope came from a legitimate voter.

Stenstrom said that Allen initially told the plaintiffs that signatures were covered at Secretary Schmidt’s direction but changed his statement in an email claiming it came from attorney Manley Parks acting on advice from the Secretary.

Parks, who represented Delco today, said that the state merely offered a suggestion and didn’t order action.

Stenstrom, in his presentation, pointed out that the Pennsylvania Department of State fined Fulton County millions of dollars after they made a preliminary audit of its voting machines when it failed to follow “a suggestion”.

He also said in open court that Delco has actively destroyed records regarding elections from 2020, 2021 and 2022. He said they have evidence.

Mrs. Hoopes said that she worked a decade in geriatric health care. If a tragedy occurred because she followed advice from her superior, the superior would be sued as well as herself, she said.

Judge Wojcik emphasized the case was not dismissed. He would have taken a big step in restoring trust in our elections, though, if he simply told Allen to let them look at the freaking names.

Our judges really better start taking election concerns seriously. Wojcik used a technicality to punt on an issue which should not be an issue.

Why is Allen and the county fighting this so hard? It’s not about privacy. These names are given to thousands of non-government people every month.

Voter rolls are obviously public record.

It should also be obvious that the envelope signatures cannot reveal how a vote was cast.

There is no honest answer either as to why the county is fighting so hard a right-to-know order from a state arbiter.

Delco Ballot Envelope Signature Case Kicked To Common Pleas Court

Plaintiffs Accuse Delco Of Staging Evidence

Plaintiffs Accuse Delco Of Staging Evidence — The plaintiffs in the case regarding access to Delaware County election envelopes from the 2023 primary election are accusing Delaware County officials of “preparing and staging materials” in anticipation of the July 11 hearing before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.

The plaintiffs are Republican County Council candidate Joy Schwartz; and election integrity activists Gregory Stenstrom, Leah Hoopes and Paul Rumley.

Defendants are Al Schmidt, acting secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Delaware County; Delaware County Park Police Department; Delaware County Director of Elections James Allen; and Delaware County Park Police Chief John S. Diehl.

Allen and Diehl are being sued in their personal capacities.

The plaintiffs say there is a 14,289 ballot disparity between what was observed being counted at the county’s Wharf Centralized Counting Center and the 24,289 recorded the night of the May 16 election.

A request to examine the ballot envelopes was initially fought by the county who then conceded to it just before an expected ruling by Commonwealth Court.

This June 2 examination was called off, however, when the county insisted on covering the envelope signatures, which are not just public record but the only way to determine if the envelope came from a legitimate voter.

The envelope signatures cannot reveal how a vote was cast and the names of those who vote are obviously and necessarily public information.

The plaintiffs again appealed to Commonwealth Court.

In their latest filing, they say:

  • The BOE has been active in the Wharf Centralized Counting Center setting up plastic barriers on the tables next to the envelope racks, and continuing to stage boxes with unknown contents in the secure storage room with closed door access immediately next to the expended, opened Mail In Ballot (MIB) racks.
  • Multiple people have access to the back office and side storage room. This room has two access doors to the back office where there are no cameras, and to the main counting room door next to the racks where they are storing expended MIB envelopes.
  • In 2020, Plaintiff Gregory Stenstrom was told by Delaware County, Clerk of Elections, Laureen Hagan that only she and James Allen had keys to the storage area where there are controlled election results that include primarily ballot bags from the precincts with cast ballots. Multiple people entering and exiting these areas without access control and sign in / out, is a problem by itself, as these are official election records.
  • On June 21st, 2023, Lauren Hagan, BOE (Bureau of Elections) IT (Information Technology) Director Robert Wright, and an unidentified male BOE employee, were observed entering the back storage room together (Camera 9) with a hand cart and placing brown cardboard boxes, that were on the floor behind stacked precinct ballot bags out of sight of the cameras, onto the cart. The boxes are somewhat heavy based on the effort they exerted lifting them and estimated to be about 20-30 pounds. They were placed on the cart and wheeled next to the door that opens next to the racks of expended MIB envelopes.
  • On June 23rd, 2023, Robert Wright supervised two BOE employees setting up large clear plastic barriers with a slot on the bottom, placing them on the 8’x4′ card tables set up next to the racks that are lined up along the windows with opaque plastic boxes with blue folding lids that contain expended MIB envelopes.
  • Also on June 23 , 2023, another unidentified male wheeled in another hand truck with two brown cardboard boxes sealed with red tape and a white shoe box into the room, transferring the boxes to the hand truck staged by the door that opens to the racks with the expended MIB envelopes, and the right rear corner of the main counting room.
  • The unidentified male returns to the hand car by the door with access to the MIB racks, after wheeling the hand cart he used to wheel the (new) boxes in the room and seems concerned with the logo and label and moves the white shoe box on top of the newly placed brown cardboard boxes.
  • In the videos of remarkable behavior to date, IT Director Robert Wright appears to be acting in a supervisory role, and is aware of the public access monitoring cameras.
  • The County BOE seem to be preparing and staging materials in anticipation of the July 11th, 2023, hearing at the Commonwealth Court and a subsequent order from the Court that Plaintiffs be granted their Act 77 rights to inspect the expended MIB envelopes for their declarations.

The entire filing sent is below:

The reason why two-thirds of this country are convinced that our elections have become untrustworthy is behavior like this. The good people in our government have to defend transparency and put an end to the strange games being played by officials in Delaware County and elsewhere.

There is no honest reason to hide those envelopes or their signatures.

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Plaintiffs Accuse Delco Of Staging Evidence