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Yesterday, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a new finding of voter fraud in Maricopa County.
We already know that dead people have been voting in our elections for a long time. We reported this in 2016:
The full forensic audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election is looking
at every piece of evidence from voter rolls to suspected machine
tampering.
Audit expert Joe Hoft reported that Jovan Pulitzer’s method is being used in the “best in class” Arizona audit.
Attorney General Mark Brnovich tweeted the following statement:
A Scottsdale woman has been indicted and accused of casting a
vote in her deceased mother’s name through an early ballot in the 2020
General Election. More:
SCOTTSDALE – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that a State Grand Jury has indicted Tracey Kay McKee, of Scottsdale, with one count of Illegal Voting and one count of Perjury, for allegedly casting a vote in the name of a deceased person through an early ballot in the 2020 General Election.
The indictment alleges that McKee signed the name of a deceased individual to an early ballot envelope. McKee is the daughter of the deceased individual, who died on October 5, 2020. McKee
is accused of signing her deceased mother’s name to a declaration made
under penalty of perjury on an early ballot envelope on or between
October 7, 2020, and November 3, 2020.
All charged defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Assistant Attorney General Todd Lawson investigated and is prosecuting the case.
McKee’s next court appearance is set for August 11, 2021, in Maricopa County Superior Court.
This case was investigated and prosecuted by the Arizona Attorney
General’s Office’s Election Integrity Unit (EIU). EIU was established
with the support of the Arizona Legislature to combat reports of voter
and election-related fraud. Currently, the EIU has 5 active
election-related criminal cases in Superior Courts statewide, and
continues to work on criminal and civil complaints made in connection
with the 2020 election cycle.
Democrats continue to claim that signature verification is as secure as voter ID and in-person voting.
Democrats insist canvassing to clean voter rolls and ensure actual
people are voting from their registered address is voter intimidation.
All of this is happening while Joe Biden sends his thugs to our doors to
make us get the jab.
This is the only way they can win, through cheating.
How many dead people received mail-in ballots?
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HUGE: Analysis Finds Over 10,000 Dead People Returned Mail-In Ballots in Michigan
There are now 9,125 reported deaths from the COVID-19 vaccinations across the United States this year.
The number of deaths linked to vaccines this year has absolutely skyrocketed. According to the CDC’s own data, in 2021 n the first 3 months, the VAERS website recorded over 1,750 deaths due to vaccines in the US.
Last week they were reporting 6,985 deaths, and this week that number jumped up 2,043 to 9,048.
“The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database
contains information on unverified reports of adverse events
(illnesses, health problems and/or symptoms) following immunization with
US-licensed vaccines. Reports are accepted from anyone and can be
submitted electronically at www.vaers.hhs.gov.”
Six
fully vaccinated people who attended an outdoor wedding in Texas in
April came down with COVID-19 - a small outbreak that underscores how
effective US-authorized vaccines are against even variants of the virus.
Though the vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna may not knock out every COVID-19 case, especially now that the more infectious Delta variant dominates across the US, they are very good at preventing death from COVID-19.
A preprint study from Baylor College of Medicine
found that only one person who'd gotten an Indian-made vaccine,
Covaxin, died after attending the 92-person wedding near Houston in
April.
The wedding took place in a "large, open-air tent" before
the Delta variant was circulating widely in the US, the study said.
Everyone in attendance was required to be fully vaccinated.
The
study's authors suspect that the Delta variant was introduced at the
wedding by two people who had traveled from India and tested negative
before their flight but developed symptoms in the US.
Two men in their 60s had the most severe COVID-19 cases
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All
six guests who contracted symptomatic COVID-19 after the wedding were
over 50. Two had gotten the vaccine from Pfizer, two had gotten the
vaccine from Moderna, and two had gotten an Indian-made vaccine called Covaxin. Their infections were confirmed with lab tests and viral sequencing for Delta.
Each
experienced some common symptoms of COVID-19, including fever, cough,
fatigue, and body aches. Those who'd gotten the Moderna and Covaxin
vaccines also lost their sense of smell.
One Covaxin recipient and
one patient who had Pfizer came down with more severe infections. The
Pfizer patient was a man in his 60s with no known medical conditions
that increase the odds of contracting COVID-19. He was hospitalized and
given Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment (the same one President Donald Trump received) 10 days after the wedding. The Covaxin patient, a man in his late 60s (also with no COVID-19 comorbidities),
died from complications of COVID-19. All of the other patients who
contracted symptomatic COVID-19 after the wedding did have
preconditions, including hypertension, overweight, and diabetes.
