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Loose Ceasefire and Rescue Ops00:03:44
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Thank you for joining us on the Mike Lindell Show.
My name is Patrick Kolbeck, and I'm filling in for Mike today.
And as usual, there's a lot of news to share with you.
Of course, by now, most everybody who's been paying attention understands that Operation Epic Fury is in the middle of a two week ceasefire.
And the conditions are pretty simple.
There's a detailed plan, but the basic conditions are that the Strait of Hormuz is opened up once again for traffic, and in exchange, the United States will cease bombing operations.
Pretty straightforward.
We do know that the varsity team for the Iranian government wasn't very good at keeping its word.
So we'll see how this junior varsity team does that's now in discussions with President Trump.
And this Friday, they're planning on going to Pakistan to go off and continue negotiations and discussions.
President Trump's made it very clear that his key condition is that there is no way on this earth that Iran will ever have a nuclear weapon.
So We'll see how that develops.
We're going to be going and getting our DC update in just a second.
But there's another piece of good news I wanted to emphasize to everybody.
And, you know, early on Easter Sunday, we knew that the military had rescued the weapon systems officer from that downed F 15 Eagle.
And, but a lot of people maybe missed one of the key statements made by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
It was, uh, he was relaying what was happening during the actual rescue operations.
And it was heartwarming to me and many Christians around the world to know that on Easter Sunday, the first communication from this downed Wizo, uh, was God is good.
Uh, so, uh, it truly was a blessing that he was rescued on Easter Sunday.
And, um, and I'm, I think, uh, most Americans are very happy of the way things turned out, um, regarding our downed airmen.
So, um, Anyway, kudos to our military and to everybody engaged in that combat search and rescue.
We really appreciate your efforts and our prayers continue to go out with you.
So, today, on today's show, we're going to have a very special guest.
We're going to have Tim Scholte, who's with the Ohio Coalition for Concerned Voters.
And they're specifically concerned with the electronic voting systems that are in use inside Ohio.
They've got ESNS and Dominion machines.
So, we're going to talk with him about.
What he's observed in the old heart state and bellwether state of Ohio, and what actions he's had to take to try to get some of their concerns addressed in the state of Ohio.
And but without further ado, I want to kick things off, and we're going to go to Allison Steinberg out in DC for an update on what's happening in the nation's capital.
Allison, great to have you with us.
Hi, Patrick.
Good to see you.
House Fighting and Party Shifts00:15:44
And, uh, yes, lots going on here, even though, uh, the House and the Senate are both still out on their recess.
Uh, but the news continues nonetheless.
You did a great job, uh, sort of highlighting the overview of the latest developments, uh, overseas with that two week ceasefire now being in effect between the U.S. and Iran.
Uh, this was obviously a hot topic today at today's press briefing over at the White House.
Although we are now learning that, uh, the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been stopped.
Iran is now saying it will withdraw from the ceasefire if Israel continues attacks on Lebanon and is preparing potential responses.
So there's sort of, that's a new development and the law is still in the works.
This is sort of seeming like it's a very loose ceasefire at the moment.
But we know Vice President JD Vance is headed over to Pakistan to try to work out some sort of agreement over there.
So we will, you know, stay tuned to all the developments there.
But in the meantime, I do want to highlight the fact that a number of former staunch supporters of the president, Many Republicans are now calling for the 25th Amendment to be invoked.
This includes people like Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and even Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has quite a bit to say for someone who, you know, opted to end her term early.
As you can see there, she's calling for the 25th Amendment, says not a single bomb has dropped on America.
We cannot kill an entire civilization.
This is evil and madness.
Obviously, a lot has, you know, happened since then.
But I think the sentiment amongst that crowd remains the same.
And it's interesting because this also comes at the same time as a special election that was just held over in Georgia to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene.
As I mentioned, she ended her term early, which, if she has so much to say and wants to contribute so much, then why not stay in Congress and finish out your term?
Well, she couldn't seem to do that.
So now there was that special election last night where we had a big Republican victory.
It is Republican Clay Fuller who won the special election for Georgia's 14th district, who defeated Democrat Sean Harris to fill that vacant seat.
by MTG.
Fuller is a local prosecutor.
He's a military officer and Trump aligned conservative with very strong roots in Georgia's 14th.
He will now serve out the remainder of Green's term through January 2027 and is also expected to run for a full term.
Uh, in the regular 2026 cycle.
Uh, but here's what's interesting.
