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[alphorn] 27/11/2020 15:23

Wow, seems like a lot for the Express readers but even less than petty cash. A few hours of borrowing. (Offer the UK a £104million compromise in a bid to break the deadlock in post-Brexit trade talks). No doubt will get lapped up.

[sharesoc] 27/11/2020 14:46

We are hosting a webinar with Lloyds on 9th December. May be worth watching if you are a current shareholder or potential investor. Carla Antunes da Silva (Group Strategy, Corporate Ventures & Investor Relations Director) and Douglas Radcliffe (Group Investor Relations Director) will be presenting:

[cheshire pete] 27/11/2020 14:44

Thanks Minerve: yes rents going up kerching and everyone still paying on time with pandemic nearly a year on. Happy days and £ to back the black horse.

[stonedyou] 27/11/2020 14:41

Sidney Powell Releases Lawsuit in Georgia Alleging ‘Massive Election Fraud’

Attorney Sidney Powell released a federal lawsuit late on Nov. 25 that alleges “massive election fraud” and multiple violations of the Constitution and Georgia’s state laws in the 2020 general election, as well as issues pertaining to Dominion Voting Systems.

The civil action alleges that the purpose of the scheme was for “illegally and fraudulently manipulating the vote count to make certain the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States.” A similar separate suit was filed in Michigan.

The Georgia suit (pdf) released on Powell’s website is intended to be filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, against Gov. Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and other election officials.

The suit seeks to compel the court to invalidate the election results in Georgia. It was filed on behalf of plaintiffs including Republican Party nominees for the electoral college, the chairman of the Cobb County Republican Party Jason Shepherd, and the Assistant Secretary of the Georgia Republican Party, Brian Jay Van Gundy.


The 104-page complaint argues that “incontrovertible evidence Board of Elections records demonstrates that at least 96,600 absentee ballots were requested and counted but were never recorded as being returned to county election boards by the voter. Thus, at a minimum, 96,600 votes must be disregarded.”

According to the suit, fraud was also allegedly “executed by many means” but the “most troubling, insidious, and egregious” way was the “systemic adaptation of old-fashioned ‘ballot-stuffing.'” It alleges computerized ballot-stuffing and manipulation by software created and run by domestic and foreign actors. The complaint cited affidavits from multiple witnesses, documentation, as well as expert testimony that raised “sheer mathematical impossibilities̶1; in the election results supporting the claims.

“Especially egregious conduct arose in Forsyth, Paulding, Cherokee, Hall, and Barrow County,” the complaint reads. “This scheme and artifice to defraud affected tens of thousands of votes in Georgia alone and ‘rigged’ the election in Georgia for Joe Biden.”

In particular, the suit took issue with election software and hardware from Dominion Voting Systems, which it noted was recently purchased and “rushed into use” by Kemp, Raffensperger, and the Georgia Board of Elections.


Plaintiffs allege that the design and features of the Dominion software do not allow for a simple audit to see whether votes were misallocated, redistributed, or deleted, pointing to a Jan. 24 decision by the Texas secretary of state to deny certifying the software “because of a lack of evidence of efficiency and accuracy and to be safe from fraud and unauthorized manipulation.”

“First, the system’s central accumulator does not include a protected real-time audit log that maintains the date and time stamps of all significant election events. Key components of the system utilize unprotected logs,” the filing reads. “Essentially this allows an unauthorized user the opportunity to arbitrarily add, modify, or remove log entries, causing the machine to log election events that do not reflect actual voting tabulations—or more specifically, do not reflect the actual votes of or the will of the people.”

The suit also alleges “incontrovertible physical evidence that the standards of physical security of the voting machines and the software were breached, and machines were connected to the Internet in violation of professional standards and state and federal laws.”


Part of the suit mentions a delay in voting at State Farm Arena in Fulton County, where video on Nov. 3 shows that election workers “falsely claimed a water leak required the facility to close.” It adds, “All poll workers and challengers were evacuated for several hours at about 10:00 PM. However, several election workers remained unsupervised and unchallenged working at the computers for the voting tabulation machines until after 1:00 AM.”

Another part of the complaint said that cybersecurity expert Navid Keshavarz-Nia testified that “U.S. intelligence services had developed tools to infiltrate foreign voting systems including Dominion.” Pointing to vulnerabilities in the Dominion’s software, he claims that “hundreds of thousands of votes” were transferred from President Donald Trump to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in battleground states.

The complaint also cites a former electronic intelligence analyst under the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion, who declared that the Dominion software was accessed by agents acting on behalf of China and Iran to monitor and manipulate elections, including the 2020 U.S. general election.

