by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022
(Mar. 6, 2022) — The “Second Interim Investigative Report On the Apparatus & Procedures of the Wisconsin Elections System” addressing the – let us be polite here… – “anomalies” discovered in a partial audit of the 2020 general election in that state has been delivered to the Wisconsin legislature. It is noteworthy that it is an “interim” report, meaning that additional information following the conclusion of pending litigation may be forthcoming.
Memo to faithful P&E readers: the report is long, sometimes tedious, sometimes convoluted. It is nonetheless required reading for anyone concerned about how the Left and leftist organizations go about perverting free and fair elections, whether in Wisconsin or elsewhere. As soon as you finish reading this post, go read the Interim Report. Keep your blood pressure medicine and cuff handy too.
To state that it is “eye-opening” would be a gross understatement. The report covers a wide spectrum of irregularities and outright violations of existing Wisconsin law, even going so far as to assert that Wisconsin election bribery laws were violated.
Chapter 1 of the 13 chapter, 2 appendices, 136-page report is entitled, “The Center for Tech and Civic Life’s $8,800,000 Zuckerberg Plan Grant with the Cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay (the Zuckerberg 5 Cities) Facially Violates Wisconsin Law Prohibiting Election Bribery.”
Long title, distilled and stated otherwise: private monies were used to bribe the mayors of Wisconsin’s five largest cities – characterized in the report as the “Zuckerberg 5 Cities” – into signing contracts that allowed, among other things, the placement of unattended, unsecured ballot “drop boxes” in selected areas of those cities.
But remember, faithful readers, the 2020 general election was “the most secure election in the nation’s history.” Seriously? That statement makes sense only if by the words “most secure” is meant opaque and “secured” from and against audit examination and verification.
One particular part of the report (p. 13) addresses data received from “an entity” that “had cellphone pinging data related to the City of Milwaukee and its absentee ballot drop boxes. As of the time of this Report, the OSC [i.e., Office of the Special Counsel] has not been able to run to ground all the issues relating to obtaining this data.”
OOooo… that sounds a lot like the explosive data being promised by investigative sleuth Dinesh D’Souza in his much anticipated documentary “2000 Mules” due for release soon, as discussed here. That documentary promises video and cellphone tracking proof of illegal ballot harvesting and drop box stuffing in the five “swing” states that shifted the popular vote totals from Donald Trump to Brand…, oops, sorry… the Goofball.
The report concludes that even though the irregularities and anomalies disclosed were serious, their discovery would not result in an invalidation of the 2020 presidential election. Any actions which the Wisconsin legislature took as a result of the report “would not change … who the current president is.” However, the fact that it would not change who the current president is does not mean that other mechanisms to remove him from office are nonexistent.
As noted here, in your humble servant’s opinion, the Goofball at 1600 is, in fact, the unchallenged worst chief executive to have ever occupied the office since its founding. Bar none. He needs to resign, be removed under the 25th Amendment or be impeached and convicted by the Senate. Period. Full stop.
Yes, Virginia…, Kamala Harris is likely ineligible under the Constitution, but an insouciant Supreme Court seems disinterested in addressing that shortcoming. Accordingly, moving her to the chair behind the Resolute Desk, although a serious constitutional problem, would at least rid the office of the Goof.
Each day that passes with the many Democrats who have already announced their retirement from Congress – currently standing at 31 – but who have not switched their party affiliation to GOP to begin the process of an impeachment now brings us one day closer to the collapse of the Republic yearned for by the Left and folks like George Soros.
Oh, and do not forget the perils of having an addled and ice-cream-addicted septuagenarian within a few feet of the nuclear football while V. Putin rattles his nuclear sabers over in Ukraine. Yikes. And to all those who voted the Goofball into office in the first place, aided and abetted by the activities of midnight ballot drop box stuffers: Are you happy now?
OK, faithful P&E reader, you may go read the Wisconsin report now…, and remember the advice about the blood pressure cuff and your heart medicine.
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6 responses to “The Wisconsin Second Interim Report”
But..but..but…what about Trump’s mean tweets? :-)
The Wisconsin Election Commission’s rebuttal: https://www.wpr.org/sites/default/files/wec_20220304.pdf
Response from the author:
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The Wisconsin Election Commission’s response (helpfully supplied by Mr. Sherman) to the Special Counsel’s Second Interim Report addresses many, but not all, of the Report’s findings.
In particular, the response treats the Report’s claims regarding noncompliant ballot “drop boxes” with a two-sentence explanation: “This issue is still under review by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But even the strictest legal interpretation acknowledges the lawfulness of drop boxes under certain circumstances.”
Even a cursory examination of the Special Counsel’s Report (pp. 27 — 29) reveals that the manner in which the “Zuckerberg 5 Cities” drop boxes were deployed and required to be used under the “CTCL’s” grant agreement letter signed by the cities — and as held by the lower Wisconsin court in the Teigen case — violated and were inconsistent with the otherwise lawful “certain circumstances” provisions of Wisconsin law.
Stated otherwise, the Wisconsin Election Commission is not “answering” or “denying” the Report’s “drop box” claims, but instead is punting on the issue after losing on a motion for summary judgment in the trial court. If nothing else, the appeal to the Wisconsin Supreme Court buys some time.
The upcoming D’Souza documentary, “2000 Mules,” may shed some sanitizing light on exactly what happened in the Zuckerberg 5 Cities last November. With any kind of luck, that documentary will be released before the Wisconsin Supreme Court hands down a decision in the Tiegen case.
Appellate courts don’t consider claims made in movies.
Just consider non-fiction movies liberal dissemination of “Freedom of Information” and allow people to judge for themselves.
From the author:
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“Appellate courts don’t consider claims made in movies.”
Apart from the fact that appellate courts frequently cite in their opinions movies as well as Internet sites, if material facts outside of the record such as in the Tiegen case exist and are brought to the court’s attention — and are not inconsistent with the facts already in the record — such facts can and have been on many occasions considered as a matter of judicial discretion. See Ex Parte Mayfield, 141 U.S. 107, 116 (1891) (Ex parte MAYFIELD. | Supreme Court | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu).
If D’Souza’s documentary “2000 Mules” contains material factual evidence confirming the deployment and use of unattended ballot drop boxes in one or more of the “Zuckerberg 5 Cities,” if consistent with the facts set out in the Special Counsel’s Report, there would seem to be little if any legitimate reason for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the Tiegen case to ignore such evidence, other than as a matter of “judicial discretion.”