By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--December 2, 2020
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I have been subjected to what I believe is extraordinary action by Twitter that seems to have occurred in no more than 456 cases—highlighted in this graphic prepared from information supplied by Twitter:
I am not one of the 300,000 who had 19 of my tweets labelled with a warning. I am among the 456 “covered by a warning message with limited engagement features” that was contained in the following notice: (See Left)
I logged into my account to see what was needed to “restore account functionality” and was hit with the following notice:
Twitter is forcing me to recant and remove Tweet 3 of 19 - and I assume the other 18 I posted in similar terms—which for some unknown reason got Twitter’s back up. Support Canada Free Press
Refuse—and my account will be wiped off Twitter completely.
One material detail deliberately omitted by Twitter in this “Remove Tweet” notice is the URL of my article: 234,000 phantom voters spell trouble for Biden in Wisconsin
In that article I pointed out:
“234,000 registered voters—whom the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) refused to remove from the State’s voter rolls—could trigger intervention by the Courts to review Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin by a margin of 20,540 votes. The sorry saga that saw those 234000 voters still on the rolls on Election Day is detailed in an article headlined: “How The Wisconsin Elections Commission Destroyed Fair Elections In Wisconsin”—which alleges that in October 2019: ”.. the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC)—the bipartisan board tasked with administering the state’s elections—indicated that it would ignore Wisconsin law by refusing to remove from the state’s voter rolls the names of 234,000 people who had moved either out of state or to a different city in Wisconsin.
Once those names are flagged by the multi-state Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) database, Wisconsin Statute § 6.50(3) requires the WEC to “notify the elector by mailing a notice by first class mail to the elector’s registration address stating the source of the information.” If they do not reply and “apply for continuation of registration within 30 days of the date the notice is mailed, the clerk or board of election commissioners shall change the elector’s registration from eligible to ineligible status.” For more than a year, the Wisconsin Election Commission and local election officials in the two most heavily Democratic counties in the state have done everything in their power to make a Biden win an inevitability. The law is crystal clear: If a voter does not respond and apply for continuation within 30 days, his or her name is to be removed from the voter rolls immediately. This does not, of course, disenfranchise those voters since they are still registered to vote at their new address. It simply removes the old, defunct name and address (in effect a “phantom” voter) from the rolls. Even if a voter is incorrectly flagged (as three to five percent may be), Wisconsin has same-day voter registration and a person wrongly removed from the rolls can simply re-register on Election Day.”Am I being rubbed out for this? I certainly do not intend to remove the Tweet. Twitter has not given me one reason why I should. If Twitter afforded me natural justice and provided me with their reasons then I would certainly give them serious consideration. As my Twitter account sinks without a trace —I apologize to those who have: • posted comments that I cannot access or reply to or • become new followers that I cannot welcome Twitter has become the Lord High Executioner of free speech and the suppressor of freedom of opinion.
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com