Why We Vote Ep. 170: Maricopa Win, Virginia Redistricting & Intel Bombshell

0:00The badlands, you're on the badlands. Explain those badlands. That's a hell of a name. All right, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to why we vote happy Friday, even though it's Wednesday. Also, because it's Friday, happy birthday to the lovely Christy. Happy birthday, Christy, celebrating 29 years of life, and she doesn't look a day over 22. Correct. Correct. I know. I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm with you 100%. I tell her that all the time. She isn't listening to me. So all shows are why we vote now, but this show is actually why we vote. So please hit the like button because it helps us out. This is also the final show that is happening in this time slot. Beginning next week, maybe, possibly beginning the following week, we will be in the Tuesday, time slot, Tuesday, 9 p.m. Eastern. The old story hour time slot is where why we vote will be found. But this is our last Friday night party on why we vote, and also

1:06it's recorded. Yes, it is pre-recorded. So there is that. And on that note, Ash, would you mind talking about our first sponsor of the night? We've been trained by cheap, fast, and processed, but cheap comes at the cost of your health, the land, the animals. At Rattlesnake, they take no shortcuts, no subsidies, just premium pasture-raised beef and chicken that's real honest and worth it. Think differently, eat better, bite back at Big Ag. Grab your pasture-raised meat now order at rattlesnakeneets.com slash badlands and use promo code badlands. All right. Love my Rattlesnake meats. Good stuff. Dry aged like 21 days. Fantastic flavor and clean, clean, clean, clean. All right, guys, I was just thinking about before we get into the content, you know, we've had these boomerangs forever. You've got one on the top of your studio

2:06there. I've got it hanging here. The beautiful, amazing Texas jewels had those made for us. I wear a boomerang around my neck. Kitty gave me that as a gift and I absolutely love it, but the boomerang is important because it's what goes around comes around and the the journey that we've been through, the oppression, the suppression, the your dangerous terrorist threat to democracy and must be silenced and punished of the past six years feels like Brian, we're getting a boomerang. It feels like finally boomerang back around. It's coming back. Yeah. But you know what? You still got to get out there. You still got to get out there and vote harder. So hard.

3:10That is so gay, but it is like literally it's also so gay. I love it. I think it needs to be a part of a boomerang. I finally do actually make an intro for the show. I think we need to include part of that. That was the first thing I saw that I was like that has to be our intro has to be our intro. I saw that on the internet posted by somebody who said this is the gayest thing I've ever seen and I've had sex with men and it was a dude. Yes, I saw that. Also, there is that voting hard. They're exactly correct. Those are the only people who should be voting is men.

4:11Oh snap. Well played. Yeah, but I'm fine with it. I'm fine with it as long as my I no longer have a relationship with the government then. So you men, you're going to take care of all of the all of the wars and the borders and the all of the things need to be taken care of because I don't I'm not voting because I'm just woman, right? I don't have to have any sort of relationship with the government at all. They can't regulate my commerce. They can't regulate my speech or assembly or association. They have no jurisdiction over me whatsoever. So I'm actually totally fine with it right. Yeah, the only person that does is Matt. Yeah, that's how it should be. Let's go back to 1940s America. Well, I got the right to vote in 1920. So, but even then like 1940s, it was still like the man was the man at the house and that kind of thing and women weren't encouraged to go out there and be promiscuous. And in the 1940s, the women were running the industries because the

5:12men were we're working that is very true. That is very true. And we're also we're also partially kidding, but we're trying to give medium matters another hit piece for us. So we've got to report my position on women's suffrage because a bunch of gay dudes singing vote harder. Yeah, a bunch of gay dudes vote singing vote harder. We called them gay, not even in the context of them actually preferring to sleep with dudes, but just the whole thing was gay. What else? Women shouldn't vote. So that was correct there. And medium matters. You need anything else for this? You need anything else? Yeah. Oh, Venezuela. Venezuela is not real. All right, all right. So, um, there in Venezuela, we finished still elections by Ralph Pizzulo on Tuesday's book club this week. So if you missed that, you should, I mean, maybe check it out. You didn't remember unless anything, but we are starting a new book. And did we decide? Yeah, it's the creature from Jackal Island. The creature from Jackal Island. Yeah, chat decided

6:12actually. Speaking of a horrible time in our country's history. Yeah. Before women had the right to vote though. In fact, but that led to it though. I mean, 1913 was one of the worst years for our constitution. Right. You back when the men were all in charge. The 16th and 17th and women had no set here. We gave way. You gave us a standing army. You gave us the federal reserve. You gave us income tax. You gave us. This is the world that men brought. You gave us a senate elected by the populace. Yeah. So let's start with the oldest news and work away forward. Maricopa superior court judge orders the board of supervisors to restore key election functions to the recorder's office. We had a nurse called well on a few weeks ago and we're going to get her back on here pretty soon. There was a misunderstanding with the time. So we only got her for about 45 minutes, half an hour or so. But this is a story that she's out in Arizona and they've

7:13been covering this. So Justin Heath who is the current Maricopa County recorder before he just after I should say he won his primary Stephen Richard who's on the show back in December as well. Friend of the show Stephen Richard. I don't know about anymore. I don't think he's afraid of the show anymore. I don't know. We didn't do anything to him, did we? I mean, we have an asshole to him on the internet, but that's I mean, I'm an asshole to everybody. I mean, I think I don't think Richard's going to come back on because he's at he's at war now with Kevin Monclon election oversight group. Yeah. I think it's more that Stephen Richard is not going to come on because he's under federal investigation. That too. Yeah. It's probably the bigger reason and may have incriminated himself the last time he was on. Yeah. If he didn't incriminate himself, he sure in the heck showed that he doesn't know anything about the rebuttal report that they actually put out. So he just stamped his name on it in my opinion because you know, I'm clipping that out right now. And I mean, he didn't know that the zero tapes were signed, but there was only

8:17nine out of 130, 138 of them, 148 of them. He also didn't know that the tabulator tapes were unsigned every single last one of them. Yeah. There was a lot of stuff that he wasn't aware of. He didn't know that the hand count and the recount, the machine recount and the hand count and the first count did not match at all. And this has been acknowledged. There's a there's a bunch of stuff that that he just didn't know. But now all of a sudden, he put out a 58 page report. Sure. It was a rebuttal to Kevin Monclon's report. And he's an expert because he's an expert and he's an authoritative source because he was a reporter. And he's under federal investigation. And he's also got a lot of issues with states united and Norm Eisen's group over there. And yeah. Anyways, Norm Eisen should be under federal investigation if he's not. If he's not, somebody dropped the ball. Absolutely. So this, so Stephen richer after the primary in 2024, after he lost the primary to Justin Heep, he delegated a bunch of authorities from Maricopa County Recorder's office and gave them to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, including basically running the IT staff, which included a $5 million budget. He also gave the

9:23Maricopa County Board of Supervisors the authority to delegate or or select the processing, mail-in processing board. So the people that, you know, process mail-in ballots and everything else like that, he gave those authorities away. And now we have this decision here declaring consistent with the legislature's intent that whenever statue entitled 16 to the Arizona revised statue, delegates authority to or imposes responsibility on a county recorder or a quote other officer in charge of elections, the statute is delegating that authority or responsibility to a county recorder. Unless the county's recorder agrees that another officer in charge of elections may designate it to carry it out. The recorder may subsequently withdraw his or her consent and reclaim his or her authority. Let's go. Also says the statue is delegating that authority or responsibility to abort a supervisor's unless the board of supervisors agrees same thing, but in the reverse. And then there was another one, let me go back to my

10:24article. There was another one where it said, because how does that not apply to taxes? Why is it only, why is it only elected officials that have the actual right of consent, the right to say no, they can withdraw their consent? Why can't we withdraw our consent? Sorry. Good question. It also requires the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to return the recorder's direct custody and or control of the IT staff, servers, databases, software, websites and equipment that were in the recorder's custody and or control prior to October 2024. It also said the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors cannot the budget for the Maricopa Recorder's Office that they allocate is nondescrashinary. So they have to fund the Maricopa County Recorder's Office because that was another issue that they were going to, you know, if we if we renegotiate, we're going to withhold your funding and they said, no, you can't. So that was a big win in Maricopa County. And yeah, there you go. Fantastic.

