My Interview Speech for the Town Board of Canvassers.
Even though I knew they'd already rejected me
I spent over 2 years reading through Rhode Island’s election laws and our Board of Elections’ regulations, in order that I could zero in on exactly what the problem was with our state’s elections, because it was blatantly apparent that things were amiss. It was impossible not to consider that someone was controlling the outcomes of our elections, since our state-house was a-flood with heavily-accented leftists and Aspen Institute grads, who worked tirelessly toward the cancellation of the value of citizenship, and toward the enrichment of any and all illegals who wandered over the state line- no matter how recently. The leftist takeover had become blatant and obvious, but I won’t bore you with too many details of their plentifully documented shenanigans. I will highlight one feat that I suppose many “legislators” received a huge bonus for, as a coup de grâce achievement: Driver Cards for illegal residents, which, per the letter of the now-law legislation, must be IDENTICAL front and back to citizens’ driver’s licenses. Mind-boggling.
Clearly, an achievement of this magnitude required a long-term incremental plan, and clearly the Rhode Island citizen had not been calling the shots for a long time. No tax-payer in their right mind (who wasn’t being bribed) would approve of what the General Assembly has been up to for many years. (Leftist Boston Globe accolades aside).
My election research led me to focus on two particular issues which I documented easily (they are shameless) and built a pro-se lawsuit around. The lawsuit was directed against my town, which I saw as the municipal body with the most direct responsibility to respond to my plea for relief. (Besides, it had become apparent to me that at the state level, the shenanigans were baked-in, with laws written to prevent citizens any method of getting to the bottom of the corruption.)
My lawsuit got essentially the same treatment as all the other election lawsuits nationally did- which is to say the court found a way to avoid looking at it, and set it aside without comment or opinion on the crimes amply evidenced- “case closed”.
As the laws are currently written in Rhode Island, a citizen has no standing to question election activity- at all. A candidate, in specific circumstances, can make very limited requests for review, but all complaints and requests for recounts must go through the Board of Elections, an appointed administrative body, who of course would have no interested in letting to be exposed any problems with their product. It’s insanity to believe that this dead-on-arrival appeal process would lead to anything but rampant election manipulation- the rewards of being in power being so great.
When a candidate qualifies for a recount (rare, since that margin can be controlled via mail-ballots which magically enter the system precisely at the zero-transparency Board of Elections and are completely unauditable), the Board merely rechecks the unaudited federally-non-compliant, computerized-tabulator tapes, and thereby affirms their own numbers. Mail-ballots, which local municipalities themselves are never allowed to possess, or count, or review in ANY way, are declared to be sensitive private information and NOT recount-able. HULLO?!
Once the Board of Elections (unsatisfactorily) disposes of a candidate’s appeal, a candidate might choose to file a lawsuit with the courts, but by the time anything gets heard it will almost certainly be declared to be too late. “Latches” they’ll say, and dismissed the candidate will be. The next argument to be used against the candidate complaint would undoubtedly be something about the fact that they have no standing to sue whatever body they are trying to sue, because that is essentially what the General Assembly has created- a system of laws wherein all election rights reside with the state at the Board of Elections- they are the sovereign in all matters election, we are little more than NPCs. It really is an iron-clad system of “We will do whatever we want to.”
The time I spent calling around to lawyers to try to help with my lawsuit, proved that the local bar association’s members were not about trying to alter the status quo, or associating their names with such attempts. Yes, you’d be right to point out that I didn’t talk to all of the bar’s members in the state, but the random sampling gave me a 100% “not interested” response- no case details requested. The exercise was not only a waste of time, it was an insulting one too. Without asking about any the specifics of my claim, I was told I should ‘stop wasting the courts time with petty grievances because “my candidate” didn’t win’. Another lawyer told me that I was illegally passing myself off as a lawyer because a friend in another town, used my lawsuit’s claims, as the basis for a similar suit against her own town, in her own pro-se lawsuit. (Hers was actually filed before mine.)
So, with lawsuits predestined to fail, what’s left for a citizen to do? “Get involved- volunteer in local elections”, they’ll say- and, yes, I have done that. But volunteering on election day, does not allow you to discern and root-out the inherent corruption- if it were easy to see it, it wouldn’t work. This system has been perfected over decades, the fraud is not visible through its public machinations, and that’s why so many are complacently certain that all is well. It isn’t.
So, what to do?
