Juno News - October 30, 2024


Nefarious voting activities happening in KEY swing states ahead of election day


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00:00:00.000 Political experts have talked about how the election will come down to several key swing
00:00:04.740 states and that it's possible we might not know who will win on the night of the election.
00:00:11.080 The American election is in one week, but establishment press and pundits alike are
00:00:18.440 warning us that we might not know the results of the election next week for days and potentially
00:00:24.440 even weeks to come. This is becoming the norm in Canada and the U.S. We used to know the results
00:00:30.800 of an election on that night, but for some reason now it takes days due to mail-in ballots. We're
00:00:37.860 going to have to be following that next week very closely to see what happens, but already even in
00:00:43.120 the days and weeks leading up to the election, there's been a number of nefarious activities,
00:00:48.180 voter fraud in some cases, and potential ability for people to try and cheat. We're going to be
00:00:54.760 diving into all that today. I'm Rachel Parker and you're watching Rachel in the Republic.
00:01:08.160 Hey everyone, I'm Rachel Parker. Welcome back to Rachel in the Republic. We are one week out from
00:01:15.020 Election Day in the United States, and so I wanted to talk a little bit about what election night is
00:01:20.640 going to look like, and then I wanted to dive into the presentation that I all promised you.
00:01:25.320 As I mentioned last week, I did this presentation initially first. I did it live on Saturday at True
00:01:31.460 North Nation down in Calgary, but I've repackaged it for the show so I can give you guys all the juice
00:01:36.960 of some of the nefarious activities that we've seen leading up into the election. But let's start by
00:01:42.300 taking a look at election day itself. So typically it was the norm. We all expected that on election
00:01:49.340 night we would be, everyone would go home with their family, you'd flip on the TV. Okay, maybe not
00:01:54.340 everyone. This was definitely how it worked in my household though on election nights. You'd flip on
00:01:58.100 the TV, you'd pull out some snacks, and you'd flip between the channels as results rolled in throughout
00:02:04.340 the evening. Typically, you know, sometimes I'd have to go to bed before the final results were
00:02:09.060 announced, but it was still something that you could expect. By the early hours of the following
00:02:14.220 morning, you would know the results of the election. That is no longer the case. It is no longer the case
00:02:19.460 in the American presidential election. It's no longer the case in Canada. For example, the BC election,
00:02:26.180 which I covered yesterday and the week before that on the Rachel Parker show, it took a week
00:02:30.200 to know the results of that election due to the mail-in ballots, which just kept showing up
00:02:35.720 after the election day and kept being counted. And so it's typically caused a lot of distrust in our
00:02:43.060 systems because polling showing one thing results are leaning one way. And then all of a sudden all
00:02:47.200 these mail-in ballots come in and they flip as they did in BC. They, in some cases, they flip ridings
00:02:53.000 or in the States, they flipped key swing States. So it causes a lot of distrust in the system. And
00:02:57.700 already the American establishment press is laying the groundwork to tell Americans that they should just
00:03:03.260 expect that they won't have the results on election night. Once again, this here is from
00:03:09.020 Reuters. Reuters writes, the U.S. presidential election will take place on November 5, but the
00:03:14.860 winner of the razor thin race between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump may not
00:03:21.300 be known for days after the polls close. As ballots are counted, one candidate may appear to be leading
00:03:27.860 based on early returns, only for a rival to close the gap as more votes are tallied. In 2020, some
00:03:34.300 States experienced a red mirage in which Trump was leading on election night before a blue shift saw
00:03:40.820 Democrat Joe Biden overtake him, a phenomenon Trump used to amplify his false claims that the election
00:03:46.400 was stolen. Nothing untoward had occurred. Democrats tend to live in a more populous urban areas where
00:03:53.220 counting votes takes longer. Democrats have also embraced mail voting more readily than Republicans
00:03:58.960 after Trump's false claims that mail ballots are untrustworthy. And those ballots take longer to