11:25It is. It is absolutely fantastic. Wish we could get Stephen Richards take on it. Yeah, I don't know. He's not probably not too happy about it. All right, let's jump into the next story, the next big story. And who knows? Because again, today is this is Wednesday night. So who knows what we're going to see on this by Friday. Yeah, but the election in Virginia for the constitutional amendment, the proposal to amend the Constitution of Virginia to allow the redistricting has fixed to five to 10 to one has passed for now for now for now. Let's jump into this story here. I do want to point out. Brian Lippo. Yes, I did write this. And I also cited my own in it. You wrote it and cited yourself as a source. I love it. I do. I, well, if nobody else came to the conclusions that I came to, then I'm going to cite myself. So this redistricting thing, if you read the and we've talked about this all week, if you've read

12:29the ballot measure and how it was put or the ballot proposal, how it was put on the ballot, it had this weird term that was very misleading and it was restore fairness. So they're basically, well, I don't know. I know you have it handy. We played it this morning. I know, but which again, it was Wednesday. You're going to play a poster, which is not a heavy haul for you. I know. It's actually kind of easy. So the redistricting case is one of many that's happening. There's another one in Texas. I think there's the Louisiana one before the Supreme Court. And here's the question. And read it. Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census. So the temporarily is between now and 2030, 2031, when the new census

13:32would go into effect or the allocations appropriations based on the new census would go into effect. And restore fairness, they don't define. And I think it's a blatant power grab. It's the Abigail Spanberger wing of the state government. She's the big governor. So Democrats, you know, unipartisan Republicans are probably in on it too. And it moved from six to five, a split in the districts of six to six to five to 10 to one. And they pick up four seats. But not so fast, because there's. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You're getting ahead of me. You're getting ahead of me here. So what the point you were saying, the restore fairness, while that should not be on the ballot measure the referendum in that way, like you should not put restore fairness, because who's going to look at restore fairness and say, oh, I don't want to restore fairness, right? Every single person. I'm actually surprised it was 5149. That means they actually have a pretty educated electorate, although, although elections are fake. Yeah. Yeah,

14:37no, I don't believe any of it. I don't believe any, I don't believe any of this. And I'm still stuck. I know I've said this on three different shows now, but I'm still stuck on how does that get on the ballot? Because it's an ambiguous term. Restore fairness is not defined. What what fairness is is not defined. How it's being restored is a split and so it's six to five to 10 to one. How is that fair? What makes it fair? What is the fairness is not a it's a subjective term. And it's baffling to me that that could end up on a ballot, that that measure that that would be allowed. This is how desperate they are. This is how the reason they are with this. Check out what Tim Kane says on Fox News about it. When, when, listen, let's talk about the last vote there in Virginia. The presidential vote vice president Kamala Harris won by about five percentage points. So this state is relatively split with a left lean, but 90% of House members from Virginia being from one party. 90% of Virginians are not Democrats. That's true. But about 100% of Virginians

15:38want election results to be respected. We're deeply worried that Donald Trump will try to interfere with the election results this November or in 2028, because we saw him do it before. And we have to have a Congress that will stand up to it in 2021. All five Republicans in Virginia went along with Donald Trump in his effort to overturn election results. And so we're giving Virginians a chance to vote, which Republican states have not done about whether they want to have a congressional delegation that will stand up against Donald Trump's tier. So that's what this is all about. This is all about bolstering the Democrats numbers in Congress in order to stand up against Donald Trump. That's what it means. In order to manipulate the outcome of the election in November. That's what they mean when they say, restore fairness. That is what they're talking about. They are saying that because Texas district district, which by the way, going back to my post here, right here, going back to my post, when Texas redistricted,

16:41it made the map more fair and more in line with how they had it. Stop saying fair. Fairness is not something that we can define, but you said it made it more fair. That can't be defined. That is not that is not the right term. The term is representative. How is it? How is it being made more representative? And that's that that's the key is that it's not because it's not being determined based on the population based on the demographics, drawing clean lines so that people are grouped according to where they live and have the representation where they live. It's being politically done to align with the party to say that it's more fair to be a major almost 100% Democrat, right, to say that that's more fair when the outcome outcome of the election is what it is. Allegedly, if we all believe in elections, it's the representative, you know, the Trump's agenda, what he's doing to say that it's more fair to manipulate the congressional delegation of Virginia for partisan for the party that he should he there should be consequences.

17:47So when I when I use the term, me, not not Virginia, but when I use the term, I'm saying it's more in line with how the voting populace was in in the past election in 2024. So if if if Texas was a 64 for 36 state, the the the the representation in that state should represent that 64 36 split in some form of fashion. Obviously, it's going to be a little bit off in in Virginia right now, 2024 Harris versus Trump was 51.8 to 46. And so six to five is is pretty close to indicative of how the the 2024 election went for both parties. Again, elections are fake, but in terms of the numbers that were told to us by the people on the TV, that is in line. But so my post here, this was I made this a while back when California was dealing with prop 50. California's 17% GOP representation in Congress in a state where President Trump garnered 38% of the vote. Texas has 34% Democrat representation while how are Harris garnered 43% of the vote. Last time I checked, 9% is less than 21% meaning it's

18:52closer in Texas. Texas currently is 25 13 in Congress in favor of the Republicans. If all five seats that they predict will flop flip do so, that would be 30 to eight or 21% representation. This is a 22% difference compared to 2024 Harris's vote totals versus Dem representation in Texas. That is literally right in line with California as the way it sat before prop 50 before prop 50. Now with prop 50, that number for California drops down even lower. California is the least of the culprits on the blue side of the aisle. New Jersey, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, and New England are worse. 21 electoral votes in New England with zero Republicans, despite the 2024 election. I did the math on this for the article I just wrote. President Trump in the 2024 election for all of New England combined as a whole, President Trump got 40.8% of the vote, almost 41% of the vote.

19:53Zero Republican representatives in all of New England. Tell me how that's fair. How is that fair to the to the almost half almost half of New Englanders that they don't have a single representative in the House of Congress and in the House of Representatives? I don't I'm not going to respond to the fit to the question of fairness because that cannot be defined. And in that post you said Texas isn't trying to cheat. They're trying to negate California's cheating. Well Virginia isn't trying to cheat. Brian, they're trying to negate Texas's cheating. That's that's the political message of fairness and it's part it's driven by the parties. The parties are not the people. I agree. I'm not disagreeing with you on this. Yeah. I just this whole thing is so this is this is the foundation layer of stolen elections is is the drawing of these districts and the apportionment of the representatives.

