It's like slight-of-hand but they do it with words.
Them is fightin' words
The claim that "Arizonans have been voting by mail for 100 years" is a misleading but true statement. It’s misleading because it's incomplete information. If no Arizonans are specified, it includes all Arizonans, which would make the statement false. "A select few Arizonans have been mailing in their ballots for 100 years." The same statement, without the slight-of-word.
There’s been a lot of talk in Arizona lately about voting by mail and discriminatory laws being passed, preventing or discourageing groups of Americans from voting based on superficial things.I wondered how making it possible for a select group of people to vote, who otherwise would be unable to vote, morphed into a way to prevent a select group of people from voting. The answer I came up with gave me a flashback of "the frequent recurrence of fundamental principles being essential to the security of individual rights." It was in a blog of the State of Arizona Research Library that I found the answer:
"In the early years of statehood, election laws focused on establishing voter eligibility requirements and did not address early or absentee voting. In 1913, voting was only available in person on Election Day. In 1918, Arizona law established absentee voting for a select group of registered voters: active military personnel. It was known as "the Soldiers Voting Bill." Congress mandated a uniform date for presidential (3 U.S.C. § 1) and congressional (2 U.S.C. § 1 and 2 U.S.C. §7) elections with the advent of the telegraph to prevent results from one jurisdiction influencing another.
There's a special place for those who champion inclusivity for the sole purpose of suppressing eligibility requirements. Only the most cowardly and sub-human life forms use people whose rights they profess to protect as human shields to herd Americans toward anti-American goals.
How highly valued is something if everybody is given one just like it? There is no greater disrespect and devaluing of our elections, our right to vote, the Constitution, and the rule of law than not denying the opportunity to vote to anyone who cannot prove they possess the right to vote and are eligible to do so.
Arizona was the last of the contiguous states to join the Union. A primary reason for doing so one hundred and nine years ago was to gain assistance with defending our southern border. Voting was such a big deal back then that there was a special day that was celebrated because everyone showed up in town that day in person, It wasn’t an inconvenience for them to prove their identity. Our forefathers counted it an honor and a privilege to be eligible to participate in the exclusive activity that only took place on Election Day. Now, you don’t need an excuse for not showing up in person, proving who you are, or anything else to cast a vote. It’s like it's nothing special anymore. There's a whole month to get around to it.
Emergency voting places are multiplying. In case people find out they won't be able to vote in person on election day soon enough to request a no-excuse absentee or early ballot (no I.D. required), they can plan on voting in person at any emergency voting place, (I.D. required.)
. In-person is the traditional and prescribed way to vote. If it wasn't, there wouldn’t be a law that says you don’t need an excuse not to do it that way. As Americans, we have few rituals that we participate in that bind us together as a people. Voting in person on election day is one of them. Notice who has been at the forefront in Arizona minimizing and even attempting to eradicate traditional voting, Adrain Fontes and Katie Hobbs.
There is a huge difference between conducting elections by mail and "ballot by mail." Ballot by mail is the bastardized anti-American thing that mocks the intent of the original 1918 law establishing absentee voting in Arizona. There is no law in Arizona saying don’t bother showing up to vote in person, just hold the elections by mail. Arizona Statutes allow only small elections to be conducted by mail, that’s all; no county- or state-wide elections.
Because of this, when he was County Recorder, Adrain Fontes issued a press release stating that while "some will say there is no authority to mail ballots to all voters under the law... there is no prohibition," he went on to say he would be mailing out ballots "to traditional Election Day voters not on the Permanent Early Voting List," before the scheduled Presidential Primary Election in 2020.
The Attorney General’s Office filed a restraining order against Fontes and Runbeck Election Services Inc., preventing them from mailing the ballots to voters who had not requested them. An excuse is not required to not participate in the community-building privilege of voting in person, but a ballot must be requested to be sent by mail if you won't be there but want to cast your vote because the expectation is to vote in person.
This is an example of advanced sleight-of-hand tricks with words, lots of craftiness, and skill in the deceptive arts evident in it. It’s a response from Dominion Voting Systems to a request made by the Arizona Senate.
In the first sentence, Dominion paints itself as willing to help but unable to, through no fault of its own. Testing laboratories are accredited to conduct tests by the US Elections Assistance Commission, not audits. US Dominion, Inc., Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., or Dominion Voting Systems Corporation (collectively "Dominion") pays the only two E A C-accredited testing laboratories to test their products and to recommend to the EAC that they certify the products they tested. The certification is required in most states. Dominion makes it clear right away that it wants only firms that already work for them looking into their machines and software.
The second sentence is a classic example of trickster word magic, it is carefully crafted to be misleading and factual.”Independent EAC accredited ‘providers,’ notices they sidestepped that ‘auditor' word because it would misrepresent facts to say they happily did so with something that doesn’t exist.
In the third sentence, the character of the company is evident in the way it uses trickster slight-of-word. If Cyber Ninjas successfully reduces its standards by becoming a testing laboratory Dominion pays, of course, Dominion would cooperate. Dominion made a sizable bet just to punch Cyber Ninjas in the gut with those words. They bet we’d never know Cyber Ninjas holds several federal accreditations, that Dominion is a bully, and that they must be part of the group running the EAC Auditor game on the people of Maricopa County, our Country … make that the world. Anything else outta Dominion is automatically suspect.
They call us election deniers, we don’t deny the 2020 election took place.
They said only EAC-accredited auditors could perform the audit, but only Voting System Testing Laboratories are accredited by the Election Assistance Commission. They are accredited to test not audit.
They said the firms that performed the county forensic audit were "independent." Both EAC-accredited Voting System Testing Laboratories that performed their audit have longstanding co-dependent financial relationships with voting machine manufacturers including Dominion. In addition, a division of SLI Compliance contracts with the Arizona gaming industry.
Pro V&V and SLI are the only VSTLs accredited to perform the required testing needed for voting machines and software to be certified by the EAC.
Every EAC-certified voting system used in America today is certified as having met 17-year-old technology and security standards VVSG1.0 (2005)including Maricopa Counties six plus million dollar Democracy suite 5.5 B from Dominion.
Dominion was onsite in Maricopa County working side by side with Pro V&V and SLI Compliance during the audits.
Jessica Bowers, former director of certification for Dominion is now Acting CIO/CISO at the US Election Assistance Commission. Bowers appears to have been responsible for the implementation of Dominion Systems into a number of states, including Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Nevada, and Tennessee.
According to an Arizona, IT and Elections Expert: the US Elections Assistance Commission Was Aware That Machines Could Be Hacked in Minutes
Brian ‘CannCon’ Lupo reports that On July 21, 2022, in a hearing for Lake v Hobbs in Phoenix. A former employee of one of the two EAC currently accredited Voting System Laboratories, Clay Parikh, testified that testing Labs:
Restrict testers from showing vulnerabilities
Stop testers from going further into the machines in a way that could allow for software manipulation of the statistical data.
The EAC has been sent reports of all of Parikh’s hackings, which took minutes and were done in a professional testing environment.
The voting machines can connect to the internet and even the ones that aren’t connected still have open ports and means by which to connect.
Election Deniers don’t deny elections, we question the results of the 2020 election.
EAC Auditor Liars are those who produce the coordinated effort to stop and discredit the forensic audit performed by Cyber Ninjas, in Maricopa County and prevent anything like it from taking place, anywhere. The ones who said the 2020 election was “safe’, “free”, and “transparent”. The people who say Election Deniers are the biggest threat to America. -Those are not Trickster words, them is fightin words.