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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. Today, what should be our chief concern in this important election year? Should it be the

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right candidate for president? Certainly, that will be the obsession of the country.

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Others, perhaps more wise in thinking a few steps beyond, they point out that local candidates

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in state, city, and county offices have far greater impact on our lives and should therefore be our

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focus. And various issues on local ballots are important too, like bond measures or

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constitutional amendments. But there's one issue that unfortunately is of such cruciality

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that it cannot be ignored. And that's ballot integrity. Yes, dear listener, ballot integrity

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is of far more importance. Your vote is being stolen. What does it matter who and what is on the ballot

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if your vote is compromised? Even if one were to magically resurrect George Washington to run for

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president? It wouldn't matter if the vote was rigged in favor of Joe Biden. Joseph Stalin is famous for

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saying, and I quote, those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. Unquote.

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Joseph Stalin, tyrant. Bingo. And that says everything, doesn't it? Implicit in Stalin's little

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witticism is the cynical corrupt assumption that his ideal is to have a facade of choice by the people

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in an election with the certainty of a rigged outcome in the party's favor. Why take any chances?

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This is the way of all tyrants, and it is the way of politicians in the United States of America

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America in our own day. But it was not always so. It used to be that if there was anything close to

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being sacred in politics, it was a person's vote. It was his primary and most effective means of

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exercising political power within the government administering power in his life. It meant the vote

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that he had some measure of control over what went on among the political forces at work in this

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society. It became the primary feature of a representative republic. Now, people vote in socialist tyranny

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like Stalin's Soviet Union or America's deep state, but it is a mere exercise in appearance while the

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reality is that a select few make the real decisions. People vote in a democracy, a pure democracy too,

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but a democracy is nothing more than a tyranny of the majority, where, for example, if 51% of the people

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vote to feed Christians to the lions again, then you might as well break out the salt and pepper,

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brother, because it's going to happen. Someone once said that a democracy is two wolves and a sheep

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voting on what's for dinner. That's a pretty good description. In a representative republic,

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however, like the USA was first crafted to be, the people vote for others to represent them in

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government. And those representatives, in turn, they make, enforce, and adjudicate the laws that govern

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the voters. Those public servants are accountable to the voter and must stand for re-election periodically

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in a kind of performance review by the people. In addition, a representative republic is chartered

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by a written constitution, which has provisions that protect the rights of the minority,

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no matter what the will of the majority may be. It is not a democracy. We are not a democracy.

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And that is why you have ostensible guarantees in the Bill of Rights in our Constitution,

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for example. Those Bill of Rights guarantee free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly,

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the right to bear arms, the right to privacy, or the right to a trial by jury. It means that although

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the two wolves may vote to have lamb chops for dinner that night, the sheep may stand on his right

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to serve a tossed salad instead. He has a constitutional right, that sheep, to life, liberty, and the pursuit

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of happiness. In a representative republic, the average man can run for public office himself to exercise

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power, or he can support candidates with time and money to exercise power. But the one thing that is an

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inherent God-given right for which every man is, his vote, his yea or nay, concerning a person or policy

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that is before the people, it is often called a franchise of power. A franchise is a subsidiary of

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the larger body of a corporation. For example, each individual McDonald's is a subsidiary restaurant

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of the larger body of McDonald's restaurants. It is a franchise of the whole. And so too, each individual

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voter is a subsidiary of the larger body of the republic, holding a franchise of its power

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in the form of his vote. Consequently, his vote is the concrete manifestation of political power

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for the improvement, protection, and exercise of his life and livelihood. And over the eons of man's

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progress, this franchise of power has developed its sacred quality. If, after all, we have been endowed by

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our creator with certain unalienable rights, then among those rights is his vote. And since it is

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God-given, it is sacred. Now, by having a franchise of power in the vote, it does not mean that by casting

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his ballot, he automatically gets his way for what he votes. It also does not mean that his vote is only

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symbolic of freedom, but that if the aggregate, in the aggregate, his vote prevails in the election,

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well, it is translated into policy. What it does mean is that regardless of the outcome of an election,

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his rights and privileges are protected, no matter which policy or politician may prevail. So,

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those societies which protect and cherish a representative republic see the vote exercised

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by each individual as sacred, that is, given by God. And it's not to be profaned by compromise or

