Election Insecurity

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PRESIDENT TRUMP ECHOES JUDICIAL WATCH CONCERNS ABOUT DIRTY VOTER ROLLS

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In his forceful and comprehensive address to the nation this week
on widespread election fraud, the president referred to the many dirty
voter rolls across the country. Here’s what he said:

It’s a widely known fact that the voting rolls are packed with
people who are not lawfully eligible to vote, including those who are
deceased, have moved out of their state, and even our non-citizens of
our country.

Beyond this, the records are riddled with errors, wrong addresses,
duplicate entries, and many other issues. This is not disputed. It has
never been disputed. Dozens of counties in the key swing states have
more registered voters on the rolls than they have voting age
citizens, including 67 counties in Michigan. All of this is evidence.

In Wisconsin, the state’s Board of Elections could not confirm the
residency of more than 100,000 people, but repeatedly refused to
remove those names from its voter rolls before the election. They knew
why, nobody else did. I knew why. They were illegal voters. It is a
travesty that in the year 2020, we do not have any means of verifying
the eligibility of those who cast ballots in an election and such an
important election it is, or determining who they are, whether they
live in the state or whether they’re even American citizens. We have
no idea.

[You can watch his speech here
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And
here is a transcript
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You might have recognized his concerns about dirty voting rolls
because Judicial Watch in October reported
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that our September 2020 study
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revealed 353 U.S. counties with 1.8 million more registered voters
than eligible voting-age citizens. In other words, the registration
rates of those counties exceeded 100% of eligible voters. The study
found eight states showing statewide registration rates exceeding
100%: Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode
Island, and Vermont.

I’ve repeatedly said
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that dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. That’s why we’ve
filed three federal lawsuits to clean up the voter rolls in
Pennsylvania (which our lawsuit alleges has over 800,000 extra names
on the rolls), North Carolina and Colorado.

Our expert team of election lawyers and investigators is also on top
of the current election crisis. For example, we have dozens of open
record requests in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada – to start.

The Left changed how our elections were conducted – and it resulted
in a tsunami of mail-in ballots that the evidence increasingly shows
were unlawfully handled and counted in a way at that is at odds with
the law. The structural integrity of the elections in key states fell
under leftist machinations – raising serious question about the
validity of reported results for Joe Biden.

There is strong evidence, incontrovertible is some instances, that
virtually every “battleground” state's laws were violated in the
handling and counting of mail-in ballots. It is an open question
whether the courts will enforce the rule of law. But under our
Constitution, the state legislatures and Congress can and must act
through the Electoral College process. Accordingly, I encourage you to
contact your state legislatures (especially if you live in states
where the election is under dispute) and Congress to let your elected
representatives know what you think about the current election crisis.

President Trump, as president, has a constitutional duty to enforce
the rule of law on election issues. And as the DOJ is seemingly again
AWOL
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it will be up to Judicial Watch and other independent activists and
citizens like you to ensure that our elections are secure and that the
lawful winner is our nation’s next president.

RECORDS SHOW OBAMA DHS SCANNED GEORGIA ELECTION SITE IN 2016

There is a raging debate about the security of our election systems.
Judicial Watch released documents this week that show, when it comes
to election security, the Obama administration may have been part of
the problem.

We received 243 pages
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of records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that show
the Obama administration’s scanning of the election systems of
Georgia, Alaska, Oregon, Kentucky and West Virginia in 2016. This
activity prompted a letter
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from then-Georgia Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp to
then-DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson accusing DHS of, “an unsuccessful
attempt to penetrate the Georgia Secretary of State’s firewall.”

The records were produced in response to our FOIA request for all
records related to reported cyberattacks against the Georgia secretary
of state’s information network involving DHS, including
investigative reports, memoranda, correspondence and communications
between October 1, 2016, and February 14, 2017.

The minutes
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of a DHS “Enterprise Security Operations Center” (ESOC) meeting
indicate that on November 15, 2016, at 8:43 a.m. a “scanning
event” occurred. The “‘scanning’ event was the result of a
FLETC [Federal Law Enforcement Training Center] user’s Microsoft
Office Discovery Protocol sending a packet with the OPTIONS flag to
the Secretary of State of Georgia site.”

