Integrity “ While the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections confirmed the ballot return envelopes and their open party identification, it said the labels would not be there for general election ballot envelopes.
“Concerns have been raised by certain voters that having the party on the envelope leads to a possibility of postal employees tampering with or not delivering mail of voters of a particular party,” Palm Beach County’s Supervisor of Elections said in a statement following the video going viral:…”
“ An eyewitness told The Kyle Olson Show that as many as 20,000 unverified absentee ballots in Detroit were fed through machines and counted during the August 4 primary.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/24/eyewitness-says-20000-unverified-absentee-ballots-counted-detroit-primary/
“The precedent set by Pressley v. Casar is an important one. Candidates now have the green light to challenge election results using evidence such as statistics, audit log error messages, corrupted memory cards, the lack of paper backup records, and criminal behavior that document mistakes, irregularities, and illegalities committed by election officials in the counting of votes, without the fear of being financially sanctioned for raising the issues.
“Contesting elections in Texas is a tedious process in need of reform,” Pressley said.
The legal approach of trotting voters in to court to determine how they voted or going through absentee ballots to gain single or double digit votes to win an election contest is a classical approach to address small margins of victory. Given recent innovations in elections technology, voters and candidates are well-aware that thousands of votes – if not hundreds of thousands – can be manipulated with a push of a button on a central counting tabulation computer on election night. In those situations, candidates may win the vote, but not win the count.
In the past, election lawyers and candidates have shied away from challenging these types of serious election issues even when evidence exists that vote manipulation may have occurred. The Texas Supreme Court has now opened the door for candidates to challenge and bring evidence when election officers commit electronic counting irregularities and illegalities that could cause thousands of votes to be manipulated.
Pressley added, “There remain serious questions of integrity regarding our elections process and infrastructure. Many counties still don’t have a verifiable numbered paper ballot consistent with our Texas Constitution and Election Code – so as we sit here today, a true manual recount cannot be performed. We are addressing this..”https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pressley-prevails-texas-supreme-court-affirms-vote-tabulation-irregularities-have-legal-merit-300789960.html
Pressley Prevails: Texas Supreme Court affirms vote-tabulation irregularities have legal merit
Court orders Austin City Councilman Gregorio Casar to pay Pressley’s court fees, overturns all sanctions
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Feb 05, 2019, 11:16 ET
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 5, 2019/PRNewswire/ — A recent Texas Supreme Court ruling leaves the door wide open for future legal challenges over electronic vote counting irregularities raised by a high-profile quest for election integrity.
“The election activities that Dr. [Laura] Pressley complains about could create a perception of impropriety, and such impropriety might make the election results unknowable,” the Court ruling stated.
Dr. Laura Pressley‘s patient and persistent legal case paid off and those reaping the returns of improved election security for years to come are future candidates and all Texas voters.
“Now that the Texas Supreme Court has unanimously validated our legal arguments, we’re going full speed ahead in the 86th Texas legislative session to strengthen Texas electronic vote counting laws and increase the penalties for county officials that violate those laws,” Pressley said. “We want to ensure every vote is legally counted, and we’re just getting started.”
The unanimous ruling in Pressley v. Casar may be read here: https://www.scribd.com/document/398298296/SCOTX-Ruling-in-Laura-Pressley-Election-Challenge
Four years ago, Pressley filed an election contest in Texas, citing irregularities and illegalities which occurred in the tabulation and recount of her 2014 Austin City Council race. Because of the electronic tabulation errors, constitutional violations, and illegalities in her recount, Pressley argued that the results were unknowable. The evidentiary and legal claims she presented were a first in Texas.
Pressley’s election contest was short-circuited from going to trial and was sanctioned by two lower courts more than $100,000 for what they claimed were frivolous legal arguments. But, on January 25th, in a unanimous decision, the Texas Supreme Court granted her Petition for Review and reversed the lower courts’ judgments stating, “the sanctions were an abuse of discretion” and reversing the financial penalties. The Court went further and ordered Gregorio Casar, Pressley’s City Council election opponent, to pay Pressley the costs incurred in the Texas Supreme Court.
Council member Casar has since been re-elected for a second term to the Austin City Council. Even though the Texas Supreme Court determined that the issue of who won the election is therefore moot, Dr. Pressley prevailed in every other aspect of the case.
