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November 20, 2020

Voting Systems & Software Standards … or Not

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: , , — Bill @ 9:51 pm

Dominion Democracy Shredder

If you watched the Trump election challenge legal team press conference on Thursday, November 19, 2020, you heard attorney Sidney Powell talk at some length but in general terms about how Dominion Voting Systems voting system equipment and software had some design features which would allow votes cast to be weighted or switched between candidates either manually or according to an algorithm.  Sidney Powell went into much more detail in her interview on November 20, 2020, with Washington Examiner podcast host Larry O’Connor.

In this YouTube interview, television and radio talk show host Glenn Beck elicits a clear and simple description of how easily the Dominion Voting System equipment and software can be manipulated.  The interviewee is Jeff Brown, the founder and chief investment analyst of Brownstone Research.

At one point in the video, Beck asked Brown why some of the blatant security vulnerabilities were designed and built in.  Brown chuckled and said, “Why, to manipulate the voting results,” as if it should be obvious.  Brown went on to explain that Dominion machines are used in “some pretty nefarious countries” where the leaders want to ensure they win every election.

The Trump election challenge legal team asserts that the results of the 2020 presidential election were changed as a result of hundreds of thousands of votes being manipulated by illegally manipulating electronic voting systems and software.  The legal team represents that it has evidence that would be legally admissible in a court of law that would show that in about 10 large cities, there were votes cast for President Trump that were electronically counted as being for Joe Biden.

Most readers will ask this obvious question:  Doesn’t the United States have some technical standards, some rules and regulations, which would prevent equipment and software like this from being used in our national, state, county, and local elections?  The answer is a qualified “Yes.”

The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) produces a set of Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG).

Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) are a set of specifications and requirements against which voting systems can be tested to determine if the systems meet required standards. Some factors examined under these tests include basic functionality, accessibility, and security capabilities. HAVA [Help America Vote Act] mandates that EAC develop and maintain these requirements.

HAVA requires that the EAC certify and decertify voting systems. Section 231(a)(1) of HAVA specifically requires the EAC to “… provide for the certification, de-certification and re-certification of voting system hardware and software by accredited laboratories.” The EAC has the sole authority to grant certification or withdraw certification at the Federal level, including the authority to grant, maintain, extend, suspend, and withdraw the right to retain or use any certificates, marks, or other indicators of certification.

To provide clear procedures to manufacturers for the testing and certification of voting systems to specified Federal standards, the EAC has produced the EAC Voting System Testing and Certification Program Manual.

The testing and certification program also was intended to serve four other purposes:

Support state certification programs.  (usually administered coordinated by the Secretary of State)

Support local election officials (county and city clerks) in the areas of acceptance testing and pre-election system verification.

Increase quality control in voting system manufacture.

Increase voter confidence in the use of voting systems.

Given what Mr. Brown said in the YouTube video about the intentional design features in the Dominion Voting Systems equipment and software, we and our public officials ought to be demanding an explanation about how Dominion’s equipment and software could possibly have met the VVSG and the requirements in the Manual.  How could Dominion’s equipment and software ever have received approval for use in a local mosquito abatement board election, let alone the 2020 general election to elect the President of the United States?

Until that question is answered to the satisfaction of over 72 million voters who thought they voted for President Trump’s re-election in November 2020, the EAC won’t be able to look voters in the eye and tell us we should have complete confidence in the accuracy of the voting systems and software used in our states regardless of our state’s selection from the FEC’s “approved” list of voting systems and software.

November 10, 2020

親愛的愚蠢的美國人

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: — Bill @ 1:25 pm

ChiCom VoteDear American friends,

On behalf of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China, please accept my heartfelt thanks for allowing us to provide the incentive for the use of mail-in ballots in your recently completed presidential election.

To your President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, congratulations on your glorious victory, and thank you for the “I Voted” lapel label.   Your recognition of our involvement in your election is sincerely appreciated.  I look forward to even greater participation in your future elections.

