{"id":37996,"date":"2020-11-22T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37996"},"modified":"2020-11-22T13:45:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T17:45:52","slug":"yes-ex-kemp-staffer-lobbies-for-dominion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37996","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Ex-Kemp Staffer Lobbies For DOMINION!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>GEORGIA: Ex-Kemp Staffer Lobbies For DOMINION, Voting Madness Leads To Lame \u2018Recount\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>So Much Cronyism<\/h3>\n<p>by PATRICK HOWLEY<br \/>\nNational File<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37997\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kemp-750x422-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kemp-750x422-1.jpg 750w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/kemp-750x422-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Georgia Republican governor Brian Kemp\u2019s former chief of staff lobbies for Dominion Voting Systems, the embattled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/dominion-voting-systems-shares-floor-space-with-soros-group-partnered-with-soros-friend\/\">George Soros-linked company<\/a>\u00a0that flipped votes from President Donald Trump to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Dominion products were used in Georgia, where massive vote-counting problems plagued the hearts of the citizenry.<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/17\/how-new-voting-machines-could-hack-our-democracy\/\">The New York Review of Books reported<\/a>: \u201cIn Georgia, election integrity advocates managed to stop state lawmakers from passing a bill in 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB403<\/a>) that would have enabled universal use ballot-marking devices. But lawmakers went ahead and passed a new bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpbnews.org\/post\/cost-questions-loom-senate-passes-voting-machine-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HB316<\/a>), enabling them in 2019. Georgia has since purchased BMDs from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/local\/new-voting-machines-on-display-in-duluth-tuesday\/article_6c99a23c-d410-11e9-8cf7-67941058081a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dominion<\/a>, whose\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.ethics.ga.gov\/search\/lobbyist\/Lobbyist_Name.aspx?&amp;FilerID=L20070103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lobbyist<\/a>, Jared Thomas, was Governor Brian Kemp\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jennycohn1\/status\/1190475527657672705\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chief of staff and press secretary<\/a>\u00a0from 2012 to 2015 when Kemp was secretary of state. Dominion\u2019s partner in the state is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/local\/new-voting-machines-on-display-in-duluth-tuesday\/article_6c99a23c-d410-11e9-8cf7-67941058081a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KNOWiNK<\/a>, a supplier of electronic poll books, which are used to sign in voters and confirm voter registrations. KNOWiNK\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayoubrief.com\/2018\/12\/05\/four-days-before-runoff-wife-of-voting-software-company-ceo-gives-maximum-donation-to-kyle-ardoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">founder and CEO<\/a>, Scott Leiendecker, is a former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/st-louis-election-board-wracked-with-turmoil\/article_0b52f1ad-46ec-50ba-a65f-54f60d65bfe2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republican election official<\/a>\u00a0whose wife\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.ethics.ga.gov\/search\/Campaign\/Campaign_ByContributionsearchresults.aspx?Contributor=Leiendecker&amp;Zip=&amp;City=&amp;ContTypeID=0&amp;PAC=&amp;Employer=&amp;Occupation=&amp;From=&amp;To=&amp;Cash=&amp;InK=&amp;Filer=&amp;Candidate=&amp;Committee=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donated $2,500<\/a>\u00a0to the campaign of Georgia\u2019s current secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, in November 2018.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>The Georgia election in 2020 was an absolute mess, with a burst pipe at State Farm Arena used to justify late-night vote-counting in Fulton County that gave Joe Biden a mystical lead.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, considering Governor Kemp and the Secretary of State\u2019s connections to Dominion and its Georgia partner, the \u201crecount\u201d in Georgia was quite lame Friday, with no actual auditing of the ballots as expected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/lawyers-georgia-recount-is-a-farce-observers-only-present-in-10-of-vote-count-teams\/\">NATIONAL FILE REPORTED:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_3_ads  \"><\/div>\n<h3>In announcing that the State of Georgia would execute a recount of the ballots cast in the 2020 General election, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, intimated that the exercise would put to bed concerns about vote fraud in the election. Now, questions are surfacing about the methods being used to execute that recount.<\/h3>\n<p>Raffensperger, a Republican, said in announcing the recount, \u201cThis will help build confidence. It will be an audit, a recount and a re-canvas all at once.\u201d He said all of the 159 counties in Georgia execute the hand recount and that it should be completed by the deadline for the state to certify the election results, November 20, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But reports are coming out of vote tabulating centers that the recount effort is nothing more than a duplicate of the initial process which would effectively do little to audit the process.<\/p>\n<p>Molly McCann, who is of counsel to Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn\u2019s attorney Sidney Powell, tweeted out, \u201cAttention, Georgia. The Georgia Republican leaders are selling us out. I am listening to @jfradioshow on Bannon\u2019s War Room, and he is reporting that the Georgia recount is a farce. They are using one observer for ten teams, which means the observers are only able to\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/georgia-ex-kemp-staffer-lobbies-for-dominion-voting-madness-leads-to-lame-recount\/\">https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/georgia-ex-kemp-staffer-lobbies-for-dominion-voting-madness-leads-to-lame-recount\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGIA: Ex-Kemp Staffer Lobbies For DOMINION, Voting Madness Leads To Lame \u2018Recount\u2019<\/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-37996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37996","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=37996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}