US-authorized vaccines prevent death and severe sickness
Rochelle
Walensky, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, has said vaccinated people should still get a COVID-19 test
if they experience symptoms like a runny nose, sore throat, or cough, which can be indicative of a mild Delta infection among fully vaccinated people.
"What
I would say is if you have those upper-respiratory symptoms and you've
been vaccinated, you should absolutely get a COVID-19 test," Walensky
said during a White House COVID-19 briefing last week.
But she also stressed that preliminary data from the past few months suggested that 99.5% of coronavirus deaths in the US were occurring in unvaccinated people.
"Those deaths were preventable with a simple, safe shot," she said.
During
the briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical
advisor, pointed to real-world data from Scotland and England suggesting
that the vaccines authorized in the US are highly effective at
preventing the most disastrous cases from this variant.
"Please get vaccinated," Fauci said. "It will protect you against the surging of the Delta variant."
Correction:
An earlier version of this story misstated who got the monoclonal
antibody treatment. It was a patient with the Pfizer vaccine, not
Covaxin.
Levine Cava also addressed the announcement Sunday that a vaccinated
Miami-Dade county commissioner who helped other local officials in
Surfside has tested positive for COVID-19. The news release from
Miami-Dade County Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz said he and his
chief of staff, Isidoro Lopez, who also received a vaccine against
COVID-19, came down with flu-like symptoms earlier in the day and later
tested positive for the virus.
Levine Cava said officials who were
in close proximity to Diaz and Lopez have been tested and all have come
back negative. Levine Cava and other officials who spoke at Monday's
news conference did not wear face masks.
Diaz had participated in news conferences and meetings with other officials in Surfside, the Miami Herald reported.
“Breakthrough”
infections — fully vaccinated individuals who contract the coronavirus —
do happen, although they are very rare. An Associated Press analysis
of government data in May showed only about 1% of such cases resulted
in hospitalization or death.
The analysis suggested that nearly all
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. recently have been in people who weren’t
vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have
been and an indication that deaths could approach zero if every eligible
person gets the vaccine.
Last week, Florida health officials reported an increase in COVID-19 cases and a higher positive test rate compared with other recent weeks.
'Doctors are still stunned:' How did foreign bacteria leave a Texas girl with brain damage ?
Alison Young
·14 min read
In this article:
For
most of the past six weeks, 4-year-old Lylah Baker has been struggling
to survive an infection that doctors at Children’s Medical Center Dallas
couldn’t beat back. It started out like a typical stomach bug, but
within days tore through her body and into her brain.
Lylah’s family told me that doctors thought she had a rare autoimmune disorder
that can be triggered by an infection. They put a tube down her throat
to help her breathe. They gave her CT and MRI scans, and hooked her to
machines to filter and replace her blood. They administered steroids and
multiple antibiotics. She still wasn’t getting any better.
“They
were even treating her for rabies, just to be cautious, even though she
had never been bitten,” said Lylah’s aunt, Ashley Kennon, who is a
nurse.
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Eventually
a test found an organism growing in Lylah’s blood that initially eluded
identification. It was only after a neurosurgeon took a small sample
from Lylah’s brain that the hospital was able to confirm this curly
haired little girl from a small Texas town had been infected with deadly
foreign bacteria that aren’t supposed to be sickening people in the
United States.
“I think the doctors are still stunned. Nobody expected this,” Kennon told me.
Ashley Kennon visits with her niece, Lylah Baker, who continues to recover from melioidosis, caused by a rare bacteria.
Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent an advisory to health professionals
across the country warning that three people who live nowhere near each
other – one each in Minnesota, Kansas and Texas – have been seriously
sickened since March from infections with a potentially deadly type of
bacteria called Burkholderia pseudomallei. It is supposed to be found
only in tropical climates, primarily in Southeast Asia and northern
Australia, where it infects humans and animals through direct contact
with contaminated soil and water. That’s where it lives and grows.
“These three cases are unusual because no recent travel outside the United States has been identified,” the CDC said in its advisory.
Adding to the mystery, the agency said that genomic tests on bacteria
that infected each of these very different people suggests a common
source of exposure, “such as an imported product or animal.”
I’ve
reported on medical mysteries like this for years, including tracking
the very bacteria that sickened Lylah, and here’s what I’ve learned:
Investigating the source of deadly infectious diseases in an
increasingly interconnected world is vitally important because the lives
of real people are at stake.
