What happens after Voting Day?

Start thinking about the consequences following Tuesday’s general election.

We have had significant issues with our voting since the Bush vs. Gore election. The entire process of Georgia delving into computerized voting machines has been convoluted if not downright corrupt (see: https://thecitizen.com/2024/09/30/opinion-your-vote-secure-or-corrupted-part-1/).

We also know that cyber experts have universally declared that our voting machines can be hacked. Additionally, the behavior from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office has been suspect, and even our local Board of Elections has refused to answer questions related to election security (see: https://thecitizen.com/2024/10/07/fayette-elections-board-refuses-to-answer-questions-no-surprise-there/).

Recent election turmoil

Here is just a sample:

• Incendiary devices were thrown into ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon, destroying ballots in Trump friendly communities and voting counts will not be disputed.

• A Fulton County judge dismissed a new rule from the Georgia Board of Elections that required a hand count of computer-generated paper ballots to match the actual count generated by the computer. The judge said that lack of training (counting pieces of paper) was the reason for his ruling.

• Mainstream media declared a huge Donald Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden was full of black, white, Hispanic and Jewish Nazis.

• Kamala Harris, losing ground, went into full “Trump is Hitler” mode, making a series of ridiculous claims. New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, confronted the vitriolic rhetoric head-on, saying the claims are preposterous and asked that such inflammatory campaign remarks be dialed down.

• Election denier Stacey Abrams claimed that black men who do not support Kamala Harris are sexist and racist.

• George Soros-funded Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a civil lawsuit Monday against Elon Musk and his America PAC, over daily $1 million giveaways to people who registered to vote in swing states.

• A federal judge rebuffed the allegations that Musk violated federal law on his voter registration giveaway.

• The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released an opinion on October 25 stating that federal law requires mail-in ballots to be counted no later than Election Day.

• The controversial elections board for Maricopa County, Arizona, stated it will take them around 13 days to count all the votes.

• A Florida postal worker has been accused of dumping mail, including election ballots.

• The Washington Post, LA Times, and other publications have decided not to endorse a presidential candidate, disappointing Kamala Harris campaign staffers. However, they will continue their incendiary “fascist” rhetoric to attempt to sway the election.

• Law enforcement in Mesa County, Colorado have intercepted ballots cast without the registered voters’ knowledge.

• A major voter registration fraud scheme was uncovered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Elections staff noticed that thousands of voter registration applications did not have matching signatures which led the crime to be discovered (Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, are you paying attention?).

• Kamala Harris announces she will pay for the surgery for male inmates who want to transition to females and reside at the women’s prison.

• Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is suing several states in federal court who are trying to comply with federal law on cleaning up voter rolls, removing those who are deceased or not US citizens.

• Darkside Republicans Dick and Liz Cheney support Kamala Harris’ campaign. Ouch!

• Kamala Harris refused to attend the annual Al Smith Dinner that benefits Catholic Charities. Host Jim Gaffigan ridicules Harris and the DNC saying, “This has been an interesting presidential campaign. The Democrats have been telling us Trump’s reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent, and installed Kamala Harris. In other words, all her dreams have come true.”

• Attorneys are gearing up for all sorts of litigation following the election.

Here he goes again!

It appears that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has gone on the defensive. Raffensperger is trying to upend the separate Georgia Board of Elections’ attempts at ensuring open and accountable elections.

Not only has Raffensperger condemned efforts to maintain fair elections, but he has also been rallying support for a 501(c)4 called “Election Defense Fund.” It appears that the fund is designed to fund litigation against anyone calling out election violations.

It has been reported by Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJane Kremer) that Ryan Germany is on the board of directors for the Election Defense Fund. That should leave you gasping because Germany is the person Raffensperger appointed to oversee the Fulton County election as the auditor.

“This is incredibly alarming to have the Georgia SOS, Brad Raffensperger, involved in any outside organization that is planning to target individuals who find election fraud…Whether this is illegal or not, it is definitely unethical behavior…” warns Kremer.