00:04:04.440 count than election day votes. Trump has both encouraged and criticized early and mail-in voting
00:04:10.120 in 2024. So when we talk about election results being delayed, a big part of the reason why they're
00:04:17.160 delayed is because of the mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots can be sent, but they are not actually counted
00:04:22.780 until election day. And that frequently causes delays in various ridings. Additionally, there's
00:04:28.800 been cases where the mail-in ballots were received after the deadline in the States and were still
00:04:33.300 counted, which goes against protocol for mail-in ballots. States designate the laws for mail-in ballots
00:04:40.080 on a state-by-state basis. But that was something that we saw push through during the COVID-19 pandemic,
00:04:45.900 that we saw a push for mail-in ballot because they didn't want people going out. And so they pushed
00:04:50.820 through these laws, which basically changed how voting in the United States had happened
00:04:55.200 for all of American history. And then as the article said, it looked like Trump was leading
00:05:02.020 in several kings to wait. People went to bed thinking it was going to be a Trump presidency,
00:05:05.880 and they woke up the next morning to find out that all of these shifts had happened. And it caused a lot
00:05:11.560 of unease within American people. Just as in BC, it's causing unease with some people. The mail-in ballots
00:05:17.820 were counted and early polling had showed that the mail-in ballots were trending in favor of
00:05:22.520 the conservatives. And it ended up that they all basically went to the NDP. And so that causes a lot
00:05:27.380 of distrust. If you want to learn more about the specifics of the BC election, head on over to
00:05:32.420 yesterday's episode of the Rachel Parker Show to break that down for. But just so you guys know,
00:05:37.800 next week I will obviously be covering the US election. And it seems at this point, it's very
00:05:41.300 unlikely we will know the results of the US election because everyone is basically telling us
00:05:46.000 you can expect that you won't have results on election night once again, due to the mail-in
00:05:51.900 system. I don't know why the mail-in system is needed. I understand the pretenses that they
00:05:56.740 pushed it forward during the COVID-19 pandemic. I think a lot of times when we push to have voting
00:06:01.720 be more accessible, it actually results in more distrust in our democracy. People can show up to
00:06:07.700 the polls on voting day and vote. They don't need to send advanced votes. Absentee ballots are
00:06:13.840 obviously different. That's when you're out of the country and you're able to vote that way.
00:06:17.020 But the level of mail-in ballots that we're seeing is unprecedented because the whole idea of mail-in
00:06:22.400 votes are relatively new and they cause these major delays on election night. And I think there's a lot
00:06:28.820 of distrust in our systems because of the mail-in ballot systems. I think this is a case where we've
00:06:33.800 tried something new, similar to how we've tried to use the tabulators in Alberta on election night.
00:06:39.500 You were able to vote outside of your riding. You basically put your ballot into a tabulator.
00:06:45.620 It tallied that on election day. If you guys remember the last election in Alberta, the votes
00:06:50.040 were very delayed because of the tabulators because the tabulators did not tally those vote anywhere
00:06:55.380 votes until election day. And then they had to be manually entered to a computer. And that wasn't
00:07:01.060 connected to the internet for safety reasons so that it couldn't be hacked. And it actually ended up
00:07:04.700 causing a major delay in Alberta. Now we didn't have a situation in BC where it took days, but it
00:07:10.000 did take hours. And so I think this is a circumstance where we've been trying new things to speed up the
00:07:14.520 process of election day and to make it more accessible. And what we've instead done is we've
00:07:18.560 eroded trust in our democracy and we've actually slowed down the process. So I think when it comes to
00:07:23.460 showing up in person, showing your ID, voting in person on paper on election day, we already had it
00:07:29.100 figured out. Maybe it was as perfect as it was ever going to be. And all these new things that we've done
00:07:34.080 have not been progress, but they have actually causes a backslide in how effective our elections
00:07:39.960 are. So this is an example where technology isn't necessarily the solution. So for next week, we
00:07:46.360 probably won't have those results on Tuesday night. We probably won't even have them Wednesday.
