Thanking you for your presentation to BOC on August 3rd, 2023 where you pointed out to the BOC the instance where they did not follow their own procedures/law/codes in appointing a member to the BRE, i.e.:certification.
As an invited poll worker last November, I witnessed, first-hand Mr. Natt in action. Let's just say I was not impressed. I will not lay out the details of my interaction with him over the course of two days last November here but if we see each other, face-to-face, I will be happy to relate to you the details.
Thanks for exposing all this information, it is sad that the We The People have to spend so much effort fighting inside the party, when we should be focusing on fighting the DemocRATS.
fewer machines....accounting for early voters fewer items to control during the most hectic day of voting...and when tabulating is finalized and submitted. i’m not particularly fond of it, but i’m less fond of mail-in and early voting. after 2020 its plain to see that cheating is occurring. as long as limits are in place to limit cheating and to offset less controlled aspects of “voting” i’m fine with it. it oughta be one day. id and signature verified. no excuses. and a very public process.
Thank you for continuing to cover all this in Georgia. It's a disgrace that our state has been so corrupt for so long (been here since 1984). I really hope your work gets more national attention - it is very important.
Hank, in the HB1464(I think) it called for fewer voting machines on election day to account for early voters, I am personally not ok with that and I wondered why is that a good thing, to have fewer machines on the last day of elections? Overall, the article is very alarming as to why anyone is ok with fraudulent voter registration. I had no idea Forsyth county was going the way of Gwinnett. Brian Kemp has turned out to be an embarrassment for the state.
My guess is that the number of voting machines would be computed by experience, given the opportunities to vote during other times. And yours is a valid concern. My expectation would be that the issue you bring would be debated. If the experts have valid reasoning for it, then perhaps it is a good policy. I don't profess to know. I just know that the bill would have been a drastic improvement in election integrity from what we have now, and no one representing this county ought to be arguing against the entire bill, for the lack of agreement on a debatable item such as that.
My concern is the normalization of "long term voting". Early voting is almost 2 months long and my observation is that just gives people more time to cheat. By reducing the number of machines on election day, which is historically the day that the majority of republicans vote, you make it more inconvenient and you normalize people to extended voting seasons. The other side is already manipulating the process as it exists today, why would you have plenty of machines and personnel for 59 days and then on the last day reduce everything by half ( pick your percentage-it doesn't make sense unless the motive is to decrease republican votes). It's like having church services Monday through Saturday, and then on Sunday having a mini service in the old chapel from 9-10 am. The longer the voting lasts, the more lax security gets. People tire from the entire process, except for people waiting for an opportunity to advance their agenda. During the riots of 2020, BLM and Anti-Fa were ready to go full steam as soon as the sun started going down and regular folk were heading home from a hard day's work. All the above aside, what you have revealed in Forsyth County is reminiscent of "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", fat bellied sheriff and all.
The way I had understood the reduction of machines is to account for the amount of early voting. So if you district is 1000 registered voters, and 500 of them have already mailed in ballots, then you would only need "x" amount of machines to prepare for the potential 500 left who would show on election day. If you instead had full capacity for 1000 registered voters, that may create the opportunity for fraud, or some nefarious double voting. But, i do agree with your concerns. The fact is, there should be ONE DAY to vote and months of early voting violates the Constitution. It's sad what we have become.
By election day they have been frauding for a month and a half, their strategy on election day is to malfunction the machines, like they did in Arizona to Kari Lake. In 2022 a Hall county precinct near Oakwood had no issues until election day, and then no ones password worked until late in the day so they couldn't open the machines. It's a heavy republican precinct with a lot of folks that work every day, and they prefer to vote on election day. A family friend of mine made some suggestions to the precinct manager and was told to myob. In early 2023 she was contacted by an attorney and asked to make a statement on record to him, which she did. She has had no further follow up from the attorney. I do agree that there should be one day of voting, and no stopping the count and running everyone out. That should have been locked down immediately and guarded by the GSPatrol, or GA National Guard, per our governor. Who seems more interested in protecting the use of Dominion software, which was acquired on his watch as Secretary of State of GA.
Yes, Ron Paul tours with Cynthia McKinney and writes for the Iran-backed Voltaire Network. I think you're just emotional because I had to cut you off once when your one hour speech ran an hour and a half longer. I didn't know you before that night and was very gracious to you by filling in for a sick group leader, introducing you, serving refreshments, and waiting to lock up the building afterwards. That was, as far as I know, the extent of our encounter. I think we went to a tax day rally I organized and had an equally cordial lunch afterwards too. You had ample time to discuss your concerns with me there, or by email or phone or any of our shared acquaintances. Instead, you defamed me in the middle of a political campaign, and the newspaper was extremely unprofessional by not seeking my response.. You can look up the Paul/McKinney connection and also the Voltaire one. In fact, I jave citations on my blog. I don't know you, and you have practically engaged in stalking behavior rather than just approaching me to address a subject that apparently upsets you. I recommend you avoid crossing that line again in the future, here or anywhere. I always answer reasonable queries and am happy to offer citations if you truly can't find one. Tina Trent. Tinatrent2@yahoo.com, tinatrent.com.