They make Raffensperger look like an amateur

There is an elite leftist version of how to seize control of the nation, no matter who wins the election.

It’s not difficult to believe that in typical Orwellian fashion that the group would be referred to as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). Integrity is definitely not their forte.

EIP is a consortium of four different non-government entities. The technical lead was the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) who said it was their mission to “defend democracy,” but implemented a censorship regime to quiet anyone questioning the Obama/Clinton/Biden efforts.

They aided the tech sector and the government with crushing the protected speech of Americans. Mired in scandal, SIO was outed and defunded (see: https://stanfordreview.org/stanfords-censorship-deceit-at-the-stanford-internet-observatory/).

The most significant EIP player was the Atlantic Council with seven CIA directors currently serving on its board of directors (what could possibly go wrong). They receive annual funding of over $1 million a year from the Pentagon, over $1 million from the State Department, plus money from a web of CIA cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy.

The EIP entities are well versed in psychological operations, societal disruption, and media control. For the 2020 election, they conducted training for hundreds of journalists on how to flag Trump tweets and argued what should be censored on social media.

This group has counter measures if Trump is elected. As with the 2016 DNC Russiagate coup attempt, coups are still on the menu.

If Trump wins, there will be an organized call for violence and unrest, soliciting groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa based on the argument that the constitutional basis of the Electoral College is illegitimate.

Destroy the US Constitution, destroy the nation

The foundation for the unrest has already been set. In the New York Times, Jennifer Szalai claims the Constitution “is essentially antidemocratic and, in this day and age, increasingly dysfunctional,” (“The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous?” New York Times, August 31, 2024).

The New Yorker magazine asked, “Is It Time to Torch the Constitution?” Likewise, Erwin Chemerinsky in the LA Times proposed, “We’re living under a flawed Constitution. Let’s start fresh and rewrite it.”

Leftist academics and politicians are laying the groundwork for how to justify the upheaval should Trump win the election. Their goal is to make normal life so painful and the governance system so shackled that people are going to beg for a way out and yield to making radical changes. The massive covid clampdown may have proven they could possibly pull it off.

Even a military takeover?

Rosa Brooks is Georgetown University law professor, an adjunct scholar at West Point’s Modern War Institute and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From April 2009 to July 2011, Brooks was a senior appointee to Under Secretary of Defense.

Soon after Trump took office, Brooks wrote an op-ed where she promoted ways to get rid of Trump (“Rosa Brooks: 4 ways to get rid of Trump’s rule,” The Washington Post, January 30, 2017).

Brooks offered to wait it out until the 2020 election, impeachment (they moved on that one), using the 25th Amendment (it was much talked about and reported), and Brooks even noted that a military coup might be warranted to remove Trump.

“The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders,” Brooks said.

It is plausible. Keep in mind that during Trump’s presidency we became accustomed to reports of both active-duty and retired officers denouncing then-President Trump in a manner that would have drawn condemnation, if not disciplinary action, had they been voiced by officers about President Obama.

These days, some billionaires with bad intentions are willing to fund what might be considered “street paramilitary,” individuals hired and transported to certain cities to create havoc, to destabilize the nation. We saw this locally with the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in DeKalb County where out-of-town radicals were brought in to intimidate police and local officials as part of the defund the police movement.

Move ahead, act now

As we are being pulled into wartime actions, vote for a candidate who can negotiate the peace.

As we endured 20 million illegal immigrants, many criminals, some on the terror watch list, go vote for a candidate who wants to protect the border and our safety.

As we watch our economy spin, the cost of living increasing, vote for a candidate who will protect American jobs and American interests.

As we sit under the threat of censorship and discrimination, vote for a candidate who will stand for our First Amendment rights.

As we watch our women and girls under attack from forced trans ideology, vote for the candidate who will not stand for it.

Save your family’s quality of life. Go vote.

[Steve Brown is a former mayor of Peachtree City and served two terms on the Fayette County Board of Commissioners. You can read all his columns by clicking on his photo below.]