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theft as it is in our own day. All of this is in jeopardy in America today. We know that the Democrats

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stole the presidential election of 2020. It was blatant and in our face. And here are just a few

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of the tactics that were employed by Democrats, especially in swing states. A swing state is a

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state like Pennsylvania or Michigan, where the numbers are closely divided between Republicans and

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Democrats. Some of the tactics, well, there were leftist intimidation tactics, such as those of Antifa

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and Black Lives Matter. Yeah. And there were secret consent decrees, for example, in Georgia, where

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both sides had agreements made beforehand, which short-circuited investigations. Well, there was also the abuse

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associated with mail-in ballots. Oh, the mail-in ballots. They were sent to dead people. They were sent to

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people who had already moved out of the state years ago. They were even sent to pets. There was also

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the notorious Dominion voting machines. Their software had the ability to flip votes between

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candidates that's been demonstrated, and yet they've gotten away with it. There's also been the

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manufactured fake ballots that were numbering in the tens of thousands, excuse me, the hundreds of

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thousands in Georgia, for example. And there were also then voting by illegal aliens. That has to stop,

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dear listener. Voting by illegal aliens. Non-citizens voting in our elections. There were also the notorious

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drop boxes that were set up and operated all over blue cities, and they operated illegally, stuffed with

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unsecured ballots. That has to stop, too, in the future. And then there were also voter drives funded by

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Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, for example, that targeted heavily Democrat districts. There was also the

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rejection, you remember, this was notorious in Georgia in particular, the rejection of Republican observers

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during vote counting procedures. That is one of the reasons that so many of those illegal ballots snuck by

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the doorways because of the rejection of Republican observers. And then there was also the transportation

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of ballots across state lines. Obviously, to achieve Democrat victories in key states. Well, on we could

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go. But anyone with a modicum of curiosity will find an abundance of evidence, an abundance of evidence

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with a minimum of effort. The problem is that so many Americans are profoundly incurious. Yes, so many of my

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fellow citizens are profoundly incurious when it comes to the tyranny closing in around them like a tightening

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noose. Oh, it's frightening to consider tyranny. It's easier to ignore. It is more soothing to pretend

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that things are normal and so much more soothing to listen to the blandishments of the mainstream media.

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They say things like, there's no evidence that the election was stolen. And only the profoundly

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incurious will take the thoroughly discredited CNN and mainstream media voices at their word. Or they'll

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say, this was the most secure election in history. In other words, don't look. Don't do your own

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research. Or they may say, if you doubt the results, you are a conspiracy theorist. Yeah. Oh,

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you don't want to wear that label, do you? But I tell you, if you think that I am a conspiracy

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theorist, theorist, excuse me, if you think I'm a conspiracy theorist, then I know that you are a naive,

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brainwashed. Pollyanna. Oh, the progressive left and this administration, dear listener,

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are engaged in ubiquitous gaslighting. Gaslighting is nothing more than lying boldly, blatantly to your

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face, despite the evidence before you. Oh, it's like saying, who are you going to believe me or your

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lying eyes? My uncle used to say that gaslighting was like saying, don't drool on me and tell me it's

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raining. Although it's not quite drooling that the word that he used. No. Oh, gaslighting the

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mainstream media, the progressive left, this administration is gaslighting us. In fact,

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one is now characterized as a white supremacist by asserting the obvious. That is that the election

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was stolen by Biden and the Democrats. These epithets are meant to shame you. They are meant

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to shame the timid anyway, into staying away from any, any investigation into the truth of these

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matters. Don't even think about thinking the election was stolen or we will stick these labels on you.

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Dear listener, if these kinds of tactics work, what it means is that they will repeat these same

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tactics during the next election cycle. Steal one election, shame on you. Steal a second election,

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shame on me. We must not let them steal another election. But what must always be kept in mind,

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dear listeners, that Democrats have for decades challenged the legitimacy of a whole host of

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elections and they've conveniently forgot it now that their integrity is on the line.

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They expect you to forget, for example, they expect you to forget Stacey Abrams. She was the Democrat

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candidate for governor in Georgia in 2018 and she lost to Republican Brian Kemp. In the end,

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she gave a bitter, angry, non-conceding concession speech, but she continued to maintain that she had

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won. She also filed suit to challenge the results and the manner in which the election was managed.