Hank Sullivan smeared me incontinently when I ran in Forsyth. I was a very early Trump supporter, requested by the Trump campaign to run District 9, which I only could not do due to a nondisclosure I could not sign. But I was still instrumental in keeping Trump's electors from being snowplowed by those seeking to invalidate his victory in Georgia. I am no GOP insider to say the least and worked pro bono in Florida and Georgia for the very causes he endorses. So if he had a personal problem with me, it was on him to contact me, and I would have given him a cordial hearing. The offer still stands. As it is, his inexplicable, rabid animosity towards me seems to come not from my position on any issue but because I had to shut him down at a nighttime meeting once when I was filling in for an ailing tea party leader, and his hour-long evening speech passed the two hour mark by quite a lot. I can't think of anything else: I don't know the man. But he has smeared me publicly and repeatedly, with no content nor the slightest effort to discuss his imagined differences with me. We seem to agree on every consequential policy issue.
"Smearing" is simply telling the truth. Here is what I wrote in our local paper, a publication that does not allow personal smearing:
"Ms. Trent once insisted to me that former US Representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul was a communist propagandist working for Vladimir Putin. Yes, that’s what she said and she was not joking. Her irrevocable conclusion was based in the fact that Congressman Paul once sat for an interview on the Russia Today network, and in that interview, Rep. Paul favored a non-interventionist policy in Ukraine. The many ways I tried to advise her that the well-known libertarian, Ron Paul, perhaps an isolationist in certain respects, was not a communist, or working for Putin, I was unsuccessful. Ms. Trent became agitated and refused to consider facts that disputed her predeterminations. That experience leaves me concerned for the people of the 26th who desire their representative to hear and register their thoughts on the issues. Any candidate for state representative who really believes that Ron Paul is a communist working for Putin, and cannot be persuaded otherwise, may not be the best listener."
"In an open letter published on a local Facebook page, Republican candidate for the Georgia House from the 26th District, Tina Trent, wrote of her “disappointment,” accusing people in the Forsyth County Republican Party of “hypothesizing wildly,” and “misrepresenting…[her] record.” She expressed additional “disappointment in the behavior of several people at the Forsyth GOP meetings.” She accused the GOP presiding officer of inappropriately permitting her Republican opponent to “blurt out campaign ‘folderol’ (her word) prior to [her] scheduled presentation.” She accused the people at the Forsyth GOP of a “willful, orchestrated decision to not learn more about [her].” She accused them of “insincerity” and “whining.” She accused the GOP Executive Committee of treating her “inhospitably.” Finally, she accused her Republican opponent Marc Morris of trying to take over her time to speak, and in the process chided the GOP president for offering no intervention."
This is why I did not support your candidacy. You have unsupportable opinions, and you attack anyone who does not agree with you. That is not smearing. That is the truth, as anyone can see. And now, 6 years later, you maintain a grudge. Those are not good traits for a representative of the people. Obviously, I was right.
I agree with you concerning long term voting.
Greetings, Hank:
Thanking you for your presentation to BOC on August 3rd, 2023 where you pointed out to the BOC the instance where they did not follow their own procedures/law/codes in appointing a member to the BRE, i.e.:certification.
As an invited poll worker last November, I witnessed, first-hand Mr. Natt in action. Let's just say I was not impressed. I will not lay out the details of my interaction with him over the course of two days last November here but if we see each other, face-to-face, I will be happy to relate to you the details.
'Nuff said.
Thanks for exposing all this information, it is sad that the We The People have to spend so much effort fighting inside the party, when we should be focusing on fighting the DemocRATS.
Amen
fewer machines....accounting for early voters fewer items to control during the most hectic day of voting...and when tabulating is finalized and submitted. i’m not particularly fond of it, but i’m less fond of mail-in and early voting. after 2020 its plain to see that cheating is occurring. as long as limits are in place to limit cheating and to offset less controlled aspects of “voting” i’m fine with it. it oughta be one day. id and signature verified. no excuses. and a very public process.
Thank you for continuing to cover all this in Georgia. It's a disgrace that our state has been so corrupt for so long (been here since 1984). I really hope your work gets more national attention - it is very important.
Hank, in the HB1464(I think) it called for fewer voting machines on election day to account for early voters, I am personally not ok with that and I wondered why is that a good thing, to have fewer machines on the last day of elections? Overall, the article is very alarming as to why anyone is ok with fraudulent voter registration. I had no idea Forsyth county was going the way of Gwinnett. Brian Kemp has turned out to be an embarrassment for the state.
My guess is that the number of voting machines would be computed by experience, given the opportunities to vote during other times. And yours is a valid concern. My expectation would be that the issue you bring would be debated. If the experts have valid reasoning for it, then perhaps it is a good policy. I don't profess to know. I just know that the bill would have been a drastic improvement in election integrity from what we have now, and no one representing this county ought to be arguing against the entire bill, for the lack of agreement on a debatable item such as that.