20:54Well I would say I would say that this is the facade that is the the stealing of elections. The facade. This is the fake part because this is the numbers that we see in Congress when we say well we have 218 Republicans versus 217 Democrats right. In reality we know certain districts are going to go a certain way and certain states are going to have certain numbers of representatives from a particular party. And so you know if the if the lines amongst all the states were drawn similar to the representation of how the their voters turn out then you know Republicans would probably have about 40 or 50 more seats every single new Congress every what are we on now like 119 or 120 on 19 on 19 so every single Congress would have probably somewhere between 30 or 50 Republican plus Republican majorities like Susan Collins and Lisa. See that's what I'm saying that this is the facade of it all. The getting to the actual stolen

21:56elections is where you get quality. This is quantity we need quality as well. So that's the point I was trying to make. I think we need to ban the two party system. I fucking them all about that. I've always been about banning the two party system. I think it's because it's this it's this unelected fake like bureauc bureaucracy that sits in between the people and their government and this is exactly what Washington warned about that you're going to set up you know we just spent this time and fought a war to set guardrails and limitations on government and those are going to stay in place because everybody loves the idea of that but we're going to put in this you know bureaucratic layer of unaccountable private entities that are really going to be our operators and act as an arm of the government but you you know don't really have any say and that's that's what we're living right now and it's maddening. The quality or excuse me the quantity part as I was just calling it quantity versus quality you know the number of representatives versus who the

22:58representatives are. It to be honest with you it might actually be bad thing if we had that 30 to 50 Republican majority all the time because Republicans are pretty awful too. There's a lot of awful things that they want to do as well. So you know it balances out I think maybe that's their plan and that's why they steal elections and put these you know establishment shills in there but yeah. So let's let's get into the story behind this Virginia thing because they won the election. I'll just say that we hate the ads on Gateway Pondet but the fuck Brian. I can't do anything about that. I mean we don't have big pharma making us millions of dollars so so this has been a legal dispute going all the way back to 2024 so the way that the Congress and I'm just going to explain this to you until I get to the decision from the from the courts. So the the process that they go through in Virginia there's there's a process that you have to go through to make a constitutional amendment to propose a constitutional amendment. The General Assembly has to propose it they have

24:01to vote on it and they have to pass it the first time. Then you have to have between the first passage and the second passage they have to pass it twice. There has to be an election for the House of delegates for the the the lower house and in all for all the House chambers of their legislature in Virginia. There has to be an election then they have to pass it again. So in other words you basically you have to have two separate House of delegates that vote on this. It could be all the same people but they had to have been reelected and put into that position once again. Then from there it goes it gets posted it gets noticed to the people in all of the the circuit courts they they they posted to the door. People can come and read it they can see it. It's not like Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania you actually have to put it out in the newspaper like you have to put it in certain newspapers of record and and for a certain amount of time. They don't have to do that in Virginia you just have to post it to the courts for 90 days. Then the people vote on it in an in an election and then from there the governor can sign it and it becomes law. That's not

25:05what they did in Virginia. So in Virginia in order to propose it because they saw this coming in 2024 they extended a special session. So the Congress they're well their legislature was in a special session and they extended it and in doing so they they brought up this proposal which was not part of that special session. It was not included in the special session. So it's like off the books work that they're doing right which is that's that's you know strike one and we'll get in all the strikes. Basically there was a judge in what's the county that it was in crap there was a circuit court judge and I can't with Tommyville or something like that. I think I have it. I have it in the break for tomorrow. It does start with a T. Tazewell in Tazewell County a judge Jack Hurley twice twice put temporary restraining orders on this on this election saying you cannot go forward.

26:09This is unconstitutional what you're doing. The first time it was for the the procedure that they went through to get this on the ballot. The second time it was for the actual verbiage of how it was appearing on the ballot. So those were the two times. Both times the Virginia Supreme Court said little peepy slap and said no you can't do this the election goes on will rule on the merits after the fact if they win. If they lose we make it moot and the whole thing goes away. And they won and they won. So after they won now it's going to go back to the Virginia Supreme Court they're going to have to rule on the merits of this proposal. And what the same county judge that just ruled was it to what did you say Tazewell County. Was that the was that the same judge that just ruled Jack Hurley yeah. Yeah so that same judge and you know people are freaking out about this on X like yeah well there's an injunction now to present prevent the results from being certified

27:11and Brian says that doesn't matter because it was already at the Supreme Court but it's still an exciting thing for me I'm excited about it because we never get this far. We never get to where you have a legitimate challenge to something coming out of an election and you're within the appropriate time window to actually challenge it. So it's an exciting moment but to Brian's point it's you know it was it was always going to be this way right is that fair yeah that's that's fair so here is the actual Brian it's okay to be excited although it might not be by Friday when the series. Well so they have two days to brief this they have two days to submit their briefs and that started today so today and tomorrow I think maybe by the 23rd I think they have to have their briefs in for this. So it says here in the first case appeal to this court meaning the Virginia Supreme Court Scott V. Medougal the circuit court entered declaratory judgment on several legal challenges I've been practicing that word all day to the proposed constitutional amendment and those judgments are currently pending review in this court in those declaratory judgments the court circuit court held

28:16that and here's and let me let me go back to my article because I laid him out in strikes and I like that it strikes because we all know how many strikes till you're out three I think three strikes until you're out in sports ball so let's in sports ball so let's go to my article and read it here tayswell strike one tayswell county circuit judge jack hurley concurred that the general assembly did expand the scope of the 2024 special session ruling that quote the first passage of the proposed constitutional amendment is void ab initial or from the beginning meaning the whole thing goes away could not do it you had no authority to explore this proposal in a special and when was that do you have the date on these strikes that was in I think that was October it was in 2024 it doesn't say oh 2024 yes it was a 2024 special session okay no one was the when did the judge hurley's decision come down 2025 so we'll get we'll get to that I have all that

29:19strike two next the court ruled that quote the next general election of members of the House of delegates had already begun with early voting starting on September 19th 2025 over one million Virginians had already cast ballots by the time the general ascend police first passage came down on October 31st that's strike two and then I like my little side note here the Supreme Court of the United States recently heard arguments in Watson versus R&C to determine whether quote-unquote election day refers only to the day that day that voters cast their ballots or if deadlines can be set by law for receiving ballots after election day however the case is not asking the Supreme Court to decide when election day begins so that was so is it the first day of early voting or is it the actual election day but I thought didn't didn't the Supreme Court rule that election day is election day yep yep but they didn't but that wasn't a question before the court though and so

30:20they didn't make arguments about whether election day would encompass the entirety of the election and so the the thought process here and I'm assuming that this was the thought process that judge hurley was going through is that the whole reason for the assembly that block of time where there's an election in between is so that constituents can see who's going to win and who's not going to win and vote or excuse me who votes one way on the passage and then vote in the election based on how they voted on that passage you know what I mean like if you if you're if you're representative votes for for the the amendment and you're like avidly against it you might vote against them in that election so they can't vote again in the second passage and because all million people already voted that way you can't you can't consider that the first passage if people have already voted it that would be the first passage right that would not be you you could not okay strike three the court decided that quote even if the general assembly's first passage were valid

31:23and even if quote-unquote election is defined narrowly as only election day and not the entire period of voting and quote the general assembly still failed to provide copies of the amendment to quote every circuit court clerk to post at the front door the courthouse at least three months prior to the next general election so violation of notice so violation of notice and that would that would in in a legal sense I don't know in the fake world of elections where the rules don't actually mean what they say they mean but in the regular world that failure of notice can kill a case yes yep strike four reading regarding the text of the proposal on the ballot argued in the second case so there were two cases remember the first case they shot down and said we're going to wait until after the election to to you know to litigate this they filed another one when they saw the proposal it said regarding the next the text of the proposal on the ballot argued in the second case judge hurley wrote that the ballot language was misleading and violated the submission clause of the article seven or excuse me article 12 section one of the Virginia Constitution quote

32:28it submits a different question on the referendum ballot and the language of the constitutional amendment passed by the general assembly this is where the brazenness ash came comes in because you know we listen to tom tim cane and you know the justification for this is get trump and make sure trump can't do anything we have to see we have to seek congressional congressman we have to seek congressman that are going to fight trump exactly the people's president we have to seek congress that's our that that's wow yep yep we have to do this to stop the president so um again when you look at how the amendment was passed it never said restore fairness that's the key right there restore fairness was never in the uh in in in the the the amendment proposed before Congress before their delegate House of delegates strike five the Virginia Constitution also requires the proposed amendment to be presented to the voters quote not sooner than 90 days after final