With human beings jetting across the
globe, encroaching on wild habitats and trading in international
wildlife and common household products, emerging pathogens can quickly
move between continents and find their way to our doorsteps. The politicking and foot dragging that has hamstrung the search for the origin of COVID-19 is not how these investigations are supposed to go.
Knowing
where a pathogen came from is critical in preventing future outbreaks –
and saving people from the kind of suffering that Lylah and her family
are going through.
'Risk of exposure in the United States is unknown but is believed to be low'
Lylah,
the only child among the three cases in CDC’s alert about the
Burkholderia pseudomallei outbreak, has brain damage from her infection,
her aunt told me.
“She’s lucky to be alive,” said Kennon, who is
serving as a spokesperson for Lylah’s parents, Josy and Dustin Baker,
who have spent day and night with her at the hospital.
Lylah
Baker and her parents, Josy and Dustin Baker, who have spent day and
night with her at the hospital as she battles melioidosis.
“The
brain damage she has from this is pretty extensive,” Kennon said. “This
is a little girl, 4 years old, who was walking and talking and so
excited for preschool in the fall, who now can’t speak and can’t hold
her head up, can’t walk. It’s kind of like starting over.”
Investigators
from the CDC and three state health departments are in the early stages
of trying to figure out how Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria that
aren’t native to the United States could have sickened three people who
currently seem to have no connection to each other.
“At this time, the risk of exposure in the United States is unknown but is believed to be low,” the agency said in a statement.
The bacteria cause a disease called melioidosis
that is difficult to diagnose because of wide-ranging and nonspecific
symptoms that can appear days – or even years – after exposure. And it’s
deadly: killing 10% to 50% of those who become infected.
Few
details have been released by health officials about the other two
people, both adults, who were infected. According to the health alert,
one is male, the other is female. The first case to be identified was in
March and that person died. The other adult, like Lylah, became ill in
May and has been discharged from an unidentified hospital into a
transitional care unit.
Their initial symptoms ranged from
coughing and shortness of breath to fatigue, nausea and vomiting; there
were rashes and fevers that came and went, the CDC said. The patients
were later diagnosed with infectious encephalitis, an inflammation of
the brain. The person who died 10 days after being hospitalized had
preexisting health issues that put them at increased risk for
melioidosis, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and
cirrhosis.
This bacterium causes the illness melioidosis in humans.
Lylah’s
doctors at Children’s Medical Center Dallas were unavailable to talk
about her case, a spokesperson said, but with the family’s permission
confirmed key details of her medical history. State health department
officials in Texas and Kansas, who are involved in the investigations,
have not responded to interview requests and questions since July 1.
In
Minnesota, the infected person is an adult with underlying health
conditions, said Doug Schultz, a spokesperson for the Minnesota
Department of Health. The department learned about the person’s
infection when a clinical lab sent a bacterial sample from the person to
the state public health laboratory for confirmation. The person’s
infection was then linked to the other cases when the CDC ran whole
genome sequencing on the bacteria, said Schultz, who said he couldn’t
provide further details.
“We are just beginning our
investigation,” Schultz said in an email. “We are conducting a thorough
investigation into medical history, what household products the case
used, their hobbies, and foods consumed. This will be compared to other
states to see if there are any commonalities.”
The
CDC said none of the three people had any recent travel history outside
the areas near their homes, “therefore there are no known common links
pertaining to travel inside or outside of the US.”
Investigating household items, soil, a pet fish as possible sources – or not
Lylah,
who had no previous health problems, lives with her parents and
1-year-old sister in the small town of Bells, about 60 miles northeast
of Dallas. She hasn’t traveled much in her lifetime, other than for an
annual family beach vacation to Port Aransas, on the Gulf of Mexico near
Corpus Christi. “I don’t think she’s ever left Texas,” her aunt told
me.
Health investigators visited Lylah’s extended family early
this month to take blood samples from about a dozen of them and ask
about a wide range of items the little girl might have been exposed to.
The investigators have told the family that because Burkholderia
pseudomallei bacteria survive best in a moist environment, they are
“mainly interested in liquid products.”
Among the items they’ve
asked family members to provide samples of for testing: any liquid
vitamins, supplements or medications Lylah might have taken; a wide
range of household cleaning items, including laundry detergent, bathroom
and floor cleaners, deodorizing sprays and dish soap; and personal
cleaning items such as hand soap and sanitizer, hand and body wipes and
mouthwash the child might have used. They’ve also asked about packaged
fruit items, such as juices, fruit cups and applesauce, as well as
wanting to know broadly about any products Lylah may have had contact
with that are believed to have been imported.