And here's what I really want to drill down on is the fact that Fuller, though he did win by a sizable amount, he only won by 12 to 15 points, which is much narrower than expected in this heavily Republican district.
Uh, it's important to remember that the results in Georgia, uh, really look nothing like they did back in 2024 when President Trump won the district by almost 37 points and Green won by about 29 points.
So that's substantially more than the 12 to 15 point.
Win that we saw from Fuller last night.
It does help us overall in the bigger picture, though, looking at Congress and the House.
You know, we still have that razor thin majority where Republicans hold a 218 seat lead.
We're also learning Kevin Kiley of California has now just actually, this happened about a month ago, but I just learned he changed his party affiliation to independent.
It's still going to caucus with Republicans, but it shows sort of a shift and just how delicate this balance of power is in the House right now.
So Lots contingent on the upcoming midterms, and hopefully we can keep the wins coming, and we will see what happens.
I did want to play this quick video of what is going on in Georgia because you think Georgia, red state, but that is not the case.
The radical liberal progressives are doing everything they can to try to take over.
Take a look at this video of two people that are running for the Georgia state legislature.
This is the latest and greatest that Georgia has to offer to try to turn the state far left radical progressive.
Watch this.
Hi, I'm Aaron Baker, and I am an openly trans Jewish lesbian running for Georgia State House.
Hi, and I'm Jeremiah Olney.
I am a straight white atheist man running for Georgia State House.
But we're both strong progressives fighting to make housing affordable.
We're fighting for working class power.
Fighting for education for all of Georgia's students.
We're fighting for affordable health care.
And together, we're going to transform the Georgia State House of Representatives.
Yikes.
I'm thankful when I served in the Michigan Senate that at least the folks on the other side, I could actually, they were actually respectable, if you know what I mean.
So, yeah.
It's sad to see how far things have sort of fallen in a rather short period of time.
And I really think that just beautifully encompasses the future of the Democrat Party.
This is what, you know, the Bernie Sanders and the AOCs and the Roe Connors even are pushing for.
This is what the Democrat Party is going to look like if we don't.
Stop it and keep the Republican wins coming.
So, hopefully, you know, we don't have any threat of that here.
Like I said, that majority is so thin in the House, and, you know, the future of the nation could be at serious risk if we allow those types in these positions of power.
So, let's, well, that's why they're trying to divide the mega branch of the Republican Party right now.
So, you know, what's going on with Tucker, what's going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Conservatives, a lot of actually, a lot of them are good people.
I mean, I've seen them, they're just being duped by the wrong folks right now, being led into believing that we were led into this conflict with Iran by Israel and that we're a bunch of puppets to what's going on in Israel.
And that's the dividing line that's been then put out there.
And unfortunately, it does weaken us going into this upcoming election.
So I'm looking forward to the end of the Iranian conflict and the end of this internal civil war that's going on.
But I think.
This internal civil war is being fomented by people that are putting out some false information.
So we'll see how this all pans out.
Yeah, I think that's a great point.
And we certainly will.
If anything, I think we all need to get united again and focus on the bigger goal and stop the inviting, to your point.
Let's get it together so we can actually win moving forward instead of fighting amongst all these little differences we have.
Yeah, I think, and it's key to be, I'm not one of those guys that says, let's unify for the sake of unity.
I'm one of those that says, let's unify around a set of principles, rule of law, the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, all those fundamental factors.
You can't unify around that.
You're in trouble.
And for Republicans, we should be unifying around the Republican platform.
So, anyway, it's a little frustrating, but this 2026 election, a lot is on the line.
If the Democrats win the House, it is going to be impeachment palooza that's going to make the first term for President Trump look like child's play.
So, hopefully, everybody has got the message.
We got to get on the same page and vote our across the board in the upcoming.
2026 election.
So, thank you for that update, Allison.
You got anything else going on in DC that we need to be aware of while these guys are all away?
Last little update for you is on the DHS funding bill.
I know we talked about this not long ago, sort of this two pronged approach that Senate Republicans were trying to take, where they would have a regular appropriations bill for the majority of DHS related items minus ICE and Border Patrol.
Then they would fund ICE and Border Patrol through a separate reconciliation bill.
But House Republicans, Freedom Caucus members are saying absolutely not.
They cannot trust the Senate whatsoever to actually deliver on this.
They are saying now we want everything, all of DHS, fully encompassed into a reconciliation bill.
That way they don't need to depend on the Senate to fulfill their promise, which is usually empty.