00:07:50.320 I have a feeling it's going to be quite delayed again. But let's take a look at some of the
00:07:54.960 activities and the various activities that have been happening in the lead up to the US election,
00:08:00.820 starting with Pennsylvania. So you guys all remember the, of course, the failed assassination
00:08:06.520 attempt of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania that I reported on because I was there. A few weeks after
00:08:11.960 that happened, Donald Trump went back to Pennsylvania and he hosted another rally there.
00:08:16.780 And I have sort of pegged this as the moment that the momentum changed in the US election.
00:08:21.660 On the show, I've said I felt like this was when we really saw the momentum swing for the Republicans.
00:08:26.120 When Donald Trump went back to Pennsylvania, voter officials said that on the evening that he would
00:08:34.020 be there hosting his rally in Butler with Elon Musk, that citizens in the state of Pennsylvania would
00:08:39.840 not be able to register to vote that evening because the site would be shut down due to maintenance that
00:08:47.340 had been scheduled in advance. So just conveniently, the one night that Donald Trump is returning
00:08:53.320 to Pennsylvania after a failed assassination attempt, the voter registration is just going to happen
00:09:00.160 to be shut down that very same evening. Now, of course, there was widespread outrage over this
00:09:07.780 alleged scheduled maintenance. And officials agreed to turn, you know, their voter registration back
00:09:13.780 on for a little bit. But so often when we talk about the election being stolen in the United States,
00:09:19.840 a lot of people will point at Donald Trump and they'll be like, he lied about a stolen election.
00:09:24.700 And as you just saw in the Reuters article, they said, oh, no, these mail-in ballots just all happened
00:09:29.060 to swing key states in favor of Democrat Joe Biden. But in addition to all the issues that people have
00:09:36.160 over mail-in ballots, a lot of people not trusting those processes about mail-in ballots are more
00:09:39.380 difficult to verify, those types of things. There's also been a number of nefarious activities in the
00:09:43.760 lead-up to the election that would cause distrust in the process. Things like this. This is an example
00:09:49.900 of officials cheating for the Democrats by purposely planning this scheduled maintenance on a night that
00:09:57.680 Trump would be in Butler. The reason that politicians hold rallies leading up to an election is to get
00:10:04.480 people excited, to encourage them to go to vote, to encourage them to bring their friends out to vote,
00:10:08.840 and to register them to vote. At these political rallies, if you go there, there's information all
00:10:13.120 over the place about how to register to vote. And so by shutting down the ability for Pennsylvania
00:10:20.240 residents to be able to register on the night of the Butler-Pennsylvania rally, they are essentially
00:10:26.220 favoring the Democrats because they know that that was a huge moment of momentum. It was a huge show
00:10:31.920 of courage and strength from Donald Trump to go back to the place where he survived an assassination
00:10:38.080 attempt and to really rally up his supporters. And a lot of people were at that specific event that
00:10:46.740 might not typically have come to a Trump rally because Elon Musk was also there. One of the most
00:10:51.940 famous entrepreneurs in the world was also there. So it would have just tended to bring more people to
00:10:57.960 the event who were excited about seeing both Elon Musk and Trump. After Elon Musk gave his endorsement,
00:11:03.800 a very strong endorsement for Trump that night, it would have been likely that people who maybe
00:11:08.700 haven't voted Republican in the past, maybe who weren't sure whether they actually wanted to vote
00:11:12.180 for Trump would have been inclined to vote for him and have sought to register to vote that night.
00:11:16.120 And so biased voter officials in the state of Pennsylvania tried to make that impossible to do so.
