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Meanwhile over in nevada two counties passed this resolution right here and officially became what are known as constitutional counties meaning that the local governments there will be upholding the bill of rights and the u.s constitution against all infringements from either state or federal authorities now what does that actually mean in
Practice well let’s go through that together This is your daily fax matter update and i’m your host roman from the epic times now let’s begin today’s discussion over in arizona as you likely already know the large-scale audit of the 2020 election over in maricopa county has been officially underway for over
A month and a half now as a part of that audit the arizona state senate is doing a hand recount of 2.1 million ballots they’re looking for any possible i.t breaches that might have occurred and they are also examining close to 400 election tabulation machines which were used during the contest now
As of five days ago the official twitter account for the maricopa county audit it announced that 80 of the ballots have now been recounted here’s specifically what that twitter post said audit update 80 of the ballots are now counted voter integrity is a priority in america
And we are proud that arizona is leading the way the audit continues now just for your reference by the way when you actually do the math if they are 80 done with the ballots that means that approximately 1.7 million ballots have now been recounted which leaves about 400 000 ballots that
They still need to go through and that tweet by the way was from five days ago and so by now they might even be closer to 90 done now ken bennett who is the audit liaison he further added that the audit teams are now shifting their resources to ballot evaluation work
Which he said includes anything to do with the authenticity of the ballot are there folds in the 1.9 million ballots that came in and now by mail are alignment marks on the front and the backs of the ballots aligning as authentic ballots should is there a depression in the oval where
A human handheld device would have filled in that oval as opposed to an in-gen printer or a xerox machine or whatever you might think furthermore he also added that the ballot evaluation work will likely take up most of the rest of the month and for your reference they
Have until june 30th to complete the audit that’s when their contract with the venue that’s when it expires now besides what is happening with the audit itself there has been another interesting phenomena that’s worth noting and that is lawmakers from other states from across the entire country
Have gone over to arizona in order to see the audit for themselves to see how it’s being conducted to speak with the audit team as well as to meet with the arizona state senate and when i see lawmakers from across the country i mean it because over the last two
Weeks either delegations or individual lawmakers have come from places like pennsylvania georgia alaska nevada colorado oklahoma utah virginia among several other states according to ken bennett he described it this way it is just a revolving door now the lawmakers who came to visit the audit they were shown how the workers are
Counting the nearly 2.1 million ballots they were shown how the workers are evaluating the physical paper for abnormalities like for instance if it’s a male in ballot it should have a fold on it and if it doesn’t have a crease that means that’s an abnormality they were also shown the audit procedures
Like how the ballots are being examined as well as the chain of custody processes and many of the lawmakers who visited they said that they hoped that they could take back what they learned to their home states and conduct a similar audit out there for instance here’s what one lawmaker
From utah told one america news i would love to see an audit conducted in utah especially salt lake county that mirrors this audit right here furthermore that same lawmaker added and this was by the way something that directly contradicts what the democrat secretary of state in arizona said
He said that this audit was being conducted very securely here’s what he said i’m just blown away at the attention to detail the focus on accuracy transparency just making sure that the chain of custody is as it should be that every handoff is well controlled likewise a state senator from virginia
Had a chance to tour the audit facility and here’s what she said afterwards not only do we need to improve our election process going forward i think we need in virginia to have an audit and so i’m hoping that i can inspire some of my republican colleagues in the senate
To at least hear what i have to say when i go back likewise senators from pennsylvania relate a similar sentiment with one of them saying this we have a lot of the same concerns and issues unresolved in pennsylvania when you have about 47 percent of the state’s population questioning the reliability of the
Election that’s the significance of your problem and so the only way i could see ahead of this putting this all to rest and let the cards fall where they may do a scientific forensic audit like arizona is doing by the way just for your reference pennsylvania republicans are now
Seriously discussing the possibility of a similar audit with even the top senator in the state saying that he is in support of that idea furthermore over in pennsylvania senator doug mestriano he is one of the senators that visited arizona he said that pennsylvania might be seeing an audit start as early as
July likewise the chairman of nevada’s republican party he says that even though the nevada legislature is controlled by the democrats he says that there might be a path to conduct an audit outside of the legislature although he didn’t provide too many details on that front however after
Visiting arizona here’s what he did say we intend to take and look at every legal option we have of bringing an audit here to nevada likewise a representative from alaska who visited the arizona audit said this i am grateful for the efforts that those in arizona are making to increase