Having failed in my intent to sue my local Board of Canvassers into standing up to the state’s illegal power-grabbed control of our elections, I decided that maybe I should attempt to change things from within. There was an open seat on my town’s Board of Canvassers, so I applied. As interview day approached, I drafted my interview statement; Five minutes I’d be given. The Town Council’s meeting agenda was published- and there my name was listed- the only candidate interviewing for the spot. So far so good. Then early afternoon, on the day of the interview, I was notified that my interview had been cancelled and the process postponed for a month. Around the same time, the head of the Republican town committee was called upon to provide an alternative “endorsed” candidate for the role, one who would be interviewed the following month. I don’t think I need to tell you which candidate got the seat on the board.
So, in the spirit of hoping that someone else, somewhere can put to use the fruits of my efforts in their own town, here is my interview speech for the Board of Canvassers seat that I didn’t get, and which the town went to great lengths not to let anyone hear. I think I have uncovered a way out of a good deal of the election crime that takes place across the country, but we need to be in the municipal seats of power to affect the needed changes. And most importantly, we need to pull the control over elections away from the states where it doesn’t belong, and put it back into the hands of the cities and towns where the citizenry can keep a close eye on EVERY LAST BALLOT.
Enjoy.
- Janine
I am applying for a seat on the Board of Canvassers because I am very concerned about election integrity and its impact on our rights as residents of Barrington and citizens of this country.
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 towns and it’s citizens, is represented by those who govern us.
But in recent years, municipalities have lost control over the most elemental piece of their citizens’ elections- the ballots. Through laws and policies adopted in recent years, the State of RI has usurped our town’s ability to scrutinize, count and audit all of our ballots. We therefore no longer have the power to verify the outcome of our own local elections. This is an extremely troubling development and one with which any citizen, party affiliated or not, should be very concerned.
The effect of this development, is that the outcome of ALL of our local elections is determined, and winners assigned, thru the mere CLAIM of ballot possession by anonymous persons at the Board of Elections. No town, no candidate, no citizen is ever allowed to verify, to see, to touch, to count, or to audit these ballots and thereby the race ; instead, in the days following Election Day, municipalities are merely TOLD how many votes these untouchable ballots represent for each candidate, and who the winners are. The reason, they claim, that these ballots cannot be scrutinized is “privacy”- which is nonsense.
To make matters worse, our ballots are tabulated using non-federally compliant, and algorithm-capable black-box tabulators- whose functioning we are not allowed to assess, or even to see assessed. When you add to that the amply-documented willingness of the Office of the Secretary of State to include unqualified people on our voter rolls, one begins to have serious concerns about how secure our elections are, and whether the announced results accurately reflect the will of the qualified voters.
The status quo in Rhode Island elections represents the polar opposite of transparency, and transparency is essential to election integrity. If there CAN BE NO CHECK, there WILL SURELY BE lapses in integrity.
How is a community to protect itself from malign external influences? Interests who might see our well-funded town and school system as a resource to be exploited? How can we protect our beloved town from political players who might have no true personal investment in Barrington, but desire merely to use it as a stepping stone in their activist careers? Only transparent locally controlled elections will assure that the will of this town’s people is enacted here. Only fair elections allow us to eject those, who for whatever reason, fail to do our will and protect the interests of our town.
Barrington is rare in that it has the means and credibility to fight against state policies that are robbing municipalities of election transparency. Our town needs to start engaging the state over the issue of transparency and ballot control.
Already this town has experienced, multiple assaults on our shared community values and sensibilities. Whether it’s
· The attempted downgrading of our high school’s academic standards.
· The attempted dismantling of our much-loved tradition of intimate neighborhood elementary schools.
· Unwarranted harsh vaccine policies which have COST our school children several committed and talented teachers.
· The Undermining our tradition of respect for our local veterans- our own patriots.
· The undermining decades-ago established zoning regulations which maintain the flavor and character of our town.
· The flying of the black flag of a Marxist group at our town hall.
Elections are a matter of sovereignty, and of our ability to maintain a town culture that we love, without incessant battles against external powers that have decided that they want our town to be something else entirely.
I assert that the divisions that have been created in this town of late, are very likely the result of the loss of control over our ballots, and of our elections. It’s time for this town to be proactive in preserving and defending our ability to defend the character of this town from those who are here to change it in the interest of external players- whoever they might be, however powerful they might be.
. We need to receive, verify, open, and count ALL of the town’s ballots right here in our own town. I will press for that change if I am appointed to the Board.
Thank you.
Wow! What a revelation of corruption at a deep level. How discouraging to learn of all you have tried to do against orchestrated roadblocks.
Do you have a Twitter account by which you might publish this letter in shorter installments?
Have you contacted Project Verona’s for help?
This is a good and needed post, Janine. Keep at it.