00:11:21.720 And there's other examples of this. In Pennsylvania, which is of course a key sink suite,
00:11:26.680 in Lancaster, officials are investigating after they found 25,000 voter registration that appeared
00:11:33.880 to be fraudulent. Election officials said up to 60% of them appeared to be fake. This is happening all
00:11:39.240 across the states. We're seeing people try to cheat. So the question I have for you is, as I report on
00:11:44.260 these examples where we found incidents where people were trying to cheat, how likely is it that not
00:11:49.420 all of these examples have been found? Moving into Michigan. In Michigan, there's simply too many
00:11:55.820 voters on the registration rules. There's 8.4 million people registered to vote on the voter
00:12:02.320 rules in the state of Michigan. However, there's fewer than 8 million voting age residents in the
00:12:07.960 state. So what happened there? What happened there is there's people who have moved out of the state,
00:12:12.960 there's people who have passed in, passed on, that have simply not been removed from the voter
00:12:18.220 registration rules. Now, people have complained, and the state has acknowledged that it needs to clear
00:12:24.400 over 606,000 residents from the voter rolls, but they aren't expected to get around to that until
00:12:32.060 2027. When we think about the function of the state, I would argue that the state has limited
00:12:37.460 functions that it continues to surpass. But one of the functions I would agree is the role of the
00:12:42.840 state is that of a free and fair election. And it seems that Michigan, for example, along with a host of
00:12:49.700 other states is less interested in ensuring that it has a free and fair election. But I can guarantee
00:12:55.840 you that they are absolutely focused on making sure they glean every last cent from their residence
00:13:01.440 pockets. They're absolutely focused on creating new laws to make the residence life more difficult,
00:13:09.360 less free, more taxes. If you, for example, run a red light and there's a red light camera,
00:13:16.000 they will go after you with everything they have to make sure they get that fine from you.
00:13:20.480 And basically any reason those types of fines are extremely high. They're a couple hundred of
00:13:24.700 dollars. If you don't pay it at the first sign of payment, it continues to go up. And yet when we look
00:13:30.320 at the basic functions of state and government, they're not actually fulfilling the basic things,
00:13:35.280 the things that most people, I mean, I'm sure there are some anarchists or some libertarians who would
00:13:39.260 disagree that the function of the state is to run elections, but most people would generally feel
00:13:43.760 comfortable with that statement that the government should oversee elections. And yet that's just
00:13:49.200 increasingly not a priority of states. It's increasingly not a priority of states to make sure
00:13:54.340 that people trust in their voting system, that their voter registration rules are up to date,
00:14:01.020 that people who no longer live in the state are not on the voter registration rules. And we have to ask
00:14:07.040 ourselves why. Why is it that something that is such a key foundation, such a cornerstone of democracy
00:14:12.820 is no longer being prioritized by our governments who are so busy with taxing us to death, essentially.
00:14:21.300 So that's not the only example. Another incident that went viral recent in the last few days actually
00:14:27.460 happened in Montana. An individual who had been employed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
00:14:33.960 was seen at a voter box. You do see him go and touch the voter box. Now, this has been a matter
00:14:40.440 of speculation. Was this individual trying to tamper with the voter box? Was he simply ensuring that it
00:14:46.400 was appropriately attached? I'm going to play the video for you guys, and you can make that decision
00:14:50.440 for yourself.
00:15:03.960 So in that clip, you see this individual go up and he touches the voter box. Now, the senatorial campaign
00:15:27.780 that he worked for said that he's been fired out of an abundance of caution, but that he basically was
00:15:33.120 just checking to ensure that the box was appropriately attached. Listen, if you work in
00:15:38.280 partisan politics, I think you need to be extra careful about your actions, especially when it
00:15:43.840 comes to something like a ballot box where people are going to cast their ballots. You see him there,
00:15:48.780 he touches the box with both hands. Maybe he's pushing it, maybe he's pulling it, maybe he's seeing
00:15:53.060 if it's just simply attached, and then he sends a couple messages out and is going back and forth.
