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The Bombshell Political Report So Shocking A U.S. President Tried To Pretend It Didn't Exist! LBJ Tried To Torpedo The Official Kerner Commission Record. Instead It Became A Bestseller

— May 10, 2024 | Jelani Cobb

President Lyndon Baines Johnson listens during a meeting in the White House Cabinet Room, March 26, 1968. LBJ Presidential Library.

When President Lyndon Baines Johnson created the [Kerner] commission in July 1967 it was tasked with understanding what had happened up to that moment. Nearly two dozen uprisings or, in the antiseptic language of the report, “civil disorders,” had occurred between 1964 and 1967, with the largest and most destructive taking place in the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles over the course of five days in August 1965.

Kerner has endured not simply for its prescience but also for the breadth of its analysis of the moment when it was conceived. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which became more commonly known as the Kerner Commission—a reference to then-governor of Illinois Otto Kerner, who served as its chairman—was created by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11365 on July 28, 1967. The order was issued as entire stretches of the city of Detroit lay smoldering.

On July 23, 1967, a police raid on an after-hours bar in Detroit sparked an explosion in which residents hurled rocks and bottles at police and culminated in a nearly week-long uprising marked by arson, looting, and forty-three deaths. Just eleven days earlier, the city of Newark had detonated following the assault on John Smith, a Black cab driver, by white police officers. The reactions in the community were immediate and incendiary. In the chaos of social retribution that ensued, twenty-six people were killed and hundreds more injured, while the city sustained an estimated ten million dollars in damage.

Newark and Detroit were just the most notable of more than two dozen American cities that ignited in revolts in that summer of 1967. It appeared as though a valve of the city reservoir had been opened. An apocalyptic fury, the response to decades of discriminatory policy and centuries of racial exploitation, suddenly spewed out in American cities.

Johnson charged the eleven-member Kerner panel with answering three questions: “What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?” These were Johnson’s precise words. Addressing these questions, however, would mean answering dozens of subsidiary questions the roots of which lay deeply tangled in American history and public policy.

The members themselves represented a cross section, albeit not a representative one, of domestic interests. Chaired by Kerner, the second-term Democratic governor of Illinois, the commission included two of his fellow Democratic elected officials, Congressman James Corman, the fourth-term representative of California’s twenty-second district, and freshman senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma. They were joined by three Republicans, New York City mayor John V. Lindsay, Rep. William M. McCulloch of Ohio’s fourth district, and Edward Brooke, the freshman Massachusetts lawmaker and the sole African American serving in the United States Senate at the time.

By current standards the commission was overwhelmingly white (nine of the eleven members) and male (ten of eleven). Katherine Peden, the commerce secretary of Kentucky, was the sole female commission member. Roy Wilkins, the political moderate and executive director of the NAACP, joined Brooke as the only Black people at the table. In addition, I. W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers of America, represented labor in the proceedings, and Herbert Jenkins, the police chief of Atlanta, Georgia, represented law enforcement. Charles Thornton, the CEO of Litton Industries, spoke for the manufacturing sector.

President Lyndon Johnson (seated, center) shakes hands with members of the Kerner Commission. July 29, 1967. White House Photo Office Collection, LBJ Presidential Library.

What differentiated the Kerner Commission from the outset was the historical scope of the investigations: the members were not seeking to understand a singular incident of disorder, but the phenomenon of rioting itself. Despite the heterogeneity of interests, if not the bipartisan backgrounds, of the members, the concluding report spoke with a strikingly unified voice about the problems that the various committee participants sought to understand. And that voice was an unabashedly integrationist one. Their most immediate and salient observation was that, even though the police had been involved in these most volatile incidents, American cities were not simply facing a crisis of policing. Rather, police were simply the spear’s tip of much broader systemic and institutional failures.

[T]he Kerner Report noted that the “problem” had been, first and foremost, inaccurately diagnosed. The so-called Negro problem was, in fact, a white problem. Or, as the report noted in one of the oft-quoted sections of the summary, “What white Americans have never fully understood—but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.”

In a best-case scenario, Kerner would have become a kind of guidebook for the War on Poverty policies then being enacted by the Johnson administration. In more practical terms, the commission recommended new community-based guidelines covering how police needed to interact with citizens of “the ghetto,” as Black communities were dubiously classified in the report. It devoted an entire chapter to the ways in which justice should be administered in the course of riots; it suggested a national network of neighborhood task forces, local institutions that could bypass the bureaucracy and red tape of city administration and head off problems before they erupted into crises. It suggested “neighborhood service centers” to connect residents of these communities with job placement and other forms of assistance and proposed expanded municipal employment as a means of diminishing chronically high unemployment in these areas.

Perceptively, its members suggested that the monochromatically white news media that reported on these uprisings was also a symptom of the bigger problem. That social upheaval that had been created by overwhelmingly white institutions and maintained by said white institutions was then investigated and reported upon by yet another overwhelmingly white institution constituted, in their assessment, a racial conflict of interest. They closed with a raft of specific recommendations for housing, employment, welfare, and education. Kerner was possibly a victim of its own meticulousness. The report brims with suggestions. One reason why its proposals were not realized might be that it simply made too many of them.

The commission could not have known when it released its findings in March 1968 that it was issuing a preface, not a postscript. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated the following month, and more than one hundred American cities exploded into just the type of violence that the Kerner Commission had sought to understand if not prevent. [T]he Report was fated, from the moment it reached shelves, to operate more crucially as a forecast than a review. “Our Nation,” it warned in 1968, “is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.”

— Excerpted From "Introduction" By Jelani Cobb, From The Essential Kerner Commission Report, Edited By Jelani Cobb, With Matthew Guariglia.

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Violent secret society plagued 1930s Detroit

Eighty years ago this spring, the murder of Detroiter Charley Poole led to the exposure of the Black Legion, a Klan-like organization that flourished in southeast Michigan. The revelation that tens of thousands of men, including police and elected officials, belonged to a violent, hooded secret society spawned hysteria, demands for a federal investigation and, too, a Humphrey Bogart movie.

Legion members were prosecuted for two murders, but they were responsible for dozens more, as well as beatings, bombings and dire plots.

The legion’s reign of terror rates as one of Detroit’s darkest moments but it coincided with one of its most glorious. Between autumn 1935 and spring 1936, the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings all won championships as undefeated boxer Joe Louis became a national figure.

Author Tom Stanton, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Detroit Mercy, delves into the legion’s activities in his new book, “Terror in the City of Champions.” This adapted excerpt details the 1936 Poole killing.

Dayton Dean, a pipe wrapper for the Detroit lighting commission, went to Eppinger Sporting Goods in Cadillac Square on Monday, May 11, 1936, to take target practice in the fourth floor range.

The next evening, Dean went to a gathering at Findlater Temple, a two-story structure with 20-foot columns at Waterman and West Lafayette. Nearby was an industrial area that included factories for American Brass and Fisher Fleetwood.

A “White Russian,” Victor Nicholas Schultz, lectured the crowd of nearly 50 legionnaires, decrying the communists who he said had destroyed his native land. He warned the same thing could happen in America. When Schultz finished, Col. Harvey Davis, leader of a legion regiment, took center stage.

There was another serious issue to be tackled, Col. Davis said. A Catholic man, Charley Poole, had beaten and kicked his expectant Baptist wife, Rebecca, so badly that she was in Herman Kiefer Hospital at the very moment, and her baby wouldn’t be born alive, he said.

There was one major problem with the story. It was untrue. Poole had not hit his wife. There had been no beating. Rebecca was in the hospital because she had delivered a second daughter.

Legionnaire Lowell Rushing had helped spread the false story. He disliked Charley Poole for having married Rebecca 18 months earlier. Rushing had grown up with Rebecca back in Danville, Tennessee. Some years back, Rebecca had spent a summer in the home of her sister, who was married to Rushing’s brother. Lowell had spent that same summer under the same roof and become smitten with pretty, 90-pound Rebecca and her high-pitched, childlike voice.

The rumor of the beating became embellished, and grew into the large tale that Col. Harvey Davis spread at the May 12 meeting, inflaming the men with colorful details and working them into a fervor. What should be done? he asked.

Poole had been mostly unemployed since losing his job around Christmas and was working two days a week with the WPA. Over the years, he had been a mechanic, a chef and a shipman on the Great Lakes, but money always seemed tight. The landlord was allowing him to stay temporarily with the understanding that he would pay him back once he found a job.

Poole was a talented athlete. Col. Davis told him he could get him a position that would include playing for the Timken Axle baseball team. He said he would send someone by later to take him to a team meeting to be measured for a uniform. It was not uncommon for some workers to be hired based on their ability to contribute in the competitive industrial sports leagues. Poole was a catcher, like the Tigers’ Mickey Cochrane.

That night, the livid crowd inside Findlater Temple called for justice. They demanded a beating, a lynching or a one-way ride for Charley Poole. Davis had already procured his gunmen, Ervin Lee and Dayton Dean. Others volunteered. Until then, some had done little with the Black Legion.

Twenty-two-year-old Urban Lipps had come to Michigan from Mississippi a year earlier. Feeling lonesome, he had accepted an invitation to a party, hoping to meet friends and build a social life outside his job at Hudson Motor Company. Instead, he was inducted into the legion. Thousands of men were tricked into joining. The ritual, conducted in the dark by robed men with guns, petrified Lipps. The only former members were dead members, he was told.

“A fellow hardly knows how he gets into these things,” he would say.

Poole must have thought his life was finally taking a turn for the better with the possibility of a decent job and a spot on a factory team. He may have wondered, though, if he had heard Col. Harvey Davis correctly, for Poole and two pals went to three beer gardens that evening looking for his baseball ride. They started out at Hayes Chop House around the corner from his flat. They walked next to the Blue Ribbon Café, a mile up Fort, and then proceeded to Joe’s Pavilion, a dancing spot across from Ternstedt Manufacturing.

