It's a scam pure and simple On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:50 Mark Crispin Miller, <[email protected]> wrote:
> *For weeks now I've been asking contacts in the Election Integrity > movement,* > *all avid supporters of the mail-in ballot system, exactly how all those * > *mailed-in * > *ballots **will be counted. For some reason, I could not get a straight > **answer, > or * > *any **answer, to that question; but now I've finally got a lead, from > my **old friend * > *Rebecca **Mercuri, who probably knows more than anyone else about * > *this **urgent * > *issue (one that's been ignored for decades by the US "left," both **liberals > and * > *"progressives," with catastrophic consequences for us all). * > > *Let me add, just for the record, that I think the mail-in ballot system > is a big * > *mistake, for several reasons. First, committing to it months before > Election * > *Day has tacitly affirmed the panicky assumption that going out to vote as* > *usual, in person, will have millions dropping dead (except for those who* > *might storm polling places in memory of George Floyd, since, as we all * > *know, they don't catch or transmit "the coronavirus"). Normally (so to* > *speak), a pandemic **that commenced at **the beginning of the year, > cresting * > *in March/April, then **declining steadily, **would not last well into > November; * > *nor will this one—**unless, of course, the psychopaths in charge of * > *this * > *"New Normal" have planned to orchestrate* *that dreaded "second **wave" * > *which **Bill/Melinda **smilingly foretold a few months ago.* > > *Also, vote-by-mail is just another way to vitiate the importance of > Election* > *Day—formerly a very useful gauge of national turn-out, but now a lot less* > *telling, because of early voting (which I also oppose) and now the > mail-in* > *system. I believe Election Day should be a federal holiday, so **everyone > can * > *vote that day. * > > *Finally—and related to what Rebecca tells us here—I think mail-in voting* > *is a bad idea because it's only going to make our voting system more* > *opaque, since we'll have even less idea of how our votes are counted,* > *or if they are at all, than we have now, with black-box voting and vote-* > *"counting."* > > *Which brings us to the gist of Rebecca's email: Runbeck Election Services* > *(RES)—whatever that is—will be in charge of "printing, mailing, and maybe* > *even counting" many of the mail-in ballots this Election Day. So what is > RES?* > *It seems to have no partisan affiliation. Where exactly did it come from, > and* > *how did it get that contract? (Is it, like, CIA?)* > > *Such are the questions people should be asking—and will be asked by > those * > *now more concerned about US **electoral **democracy (or what's left of > it) than * > *about **beating **or "re-electing" Donald Trump. * > > *MCM* > > *From Rebecca Mercuri:* > > >> *Runbeck Election Services in Phoenix AZ seem to have cornered the market >> on printing, mailing, and* *maybe even counting a considerable amount of >> the mail-in ballots. >> <https://www.npr.org/2020/05/03/848347895/ballot-printers-increase-capacity-to-prepare-for-mail-voting-surge> >> <https://www.npr.org/2020/05/03/848347895/ballot-printers-increase-capacity-to-prepare-for-mail-voting-surge> >> What do we know about this company? (Answer: Next to nothing. In business >> since 1972.) Occasionally there have been errors in mailing out the ballots >> by this company. CEO Kevin Runbeck says "It's a highly unusual event." But >> is it? The mistakes we know about are just the ones that got caught. >> <https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article3412596.html> >> <https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article3412596.html>* >> > >> * If you look up Kevin Runbeck in public donation records, you'll see >> that he has donated CONSIDERABLE $$$ to the "Printing Industries of >> America." He doesn't seem to contribute directly to candidates or parties >> (so he flies under the radar). Not as stupid as Wally O'Dell (President of >> Diebold) or some of the other election equipment company officers, whose >> names typically showed up under donations to the Republican Party. Runbeck >> just contributes to the PIoA (as far as I could tell). I haven't looked up >> the other officers of Runbeck's company, but I'm guessing there are more >> bread-crumbs of $$ there too, likely leading back to the PIoA. These >> donations show up in the public records because Printing Industries of >> America claims to be "* >> >> >> >> >> >> *a nonprofit trade association which advocates for the United States >> printing industry. It happens to be the world’s largest graphic arts trade >> association, representing more than 6,500 member companies and an industry >> with more than $174.4 billion in revenue and 1 million employees." You can >> read more about them at <www.printing.org <http://www.printing.org>>. >> PIoA's headquarters has moved around a lot. NYC (1902), Philadelphia >> (1908), Chicago (1912), Washington DC (1929). Since 2003 they've been >> located in western PA (near Pittsburgh). These cities all seem to have >> something in common (I think you can figure out what this commonality seems >> to be). I think it would be safe to say that if the Printing Industries of >> America are in your pocket, it might be possible to print up pretty much >> whatever you want on paper ballots. If you haven't looked closely at >> Runbeck's company and the PI0A, now is the time. Will the municipalities >> and states be in control of their elections and the vote counting? Or will >> Kevin Runbeck be in charge (this IS among the services that they offer)? >> I'm not saying that they necessarily are nefarious, but with any type of >> centralized processing (whether it be creating or counting the ballots), >> there's too many very easy ways to implement a bit of slight of hand that >> could easily rig the election. I can tell you exactly how to do it, too. I >> am seriously wondering if the "millions of fraudulently cast ballots" >> argument we keep hearing from T and the RNC is just a smokescreen to cover >> up what is REALLY being planned? * >> >> --- You received this email because you are subscribed to News from Underground. To unsubscribe from this email list, please go to: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=pIdjNUgiG2h8yxbhC54SSy4SEskAoEMs