And they don't need to depend on Democrats to help get this passed with their votes.
This would be voted on by a simple majority.
So if all Republicans could come together and back this plan, this may be the new path forward, is just Moving forward with this reconciliation bill encompassing all of DHS to get the agency fully funded.
Once again, we're on like day 55, I think, of the now longest government shutdown in history.
So they've got to figure something out and they've got to do it soon because this is ridiculous.
Yeah, it's times like this that you kind of regret the fact that only a third of the senators are up every single election cycle.
It'd be nice to be able to hit the reset button on the whole lot this time.
But I respect their founding fathers.
But this is one of those, I wish there was a little clause in the Constitution that says, unless they're behaving like complete imbeciles.
So, anyway, we'll see what happens.
I know.
We will see.
Well, thanks for the update, as usual, Allison.
Appreciate it.
And have a blessed day.
Thanks, Patrick.
You too.
All right.
Well, now we turn to state matters away from the national matters and zero in on state matters, although these state matters are common across all the states.
So it kind of makes it a national matter.
We're going to be talking with Tim Schulte from Concerned Coalition of Voters in Ohio and get his insights as to what's going on in preparations for the upcoming 2026 election.
And in particular, I'm going to have a discussion around what's going on with electronic voting systems in Ohio.
A lot of people think that states that turned red are no problem.
We should just turn the other way and focus in on all these battleground states that went south in the 2020 election.
But I'll tell you, the concerns around the integrity of our elections impact every single state in the union.
And I'm happy that we have folks like Tim and the folks at the Concerned Coalition of Voters in Ohio that are paying attention to the integrity of our systems all the time, not just around the election.
So without further ado, Want to welcome Tim Steckschulty to the Mike Lindell Show.
Tim, thanks for joining us today.
Thank you.
We sure appreciate the opportunity.
So, I just want to get your insights.
How important, really, is this 2026 election that's upcoming?
Well, I mean, it's huge.
They all are, obviously.
We're looking at, you know, we just can't miss a beat on anything.
And, you know, a lot of times people get caught up into, you know, the top of the ticket and And Trump won, and what do we have to worry about?
But, you know, I think everybody in this industry, as far as trustworthy elections, you know, sometimes you question some of the down ballots, obviously.
We've seen them here in Ohio where, you know, Trump could win Ohio by 15 points, but we got a very radical issue, number one, a couple of years ago, and that was, you know, flipped.
You know, we lost it by 15.
So, you know, how do you go in and vote?
For Trump and then vote for something radical.
So it always makes you scratch your head, I would say.
Well, you mentioned the importance of what's going on up in the national level, but also the down ballot races.
And in my home state of Michigan, we've essentially got our whole state government on the ballot this upcoming election.
So that means control of the governor, control of the secretary of state, control of the attorney general, control of the Senate, control of the House.
What do you have on the ballot in Ohio in the upcoming election?
Yeah, there's not a lot of, we don't really have any big issues at all.
You know, we've got the standard, we've got the governor's race, which Vivek looks like he's been endorsed by everybody, almost including the Democrats.
I mean, so, you know, I think that's kind of a, you know, that's probably going to happen.
But what we're really watching is our Secretary of State's race.
We have a, you know, Secretary of State that we've had to file a lawsuit against to try and get some answers, but the fellow running against him is a, A veteran, highly decorated veteran named Marcel Sturbeck, and we are supporting him wholeheartedly.
I've actually known Marcel long before he got into the race.
The other co director of CCVO has known him for years, and he was fighting election integrity issues way back, you know, five, six years ago.
He's actually sued his current, you know, county's BOE and won.
So he did all that before he entered in the race.
So we tell everybody, or I've told people if I'm, you know, speaking at some engagements, please vote for Marcel because if you do, Tom and I can shut down CCVO and we'll move on to something else.
But he will absolutely fix the problems.
It sounds like you got a fighter there.
I appreciate it.
That's good.
I don't believe we have that in Michigan, but that's for another story here.
So we'll see how that all pans out.
But, um, You know, when it all comes down to election, we were talking about electronic voting systems, and probably the least transparent aspect of the conduct of our elections has to do with these electronic voting systems.
I mean, they're like the proverbial Wizard of Oz curtain that you can't peek behind.
And if you try to peek behind it, they indict you, they try to throw you in jail, they'll do what they did to Tina Peters, where she's in prison for nine years.
It's one of those areas that they treat as a sacrosanct area that they don't want anybody else to.