At each place, Poole let the bartender know where he could be found if someone came looking. He wasn’t taking chances with his wardrobe, either. He looked smart, dressed in a second-hand, dark-brown suit, red tie, stylish pin-striped red-and-purple shirt, gray socks and black Oxfords. He was sitting in Joe’s Pavilion when blonde-haired Urban Lipps walked up to the table.

“Are you going to the baseball party?” Lipps asked.

“Sure,” Poole said.

The proposition sounded so good that all three men wanted to go. But there was room for only Charley Poole. They left the bar, and Lipps led Poole to a car. Poole slid into the backseat beside Dayton Dean. The nighttime caravan of four cars headed out of Detroit along Fort Street.

Poole was excited about the baseball meeting. Dean and Lipps kept up the charade by talking about the Tigers. Ever since the October World Series, baseball had been a topic of choice around town. Earlier in the day, the Tigers had shut out Boston. It was their second straight win.

Two cars made it over the Rouge River before the drawbridge lifted. The others waited for a ship to pass. The industrial skyline at nighttime was eerie, ominous and menacing. Floodlights — white, red, amber — dotted land and sky, spreading orbs over looming cranes and smokestacks and throwing shadows across hard, hostile structures. Flames flared from narrow pipes, and massive, forbidding buildings stood silhouetted against the sky. Ghostly clouds of illuminated smoke hovered around them.

Charley Poole noticed the moon. It shone large, a scuffed cue ball against a blue-felt sky. Poole commented to Dayton Dean about it as they drove. They were heading to Dearborn, holding close to the Rouge River where possible. Poole talked about his wife and two young daughters. Dean began feeling there was “something fishy” about Col. Harvey Davis’ tale of the beating. But he had his orders, and he knew he could be killed for disobeying them.

It was a long ride before they stopped along Gulley Road. A golf course lay 300 yards away. Lipps and Poole stayed in the car near a one-lane bridge. Dean and Ervin Lee got out to confer with Col. Davis and the other men. A bottle of liquor passed between them. Lee went back to the car and offered Lipps and Poole a drink. Poole declined.

He had begun to doubt the baseball meeting.

“What is this going to be, a party out under the stars?” Poole asked.

Lee laughed and said yes.

Col. Davis directed Dean to get Poole. Dean pulled out his .38 and .45. Poole didn’t fight as Dean ushered him to a spot near a ditch. He stood six feet from him. Lee was to Dean’s left. Col. Davis stayed behind both of them, armed with a revolver.

Poole asked why they had pulled guns. He said he hadn’t done anything.

“You’re a dirty liar,” replied Col. Davis. “You know what you’ve done and what you have been brought out here for. You know you beat up your wife — ”

“Boys, there must be some mistake,” he said. “I never — ”

Col. Davis swore at him. “You’ll never live to do it again,” he said.

Dean looked around. There wasn’t much light, and he couldn’t see Poole’s face. In the brief, quiet pause, Dean figured it was time to act. He fired at Poole. So did Lee, but off to the side. Dean shot eight times from the hip, unloading with both hands. Poole collapsed into the ditch. He had been struck six times. They waited to make certain he was dead. The pop of the gun awoke farmer Fred Shettleman, who figured it must be a backfiring car. He fell back asleep.

Col. Davis scolded Dean for shooting too early; he had wanted to lecture Poole some more. Col. Davis told the men to keep their mouths shut about the killing. They drove back to Fort Street. A few of them went to a German inn, where they sat amid cigar and cigarette smoke in the tawny light of a half-curtained barroom and chatted over beers.

Col. Davis walked home. The fresh air might clear his mind.

Poole slaying helped expose Black Legion

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WASHINGTON (AP) — With Donald Trump facing felony charges over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the former president is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.

It’s part of a multiyear effort to undermine public confidence in the American electoral process as he seeks to chart a return to the White House in 2024. There is evidence that his lies are resonating: New polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 57% of Republicans believe Democrat Joe Biden was not legitimately elected as president.

Here are the facts about Trump’s loss in the last presidential election:

REVIEWS AND RECOUNTS CONFIRM BIDEN’S VICTORY

Biden’s victory over Trump in 2020 was not particularly close. He won the Electoral College with 306 votes to Trump’s 232, and the popular vote by more than 7 million ballots.

Because the Electoral College ultimately determines the presidency, the race was decided by a few battleground states. Many of those states conducted recounts or thorough reviews of the results, all of which confirmed Biden’s victory.

In Arizona, a six-month review of ballots in the state’s largest county, Maricopa, that was commissioned by Republican state legislators not only affirmed Biden’s victory but determined that he should have won by 306 more votes than the officially certified statewide margin of 10,457.

In Georgia, where Trump was recently indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 result there, state officials led by both a Republican governor and secretary of state recertified Biden’s win after conducting three statewide counts. The final official recount narrowed Biden’s victory in the state from just shy of 13,000 votes to just shy of 12,000 votes.

In Michigan, a committee led by Republican state senators concluded there was no widespread or systematic fraud in the state in 2020 after conducting a monthslong investigation. Michigan, where Biden defeated Trump by almost 155,000 votes, or 2.8 percentage points, was less competitive compared with other battleground states, although the result in Wayne County, home of Detroit, was targeted by Trump and his supporters with unfounded voter fraud claims, as were key urban jurisdictions across the country.

In Nevada, the then-secretary of state, Republican Barbara Cegavske, and her office reviewed tens of thousands of allegations of possible voter fraud identified by the Nevada Republican Party but found that almost all were based on incomplete information and a lack of understanding of the state’s voting and registration procedures. For example, Cegavske’s investigation found that of 1,506 alleged instances of ballots being cast in the name of deceased individuals, only 10 warranted further investigation by law enforcement. Similarly, 10 out of 1,778 allegations of double-voting called for further investigation. Biden won Nevada by 33,596 votes, or 2.4 percentage points.

In Pennsylvania, the final certified results had Biden with an 80,555-vote margin over Trump, or 1.2 percentage points. Efforts to overturn Pennsylvania’s election failed in state and federal courts, while no prosecutor, judge or election official in Pennsylvania has raised a concern about widespread fraud. State Republicans continue to attempt their own review of the 2020 results, but that effort has been tied up in the courts and Democrats have called it a “partisan fishing expedition.”

In Wisconsin, a recount slightly improved Biden’s victory over Trump by 87 votes, increasing Biden’s statewide lead to 20,682, or 0.6 percentage points. A nonpartisan audit that concluded a year after the election made recommendations on how to improve future elections in Wisconsin but did not uncover evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state, leading the Republican co-chair of the audit committee to declare that “the election was largely safe and secure.” The state’s Assembly speaker, a Republican, ordered a separate review, which a state judge said found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud.”

AP INVESTIGATION FINDS MINIMAL VOTER FRAUD IN SWING STATES

An exhaustive AP investigation in 2021 found fewer than 475 instances of confirmed voter fraud across six battleground states — nowhere near the magnitude required to sway the outcome of the presidential election.

The review of ballots and records from more than 300 local elections offices found that almost every instance of voter fraud was committed by individuals acting alone and not the result of a massive, coordinated conspiracy to rig the election. The cases involved both registered Democrats and Republicans, and the culprits were almost always caught before the fraudulent ballot was counted.

Some of the cases appeared to be intentional attempts to commit fraud, while others seemed to involve either administrative error or voter confusion, including the case of one Wisconsin man who cast a ballot for Trump but said he was unaware that he was ineligible to vote because he was on parole for a felony conviction.

The AP review also produced no evidence to support Trump’s claims that states tabulated more votes than there are registered voters.

Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million ballots cast. The disputed ballots represent just 0.15% of his victory margin in those states.

TRUMP’S OWN ADMINISTRATION FOUND NO WIDESPREAD FRAUD

Trump was repeatedly advised by members of his own administration that there was no evidence of widespread fraud.

Nine days after the 2020 election, the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a statement saying, “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” The statement was co-written by the groups representing the top elections officials in every state.

Less than three weeks later, then-Attorney General William Barr declared that a Justice Department investigation had not uncovered evidence of the widespread voter fraud that Trump had claimed was at the center of a massive conspiracy to steal the election. Barr, who had directed U.S. attorneys and FBI agents across the country to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, said, “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

The Jan. 6 House committee report details additional instances where administration officials and White House staff refuted Trump’s various allegations of voter fraud.

COURTS HEARD TRUMP’S LEGAL CHALLENGES AND REJECTED THEM

The Trump campaign and its backers pursued numerous legal challenges to the election in court and alleged a variety of voter fraud and misconduct. The cases were heard and roundly rejected by dozens of courts at both state and federal levels, including by judges whom Trump appointed.

One of them, U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, was on a federal panel that declined a request to stop Pennsylvania from certifying its results, saying, “Voters, not lawyers, choose the president. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections.”

The U.S. Supreme Court also rejected several efforts in the weeks after Election Day to overturn the election results in various battleground states that Biden won.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT VOTING MACHINES WERE UNFOUNDED

Many of the claims Trump and his team advanced about a stolen election dealt with the equipment voters used to cast their ballots.

At various times, Trump and his legal team falsely alleged that voting machines were built in Venezuela at the direction of President Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013; that machines were designed to delete or flip votes cast for Trump; and that the U.S. Army had seized a computer server in Germany that held secrets to U.S. voting irregularities.

None of those claims was ever substantiated or corroborated. CISA’s joint statement released after the election said, “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised.”

Nonetheless, many of these and other unfounded claims were repeated on Fox News, both by members of the Trump team as well as by some of the network’s on-air personalities. Dominion Voting Systems sued the network for $1.6 billion, claiming the outlet’s airing of these allegations amounted to defamation.

