{"id":34652,"date":"2020-11-05T09:28:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34652"},"modified":"2020-11-05T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:29:11","slug":"whistleblower-explains-how-the-democrats-stole-the-michigan-electoral-votes-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34652","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower explains how the Democrats stole the Michigan electoral votes from Trump!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>USPS \u2018whistleblower\u2019 tells Project Veritas he was ordered to backdate late mail-in ballots in Michigan<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_34673\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34673\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5fa3793485f5401d10716fda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34673\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5fa3793485f5401d10716fda.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/5fa3793485f5401d10716fda-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Reuters \/ Kevin Mohatt<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous tipster with the Postal Service in Michigan has alleged his supervisor ordered mail carriers to backdate ballots mailed too late to be counted, Project Veritas revealed &#8211; and the service is reportedly investigating.<\/p>\n<p>The self-professed mail carrier &#8211; whose voice and identity have been disguised by the conservative muckraking operation &#8211; claimed he and his colleagues were \u201c<em>issued a directive<\/em>\u201d to \u201c<em>collect any ballots we find in mailboxes<\/em>,\u201d collection boxes, and \u201c<em>outgoing mail in general<\/em>\u201d on Wednesday and \u201c<em>separate them at the end of the day so that they could hand stamp them with the previous day\u2019s date<\/em>\u201d in an interview with Project Veritas posted on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The ballots retrieved from general mail circulation were then put in \u201c<em>express bags<\/em>\u201d to be sent \u201c<em>wherever they needed to go<\/em>\u201d after being stamped, the tipster alleged. Under Michigan law, mail-in ballots must be postmarked by 8pm on Election Day &#8211; this past Tuesday &#8211; in order to be counted in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>The tipster claimed he worked for the Barlow branch of the Traverse City post office and that he had also spoken with a carrier at another branch who \u201c<em>watched the postmaster [stamping ballots with the previous day\u2019s date]<\/em>.\u201d Normally, \u201c<em>it would be clerks that would do it up at the distribution center<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1324174186366074880&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F505653-project-veritas-whistleblower-mailin-ballots%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1324174186366074880\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Project Veritas founder James O\u2019Keeffe allegedly called the tipster\u2019s supervisor, Jonathon Clarke &#8211; the man who supposedly told employees to separate out the ballots &#8211; to inquire about the order, only to be hung up on. However, it\u2019s not clear the other party was actually Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Keeffe later claimed a \u201c<em>Special Agent within the Office of Inspector General for the USPS<\/em>\u201d had contacted his organization after seeing his interview with the whistleblower and was \u201c<em>assessing whether an investigation is appropriate<\/em>.\u201d While the carrier told PV he had had whistleblower policies \u201c<em>backfire<\/em>\u201d on him in the past, he said the directive was \u201c<em>sketchy<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>scream[ed] corruption.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Knowing the post office\u2019s leaning politically, it didn\u2019t seem quite right<\/em>,\u201d he told O\u2019Keeffe.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign filed a lawsuit against Michigan over alleged electoral malfeasance on Wednesday, charging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was allowing absentee ballots to be counted without a team of bipartisan observers. The campaign has filed several lawsuits as the vote count has piled up in apparent favor of Democrat Joe Biden. Georgia was ordered to separate late-arriving mail-in votes on Wednesday night after a Republican poll-watcher claimed to have seen 53 late-marked votes mixed in with legitimate ballots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s son Donald Trump Jr. was among the president\u2019s supporters who quickly picked up the story,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1324185944027766788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retweeting<\/a>\u00a0it while asking why the Department of Justice wasn\u2019t looking into the issue. President Trump has been denouncing mail-in voting as fraudulent for months.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/505653-project-veritas-whistleblower-mailin-ballots\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/505653-project-veritas-whistleblower-mailin-ballots\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS \u2018whistleblower\u2019 tells Project Veritas he was ordered to backdate late mail-in ballots in Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}