Looking into, has that been your experience in Ohio?
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, three years ago, I was pretty naive, you know, thinking that, well, you know, some big puppet master at the top is causing all these issues.
But, and I'm not blaming anybody local or state or county or whatever.
But when you get blocked at every, you know, every attempt to try and ask questions, it makes you wonder there as well.
But we, we, Tom and I, we looked at maybe some low hanging fruit because of the Mesa County reports where they just did a deep dive on the Dominion systems.
Alex Alderman did that.
And we saw all the vulnerabilities.
And I'm only speaking about one vendor, meaning Dominion.
And all we did is looked at all the materials that came out of those reports and were concerned hearing and seeing that.
And we reached out to Tom originally reached out to the Board of Voting Machine Examiners in Ohio, basically with some really innocent questions.
Hey, you know, here's the reports we're seeing, you know, from this Alderman report.
How do we know we don't have the same concerns or vulnerabilities here in Ohio?
And I mean, he emailed him, he tried calling, I think even stopped in there and, you know, left notes and never returned, you know, Any correspondence at all, and that was the Board of Voting Machine Examiners of Ohio.
Arizona Election Obstruction Concerns00:02:29
So that's.
Are they elected?
Is that an elected position or appointed position?
Appointed, yep.
Okay.
All right.
Because this is something that's common across the board.
It's not just in Ohio.
We're seeing the same obstruction, obviously, in Arizona.
They refuse subpoenas from the Arizona Senate.
We've got Harmony Dillon with the Department of Justice just simply asking for voter roll records, and she's getting the talk to the hand.
So this.
Obstruction facet of our elections is getting a little bit out of control, frankly, because I'm of the school that says if you want to prove to me that our elections were done on the up and up, turn your cards face up.
Show me, prove it.
I mean, the burden of proof, frankly, lies on them to prove that the election was conducted in a lawful manner.
It's not on me to prove that it was done in a fraudulent manner, although, gosh darn it, I got plenty of evidence of that, particularly around 2020.
So when it comes to these machines, this whole obstruction, though, is taken to a whole new level.
Now, if I understand correctly, in Ohio, you have Dominion ICX machines that are configured in DRE mode, which means that they're tabulators, which means that they Can connect to the internet based on all documentation.
And you also have ESNS in a lot of your counties.
So have you been able to get any information from your Board of Election, local Board of Election folks, not just the folks at the state level, around whether or not all those concerns raised by Halderman and Curling v. Raffensberger have been addressed, or frankly, any of the other concerns that have been addressed across the board out in Georgia,
Maricopa County, Arizona, or my own home state of Antrim County, Michigan.
I mean, we got some pretty damning revelations in the Bailey versus Antrim County lawsuit, like these ESS DS200 machines with 4G wireless modems embedded on the motherboard.
The only way you knew that they were active is if you popped open the hood to see them on the motherboard.
So, are you having any success getting any transparency?
We're having zero success.
Maybe it's minus five.
We've reached out to, you know, the BOEs of the 12 counties, let's say, that had, you know, the ICX Dominion machines.
Public Records Security Requests00:08:42
And, you know, we had four or five concerns listed there.
I think one you might find interesting, you know, we were concerned about the report, obviously, but as a proactive step, you know, we just asked would you consider Ohio has a kind of a, I don't know if it's state unique or not, but it's called the Ohio Cyber Reserve.
And that state's kind of divvied up into five territories, and they depend on citizen volunteers.
So kind of a, you know, standby group and, but they specialize in, you know, cybersecurity and, uh, cyber infrastructure and, you know, IT, um, you know, but they're volunteers that part of their mission is to, um, oversee, you know, municipality, uh, concerns, cybersecurity concerns and municipalities, which would include a county board of election office.
So here's a group that's, you know, already in place, uh, volunteers.
And part of our questioning to the boards of election was Would you have our secretary of state request to the governor?
And the governor has to request it for them to be activated.
So I thought, you know, man, we'll at least get that because why would you argue with that?
They're there.
And, you know, again, if you think about it, Patrick, a lot of people are, you know, we're wearing a tinfoil hat, we're election deniers, and they're upset because we're questioning this.
I would think if you have nothing to hide, you would say, Yeah, you're absolutely right.
We will activate them and we'll prove once and for all what we're saying is correct.
But there is no interest in activating them.
This is kind of like Civil Air Patrol, or in some respects, it's actually a National Guard in cyberspace.
