United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

[DarthOne]

This needs to be placed in my United States Senate Discussion Thread dude!

Whoops.

 

[49ersfootball]

MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D)'s refusal to run for the United States Senate in 2024 pretty much guarantees US Rep. Elise Slotkin (D-MI) will become the Wolverine State's next United States Senator.
https://www.detroitnews.com/news/po...r-u-s-senate-in-michigan-in-2024/70045879007/

 

[49ersfootball]

Politico reporting former MD Governor Larry Hogan (R) rebuffs the NRSCC's recruiting efforts by refusing to run for the United States Senate in 2024.
Top Republicans are trying to woo Larry Hogan (again). He's still not interested.

 

[Bacle]

One of Rand Paul's staffers was stabbed multiple times this weekend in broad daylight.

Edit: Update: Suspect was released from prison yesterday:

 

[49ersfootball]

Looking more likely WV Governor Jim Justice (R) is all but declaring he's campaigning for the United States Senate in 2024. The political career of United States Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) will be officially over!

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[strunkenwhite]

Oh no, he misspelled "waver"

 

[Blasterbot]

Looking more likely WV Governor Jim Justice (R) is all but declaring he's campaigning for the United States Senate in 2024. The political career of United States Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) will be officially over!

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manchin will likely face a primary from the left. it will be an interesting primary.

Oh no, he misspelled "waver"

my autism is triggered.

waiver

wā′vər

noun

1. Intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege.
2. The document that evidences such relinquishment.
3. A dispensation, as from a rule or penalty.
4. Permission for a professional athletic club to assign a player to the minor leagues or release a player from the club, granted only after all other clubs have been given the opportunity to claim the player and have not done so.
5. A deferment.

waver

wā′vər

intransitive verb

1. To move unsteadily back and forth: synonym: swing.
2. To move in a certain direction with a swaying or unsteady motion.
3. To exhibit irresolution or indecision; vacillate.
4. To become unsteady or unsure; falter.
5. To become diverted.
6. To change or fluctuate.
7. To tremble or quaver in sound, as of the voice or a musical note.
8. To flicker or glimmer.

actually weirdly they both apply. goddammit English. homophones should not apply in the same situation. that layers the confusion.

 

[strunkenwhite]

actually weirdly they both apply. goddammit English. homophones should not apply in the same situation. that layers the confusion.

I thought about that, but waiver is a noun. Waive is the verb, which IMO wouldn't work nearly as well as waver but isn't what was written in any case.

 

[49ersfootball]

manchin will likely face a primary from the left. it will be an interesting primary.

my autism is triggered.

waiver

wā′vər

noun

1. Intentional relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege.
2. The document that evidences such relinquishment.
3. A dispensation, as from a rule or penalty.
4. Permission for a professional athletic club to assign a player to the minor leagues or release a player from the club, granted only after all other clubs have been given the opportunity to claim the player and have not done so.
5. A deferment.

waver

wā′vər

intransitive verb

1. To move unsteadily back and forth: synonym: swing.
2. To move in a certain direction with a swaying or unsteady motion.
3. To exhibit irresolution or indecision; vacillate.
4. To become unsteady or unsure; falter.
5. To become diverted.
6. To change or fluctuate.
7. To tremble or quaver in sound, as of the voice or a musical note.
8. To flicker or glimmer.

actually weirdly they both apply. goddammit English. homophones should not apply in the same situation. that layers the confusion.

United States Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) thinks Manchin will retire than lose to Justice.

 

[DarthOne]

Signature verification software used by Maricopa County says 10% is 'high-confidence' match

Signature verification software used by Maricopa County says 10% is 'high-confidence' match

Maricopa County has contracts with Runbeck Election Services for Verus Pro signature verification software.

justthenews.com

With Kari Lake's legal complaint alleging systematic signature verification failures in Maricopa County remanded by the Arizona Supreme Court to trial court, closer examination of the signature verification software used by the county reveals a strikingly low threshold for signatures to qualify as "high-confidence" matches.

Since falling about 17,000 votes short in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election to Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs, Lake has continued to contest the election results in court, arguing that there were ballot chain of custody and signature verification issues in addition to thousands of Republican voters disproportionately disenfranchised on Election Day, when voting machine errors occurred in nearly 60% of the voting centers in Maricopa County. Lake has requested that the election results be invalidated or that she be declared the winner.