33:29passage by the general assembly if that final passage was in fact on January 16th 2026 then the 90 day requirement was not fulfilled before early voting began on march six 2026 so the notice has to be 90 days that would have brought it all the way to april 16th from January 16th it would have been april 16th they they started early voting on march six so that's a full month and 10 days before the the time that the bill needed to be noticed so there's another one okay and then strike six the court determined that house bill 1384 violated article four section 12 of the Virginia Constitution by passing a bill that quote embraces more than one subject now Virginia has a a stipulation or an amendment in their constitution or a section I should say an article that says that each bill before the legislature has to be just one item and so this one in this case the bill not only proposes a constitutional amendment it also address addresses quote providing for

34:31appropriations of public revenues establishing the ballot question and procedures for submitting the proposed proposed constitutional amendment to the voters repealing code 30-13 and transferring revenue to the Richmond Circuit Court for civil actions challenging the proposed constitutional amendment so pause there for a second that's what I was getting at I think it was easy this morning Wednesday morning on daily or on book club on Tuesday when I was asking wait a second don't they have guardrails that govern the ballot the ballot measures like you can't just throw something that ambiguous on there and that one single issue thing is the number one I mean in my it's anecdotally in my experience the number one reason that ballot initiatives of ballot initiative efforts either from the legislature or from the people fail is because they conflate too many things and that was kind of the that's the underpinning my response to that fairness being how the hell does that get on there because how do you define that as a single issue how do you define that fairness you

35:33know restore fair you're giving us carte blanche to restore fairness that sounds like tyrannies coming what they're the rules like single issue ballot ballot measures those rules are set up to prevent that so that was that's kind of hearing that strike six of yours that's that's that's that's that's like what's behind my response to that now three shows I've said that that's the most important thing strike six I think should be fatal to them I mean every strike is I mean the the passage I mean there's only three there's six but in baseball is this softball no no that's I see what you're saying maybe it's cricket I think there's more strikes and cricket I think I think you have like the little sticks and I don't know how cricket and it's my favorite because I have something in my eye but I'm still here I know that I know cricket games can go on for like weeks so I don't know really yeah cricket games can go like the longest one I think was like like three weeks or something what yeah yeah you didn't know that

36:35no I had no idea what is the longest professional cricket game length hold on a fact check myself it went 12 calendar days 12 days so I was close it wasn't weeks why is that like is it a very high scoring thing I have no idea I know nothing about cricket okay so that's that's the Virginia story so we're going to seek something coming out of and the the injunction is fun you know it gets you clicks on x and all that stuff but it wouldn't have mattered anyways the Supreme Court already said that we're going to look at this submit your briefs the injunction is beautiful it adds more to it you know gives it more teeth but I think I you know I think the why are you doing on that why are you doing it why are you doing I'm not doing I'm not doing I'm throwing shade on the injunction against the certify if you say pp slap one more time I'm dropping you out of the studio you can't drop me out of the studio it's

37:36my studio I actually can I'm going to do this oh my gosh I'm going to ban you you give them me it's john studio well this this specific studio is my studio my power extreme my powers come from john okay mine come from god but not in that regard yeah and like he didn't give me anything special for this yeah um so getting back to the story here so again the the reason that the injunction thing um it's getting a lot of attention but that's because a lot of the people that are getting excited about it don't know the backstory on this yeah right and to be fair exactly I didn't know the backstory in this if I was on go I was on with ghost on Tuesday and ghost is telling me I just went to vote before the show and I was like oh that's cool and he's like yeah you know we're voting and I'm reading and like the restore fairness and all this and I'm like wait what yeah yeah to restore fairness I was like is that what it says that's the point and he pulled it up and I was like holy shit holy shit it was poor fairness I you know what I want to do ash is I want to go and

38:41do like a man on the street interview and just go up to people redact Virginia redact anything that's like identifying and just ask people like would you vote yes or no for this and I guarantee you almost every single person would vote yes almost every single person because it says restore fairness you know you all like fairness fairness is so I mean it's fair it's fair for things to be fair how do we define that don't ask just to give them just give them all of the power and authority to make things fair in your elections yep but please tell me more about how Donald Trump's a fascist and a dictator and a tyrannical you know dictator and all that other stuff please tell me more about that as as as Virginia literally is dissuade diss deceiving the entire populace in Virginia into believing that that amendment restores fairness also by making represent representation 10 to 1 also elections are fake but if they were real this outcome would mean but the people are retarded no I forgot we have that wait we don't have that one on this one

39:47you just uploaded it no it's it's the it's right there oh I didn't know we have that one for China okay well there we go we got some we got some good ones on here I just added some I'm surprised you I was surprised you didn't play the French girl one on on boys rule girls drool last week she's literally retarded I miss Kamala I like buses buses are fine I like buses buses are good he's cogent oh this version of Joe Biden intellectually analytically this is the best version of Joe Biden shut up all right so getting back to serious this year oh wait one more one more go yourself we got a lot of good ones on there we know all we need to use

40:53them more okay so getting back to so that's Virginia so Virginia I I'm I'm fairly confident that this is not going to stand I I'm pretty sick strikes one of them's got a land just one just one so let's get into the more the more election stuff let's get into the other election stuff so this happened over on Sunday we had Cash Patel coming out and saying this heated late that the election was rigged in 2020 I mean he says it all the time we all know that and it's almost getting lost because he says it so much you've been at the FBI now 14 months have you done anything about that and do you have anything to tell us about that by the way Maria Bartiromo sounds pissed right there do you have anything to tell us about that like either pissed or leading like she had a she knows that he's got something to say yeah she always generally seems like she's about to pounce yeah yeah absolutely Maria look I've been with the president nearly since day one on this as I as I told you earlier I was the one that led the

41:56effort with folks like Trey Gowdy Johnny Rackliff and Devon Nunez to expose the corruption that tried to thwart President Trump's first presidential election run and we saw the fires abuses there and I lived through it and the media came at me then too that just shows you that when you're over the target you keep pummeling the target because the media is going to try and pummel you we are not going to take this and have not taken this laying down we did already a direct former director coming and that's going through the judicial process but we also at this FBI we had a face when covered when we uncovered back in the house until days I had to come in here and find rooms that they hid from the world I had to come in here and find access on our computer systems and restricted and prohibited case files that they purposely put in places for no one to see and find we have found all this information we are working with our department of justice partners and I am never going to let this go because they not only have personally attacked the presidency of the United States and President Trump but they tried to thwart our elections and rig the entire system and I and that is not something that is going to stop on that is not something I'm going to allow on my wife did you have to remember they built this

42:59disease temple over 20 and 30 years we've got all the evidence I can announce on your show that we've got all the information we need we're working with our prosecutors the Department of Justice and the Attorney General Todd Blanche and we are going to be making arrest and it's coming and I promise you it's coming soon well what cash hold on because when you started this interview you said Maria you and I have been working together for a long time and this is exactly what you were referring to you were on my show repeatedly talking about the Russian collusion story and our audience wants to know why there's never any accountability but specifically the question that I asked you was about was it for a second that's so that's something that we would say right our audience wants to know why there's no accountability but she works for Fox News and that that I think that getting at the Rasmussen 82% of Americans are like weaponization what what the hell where's the accountability yeah and Bartiroma is also you know she's

44:01probably one of the only people in Fox News that actually asks like tough questions and and is dug into elections and stuff yeah but I mean she's she's she's talking about her audience right which is the Fox News audience yeah yeah yeah yeah specifically the question that I asked you was about election integrity and whether or not you had any information to verify what President Trump says all the time which is the election was rigged that's what I asked you cash I'm sorry Maria she's pissed yeah we all well we're all friends Brian three at all of us right now I think she's the reason there are directions on a shampoo box no I know that's not appropriate but I wanted to play that would be appropriate for but not for Maria Bartiroma because Maria Bartiroma is based in smart how dare you take it back

