I hope someone offers you a position to pursue a cleanup of the election system. The Republican Party is in just as urgent need of cleanup as the dems.
I hope someone listens to you, Seth. Amidst all the euphoria, you are right that this really was only a slim victory. Everyone has gotten so used to losing that this felt like 1984...
It's very concerning that the RNC ignored all your communications in the run up to this election.
I have been saying this since early in the morning on November 6th when I saw Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona yanked from the republicans.
Oklahoma’s absentee in-person (early) voting took place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8 am to 6 pm and on Saturday from 8 am to 2 pm just prior to November 5th.
Canadian County, Oklahoma’s fourth largest and fastest growing county, had two early voting locations that stayed very busy all four days with an approximate 1-2 hour wait time. We have 60 (actually 59, 1 is empty) precincts and 55 polling locations, 4 of the 60 are sub-precincts (not sure what this means but it came from our county election board chair-I believe all 4 vote under the same roof?). Our chair reported 17,571 votes during early voting.
Anyway, I watched the early voting for several hours and took lunch/visited friends at 5 precincts (in populated portions of the county) on November 5th after I voted. I don’t believe there were long wait lines on November 5th but they stayed busy. They were all veteran poll workers and they all said it was a record turnout. I would guess they had 1,000-1,200 voters at each precinct on Nov. 5th. Our chair said Canadian County plans to have one additional early voting location in four years for a total of three.
I’ve been wondering if the 10 points would be modified. Point V was really on my mind in light of what I’m hearing in Canadian County, a desire for more early voting locations.
Absolutely love this. Items VI and IX are the most important, I believe. There has been so much focus on enacting voter-ID, but at least 50% of the problem is with the vote counting. When the polls close, every county MUST report how many total votes they have. This is prior to counting, but after the voting period ends. You leave some room for the limited absentee ballots that might arrive by mail, but by enacting this measure you would never be able to drop tens of thousands of ballots in the middle of the night, out of nowhere like they do now. "Oh whoops, we forgot that we had these extra 57K ballots. Here you go. So sorry that the security cameras suddenly went dark for a few minutes there."
I believe FL even has a live online tracker of ballots returned or something like that, which you can monitor throughout election day. This would prevent the greatest amount of obvious fraud we have witnessed in the last 3 election cycles.
Item II is also significant. What they have been doing in Maricopa that last few elections is obviously the "Twin Magic" gimmick from WWE. People drop off their ballots, but with the machines you can easily feed ballots that are then marked as error. The operator can then go in and "digitally adjudicate" as many ballots as they want, with the click of a mouse. That essentially changes the tabulation to fit the needs of the bad actors.
Another great article, Captain. One point about ridding ourselves of the machines. These cats are deceptive, manipulative and, well, I hate to say it, but pretty smart. They have experience at the cheating thing. Lots of it. I also believe we are handicapped by our inability to see clearly methods and processes that involve deception, dishonesty and doing things that are morally deficient. They have no qualms about any of that. What I’m saying is they’ll complain when their machines are gone (and I’ll thank the Lord) but that complaining will turn to resolve and they’ll just modify their processes and cheat some more. They’ll always cheat. Anything new we create will STILL have to be nigh bulletproof. If they again get even a tiny hold of the levers of power concerning elections, they’ll just change the rules in their favor and it’ll be back to square one for us. They’ll never quit. Never go away, and we must always work to protect our election systems. Even when we are 100% sure they’re safe. Because they won’t be.
Seth, what about utilizing the national guard to implement the elections in every state? 1 day every 2 years, seems like if we want the elections secure we have to get rid of the private citizens who continuously display their partisanship..
Having served as an Election Officer in my small town for 2 elections, experiencing great resistance from our Town to following election laws that require equal representation by political Party, and seeing what the few specialized task are vs the very rote, learn as you work tasks, I would like to suggest that we set up a system like that for Jury Duty, where we rotate Election Workers (with equal distribution of Party in States where this is required), maybe even allowing a choice to serve on a Jury or to work an election cycle, and have workers excused from work for training and service. Having election workers work for 40 years as some have in my Town leads to at least the appearance of impropriety, but more important everyone who is a registered voter will understand our elections better if they are able to be involved. I am especially interested in getting young people engaged - the bulk of the EOs in our town are age 70-90!
Boom! Perfect plan. Now hopefully the Trump Administration will take your advice and bring you onboard to lead the effort.
Please add Seth Keshel to the ‘24 Dream Team roster!
So very excellent Seth. As the saying goes “now we’re getting down to it”. Excellent road map for every state and county.
Indeed, send Captain K, Mr. President!
Seth voted for you on the MAHA site.