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Well, also, we all must always remember Hillary Clinton and the Democrats have for years denied the

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legitimacy of the 2016 election, maintaining Russian interference as the reason, of course, and that

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led to a whole host of investigations into Donald Trump too. Well, in addition, going even further back,

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Democrats, I remember this, Democrats denied the legitimacy of George W. Bush's defeat of John

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Kerry in 2004. Democrats also denied the legitimacy of George W. Bush's defeat of Al Gore all the way back

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in 2000. And that suit went all the way to the Supreme Court. And when the court decided in Bush's

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favor, oh, the Democrats cried, Bush was not elected. He was selected, right? Ostensibly by the Supreme

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Court. So what we have here is, of course, the age-old, unprincipled argument by convenience,

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where one side of an argument is taken because it fits an agenda. Oh, that's been done with the

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climate change too, right? Remember, the climate is cooling. That goes all the way back to 1976.

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So one side of an argument is taken because it fits an agenda while taking its exact opposite side

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when it suits a new agenda. And with the climate, of course, the climate is now warming, right?

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Ha, ha, ha. Climate science has nothing to do with it, does it? Political science has everything

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to do with it. And so it is here. When it served their interests, Democrats challenged the elections

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where Republicans won. But when it served their interests, Democrats shut down or stigmatized

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challenges to elections where Democrats won. There is no integrity. There is no principle at stake here

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for Democrats. Only politics. Only power. This is why we have a fraud in the White House. Democrats made a

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Herculean effort at defrauding the electoral process at every turn in 2020. And admittedly,

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they succeeded. We have to congratulate them on that, at least. And most Americans, most Americans sat

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idly by and let it happen with no follow-up consequences. Governor Brian Kemp refused to

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challenge the results in Georgia, for example, despite evidence of fraud and a personal appeal

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by President Trump. And both Michigan and Wisconsin, in their respective legislatures, refused to postpone

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certification of electoral delegates until investigations into voter irregularities were

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conducted. Yes, they intentionally ducked that responsibility. And of course, Pennsylvania just

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outright played monkey, see no evil, hear no evil, and do no evil to the egregious evidence of fraud

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on election night in their state. On and on we could go. Nothing was done. No protests made. The 2020

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presidential election was filled with more irregularities than a senior on a nursing home meal plan.

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But most Americans, this is still the case. Most Americans are still raised in public schools.

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And so they have an antipathy for doing their homework. They have an obsession for not being

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bothered while on their devices. And they have a propensity for believing what the authorities at the

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podium tell them. Oh, such people are lost. They're in the dead zone. They're beyond reach.

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And unless something extraordinary intervenes, such sleepwalkers will continue to be herded

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into the chute of slavery like sheep to the slaughter. But not everyone is like this, fortunately.

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Not everyone is like this. Just a couple of examples. And one comes to mind, the movie 2,000 Mules.

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Perhaps you've seen this movie, 2,000 Mules, produced by Dinesh D'Souza. And Dinesh D'Souza does yeoman's work

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in documenting the overwhelming numbers of fake ballots that flooded the tabulating centers in

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cities like Philadelphia. Now, a mule is someone who humps burdens of ballots to a host of ballot drop

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boxes for money. He's not voting personally, but merely taking those ballots from someone else and

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putting them in the drop boxes. And one ingenious investigator followed a number of these mules via

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their cell phones and caught them on film in this process. Oh, it is estimated that more than enough

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such fraudulent ballots were cast to influence the final outcome. Well, there's then also somebody like

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Mike Lindell. Mike Lindell. What a character. The ebullient MyPillowScion has lent his reputation,

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his energies, and his funds towards demonstrating that the fraud of the 2020 election was perpetrated,

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indeed, with success. And he's helped found organizations like Cause of America, which is

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dedicated to doing research on the election. He hosted a cyber symposium, which

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brought forth some of this evidence. And he has championed several lawsuits that hope to expose some

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of the secret consent decrees, for example, and irregularities in the states over certification

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of ballots. More power to you, Mike Lindell. What needs to happen is that states need to secure their

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election routine before the 2024 presidential election transpires. And time is running out,

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dear listener, I don't have much hope that states will secure their election routine before the 2024