45:03I just wanted to play that one that's all yes so what we are doing is folding that into our our entire conspiracy case and we will let the prosecution speak for but we have the information that backs President Trump's claim but because it's an ongoing prosecution investigation I can't get ahead of the DOJ and the president but the President Trump President Trump speaks truthfully when he says that and that's what I've been talking about when we find terabytes of data on computers from from the last 10 years that we were supposed to find 10 years ago that's what it took it took his reelection it took this FBI to go in there and find it and it takes a long time to get through that material but I would say stay tuned this week you might see a thing or two cash all right well when this airs it'll be Friday I mean we did see we did see a thing or two we got this from the from the from just the news the national intelligence council memorandum on vulnerabilities in the US 2020 election infrastructure you ready to dig into this let's do it it is going to literally be a

46:07trip down memory lane all the stuff that we have covered here before declassification we were right about now classified yes where's uh do we have something there for that uh what you'll look at that that's a good one our audience is going to be like why don't they play more often or or they're going to be like gosh would they just be serious for a minute what the fuck are you saying nobody knows what you're saying all right all right so vulnerabilities in the the US 2020 election infrastructure this was declassified by Dini Gabbard on March 16th 2026 key takeaways we read these on badlands daily this morning but it's Friday now so that was Wednesday morning you want to read those ash sure where am I reading from from scope note this memo assesses the potential impact of cyber operations against US election infrastructure for the 2020 presidential election including the voting process and integrity of results it does not assess adversary intentions

47:13or views of US vulnerabilities we assess that the least that at least Russia China Iran and North Korea have the capability to access and potentially manipulate data in the in US election-related computer systems but we do not know whether they have specific plans to interfere with the functioning of the system pause where's Venezuela well I mean obviously the government is covering it up why isn't Venezuela on there all right keep going maybe because this book came out before this report was was written and published secretly to the secret people before puzzle will correct the case we assess that centralized election-related data repositories such as voter registration databases poll books and official election websites are most vulnerable to exploitation and adversaries

48:13could use access to these systems to disrupt election processes pause the official pause when you're the one reading it I am saying that we are going to pause right here yes I am still going to do that just so you know but the official election websites let's not forget that the bios passwords in Colorado were posted on the official election website of the Colorado State Department so and and they you know as we go through this I'll probably bring up more about that I put a hole right up in the brief about how that example the 600 bios passwords example in light of these revelations is damning for what they did because they never investigated they never talked to the clerks they just lied about it and covered it up because safest and most secure it's totally fine yep good also poll books and the official another official election website would be poll chief the which is the staffing the election worker staffing tool and poll chief of course is the conic

49:19software that back before the the Washington field office squashed that investigation was found to have Chinese backdoors on the Michigan server so it's not and and and the way that that kind of you know debunk happened was there's no election records in China and that wasn't actually what they found what they found was that the election servers in Michigan were sharing space you had both Chinese uh Chinese software Chinese elections being run on this one server in Michigan and us elections Michigan elections being run on the server and they were like it's basically like having two doors right next to each other um but you know safest and most secure and of course uh the the Washington field office said that there was nothing to see there even though the FBI was investigating it before they got involved systems that tabulate transmit or display election results are vulnerable to localized exploitation but would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to alter the election outcome allegedly also not true if nobody looks

50:24adversary claims of manipulation would be difficult to disprove and could undermine public confidence in election results all right that's my favorite line by the way uh we judge that US adversaries including at minimum Russia-China Iran and North Korea as well as non-state groups have the capability- why don't they just say NGOs uh have the capability to compromise US election infrastructure for the 2020 presidential election adversaries gaining access to US election related systems could disrupt the voting process deal sensitive data or undermine the confidence in election results but we do not know whether any of them have specific plans to manipulate election related systems hey China you guys plan on fucking with our elections no okay thank you so stupid uh Russia almost certainly recnoitered all that hey hey on a second that's that's just like asking dominion if they had shadow databases and deleted election records in Mason County and they said no and everything's fine yeah uh Russia almost certainly recnoitered

51:30all US state election networks during the 2016 election cycle access to election related infrastructure in at least two states and exfiltrated voter data from at least one state Russia-China Iran North Korea are all capable of conducting similar operations during the 2020 election cycle judging from their known capabilities and past operations so by the way past operations what do you mean you mean just Russia or other past operations from those countries also why haven't they fixed it the availability of sophisticated computer network intrusion or attack tools on the dark web gives additional countries and non-state actors the potential capability to interfere in the election we judge that cyber criminals and activists could also target election infrastructure for financial or political reasons based on past incidents possibly or definitely attributed to such groups that's horrifying man uh we don't need to go over the terms at all points to election systems we should not be using yeah exactly that's that's what the the takeaway from

52:32this is we should not be using machines in any way shape reformed to tabulator votes and it and it's this way I mean by design but in part it's this way because of the centralization and they see that up above right centralized databases repositories websites when you have everything centralized you have single point of failure it's more vulnerable decentralization is the answer but what is what are the like what's the elections industries position right now and I'm Mark Elias as the voice of the elections industry I think that's fair but also caveat it's Mark Elias not you know everybody involved but they all generally fall in line together well they're saying that we have to centralize elections in the secretary of states hands we have to get rid of the pageantry of democracy where counties down you know elections are certified down in the counties and there's so many people involved and it's just there's way too many points where it can be corrupted or subverted is I forget exactly what word he used but that's what

53:33Mark Elias said and what we're hearing from the intelligence community here is that the centralization is actually making it more vulnerable and this is a principle of technology architecture design is that you know avoid single points of failure multiple redundancies etc so that makes sense that that the intelligence community makes sense the Mark Elias position makes a hell of a lot less sense in light of these revelations but of course that's you know in my opinion based on the information available and the very long record of results I think that that uh you know he's he's corruptly attempting to to retain his power yeah it's back it's by design is obviously right now at the state level he doesn't need the voter registration database local actions officials involved and he doesn't want the feds involved voter registration databases states house their voter registration databases predominantly on internet connected systems that are designed for easy access because maintaining up-to-date voter registration records is nearly a can is a nearly continuous process adversaries could alter data to potentially

54:35prevent individual voters voters or groups of voters from voting causing delays on causing delays on election day and for forcing voters to use provisional ballots adversaries could also use the registration data in which in some cases is also publicly available for purchase to tailor other interference or influence efforts I I thought that this explanation right here was so lackluster and inadequate compared to what you could do with access to do voter databases you know the the things that they say you alter data to potentially prevent individual voters or groups from voting no you like nobody's going to go and vote and be like I'm not allowed to vote and then like they're going to throw a connection fit and then eventually they're going to be like okay you can vote right you're you're gonna eventually get that worked out I think it's the opposite you can inflate the voter rolls if you have that type of access and you can alter the data in them and create fake voters and once you create fake voters you don't have those connection fits because they're fake they don't actually exist so when you get like especially

55:38and and universal mail-in ballot makes this infinitely easier to do because now you no longer even have to have people that go there in person you don't have to have the Chinese people with the nineteen thousand eight hundred and eighty eight drivers licenses that got tagged which means probably and it's whale and sprayin well that means probably ten times at least ten times that actually got through customs if we only caught nineteen thousand eight hundred and eighty eight and so you don't like I just feel like that was woefully inadequate in describing the the potential dangers there the vulnerability is the vulnerability the way it can be exploited I would argue could be for both so if you had hang on if you had like a Jim Crow era person in charge of this apparatus and they wanted to prevent black you know like the SPLC and they wanted to prevent black people vote is the joke because they were funding that k k k not funny no um okay um that they could they could use that in that way that's described here also it can be used to expand access so suppose suppression and the expansionist inflation either way though you're