Records of internal communications at Fox News unearthed in the case showed that the network aired the claims even though its biggest stars, including Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, as well as the company’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, did not believe they were true.

Dominion and Fox News settled out of court for $787.5 million.

CLAIMS INVOLVING SUITCASES AND BALLOT MULES ARE DEBUNKED

Trump and his supporters also have claimed that a number of other factors contributed to a broader effort to steal the presidential election.

One theory advanced by both Trump and one of his lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, is that “suitcases” full of fraudulent ballots in Georgia cost Trump the election there.

Then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen told the Jan. 6 House committee that he personally reviewed the video purported to show the fraud allegation in question. He recounted telling Trump: “It wasn’t a suitcase. It was a bin. That’s what they use when they’re counting ballots. It’s benign.”

State and county officials also had confirmed the containers were regular ballot containers on wheels, which are used in normal ballot processing.

But a week later, Trump publicly repeated the suitcase theory, saying, “There is even security camera footage from Georgia that shows officials telling poll watchers to leave the room before pulling suitcases of ballots out from under the tables and continuing to count for hours.”

Richard Donoghue, the former acting deputy attorney general, told the Jan. 6 committee that, days later, he told Trump that “these allegations about ballots being smuggled in in a suitcase and run through the machine several times, it was not true. … We looked at the video, we interviewed the witnesses.” But Trump continued to repeat the false claim.

Another debunked claim spinning a tale of 2,000 so-called ballot mules was featured in a film that ran in hundreds of theaters last spring. The film alleges that Democrat-aligned individuals were paid to illegally collect and drop ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. But the AP determined that the allegations were based on flawed analysis of cellphone location data and drop box surveillance footage.

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Under the guise of rooting out the fraud that Donald Trump baselessly insists cost him the last election, Republicans have mounted a coordinated legal campaign to throw out mail-in ballots in key battleground states — an effort seemingly aimed at Democratic voters. “[Republicans are] looking for every advantage they can get,” Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections at the nonpartisan democracy organization Common Cause, told the Washington Post on Monday. “And they’ve calculated that this is a way that they can win more seats.”

As the Post reports, the GOP is seeking to disqualify some mail-in ballots in at least three states, all of which were key to Joe Biden’s 2020 victory and have been at the center of Trump’s election lies and conspiracies since: Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Kristina Karamo, the MAGA Republican running for secretary of state in Michigan, filed a lawsuit in Detroit in October challenging absentee ballots that were not cast in person with an ID, without offering rationale for zeroing in exclusively on the majority-Black, Democratic-leaning city. Karamo has been pushing conspiracy theories about fraud — including some pulled from a widely-debunked Dinesh D'Souza movie. That suit is seen as unlikely to succeed. But in Wisconsin, Republicans won their challenge against the nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission to toss absentee ballots with incomplete witness addresses. And in Pennsylvania, the Republican National Committee filed a suit to toss ballots with undated envelopes; the state Supreme Court found the RNC has standing and ordered that election officials “segregate and preserve any ballots contained in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes,” putting thousands of already-cast votes at risk of going uncounted. That could prove hugely consequential in the state, home of one of the highest-stakes Senate races: a close contest between Democrat John Fetterman and Trump-backed Republican Mehmet Oz.

“A cornerstone of our democracy is that every ballot should be counted,” Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf wrote Sunday evening. “No voter should be disenfranchised simply because they made a minor error in filling out their ballot.”

Trump and the Republicans have railed hard against mail-in voting since 2020, lying ahead of that election that the method would be rife with fraud. That proved not to be true; the 2020 election, carried out in the middle of a raging pandemic, was “the most transparent, secure, and verified election in American history,” as elections expert David Becker told me in September. That the lies have persisted is no accident: Trump’s attacks on the integrity of mail-in ballots helped form the foundation of his failed campaign to “stop the count” before Biden overtook his Election Night lead. The GOP appears to be continuing those attacks as one component of a broader strategy both to challenge unfavorable outcomes and to limit Democratic participation in the process, including via state-level voting restrictions and intimidation campaigns against both voters and election workers.

It hardly seems accidental that, as they mount legal challenges to absentee ballots, Republicans have also encouraged their own base to vote on Election Day. “If you can eliminate one percent of the votes and they tend to lean Democratic, then that gives you a statistical advantage,” Clifford Levine, a Pittsburgh-based election lawyer for Democrats, told the Post. It remains to be seen what kind of impact the challenges have on this week’s midterms. But the suits underscore the extent to which ongoing lies about the 2020 election are factoring into the 2022 election. “This is not about stopping fraud,” Levine continued. “It’s about discounting mail ballots. There’s just no question.”

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Events 5.7 (before 1930)

351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch. 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt. 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens; it ratified a decree to regulate the election of the Pope. 1487 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista. 1544 – The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing. 1625 – State funeral of James VI and I (1566-1625) is held at Westminster Abbey. 1664 – Inaugural celebrations begin at Louis XIV of France's new Palace of Versailles. 1685 – Battle of Vrtijeljka between rebels and Ottoman forces. 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace. 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. 1763 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British. 1765 – HMS Victory is launched at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. She is not commissioned until 1778. 1794 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic. 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: A French force attempting to dislodge a small British garrison on the Îles Saint-Marcouf is repulsed with heavy losses. 1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision. 1832 – Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London. 1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history. 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards. 1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. 1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day. 1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire. 1915 – The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy. 1920 – Kyiv offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later. 1920 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

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Congresswoman Barbara-Rose Collins (April 13, 1939 – November 4, 2021) was a Congresswoman born in Detroit to Lunar N. and Vera (Jones) Richardson. She attended Wayne State University in Detroit. Her career began at Wayne State University where she served as a business manager, worked in the Physics department, and worked in neighborhood relations. She served as a board member in Detroit’s School Region I (1971-73).

In 1975 she was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives from the 21st District (Detroit) and served there until 1981. She was elected to the Detroit City Council in 1981 and served there until her election to the House. She served as a commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Detroit. In 1985 she chaired the Detroit City Council Task Force on Teenage Violence. In 1991, she was elected as Congresswoman from Michigan’s 15th District, after the death of her husband, Congressman George Collins.

She was interested in urban concerns, what she called “the bread and butter problems of the cities”—crime, homelessness, poverty, unemployment, domestic and other violence.

She has been a member of numerous civic and political organizations including the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials, where she served as Regional Coordinator; the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters, the Americans for Democratic Action, Black Parents for Quality Education, Detroit Black United Fund and Women’s Rights Committee. she was the recipient of numerous awards and honors including Feminist of the Year, the Award of Appreciation from the American Businesswomen’s Association, the Valuable Service award, International Freedom Festival, and the Devoted Service Award Metro (Detroit) Boy Scouts of America. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta

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Bill Stenger, the general manager of Jay Peak ski resort, had a busy routine. He would wake up early, visit different departments, and interact with the staff. Stenger, who is seventy-five years old, expressed his love for skiing and its transformative power. One day, while having coffee with a colleague, he received a call from his assistant, informing him that the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) had arrived at the office. Stenger remained optimistic, thinking they were there for a tour. However, he soon discovered that the S.E.C. was seizing the resort and another ski hill owned by his business partner, Ariel Quiros. Stenger was handed a document accusing him and Quiros of fraud.

Jay Peak, located in northern Vermont, was once a lesser-known ski hill visited by locals and skiing enthusiasts. However, in the early 2000s, a plan was developed to expand the resort and create jobs using the EB-5 visa program. This program allowed foreign investors to contribute a certain amount of money to businesses in exchange for green cards and the creation of jobs. Stenger, along with Quiros, persuaded investors to back their plan to transform Jay Peak into a four-season resort with various amenities. They also had plans to develop Burke Mountain and build a biotech facility in Newport. In total, they raised $350 million and predicted that the projects could create about ten thousand new jobs.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) has accused Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger of committing a massive fraud, misusing more than half of the money raised. Quiros allegedly funneled a significant portion of the funds through shell companies and used it for personal expenses, including paying taxes and buying a condominium in Manhattan. Stenger, on the other hand, is not accused of stealing money directly but is accused of presenting fraudulent projections to attract further investment while turning a blind eye to Quiros' actions. Vermont's former governor, Peter Shumlin, expressed his feeling of betrayal during a press conference at the statehouse.

When Stenger read the document from Schneider, federal agents were already at the resort, securing the computer systems, and Jay Peak was placed under the control of a court-appointed receiver to protect the interests of the investors. Despite the ongoing legal proceedings, the staff continued their work as usual, and guests remained unaware of the situation. Stenger's reaction to the complaint was a mix of shock and disbelief, leading him to call his wife for support. Whether his surprise was genuine or an act remains uncertain.

Rural areas across the United States are struggling to create jobs, and population density plays a significant role in this challenge. Major cities like Austin and New York have experienced economic growth due to a cycle where educated workers attract employers, and vice versa. However, in rural areas and smaller cities like Detroit and Buffalo, globalization has caused key employers to leave, leading to the closure of more businesses and a downward spiral. For example, North Carolina's furniture-manufacturing industry lost half of its jobs due to cheap furniture imports from Asia. Consequently, poverty rates in places like Robeson County have skyrocketed. The growing wealth gap between wealthy city dwellers and the rest of the population has also contributed to political polarization. In the last Presidential election, Joe Biden won fewer counties but represented a significant portion of the nation's economic activity, while Donald Trump won more counties but represented a smaller share of economic activity.

Once an area falls into decline, it is challenging to reverse the trajectory. In Hardwick, a town in central Vermont, local leaders hoped to boost the economy through an artisanal-food-based industry. The town is home to a renowned cheese producer, breweries, organic vegetable suppliers, and farm-to-table restaurants. However, a study conducted by Arthur Woolf, a retired economics professor, found that these efforts did not significantly impact local employment over the previous fifteen years. Woolf emphasized that these challenges are long-term structural factors that are difficult to overcome.

