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The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer 17m
Lindell is advised by people who have no idea how elections work.

This is overly complicated nonsense since you can check your voted history in real time here.

Plus, if you are already given into paranoia the absence of a voted flag will not persuade you otherwise.

Quote Luke Johnson @Orly_licious 1h
Heads up @stephen_richer @NASEDorg @AZSecretary @PAStateDept & Election Officials: Mike Lindell is encouraging chaos in the #2024Election. "Voter Identity Protection" (VIP) counsels to obtain a mail-in ballot, then go to the polls & try to vote twice: https://electioncrimebureau.com/VIP/

Luke Johnson @Orly_licious 13m
Replying to @Garrett_Archer
Exactly. Mike Lindell's emails, "I’m DEPUTIZING YOU TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY! Please go RIGHT NOW to see the steps you need to take to prevent theft of YOUR voter identity" are exemplary of why the GOP was under a consent decree for 35 years. Clueless. Lie, rinse, repeat. And grift.

regular guy @gi_joe99
I'm a registered independent, formerly Dem. I don't have a team. I do however wonder why my former party resists ID requirements while they open the border. This isn't the policy of President Clinton, VP Gore, Obama in 08, or even Biden for 90% of his career. What's changed?
3:58 PM · Jul 7, 2024

Replying to @gi_joe99 and @Garrett_Archer
Luke Johnson @Orly_licious 21m
As of April 2024, 35 states require voters to present identification in order to vote at the polls on Election Day. Including AZ, MI, WI, NC, GA, TX, FL, and PA for 1st time voters. It's a mostly moot issue.

Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman 17h
I riff on this, my investment in California Forever, and more on Possible:
From link.chtbl.com

Luke Johnson @Orly_licious
Thanks, Reid for supporting democracy with your investment in Smartmatic. Another bonus: Smartmatic is suing Mike Lindell, whose anti-American actions have escalated to "deputizing" people to attempt to vote twice. Have given a heads-up to @stephen_richer & @NASEDorg.

A billionaire is boosting a major defamation lawsuit against Fox News
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a longtime funder of left-leaning causes, has invested in Smartmatic, the election technology company suing conservative media outlets over false claims of 2020 vote-rigging.
By Jeremy Barr July 8, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EDT

Smartmatic, the voting technology company enmeshed in complex defamation lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax, has a powerful new financial ally: billionaire tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman. Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, has made a multimillion-dollar investment intended in part to help the company sustain its costly litigation. Smartmatic has said the two news outlets smeared it by airing bogus claims of rigged vote counting in the 2020 election.

In a statement provided to The Washington Post, Hoffman alluded to the toll taken on Smartmatic, which has spent tens of millions on legal costs related to the suits. “Smartmatic built a global business by using technology to better engage citizens, regardless of party or ideology, by making voting simple and trustworthy,” Hoffman said. “After Donald Trump lost in 2020, however, Smartmatic became a target of the defamatory campaign to overturn his defeat.”

Dmitri Mehlhorn, an adviser to Hoffman, said the investment is in line with Hoffman’s desire to support the role of the legal system in arbitrating fact from fiction. “Not only is Smartmatic a great investment in terms of financial returns, this was a way to provide capital that would allow the truth to be found in the courts,” he said. “This is a company that is a great company with a great CEO, and this case is a great case.” Mehlhorn said the entrepreneur connected with Smartmatic chief executive Antonio Mugica through friends of friends. “They already kind of liked each other broadly and remotely, and then this deal came up,” he said of Hoffman and Mugica.
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“Smartmatic’s technology has counted 7 billion votes on 6 continents with zero security breaches,” Mugica said in his own statement. “Voters, candidates and election officials in all of those elections are watching to see if we still stand up for the truth against lies. Rest assured, we do.” No trial date has been set for Smartmatic’s suit against Fox, which last year settled similar claims from another election technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, for $787.5 million. Fox News has defended its coverage of the 2020 election by saying that it was simply covering newsworthy claims made by Trump and his associates, including accusations of fraud. In a statement, a Fox representative portrayed Hoffman’s involvement in the case as politically motivated.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:19 pm

p0rtia wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:31 pm

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:19 pm

Yes, a doctor/nurse would do that. Personal experience. Frequent. I get poked with needles quite often, and I amuse myself by noting the various types of gauze and tapes various folks use to hide the damage.

I just liked my ear pillow.

This seeing of suspicious circumstances where there are none is driving me slightly crazy.

p0rtia wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:31 pm This seeing of suspicious circumstances where there are none is driving me slightly crazy.

Mike Lindell arrived at the Republican National Convention with two important goals.

“Save MyPillow,” says his wife, Kendra. And “save the country.”

The situations were dire. America’s voting system was vulnerable, according to Lindell’s unproven and disproven theories. And because he had the audacity to say this publicly — and thereby put himself in legal jeopardy — his pillow company was on the brink.

What would it take to turn these things around? Paper ballots and, well, mattress toppers.

“You got to get everyone in this country on board with getting rid of these voting machines,” he told a roving CNN documentary crew during a whirlwind day of interviews and selfies in Milwaukee.

“We just came out with the most affordable mattress topper in history: $99.98 for the queen, $119.98 for the king,” he told The Washington Post later, echoing a pitch he gave dozens of times throughout the day. “They have 14,000 individual pressure supports that I put in the queen alone. If you sleep bad, you need a different input to get a different output. Kind of like our elections.”

For the past 3½ years, the mustachioed, motor-mouthed salesman hasn’t stopped talking about how the 2020 election was stolen, and it has cost him. He has been sued for defamation by two voting-machine companies; Dominion Voting System wants him to pay $1.3 billion (the equivalent of about 10.8 million mattress toppers, king-size). Those cases are ongoing, and Lindell has denied wrongdoing.

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 4:55 pm A link to what the court filed today after today's hearing (IANAL, so I don't know exactly what it's saying).

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... 5.85.0.pdf

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:46 pm

p0rtia wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:31 pm

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 1:19 pm

Yes, a doctor/nurse would do that. Personal experience. Frequent. I get poked with needles quite often, and I amuse myself by noting the various types of gauze and tapes various folks use to hide the damage.

I just liked my ear pillow.

This seeing of suspicious circumstances where there are none is driving me slightly crazy.

There’s a thread where nurses say that’s not how to bandage an ear, with video of the correct way. I’m less hung up on the bandage than the fact he didn’t need one at his club while golfing and his ear appeared to be undamaged.