Lylah Baker, 4, was treated at Children's Medical Center Dallas for melioidosis, caused by a deadly foreign bacteria.
Investigators
have expressed interest in a pet Betta fish that Lylah got during the
winter and that died in February, Kennon said, and were hoping to
possibly test the aquarium or any items that were in it. Betta, also
called Siamese fighting fish, are a type of tropical freshwater fish
native to Southeast Asia.
Another area they are investigating:
garden soil and plants that might have been imported, Kennon said,
adding that health officials will be testing soil samples from the
places Lylah has been. In the days before she first started feeling ill
on May 24, Lylah had been helping one of her grandmothers plant flowers,
Kennon said, and they are being tested too.
It’s
important to know that none of these items may have anything to do with
the source of Lylah’s infection. That’s why a systematic, in-depth
investigation is so critical.
This early in an investigation the
disease detectives from the CDC and state health departments are casting
a wide net, looking into many possible suspects. Using standardized
lists of products and activities, they’re asking questions of all of the
families in the outbreak, seeking similarities between items the
patients were exposed to. And they’re testing dozens of products and
soil samples – as well as family members – to see if they can find the
bacteria.
It’s a painstaking process that takes time.
Not everyone exposed will get sick
Burkholderia
pseudomallei bacteria are not considered to be easily spread from
person to person. In countries where the bacteria are commonly found,
people and animals are usually infected by coming into direct contact
with soil or water where the bacteria are living and growing, such as by
inhaling bacteria-contaminated dust or water droplets, or bacteria
entering through a cut in the skin.
Not everyone who is exposed
will become ill. For those who do, it can then take a day to many years
between when a person is exposed and when they start developing symptoms
of melioidosis, though the CDC says symptoms generally appear within
two to four weeks. Getting an accurate diagnosis can be difficult
because they symptoms are so nonspecific.
According to the CDC, the only places in the United States
where Burkholderia pseudomallei occurs naturally are Puerto Rico and
the U.S. Virgin Islands. While about a dozen cases of melioidosis are
diagnosed in the U.S. each year, these tend to be people who have a
history of living in or traveling to tropical areas where the bacteria
are typically found. So cases of melioidosis are very rare in this
country.
The last time I reported on Burkholderia pseudomallei was because of a lab accident
in late 2014 at the Tulane National Primate Research Center in
Louisiana that raised concerns bacteria may have been released into the
surrounding environment.
The Tulane National Primate Research Center is located on 500-acres in Covington, La.
Researchers
were working inside a secure biosafety level 3 laboratory with multiple
layers of safeguards, yet the bacteria got out of one of the center’s
labs and infected monkeys that had never been used in experiments and
were kept elsewhere on the property. A federal investigation found
that sloppy biosafety practices and workers wearing contaminated
clothing outside the lab were the likely ways the bacteria were tracked
to where the monkeys became infected. Environmental testing after the
safety breach did not find the bacteria outdoors on the lab’s property.
It’s
serious mistakes like these, made by scientists with the best of
intentions at a prestigious facility, that go to why a thorough, independent investigation of all plausible causes of the current COVID-19 pandemic – including the potential for a lab accident – continue to be needed.
This
500-acre research laboratory and primate breeding facility 35 miles
north of New Orleans is among dozens of academic and government labs
across the country that have been conducting experiments with
Burkholderia pseudomallei, research fueled by bioterrorism preparedness
funding and the need to develop tests, treatments and vaccines. Because
Burkholderia pseudomallei poses such a severe risk to public health and
has potential for misuse as a bioweapon it’s on the U.S. government’s Tier 1 “select agent” list of pathogens – which also includes the Ebola virus and the bacteria that cause anthrax and plague.
The
CDC said there is currently no evidence to suggest the three
melioidosis cases are the result of a biological attack. The suspected
source of the infections, based on the CDC’s health alert and the
questions being asked of Lylah’s family, is an imported product or
animal.
“Testing suggests a common source of infection, but that source has not yet been identified,” the CDC said in its statement.
While some scientists suspect
that Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria may be lurking undetected in
the soil in parts of the southern United States, the CDC apparently
doesn’t think that’s the culprit with the three recent cases. The CDC’s
statement said the agency’s genetic analysis of the bacteria from the
three patients indicates they didn’t get infected from a natural
reservoir of bacteria in North America, because the strains aren’t
similar to those found in the Americas.
The CDC did not answer questions about the name of the strain involved in the outbreak or where that strain is found.