The EB-5 program was created in 1990 to attract foreign investors to low-income areas in the United States. Initially, only a small number of visas were used, but over time, changes were made to make the program more appealing. Congress allowed for pooled investments and made the job-creation requirement more flexible. After the 2008 financial crisis, entrepreneurs turned to the EB-5 program for funding. Brokers and legal advisers began recruiting foreign investors and earning large fees. China has been the biggest source of investors, with demand increasing due to fear and President Xi Jinping's policies. The program has supported important projects, such as opioid-addiction treatment centers and the completion of a ski resort.

In 2015, the developers behind Manhattan’s Hudson Yards raised $1.2 billion in EB-5 financing for a luxury real estate project. This included a shopping mall, condos, and an office tower, making it the most expensive real estate development in U.S. history. The project was able to qualify for favorable financing by manipulating census tracts to include areas with high unemployment, such as Central Park and housing projects. Other projects, such as the Waldorf-Astoria in Beverly Hills and a Chinese-themed hotel complex in Las Vegas, also used this strategy. Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former President Trump, utilized the EB-5 program to build a Trump-branded luxury apartment building in New Jersey. Bill Stenger, a marketer for Jay Peak, grew up in New York and has been involved in the ski industry since 1975.

Bill Stenger, the former CEO of Jay Peak Resort in Vermont, has always had a passion for skiing. He believes that the sport brings joy and happiness to people's lives. Stenger is inspired by a theory proposed by neurologist John Kitchin, who left his medical practice to rollerblade blissfully on the San Diego boardwalk. Kitchin believes that the lateral movement involved in rollerblading and skiing stimulates the otolith, a part of the inner ear that triggers feelings of flow and euphoria. Stenger is a firm believer in the positive aspects of skiing, stating, 'There’s nothing negative about it.'

When Stenger joined Jay Peak Resort in 1984 as the general manager, he was excited to help improve the beloved but outdated ski resort. The lack of proper snowmaking equipment and outdated lifts restricted the number of visitors. Stenger also disliked having to lay off hundreds of employees at the end of each season. Many employees, like maintenance worker Virgil Starr, had deep connections to the resort and enjoyed the outdoor work. Starr said, 'Working here kept me young and spry and occupied.'

In the 1990s, Stenger began envisioning an ambitious redesign that would transform Jay Peak Resort into a year-round destination. He sought potential investors, including Canadian bankers who frequented the mountain. However, every time Stenger thought he had found someone to support his plan, something would happen, such as a recession, that would deter investors. Jay Peak Resort is located in an area of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom, which has struggled to attract sustainable job opportunities. Despite the setbacks, Stenger remained determined to bring positive change to the resort and the surrounding community.

Bill Stenger, the former CEO of Jay Peak Resort in Vermont, worked with the administration of Governor Howard Dean to create the first federally authorized regional EB-5 center operated by a state. This center was designed to monitor projects funded through the EB-5 program.

In 2006, Stenger was looking for a buyer for the resort after the sudden death of the owner, and he began talking with Ariel Quiros, a Jay Peak condo owner. Quiros, who grew up in Harlem, had a tough childhood and became an entrepreneur at a young age. After serving in the military and working as a fixer for the Korean government, he settled in Miami and ran an import-export business.

Despite some distrust from Stenger's son and other officials, Stenger was impressed by Quiros's wealth and his generous spending habits. One of Stenger's lawyers described him as being starstruck by Quiros. Quiros's appearance and background made him seem like a character out of a movie, but Stenger vouched for him.

In 2008, Ariel Quiros bought Jay Peak for $25 million with the help of Bill Stenger, who had already raised $17.5 million from foreign investors for the resort's expansion. As part of the deal, Quiros gave Stenger a 15% ownership stake in the resort, which could increase to 20% in five years. Quiros also offered Stenger a developer fee of about 15% of the construction budget, amounting to millions of dollars. The project's finances were consolidated at Raymond James, a bank in Florida where Quiros' former son-in-law worked as a broker. Stenger claims ignorance about the bank's small banking department compared to its investment department.

Over the years, Stenger proved to be a successful fundraiser, working with an EB-5 consultant named Douglas Hulme who helped connect him with foreign investors. Stenger traveled to various countries, including Japan, China, Vietnam, and South Africa, to meet potential investors. Many of these investors were women and their college-aged children. Stenger liked most of the investors he met and invited many of them to visit Jay Peak. However, he refused a cash investment from a Russian 'oligarch knockoff.'

During these trips, state officials from the Agency of Commerce and Community Development accompanied Stenger, emphasizing their oversight of the investment activity. Stenger also made donations to politicians like Patrick Leahy and Peter Welch, who praised the project and even attended investor meetings in Ireland and Vietnam. Leahy wrote a letter praising Stenger's vision and the positive impact on job creation in the region. Neither Leahy nor Welch responded to requests for comment.

Construction began on Jay Peak’s hotel and water park, bringing a lot of jobs to the community. Stenger's reputation grew and he received awards for his work. Quiros, on the other hand, bought expensive apartments in Manhattan and became close with Governor Shumlin. However, insiders started questioning the financial practices of Jay Peak. The chief financial officer noticed irregularities and quit, and his replacement also became concerned about funds being misused.

In 2012, Jay Peak's owner Ariel Quiros surprised his business partner, Bill Stenger, with the news that he had purchased Burke Mountain for $10 million. Quiros said that investors from Korea had provided the funds and renamed it QBurke. Stenger was unhappy with the purchase but this didn't stop their ambitious plans.

Quiros and Stenger then launched an even bigger project - a $600 million plan to develop the town of Newport. The plan included a facility operated by a Korean biomedical firm called AnC Bio, a hotel, conference center, and residential and retail complex. Stenger hoped this project would transform Newport into a mini Silicon Valley.

Despite skepticism from locals, Stenger believed Newport's location would be a draw for highly paid scientists and executives. The project received support from politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin. The community saw this as an opportunity for economic growth.

In 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned investors about fraud in the EB-5 program. Anshoo R. Sethi, a developer, raised $156 million for a hotel and conference center in Chicago, but it was revealed that he misrepresented his experience and misused the funds. Sethi was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to repay investors. Another lawyer named Victoria Chan also pleaded guilty to fraud and money-laundering charges after raising $50 million for a hotel and shopping center in California. The program lacked oversight and allowed for dishonesty, with investors not closely monitoring where their money was going and lawyers and brokers profiting without reporting potential wrongdoing. The lack of regulation in the program was highlighted by experts, making it one of the least regulated federal programs.

In 2011, Gibson questioned whether Vermont's regional EB-5 center was conducting audits as it claimed. It turns out, the state had not reviewed any of the projects' quarterly reports. Shumlin blamed the lack of resources for this oversight. A local resident researched the AnC Bio project and sent a detailed report to the state attorney general's office. The promised artificial organs were not yet approved and Quiros had a history of failed ventures and pending lawsuits. In 2012, Hulme, the visa broker, withdrew from the projects and expressed concerns about mismanagement of funds. Stenger converted early investors' ownership stake to an I.O.U., which sparked complaints. Galloway published a story about the investors' accusations.

Alarm bells started ringing within the state government when several Korean-speaking interns discovered online that AnC Bio, a supposedly successful biotech firm, was actually facing serious financial difficulties in Korea. The government had auctioned off its headquarters, and the address it had been using on U.S. marketing materials turned out to be nonexistent. The state's Department of Financial Regulation, led by Michael Pieciak, was directed to investigate. When Pieciak questioned those involved about the project's finances, they were evasive. The Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) and the FBI also began their own investigations. The FBI agent assigned to the case, Jennie Emmons, was astonished by the massive scale of the construction happening at Jay Peak, which she had previously visited. It soon became clear that the entire Jay Peak project was fraudulent. Quiros had used EB-5 money illegally to purchase the resort, and he ran the operation like a Ponzi scheme, using money from new investors to cover previous shortfalls. Quiros and his associates created falsified financial projections and used the funds to buy land and homes in Vermont. State investigators created a complex chart to illustrate the flow of money through various entities, calling it the 'spaghetti map.'

Bill Stenger, the former CEO of Jay Peak Resort in Vermont, is facing accusations of fraud and embezzlement in the EB-5 scandal. Stenger claims that he had no knowledge of what his business partner Ariel Quiros was doing with the money, but investigators find this claim implausible. Stenger insists that he was shocked to learn about Quiros's secret payments and was also indignant at the small amount of money they had attributed to him. However, investigators say that Stenger promoted falsified projections, including exaggerated sales estimates for artificial organs that weren't even ready for the market. Stenger argues that he relied on third-party projections and couldn't promote a facility destined for failure in his own hometown.

Stenger claims that he only realized something was going wrong after signing new construction contracts in 2015. Quiros told him that they needed to slow down on expenses because the money was tied up in long-term notes, despite it being supposed to be in a sequestered account. Contractors started walking off the job due to non-payment, and state officials collaborated with the SEC on the investigation. However, officials allowed Stenger to continue the projects as long as investor funds were placed in escrow. Stenger downplayed the SEC's involvement in marketing documents, raising another $40 million from Chinese investors.

Stenger hasn't spoken to Quiros since the SEC raid in 2016. When the SEC receiver arrived to see the property, Stenger showed him all the buildings and facilities that were built with EB-5 money. The receiver asked Stenger to continue working while the case proceeded but warned that if he found any wrongdoing, Stenger would be done.