00:15:57.460 That would have been a case where he should have asked election officials to go and check if he
00:16:03.100 was concerned about the ballot box. He could have always gone with them. But the fact that he went
00:16:07.960 and he did this on his own without giving anyone advanced knowledge as to what he was working on
00:16:13.260 does arouse a lot of suspicion as to why he went there, what he was doing, who he was texting,
00:16:19.340 and what this was all about. So he's been now fired out of an abundance of caution,
00:16:23.240 even though the senatorial campaign committee says that, you know, he was really just checking
00:16:28.760 to make sure the ballot box was safe. Another example you might have seen going viral over
00:16:32.800 the weekend was that two ballot boxes were actually set on fire in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver,
00:16:40.360 Washington. Hundreds of ballots were burned. You can see the video imagery of it. It's actually shocking
00:16:44.800 that these ballot boxes were set on fire. Now, there tends to be one main school of thought coming
00:16:51.840 out of the conservative campaign is that these types of actions actually exist to discourage
00:16:56.880 people from going out to vote. Typically, when you don't see high voter turnout on election day,
00:17:02.540 it's very good for the incumbent because it means that there's not a large amount of people who are
00:17:06.800 desiring change. If not a lot of people go out to vote, maybe they're not excited about either of
00:17:11.000 the candidates, but, you know, they're also not motivated to see change. So not a lot of a not a
00:17:16.980 not high voter turnout is a typically good thing for the incumbent. In that case,
00:17:20.520 that would be the Biden-Harris administration. And so these types of things, when you see ballot
00:17:25.800 boxes burning, obviously, it's very illegal. Obviously, it's something to be super concerned
00:17:29.600 about. At the same time, people do these things to discourage people from going out to vote,
00:17:35.760 especially people who are seeking change. So in that case, it'd be especially those who would be
00:17:39.800 more inclined to cast a ballot for Donald Trump and the Republicans on election day because they're
00:17:45.240 tired of the status quo in the United States. They're tired of the high inflation. They're tired
00:17:50.460 of living under this threat of World War Three. And certainly in the United States, you know,
00:17:57.240 there's a sentiment of people feeling very concerned that they're going to get dragged into a war,
00:18:01.960 into conflict in the Middle East under Joe Biden compared to the peace that we did see under Donald
00:18:06.520 Trump. So just take that with a grain of salt as well. Yes, ballot boxes were burned in two states,
00:18:12.440 hundreds of ballots were burned. But what is the actual message that's being trying to is being
00:18:17.700 sent there? People are being attempted to discourage to vote. Just the last example that I wanted to
00:18:23.960 cover here of nefarious activities when it comes to voting leading up to election day is this footage.
00:18:29.960 This is from the Heritage Foundation. Michael Knowles had it on a show. We'll play it for you in just a
00:18:34.000 second. And it essentially reveals that non-citizens are voting, are planning to vote in Phoenix,
00:18:40.960 Arizona. What is one thing that the left always tells us? It tells us, oh, people who aren't American
00:18:46.280 citizens aren't voting. So we don't need to worry about people showing the ID on election day.
00:18:51.900 It's not a concern. No one who's not a citizen isn't going to vote. Well, this footage actually
00:18:57.340 counters that narrative. Take a look at this. Hey, ma'am. How are you? We're an organization.
00:19:02.800 Right now, we're helping the Hispanic community here in the Phoenix area by giving information to
00:19:07.180 people who might want to register to vote in the upcoming elections. Out of curiosity, are you
00:19:12.520 registered to vote? Yes, we're already registered. Okay. Do you register here at work? At work?
00:19:19.640 Are you a citizen? No. Have you been registered yet? There was an application. It was in the place of
00:19:27.580 assistance where they help us Hispanics when we come here. I marked yes so I could vote. But
00:19:34.360 mark yes. Yes, I marked yes like I told you. The question came up asking if I wanted to vote. I
00:19:41.380 said yes. Are you a citizen? No, I'm waiting for my residency right now. You're waiting for residency?
00:19:47.780 Yes, okay. And you plan to vote this year? Yes. Last question is, who do you prefer right now? Trump or
00:19:59.420 Kamala? Kamala? Where were you born? In Cuba. So the clip goes on there and Michael Knowles says,
00:20:09.440 oh, it's too bad because typically Cubans are more conservatives and I would have expected him to
00:20:13.540 essentially vote for Trump is essentially what he says. I just thought it was funny. I really enjoy
00:20:17.160 Michael Knowles as a podcast host. So there you have it. Non-citizens are planning to vote in Phoenix.
00:20:26.320 When we look at all these examples, I think it creates an element of concern for all of us.