56:42preventing voters from voting because when you're diluting lawful votes with with unlawful votes you're making it so those people didn't vote at all that legitimate ones yeah but my point is is that they do go into what they can do with the manipulations and and the way that they describe it it's it's lackluster it's not it's not like nobody's a layperson is not going to look at that and be like okay that's the that's a doomsday thing right there you know like I don't know I think it's a Jim Crow statement half not half but a significant portion of the country would read that and be alarmed I don't think it would it's it's voter suppression like systemic voter suppression and it's but but it's not important the vulnerability is there the vulnerability can be used to either expand access or restrict access depending on the motivations of the person exploiting the vulnerability but there's no mention of the expanding access that's the that's my point and the expanded one that where they were talking about expanding as adversaries could alter data to

57:43potentially prevent individual voters or groups from voting caused delays on election day or force voters to use provisional ballots they could also use the registration data to tailor other interference or influence efforts expanding the number of people in the voter rolls is more significant because it's most more likely not to be caught because you don't you don't have somebody that's a victim that's going to complain about it if somebody's suppressed from voting they're going to complain about it you have victims you have now yeah this is databases not tabulation so this is them going to check in and they're not in the database or they're they're their their their information's corrupt and they say no you're not in the system you can't vote I understand what you're saying I agree with you that it is an important way that this this vulnerability can be exploited it should have been explicitly put in there it's not I maintain my position that that that vulnerability can be used to manipulate the the populace in multiple ways poll books registration databases transfer voter

58:43registration information to e poll book devices or paper poll books used to check in voters at the precinct level some poll books are tied to the internet most are tied to the internet to the to internet connected databases that adversaries probably would be able to easily exploit to manipulate data that's one of my favorite sentences in this probably be able to easily manipulate adversaries probably would be easy be able to easily exploit to manipulate data with effects similar to those from manipulation of registration databases yeah probably able to easily easily yeah like you don't put those two words together probably they must care yeah but there's no evidence that you know any of these vulnerabilities were exploited all also there is and also they they they came it came under dress because they don't look I'll show you the short version okay we don't need all this

59:49election workers are reporting voters being added to the polls after the polls close and they caught it in real time on amro i mean that's not the first time i think i did not and by the way i'm i was over but i'm now i'm now at 8 seventeen oh baby well it's easy to contest it because there were already some that there's not gonna be any results tonight yeah it's gonna go over a week All right, so that was in, um, that one was in 2022, and then low and behold, it happened again in 2023. One year later, it happened again. I mean, it's not yet. Oh, yeah, now it's

1:00:57a 1270 year. Okay. Now it's at 1370. They're literally just sitting there watching these poll pads increment in real time after the polls are closed and they, you know, they should be out of sight, out of mind, nobody look at them. Don't pay attention in real time. That's frickin bonkers to me. Yep. Sure is. All right. Read the state and local election officials websites. These sites provide public information about voting locations or in some states are used to report voting results. The tax on or compromises of these sites could deter individuals from voting or cast doubt on election results. All right. I kind of skipped over the centralized data. So don't talk about fake elections or people won't show up to vote. Yeah. Uh, and then we skip this part because I went out of order centralized data repositories. Most vulnerable. We assess

1:01:57the adversaries adversaries could most easily exploit centralized election related data repositories because of their ease of access and comparative lack of security. These systems which are used to collect update and store voter info and designed for regular access commonly through web portals, which makes them vulnerable to arrange malicious cyber activities. A committed adversaries could exploit access to these systems to disrupt election processes across the country. Vote, administering systems vulnerable to localized exploitation. Now remember guys, this is from the National Intelligence Council in 2020 January of 2020 11 months before the 2020 election. We assess that systems designed to tabulate votes transmit vote amounts or display election results probably are vulnerable to localized exploitation, localized exploitation, but would be difficult to manipulate at scale. For example, hackers have repeatedly demonstrated that some voting machines are easy to compromise direct recording electronic machines, which are which record and process

1:02:58votes digitally and stored tabulation data and removable memory are particularly vulnerable to cyber operations, especially machines with no paper backup such such machines. However, are used far less than other more secure types of voting machines. That's not true. Almost every single voting machine out there has memory cards that they use to do this. Georgia is a direct recording, you know, ballot marking device machine. A lot of the ESNS DS200s are, you know, there's a lot of them that there are a ton of them that you fill out a hand marked paper ballot, but then you run it through the tabulator. Well, guess what? That tabulator is still a vulnerable access point, right? Because there's still USB cards going into that machine. There's still USB sticks that are being put in that machine to upload the, you know, the, the, the ballot design, what do they call it? The event design, the ballot design software. I can't think of the name off the top of my head. It's not coming to me. But anyway, so that's,

1:04:02that's not exactly true what they're saying right there, but adversaries who obtained physical access to voting machines could alter how they function, manipulate the data in them, or install malware, according to US state and academic investigations at the 2019 DEFCON cybersecurity conference hackers demonstrated the ability to compromise more than 100 voting machines, all of which had been certified for use in at least one US voting jurisdiction. Instead of saying that they demonstrated the ability to compromise more than 100 voting machines, you know what they should have said, Ash, they demonstrated the ability to compromise every single machine that was at DEFCON. Every one without question without exception. Every one. All right. Go ahead and repoll book hacking example. A poll book was modified at the 2019 DEFCON voting machine hacking village to run the popular video game doom according to press reporting. 31 states in the district of Columbia allow eligible voters to submit absentee ballots via the, via internet or fax,

1:05:07making these votes susceptible to disruption or manipulation. Four states allow voters to return absentee ballots via web based portal. Seven allows some voters to return ballots via fax only, and one allows mobile voting secured with blockchain technology absentee votes, however, a small in number and typically closed monitored and typically closely monitored for anomalies. And that all changed in 2020. Yep. I mean, that was here in Colorado. That wasn't that's not the case anyway. You know, we we've been dropping ballots from the sky since before 2020, but it was rapidly and widely expanded in 2020 and not closely monitored as we saw in the Kerry Lake trial where we see a video of somebody clicking through signatures like this. What is the single security control on a mail-in ballot, Brian? The person, the human that's supposed to be verifying it. What is the control on the mail-in ballot? The signature. The signature. And they don't do

1:06:08signature verification. You can sign that however you want in some of these jurisdictions. I will say Mike County, Douglas County, they do signature verification. We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results. The systems in each voting location are not connected to the internet or to each other. False. And many methods for exploiting them rely on physical proximity, although an adversary could manipulate voting results across multiple jurisdictions. And enough states to influence a presidential election. We judge that conducting such a campaign would be difficult. And that post election audits in paper trails would very likely uncover such an effort. It's like they told them, Ash, how to do it. With this section right here, it's like they told them how to do it. We'll compromise the machines because nobody's really going to check the machines because we run logic and accuracy tests. We test them first. Also, there's post election audits and paper trails.

1:07:09So figure out how to get past the audit and then figure out how to keep anybody from ever being able to look at the paper trail. Exactly. It's like they told us what to do. Let me see if I could get which clip it is. I think it's this one. I want to play this clip of, might be this one. Let me start with this one. Of Jeff Lenberg. The modus. You know, we've been told over and over. They don't have connectivity. Well, guys, I took pictures of modems embedded in the ES and S machines that were not certified, that were not declared, okay, that they told us they didn't use. And they were there. Not only were they there, when I printed out the system log for the 2020 election from the ES and S machine, it said modem initialized after they closed the polls. Modem initialized. This file has just been transferred. Here's the file name. Here's how long it took to date and time of the transfer of the results over a cell phone modem to supposedly the county, okay. You see a problem with this.