In a major fraud case, Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger settled charges with the S.E.C and were later indicted by the U.S. Attorney for Vermont. Quiros was sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering, while Stenger was sentenced to eighteen months for submitting falsified documents. Paul Van de Graaf, a prosecutor on the case, called it one of the most significant in the state's history. Stenger recently gave a tour of Jay Peak after being released from prison, while Quiros remains incarcerated. Over six hundred foreign investors lost money, and many were unable to obtain green cards. The state settled a lawsuit with the investors, agreeing to pay sixteen million dollars. Felipe Accioly, an investor from Brazil, now faces the risk of deportation. Stenger expressed regret and claimed he was too busy to notice the fraud.

Despite the controversy and legal issues surrounding the Jay Peak Resort, the new and expanded resort is fully operational, which some see as a vindication of the development. However, the financial burden of the project is far from being paid off, as the resort was sold for significantly less than the amount invested. The receiver of the project, Goldberg, admits that building a hotel worth $250 million in this part of Vermont was a bad business plan from the start. Changes have been made to the EB-5 program to prevent future abuse, but concerns about fraud still persist.

Stenger, who now works for Goldberg, is currently trying to find a buyer for the empty lot where the hotel and apartments were supposed to be built. He has managed to secure a local snow-grooming-equipment manufacturer to occupy part of the intended building, but drugs and unreliable employees have posed challenges. The newly elected mayor of Newport, Linda Joy Sullivan, remains optimistic about the town's future and plans to transform the empty lot into a hotel, restaurant, or even a museum. The prosecutor, Van de Graaf, believes that Stenger's motivations were a mix of altruism and ego, while Moulton, Vermont's former commerce secretary, suggests that he was driven by a flawed belief in bringing positive change. The failure of the project has left many with a shattered dream and a sense of disappointment.

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Luke Michael Lints Sentenced to 36 Months Prison - Capitol Breach

Luke Michael Lints was Sentenced to 36 Months in Federal Prison Related to the Breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. WASHINGTON, DC (STL.News) A Michigan man was sentenced today for interfering with law enforcement officers during a civil disorder related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Luke Michael Lints, 29, of Traverse City, Michigan, was ordered by U.S. District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden to four months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release, the first four of which will be on home detention and a fine/restitution of $2,000. According to court documents, on January 6, 2021, Lints watched speeches at the rally near the ellipse and then walked to the Capitol. Lints then became part of a large group of rioters who attempted to violently push their way past law enforcement officers guarding the Lower West Terrace tunnel of the Capitol. At approximately 3:10 p.m., Lints entered the tunnel on the Lower West Terrance and made his way toward the front of the police line. Lints were observed at the front of the line of rioters who were engaged in an assault against the police. Lints obtained a police riot shield and used it to push back against a law enforcement officer who was also holding a shield. Lints used his shield to prevent an officer from closing a door to create a barrier between the rioters and law enforcement. At one point, the group of rioters, including Lints, began chanting “heave! ho!” in unison as they moved back and forth together against the team of police. Lints admits and agrees that he obstructed, impeded, or interfered with law enforcement officers lawfully engaged in the lawful performance of their official duties incident to and during the commission of a civil disorder that adversely affected commerce and the performance of a federally protected function. Lints was arrested on June 30, 2022, in Traverse City, Michigan. This case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Valuable assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan. The case was investigated by the FBI’s Detroit Field Office and Washington Field Office, which identified Lints as #261 in its seeking information photos. Valuable assistance was provided by the Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S. Capitol Police, and the Traverse City, MI Police Department. In the 28 months since January 6, 2021, more than 1,000 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including more than 320 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. The investigation remains ongoing. Read the full article

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Map: Is it time for Detroit City Council Redistricting?

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Front page of the Tulsa Tribune during the Tulsa Race Massacre, 6/1/1921.

Series: Central Decimal Files, 1881 - 1982

Collection: Records of the American National Red Cross, 1881 - 2008

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THE PEOPLE'S PAPER

The Tulsa Tribune

THE WEATHER SECOND

OKLAHOMA - Tonight and Thurs- EXTRA

day part cloudy.

Tulso temperatures: Maximum

today at noon, 85, yesterday, 91;

minimum, 68, yesterday, 61

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORTS OF ASSOCIATED AND UNITED PRESS; UNRIVALED STATE AND FEATURE SERVICE

VOL. XVII - NUMBER 225. TULSA, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1921. State Edition * * FOURTEEN PAGES - PRICE [TORN] CENTS

COUNTY PUT UNDER MARTIAL LAW

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7 whites, 68 Negroes Dead --- Fire Rages

PROCLAMATION

All persons not deputied as special officers are ordered to

disarm in a proclamation issued shortly before noon by Mayor

Evans. Persons carrying guns after that hour will be arrested.

The proclamation:

"Armed troops, well equipped, have now arrived who, with

the assistance of the local authorities, will be able to control

the situation in this city. Everyone is directed to preserve law

an dorder and to avoid under every circumstance, the gather-

ing on the streets of curious and excited masses. This only

tends to make the situation worse for the authorities in restor-

ing order, making it more burdensome and complicated. No

loyal citien of Tulsa will willingly commit any act which en-

dangers the peace and security of the city. All parties, without

direct authority from the chief of police or the sheriff or Tulsa

county, who may be found after 11 a. m. today bearing arms and

engaged in any act liable to promote a breach of the peace will

be arrested and prosecuted under the Riot Act.

"Headquarters of the National Guards is established in

Room 306, City Hall, at Fourth street and Cincinnati avenue,

and except for duly appointed policeman and deputy sheriffs

all permission to bear ar mfsrom, and after, the publication of

this proclamation must be countersigned by Gen. Charles F.

Barrett or Col. B. F. Markham, commanding the National Guards.

"Gen. Charles F. Barrett concurs in this proclamation."

Dated 10:30 a. m., June First 1921.

"T. D. EVANS, Mayor."

Barrett is Put in Full

Charge by Robertson

OKLAHOMA CITY. - Martial law in Tulsa was ordered by

Governor Robertson at 11:15 o'clock and Adjutant General Bar-

rett placed in command of the city. The order was given over

the long distance telephone and a proclamation to this effect is

being prepared and will be issued immediately.

The order of Governor Robertson invoking martial law

over Tulsa has been extended to include all of Tulsa county. The

order will displace civil control and place it in supreme com-

mand of the adjutant general.

The governor's telegram to the adjutant general follows:

"I have declared martial law throughout Tulsa county and

am holding you responsible for maintenance of order, safety of

lives and protection of property. You will do all things neces-

sary to attain these objects.

(Signed) "J. B. A. ROBERTSON, Governor."

The governor acted after being in communication with of-

ficers in Tulsa. Attorney General Freeling will go to Tulsa this

afternoon.

"The situation at Tulsa seems peculiar to me," Governor

Robertson said. "With power vested in all city and county offi-

cials there to deputie and put into the law enforcement every

citien of the city if necessary, I cannot understand how this

trouble was allowed to get such a start."

Conversation with Adjutant General Barrett was to the ef-

fect that it was impossible for the fire department to enter the

negro section and that the flames were raging unabated.

All available guardsmen will be placed on duty once in

the negro section, which has been entirely destroyed by flames,

General Barrett said when he r[eceived order?] from Governor

Robertson placing the county under martial law.

Orders have been issued to disarm citizens. Later the

military will issu ecrededntials to men chosen as special officers.

A military commission, composed of seven city officials

and business men, to pass upon the guilt of the 6,000 negroes

now held in concentration camp, was formed shortly before

noon by Mayor Evans and Chief of Police Gustafson and ap-

proved by General Barrett. This committee will pass upon the

guilt of those held under guard in the various camps, naming

those who will be held for trial for inciting the black populace

to riot.

The personnel of the committee: C. S. Younkman, water

commissioner; Albert Hunt, district judge; H. F. Newblock,

city commissioner; C. S. Aver, oil man; Grant McCullough,

banker; F. E. White, business man; Alva J. Niles, banker.

The Tulsa Tribbune

RESTORE ORDER

LYNCH law leads not to law but to lawlessness and

lawlessness is a repudiation of government.

Lynch law is a fire brand in the hands of those

who thoughtlessly elect to establish mob rule for law

and order. Lynch law is an impassioned appeal to the

hatreds of prejudice. It brings ignominy and disaster

to any community that falls its victims.

Whatever ground it may have had, a story starts

that a negro in the county jail was to be lynched. Out

of curiosity a crowd collects. A small band of negroes

brings firearms onto the scene. At first they were few

At the outset there was nothing to indicate that the

whites had been moved to a battling protest. But when

the first small band of negroes added to their armed

forces the war began. Tulsa found itself experiencing

a night of terror and the new day dawned with the

[illegible]nd of battle and the sky clouded with the smoke that

rises above the burning buildings and shacks in the

negro end of town.

At such a time as this it is the first duty of every

citizen to restore law and order as quickly as possible.

The National Guard is equal to cope with the rioting

negroes who are already under control. Let every citi-

zen do his duty and lend his fullest influence to the

prompt restoration of law and order. Do this for the

good name of Tulsa. Keep off the streets where there

are evidences of disorder as much as possible. Make

no needlessly threatening display of arms. The state's

soldiers can do that and do it with the authority of the

law.

Now is the time for every citizen to keep a cool

head, to keep out of mob collections. The quickest and

surest way to restore law is to respect the law. Let the

authorized agents of the law handle those who will

not.

BLACK QUARTER BURNS TO GROUND;

FOUR GUARD UNITS TAKE CHARGE

Seven white persons are known to be dead.

One white woman, shot six times, is expected to die.

Thirty-four whites are wounded in three hospitals. Many other wounded persons are

in their own homes.

Sixty-eight negroes, including men, women, and children, are dead, according to reports

from all districts of the black belt where heavy fighting was waged throughout the night

and up to 9 o-clock this morning.