00:20:31.700 There's already been so many instances of attempted cheating, of attempted voter fraud. In some cases,
00:20:37.880 citizen non-citizens are outright admitting that they're not voting. And as I've said, these are all the
00:20:42.820 examples that, well, these aren't even all the examples we can find. If you were to go search
00:20:47.020 on Google, you'd be shocked by all the examples of potential voter fraud that have been caught in
00:20:52.220 the days and weeks leading up to the U.S. election. But like I said before, I have to ask myself,
00:20:56.440 what are the examples that we're not catching? As well, the one question I think that we all need
00:21:01.920 to just think about, and if you guys have some thoughts on this, please put your thoughts in the
00:21:06.080 comment section below because I love reading your thoughts on these circumstances, is it would be
00:21:13.160 very easy for the powers that be to change things, to go back to what voting used to look like when
00:21:21.120 you showed up in person on voting day and you cast a ballot that was a paper ballot that was later in
00:21:26.900 the day counted by hand and was reported that night. It would be very easy to go back to the days of
00:21:34.340 simple and traditional voting. And yet, instead of that, when people raise concerns about the process,
00:21:40.600 when they raise concerns about cheating or non-residents voting, non-citizens, I should say,
00:21:45.580 voting, when they raise concerns about voter fraud, mail-in ballots, they are instead told that they are
00:21:52.880 election deniers and that they are the ones who, we are told that we are the ones who are creating
00:21:57.980 distrust in our democracy. Not all of these other examples that I've just pointed to, that's not an
00:22:03.820 issue. It's us for talking about it and for pointing out and for voicing our distrust. The fact
00:22:10.660 that people are out there and they're willing to voice their distrust in the system and their
00:22:15.580 concerns over the processes, whether that be here in Canada or in the States, is a good thing for
00:22:21.100 democracy because we have the ability to say, I have concerns about the way that the election in BC
00:22:26.640 was carried out. For example, in the election in BC, BC officials were actually allowed to take home
00:22:32.300 boxes full of ballots and just keep them in their house for a week while the recounts were done.
00:22:37.640 I'm not okay with that. I don't think that that is appropriate. They should have been
00:22:40.500 kept somewhere in a safe, not in an individual's home. And so it is a good thing for us to continue
00:22:46.540 to have these conversations and to say, we're not happy with how these processes are going and we
00:22:52.520 would like to see change. Now that is a sign I would say of a healthy democracy. Obviously I'm
00:22:57.140 concerned about the way our elections are being run. I think that our government needs to focus
00:23:01.980 less on tampons and in the bathroom for men and focus more on our elections and get back to a place
00:23:07.940 where we can all trust the system once again. Because I don't know anyone who's saying, oh,
00:23:11.620 I don't trust elections when they were cast by hand and on paper and counted by hand.
00:23:17.840 And who's saying that they don't trust those elections? No one is saying they don't trust
00:23:21.900 those elections. So why can't we get back to a place in our country once again where everyone
00:23:27.420 feels confident in their system? Instead, now it can take hours, days, or weeks to know the results
00:23:32.960 of an election. And I think we all need to continue to raise the alarm. As I said on Saturday to all of
00:23:39.540 you, we need to continue to talk about this. We need to continue to be vocal about it and to demand
00:23:44.600 change so that we have trust in our systems once again. Obviously this is in the context of what
00:23:49.840 we can expect next week, but we are beginning to see those problems filter down into Canada
00:23:54.540 as we saw in BC. And as I mentioned before, slightly in Alberta with the tabulators that
00:23:59.920 we're seeing here, I think a lot of you guys are really uncomfortable with the electronics being used
00:24:05.720 on election day. All right, everyone, let me know what you think. Why is the left so hesitant to
00:24:12.500 make changes so that we can all trust our election once again? And do you have confidence in the
00:24:18.520 system in the states? Are you confident that we will know the results of the election on election
00:24:23.260 night or that you will be able to trust those results? That's all I have time for today. I look
00:24:28.280 forward to reading your comments. I hope that you guys have a great week. God bless.