The minutes note that the ESOC “has received requests from NCCIC
[DHS’s The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration
Center] and MS-ISAC [Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis
Center] to investigate other states that have seen ‘suspicious’
activity.”

The minutes note that Kemp accused DHS of conducting illicit scans on
at least February 2, February 28 and May 23, 2016, as well.

DHS notes in the minutes that they were working with Microsoft to
determine what happened: “Microsoft and the ESOC with the assistance
of FLETC, were able to confirm that the user non-maliciously copied
and pasted elements of the website to an excel document, which
triggered the HTTP ‘OPTIONS’ request.”

A “Microsoft E-Mail Statement (Unofficial Statement to ESOC)” was
included with the minutes. The email stated, “After looking at the
data I do not see requests that look malicious in nature or appear to
be attempting to exploit a vulnerability.”

A chart
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of “Current Open Vulnerabilities” for the period November 30,
2016, through December 12, 2016, noted that DHS had identified a total
of 1,227 cyber vulnerabilities within DHS components, including five
“High” severity ones at FEMA.

In a “Shift Pass Down Report – Sunday Night Shift – December 18,
2016” describing one of the State of Georgia incidents, DHS
identifies
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that it originated, “from a FLETC-based Physical Security Contract
Manager.”

DHS identifies activity originating from them in Alaska, Oregon,
Kentucky and West Virginia.

In a “State of Alaska update,” the report notes, “Confirmed this
activity was a NPPD [DHS’s National Protection and Programs
Directorate] employee investigating twitter reports of compromise on
an AK Election System, as part of his normal duties.”

A “State of Oregon update,” indicated that “Oregon Secretary of
State inquired why they observed the same DHS IP reported by GASOS
visiting their website. After engaging with DHS, Oregon agreed there
was nothing suspicious and closed the investigation.”

A “State of Kentucky update” said, “Normal web traffic from
DHS.”

A “State of West Virginia update” also said “Normal web traffic
from DHS.”

In a December, 16, 2016, email exchange
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between DHS officials regarding a “Preliminary update on GASOS
[Georgia Secretary of State]” an official notes there were at least
10 other “timestamps” in which “we have identified different
components who have caused the same traffic as the FLETC user.” The
log lists incidents involving FEMA, ICE-CIS and FLETC occurring
between Feb. 2, 2016 and Sept. 12, 2016.

The email sender adds, “At this time, we cannot validate users with
ease for these past timestamps due to DHCP and the lack of
Authentication logs.”

Acting Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer, Jeanne Etzel
replies to him, “When this gets published in the 4:00, don’t say
‘lack of logs’ say something about logs are maintained for xx days
and the events in question occurred xx days ago therefore our logs are
overwritten per our standard retention policy.”

Another official, unidentified, then forwards the exchange to unknown
officials saying, “FYI. Please use the lens of Press Release and
senior leaders.”

In a December 9, 2016, email
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Director of DHS Cybersecurity Operations, Boyden Rohmer emailed an
unidentified Chief of the Justice Security Operations Center at the
Justice Department about “some claims by the State of Georgia that
we’ve been scanning their website,” noting that when he pulled
their logs over a three hour period, “we see that we have about 1800
similar requests.”

In an email exchange
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on December 8, 2016, sent to a DHS official, from a CBP CSOC [Customs
and Border Protection/Cyber Security Operations Center] official
indicated that the same CBP IP address that scanned the Georgia
Secretary of State election systems also “previously was reported to
us by Princess Cruise Lines” but “ESOC [DHS’s Enterprise
Security Operations Center] assesses that the CBP computer was just
doing normal web browsing to Princess Cruise Lines.”

The email continues, “ESOC assesses that the CBP computer was just
doing normal browsing to Georgia’s Secretary of State office on Nov
15 as well.”

The CBP cyber security official then asks the DHS ESOC official for
clarification of certain questions, such as “In both instances, who
made this assessment that all of this activity was just ‘normal
browsing’?” and “Please define ‘normal browsing’ as it is
referenced in the text highlighted above.”

In January 2017, the DHS Inspector General wrote
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to Kemp, saying that an investigation into his allegations was in
progress and asking for web and network logs, as well as any other
evidence that indicated the DHS attempted to breach Georgia’s
system.