In return, Mr. President-elect, please allow me to offer your son Hunter a small token of our appreciation, a lifetime supply of our national happy powder, fentanyl.

My fellow members of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China as well as a contingent from our People’s Liberation Army look forward to visiting all of your 50 states very soon.

Very truly yours,

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

November 1, 2020

2150 to Headquarters … 10-4?

Filed under: Probable Cause — Bill @ 8:46 pm

FBI Highway Patrol 10-4Some readers will remember the television show “Highway Patrol” starring actor Broderick Crawford as Highway Patrol Captain Dan Matthews.  The program aired from 1955 to 1959 before being shelved and eventually returned to the air in syndication.  His unit designation was 2150, and his signature radio sign-off after completing his radio traffic with Headquarters was, “21-50.  10-4?”

It seems that on Halloween eve day,  a busload of Joe Biden – Kamala Harris supporters were traveling from San Antonio to Austin.  When the bus (nicknamed the “Pudding and Sweet-Cheeks Express” reached Austin, a group of pickup trucks (like you’d expect anything else in Texas ..!) waving American and Trump flags surrounded the bus and began yelling, waving the flags, and honking to escort the bus on into Austin.  At least, that’s the drivers’ stories, and they’re sticking to them!

The warm welcome to Austin, complete with several videos, was reported in the November 1, 2020, RedState.com article headlined The FBI that Hid the Hunter Biden Laptops is on the Job Investigating a Trump Truck Caravan in Texas.  (The news articles have not reported that either Joe “Pudding” Biden or Kamala “Sweet Cheeks” Harris were on the bus, however if either had been, there would have been a US Secret Service followup or chase car if not a full-blown motorcade.)

There was one minor collision when a Biden supporter driving a mini-SUV tried to swerve into one of the Texas pickups (think Ford F-350) following the bus.  Fortunately for the not-too-bright Biden supporter driving the mini-SUV, he didn’t hurt the pickup.  It seems that each of the Biden-Harris supporters on the bus stopped clutching their pearls long enough to call the police to report this massive terrorist attack by some Texas pickup drivers waving threatening Miller Lites along with the flags.  It’s not clear that the local police responded to their calls.

But apparently the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) doesn’t have enough to do, what with plotting to remove President Donald J. Trump from office and all.   Now it has decided to take on the investigation of traffic infractions by President Trump’s supporters.  No, make that “alleged traffic infractions.”

I suppose the resulting television show will be a combination of the 1950’s “Highway Patrol” and the 1960’s-’70’s television series “The F.B.I.” starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Inspector Lewis Erskine.

However, to have a much better understanding about the FBI’s involvement with other agencies in the US Intelligence Community in their unsuccessful effort (so far) to overthrow President Donald J. Trump, read author Lee Smith’s 2019 book entitled The Plot Against the President:  The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in US History.

Smith’s book was made into  a 1 hour 32 minute documentary video that is still up on YouTube until Google decides to censor it.  The video is also entitled The Plot Against the President. The documentary video quite capably and understandably explains the plot and most of the key players.  After watching this video or reading Smith’s book, many people have rightfully begun to question the US Department of Justice’s participation in the plot and the FBI’s fidelity to the US Constitution, the bravery of so many FBI special agents who were involved in the plot but who have not become whistleblowers to expose it, and the integrity of the FBI personnel as a whole.

The people of the United States should be very concerned about the FBI’s involvement in this plot for another reason:  If the President of the United States is assassinated, Title 18, United States Code, Section 1751 prescribes in subsection (i) that “Violations of this section shall be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.    I believe our concern is justified.

September 23, 2020

Quid Pro Quo, Jr.?

Filed under: Probable Cause — Bill @ 7:15 am

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Here’s a link to the just-released 87-page report of US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and US Senate Committee on Finance Majority Staff Report entitled Hunter Biden, Burma, and Corruption:  The Impact on U.S. and government Policy and Related Concerns.  The Report’s cover page is shown to the left (how appropriate!).

