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April 5, 2022 - Epoch Times
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Election Watchdog Finds 137,500 Ballots Unlawfully Trafficked in Wisconsin, 4.8M Nationwide At Least
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This is your daily Facts Matter Update, and I'm your host, Roman, from the Epoch Times.
And boy, do we have a lot to discuss today.
Because you see, the midterm elections are coming up so very, very, very soon, and therefore, it's more critical than ever for us to focus on the topic of election integrity.
And along that line, let's begin today's discussion over in the state of Wisconsin.
Six short days ago, an election watchdog group presented their findings to the Wisconsin State Assembly's Committee on Campaigns and Elections, and they revealed that over 137,000 ballots were unlawfully trafficked within the state of Wisconsin during the 2020 election.
Now, the group that presented this information to the Wisconsin State Assembly is called True the Vote.
They are a public interest organization focused primarily on the rights of voters.
And what they found was that during the 2020 election, at least 137,500 absentee ballots were cast through an unlawful vote trafficking process.
And furthermore, this process did not take place in just one city, but rather throughout several of the most populous areas in Wisconsin.
Now, before we dive into the specific allegations that they presented, I wanted to briefly explain some of the terms so that we're going to be all on the same page.
The activity that's known as ballot trafficking is when you have someone soliciting either absentee ballots or votes in general, sometimes in exchange for money or other valuables.
That once they are solicited, these traffic ballots are collected through a process known as ballot harvesting.
And then once they are collected, these ballots are delivered to different drop boxes in the area by intermediaries, meaning someone other than the actual voter.
And just for your reference, sometimes these intermediaries are called ballot mules.
And also, these intermediaries are often paid on a per-ballot basis, meaning they are paid for every ballot that they successfully harvest and then deliver.
And so that is the general outline of the process, and according to these researchers, well, that is exactly what took place in the state of Wisconsin.
And you might be asking yourself, well, how could they possibly know that?
How could they possibly know that vote trafficking actually took place?
Well, what these researchers did is that they purchased 10 trillion unique cell phone identity signals, also known as cell phone pings, P-I-N-G-E-S, pings, And what a cell phone ping does is that it allows a person with a fair bit of accuracy to determine the location of a particular cell phone within a given area.
It does this by either using GPS data or by using cell phone tower triangulation.
And if you've ever seen a TV crime drama, then you probably know how this technique works.
They use several cell phone towers to determine the location of a particular cell phone.
And even though these cell phone pings are anonymous, meaning that you do not know the identity of any of the phones that you're tracking, well, it does allow you to track the person through time, and therefore you can actually recreate their pattern of life.
Here's in fact how Mr.
Greg Phillips, who is a cybersecurity expert working for True the Vote, here's how he explained it to the Wisconsin Assembly.
Quote,"...from these pings, it can be determined where you work, where you sleep, and even what floor you are on within inches." Which, of course, sounds all extremely dystopian, but regardless, what these researchers did is that they retraced the footsteps of people who made multiple trips to Dropboxes during the 2020 election.
Specifically, these researchers, they purchased 10 trillion cell phone pings that took place during the two-week period between October 20th through November 3rd of the year 2020.
Essentially, this was exactly the time period during which a person could cast an absentee ballot through a dropbox.
And once they mapped out the travel patterns of these people, they found that 138 individuals did one of two very interesting things.
The first is that each of these 138 people, they visited the location of a certain non-governmental organization at least five times each.
Although the researchers did not reveal the actual name of this organization that they were visiting, but each of them visited this organization at least five times.
The second point is that the researchers found that each of these 138 individuals, besides visiting this NGO, they made a combined total of 3,588 trips to absentee ballot dropboxes.
And this, by the way, only represents the Milwaukee County area.
Here is how Mr.
Greg Phillips described his findings to the Wisconsin State Assembly.
That's an average of 26 trips per person to drop boxes in the Milwaukee area.
Think about that for a quick moment.
Just in the Milwaukee area, you had 138 people making an average of 26 trips to a ballot drop box.
Now, after this particular finding was revealed, one of the Wisconsin State Committee members, Ms.
Lisa Subak, she's a Democrat, she asked these researchers whether this was evidence of fraud.
And as a response, a spokeswoman for True the Vote, she said this, quote, And in terms of the legality, she is indeed correct.
That's because according to Wisconsin State Law, specifically according to Wisconsin State Statute 6.87, subsection 4B1, it provides that an absentee ballot envelope in which the absentee ballot is actually placed into must be, quote, mailed by the elector or delivered in person to the municipal clerk issuing the ballot or ballot.