1:08:17Guys, cell phone modems are ways, all right. It works both ways. They communicate back and forth, not just one way, all right. When I would go to Africa, I've got a small bit. We could stop there. So you have the Secretary of State report where it says or the memo to the county clerks where it says, you know, make sure you check to see that it's not connected to the internet. Oh, I do have it. Yeah. I'll pull that up. Absolutely. Bill Buster for a second, because I did not have that ready. Well, I'll keep reading about the machine vulnerabilities until we get until you get it up. Ballot in voting machine, what's that? Voting and ballot machine preparation vulnerabilities. Ballot and voting machine preparation is vulnerable to cyber supply chain or insider threats. We judge, however, that security and mitigation measures used in these processes and the distribution of voting machine storage facilities country-wide would make it difficult for an adversary to coordinate a campaign to manipulate

1:09:19voting results across an entire state or multiple states. I mean, that to me is absolutely crazy. Security and mitigation measures like, you know, security like having the same password since the inception of the machine, since the vendors set the passwords and having every single person that access it, having the same username and password. So there's no accountability, there's no chain of custody, there's no validation as to who did what on when and when and where. Yeah. Okay, that makes sense. Ballot preparation, creating paper or electronic ballots to upload to voting machines is usually outsource to third-party vendors. Some use internet-connected computers and systems and lack passwords and encryption policies, which could allow malicious actors to corrupt ballot files. Logic and accuracy tests to ensure the machine function properly before election day, however, probably would detect such activity. The problem with logic and accuracy testing is that you can program the machines to cheat. You can program them to determine that

1:10:22they're being tested and to act properly while that test is running. Hari Hirstie testified to this. I believe in Wisconsin and he also told me personally in South Dakota. Yeah, but I mean, our machines can't connect to the internet. They don't have that capability. You can see this up at the top here. It says June 24th, 2022, down at the bottom, the next county support call is June 27th. County support calls from the Secretary of State. This is an official communication from the Secretary of State of Colorado. We've got something about wait times here. I covered the contact information of the election worker that was put in there of some information about election certification and over here on the security best practices reminder. It is recommended that during the election period, counties periodically continue to check that Wi-Fi is disabled on all components of their voting system with Wi-Fi capability. If possible, a guide on how to

1:11:27check Wi-Fi is disabled on components of the Dominion, Demok, Demokianism suite system is attached to this newsletter. So they are checking. They're being told, hey, I don't know, machines can't connect to the internet and you're in the middle of an air gap. That's totally real thing. But also, just go in and check periodically and make sure that you don't accidentally reconnect. And remember when John Polis said, I don't even know why anybody's asking about this. Our machines don't have the capability. Well, in the Dominion Democracy suite system guidance, there's information on how to check. So, blind under oath. I don't know if he was under oath. I don't know if those hearings were under oath. The ones in Michigan? I can't remember if it was Michigan where he said that. He was at one hearing. I clipped it out for an attorney up there during a case and it was under oath. It was under oath. Okay, cool. Yeah. Line under oath then. Yeah. We don't even have that capability.

1:12:29Why are people saying this? Yep. All right. Rita voting machine preparation. Voting machines configured at a central location are vulnerable to insider threats. Malware introduced into voting machines during this phase might affect multiple jurisdictions, but would also be detectable during the pre-election testing. What's your distinction? Was it where the pre-election testing was done and then the machines that were used were different machines and the ones that were tested weren't used. It was in Arizona. Maricopa. Yeah. Maricopa County. They tested two machines and then never deployed those two machines. Dominion in Fulton County ran the logic and accuracy testing in the centralized location of the English street warehouse and again, Dominion ran the logic and accuracy testing as well as everything else at that warehouse. So when they say their machines configured at a central location are vulnerable to insider threats, it doesn't get much more centralized and insider

1:13:34threat than that right there. Insider threats is also something that we're told doesn't exist. And if you suggest that somebody with authority and access might engage in election fraud, you're actually putting their lives at risk. If you believe in insider threats and you raise the possibility and question whether that's happening, you're actually a threat to democracy yourself because it's very scary for election officials to have scrutiny. That's what we're told. But also the National Intelligence Committee Council. That's the C4. Those guys say insider threats. Centralization creates complexity and complexity breeds and hides corruption and insider threats. Also worth mentioning at the Fulton County, their Dominion Technician was a Nigerian foreign national who after the 2020 election got a job with Fulton County making double what he was making with Dominion. He also was driving a new Range Rover, a Mercedes, and bought a home all as a foreign

1:14:43national who divorced the American that he was married to. And yeah. So anyway, election worker that cares about democracy, Brian. Yeah, that's what it is. That's what it is. We assess the vote tabulation systems. We difficult to manipulate on one of scale. A growing number of jurisdictions are using voter verified paper backups and post election audits, which can alert election officials to manipulation errors. Again, all of the post election audits have seen. So if we're talking about manipulation of voting machines, the processes that they're using to determine which ballots and which batches to audit are coming from software. Yeah. You can't have that. You can't have that. I showed the video on why we vote a while back in Michigan where they roll a dice and a die, like a 20-sided die. They didn't call out them. Yeah, they take the note. They rolled it off the camera. Colorado, they do it off the camera. But in Michigan, they rolled on the camera. They take the number. They put it into a computer and the computer tells

1:15:48them from that point what batch to go pull. What the fuck? Yeah. Why didn't the computer to tell you that? They do it. They tell you audit. Don't you know? Offwear. And then we got richer. I think I think we talked about this on the show where I called them out and I said, you guys are doing risk limiting audits and you're not even done processing all the ballots. No, that's not true. And I'm like, bro, here's your post. Here's your post where you said we're running the risk limit. Yeah, but I forgot I posted that, Brian. Well, it wasn't him. It was Maricopa County Mettech and everybody else, the elections department that posted it. But you can't say that we're running the risk limiting audit. Oh, it checked out. Everything's fine. And then you're like, hey, we're still bringing ballots in from run back. We're still bringing ballots. Then they weren't subject to the risk limiting audit and the risk limiting audit's junk. But it's okay, right? Because of all the chain of custody documentation that got away. That's all fuck to those ballots coming in from run back now. Yeah. Every single security control is the appearance of security and actually does nothing to secure elections. Yep. Read the next one. And the ones that would things like

1:16:52voter ID, totally resistant to. All right, where am I? We assess. Yep. We assess that cyber operations targeting the electronic tabulation of results could delay results reporting from affected jurisdictions, potentially creating public uncertainty, but probably not infecting the integrity of certified results. Tabulated results are sort of independently of copies displayed on the results websites, although investigations of malicious activity could delay results and introduced public uncertainty about the validity of vote counts denial of service attacks or manipulation of copies of the results in transit would delay public access to the results and make them difficult to access creating the appearance of modified results. The Blue Ribbon Commission on the vulnerabilities of Pennsylvania's election infrastructure found the transmission of preliminary results to public facing websites is vulnerable to man in the middle attacks in which the attacker manipulates data mid transmission such attacks would not alter separately stored certified copies of tabulation results,

1:17:55which are processed offline, but even short delays in reporting the results could introduce doubts about the security of the election or the validity of the results. And then read the next paragraph. Yeah, these are really, really bad and now delays are super normalized. Read the next paragraph. In May 2019. Nope, nope, nope, the one above it. So in the reporting from John Sullivan. For the audio audience, it's a redacted paragraph. So in the audience audio for John Solomon, this is probably a good point to play this. We now know as of this morning with the new document that told me to classify it at our request and that I put out this morning that the intelligence community unanimously assessed in January and February of 2020 that America's election infrastructure was highly vulnerable to foreign intrusions and of all the things that they flagged, the most vulnerable were the voter