Confidence in their elections and hope we will be able to increase the confidence that alaskans have in our elections as well and so as you can see not only are many lawmakers coming to visit arizona they are also taking what they learn from the audit back to their home state
And many of them will be pushing for audits of their own there are also plans for lawmakers from wisconsin michigan as well as several other states to visit arizona before the audit concludes at the end of this month and so what looks like might be happening is that this audit out in arizona
Could actually spark a wave of similar election audits happening across this country we’ll just have to wait and see whether that is what will actually happen however the federal government is taking a very different approach in fact merrick garland who is the attorney general he announced three days
Ago that the department of justice will double the number of lawyers in their civil rights division in order to help ensure voter access as well as to help scrutinize election audits here’s specifically what mayor garland said as a part of his statement we are scrutinizing new laws that seek
To curb voter access and where we see violations we will not hesitate to act we are also scrutinizing current laws and practices in order to determine whether they discredit against black voters and other voters of color particularly concerning with in this regard are several studies showing that in some jurisdictions
Non-white voters must wait in line substantially longer than white voters to cast their ballots during that speech he further added that the department of justice will apply the same scrutiny to post-election audits like the one happening over in arizona in order to make sure that they protect
Voting records as well as to make sure that they don’t engage in what he calls voter intimidation he then added that in the coming days the department of justice is planning to publish guidance in respect to these election audits however when the federal government did something similar a few months ago we
Here at the epic times spoke with several experts on the issue and they told us that the federal government actually lacks constitutional authority to tell the individual states how to either conduct their elections or how to conduct their election audits and now with this new statement that was just made by merrick garland
We here at the epic times we reached out to karen fann who is the president of the arizona state senate and we asked her for comments surrounding this new contentious position that the federal government has taken against arizona’s audit and here’s what she wrote back to us in an email
The democrats have been trying every avenue they can to stop or discredit this audit i’m sure this will be one of the many avenues they will pursue post audit as well what disturbs me more than anything is the fact that according to recent polls 40 to 50 percent of voters believe there
Are serious problems or serious fraud in our electoral system and none of these entities think it’s important enough for them to do an audit to answer all of our citizens concerns or questions and so we’ll just have to wait and see what will happen in the future because
As more and more states are looking to conduct election audits of their own it looks like the federal government is trying to clamp down on them and exert their authority and how this will play out will likely have reverberations not only in the upcoming midterm elections not only in the upcoming 2024
Presidential race but likely into how our elections are run well into the future regardless we’ll keep you abreast of any developments out in arizona as well as the possibility of other audits being done across this country as well and when we hear anything on those fronts we’ll let you know right away
And as always if you’d like to watch the audit out in arizona for yourself you can do so over at which is the website that was set up by the arizona state senate which allows you to watch the audit in real time from nine different camera angles
The link to azarda.org as well as all the other aspects to the story that we’ve discussed will all be in the description box below this video for you to check out and now lastly here’s what a representative from the epic time said i hope that everyone watching this video
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I want to show you something very cool it is the trailer for our exclusive epic tv episode that we premiered over the weekend take a look the november election which took place over in fulton county georgia is under the microscope right now sworn affidavits from poll workers were so compelling
That they convinced a judge to unseal 147 000 absentee ballots in order to investigate them for possible fraud however at the very last minute literally one day before it was scheduled to begin county officials filed motions to dismiss and indefinitely postponed the investigation but that was just the tip of the iceberg
Because two days later a security alarm went off in the building where the physical ballots were being stored photos from that day show the door to the building was left wide open and the guards who were supposed to be on duty happened to leave just 20 minutes beforehand and so the building
Was left unattended what exactly happened there and amidst all this the mother and daughter team who were present at the state farm arena when ballots were being counted in the middle of the night were just issued notices from the court to come in for an official deposition let’s go through what’s
Happening over in fulton county together in an exclusive episode of facts matter found only on epic tv if you want to check out that exclusive episode the link to epic tv will be right there at the top of the description box hope you click on it hope you subscribe
To epic tv check out that episode and now let’s move on over to nevada two counties over in nevada made the decision to go constitutional now what does that exactly mean well it means that they passed this resolution right here which among several other things declares that any conduct which is
