JoNell

Anchored in Source ⋅ Riding the Wave of Life.
Building tech-enabled systems communities can own: preventive health, real learning, civic sense-making.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

My first book is out!

Theodicy and Other Adventures asks the oldest question there is: if anything good is running this place, why does it look like this?

A sandcastle at the tideline is not destroyed by the sea. Watch closely and the water is not doing anything at all. It arrives, it soaks in, and the sand stops holding together. The castle is being un-held, at the one place where it meets something that has no shape of its own to lend.

That edge is not the enemy. It is the only place anything new can be built, and nothing new comes with a manual. So we try, and fail, and keep what holds.

The place where you cannot get an answer is the place where you were sent to make one. Those were never two places.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

No, I do not know your definition of “widespread.” You have not shared it.

Please, enlighten me. How much fraudulent voting, local election corruption, margin of error/systemic risk for compromise is acceptable to you?

Are you okay with one municipality in New Jersey having its elections potentially decided by fraudulent voters? Is that an acceptable level for you?

One municipality in every state having its elections decided on a margin smaller than the recorded fraudulent votes in it?

What are we talking here?

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@ryanjcbrown @grok @visokodrustvo @wolf_vukovic Again - you're totally okay with 400 fradulent voters corrupting local elections. (400 is what ONE state admitted to in ONE year, while refusing to reveal total numbers for all years.)

DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF MARTHA?!

https://t.co/4vnFILTEmK

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@ryanjcbrown @grok @visokodrustvo @wolf_vukovic Why, because it graphically illustrates the sanctity of democracy?

This is why people are upset. That feeling you would feel if you found out about your hypothetical wife's indiscretions over a year is how people feel about fraudulent voting.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

Let me put it to you this way.

You find out your wife, in one year, has been messaging 66 guys behind your back. She swears she only slept with 4 of them.

Are you going to be happy and laugh that it was only 4? Or are you going to be “Hell no, that number should be ZERO?”

National voting laws need to be changed to compel the state officials to enforce the laws they were supposed to be upholding. Because the state officials are disenfranchising the American citizens.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@ryanjcbrown @grok @visokodrustvo @wolf_vukovic so you're saying that you're okay with democracy being violated on the local level?

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@ryanjcbrown @grok @visokodrustvo @wolf_vukovic 6600 registered in one year. 400 of those voted that one year. Maybe math isn't your strong suit, so I have already broken it down for you: https://t.co/BxeVcrlPMR

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

It's wild how many people do not understand the implications of what New Jersey admitted. So I will break it down.

In the 2023-2024 election year, New Jersey had a gain of 158,000 new voters register. That means that 4.18% of new registered voters that year were non-citizens.

"But they didn't all vote!" True. 400 did for sure.

Now, if they voted in the major elections, 400 wouldn't affect the outcome. None of the major elections were within that 4.18% margin either.

President: Harris 52 – Trump 47, ~5 points
Senate: Kim over Bashaw, roughly 9–10 points
NJ-07 (Kean/Altman): 51.7–46.3, ~5.4 points
NJ-09 (Pou/Prempeh): 51–46, ~5 points
The other ten districts were double-digit blowouts

But a few things about these numbers:

1) This was the amount for 1 year - and the confirmed 6,600 illegal registrations and 400 fraudulent voters were from the new registrants and ballots cast for that year alone. NJ is not disclosing prior or subsequent years. And they are cumulative - registered voters collect, and can vote in the following election cycles.

2) 400 is a very small number when you think of these major elections. But local elections - municipalities, are a different animal. New Jersey has 564 municipalities plus school districts, county commissioner seats, and local ballot questions — hundreds of contests in November 2024. Each county clerk publishes its own official results, and nobody (state, academic, or media) aggregates margins across them. Getting a real count means pulling 21 counties' certified result files and computing margins race by race. And since small municipal races often turn on a few hundred votes, depending on the distribution of these voters, it can easily disrupt and disenfranchise these localities.

3) The governor is not disclosing these details. We don't know how long this "error" in registration has been happening, how many illegal registrations are on the rolls, how many have voted in other elections, or where - which municipalities may have been decided by fraudulent votes. But the numbers support this very real possibility, considering the slim margins for municipal elections and the compounding nature of how registrations work.

There is no word for the anger I feel toward the state governments who have allowed, through negligence or otherwise, the possibility that foreign people who are ineligible to vote in our country to disenfranchise and impact the outcome of local elections in the heart of local communities across the country.

You don't need evidence that a national election was undermined. The very fact that a municipal election anywhere could have been stolen in our country by foreign interests is completely unacceptable.

That is what the admission of 400 fraudulent voters in one year means.

And that is one state. One year.

If you want to know how smaller cities and towns are getting overtaken and have the threat of things like Sharia law being voted in, or permitted by local officials . . . here is how it's happening.

It is real, it is now, and it needs to stop.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

It's wild how many people do not understand the implications of what New Jersey admitted. So I will break it down.

In the 2023-2024 election year, New Jersey had a gain of 158,000 new voters register. That means that 4.18% of new registered voters that year were non-citizens.

"But they didn't all vote!" True. 400 did for sure.

Now, if they voted in the major elections, 400 wouldn't affect the outcome. None of the major elections were within that 4.18% margin either.