Now, if you notice, and this is something that we've discussed on several previous episodes, but that state statute, it actually means that ballot drop boxes in and of themselves are illegal.
Because the law states that a voter must either mail his vote by him or herself or deliver it in person to the municipal clerk.
Meaning that according to that state statute, it doesn't even matter who is dropping the ballots into the box.
Whether it's a ballot harvester or the voter themselves, because the ballot drop box in and of itself is just not a valid form of ballot delivery within the state of Wisconsin.
And this was actually something upheld in a recent circuit court decision over in Wacosha County, specifically in a case called Teagan v.
Wisconsin Elections Commission.
And in that case, the court agreed that the use of unmanned ballot drop boxes violated Wisconsin's election law.
And generally, the reason that so many states tend to outlaw the use of these ballot drop boxes is because they are believed to allow for the possibility of illegal ballot harvesting, which again, at least according to the evidence that's being presented, appears to be exactly what took place within the state of Wisconsin.
Now, what's interesting to note is that during the testimony, the spokeswoman for True the Vote, she made a point of stressing that her report was focused on the voting process rather than attempting to prove that the 137,000 ballots were illegal votes.
However, as a response to her statement, Mr.
Dave Murphy, who is a Republican member of the Wisconsin Assembly, well, he said this, quote, If the process is illegal, the vote is illegal.
And then furthermore, another member of the Wisconsin Assembly, he asked the researchers if they could actually identify the 138 alleged ballot harvesters, to which the researchers responded by saying this, quote, However, Law enforcement would need a warrant.
And then in terms of what the researchers are actually hoping to achieve with their findings, well, here's a statement from True the Votes Legal Counsel.
What has been disclosed, and in my view proven, is that there were sufficient irregularities in the 2020 election that a court at the time could have reached the conclusion that the true results cannot be determined.
But that time has passed.
It's not about overturning the 2020 election.
It's about the future.
The situation is crying for reform.
Now, at least to me, the most interesting aspect of their report is that it was not limited to only the state of Wisconsin.
That's because these researchers, they also purchased these cell phone ping data in Georgia, in Arizona, in Pennsylvania, in Texas, as well as in Michigan.
And after combing through all this data for the last year and a half, they found that in those six states, which includes Wisconsin, at least 4.8 million votes were harvested and trafficked.
For instance, according to the report that was put out by True the Vote, over in Arizona there were a total of 202 intermediaries, meaning ballot mules, who made a total of 4,282 separate visits to ballot drop boxes within Maricopa County.
And likewise, over in Atlanta, Georgia, there were 242 intermediaries, again meaning ballot mules, who made a total of 5,668 stops at ballot drop boxes during the 2020 election.
And actually, what's really interesting in the Georgia case is that in this report, True the Vote wrote that they obtained about 4 million minutes of Dropbox video surveillance footage, which helped them to figure out exactly what was happening in Georgia.
Now, if you'd like to go through their report for yourself and look at their methodology as well as their actual findings, I will throw a link to their report.
It'll be down in the description box below this video so you can comb through it yourself and see whether you agree with their findings.
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And now, let's switch gears just a little bit and discuss the future of keeping America safe as well as prosperous.
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Now, while I was over in Washington, D.C. about two weeks ago, I had the unique opportunity to speak with Congressman Greg Murphy, and I was able to pick his brain about the best way for America to move forward with all of the internal and external challenges that we currently face.
I'm Greg Murphy.
I'm proud to represent North Carolina's third congressional district over there in eastern North Carolina.
Let's begin our conversation with Ukraine.
So right now, let's start by maybe ignoring for a moment everything that happened leading up to the Russian invasion.
Moving forward, what do you think the best approach for the U.S. would be in terms of dealing with Russia?
Well, it's very difficult right now because it looks like the city of Kiev is going to fall today or if not in the very near future.
And what's happening in Russia is now being done by a maniacal and possibly very mentally ill individual.
So how predictable he is is really up to anybody's guess.
What we do as moving forward is we have to show leadership in the world.
The world expects the United States to be dominant, to be a leader for democracy, and we've not done that during this last administration.
So we have to be very careful because President Xi in China is looking at the events very, very closely.
I know the Iranians are doing the same thing, same thing in North Korea.
We have to show boldness and we have to show leadership.
