Just seeing the individuals in this photo (together in one room) sould be enough to light a fire under the feet of any self respecting election official.
You don't sue for the right to feed your child, you do it. You can, because you have authority as a parent.
Election officials have the same authority regarding those duties they were elected to perform.
Little known fact: It is possible to fix our elections without any lawsuits or criminal prosecutions.
To do it, our election officials have to determine that our election infrastructure isn't "fit for purpose." This term means that the thing can't be used for the purpose it was designed for.
A Rolls Royce airplane engine built out of Lincoln Logs, for instance, isn't fit for purpose because it couldn't handle any of the requirements of an airplane engine, even if its shape was perfect.
Our voter rolls have two jobs: maintain a list of "Qualified voters" and to tell us whether any given voter has voted. In both cases, every database I looked at has so many errors that there is no way to know with any confidence the answer to either question. For that reason alone, they are not fit for purpose.
Once this determination is made, officials have the authority to replace the bad infrastructure with something else. Moreover, they have a positive duty to do it, because it is impossible to fulfill their other duties unless they do.
Election officials are themselves elected to office. Voters decided to trust those specific people, and handed authority to them accordingly. That authority is "non-delegable." It cannot be handed off to someone else--like a third party election services vendor. Doing so is an abrogation of duty, particularly when the vendors bear no accountability to the voters and do everything they can to obstruct transparency under the guise of proprietary industry secrets.
Why then are we trying to prove fraud when all we need determine is that the systems don't work?
Are you too stupid to understand that sophisticated bad actors exploited the system? Or do you think the people are stupid enough to believe it was yet another vendor 'glitch' that just happened to destroy the integrity of our elections?
The government is too irresponsible to run elections, not to mention that elections do not belong to the government.
Elections belong to the Citizens, and we use them to determine who and what government is.
The people will be taking them back.
If anyone is curious about what else the criminals have done to steal our elections, here you go: https://t.co/bVTAqdjQv4
Anything less than eliminating all the machines from elections and removing all related data immediately is the equivalent of trying to bail out the Titanic with a tea cup.
Now, where have you all heard this before?
That’s right...months ago.
You’re welcome.
And remember this when the same accounts that spent months attacking President Trump, MAGA, and everyone who stood firm suddenly begin pretending they were with us all along. #SelfPreservation
Watch the pivot.
Remember the names.
Receipts do not disappear just because the narrative changes.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! SecWar Pete Hegseth just MIC DROPPED every senator who put UKRAINE AID before Americans
"I'd argue providing for AMERICAN men and women, as opposed to UKRAINIAN men and women, is a HIGHER priority for the US Senate!"
"5 supplementals went to Ukraine...why is THAT righteous to do, but funding troops in harm's way RIGHT NOW...this is a 'partisan exercise?' It's HYPOCRISY!"
Go off, SecWar! 🔥🔥🔥
Self-control is only a virtue when a man has actual passions and desires that need to be mastered and directed. Morality presupposes liveliness.
From Josef Pieper's Four Cardinal Virtues:
“Gentleness as a virtue presupposes the power of wrath; gentleness implies mastery of this power, not its weakening. We should not mistake the pale-faced harmlessness which pretends to be gentleness—unfortunately often successfully—for a Christian virtue. Lack of sensuality is not chastity; and in capacity for wrath has nothing to do with gentleness. Such incapacity not only is not a virtue, but, as St. Thomas expressly says, a fault.”
.@SECWAR “Rest assured, every dollar appropriated to the Department of War will be focused on building the lethality of our Joint Force and reinforcing PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.
As I have said before not fully funding this Department... at $1.5 trillion, I believe, is the greatest threat our nation faces.
Either we invest in our warriors at this moment of step change on the battlefield and growing threats, or this is all just talk.”
Last week I learned that a serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office. These individuals answered "no" when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers' licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway.
This happened under the previous administration and, upon learning this information, I immediately ordered my chief counsel to launch an investigation to get to the bottom of what occurred. I also ordered the removal of any residents from our voter rolls who were erroneously added between June 2023 and June 2024. The new MVC Administrator that I appointed has begun the process of replacing the vendor responsible for administering the system.
Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted. They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and Unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.
I want to underscore how seriously I take this matter. As a military veteran who swore an oath to defend our Constitution, and as a former federal prosecutor, I believe the integrity of our elections is fundamental to our democracy. I am appalled by the reckless failures that allowed this to happen and the lack of transparency shown by those in charge at the time. This failure didn’t occur under my watch, but accountability starts now. I am taking action to prevent anything like it from occurring in the future and make sure those responsible are held accountable.
As the Trump Administration tries to weaponize elections for political gain, I am ensuring we protect our elections. Let me be clear: Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity. For more than ten years, he has worked to undermine Americans' faith in our elections by spreading lies about legitimate election results, attempting to overturn a free and fair election, encouraging an attack on our Capitol when he couldn't accept the will of the voters, and defunding election security at the federal level.
The difference is simple: when we find a problem, we don't hide it, deny it, or invent conspiracies. We investigate it, we fix it, and we tell the public. That's what accountability and good governance look like, and that's exactly what my administration is doing.
New Jerseyans should have confidence that every eligible citizen can vote, every lawful vote will be counted, and every reasonable step will be taken to protect the integrity of our elections. That's my responsibility, and it's one I will never stop fighting to uphold.