A Bumper Crop of Democracy
Bringing in the sheaves, one dropbox at a time
https://neociceroniantimes.substack.com/p/a-bumper-crop-of-democracy
If the reader might bear with me for a moment, I’d like to tell you all a mystery story. There was once a country that was having an election. Going into this election, one party - the party in power - was unpopular, trailing in the polls, and led by a president with abysmal approval ratings and who is widely understood to be senile. This party’s policies had resulted in widespread economic damage to the nation, creating rates of inflation unseen for forty years, doubling gas prices, and harming the broad middle of the country financially. Further, this same party was pursuing social policies that created a widespread backlash against its radicalism and had already been contributing to electoral problems for it in previous local and off-year elections all across the land. Even in swing states, this party’s candidates were behind in the polls and the widespread expectation from all quarters was that it was going to suffer a wideout in the upcoming election.
Yet in a baffling and practically inexplicable turn of events, when the day of the election came, this party became the beneficiary of an astoundingly fortuitous chain of events that rescued it from certain peril! Voting machines curiously broke down or otherwise became inoperable in precincts where the other party made up a majority. Meanwhile, in swing state districts which this party coincidentally happens to control, voting didn’t end on election night, but box after box after box of ballots kept coming in, being counted by officials in secret with no outside oversight. In one state, in a race in which two ladies were running for governor, the one lady who belonged to this party (and who also happened to be in the office that oversees elections), benefited from the mysterious breakdowns and never-ending counting that was carried out in an especially cryptic manner, allowing her to certify herself as the winner. By this same formula, the party in question managed to eke out narrow wins in basically every contested governorship and senate race that they needed to retain their political control.
Except in this case, it’s not really a mystery what happened in this past election. Indeed, the answer is pretty obvious - and that answer is called “ballot harvesting,” as well as the broader fact that wherever Democrats hold power, there will be shady, fraudulent goings-on that always seem to benefit in one direction.
So what is ballot harvesting? Basically, it’s a system that exists to game the mail-in voting that most states have adopted, especially since the covid plandemic. In theory, mail-in voting is supposed to be a way for people who are unable to vote in person to still be able to cast their ballot by having someone they trust take their filled-out ballot to a drop off point where it may then be collected and counted on election day.
However, how it often tends to work in practice is that local Democratic Party operatives at the precinct level will “request” ballots for people in their neighborhoods, and these ballots are then “harvested” from the addresses after they are sent, are filled out, and stored for election day (often the “voter” doesn’t even know this has happened). When election day comes, these ballots will then be mixed in with the legitimate mail-in ballots cast by actual voters so that they can’t be distinguished from the real votes. Because the norm is now for the vote counting in large Democrat-ran districts (e.g. Maricopa County, Fulton County, Clark County, Philadelphia, etc.) to extend over days, the combination of this with no outside supervision means that more and more boxes of these “fortified” votes will be opened and counted until the Democrat candidate is able to squeak ahead by just enough of a margin to avoid a full recount and greater scrutiny.
Everything about the process in these locations is designed to facilitate this pattern. It’s why they kick out GOP election observers, why they count the votes in secret (even covering windows!), why voting machines always seem to break down at the most opportune times, why they wait until “regular” districts are done reporting so they know on a moment-by-moment basis just how many votes they need to break out to put them over the top. I mean, even the news media get in on the action by “predicting” weeks in advance that “the process of counting all the votes may not be finished for days!” As it turns out, Atlanta’s “burst pipe” on election day in 2020 wasn’t a fluke but was a template for the future. From here on out, unless something drastic is done about it, expect to see 2020 repeated indefinitely - go to sleep on election night seeing the GOP with large leads everywhere only to wake up to find that those leads evaporated completely. So while the Democrats may not be very good at winning the vote on election day, they basically have a lock on the post-election voting.
[Much more at the link above.]
Things that make you go, hmmmm?
How do they get their hands on the ballot once it arrives at the address? I'm not following.