"We know you're hearing issues about Sharpie Markers. We need to use markers on election day." #SharpieGate

An email sent by Kelly Dixon, the Maricopa County Elections Recruitment and Training Assistant Director, has raised further questions regarding #Sharpiegate.

"We NEED to use Markers on Election Day."

Kelly's email acknowledges that there have been issues with Sharpie markers:

"We've heard you and we know you're hearing issues and concerns about the Sharpie Markers."

Given the issues with Sharpie markers, the email then goes on to advice handing out ballpoint pens to voters. However, rather suspiciously, Kelly instructs that ballpoint pens should only be used for specific dates:

"Starting tomorrow, 10/23, and through 11/2, we are asking that Clerks hand voters BALLPOINT PENS rather than markers. We NEED to use Markers on Election Day, but for now and through 11/2, hand voters a Ballpoint Pen."

Given that there are issues with Sharpie markers, why would Kelly encourage clerks to switch to Sharpie markers on election day? On 11/3 do markers magically start working? Do the issues magically disappear on election day?

Dominion machines linked to electronic election fraud back in 2011

Here's a report on an example of electronic election fraud dating back to 2011. The end of the report reveals, "Dominion is the company behind the machines."
 

Cynthia Zirkle: "They called it backwards. It was simply backwards."

Reporter: "South Jersey voting machine incident makes waves."

Narrator: "It was 2011 and Cynthia Zirkle and her husband Ernie were running in a local election in their home town of Fairton, New Jersey."

Reporter: "Was this a big deal here?"

Voting Machine Software Glitches For Democrats

"Discover how to flip votes from one political party to another!"

"A reference for voter fraud. Free eTips at democrats.org"

"Don't ever lose an election again!"

Credit: @HopeCafe

Ten questions about the election...

1) "If Joe Biden is really confident he won legally and legitimately, why is he so afraid of proving it?"
@JennaEllisEsq

2) "If the corona virus is so deadly, then why do we have a record number of 100 year olds voting?"
u/sesquipedalian

"Every American should be outraged by the dysfunction of our national voting system."

President Trump recently tweeted the following short clip highlighting ballot 'miscounts' in Fayette County and Floyd County:

"This whole Georgia recount thing. In Fayette County they had 2,600 ballots not counted. Floyd County 2,700 ballots not counted. That's about 7 and 8 percent of the total voters in those counties, Brad. But I mean this is significant. If it was a larger county, if a larger county turns up this is one of those things that is a big issue."

"This is an outrage. Every American should be outraged by the dysfunction of our national voting system having fifty different standards. If anything it shows a light that we need a national uniform voting standard for all 50 states. We should be voting the same in California as we do in Alabama as we do in New York and elsewhere.

"Ben, thank God for Donald Trump not conceding because we would never have known these things. This would have been swept under the rug. The press wouldn't have focused on it. Donald Trump is doing a great service in exposing the dysfunction and the criminality and the negligence and the incompetence of our voting system. It's not the Russians or the Chinese who are interfering with our election. It's us."

Poll Watchers

"Glad you volunteered to be a poll watcher, here's your binoculars, the ballot counters are behind that mountain."

Credit: Alpha

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As a serious suggestion, in this day and age it would make sense to livestream the vote count online with multiple cameras located throughout each counting center. That's in addition to poll watchers for each party seated at every table verifying the count.

Google censoring autocomplete suggestions for 'election fraud'

It seems that Google have taken action to ensure 'election fraud' fails to appear in their list of autocomplete suggestions. If you type 'election f' into Google, this is the list of autocomplete suggestions it comes up with...

No mention of election fraud.

The top four autocomplete suggestions are 'election forecast', election france', 'Election 1999 film' and 'election final results'. There's no mention of election fraud.

Google autocomplete suggestions are self-learning and come from real searches, so the more times someone searches for a particular term the higher it should rank in Google's list of autocomplete suggestions. Perhaps then, people simply aren't searching for election fraud?

Well, in the interest of fairness let's compare those four top suggested search terms with 'election fraud' to compare the popularity of each search term. Here's a comparison according to Google Trends with the red line representing searches for 'election fraud'...