The dramatic shifts in the priorities of this town’s officials in the last few years, has made it impossible for me not to ponder whether something external is influencing our elections. It seems likely, that ideological shifts such as we are experiencing and which appear to be in line with those happening in other municipalities across the state and country, created the impetus for me to investigates our elections.
My 2 years of research into RIs election laws and regulations uncovered two particular illegalities which were easily documented and evidenced. (I have copies of that evidence if anyone is interested). Having received no relief in my initial appeal to this body, which I felt was most directly responsibility for the defense of my franchise, and since RI law, as written, offers no avenue of relief to citizens via the State Board of Elections, I compiled my request for relief into a lawsuit which I filed with the Supreme Court of RI.
My lawsuit was set aside without comment or opinion, like most other cases arguing election irregularities in the last few years have. Lack of standing being the most common excuse given.
As the laws are currently written in Rhode Island, a citizen has zero legal avenues to question election irregularities- which is startling to me. A candidate, in specific circumstances, can make a limited request for review, but all complaints and requests for recounts, must first go through the Board of Elections - an appointed administrative body, which would obviously have no interest in letting to be exposed any problems with their election product. It’s easy to see the folly in believing believe that this dead-on-arrival appeal process is anything but a license to engage in election manipulation- since the rewards of being in an elected position of power are so enormous and also potentially lucrative.
If a candidate qualifies for a recount (which is rare, since the required margin can be easily controlled with mail-ballots- which non-transparently (one might say magically) enter the system precisely at the Board of Elections itself, and per the rules created by the self-same Board of Elections are completely untouchable, unviewable and unauditable by anyone but them.) But if qualification for recount does happen, the Board merely rechecks the paper-tapes which print-out from the non-federally compliant, algorithm-capable, and un-auditable tabulators which they purchase, maintain, use, and provided to municipalities ….. And whose functioning we are not allowed to assess, or even to see assessed. With these paper-tapes in hand the Board will reaffirm their machine generated numbers. For any election that is held in conjunction with statewide elections (which is essentially all of them), Mail-ballots are not able to be seen, touched or reviewed by municipalities, candidates and citizens, in ANY way, are declared by election officials citing irrelevant statutes (I have an example), to contain sensitive, private information and so are declared NOT recount-able. Staggering.
Once the Board of Elections disposes of a candidate’s appeal, the complete lack of transparency in our electronic election systems means that the candidate will have zero evidence with which to appeal the Boards decision to a court, where their case, when heard will likely be determined to be too late to appeal the election.
What the General Assembly, the Secretary of State and the Board of Elections have together attempted to create, is a system wherein all election rights reside with the state at the Board of Elections, and a system in which everyone involved believes that the state is the sovereign in all matters election. Citizens and Local Boards, they’ll lead you to believe are little more than Non-Playing Characters and rubber stampers. This I believe is believe is a deprivation of rights under the color of law- which is a federal crime but that’s not my point here today. (Section 242 of Title 18) I’d like you to contemplate the extreme conflict of interest in the scenario we are faced with.
Doubting citizens are encouraged to volunteer on election day, which is important to making election day run smoothly- and I do that. But the public machinations of election day offer no hints as to the means of results manipulation, and that’s why so many are complacently certain that all is well with our elections. But if it were easy to see the fraud, it wouldn’t work.
Anyone with an information systems background, as I have, and a little time to create some APRA requests, will easily see the gaping openings for manipulation in RIs myriad election systems. And anyone with eyes to see our rights as free citizens of this Republic being fundamentally re-defined, curtailed, rationed in the name of Equity, and compromised by globalist interests, can see the precious rights and freedoms these vulnerabilities put at risk.
But there is a lawful and easily executable way for this body to mitigate this risk, and to uphold their Oaths regarding guardianship over the canvas and elections in Barrington. This solution circumvents all the risk created by electronic-system vulnerabilities which are beyond the ability of this board to understand or control, and which we know is outside of their authority to choose. It solves for lack of transparency due to the extreme complexity of these computerized systems which essentially render the Local Board ‘rubber stampers’ of the canvass and of local elections which that same complexity has forced into virtually the complete control of state actors.
My solution re-empowers our municipality, and returns to us via our Local Board of Canvassers our sovereign control over our vote, and, the most elemental piece of our elections- our ballots. This Board and every municipal Board of Canvassers in the state should count their ballots and verify the totals against the computer tabulated totals delivered by the state. Start with a few key races- imagine the feeling of relief, should they match, but imagine the crimes averted and liberties recaptured, should irregularity be exposed. We need to exert control over the our own ballots, because they are ours- they have never been the states, they have merely fooled us into believe that they had the power over them . Once we have begun again to assure that the people we have chosen are the people changing the laws in our town and our state, we should pursue also, the control of our mail-ballots which are now being wrongfully controlled via legal but unlawful provisions of the LetRIVote act of 2022.
Although the state constitutionally has the authority to determine the “date, time and manner” of elections, they don’t control the ballots and they have no authority to tell municipalities that they can’t count their ballots after they’ve been run through the state’s chosen, unsecure, cellular-network connected computer-tabullators.
Freedom – which includes sovereignty over the communities we live in -- is the birthright of every one of us. Our local elections ensure that this freedom is protected and that our will for our town and its citizenry, is represented by those who govern us. Right now, control over our elections is being usurped by the very body that elections are meant to constrain. Every citizen, party affiliated or not, should be very concerned about that fact.