The precedent set by Pressley v. Casar is an important one. Candidates now have the green light to challenge election results using evidence such as statistics, audit log error messages, corrupted memory cards, the lack of paper backup records, and criminal behavior that document mistakes, irregularities, and illegalities committed by election officials in the counting of votes, without the fear of being financially sanctioned for raising the issues.
“Contesting elections in Texas is a tedious process in need of reform,” Pressley said.
The legal approach of trotting voters in to court to determine how they voted or going through absentee ballots to gain single or double digit votes to win an election contest is a classical approach to address small margins of victory. Given recent innovations in elections technology, voters and candidates are well-aware that thousands of votes – if not hundreds of thousands – can be manipulated with a push of a button on a central counting tabulation computer on election night. In those situations, candidates may win the vote, but not win the count.
In the past, election lawyers and candidates have shied away from challenging these types of serious election issues even when evidence exists that vote manipulation may have occurred. The Texas Supreme Court has now opened the door for candidates to challenge and bring evidence when election officers commit electronic counting irregularities and illegalities that could cause thousands of votes to be manipulated.
Pressley added, “There remain serious questions of integrity regarding our elections process and infrastructure. Many counties still don’t have a verifiable numbered paper ballot consistent with our Texas Constitution and Election Code – so as we sit here today, a true manual recount cannot be performed. We are addressing this..”
About Dr. Laura Pressley
Dr. Laura Pressley earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and holds four U.S. patents in semiconductor technology. She ran for the Austin City Council District 4 seat and ordered a recount in 2015. When Travis County Elections Office refused to produce authenticated and numbered recount ballots that met the Texas state constitutional and election code requirements, she sued in an election contest citing numerous illegalities and irregularities in the counting of her votes.
Since her contest began, she has given more than 250 presentations on elections transparency, sparking grassroots interest in a more permanent effort to protect ballot integrity all across the Lone Star State and beyond. She is the Founder of True Texas Elections, LLC, a company whose mission is to ensure transparency and accuracy in the counting of our votes.
For more information, contact Dr. Laura Pressley, Ph.D, at (512) 762-3825 or LauraPressley@Startmail.com.
Contact: Andy Hogue
andyhogue@ymail.com | (512) 298-9996
“ If the Democrat tactics are to be defeated, it will require, as a beginning, that every Republican go in person to the polls and vote. That alone will not be enough to overcome the massive fraud the Democrats are relying upon to steal the election. The Republican Party must anticipate, and counter, the dirty tricks. They must challenge in court every state that seeks to mail out ballots to millions of people. Every instance of fraud that is encountered must be promptly prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Every mail-in ballot must be scrupulously inspected, especially for signatures, and especially in states where signatures are not verified. ”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/trump_knows_about_the_deadliest_threat_to_his_reelection.html
“ A state judge has invalidated more than 50,000 absentee ballot application forms sent to voters in Linn County, Iowa, the second-largest county in the state.
The county auditor’s office almost completely filled out the ballot applications, despite the secretary of state’s directions that only the election date be included. The auditor’s actions may have also been against a state law that forbids government workers from filling out the forms.”
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Amid Chinese coronavirus concerns, America is facing a “critical shortage” of poll workers for the 2020 presidential election, says the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an independent federal agency that acts as a national clearinghouse of information on election administration.”
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“ With the revelations DAT has uncovered over the years and President Donald Trump openly talking about voter fraud, citizens have felt some concern about this situation. But are Texas’ elected officials also taking it seriously?
“The short answer to this question is ‘no,’” Greer replied. “There was a time in Texas when elected officials led on the issue of election integrity (think Voter ID), but today the fear of being canceled by the media has cowed most elected officials from action.”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/how-secure-is-the-upcoming-election/
“ The Problem
There are 254 counties in the State of Texas, which means there are – unfortunately – 254 ways to hold an election. Our efforts to pass uniform election standards and reforms were killed in the 2019 state legislative session by Republicans – not Democrats.
Why does this matter now?
The Texas voter registration list HAS NOT been verified and deceased people, illegal aliens and convicted felons remain there as registered voters – eligible to vote. Governor Greg Abbott failed to get it done! The buck stops with King Abbott – not only because he appointed the acting Secretary of State, but most especially since Abbott has for the last six months seized the legislature’s power by waiving law, creating law, and allocating funds all on his own.
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