Last week, the Arizona Supreme Court remanded Lake's claim alleging massive signature verification failure to the trial court, ruling that because Lake is challenging the failure to adhere to current policy rather than the policy itself, her suit was not filed too late, as the lower court had found in dismissing her case. The former candidate must "establish that 'votes [were] affected "in sufficient numbers to alter the outcome of the election"' based on a 'competent mathematical basis to conclude that the outcome would plausibly have been different, not simply an untethered assertion of uncertainty,'" the state's high court ruled.

According to 2020 emails between Maricopa County officials and an employee of the county's election technology vendor, Runbeck Election Services, the election firm's Verus Pro application for signature verification ranks signature matches on a scale of 0 to 100. However, only scores "lower than 10" are "not marked as Accepted by Verus Pro," according to an email from a Maricopa County official, which the county provided to then-Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich after a public records request.

When Maricopa County was testing Verus Pro for the 2020 general election, county election official Rey Valenzuela called the rollout of the software a "sh-t show" in an October email to Runbeck.

A July 2022 contract extension between Maricopa County and Runbeck explains how the signature verification program scores signature matches.

File
OPS - County Contracts - 220121 - PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTION BALLOTS-013123.pdf
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Signatures sent to Runbeck "are assigned a score," reads the contract, "based on the verification; signatures with a score of 10 or higher are routed to a high-confidence manual signature verification queue, and signatures with a lower score are routed to a low-confidence signature verification queue."

The contract was obtained through a public records request and given to former Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright after she left office. Wright shared it with Just the News.

Maricopa County "won't admit to using the software," but the contracts show it does, Wright said.

Some additions in the 2022 contract, which extends a 2020 agreement, include "the ability to turn Signature Verification on or off."

Under the performance criteria stipulated in the extension, Verus Pro was bound to process "at least 3,600 signatures/hour" and "correctly assess if a signature is present on at least 80% of inbound images" of early ballot envelopes.

Signature verification applies to early ballots, when voters' signatures on the ballot envelopes are checked against signatures in voters' files to ensure they match. There were more than 1.3 million early ballots cast in Maricopa County's 2022 general election.

Under Arizona law, the "county recorder or other officer in charge of elections shall compare the signatures thereon with the signature of the elector on the elector's registration record."

Duly authorized election officials are responsible for resolving any discrepancies. "If the signature is inconsistent with the elector's signature on the elector's registration record," reads Arizona statute 16-550, "the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections shall make reasonable efforts to contact the voter, advise the voter of the inconsistent signature and allow the voter to correct or the county to confirm the inconsistent signature."

The statute doesn't mention using third parties to complete signature verification or curing, Wright told Just the News Friday.

Runbeck used to have Verus Pro listed on its website, but it doesn't appear to anymore, at least when using the search tool. Runbeck told Just the News that a website update may have caused a previous website link to Verus Pro to no longer work. Runbeck has yet to provide Just the News with a new link to Verus Pro on its website.

According to a 2020 contract and video posted by Maricopa County, the county used Verus Pro in that election. In the video, the bottom of an election worker's screen reads "low confidence" for a signature.

When early ballot envelopes signatures don't match voters' files, Maricopa County must contact the voters about the inconsistent signatures.

Maricopa County told Just the News on Thursday, "Signatures are cured by calling, mailing, texting and emailing the voters."

When asked about using Verus Pro for signature verification, the county told Just the News, "Maricopa County does not use Verus Pro for signature verification."

Maricopa County has yet to respond to follow-up questions about what voters must do to confirm or cure their signature or what the county uses Verus Pro for since its current contract with Runbeck says it's for signature verification.

Lake's lawsuit is being held up by the state Supreme Court as it considers whether she should face sanctions for bringing her case. The trial court judge, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, had set a schedule to reexamine the signature verification issue after the Arizona Supreme Court remanded the case to him, but he rescinded his order after the high court set its schedule for considering sanctions.

On Friday, Lake tweeted that Maricopa County election officials wouldn't allow her legal team to inspect ballot signatures.

"Maricopa County has confirmed what we all knew to be true: Ballot signatures DO NOT MATCH," Lake wrote on Twitter. "Election Officials brazenly HIDING EVIDENCE from us. This is the smoking gun. Unfortunately for them, I'm not giving up — even if that means legally forcing them to hand over evidence."

Maricopa County didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.

Wright told Just the News on Friday that if Lake was asking to examine ballot affidavit envelopes, then those are public record and there "should be no reason" for her legal team to be denied access to them, especially since Maricopa County has electronic copies that are easily accessible.

Shelby Busch, the cofounder of We the People AZ, told Just the News on Wednesday that how Maricopa County uses software for signature verification is "absolutely pertinent" to Lake's case.