Do you think there's any way that we can be punitive towards Putin and the Russian government without pushing Russia more into China's orbit and aligning closer with the Chinese Communist Party?
Or do you think that ship has already sailed?
I think the ship in some ways has already sailed.
But it's very interesting because I've just been reading some reports now.
You know, the oligarchs, those who have been made very, very rich by Putin, are slowly dissociating themselves from him because the sanctions have hurt him or hurt those individuals tremendously.
And so hopefully there'll be an uprising in Russia itself.
I'm not going to bet on it, but hopefully that's where it's going to have to be because we're going to have to take this man out from the inside.
You know, on the very day that Russia invaded Ukraine, China sent seven planes into Taiwan's aerospace.
I mean, that's a more regular incursion now, but that happened also on that morning.
And also, the Chinese propaganda department sent a memo that was leaked to all the media in China saying, don't criticize Russia, because when we invade Taiwan, we want Russia's support.
What do you think the best stance or the best approach we can do in Southeast Asia to mitigate that kind of a problem?
We have to let the Chinese know that we're not going to tolerate that.
That we're not as a nation and as a world going to tolerate that.
Because bullies will bully until they're confronted.
And that's what needs to happen by this United States.
And not by sanctions, not by something, but if needed to, by force.
What do you make of the China initiative here in the U.S. getting disbanded under the Biden administration?
I think it's a total disaster.
I think it's a total disaster.
And I'll say this, and I'll say it again and again.
I think the Biden administration is being blackmailed by China and that the Biden administration is cowing to everything that is Chinese.
We needed to put that back in place.
China is not our friend.
China has explicitly said they want world dominance, and we're cowing to them with this president.
When you said that they're being blackmailed, can you expand on that a bit?
You know, you look at what's going on with Hunter Biden and how that's gotten hushed and everything.
You look at some of the other issues that have gone on with Joe Biden.
You don't hear anything more about that.
There's something, there's a smoking gun there that Biden is being so soft on this communist nation that is run by someone who wants to have world domination.
So without a doubt, I think there is something going on with Biden and China.
So switching back to domestic issues, so the mandates have been a topic of contention throughout the country for a very long time.
I want to get your opinion not only on the mandates but on this shift towards having policy be decided by bureaucrats and experts rather than have the experts opine and then have congressional leaders actually decide the mandates.
It seems to be like, you know, trust the science is the new motto.
What do you make of it?
You know, I've been a surgeon and a physician for 30 years, and I study literature.
That's what we're taught to when we study things, is to be very skeptical of this.
But sadly enough, when anything is coming out, instead of looking at the science and trying to make objective decisions, it's pushed to the political department.
And those are the administrators, those are the bureaucrats, those who want to maintain their status quo.
And that's what we're being seen in the country.
There's more and more polls coming out saying that people trust the CDC very, very little after what happened with COVID, after this new report which was released by the New York Times saying that they've been hiding data willfully.
So COVID will eventually become endemic.
It will eventually fade.
But what do you think the future will be?
How can the CDC regain trust with the public?
I think not only regaining trust in the public, but actually regaining trust in the physician community, because we always turn to the CDC. And the envelope really fell off, I think, when Director Lewinsky put out a memo that said exactly verbatim what the teachers' unions had told her about school masks.
It's going to be very, very difficult.
It's going to take a very, very long time for the American people to trust the CDC and the FDA again.
Last question.
The national debt officially is around $30 trillion, but if you include unfounded liabilities like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, government pensions and things like that, it's closer to $140 trillion, somewhere between $130 trillion and $160 trillion.
What do you think the solution to that is?
Because with all the problems overseas, this is essentially a ticking time bomb here in this country.
What do you think the solution is moving forward?
Fortunately, our society has been a society that wants handouts.
Social Security was not meant to be how people live towards their elder years.
It wasn't to be the only source of income, and people have failed to save.
I think we actually need to reverse the trend of thinking that the government is here to take care of us and that people need to start taking care of themselves from day one.
A lot more personal responsibility than waiting for the government to take care of us.
There's a lot of talk saying that the Republicans will take back the House and the Senate, likely, in these midterm elections.
If they do, do you think there's the political will to actually curb some of that national spending?
Because those are typically pretty unpopular programs to do that.
They are, but we have to have the political will.
We have to understand that these are the right things to do for the future of our country.
Because debt, the horrible debt that we have right now, is an enemy.
It's an insidious cancer that's eating out the country from the inside out, and we have to stop it.
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