ADDED: The Dems have made clear that they want to increase the votes of overseas voters. They skew heavily to the Dems, seems to be the story. That was certainly the case with Philadelphia in the 2020 election, which Trump had won, by votes to the evening of voting day, but which got overturned by incoming overseas ballots, which were heavily Democrat.
The numbers of Americans overseas is between 5 and 9 million. About 3 million are eligible to vote, by the latest stats. On average, by the Median, about 10% of them vote, about 300,000. Even this number could affect a swing state. Let alone that Dems have said they plan to increase the vote from overseas. I've even seen numbers up to 9 million, which would be crazy.
In any case, the numbers are significant in a close election and they are eminently hackable. Which I have proved myself, by registering to vote in the election, though I'm Australian and not at all American.
That's the point of the email copied below, to someone who the GOP heavies seem to listen to. It's my little effort to see if I can in any way help the election to be fairer. Heh...
ALSO: Greg Foreman on election denialism on both sides. Especially the Dems.
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Hi xxx,
This needs to be got to Lara Trump, even if it’s doubling up on what she already knows. You’re a conduit, Scott. ====================
I’m here in Hong Kong, Australian, not citizen of the US, but I got online and registered to get a Ballot for the November US election, in about ten minutes. Though the Home page of the voting site said I needed ID, either a Social Security number or a Driver licence, when I got to the last page, there was a drop-down menu with a third choice; “I don’t have an ID at the moment”! Click that and I’m good to go.
To be clear: I did NOT get the actual Ballot because I didn’t want legal jeopardy of signing an Affirmation that I was who i said i was (coz I wasn’t). But it was clear that the next step of getting the Ballot form and sending it in — by email or post — would have been super easy for anyone not worried about the arm of US law. Like, say, Call Centres in Asia.
I registered to get a Ballot for the county of Dauphin in Philadelphia since this is a Swing State. It has 69 counties.
By contrast, I wanted to vote in the Australian Referendum last year, but was not able to do so because I’ve not been living in Australia in the last three years, and could not have proved that. Offshore voting in Australia is tightly controlled; offshore voting in the United States is scandalously easy.
It strikes me — as it does you — to be super easy for Overseas voting to be hacked. You’ve expressed the worries around this. I calculated that 10,000 people in overseas Call Centres — easy to find in the Philippines, India, indeed anywhere in Asia — could fill out 7 million Ballots in a week. And it’s super easy, via the system in place right now, to ensure that those votes are Democrats. (or largely so; you wouldn’t want it to look like the results of a North Korean election…).
“What now?”
A few ideas. Some may be glimpses of the obvious. Some may be easier said than done.
1. Challenge the legal basis for the Overseas Voting sites, that are private and tacked onto the US government Electoral system. I used "Vote from Abroad" and "US Vote Foundation”, but there are others.
2. Demand the right to see the IP address of all those Ballot requests run through those OS voting sites. If there’s a concentration of IP addresses from one area or one computer that’s a prima facie case for claiming fraud.
3. Demand the right to observe ALL the incoming Ballots by post. Check the source of them. If many coming from one area, that ought to be prima facie evidence of fraud.
4. Demand the right to observe ALL the incoming Ballots by email. Check the source of them, by checking the IP addresses. If many come from one area, that ought to be prima facie evidence of fraud.
5. Have GOP observers in all counties of all Swing States, focused on the Overseas ballots issue. This is a huge ask, as in just one Swing State, PA, there’s 69 counties. It could be focused on those counties that are the most Swing, and this is easily known (i can find it myself, from here in Hong Kong).
You’ve said that Lara Trump has a much bigger operation than the GOP has in the past, with many lawyers and volunteers. This area of the likely cheating on overseas voting should lead Lara to focus a team on this. They need a War Room-type team onto it. It’s super important. (I realise you know this).
Because of the way [Pennsylvania] counted in-person ballots first, Trump started with a wide lead on election night. However, over the next few days, Biden greatly closed the margin due to outstanding votes from Democratic-leaning areas, most notably Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, as well as mail-in ballots from all parts of the state which strongly favored him.
It’s only got worse since, and Dems are openly talking of what basically amounts to cheating. It’s why they’ve pushed for no voter IDs.
Something else crazy: PA allows some overseas postal votes (those who say they plan to return to the US), up to the 12th November. A full week past voting day! This is crazy!
This needs to be got to Lara Trump, even if it’s doubling up on what she already knows. You’re a conduit, xxx.
Added: I know you don’t like to click links in emails, but just in case, here’s what I wrote in detail about my recent experience in applying for a US election Ballot form.
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