In July 2017, the DHS Inspector General reported
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to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform “that DHS
employee interactions with the Georgia systems were limited to routine
searches for publicly available information on the state’s public
website and that none of the web pages visited were related to
elections or voters.” And stated: “The investigation was conducted
by employees in OIG’s specially trained Digital Forensics and
Analysis Unit.”
What this all means is that the Obama DHS was caught scanning the
Georgia Secretary of State’s website in 2016, and these documents
show that details about the controversy may have been
‘overwritten.’

These documents also provide context for the current debate. The
Obama-Biden Left that is now trying to convince Americans our election
computer systems are secure seems to have breached these very systems
when they last ran the government.

THREE CONGRESSWOMEN STAR IN FORUM WITH TERROR FINANCIERS, ANTI-SEMITES

Not two decades after 9/11 we have two radical members of Congress
openly consorting with terrorists. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog
has the disturbing details
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Congress should reprimand three of its members for participating with
financiers of Islamic terrorism in a conference sponsored by an
anti-Semitic group with deep ties to Hamas, the Palestinian extremist
group that calls for eradicating the state of Israel. The legislators
who joined forces with the extremists over the Thanksgiving weekend
include Ilhan Omar and Betty McCollum of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib
of Michigan. All are Democrats with a history of supporting
anti-Semitism. Omar and Tlaib are the first two Muslim women in
Congress and their tenure as elected officials has been marred with
tremendous controversy.

The powwow they recently starred in was bankrolled by American Muslims
for Palestine
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(AMP), a Virginia-based
group that advocates for Palestinian rights and claims to educate the
public about the just cause of Palestine. The lineup at the recent
event read like a “who’s who for the Muslim Brotherhood
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according to a nonprofit dedicated to exposing the threat of radical
Islam and other extremist ideologies. The respected Washington
D.C.-based group, Clarion Project, published a poster advertising the
conference, which featured an array of terror financiers and
anti-Semites. They include Tarek Hammoud, who has well-documented
connections to Hamas and Kifah Mustapha, a prolific fundraiser for
radical Islamist groups with deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hamoud is the executive director of the Palestinian Return Center
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(PRC), a Hamas
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front
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in the United Kingdom. PRC regularly hosts Hamas leaders, including
Ismail Haniyeh, a former prime minister of the Palestinian National
Authority. Mustapha is the chairman of Muslim American Society
Institute of Chicago (MAS
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and was
embroiled in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case, according
to court documents
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imam at a Chicago-area mosque, Mustapha is a member of the U.S. Muslim
Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and was a Holy Land Foundation
officer. The Holy Land Foundation is a Hamas front group prosecuted by
the U.S. for funding terrorism. In 2008 five of the group’s leaders
were convicted
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in Texas on 108 counts for funneling more than $12 million to Hamas.
The government considered it the largest victory against terrorist
financing since the 9/11 attacks. A year before the verdicts Judicial
Watch published a special report
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on
Muslim charities that includes alarming information about the Holy
Land Foundation.

At the Thanksgiving weekend event, the three federal lawmakers rubbed
elbows with an assortment of terrorist supporters and funders. AMP was
founded in 2006 by a University of California, Berkeley professor,
Hatem Bazian, who is an anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activist. He also
founded a group called Students for Justice in Palestine, whose
members are notorious for intimidating
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and harassing
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Jewish and pro-Israel
students on college campuses around the U.S. Bazian, who still
operates AMP, has employed an array of terrorist financiers to help
run his group, according to congressional documents
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obtained by the Clarion Project. At least five AMP officials
previously served
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with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s
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pro-Hamas
Palestine Committee. The Palestine Committee was a secret body set up
to advance the Brotherhood/Hamas agenda in America. Bazian has
proclaimed that Muslim-Americans must follow in the footsteps
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of the
“uprising in Iraq,” which was against American soldiers, and the
“intifada in Palestine” by starting an intifada in the U.S. that
changes the country’s political dynamics.

After hobnobbing with allies of Islamic terrorists, one of the
congresswomen took to social media to advance their cause. On the last
day of the AMP conference Tlaib, who easily won reelection last month,
promoted a message on her Twitter account that has long been
reiterated by those calling for the complete destruction of the state
of Israel and its Jewish citizens. It reads: “From the River to the
Sea, Palestine will be Free.”

Until next week…





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