One hundred blacks are believed wounded.

The officials are in control of the situation and no more armed conflicts are expected.

The entire black belt of Tulsa is a charred mass. The business section of

Greenwood avenue is levelled. Scarcely a building escaped the flames set by

torches when an army of whites invaded that district early this morning to an-

ticipate a general attack on the part of the blacks. Officials at noon today were

unable to estimate the total loss which will extend into many thousands of dollars.

It is estimated that more than 500 homes of negroes were burned. A score of

business buildings and a number of factories were razed. Heavy stocks of mer-

chandise were a total loss.

The fire carried by a strong north wind spread into the white residence

section adjoining the black settlement on North Detroit avenue. Ten homes in a

row were burned before firemen could check the flames. One house was burned

in the immediate vicinity of Standpipe hill.

At 12:30 o'clock the fire in this district was rapidly being brought under

control.

Hundres of white women and children fled from their homes as the leap-

ing flames fanned by a strong wind from the north ate their way to the white

belt. About 11 o'clock the wind subdued, giving the firemen a chance to

successfully combat the flames.

A special train bearing 350 National Guardsmen under the command

of Adjutant General Barrett arrived at 9:05 o'clock this morning. General Bar-

rett issued a statement from guard headquarters at the police station that mar-

tial law would not be declared until he had made a hurried investigation.

Only developments will determine if it is to be invoked,

Barrett added. Companies A and B, totaling 150 men, arrived

on the special train from Oklahoma City, with a second troop

train due from the capital about 11 o'clock. Company B and a

sanitary detachment, both located here, are also on duty and

have been since midnight.

The guards after establishing headquarters in Second

street in front of the police station were ordered to various sec-

tions of the black belt. One contingent was sent to Meulty park,

where several hundred negroes are interned.

General Barrett is now acting under orders issued by Mayor

Evans, Chief of Police Gustafson and Sheriff Bill McCullough.

Following a night of rioting, snip-

ing and open clashes between whites

and blacks hundreds of armed men

invaded the negro district to remove

the menace the blacks there offered.

At 5 o'clock scores of armed men in

automobiles drove to the north side

of the black belt in the vicinity of

Standpipe hill. These white fighters

formed one wing of an encircling

movement entirely surrounding the

negro district. Hundreds of pedes-

trains advanced on the black belt

from the south and west. Hundreds

of shots were fired. Many negroes

were reported to have been wound-

ed while a number of whites were

taken to hospitals with wounds.

The heaviest fighting this morn-

ing was in the extreme northern sec-

tion of the black belt. Hundreds of

negroes were concentrated in a val-

ley at the base of Sunset hill. Fifty

were barricaded in a church.

Machine Guns In Use.

Deadly volleys of steel were poured

[into?] the ranks of the whites as they

[advanced?] in open formation against

the blacks who stood their ground.

Finally the whites were forced to re-

treat. A call was sent to police head-

quarters for reinforcements. A num-

ber of guardsmen with two machine

guns were rushed in automobiles to

the scene of the fighting. The ma-

chine guns were set up and for 20

minutes poured a stream of lead on

the negroes who sought refuge be-

hind buildings, telephone poles and

in ditches.

The heavy firing came to a sud-

den halt when a huge white cloth

was raised aloft by the negroes. The

church where many negroes were

barricaded was riddled with bullets,

it was said.

Hundreds of negroes with hands

held high in the air walked from

the valley under the guard of armed

civilians. They were taken to Con-

vention hall and McNulty park,

where they were interned.

Whites who returned from the

battle-swept valley said that at least

50 negroes, including men, women

and children, were lying dead. At 10

o'clock authorities had been unable

to make a check of the black losses

in this battle.

Most of the blacks who were killed

met death in the early morning

fighting in the negro section near

the Frisco tracks.

___________________________

THE START

The clash had its inception when

several automobiles loaded with

armed negroes and said to have been

led by "Old Man" Stratford, a ne-

gro hotel proprietor, swung up in

front of the courthouse shortly be-

fore 10 o'clock, bent on protecting

Rowland. Not more than 30 blacks

were in the first party but they suc-

ceeded in virtually taking command

of the situation there because few

of the whites were armed and none

displayed guns. The blacks were or-

dered home by Sheriff McCullough,

who it is said, had armed negro

deputies with him on the courthouse

steps. Barney Cleaver, a former negro

police officer, also advised them to

go home. After the first sally, dur-

ing which the blacks dispersed part

of the crowd of whites, the negroes

were still permitted to keep their

guns.

Instead of going home, they cir-

cled around several blocks near the

courthouse and came back with an-

other flourish of shot-guns and

rifles. By this time the crowd of

whites had increased to several

thousand with hundreds of women

and a number of children on the

fringes. Most of the whites wer on-

lookers and there appeared to be

no organized mob. After making

known their intention to protect

Rowland at all costs the blacks were

star[ing?] toward home again. There

was still no move on the part of the

sheriff's forces or the city police to

disarm them although the black

force was not more than 50 at this

time.

Instead of going to the negro sec-

tion to stay the blackss whirled

through the streets of the quarter

and sought recruits. Every negro

they met was solicited to joion their

ranks. At Sixth and Cincinnati two

negroes who refused were threat-

ened, according to residents of the

neighborhood who overheard the

conversation.

Shortly after 10 o'clock the blacks

came back to the courthouse with

their biggest force. Estimates place

the number of armed negroes at be-

tween 100 and 200. By this time

it was estimated that probably 100

of the whites in the crowd had

procured arms. A number of whites

who sought guns at the National

Guard armory were refused. Cour-

iers went through the crowd of

whites and warned women and

children and unarmed men to seek

safety. They said they feared an

assault by the blacks. Only a part

of the crowd complied.

The first clash followed on the

heels of this warning. There are

two versions of how the firing be-

gun. According to some of the spectators

pistols were first fired into the air

in front of the Boulder street en-

trance to the courthouse and this,

spectators say, acted as a signal for

the general firing during which the

blacks fired ten shots to each one

for the whites. The crowd of whites

greatly outnumbered the armed

band of negroes but the whites were

helpless in front of the black on-

slaught because they were in con-

stant danger of firing into other

whites if they attempted to protect

the women and children in the crowd

by answering the blacks fire.

Where First Man Fell

After the first volley one carload

of blacks came north on Boulder

avenue, firing as they raced along.

The first white man dropped be-

fore the crash. He had been stand-

ing against the wall of the garage

on Boulder, just south of Sixth

street.

Across the street men and women

in the crowd sought refuge in the

row of houses on Boulder south of

Sixth. Many of them were unoble

to reach cover before the second

volley so they dropped in their

tracks and clung to the earth.

Others hid behind curbs in the

driveways to the garages of these

homes, running to better cover be-

tween the volleys.

Meanwhile the negroes fled.

Some of them ran through the

crowds of women and children,

brandishing their guns. They had

disappeared from the immediate

area of the courthouse within ten

minutes after the first shot had been fired.

Second Version of Start

The second version of the start

of the firing was to the effect that

a number of unarmed white men,

seeing that the officials were not

willing to disarm the blacks, took

that task to themselves. One man

is reported to have dashed into the ranks of blacks and seized one of the

guns. Spectators who relate this as

the true story of the inception of

the shooting declare that the blacks

immediately opened fire when they

were threatened with disarmament.

Shortly after the negroes fled

from the courthouse battlefield an

automobile load of white youths

sped past and fired into the jail

windows on the fourth floor, spec-

tators declared.

John McQueen, a former county

officer and one of the men who at-

tempted to disperse the crowd at the

courthouse, declared today that

Johnny Cody was the negro whose

shot started the general firing here.

"While I was on the steps Cody

and a band of negroes started up,"

McQueen said. "I went to meet them

and a stranger backed me uo. Cody

pushed a gun against him and fired

just as I pushed the gun away. The

stranger went down. Several bullets

went through my coat."

Immediately after this report came

to the crowd that the blacks were

mobilizing for systematic assault on

the whites. The majority of the

white men were still [illegible]. It

became immediately apparent how-

ever, that the police and sheriff's

force were making no attempt to

prevent the return of the blacks so

the white men themselves took

charge of the situation. Small

groups systematically entered all

downtown hardware stores and

pawnshops and took up all the arms

and ammunition that could be found

Nothing else in any of the stores

were touched.

Black Attack Again.

Soon there were more than 1,000

armed men on the streets. Part of

this crowd defended the Hotel Tulsa

and the section around Second street

and Cincinnati avenue from an attack

of blacks who swarmed back within

three quarters of an hour after the

court house battle.

After this second general battle,

which is described elsewhere, the

whites took rapid command of the

situation. Patrols spread quickly to

cover all the principal streets and

the roads leading into the city.

Special guards were put at all bridges

within a several-mile radius to halt

any incoming blacks. Roving pa-

trols moved up and down Main

street. At Main and Archer streets

desultory firing took place for sev-

eral hours. Blacks from their quar-

ter fired repeatedly from behind the

building at Archer street and Boulder

avenue and Archer and Cincinnati

avenue. They were cleared out with-

in an hour or two, but a second

group took their place and held the

negro block on Cincinnati, at the

Frisco tracks, against assault until

early this morning. Two negroes were

killed here and several others wound-

ed. A number of whites were re-

ported wounded in fighting here.

Could Have Disarmed Blacks.

Fully an hour before the first

shots were fired at the courthouse

citizens stood on the south steps and

pleaded with Police Commissioner

Adkison to call out the National

Guard without delay. The negroes

were just beginning to parade the

streets at that time and they argued

that even a small detachment of or-

ganized and equipped men could dis-

arm them, compel them to return to

their own part of ftown, get the

whites to disperse when this had

been accomplished and so avert im-

pending trouble.