After reading the report, any reasonable person could conclude that there is probable cause to believe that while he was serving as former President Barack Hussein Obama’s Vice-President from 2009 until 2017, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (AKA:  Slo-Mo Joe, quid pro quo Joe) was not-so-subtly offering “access” by foreign governments to those in power in the US government.  In return, Biden was using his own son, Hunter, as a clumsy cutout for millions of dollars poorly concealed as the proceeds of lucrative business deals.

Now the Marxist-Leftists (formerly known as the Democrat Party) in the United States are more determined than ever to have Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. be elected President of the United States on November 3, 2020, and inaugurated as President of the United States on January 20, 2021.

The real question we must ask is, While Biden might be scribbling his cholinesterase inhibitor- or memantine-enhanced signature on Presidential documents, who would be pulling the puppet President’s neuromuscular strings?

September 2, 2020

DoD’s PRC 2020 Military Assessment for Congress

Filed under: Probable Cause — Bill @ 9:57 am

PRC 2020 Mil Assessment

For those readers who want to better understand the capabilities of the military services of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), here is a link to the unclassified report prepared for Congress at the direction of the Secretary of Defense.  The report was released to the public on September 1, 2020.  Its full title is Military and Security Development Involving the Peoples Republic of China | 2020.

This report was written for members of Congress and their staffs.  It is detailed but not highly technical.  It is highly informative as well about the PRC military’s philosophy and its loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), not the citizens of the PRC.

Possibly the most important thing for readers to understand is the relationship of the PRC’s military to the CCP’s total control over the PRC’s government.  Simply put, unlike the United States where the loyalty of the US military services is to the Constitution of the United States, the PRC’s military forces and its objectives are loyal to the preservation and international expansion of the CCP.

August 2, 2020

Do the Right Thing, Democrats

Filed under: Probable Cause — Bill @ 5:38 pm

joe-bidenFormer Vice President Joe Biden’s physical and cognitive condition has deteriorated to the point that he is incapable of serving as President of the United States if he is elected on November 3, 2020, and is inaugurated on January 20, 2021.

For the sake of the country and out of genuine respect for Biden’s decades of public service, the Democrat Party must select a replacement presidential candidate before the party’s nominating  convention begins on August 17, 2020, in Milwaukee.

Everyone who chooses to vote in the November 3, 2020, presidential election is entitled to reasonably expect that one of the nominees on their ballot will be the President of the United States inaugurated on January 20, 2021.  If there is a pre-election bait-and-switch scheme to elect Biden but then have him immediately resign after election or inauguration, those who voted for Biden would rightly feel that their vote had been fraudulently and deceptively solicited and obtained.

The Democrats need to do the right thing.  Choosing competent presidential and vice-presidential nominees at their convention is essential.  The voters on November 3, 2020, are entitled to know that the President of the United States inaugurated on January 20, 2021, will have been duly elected by voters and not be a figurehead for a shadow government selected by party power brokers.

July 27, 2020

Where Have They Been for Four Years?

Filed under: Probable Cause — Bill @ 7:39 pm

Pissed offAccording to a story in Fox News online, a supposedly nonpartisan group called the Transition Integrity Group has been “Quietly [is] planning for what happens if Trump-Biden election is contested.”  The Fox story was based on a longer story which appeared in the Boston Globe.

You can read both stories and decide for yourselves how much attention to pay to either of them.

My first reaction to both stories was this:  For the last four or so years, a group of very dishonorable but prominent public officials at various times including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller, several members of Congress, a few openly partisan if not corrupt federal judges, and several lesser-known subordinates have been using every effort at their disposal including misuse of the US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to violate the laws of the United States and overturn the will of the voters in the 2016 presidential election.  They have fabricated evidence and falsified affidavits for court orders, and they have unlawfully used the investigative authority of the FBI to first try and prevent the lawful election of Republican nominee Trump and then failing that, to force the duly sworn President Trump to resign or be removed after impeachment.

So where was this self-appointed and supposedly non-partisan Transition Integrity Group when President Trump was and still is being subjected to what amounts to an effort to seditiously interfere with the President conducting the business of his office?   What rock have these reptilian clowns been hiding under for the past few years?

