Preparing for the Coming Storm: Fraud in the 2024 Elections

So what would a plan look like?

For a candidate, a plan would involve being prepared to contest an election, before, during, and after. Before an election, a candidate needs to raise concerns of election integrity, needs to encourage people to vote in person on election day, and to protest changes in laws and regulations that make elections less secure and more vulnerable to fraud. If the candidate doesn't know what laws and regulations make elections more vulnerable to fraud, they should get advice, or drop out.

During an election, a candidate must point out that just because someone gets a ballot by mail, doesn't mean that they have to vote that way. Even in universal vote by mail states like California, a person can still return that ballot to the polling place in person, or simply cast a ballot in person on election day. They should discourage ballot harvesting, drop box use, voting by mail, and other fraud promoting actions. Make Election Day Great Again.

Before the election a candidate needs to assemble a team of good election attorneys and auditors, and have them ready to go before results are certified. If they aren't needed, fine, but they should be ready anyway with motions, audit demands, and other materials to file before the ink is dry on certifications.

You can't outvote fraud, and you can't outharvest fraud 

They should understand the various ways fraud can be committed and be prepared to address each and every one. This includes use of "ghost" voters in dirty voter rolls to inflate votes for one candidate, ballot trafficking, drop box stuffing, machine "malfunctions", broken chains of ballot custody, and every other way that creative minds can find to cheat.

They should also be prepared for the opposition they will encounter from courts, from corrupt officials, from a biased media, and from all those who benefit from election fraud. Working with citizen groups will be vital, both in watching for election issues, as well as in exposing and publicizing observed fraud.

Candidates who do these things will be recognized as ones who are listening to citizens about their concerns and who are acting in the interests of citizens. Yes, there will be some who make lots of noise about how concerned they are, but their actions, or lack of actions, will betray them.

For citizens, you have a huge role to prepare

For citizens, you have a huge role to prepare. Beginning now, if not sooner, you need to identify bad election laws and regulations in your states and counties. Once found, legislators, supervisors, and other officials need to be pushed to repeal bad laws, put good laws and regulations in place, and generally act like they actually care about honest elections.

Sheriffs need to be informed about election law, and especially about those laws that involve criminal penalties. This will go beyond simple traditional "cemetery voting", duplicate voting, voter intimidation, and other issues, but on into voter roll manipulation, internet connections to election systems, malware injection, and other systemic fraud mechanisms. Citizens can work in advance with sheriff departments to inform them of what things to look for and provide evidence of manipulations.

Citizens will need to be careful, though, to understand the difference between evidence and suspicion, between proof and speculation. Canvassing to see if people actually voted is one of the most powerful tools available and can generate real, useful, evidence.

"Official" pronouncements of how safe and secure the election was merely serve to confirm suspicions of fraud

We are fortunate that after the huge and highly visible fraud and election manipulations that took place in the 2020 election, large numbers of people are aware of how bad the situation is. "Official" pronouncements of how safe and secure the election was merely serve to confirm suspicions of fraud. Media parroting of such claims just point out how untrustworthy our media has become. The fact that our (in)Justice Department is already prosecuting people for the crime of trying to investigate a corrupt election shows how deep the corruption runs, and how much work there is to be done.

We have come far down the path of corrupt elections, but are not yet past the point of no return. True, we have allowed things to progress far. It will take work to correct matters. There are many distractions along the way, including everything that our enemies can think to throw against us. CRT, "gender affirming care", accusations of racism, sexual predation of children, pandemics, a false climate crisis, riots and looting, open borders, and foreign wars are all serious, but are also distractions. Every one of those could be fixed almost overnight through honest election of candidates who truly represented our interests and who would act to address our concerns.

It has taken decades of clever manipulation to get to where we are today

We need representatives, not rulers, and we won't get them unless we can fix our election systems. Right now too many of these so-called representatives represent the interests of power and money, not the people.

This situation was always a danger, and was why our Founders chose a representative democracy over any other form of government. They knew that concentrated power could not be trusted and that the only trustworthy power lay in the hands of an informed public. The first two amendments to our Constitution were written to ensure the people could be properly informed and had the tools to ensure the government would always be constrained and answerable to the people.

It has taken decades of clever manipulation to get to where we are today, where too much power lies with an unelected bureaucracy and with legislatures more concerned with getting their own way than with what their constituencies want. Correcting the situation begins with correcting our elections.

The road is hard, but we must not despair nor become complacent nor assume that others will do the work. This is our time, and our fight, and our obligation to all those who have come before us to cherish and defend the dream of liberty and justice for all.