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Who gets on the ballot, who gets to vote, and how the rules are set.
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23 million inactive voter registrations.
And mail ballots are where proven, outcome-changing fraud keeps turning up. 2018: a GOP operative's crew altered absentee ballots and North Carolina threw out the NC-09 result. 2020: a Paterson, NJ council race voided after 19% of ballots were disqualified.…
The polling bar to get on the presidential debate stage.
15%. That's the polling bar to get on the presidential debate stage. No third-party candidate has cleared it since 1992. Presidential debates are run by a private nonprofit created by the Republican and Democratic parties and paid for by corporate…
Bad — as structured
California's own auditor couldn't show whether that much homelessness spending worked.
$24 billion. California's own auditor couldn't show whether that much homelessness spending worked. People are steadily moving from California, New York and Illinois to Texas and Florida, mostly because of housing costs. Blue states are richer and spend more. Crime…
How many House seats third parties hold.
0 of 435. That's how many House seats third parties hold. The rules are written by the two parties that benefit. Plurality voting and ballot-access rules make third parties nearly impossible. Alaska and Maine use ranked-choice voting, and Alaska's 2024…
Roughly how much of state voter rolls turned out to be real noncitizen registrants when states actually checked.
0.01%. That's roughly how much of state voter rolls turned out to be real noncitizen registrants when states actually checked. Louisiana found 79 who voted since the 1980s, Ohio 138, Texas 33 referred from 2024. Real, but tiny. And the…
2021–2023: the House Jan 6 Select Committee collected a vast digital record.
When the majority flipped, the incoming House Administration Committee reported difficulty accessing the full set, encrypted files and alleged deletions. The final report is online, but access to raw interview video and documents remains contested. History requires durable, auditable records,…
BAD Full analysis January 6 Committee Records: Handling, Sealing, and Claimed Losses Handling, archiving, sealing, encryption, and claimed deletion or loss of docu
June 27, 2024: the night the denial collapsed.
In Feb 2024 Special Counsel Robert Hur described Biden as a "well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory." The White House attacked Hur as partisan and insisted Biden was sharp. In June the WSJ reported people who worked with him…
BAD Full analysis Biden Cognitive Decline: Limited Acknowledgment Before the 2024 Debate How observable declines in presidential acuity were minimized by the White
Zero. Primary ballots cast for Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic nominee.
Biden won the primaries, collapsed at the June 27 debate, and withdrew July 21. Harris gathered ~3,923 delegate signatures against a 300 threshold; no rival qualified. A virtual roll call Aug 1–5 gave her 4,563 votes (~99%). Legal under party…
BAD — rule-legal, but it taught voters their primaries are optional
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