Commissioner Adkison answered:

"We are trying to get them out,"

then turned and told the crowd to

obey E. S. McQueen's advice to go

home while the negroes were patrol-

ling the streets in arms, threatening

death and rapine. The police were

powerless.

An hour after the pitched battle

took place around the courthouse

and northward along Main and Bos-

ton, the Guard got into action.

Guardsmen went immediately to the

police station and began an attempt

to disperse the whites who had

armed themselves and gathered

there in expectation of another at-

tack.

_____________________________

The Dead

Carl D. Lotpeisch, 28, Randall

Kans., shot through breast. Taken to

Oklahoma hospital at 6:30 o'clock

this morning. He died shortly after-

ward.

Unidentified whate man, about

28; light brown hair; light brown

eyes; five feet ten inches; 160

pounds. At the Mowbray undertak-

ing parlors.

F. M. Baker, Havelin, Kan., 27,

short in back with buchshot. Died

this morning at Morningside hospi-

tal. At the Mowbray Undertaking

parlors. An identification card found

in his clothing bore the name of

Norman Gillard, 315 So. Norfolk.

The third white man, unidentified

was killed about 5:45 o'clock this

morning when a squad of white

riflemen engaged a group of ne-

groes on North Cincinnati av. The

body was taken to Mitchell-Fleming

undertaking parlors. He was de-

scribed as about 25 years old, six

feet [ta?]ll, weight 165 punds. He

wore dark green trousers, brown

coat, tan shoes, and a tan belt with

a silver clasp bearing the initial

"W". He was shot in the neck.

Death was instantaneous.

The body of an unidentified white

man about 35, held at the Stanley-

McGee Undertaking parlors still

was unidentified early today. He

was shot in the head.

The body of a white man, about

30, shot in the back of the head, held at

the Mowbray undertaking parlors,

ho[illegible] [ea?]rly last night in the first brush

with the blacks, still was unidentified

this morning.

[1?]0-year-old white boy, though

to [be?] named Olson, home at Sapulpa

died at 8:30 o'clock following a bat-

tle an hour earlier at the Frisco depot

in which two negroes were reported

killed. Olson's body was removed to

the Mitchell-Fleming undertaking

parlors where it awaits positive

identification.

A white girl was reported killed on

North Peoria in the vicinity of the

Texaco plant. the report could not

be verified at 10 o'clock.

____________________________

The Injured

A re-check of the injured revealed

the following at the various hospit-

als:

Oklahoma Hospital.

Earl Hileman, city, shot through

thigh, not serious

G. B. Steck, Sapulpa, shot in back,

serious.

J. E. Wissinger, 150 Admiral or

1202 East Second, shot in knee, not

srious.

G. F. Joiner, 1703 South Main, shot

in leg, not serious.

Ross G. Owens, 1108 South Jack-

son, shot with bird shot, several

wounds but not serious.

E. D. Hartshone, shot in thigh.

Edward Austin, 418 South Detroit,

shot in toe, not serious.

Grocer Slinkhard, West Tulsa, fac-

tured rib.

Robet Elmer, West Tulsa,

A. N. Dow, 401 South Madison,

shot in upper thigh and compound

fracture of arm, serious.

C. C. Thomas, 803 South Main,

shot in leg, not serious.

E. R. Hileam, Fern hotel, com-

pound fracture of thigh, serious.

Garland Crouch, 16 North Quincy,

shot in upper abdomen and right

arm, though serious.

A. T. Sterling, 314 South Zunis,

minor injuries.

Robert Palmore, West Tulsa, shot

in left shoulder, not serious.

E. Belchner, 1437 East Hodge,

shot in hand and leg, not serious.

Lee Fisher, 338 1/2 East First, shot

in left leg and thigh, thought serious.

G. I. Prunkart, Frisco conductor,

shot with bird shot in shoulder, chin

and forehead. He was shot while

sitting in caboose of train just pulling

into city.

There are two wounded patients

unidentified. Fifteen or 20 patients

having only slight wounds called at

hospital and had them dressed, left

hospital without giving name or ad-

dress.

Tulsa Hospital

George Switzgood, 415 N. Detroit;

not serious.

K. G. Logsdon, 308 S. Cincinnatti;

shot in arm; not seriously.

Sergt. W. R. Hastings, 1507 E. Jef-

ferson; not serious. After having his

wounds dressed, Sergeant Hastings

immediately left hospital.

H. L. Curry, Illinois hotel, shot

through neck; serious.

E. F. Vickers, city; arm shot.

M. W. Camble. 220 W. Cam [Iron;?]

thought serious.

Jess Collins, 522 N. Boston; serious.

R. N. Seltzer, 529 S. Utica; leg, not

serious.

Otto Sherry, 112 N. Frisco; face

powder burned.

Thirty-five or forty who were only

slightly wounded were attended at

the hospital. After the wounds were

dressed they walked out, leaving

no name or address.

Physicians & Surgeons Hospital.

R. C. Hankson, Jenks, Okla., tool

dresser; shot through right wrist,

bullet traveling through abdomen

into the left arm; shot at 6:45 a. m.

___________________________

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We sincerely trust that the

local disturbance is over. We

do not want to give the im-

pression of trying to drive in

business as the result of a

calamity.

It is our duty, however, to

call t he public's attention to

the fact that the standard fire

policies do NOT cover loss re-

sulting from Riot, Insurrection

or Civil Commotion.

We write Riot, Insurrection

and Civil Commotion Insur-

ance and the cost of same is

very slight. Call us for rates.

Policies are written here in

our office. Phone Cedar 2100.

Pearce, Porter & Martin

500 Palace Building

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NOTICE

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Because of the race war

the announcement of the re-

maining entrants in The

Tribune beauty contest will

be carried in all editions to-

morrow and none today.