July 11, 2020

A Hint of Hope …

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: — Bill @ 8:57 pm

LiMengYanThe successful exfiltration of Dr. Li-Meng Yan from Hong Kong may offer some hope that American virologists, epidemiologists, and medical intelligence specialists will learn a great deal more useful information about the coronavirus now known as COVID-19.

My own hope is that many of her associates with relevant, verifiable, and related knowledge had already been successfully and quietly extracted and that Dr. Li is the last rather than then first to come out.  I hope they’re all in very secure safe houses being debriefed not only for their detailed knowledge about COVID-19 but also for any knowledge they may have about the biological warfare planning and development by the Chinese Communist government of the People’s Republic of China (ChiCom).

I have tagged many of my recent related OpenCdA posts with “biowarfare.”  Beginning with the first post in the series on April 17, 2020, and then again in a few thereafter, I asked the question, “Would the present US Congress have the courage to propose, debate, and pass a declaration of war against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) pursuant to the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 if the Wuhan corona virus release is proven to have been accidental but maliciously and fortuitously exploited rather than explicitly created as a biowarfare weapon?”

The underlying assumption in my question was that as far as we knew, there was no hard and fast evidence that the ChiCom release of the coronavirus was anything other than accidental.  However, as time passed, it became disgustingly clear that the ChiComs had violated international treaties and laws by not timely revealing the release and by withholding critical scientific information about the viral material released.  The ChiCom’s failure to give timely warnings and important medical information to the world has resulted in confirmed deaths to date of approximately 567,649 people.  Among that number, approximately 137,403 deaths have been in the United States.

If Dr. Li or other defectors provide credible, verifiable information revealing that the development of COVID-19 was in fact part of a ChiCom program being planned for offensive biological warfare, then my original question would have to be amended to read, “Would the present US Congress have the courage to propose, debate, and pass a declaration of war against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) pursuant to the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 if the Wuhan corona virus now known as COVID-19 is proven to have been created to be a biowarfare weapon even if the recent release was accidental but maliciously and fortuitously exploited by the ChiComs?”

I have little doubt that President Trump would want to have that conversation with Congress, however many members of our Congress, staff members, and some of their very influential constituents have become financially entangled with the ChiComs.  Sadly, we have some members of Congress from both parties who might put their offshore bank account balances and their blinding hatred for President Trump above our national security and the lives of their fellow citizens.

June 29, 2020

Do Black Lives Matter Activities = Domestic Terrorism? You Decide

Filed under: Probable Cause — Bill @ 8:49 am

BLM Marxism

OpenCdA believes that Black Lives Matter (BLM) meets the criteria for federal investigation to determine if the group’s actions amount to domestic terrorism as specifically defined in the US Code.

President Trump says he intends to declare Antifa to be a domestic terrorist organization.  Should Antifa be worried about this Trumpian hyperbolic missile strike delivered via a late-night tweet on May 30?

Probably not.   A President can declare a group of people to be a domestic terrorist organization if he wants to, but his tweeting his opinion doesn’t make it factually accurate or the group’s activities illegal.

On the other hand, the actions and activities of a group of people may violate very specific state or federal criminal laws.  Taken together and proven to be related, those aggregated violations can amount to domestic terrorism.  Regardless of how offensive the group’s name may be, laws proscribe behaviors and activities, not organizational names.

On 06-26-2020, Fox News reported  AG Barr directs creation of task force to counter anti-government extremists such as Antifa, ‘Boogaloo group, more’.  If AG Barr believes there is sufficient evidence to authorize a task force investigation of Antifa and Boogaloo group, then it seems logical he would conclude there is more than sufficient evidence to conclude that BLM warrants investigation, too.

In fact, that investigation may have already begun very quietly long before AG Barr’s memorandum was “leaked” to the Washington Post and reported on 06-26-2020.  Barr has done that before.  Recall that by the time he formally and publicly announced the appointment of US Attorney John Durham to investigate Mueller’s Russia probe, Barr and Durham had already begun that investigation weeks before.  We hope he’s doing it again with BLM.