President: Harris 52 – Trump 47, ~5 points
Senate: Kim over Bashaw, roughly 9–10 points
NJ-07 (Kean/Altman): 51.7–46.3, ~5.4 points
NJ-09 (Pou/Prempeh): 51–46, ~5 points
The other ten districts were double-digit blowouts

But a few things about these numbers:

1) This was the amount for 1 year - and the confirmed 6,600 illegal registrations and 400 fraudulent voters were from the new registrants and ballots cast for that year alone. NJ is not disclosing prior or subsequent years. And they are cumulative - registered voters collect, and can vote in the following election cycles.

2) 400 is a very small number when you think of these major elections. But local elections - municipalities, are a different animal. New Jersey has 564 municipalities plus school districts, county commissioner seats, and local ballot questions — hundreds of contests in November 2024. Each county clerk publishes its own official results, and nobody (state, academic, or media) aggregates margins across them. Getting a real count means pulling 21 counties' certified result files and computing margins race by race. And since small municipal races often turn on a few hundred votes, depending on the distribution of these voters, it can easily disrupt and disenfranchise these localities.

3) The governor is not disclosing these details. We don't know how long this "error" in registration has been happening, how many illegal registrations are on the rolls, how many have voted in other elections, or where - which municipalities may have been decided by fraudulent votes. But the numbers support this very real possibility, considering the slim margins for municipal elections and the compounding nature of how registrations work.

There is no word for the anger I feel toward the state governments who have allowed, through negligence or otherwise, the possibility that foreign people who are ineligible to vote in our country to disenfranchise and impact the outcome of local elections in the heart of local communities across the country.

You don't need evidence that a national election was undermined. The very fact that a municipal election anywhere could have been stolen in our country by foreign interests is completely unacceptable.

That is what the admission of 400 fraudulent voters in one year means.

And that is one state. One year.

If you want to know how smaller cities and towns are getting overtaken and have the threat of things like Sharia law being voted in, or permitted by local officials . . . here is how it's happening.

It is real, it is now, and it needs to stop.

[Media-Werkz Texas @mediawerkz1]

The US Supreme Court should halt mail in ballots and secure this election. Fraud is in every state on every level.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

I pointed to 400 noncitizens who voted. For sure, not even in dispute.

The point that keeps getting missed is that it doesn’t need to be enough fraudulent voters to disrupt the national election.

We do not want people from other countries registering to vote in a municipality and then choosing local officials, which frequently win on the margin of hundreds of votes or less.

It is completely unacceptable.

And it is the sole responsibility of state officials to protect the integrity of our elections, and they are not doing their job.

So, as fashionable as it may be to invoke Trump in everything the right claims, can you see why people would be upset and want some federal laws to enforce proof of citizenship requirements for voting when you have such irresponsible state officials?

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@ryanjcbrown @grok @visokodrustvo @wolf_vukovic Straight from New Jersey Governor herself.
400 of the new ones registered in the 2023-2024 election year. They did not count any other year, mind you. Just that one year, of the 6600 that registered in that year.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@ryanjcbrown @grok @visokodrustvo @wolf_vukovic I frankly find it disgusting that you find allowing noncitizens to vote in our elections tolerable on any level.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@SahilBloom I don’t know. It’s more important than ever to be intelligent enough to recognize when AI is wrong.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@KingBawkBawk Only… meh… a little unconstitutional….

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@RandomHvacGuy They be shooting their shot! This is the battle for the heart of the Democratic Party right here!

Watch how the Democrat establishment MSM treats them….

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@ryanjcbrown @grok @visokodrustvo @wolf_vukovic I do not think secure elections is a “minuscule” or partisan issue at all, and neither do the majority of Americans. If nobody is cheating as you claim, it won’t matter. It will only be good. And then you would take away the only ammo Republicans have to skew anything.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@theLLCoolK @GerryBlevins @trynasightsee @chicken_burned @guyfelicella We have not found a way to make it enforceable illegal to be a dick to your employees.

Best we can do is at-will employment and free market competition where you can negotiate your salary or walk out.

Forcing a wage that is more than the value of the work is also untenable.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

Basically, at a 5yo level, it's because the US is thinking about "better healthcare" in terms of what it can contribute to humanity and the world, even if that sacrifices us a little to do so. We believe in that.

The rest of the world seems to be just interested in what they can get for themselves, and not interested in making hard choices that might sacrifice in the short term, but lead to overall better health outcomes globally. For all.

It's why the other countries can have universal healthcare and still have rapid innovation it gets from the west, who develops and provides that innovation at personal cost from a system that allows it to do so.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

Here, it might be a bit over the 5yo level, and you are a Canadian, but I still believe in you:

What country has better healthcare? Depends on how you measure it. If you cherry pick your measurements to only look at immediate equity outcomes for Americans, you can cast the American system in a dark light as lagging behind. But the reality is that is an unfortunate cost of a system that massively dominates in the innovations that are exported all over the world, saving countless lives in countries that could never dream of such innovation. So the real story here is the willingness of Americans to sacrifice for a system that ultimately uplifts the whole world in ways they could never achieve alone. THAT is the REAL measure of BETTER healthcare- at least according to deep American values.

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

You know less than 1% of people earn that wage? You know why? Because we don’t need to increase it. We have a free market-negotiated wage system where employee and employer negotiate on fair price between them for wages.

Don’t believe me? @grok what percentage of Americans earn at or below the federal minimum wage?

[JoNell @theanchoredwave]

@theLLCoolK @GerryBlevins @trynasightsee @chicken_burned @guyfelicella 42? Slacker. I retired at 28. Have worked for funsies ever since, doing whatever I want.