1:18:58registration databases, the very things that China and Iran just a few months later, what happened. Why is that important? We've been told the story that this was a secure election. It wasn't. We were capped from very important information during the 2020 election that identified these vulnerabilities. They could have been closed. There could have been greater offensive measure stake and to make sure that the things that did happen China and Iran, hacking into the registration databases, China sending fake drivers licensees here, hoping they could get ballots that would vote for Joe Biden. Those things could have been worn it off with a more aggressive and assertive campaign. But instead, when the president, President Trump did get briefed on this particular memo. He didn't get briefed on the later intrusions by China, but he did get briefed on this memo. He told the people. There's a picture up on the website. You can actually see the meeting. All the presidents, men and women around the desk and the rest of the desk in the oval office, he said declassify this information, get it out to the public according to. Did he say redact it and declassify it? He just said declassify it. I don't think President Trump would want that to be redacted. So maybe we could start a campaign. Everybody share that part and say, President Trump, unredact this. Chris Porter, the officer who wrote this memo, who couldn't talk about it until today,

1:20:03when it was declassified, the CIA and others thwarted the president's will, did not declassify that information. Left the states, state election systems, the secretaries of states, and others in the dark about the vulnerabilities that we're going on. I think that's an extraordinary statement. And then later, when the voter, some of the vulnerabilities are exploited, and China gets does the driver's licensees, does the hacking until the thing Iran acts into one state and takes 100,000 voter IDs and starts using them in the election, they don't tell us. They keep us in the dark and they keep telling us and they force me, that's a false narrative that it was a secure election. It wasn't. This is not the most explosive stuff that Tulsi Gabbard holds in her hands. I've heard that too, from a very reliable source, that this is not the most explosive stuff that Tulsi Gabbard has on the 2020 elections. Cool. Let's get back into it. So I just don't understand why this is redacted. And it's interesting to me because they talk about specifically Pennsylvania and the paragraph above it. So what is this a specific reference to? Because the next one says in May of 2019. So we're talking

1:21:05about actual events that have occurred. So I have to believe that this is also an actual event that they're redacting. Yeah. So good. In May 2019, unidentified cyber actors rendered a US county election website unavailable in the night of a mayoral primary. The incident did not affect the tabulation results, which were stored on a separate system, not connected to the internet. Good. False manipulation narratives could undermine public confidence. We assess that adversaries could also make false claims about their ability to manipulate US election infrastructure as part of a broader effort to undermine confidence in US Democrat processes. Much of the voting public probably knows little about the process of administering US elections, which could allow false narratives to gain traction. Again, not this show. Not the audience. Not the audience of this show. Government evidence efforts to investigate and publicly invalidate such claims could take weeks or months, providing time for concerns about election security to spread. Disproving claims

1:22:07would also be impossible if adversaries evaded US intelligence collection. Adversaries could make wholly fabricated claims, such as announcing that they have compromised all US voting machines, a claim that would be difficult and time consuming or impossible for the US government to disprove. However interesting is that after the the op that we're seeing run right now. Telling us that the adversaries have compromised our elections and we're all like well, we can't just can't disprove it because they're actually false. Factually incorrect. But so many people are are slapping on to that, you know. Yeah, like smart people, like people that have been on the show before, you know, they're like just hook line and sinker. Adversaries could also link and exaggerate a claim, for example, about their ability to affect the election outcome to actual operations such as denial of service attacks against election related websites or intrusions and devoted registration databases. Linking the two could introduce public doubts about the validity of the election, even if the actual cyber operations

1:23:11were unrelated to the casting, tabulating and reporting of votes. A widely publicized compromise of election infrastructure probably would undercut public confidence in the election, even if the compromise was not used to manipulate election related data or systems. And that is the the you know, the statement that gives them the green light to keep classifying everything and don't tell the people we don't want to undermine public confidence in this system that nobody should have confidence in mitigating threats to infrastructure. We assess that enhancing the physical security and cyber protections of election systems and messaging the US public and messaging the US public and adversaries could mitigate some of the vulnerabilities of the complex US election process. So it's Chris Krebs saying, don't worry everybody, it's the safest and most secure where we think that's going to work to restore confidence. Physical security and cyber hygiene. These terms refer to adopting if best practices for

1:24:11the physical and cyber protection of election facilities and equipment, basic security measures replacing obviously equipment strengthening password policy and audit processes and implementing network segmentation might prevent less sophisticated adversaries from disrupting election processes, but would probably would be insufficient to deter the most advanced and determine nation state actors. Now pause, pause. This one's a big one because all right, so basic security measures replacing obsolete equipment. When I when I covered Crowley V. Raffin's burger, the software that's being run the operating system that's run on those systems is like Android 7. It was like outdated. It's so outdated. They don't even make patches for it anymore. Andrew County, same thing. The software was so outdated that they don't make patches for it anymore. The antivirus software that's been run on it not patched. It's not the latest update. So that's a huge red flag strengthening password policy. We all know. Yes, Admin and everybody's sharing credentials and DVS Corp. 08 and putting the bios passwords in a hidden folder publicly available.

1:25:16Like all of that stuff, that's garbage. And then the audit processes, whether it's, you know, whether it's what we talked about the time. We have five minutes. You know, whether it's the process that we talked about where you're doing it. And there's only one paragraph left. So the audit processes as well. The other thing about the audit processes is that most people, and I've actually seen this happen. Cherokee County, Kansas, this happened. If they do catch something, they don't care. They're like, oh, we caught something. Let's fix it. Okay, we're better. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Now you open up the can of worms. Pandora's box is open. There was a judge a race in Cherokee County, Kansas that a vote was flipped. It was literally flipped in the audit and they caught it. And they're like, okay, it was a programming error, technical glitch, nothing to see here. I wrote about this in 2022. Gone. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. You finished. Third party vendor verification establishing and refining screening procedures for vendors who manufacture a trans-chip election infrastructure could reveal

1:26:19shared vulnerabilities or insider threats. You mean like having a Chinese national? Or like, they're all related to each other in the ecosystems. Like one has statutory authority. And the other one works for the company. And it's yeah, I would say there's some insider. There's there is the appearance of impropriety certainly. And the appearance of impropriety should be the standard. It's not, it's not because, you know, for, for whatever reason, we apply greater standards to the public trust in capital markets than we do to public trust in democracy, right, in elections. But it should be the standard that the appearance of impropriety is enough to, you know, stop doing that to force, to force behavior change to even inflict some consequences. I, Ash, I can't believe we missed the most obvious one. They're establishing and refining screening procedures for vendors who manufacture a trans-chip election infrastructure. I was thinking of running back when I said that. We forgot the most important one. What's the most important one? I was laying on a jail cell. He tried

1:27:23to be heaving overdose. Yes, we should, we should maybe screen who is working at the vendors like this heroin addict that we cold called to come program US voting machines. For Sequoia? Sequoia. Sequoia voting. Yeah, it's nuts, man. That's a good catch on that. Public messaging and education, public messaging would be vital to providing accurate and timely information about the effects and limited scope of low impact cyber operations partnerships with state and local election official cyber security firms and the media could help minimize commercial disruptions as well as counter cyber enabled information operations. This is the time magazine fortifying the election right here. Fortifying the election. Timely public messaging before the election would help to educate the public about adversary goals and make US officials the trusted source of information about the integrity of the election process recovery efforts and investigations into attempted cyber attacks. We got none of that, but we got the US authoritative

1:28:26sources telling us, I think to see here, you're not the machines you're looking for. Privately messaging adversaries to emphasize the attempts that attempts to manipulate US election structural acceptable back talent. Don't you steal our election text. Patrump is going to text she. Hey, bro, bro, what are you doing, bro? What's up, cool, bro? You really want to buy in here? Netanyahu, all like, hey, Joe, congratulations, bro. First person. Yeah, I was first. All right, we got to get out of here. Everybody hit the thumb. If there are rants and boosts, we will read them next week. If you want to support us and you're watching this on a replay, then you can head over to badlandsvd.tv slash boost and leave us a message there. We'll read your message and reminder that next week's show is happening at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, maybe because it's my wedding anniversary. And if I may, I may need to cancel it. But if it's not, I'll be the following week. But I would say it's probably like 70%. We're going to do it.

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