The purpose of this OpenCdA post is to help explain my reasons for believing a criminal investigation of BLM activities is warranted. (more…)

June 14, 2020

The Police Equation: Defund + Dismantle = Disaster

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: — Bill @ 8:44 am

06-11-2020 - Branco - ChangingGuard

Protestors” are demanding the governing bodies over several large police agencies, notably New York City, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Los Angeles,  must defund or dismantle their police departments.

OpenCdA has some suggestions for questions or concerns that voters might want to discuss with their respective elected governing bodies in cities considering defunding or dismantling their police departments .

  • What condition is so imminently dangerous to our city that its correction can only be accomplished by defunding or dismantling our police agency?  What characteristics of that condition are so severe, so grave, that they justify the risks associated with removal of police authority and protection?
  • The police are accountable to us, the voters,  through direct oversight by you, our local governing body of elected officials.  We elected you to set the city’s policy, among them the objectives for law enforcement.  That makes  you responsible for the quality of service delivered by the police to us, the taxpayers.
  • If you agree to the demands for defunding and dismantling, it must be because you also agree that the police have failed to perform their duties sufficiently diligently to overcome the need to replace the police.  So why have you, our governing body of elected officials, failed in your oversight duties for so long and allowed the police performance to deteriorate to the present dangerous condition?
  • If you, our city’s elected governing body, have with sufficient clarity and precision identified the city’s criminal justice policy objectives to the police chief, why haven’t you fulfilled your duties as elected officials to diligently and timely supervise the chief to ensure the police department was making progress toward achieving those objectives? You are trying to blame it on the police to divert our attention from your own failure to perform your duties as an elected councilor.
  • Your public statements that you are considering defunding and dismantling the police department amounts to a statement of no confidence in the police and is thereby undermining the discipline and morale of the existing sworn and unsworn police employees.  Do you have the foggiest idea about how even seriously talking about defunding and dismantling affects departmental morale and safety?  Do you even care?  Once you have defunded and dismantled the existing police department, who will enforce the state laws in the city?  Who will respond to calls for service that used to be handled by the police? Who is ever going to want to work for this city government as a police officer again?
  • What federal and state law enforcement agencies are going to give our city access to sensitive law enforcement information and important services such as NCIC and NLETS if we defund and dismantle our police department?  What happens to our ability to participate in task forces such as JTTF, HIDTA, and OCDETF?
  • Assuming our state has standards for peace officer certification and training, how long will it take and how much will it cost to re-establish the “rule of law?”   Remember, councilor, your defunding and dismantling the agency removes everyone.  You’ve got to replace all line and staff employees, not just recruit new officers.  Even if some employees are rehired, they are going to have to be retrained into the replacement agency’s culture.  Who is going to do that, and how long will it take?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department affect mutual aid agreements with other police departments?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department affect the safety of other city employees including fire department, emergency medical service, water and sewer services, street and road services?  Who will ensure their safety by first securing a dangerous incident scene so the next responders can enter and then by remaining on-scene to protect the next responders from attacks by their victim and bystanders?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department enable you to ensure the security of city facilities and utilities?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department affect our city’s ability to attract new businesses and retain existing ones?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department affect our personal and business insurance rates?  For that matter, will defunding and dismantling cause some insurers to decline writing new policies here altogether?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department affect our ability to get personal and business loans at affordable rates if we can get them at all?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department affect the willingness of commercial cargo and passenger transportation companies to provide services and people to and from our city?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department affect our city’s own credit rating?
  • How will defunding and dismantling our police department affect our city’s ability to get federal and state financial support including loans and grants?
  • Once you have defunded and dismantled our police department, what is the alternative and how well will it work?

There are undoubtedly many more and much better questions that taxpayers and voters might want to ask their own elected officials.  It might be a good idea to ask them before the excrement hits the spinning impeller as it has already in Minneapolis, New York City, Chicago, Portland, and Seattle.

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