Last year, scientists from the CDC and the Texas Department of State Health Services suggested in a journal article
that it’s possible Burkholderia pseudomallei may be endemic in Texas
and some other warm-weather states. In analyzing the genomes of bacteria
taken from two Texas residents who were separately sickened with
melioidosis – one in 2004 and the other in 2018 – they found intriguing
similarities. And additional similarities were found among the genomes
of bacteria that over the years have sickened other patients who were
residents of North America.
The genetic fingerprints in the
current outbreak investigation involving Lylah and the people in
Minnesota and Kansas appear to be pointing to a source outside the
United States. But where? And how? There are more questions than answers
about how three people’s lives have been devastated in recent months.
'Miracles have been worked'
For
Lylah and her family, the questions aren’t just about how she was
infected. Some of the biggest questions involve what is ahead of them.
“I
think a lot of people, I think they think she’s just recovering in bed,
getting stronger in bed,” her aunt said. “It’s the brain damage she’s
having to recover from. It’s starting all over again and not knowing
what the future is.”
Lylah
Baker suffered brain damage after being infected with deadly foreign
bacteria that aren’t supposed to be sickening people in the United
States.
On Thursday, Lylah moved to a
specialty children’s rehabilitation hospital in Dallas where her family
hopes she will be able to spend at least the next 30 days, insurance
willing, receiving intensive physical, occupational and speech therapy
to help overcome the lesions on her brain. Her parents will stay there
with Lylah, Kennon said, supporting her through the therapy and also
learning how to care for her when she moves back home.
Lylah’s
mom, Josy, is on unpaid leave from her job at a veterinary clinic,
Kennon said. Her dad, Dustin, is a firefighter paramedic, whose
colleagues in Denison, Texas, have been helping support the family by
taking on his shifts and donating their work. Lylah’s grandparents have
been taking turns caring for her baby sister, Addie. There have been
community fundraisers at local restaurants, Venmo donations and a GoFundMe page.
The support the family has received has been amazing, Kennon said.
“It’s
just the fear of the unknown,” she said. “The miracles have been
worked. She’s pretty much survived the unimaginable. She’s definitely
beaten the odds, that’s for sure. So everything she does is a huge
success for us.”
Alison Young
is an investigative reporter in Washington, D.C. She is also the Curtis
B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the Missouri School of
Journalism. During 2009-19, she was a reporter and member of USA TODAY’s
national investigative team. Follow her on Twitter: @alisonannyoung
He gained national attention through his tenacity at a local polling
place, refusing to leave even after others might have: Hervis Rogers was
the last man to vote at his Texas Southern University polling place
early Wednesday morning, and possibly the last person to cast a ballot
in the State of Texas when he did so around 1 a.m.
Rogers, who works two jobs, arrived at the polls just before 7 p.m.,
and his roughly six-hour wait was tough, he said. But that didn’t stop
him.
“It is insane, but it’s worth it,” Rogers said while
waiting in line. “I mean, I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t vote. I feel
like it’s— I voice my opinion, but it don’t feel right if I don’t vote.
So I said, ‘I’m going to take a stand and vote. It might make a
difference.’”
When he finally got to TSU, Rogers said he had already been to two
other packed locations nearby. He had work at 6 a.m. Wednesday, and
thought about just turning around to go home, but something came over
him, he said, and he decided to stick it out. More than five hours
later, he still sat in line, patiently waiting to cast a ballot for Joe
Biden.
Now, we have this.
Authorities are saying Hervis Rogers was not eligible to vote due to the fact he was on parole.
Back in 1995, Rogers was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison for burglary and intent to commit theft.
A Houston man who received widespread attention after standing six
hours in line to cast a ballot in the 2020 Democratic presidential
primary was in jail Friday on charges that it was illegal for him to
vote at all because he was on parole.
Hervis Rogers became an overnight face of Texas’ battle over voting
access when he emerged from a polling center at a historically Black
college around 1:30 a.m. He was among Houston voters on Super Tuesday
who waited more than an hour — and some for several hours — in mostly
minority, Democratic neighborhoods. Lines in mostly white, Republican
neighborhoods were shorter.
“The way it was set up, it was like it was set up for me to walk
away,” Rogers told reporters in comments carried by multiple news
outlets, including The Associated Press.
He was arrested this week on two counts of illegal
voting, a second-degree felony that carries a possible sentence of two
to 20 years in prison. His bail was set at $100,000.
Liberals attacked Texas AG Paxton for the arrest.
He responded, “I prosecute voter fraud everywhere we find it!”:
