The Georgia State Election Board passed a rule on Monday to give local election officials more power to investigate ballot counts before certifying the results. “Georgia State Election Board votes 3-2 to approve new rule REQUIRING the reconciliation of the total number of votes with the total number of unique voter ID numbers,” True the Vote stated. “They’re also required to investigate any discrepancies BEFORE certification and report facts of FRAUD to the District Attorney! GA is establishing a common sense audit trail because GA citizens demanded it – way to go GA!” it added. BREAKING! Georgia State Election Board votes 3-2 to approve new rule REQUIRING the reconciliation of the total number of votes with the total number of unique voter ID numbers. They’re also required to investigate any discrepancies BEFORE certification and report facts of… pic.twitter.com/0srtfjq33w — True the Vote (@TrueTheVote) August 19, 2024 Per CNN: The “Rule for Reconciliation Prior to Certification” will allow for a hand recount of votes to ensure “the total number of ballots cast” does not exceed “the total number of persons who voted,” according to the language of the rule. County election officials will now be allowed to investigate any possible discrepancies. The vote was carried 3 to 2 by the five-member board. The proposal was submitted by Salleigh Grubbs, the chair of the Cobb County Republicans, who told CNN she believes her county’s 2020 presidential election results were inaccurate without any providing any direct evidence for her claims. She denies that the rule is about trying to delay certification of the 2024 results. In a big win for Georgia voters, the Georgia State Election Board just voted 3-2 to approve a Rule to require precinct hand counting results to be compared to the reported machine count results; that the number of votes matches the number of voters, reconciliation and… — Robert Bowes (@Robert_B_Bowes) August 19, 2024 BREAKING: The Georgia Election Board just voted 3-2 to approve a rule requiring election workers to compare total votes with ID'ed VOTERS in the system. If discrepancies are found in any precinct, the counties MUST withhold certifying the results until the fraud is addressed… pic.twitter.com/JCW2taDihO — George (@BehizyTweets) August 19, 2024 The Georgia Election Board just voted 3-2 to approve a rule requiring election workers to compare total votes with ID’ed VOTERS in the system. If discrepancies are found in any precinct, the counties MUST withhold certifying the results until the fraud is addressed “For each precinct, the board members shall compare the total number of ballots cast to the total number of unique voter ID numbers. In any precinct in which the number of ballots exceeds the number of unique voters, the Board shall determine the method of voting in which the discrepancy exists. The Board shall investigate the discrepancy and no votes shall be counted from that precinct until the results of the investigation are presented to the Board as required in GA Code$ 21-2-493(b).” “Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has strongly criticized these last-minute rule changes, warning that they could undermine confidence in the election system,” FOX 5 Atlanta noted. The decision was made on the state’s first day of absentee voting. The Presidential election is coming up! Today is the first day to request your absentee ballot. With USPS delays, eligible Georgia voters who vote by mail should get requests in early – and it's easy to do. Go to My Voter Page: https://t.co/eR6yKjCY0v and make a plan to vote! pic.twitter.com/ncpiTBWL9A — GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GaSecofState) August 19, 2024 FOX 5 Atlanta reports: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has expressed concern that these changes could lead to chaos on election night, a sentiment echoed by many Democrats. Earlier this year, three pro-Trump Republicans, who have cast doubt on the 2020 election results, were appointed to the board. Former President Trump referred to the trio as his “pitbulls fighting for honesty.” “We are already witnessing at least three board members on the Georgia State Election Board behind these rule changes showing partisan favor and putting their own goals before all Georgians,” Burns added. Two of those Trump-approved members spoke in favor of the rule changes in the meeting. “These are all very important things that we want our boards to review and expect them to review before they certify an election,” said Janice Johnston, a State Election Board member who has expressed skepticism about the 2020 results. Janelle King, another board member aligned with the former president, said, “It is an important step to find some form of uniformity and knowledge that we do hear some of the other concerns.”

Missouri residents now must provide proof of sex change surgeries or a court order to change their gender on driver’s licenses following a Revenue Department policy change. 

Without blinking, staring, slurring, and raging, Biden, the keynote speaker at the DNC Convention, made his exit in the most dishonest presidential Farewell Address in U.S. history. It’s his legacy wrapped up in a speech. DNC Chair Jaime Harrison called him the most consequential president in American history. Thanks to his role as a figurehead, […] The post Great Moments of the DNC Convention appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Democratic Party’s 2024 platform cites as its top plan for “expanding legal immigration & deterring illegal immigration” a program that, just after the platform was finalized, was revealed by an internal audit to be ridden with fraud and shut down. “The Biden-Harris Administration established a humanitarian parole process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV), which allows people from these four countries who have a sponsor in the U.S. and who pass a background check to come to the U.S. for a period of two years to live and work lawfully,” the platform, the centerpiece of this week’s Democratic convention, says. On August 2, news broke that the Department of Homeland Security had pulled the plug on that program in mid-July after an audit found that large numbers of “sponsors” were lying about their connection to immigrants seeking residency. “Out of an abundance of caution, DHS has temporarily paused the issuance of advanced travel authorizations for new beneficiaries while it undertakes a review of supporter applications,” DHS said. “DHS will restart application processing as quickly as possible, with appropriate safeguards.” The admission that the program is fraud-ridden seems to have occurred sometime after the Democratic platform was finalized, but before it was rolled out at this week’s convention. The program continued for nearly 18 months after the Associated Press reported that many sponsors were posing as friends and relatives to exploit migrants, charging them for the cover story. Such arrangements were so prevalent, there were entire Facebook groups dedicated to them. The internal audit found that 100 IP addresses, representing individual computers, were responsible for filling out 51,133 sponsor application forms. One IP address was responsible for 1,328 applications, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which obtained the audit. The sponsor using that IP address, which was traced to Mexico, purported to be an American. Nearly 5,000 of the forms included verbatim language in the section where migrants are asked to explain why they journeyed to the United States. Another 5,000 forms included the same language with just a single word changed. Sponsors used 465 nonexistent ZIP Codes, and repeated 100 addresses were between 124 and 739 times each, suggesting that the “sponsors” were not only using fraudulent addresses, but coordinating to game the system. Sponsors also used obviously fake Social Security numbers, like 111-11-1111. Some would-be sponsors were focused on sponsoring girls under 18. “What worries me are the risks in terms of being trafficked and exploited,” lawyer Taylor Levy told the AP. Nonetheless, the DNC platform’s border plank said its policies were “fighting human trafficking.” It touted President Joe Biden’s belated decision to tighten border enforcement, but underscored that there should be “exceptions for vulnerable populations including unaccompanied children and victims of trafficking.” Department of Health and Human Services whistleblowers found that the “unaccompanied minor children” program is, in fact, encouraging and enabling human trafficking, with at least 85,000 of the children having gone missing since being delivered by the United States government to sponsors. Though the CHNV program is listed under “expanding legal immigration & deterring illegal immigration,” it deters illegal immigration only through sleight of hand, the Center for Immigration Studies said. “[B]ecause CHNV migrants fly directly to this country, they don’t show up in the Border Patrol’s monthly Southwest border encounter totals — the metric the media usually rely on when talking about illegal migration… That doesn’t mean CHNV parolees have any more legal right to be admitted than apprehended migrants do,” it said. In March 2021, Biden asked Vice President Kamala Harris “to lead our diplomatic effort and work with [Latin American nations] to accept…the returnees, and enhance migration enforcement at their borders — at their borders.” Harris immediately diminished the role, saying she would “address root causes for the migration that we’ve been seeing” from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Children from Guatemala now make up about 70% of the “unaccompanied minors” coming into the United States. Guatemalan human traffickers frequently exploit the unaccompanied minors program to smuggle people into the country, The Daily Wire reported.