A former U.S. Military Intelligence expert had analyzed the Dominion software system and concluded that the system and software “were certainly compromised by rogue actors, such as Iran and China,” according to another part of the complaint.

“By using servers and employees connected with rogue actors and hostile foreign influences combined with numerous easily discoverable leaked credentials, Dominion neglectfully allowed foreign adversaries to access data and intentionally provided access to their infrastructure in order to monitor and manipulate elections, including the most recent one in 2020,” the filing said.

The lawsuit also claims: “Georgia’;s election officials and poll workers exacerbated and helped, whether knowingly or unknowingly, the Dominion system carry out massive voter manipulation by refusing to observe statutory safeguards for absentee ballots. Election officials failed to verify signatures and check security envelopes. They barred challengers from observing the count, which also facilitated the fraud.”

The Georgia secretary of state and Dominion Voting Systems did not immediately respond to The Epoch Times’ requests for comment on the suit.

Dominion released a statement on Wednesday saying, “Claims that Dominion deleted or switched votes are completely false. Dominion systems are 100 percent auditable.”


The lawsuit comes after election results were certified for Georgia on Nov. 20. At the time, Kemp did not clearly endorse the results but said the law required him to “formalize the certification, which paves the way for the Trump campaign to pursue other legal options and a separate recount if they choose.”

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the status of the lawsuit in Georgia. There is no indication as of Nov. 26 that the suit in Georgia has been filed. The Epoch Times regrets the error.

[alphorn] 27/11/2020 14:39

cheshire - 'some' is not my experience.

[minerve 2] 27/11/2020 14:36

"2 beach inspectors for effluent for whole of Spanish"

Maybe because the Spanish respect their coast more and the water utility companies are not used as cash cows to pay wealthy foreign investors.

[cheshire pete] 27/11/2020 14:33

Agree some have been home grown and they're not all bad but as always its a matter of degree and balance.
Also the issue of UK conscientious wrt EU Regs and EU states turning a blind eye, eg. reportedly only 2 beach inspectors for effluent for whole of Spanish coast compared to armies of people we have on the job.

[alphorn] 27/11/2020 14:27

If you have any doubt that rain is wet come to the UK and see signs everywhere warning people that the floor is wet when it rains.

[alphorn] 27/11/2020 14:25

cheshire - serious reply for a moment. It is true, but not only the socialists. As someone who has worked decades both sides of the Channel it is extraordinary how 'EU rules' have been invented in the UK. It is a sad fact that IMO the UK has been burdened by health & safety rules etc home grown. No UK governments have been able to touch them - just add more.

[cheshire pete] 27/11/2020 14:24

I'm sure GBP will fall if no deal....but so what.

It might also rise in 12 to 48 months once the benefits of a clean break feed through. The cleaner the break the stronger the recovery imho. That's not emotion btw, just twisi.

[alphorn] 27/11/2020 14:19

ff - you will know from other threads that I 'bet the house' on a GBP decline prior to the referendum. I have some bullish positions now on GBP - the reason is that a deal is expected. GBP will IMO fall if No Deal is the outcome. Who knows? I don't.

[cheshire pete] 27/11/2020 14:16

Because its true, why do you think labour / socialists love regulation and bureaucracy....because it slows things down, creates obstacles to wealth creation and dis-incentivises hard work. And why, because they're fearful of some getting what they haven't got, no good reason though they might try and dress it up with some pc rubbish.

[alphorn] 27/11/2020 14:15

Mo123 - too many idiots long on emotions and short on reality. Sad but true.
Just read the posts on here! Lol

[minerve 2] 27/11/2020 14:10

Why is it the clowns always think those who want to see obscene wealth removed and more fairly shared in society are driven by jealousy?

Ridiculous tabloid driven nonsense.

[cheshire pete] 27/11/2020 14:03

Sammy Wilson DUP top man: No sell out Boris. Tell Barnier not to bother coming. No deal.

[freddie ferret] 27/11/2020 13:42

Alphorn.

Since the amount of QE was a lot more than the market was expecting one would have expected a dramatic move in currency rates on the release of the data, this did not happen. $ and Euro rates only moved an incy wincy teeny weeny little bit.

I think you knew what I was getting at and were being disengenuous. It is interesting to note also, that over the last month or so the £ has strengthened against both $ and Euro. This to me suggests that Brexit is good for sterling.

[financeguru] 27/11/2020 13:38

@miniman....you are just jealous!

[mikemichael2] 27/11/2020 13:29

Steady on Min/Alp you'll blow a blood vessel !!

[geckotheglorious] 27/11/2020 13:22

Mike,

You know full well that Minerve2 and Alphorn are both typical Remainers.
Everything is about money for them.

So chance of them foregoing their pension/selling their Swiss chalet respectively is ZERO!!!!!!