Contrary to the bill of rights the declaration of independence or the u.s constitution will be dealt with as criminal activity this resolution by the way was passed unanimously in elko county and then later it was passed in lander county as well both of those are rural counties over nevada
And so according to this resolution it essentially says that the local governments of these two counties which includes their commissioners as well as their sheriffs will stand against any unconstitutional acts by both state and federal authorities now in terms of what constitutional rights they are referring to specifically
Well let’s read through it together it says the people of these united states are and have a right to be free and independent and these rights are derived from the law of nature and nature’s god as such they must be free from infringements on the right to keep and bear arms
On reasonable searches and seizures capricious detainments and every other natural right whether enumerated or not pursuant to the ninth amendment they further went on to essentially bring their county back to first principles and say that they deny any governmental structure which supersedes either the bill of rights or the us constitution
Here’s specifically what this resolution says we maintain that no agency established by the u.s congress can develop its own policies or regulations which supersede the bill of rights or the constitution nor does the executive branch have the power to make law overturn law or set aside law they then
Go on to list 10 abuses that will no longer be tolerated in these counties at the top of the list are orders infringing on the rights to freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom of assembly and other liberties that are guaranteed under the first amendment
And then as you go down the list other acts that will no longer be tolerated include efforts to register firearms gun confiscation violations of either privacy or property rights without a warrant detainment or arrest without following constitutional procedures and so on and then at the very end of the
Resolution these two county governments became the first in the nation to officially join an organization called the constitutional sheriffs and peace officers association this is a national organization that’s made up of sheriffs as well as other law enforcement officials who are dedicated to upholding their oaths as well as upholding the u.s constitution
Now across america there are many sheriffs as well as police officers who are members of this group but before this resolution was passed never before had a county government requested to join these two counties in nevada were in fact the first now this group was actually created by a
Former sheriff named richard mack and i actually had a chance to sit down and interview him late last year while i was reporting from arizona during the time of the previous election and during that interview he told me that he had been traveling across this country for many years now
Educating both local sheriffs as well as local communities and what he says is their duty to protect the constitutionally guaranteed liberties of their constituents from being undermined by federal and state governments and so we here at the epic times reached out to get a comment from him about these
Two counties right here in nevada passing this resolution and here’s what he told us the people of these counties and their elected officials have had it up to here with unconstitutional dictates and mandates the leadership of elko county is an example to all of nevada and the entire country that tyranny will
No longer be acceptable he then went on to further say that having local elected officials tell federal and state authorities that the bill of rights will be upheld in their jurisdiction works to help protect the god-given freedoms that each citizen was born with he added this this is the peaceful and
Effective solution millions of americans have been praying for to take back america county by county and state by state these public officials are actually doing something that has been lost in political correctness for a very long time they are courageously keeping their oaths of office to uphold defend and
Preserve the constitution of the united states and the constitution of nevada now we here at the epic times we also reached out to the county commissioner the one who initially proposed this resolution here in this county and he not only got back to us with a statement but he’s also calling on
Counties across america to take similar actions in defense of the u.s constitution here’s what he told us we need a majority of counties in all the freedom-loving states to join he then went on to say that right now the swamp controls our federal government and our nation is in decline
The only way to take back our country is county by county sheriff by sheriff my advice to other americans is that they had better wake up and fight back or we will lose our wonderful country we are slipping quickly from the republic of our founding into a dictatorship
Now the big question is whether this will stop here or if other counties will join in as well according to sheriff richard mack as the news of this option spreads and as citizens across america get involved he told us that these two counties are likely just the beginning
And likewise we spoke with the operations director over at the constitutional sheriff’s association and he told us here at the epic times that he is already in talks with elected officials from other counties as well and so we’ll just have to wait and see if this trend catches on
And if more counties across this country become constitutional counties now we here at the epic times we also reached out to steven sissellack who is the governor of nevada he’s a democrat however he did not get back to us regardless if you would like to read more about these two counties in nevada
That decided to go constitutional or if you would like to read this full two-page resolution right here it’s pretty good i would highly recommend it the link to it will be in the description box below this video for you to check out and now lastly as we’ve already discussed in several previous episodes
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