Excellent commentary, Seth. You are exactly right on target.
Now, it is up to Trump to harness your energy, if he is really serious about election reform, as I believe he is.👍🚂🇺🇸
I hope someone offers you a position to pursue a cleanup of the election system. The Republican Party is in just as urgent need of cleanup as the dems.
I hope someone listens to you, Seth. Amidst all the euphoria, you are right that this really was only a slim victory. Everyone has gotten so used to losing that this felt like 1984...
It's very concerning that the RNC ignored all your communications in the run up to this election.
I have been saying this since early in the morning on November 6th when I saw Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona yanked from the republicans.
Outstanding!
Oklahoma’s absentee in-person (early) voting took place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8 am to 6 pm and on Saturday from 8 am to 2 pm just prior to November 5th.
Canadian County, Oklahoma’s fourth largest and fastest growing county, had two early voting locations that stayed very busy all four days with an approximate 1-2 hour wait time. We have 60 (actually 59, 1 is empty) precincts and 55 polling locations, 4 of the 60 are sub-precincts (not sure what this means but it came from our county election board chair-I believe all 4 vote under the same roof?). Our chair reported 17,571 votes during early voting.
Anyway, I watched the early voting for several hours and took lunch/visited friends at 5 precincts (in populated portions of the county) on November 5th after I voted. I don’t believe there were long wait lines on November 5th but they stayed busy. They were all veteran poll workers and they all said it was a record turnout. I would guess they had 1,000-1,200 voters at each precinct on Nov. 5th. Our chair said Canadian County plans to have one additional early voting location in four years for a total of three.
I’ve been wondering if the 10 points would be modified. Point V was really on my mind in light of what I’m hearing in Canadian County, a desire for more early voting locations.
Absolutely love this. Items VI and IX are the most important, I believe. There has been so much focus on enacting voter-ID, but at least 50% of the problem is with the vote counting. When the polls close, every county MUST report how many total votes they have. This is prior to counting, but after the voting period ends. You leave some room for the limited absentee ballots that might arrive by mail, but by enacting this measure you would never be able to drop tens of thousands of ballots in the middle of the night, out of nowhere like they do now. "Oh whoops, we forgot that we had these extra 57K ballots. Here you go. So sorry that the security cameras suddenly went dark for a few minutes there."
I believe FL even has a live online tracker of ballots returned or something like that, which you can monitor throughout election day. This would prevent the greatest amount of obvious fraud we have witnessed in the last 3 election cycles.
Item II is also significant. What they have been doing in Maricopa that last few elections is obviously the "Twin Magic" gimmick from WWE. People drop off their ballots, but with the machines you can easily feed ballots that are then marked as error. The operator can then go in and "digitally adjudicate" as many ballots as they want, with the click of a mouse. That essentially changes the tabulation to fit the needs of the bad actors.
Captain K for Election Integrity Czar!
Another great article, Captain. One point about ridding ourselves of the machines. These cats are deceptive, manipulative and, well, I hate to say it, but pretty smart. They have experience at the cheating thing. Lots of it. I also believe we are handicapped by our inability to see clearly methods and processes that involve deception, dishonesty and doing things that are morally deficient. They have no qualms about any of that. What I’m saying is they’ll complain when their machines are gone (and I’ll thank the Lord) but that complaining will turn to resolve and they’ll just modify their processes and cheat some more. They’ll always cheat. Anything new we create will STILL have to be nigh bulletproof. If they again get even a tiny hold of the levers of power concerning elections, they’ll just change the rules in their favor and it’ll be back to square one for us. They’ll never quit. Never go away, and we must always work to protect our election systems. Even when we are 100% sure they’re safe. Because they won’t be.
Seth, what about utilizing the national guard to implement the elections in every state? 1 day every 2 years, seems like if we want the elections secure we have to get rid of the private citizens who continuously display their partisanship..
Having served as an Election Officer in my small town for 2 elections, experiencing great resistance from our Town to following election laws that require equal representation by political Party, and seeing what the few specialized task are vs the very rote, learn as you work tasks, I would like to suggest that we set up a system like that for Jury Duty, where we rotate Election Workers (with equal distribution of Party in States where this is required), maybe even allowing a choice to serve on a Jury or to work an election cycle, and have workers excused from work for training and service. Having election workers work for 40 years as some have in my Town leads to at least the appearance of impropriety, but more important everyone who is a registered voter will understand our elections better if they are able to be involved. I am especially interested in getting young people engaged - the bulk of the EOs in our town are age 70-90!
i have been a long time subscriber to Seth's Substack.
i pray that President Trump takes you up on your offer.
Dennis Brower
Schulenburg,TX