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election. Oh, we need to do things like get rid of the drop boxes, prune the voting rolls of the dead

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and the relocated. We need to restrict the illegal alien from voting. That should not happen. And we should

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disallow the unsigned, the undated and incomplete ballots that used to never happen in our elections,

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but it's been happening recently. And we need to return to things like same day voting and same day

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counting of the votes as well. It used to be that we could finish the counting of the votes overnight

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and have the results by early morning of the next day, not going on for weeks and weeks. And we need

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to go back to paper ballots and throw out the voting machines. And then finally, we make need to make sure

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that monitors for both parties are there to oversee procedures. Oh, these are the minimal measures that need

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to be adopted by every state. If the American people will ever have confidence in our elections again,

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right now, the American people have no confidence in their elections and rightly so. But this has not

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happened in the four years since this sloppy circus of incompetence and fraud happened. Very little has

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been done. There have been incremental measures taken here and there. For example, in Texas, there's been

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comprehensive legislation that tightens when, where, and how ballots may be cast, especially by mail.

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And in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania has been utterly deadlocked, impotent to get anything done.

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In Michigan, it's been kind of a mixed bag. There has been state funds appropriated for drop boxes. Oh man,

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states are going to fund drop boxes. That's not good. But on the positive side, electronic ballot tracking

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and notification system has been instituted. In Wisconsin, there's been modest changes. There's

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been a Monday count of absentee ballots so that we don't have all that confusion on Tuesday when,

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you know, all the absentee ballots are in already. So count them on Monday rather than Tuesday.

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And they've been verifying voters' citizenship. That's good. Whistleblower protection too, when officials

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suspect fraud. And there's still a battle over absentee ballots, however, that may not be decided

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before 2024. In Missouri, they've done a voter ID requirement. That's all. And in Georgia,

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they've enacted voter ID requirements. They've also limited drop boxes. And they are also allowing

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state takeovers of local elections when they freeze up. And they've also begun to invalidate

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provisional ballots. So some things have been done. But if this is all that has been accomplished in

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the last four years, then we can be certain of one thing, dear listener, certain of one thing,

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and that is the decrepit fraud. The commander in briefs will stumble his way to the podium to cynically

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take his oath of office for another four years and proceed to violate every phrase of it. It seems

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the United States of America must learn another bitter lesson in tyranny before she awakens. That

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is, as Stalin says, those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

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Dear listener, our constitutional republic was not sketched out on a napkin during afternoon tea

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by the founding fathers. A kind of constitutional republic which can be tossed aside.

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Because Gen Z thinks it's so yesterday. No. It was centuries. Our constitutional republic was

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centuries in the making, with roots stretching all the way back to the tribal republic of Israel.

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And that constitutional republic was secured to us by the blood and treasure of better men than us

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who preceded us. And we are frittering it away. We are obsessed by what's trending on Twitter,

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Twitter, Twitter, excuse me. We are obsessed by what's trending on Twitter, or who the Yankees drafted

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this year. And it will be genuinely tragic if we lose that constitutional republic. At the center of

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that heritage is the character and integrity of the franchise of power bequeathed to every citizen

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by God himself. That is our vote. If indeed you believe that we are endowed by our creator with

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certain unalienable rights, then you must confess that our vote is sacred. And it is in jeopardy in

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this day and age. What no aspiring tyrant dared to do in our past, it's never been tried in America in the

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past. Oh, what no aspiring tyrant dared to do, and that is compromise the people's vote, is being

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cynically, blandly done by the pathetic people in power at present. Oh, and no one will come to

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save the day, dear listener. No, there's going to be nobody on a white horse who comes in, waves a magic

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wand, and writes everything. No, it will have to be us. It will have to be the people who insist

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that our franchise of freedom is respected. We must write, we must activate, we must do,

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and we must indeed insist that our elected servants, our elected representatives do all they can to

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protect our franchise of freedom. It's up to you, dear listener, dear voter. This has been Pastor

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David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. New Geneva meets for Holy Word,

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on Sunday. We invite you to come and visit us and see who we are and find out just indeed what kind

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of people we are. We meet on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street for Holy Worship, and you can call us

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for more information or give me some feedback, too. Tell me what you think by calling 208-523-0196.

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That's area code 208-523-0196.