Elections: More Goodies

The Rules Change Again

So now the “rules” have been changed again. Again, it loosens the security of the election. It does not increase security. This article from January 10, 2023 was reported in the Cook County Record:
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/638722548-il-dems-change-law-to-allow-vote-by-mail-ballots-to-be-counted-in-a-way-judge-had-said-would-be-obvious-way-to-commit-fraud

Illinois lawmakers have changed the state’s election laws to explicitly allow county clerks and other election authorities to verify mail-in ballots using a process a judge had ruled was illegal, as it “would be an obvious way to commit ballot fraud.” (There are too many shenanigans that happen as each election approaches. We have been seeing this for some time. Lots of it happened before the 2020 election.)

Elections: Here’s the What Not

Universal Mail in Voting

Mail in voting is highly promoted in Illinois. Automatic mail in balloting is now available where your name goes on a permanent mail in ballot list. As of this post, you can automatically receive an application to vote by mail for every election. Our illustrious officials, though, are busily working to loosen more election standards/non-standards: they want to skip sending an application to vote that you sign where the signature is compared to the one on records at the Clerk’s office. Instead, they want to just send you the ballot directly, just skip the application part.

Elections…Shenanigans and What Not

Beating the Cheaters

In last year’s election (2022), GOP voters were encouraged to vote on Election Day to keep the cheaters from knowing how many ballots were needed to be added so they could claim the win. Republicans traditionally vote on Election Day. We saw how that worked out in AZ when many voting machines were out of commission on Election Day and voters waited for hours to vote. Many left. Fluke? Maybe, but I doubt it. This year, for the primary election, the GOP recommended “banking your ballot” so that no one can claim it before you get to the polls where the machines might not work when you get there. We were trying to outsmart the cheaters.

Caulkins v Pritzker

I’ll tell ya’ what I believe to be true. Every law passed by the Illinois General Assembly in violation of the Constitution is in itself invalid. Those so-called laws are not laws at all. Instead, they are shenanigans meant to short circuit the constitutionally required legislative process and bamboozle the citizens of this state and legislators by hastily passing something before it can even be debated or known. And in this case, the legislators were in an extremely big hurry to “get this done.” They gutted a bill that previously was about insurance regulations and did a “cut and paste” to put gun ban regulations in its place without the constitutionally required scrutiny (three readings in each house) from the Illinois citizens or its legislators. This was a definite ruse on the public.

Things That Make You Go Hmmmm…..

Since I write reports in the media on the goings on of government entities, I am an observer…I watch what people do and I pay very close attention to what they say, and I notice their incongruences…and I write. Here’s just a few of my observations in the last couple of years…I hope you find them as entertaining as I did when I came up with these headlines.

It’s the Year 2024

It’s the Era of Great Pretending. 

Truth is expendible.

In this Era of Great Pretending. Boys can be girls. Girls can be boys. They can pretend they are a different gender than they actually are. Men can have babies, or they can pretend to, at least. They can nurse them too, I hear. Or they can pretend to.

Pigs That Feed at the Government Trough

Somehow when I go to board meetings, I hear things that continue to keep making my case…which is, that businesses just love to feed (by overcharging) at the government (taxpayer’s) trough, or they love to get work from the government in the form of a contract so that they can take advantage of what they see as an entity that is not paying attention and will approve anything. They think they can get by with it.

One School Board’s Trek to Choosing a Superintendent

August 16, 2021, school board meeting:

The school board approved in open session to use the services of IASB (a private organization not subject to FOIA requests) as their search consultant for a new superintendent. Consultant Tim Buss was at the meeting and gave board members a packet of information. Cost for this service to taxpayers: $7900.00.

Things Your School Board Won’t Talk About…Unless You Make Them

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The following is the address a citizen/taxpayer of a school district made (at least in part) to the local school board her taxes are paid to. These matters were brought at the beginning of the 2023 school year at the August board meeting to alert the school district to the new efforts from the Assembly and the Governor to subvert Illinois schoolchildren. Names have been obscured because it doesn’t really matter which school district and superintendent it is, because they are everyone. These things affect every school district in Illinois.

Local Political Party Registers Dementia Patient to Vote, Turns in Wrong Name to Clerk

An incident happened last year….as the story goes from a friend of mine, who said she would sign an affidavit stating the following things did indeed happen…