"The county leans on signature verification as the last line of defense," viewing it as a "failsafe" that assures "the election is safe," Busch said.

"But policy violations of signature verification" by involving "a third-party contractor" and providing them "access to [Personal Identifiable Information] and signatures on file of these voters … is huge," she added. Noting that it was "something the courts tried to prevent people from seeing," she said she is "absolutely thrilled that it's going to see its day in court."

Runbeck has been corrupt for years. A large percentage of their programmers and technical staff are Never-Trumpers.

Never Trumper Chris Schiffhauer, Dir. Software Development at Runbeck Election systems is co-holder on a patent for a ballot duplication system used by Maricopa County. The patent contains the following description:

"A computer-implemented system for on-screen ballot duplication is disclosed, that may be deployed for generating a revised ballot that satisfies predetermined rules or thresholds for further processing."

Runbeck Systems provides election services to Maricopa County.

Chris is @PaulyGlott on Twitter

Archived Tweet:

Chris Schiffhauer (@PaulyGlott) | Twitter

Looks like Chris purged his tweets



Links to images proving PaulyGlott is Chris and works at Runbeck systems

https://i.maga.host/L07L2Tm.png

https://i.maga.host/3UdZUMj.png

https://i.maga.host/6Q62ALf.png

Also worth noting is that the patent also lists Akasha Ramnarine, who works in the early voting division of Miami-Dade.

Maricopa Sig verification document: "Runbeck performs the initial inbound scan process of each sealed affidavit envelope. The inbound scan captures a binary image of the affidavit envelope, signature, and reads the unique Piece ID barcode assigned to each voter's packet allowing for tracking."

https://www.maricopa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/74756/Training-Materials-Email_Redacted

Schiffhauer; Chris who is at Runbeck Election services that 'made our ballots', applied for a patton on this system that created our ballots this year.

Schiffhauer; Chris Patent Filings He applied for a grant for two projects,

*the Ballot Duplication System And Methods Thereof App 20190311030 - Runbeck; Kevin ; et al.2019-10-10

And the other-

*Computer-implemented System For Image Processing Of Documents Associated With Elections And Methods Thereof App 20190311563 - O'Neill; William ; et al.2019-10-10

On his second application, I looked at the 'other names' that were filing the pattent, Computer-implemented System For Image Processing Of Documents Associa…

He; Wei › / Patent 16/376996

This is a CCP company.

He, Wei Trademarks & Logos

He, Wei USPTO Trademark & Patent Filings Trademark applications and grants for He, Wei. He, Wei has 21 trademark applications. The latest application filed is for "JXZ" Company Profile Company Aliases HE WEI He, Wei HE; Wei - Beijing CN He; Wei - Shenzhen CN He; Wei - Audubon PA HE; Wei - Singapore SG Entity TypeINDIVIDUAL AddressGroup 4, Shewan Village, Meihua Town Dao County Hu'nan CHINA 425300

*profile and listings may contain filings by different individuals or companies with the same name. Review application materials to confirm ownership/assignment.

Patent Applications

2-(1H-PYRAZOL-3-YL) PHENOL COMPOUND AND USE THEREOF 20200354342 - 16/761091 HE; Wei ; et al.2020-11-12

Terminal Device and Display Method 20200350377 - 16/931773 Zhong; Ding ; et al.2020-11-05

Pharmaceutical Compositions and Their Use for Treatment of Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases 20200323885 - 16/790197 He; Wei2020-10-15

PATTERNING METHOD OF QUANTUM DOT LAYER, QUANTUM DOT DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF 20200313037 - 16/601472 HE; Wei ; et al.2020-10-01

MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME 20200303639 - 16/085555 HE; Wei ; et al.2020-09-24

Trademark Applications Mark Image Registration | SerialTrademarkApplication Date JXZ90194925JXZ2020-09-20 AVBDJOY90113751AVBDJOY2020-08-14 REDLAKE90064162REDLAKE2020-07-21 REDLAKE90064156REDLAKE2020-07-21 PAUL LORNA88883701PAUL LORNA2020-04-23 KOTUBU88801907KOTUBU2020-02-19 JKDEZZ88801898JKDEZZ2020-02-19 GWAYBRO88635081GWAYBRO2019-09-28 KORATER88617427KORATER2019-09-15 YOREETO6011888 88456436YOREETO2019-06-03 WELLKAGE88416208WELLKAGE2019-05-05 KLL5885415 88394541KLL2019-04-19 ANMBSK88238197ANMBSK2018-12-21 BESOUL5893790 79247153BESOUL2018-11-07 KAPHOME5647576 87921233KAPHOME2018-05-15 IAGENT87305568IAGENT2017-01-18 IREALTOR87180738IREALTOR2016-09-23 UOON5170886 87145758UOON2016-08-22 UNIQUELOVER4960366 86789867UNIQUELOVER2015-10-16 HMOST4817881 86546402HMOST2015-02-25 BESOUL3454106 79042664BESOUL2007-05-10

