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Colluding with the China Virus to shelter voter fraud

E.  Ablorh-Odjidja
September 04, 2020

You can’t collude with God to provide rainfall.  So goes the saying.  But sure, your unwashed car sitting outside in the rain can receive a beneficial rinse.

 

With the arrival of the China virus, the desperate search for power by Democrats has reached new heights.  Now, it is time to upend the electoral system.  And the mail-ballot seems to be the right approach.

 

The virus is now being used as excuse to change the electoral system in America.  Polling stations are no longer sacrosanct.  But universal mail-balloting is.

 

Democrats have used every possible excuse for political gains. Corralled compassion, racism, character and gravitas to win votes.  They are unabashedly the designated champions of the good.

 

Next, the China virus.  It came from China but never mind.  It is Trump’s fault.

 

Hidden in the mail-balloting proposal is the agenda to get Trump. 

 

The allegation that Russian influence helped Trump in 2016 is now overshadowed by this proposal.   And magically, electoral interference has suddenly disappeared.  The Russians and all interested busybodies cannot interfere with the postal system!

 

So, the China virus is ginned up the excuse for a historical change as to how Americans must vote.

 

Indeed, there is reason for fear.  The virus has killed some 180,000 Americans. And the economy has suffered.  Never has there been such tension in America.  However, the brewing possibility of dismantling a voting system that has worked well throughout the ages must be the crisis that must be feared more. 

 

Not so for Democrats, the China virus has brought some gains, at least the opportunity to attack Trump.  Attribute all the bad outcomes to his incompetence.  Throw in police brutalities, racial tensions and all because he is a racist.

 

One is forced to wonder about the America before Trump.  Was it a paradise, free of racism and police brutalities?

 

But never mind.  For almost four years, Democrats have sought fervently to remove Trump from office. 

One thing they have managed to achieve so far is to tear to pieces one good tradition for the presidential office; the peaceful transition of power that all presidents have come to expect, once elected to the office.

 

Form start, the goal was either to harass Trump until he resigns from office, similar to what happened to Nixon.  Or, have him removed through a soft coup.

 

The Russia Collusion was one such an attempt.  It was followed quickly by the Ukraine Quid Pro Quo impeachment trial, which unearthed countervailing evidence on video that should have indicted Biden.

 

Nothing happened to Biden.  But for Trump, all protocol was broken and illegalities were committed in the process.

 

A security advisor at the White House, Colonel Vindman, who ordinary would have protected a president, came out against Trump with the flimsiest evidence, backed by a whistleblower, who accounted for a situation in which he was not even personally involved or present. 

 

This whistleblower still remains nameless to this day.  Even seasoned journalists, with multiple sources of anonymous informers are quiet about his or her identity.   This situation alone must tell how disturbing politics in America has become.

 

Thankfully, the impeachment trial failed at the Senate. And something essential about the American Constitution was preserved. 

 

But the mission to get Trump could not be derailed; not even by the Constitution or even as ethics or morality would demand.  

 

Suddenly there is this China virus and a greater opportunity is presented.

 

Instead of blaming China for not being transparent at the onset, Democrats and Biden, their presidential candidate, have now seized on the tragedy as a weapon to rearrange how Americans vote.

 

They may not admit it.  But they are ignoring how porous the mail system can be open for corruption in 2020; far greater than was alleged for Russia Collusion in 2016.

 

They claim the virus devastations, to which Trump did not react quickly and expertly, has made the situation dire.  They fail, however, to recall where they were politically and their own efforts at prevention at the inception of the virus.

 

Trump called for a halt to air traffic from China in January of 2020.  But Biden and the Democrats immediately called him xenophobic and a racist. 

 

Dr. Anthony Fauchi, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has since recalled for all how this single act of travel ban by Trump helped save thousands of lives, but Democrats are not amused.

 Democrats in charge of the House Intelligence Committee, led by Adam Schiff, were busy, distracted from confronting the virus by their sham impeachment trial of Trump in January 2020

The signal for non-cooperation presumably reached Democrat controlled states.

 New York City Mayor De Blasio and the Health Commissioner, Oxiris Barbot, “took turns telling citizens in February and March that the virus was not as widespread as people thought,” wrote the DailySignal on March 30, 2020, 

 

In New York State, the governor “dispatched more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into vulnerable nursing homes during the height of the pandemic.” Wrote the New York Post. 

 

 By the way, the worst China virus affected states in America today are all ruled by Democrats and have been so for decades.  

 

The frontline nature of federalist America should have required that governors of these states tackle the problem first.  But forget the Constitution.  Blame Trump first for the neglect. 

 

And no one is more vociferous with the blame than Governor Cuomo of New York.

 

“It’s hard to know what’s worse — the dying or the lying.

 

“More than 32,000 New Yorkers have died from the coronavirus, a toll higher than any other state. New York also ranks second to the worst out of all 50 states, in deaths per million residents. Only New Jersey did worse,” wrote the NYPost

 

Again, New York and New Jersey rank at the top of the worst afflicted states and they are all Democrat governed. 

 

Nevertheless, blame Trump for the virus spread.   Push for ballot-mailing while raising the consternation of Trump and his fellow Republicans.

 

Trump’s concern about mail-in ballots is completely legitimate,” wrote Marc Thiessen for the Washington Post, May 28, 2020.

 

“Voters should not be forced to deal with the problems that massive voting by mail would create,” said Hans A. von Spakovsky, Election Law Reform Initiative and a Senior Legal Fellow at Heritage.

 

The massive problems that ballot-mailing presents is apparently good for Democrats.  They are known to benefit from confusion at the polls.  Even when they lose, they are sure to immediately gum up the electoral process with interminable vote counting and litigations. 

 

Florida 2000 should serve as example.  If “shads” on the ballots at polling stations could cause as much trouble as it did in 2000, then imagine the harm that mail-in-ballots would do at the close of 2020.

 

And if in 2016, mostly in person voting could raise charges of Russian Collusion, then wonder what the same Russians or other miscreants would not do with the universal mail-in-ballot idea in 2020.  

 

Strangely, the fear for in person voting is much ado about nothing.  After all Americans have already proven themselves safe in many social spaces, including going to grocery stores daily, regardless of the virus.

 

So, why then should an hour spent at polling stations, that could be made safe for voting, now be considered dangerous? 

 

Well, if the need for fraud and vote harvesting are necessary to remove Trump from office, then so be it, Democrats would say.  And this is exactly what voting with no identification required would deliver.

 

The possibility has no benefit for America, but more reward for Democrats and party's acolytes.

 

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, September 04, 2020.
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