And so the fact that they're not interested in securing what has been designated a critical infrastructure, which means that if this infrastructure gets compromised, our system of government is compromised.
That's concerning.
So, have you been able to take any other actions to try to move them along that you think is going to get their attention, or are we just dead in the water?
Yeah, I mean, we've reached out to county commissioners.
You know, I've presented them to them as well in certain counties, you know, kind of on the financial side.
Because even if you throw the security issue out the window and say, okay, we're not concerned about security.
What a lot of people are ignoring is the cost of the machines.
And we've done a lot of work in that effort to talk about you're not beholding the machines.
And we found a small county in southeastern Ohio, second smallest county.
And they're spending over $100,000 a year just on the machines alone.
We did a little bit of math to that.
And I calculated that in one, It was a general election.
It cost them $63.60 per ballot to process one ballot.
You mean if the government's given options on ways to do something, they're taking the more expensive option?
No way.
Tell me it ain't true.
Oh my gosh.
And not only that, the longer method, too, it takes a month to get accountable using machines.
So I know you've taken some legal action to try to get the ball rolling here, kind of give people an update on that and then where they can go off to help you fund this legal action and maybe give you some support.
Okay, yeah.
So, you know, we did a public records request, you know, with, you know, probably about eight items.
We just kind of zeroed in on, you know, what Ohio law says it's against Ohio law to have voting systems connected to the internet or capable of.
So we just kind of parked on that one item there and requested that in public records request.
That started in March of 2024.
And we probably have about 25 pages of emails back and forth with the public.
Integrity division with the legal team, back and forth, just ignoring the questions and incorrectly answering some, sending us to this to the Vistols voting system test labs.
They'll give you the reports.
So, back and forth, it went.
We contacted a lawyer.
We have a lawyer that's really doing a great job working with us and for us.
And so, he stepped in to help us because he said there's Absolutely wrong.
They're not responding to this.
So he got involved with it.
And then, you know, he got the same cold shoulder that we got and just being ignored.
It was finally denied really on two issues.
It was denied on security reasons.
Although when they denied it based on security reasons, they didn't completely give us the information as to what would be a security reason for it.
Can we rewrite it?
You know, based on any issues you might have, you know, and that they didn't even respond to that.
They would not even send a redacted copy.
So at that point, it's, you know, it was a complete shame.
They don't want to talk about it.
They want it to go away.
And the same thing happens here in Michigan, and I'm sure elsewhere as well.
You get a standard boilerplate response saying this is a security matter and we can't divulge any of the information associated with it.
In Michigan, it was kind of interesting.
I issued a FOIA request to one of the local county clerks and found out that he had sent an email to our Democrat Secretary of State.
Upon conducting an audit of his electronic voting system equipment, proactively asking them how he could respond to any FOIA requests for information around his findings.
And you know who responded to that?
He CC'd the vendor.
It was ESNS.
It was the ESNS vendor that gave them that standard boilerplate dissertation around the security of the voting systems.
It wasn't even the Secretary of State.
And that's what he eventually denied my request on the basis of.
So it seems like it's the.
Voting systems that are actually running our government right now.
And that's why I think we're getting a lot of this obstruction right now.
We've got what are called illusory provisions in our contracts.
And then what that means is that the provision of the contract is something like you can't look at any of the configuration data, analyze the system in any way, shape, or form.
And which means also from a contract perspective, I can't verify if they're in compliance with the terms of the contract.
So it's a Perfect insular Wizard of Oz curtain for the voting system vendors.
And I'm glad you guys are tackling it out in Ohio.
So, where can people go out and help follow your efforts and provide support?
Yeah.
So, it's our website is called deletevotingmachines.org.
Pretty straightforward.
What's that?
Pretty straightforward name.
It's kind of clear, right?
So, that's it.
And we did end up, we just filed last week a lawsuit.
It went to the Ohio Supreme Court requesting an answer to this public records request.
But we have a lot of the information on that website.
Excellent.
Well, thank you very much for your efforts on behalf of not only citizens of Ohio, but frankly, you're highlighting some of the same issues that people are running into all across the country.
So thank you very much for your efforts.
You're definitely one of the honorary meddling kids out there investigating where people don't want you to investigate.
So thank you again for your efforts, Tim.
Thank you and your group at Lindell for pushing the needle farther than most people have, that's for sure.
All right, I appreciate it.
Well, thank you very much.
And, you know, we pushed the needle to the end of this segment here for the Mike Lindell Show.
Thank you for joining us.
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