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Also, This Company Imported a large container to Washington, which I suspect our ballots really originated from China

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He, Wei Container Import From Wei He Bill of Lading Record

Arrival Dateof 26 Cubic Meters container 2020-07-10

Was this the 7th of October? Msnbc tweet

Vaughn Hillyard on Twitter: "Arizona! Today is the first day or votin… October 7th ALL RUNBECKS BALLOTS WERE READY TO GO TO THE POST OFFICE!

He; Wei Patent Filings

Look at all the info He Wei › [company] stole, including the driverless car, AND they applied for the patton

Our voting system was only one industry CCP has their hands in-
The magical Democrat TIME MACHINE: Ballots in Pennsylvania were recei…

People got their ballots before they registered

 

[Captain X]

I mean... they had the thing with the ballots in mostly conservative areas being resized so as to keep them from just being counted, and that wasn't enough for these crooked judges, so why would this be any different?

 

[Cherico]

I mean... they had the thing with the ballots in mostly conservative areas being resized so as to keep them from just being counted, and that wasn't enough for these crooked judges, so why would this be any different?

They really don't want to get involved but I don't think they have a choice not if they want to keep their legitimacy.

 

[DarthOne]

They really don't want to get involved but I don't think they have a choice not if they want to keep their legitimacy.

Assuming they care about it. Remember, we’re the outlier compared to the leftoids, blue dogs, grillbros and neo-cons.

 

[Cherico]

Assuming they care about it. Remember, we’re the outlier compared to the leftoids, blue dogs, grillbros and neo-cons.

We just have quicker pattern recognition skills then most, even the slowest horse crosses the finish line eventually.

 

[DarthOne]

We just have quicker pattern recognition skills then most, even the slowest horse crosses the finish line eventually.

True but will there be any point in winning the race by then?

 

[Cherico]

True but will there be any point in winning the race by then?

Of course to rebuild society and civilization this time wiser from the harsh lessons of the past.

 

[49ersfootball]

Signature verification software used by Maricopa County says 10% is 'high-confidence' match

Signature verification software used by Maricopa County says 10% is 'high-confidence' match

Maricopa County has contracts with Runbeck Election Services for Verus Pro signature verification software.

justthenews.com

Runbeck has been corrupt for years. A large percentage of their programmers and technical staff are Never-Trumpers.

Clearing throat 🤔

You need to move this to my US State Governorships Discussion Thread ASAP!

 

[DarthOne]

Clearing throat 🤔

You need to move this to my US State Governorships Discussion Thread ASAP!

I already have it there

 

[DarthOne]

Of course to rebuild society and civilization this time wiser from the harsh lessons of the past.

Your missing my point. In that I’m not sure there will be much of anything left to rebuild on if we wait too long.

 

[49ersfootball]

I already have it there

Ok 😎

My BOLDEST Predictions for 2024 United States Senate in 2024:
*AZ: TOSS-UP
*CA (OPEN): DEM HOLD
*CT: DEM HOLD
*DE: DEM HOLD
*FL: GOP HOLD
*HI: DEM HOLD
*IN (OPEN): GOP HOLD
*ME (OPEN ??????) DEM/IND HOLD ?
*MD: DEM HOLD
*MA: DEM HOLD
*MI (OPEN): DEM.HOLD
*MN: DEM HOLD
*MS: GOP HOLD
*MO: GOP HOLD
*MT: GOP GAIN
*NE: GOP HOLD
*NV: TOSS-UP
*NJ: DEM HOLD
*NM: DEM HOLD
*NY ST: DEM HOLD
*ND: GOP HOLD
*OH: GOP GAIN
*PA: DEM HOLD
*RI: DEM HOLD
*TN: GOP HOLD
*TX: GOP HOLD
*UT: GOP HOLD
*VT: IND HOLD
*VA: DEM HOLD
*WA ST: DEM HOLD: Cantwell wins reelection to 5th term
*WV: GOP GAIN
*WI: DEM HOLD
*WY: GOP HOLD