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Georgia Statistical 16/11/2020 11:00 AM 2 2 782 more votes than than registered voters in Detroit from 2016 election Michigan Historical Context 14/11/2020 04:32 PM 4 2 NYT FLASHBACK: Error and fraud at issue as absentee voting rises (2012) Nationwide Historical Context 13/11/2020 08:31 AM 3 2 PA Auditors Warned of Dead People, Duplicates on State Voter Rolls Pennsylvania Historical Context 12/11/2020 10:34 PM 3 2 US decried Ukraine election due to expelled observers, mail-in ballots and 90% turnout Nationwide Historical Context 12/11/2020 10:14 PM 4 1 Former Texas ivoting official certified fictitious ballot for Lyndon Johnson Texas Historical Context 23/11/2020 11:18 PM 1 1 Campaign offical ask for volenteers to track down ballot in PA Wisconsin Photo/Audio/Video 20/11/2020 10:47 AM 2 1 GA Secretary of State withholds ballot image from public viewing Georgia Document 19/11/2020 12:02 AM 1 1 Double mail-in ballots received by serval dozen voters Virginia Document 16/11/2020 09:20 PM 3 1 Double mail-in ballot received by around 1000 voters Virginia Document 16/11/2020 09:18 PM 3 1 19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses from China seized by authorities Illinois Document 16/11/2020 02:14 PM 1 1 Joe Biden states he put together the most "extensive... voter fraud organization" Nationwide Photo/Audio/Video 16/11/2020 11:57 AM 1 1 FL precinct reports more than 100% voter turnout due to UCF Florida Material 12/11/2020 10:47 PM 1 3 - Polling Place Irregularities 4 9 witness videos from Precinct 13: Congressman, Senator, Dominion employee Michigan Photo/Audio/Video 24/11/2020 04:46 PM 4 4 Recount monitors unable to track multiple tables with constant recount errors Georgia Witness 19/11/2020 01:08 AM 3 4 Poll Challengers were kick out for challenging suspect ballots Michigan Photo/Audio/Video 18/11/2020 10:27 PM 3 4 Observers forced to stand 30 feet away from ballot counting, despite state laws Pennsylvania Witness 18/11/2020 09:42 PM 3 4 Polling place illegally handed out handed out gift cards for absentee ballots Nevada Photo/Audio/Video 18/11/2020 07:50 PM 3 4 200,000 mail-in ballots cast with the unverifyable "indefinitely confined" status Wisconsin Material 18/11/2020 06:48 PM 4 4 2,600 new votes found in county's recount Georgia Material 18/11/2020 04:43 PM 4 4 Recount protocol breached by workers silently passing on ballots Georgia Witness 18/11/2020 03:27 PM 4 4 39% of 1137 Republican ballots never arrived for counting, despite being mailed. Pennsylvania Material 17/11/2020 08:11 PM 3 4 72% of Detroit's absentee ballot counts were off, Canvassers discovers Michigan Digital (aka Glitch) 17/11/2020 07:44 PM 4 4 70% of Detroit's 134 absentee counting boards had unexplained counting errors Michigan Digital (aka Glitch) 17/11/2020 07:43 PM 4 4 Poll observers forced to use binoculars to watch voting process, despite court order Pennsylvania Photo/Audio/Video 16/11/2020 06:45 PM 3 4 Pre-canvassing ballots in some counties weeks early, violating election laws Pennsylvania Witness 14/11/2020 05:19 PM 4 4 234 pages of sworn affidavits for election irregularities from single county Michigan Witness 12/11/2020 10:26 PM 4 4 500 sworn affidavits and 11,000 reports of irregularities Nationwide Witness 12/11/2020 12:47 PM 4 3 GOP Reps certified election on as an attempted to protecting their families Michigan Witness 19/11/2020 09:38 AM 4 3 6 recount monitors witness batches of ballots appearing to be marked by machines Georgia Witness 18/11/2020 11:09 PM 4 3 9,000 ballot counting error caught by recount moderators Georgia Material 18/11/2020 10:53 PM 4 3 List of poll watchers being denied entry Pennsylvania Photo/Audio/Video 16/11/2020 10:56 PM 2 3 Dominion IT worker submits affidavit describing poll workers signing ballots Michigan Expert Witness 16/11/2020 11:15 AM 4 3 Dems receive new election after affidavits show an absentee ballot scheme North Carolina Historical Context 15/11/2020 01:06 PM 4 3 89% failure rate with verifying signatures in Clark county Nevada Statistical 14/11/2020 05:11 PM 3 3 NV whistleblower describes Biden van vote factory Nevada Witness 12/11/2020 10:03 PM 4 3 State and Election Officials acted against ballot curing Court Order Pennsylvania Witness 12/11/2020 09:32 PM 4 2 Clerk signals that non-party workers may be in party worker slots Michigan Photo/Audio/Video 23/11/2020 08:11 PM 4 2 200,000 ballots counted without human verification Nevada Witness 18/11/2020 07:56 PM 2 2 Email from Election Official Stressing Issues with Voters Using Sharpies Arizona Document 18/11/2020 02:44 PM 4 2 2,349 undated ballots counted after Board of Elections voted 2-1 against Elections Code Pennsylvania Material 17/11/2020 08:33 AM 4 2 Poll worker instructed to adjust the mailing date of absentee ballot packages Michigan Witness 16/11/2020 06:35 PM 4 2 Detroit contracted poll workers from firm owned by key figure in corruption case Michigan Material 14/11/2020 06:40 PM 2 2 1 monitor for 10 tables of counters in recount Georgia Document 14/11/2020 05:07 PM 2 2 Memory sticks used to program Philly’s voting machines, stolen from warehouse Pennsylvania Witness 14/11/2020 04:54 PM 4 2 MI state senators request a full audit of the election Michigan Expert Witness 12/11/2020 09:56 PM 4 2 FEC chair believes there may be fraud since observers banned Nationwide Expert Witness 12/11/2020 09:02 PM 2 4 - Discarded or Destroyed Ballots 2 Ballot envelopes visibly identify the voter's party affiliation Florida Material 19/11/2020 09:39 PM 2 1 1,314 pieces of mail discard in wood by USPS working New York Material 19/11/2020 09:33 PM 1 1 18 mail-in ballots stolen from mailboxes Arizona Material 16/11/2020 09:01 PM 3 1 Found Navy ballot envelopes in the dumpster. Georgia Material 11/11/2020 10:20 PM 1 1 Discarded Mail-in Ballots Found Outside ATM California Material 11/11/2020 10:16 PM 1 5 - Voting Machine Irregularities 4 2,755 ballots found on memory card by recount auditors Georgia Digital (aka Glitch) 18/11/2020 11:30 PM 4 4 Scanning results incorrect and officials unsure if it was hardware or software Georgia Digital (aka Glitch) 18/11/2020 10:08 PM 4 4 15,000 ballots found on flash drive after first being rejection by software filters Virginia Digital (aka Glitch) 16/11/2020 08:51 PM 4 4 ES&S misrepresented their machines as EAC Certified to US officials Nationwide Document 16/11/2020 11:10 AM 4 4 CISA only did a critical product evaluation (CPE) on some vendor supplied systems Nationwide Document 16/11/2020 10:55 AM 2 4 Electronic voting unprotected, has little accountability and not transparent Nationwide Expert Witness 14/11/2020 07:33 PM 1 4 Electronic voting systems rely on abandoned operating systems in PA counties Pennsylvania Digital (aka Glitch) 14/11/2020 07:00 PM 4 4 Computer scientist proves voting systems can be hacked to steal votes Nationwide Expert Witness 14/11/2020 06:35 PM 4 4 Dominion manual states high risk vulnerabilities, remedy is invalidate election Nationwide Document 14/11/2020 06:22 PM 4 3 Voting machine "glitches" in Toronto election in Canada Nationwide Historical Context 16/11/2020 11:08 AM 3 3 Litigation Smartmatic “glitches” alleges impacted in two Philippine elections Nationwide Historical Context 14/11/2020 06:56 PM 4 3 CIA expert explains how most electronic voting isn't secure Nationwide Expert Witness 14/11/2020 06:42 PM 3 3 TX Officials rejected Dominion due to security concerns Texas Expert Witness 12/11/2020 09:37 PM 4 3 6,000 unofficial votes incorrectly show as votes for other candidate Michigan Witness 11/11/2020 10:10 PM 3 2 Vulnerabilities give access to change the "Official" Databases Nationwide Expert Witness 18/11/2020 09:28 PM 2 2 Votes erased from memory card and story withheld from press Maryland Historical Context 18/11/2020 08:19 PM 3 2 Dominion and Smartmatic have had contracts outside of public knowledge Nationwide Historical Context 17/11/2020 12:14 PM 3 2 Dominion licenses it's software to Smartmatic Nationwide Photo/Audio/Video 17/11/2020 12:08 PM 4 2 1,127 ballots wrongly labeled through technical glitch Michigan Digital (aka Glitch) 16/11/2020 10:15 PM 2 2 93% of errors go unnoticed by users of ballot marking devices security Nationwide Statistical 16/11/2020 06:03 PM 2 2 Dominion Security Chief states he "made sure" Trump would not win Nationwide Witness 16/11/2020 11:47 AM 2 2 Confidential: Smartmatic is web of holding companies, suspected of fraud Nationwide Document 16/11/2020 10:27 AM 4 2 Voting machine firm states Venezuela election rigged "without any doubt" Nationwide Historical Context 14/11/2020 06:48 PM 3 2 PA DoS requested a function from Dominion to re-mark and re-scan ballots Pennsylvania Document 12/11/2020 10:20 PM 3 1 Chicago Election Board approved remote work for nonessenial employees Illinois Photo/Audio/Video 21/11/2020 05:16 PM 4 6 - General 4 30 times lower rejection rate for mail-in ballots than in 2016 Pennsylvania Statistical 16/11/2020 06:49 PM 2 3 MN disabled public verification of ballot status, despite official instructions Michigan Material 22/11/2020 03:32 PM 4 2 84,108 mail-in ballots were not counted or invalidated New York Material 18/11/2020 07:35 PM 2 2 Dem Rep intimidates GOP Rep by insinuating his kids will become a public target Michigan Photo/Audio/Video 18/11/2020 04:30 PM 3 2 20 seniors voted for a canidate under pressure from a care giver Wisconsin Witness 16/11/2020 09:23 PM 3 1 Zuckerberg-Funded ‘Safe Elections’ Project gave $18m to PA districts Pennsylvania Material 22/11/2020 11:10 AM 2 1 Google searches for ‘election fraud punishment,’ increased ahead of election Nationwide Statistical 16/11/2020 10:33 PM 1 1 2016: GA had evidence that DoHS IP address tried to hack voter database Georgia Historical Context 14/11/2020 06:12 PM 1 7 - Unverified (new submissions) Pollpad Wifi Available at Eaton Eletrical in Smyrna GA Georgia Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 08:14 PM 139 unexplained discrepancies in Clark County Commission race Georgia Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 05:41 PM Disavowed Smartmatic relationship with Dominion Voting systems is challenged California Historical Context 29/11/2020 05:31 PM Dominion employee (worked for Kamala Harris) worked at polls? Georgia Document 29/11/2020 05:16 PM PA Poll Worker Admits to Throwing All Donald Trump Ballots in Garbage Pennsylvania Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 04:43 PM Voting machine found dumped in the woods in Fulton County, GA. Georgia Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 04:35 PM I was kicked out of a polling station that wouldnt allow me to observe the count Georgia Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 04:33 PM Real Time Vote Data shows Deduction from Trump and Addition to Biden in Florida Florida Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 04:26 PM Macron has stolen the french election by using fraudulent voting systems Nationwide Digital (aka Glitch) 29/11/2020 04:22 PM Benny Smith expert on voting software fraud Michigan Expert Witness 29/11/2020 04:15 PM Software changing names, over 30+, no one voted as Rashad Texas Expert Witness 29/11/2020 03:55 PM Vote By Mail Fraud On Tape Texas Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 03:42 PM NH Govornor Chris Sununu wins overwhelming majority but same votes go to Biden!? New Hampshire Statistical 29/11/2020 03:30 PM Roughly Same Rep votes for Vermont Phill scott went to Biden Vermont Statistical 29/11/2020 03:24 PM Software Changing Voters - Dallas, TX Texas Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 03:16 PM Biden Campaign Operative, Texas State Senator Accused of Mail-in Ballot Fraud Texas Witness 29/11/2020 02:54 PM Service dog registered as human mail-in voter voted in election Nationwide Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 02:36 PM WeChat Video of Chinese printing premade fraud ballots to ship to the US Nationwide Photo/Audio/Video 29/11/2020 02:30 PM Sequoia website w/hack videos & see Manufacturers Profile at bottom Arizona Historical Context 29/11/2020 02:24 PM X'S MARK 48 THEFT > 4% WORTH 5754 VOTES in Wayne County MI. SEE PNG,CSV,LOG. Michigan Statistical 29/11/2020 02:15 PM Nebraska Dist 2 Omaha "glitch" of 29,737 votes at 11-07 00:47:23Z per NYT Edison Nebraska Digital (aka Glitch) 29/11/2020 01:58 PM Michigan votes statistically suspect Michigan Statistical 29/11/2020 01:10 PM Host Steven Crowder registered in TWO DIFFERENT states. Someone else got ballot Nationwide Witness 29/11/2020 12:30 PM Detroit poll workers taught how to thwart poll watchers Michigan Witness 29/11/2020 11:41 AM Rigorous Statistical Analysis Points to Voter Fraud in Montgomery County Pennsylvania Statistical 29/11/2020 11:29 AM CA couple had ballots cast in their name California Document 29/11/2020 11:17 AM Anomalies in Vote Counts and Their Effect on Election 2020 Michigan

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