My concern is the normalization of "long term voting". Early voting is almost 2 months long and my observation is that just gives people more time to cheat. By reducing the number of machines on election day, which is historically the day that the majority of republicans vote, you make it more inconvenient and you normalize people to extended voting seasons. The other side is already manipulating the process as it exists today, why would you have plenty of machines and personnel for 59 days and then on the last day reduce everything by half ( pick your percentage-it doesn't make sense unless the motive is to decrease republican votes). It's like having church services Monday through Saturday, and then on Sunday having a mini service in the old chapel from 9-10 am. The longer the voting lasts, the more lax security gets. People tire from the entire process, except for people waiting for an opportunity to advance their agenda. During the riots of 2020, BLM and Anti-Fa were ready to go full steam as soon as the sun started going down and regular folk were heading home from a hard day's work. All the above aside, what you have revealed in Forsyth County is reminiscent of "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", fat bellied sheriff and all.
The way I had understood the reduction of machines is to account for the amount of early voting. So if you district is 1000 registered voters, and 500 of them have already mailed in ballots, then you would only need "x" amount of machines to prepare for the potential 500 left who would show on election day. If you instead had full capacity for 1000 registered voters, that may create the opportunity for fraud, or some nefarious double voting. But, i do agree with your concerns. The fact is, there should be ONE DAY to vote and months of early voting violates the Constitution. It's sad what we have become.
By election day they have been frauding for a month and a half, their strategy on election day is to malfunction the machines, like they did in Arizona to Kari Lake. In 2022 a Hall county precinct near Oakwood had no issues until election day, and then no ones password worked until late in the day so they couldn't open the machines. It's a heavy republican precinct with a lot of folks that work every day, and they prefer to vote on election day. A family friend of mine made some suggestions to the precinct manager and was told to myob. In early 2023 she was contacted by an attorney and asked to make a statement on record to him, which she did. She has had no further follow up from the attorney. I do agree that there should be one day of voting, and no stopping the count and running everyone out. That should have been locked down immediately and guarded by the GSPatrol, or GA National Guard, per our governor. Who seems more interested in protecting the use of Dominion software, which was acquired on his watch as Secretary of State of GA.
Yes, Ron Paul tours with Cynthia McKinney and writes for the Iran-backed Voltaire Network. I think you're just emotional because I had to cut you off once when your one hour speech ran an hour and a half longer. I didn't know you before that night and was very gracious to you by filling in for a sick group leader, introducing you, serving refreshments, and waiting to lock up the building afterwards. That was, as far as I know, the extent of our encounter. I think we went to a tax day rally I organized and had an equally cordial lunch afterwards too. You had ample time to discuss your concerns with me there, or by email or phone or any of our shared acquaintances. Instead, you defamed me in the middle of a political campaign, and the newspaper was extremely unprofessional by not seeking my response.. You can look up the Paul/McKinney connection and also the Voltaire one. In fact, I jave citations on my blog. I don't know you, and you have practically engaged in stalking behavior rather than just approaching me to address a subject that apparently upsets you. I recommend you avoid crossing that line again in the future, here or anywhere. I always answer reasonable queries and am happy to offer citations if you truly can't find one. Tina Trent. Tinatrent2@yahoo.com, tinatrent.com.
Hank Sullivan smeared me incontinently when I ran in Forsyth. I was a very early Trump supporter, requested by the Trump campaign to run District 9, which I only could not do due to a nondisclosure I could not sign. But I was still instrumental in keeping Trump's electors from being snowplowed by those seeking to invalidate his victory in Georgia. I am no GOP insider to say the least and worked pro bono in Florida and Georgia for the very causes he endorses. So if he had a personal problem with me, it was on him to contact me, and I would have given him a cordial hearing. The offer still stands. As it is, his inexplicable, rabid animosity towards me seems to come not from my position on any issue but because I had to shut him down at a nighttime meeting once when I was filling in for an ailing tea party leader, and his hour-long evening speech passed the two hour mark by quite a lot. I can't think of anything else: I don't know the man. But he has smeared me publicly and repeatedly, with no content nor the slightest effort to discuss his imagined differences with me. We seem to agree on every consequential policy issue.
"Smearing" is simply telling the truth. Here is what I wrote in our local paper, a publication that does not allow personal smearing:
"Ms. Trent once insisted to me that former US Representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul was a communist propagandist working for Vladimir Putin. Yes, that’s what she said and she was not joking. Her irrevocable conclusion was based in the fact that Congressman Paul once sat for an interview on the Russia Today network, and in that interview, Rep. Paul favored a non-interventionist policy in Ukraine. The many ways I tried to advise her that the well-known libertarian, Ron Paul, perhaps an isolationist in certain respects, was not a communist, or working for Putin, I was unsuccessful. Ms. Trent became agitated and refused to consider facts that disputed her predeterminations. That experience leaves me concerned for the people of the 26th who desire their representative to hear and register their thoughts on the issues. Any candidate for state representative who really believes that Ron Paul is a communist working for Putin, and cannot be persuaded otherwise, may not be the best listener."
"In an open letter published on a local Facebook page, Republican candidate for the Georgia House from the 26th District, Tina Trent, wrote of her “disappointment,” accusing people in the Forsyth County Republican Party of “hypothesizing wildly,” and “misrepresenting…[her] record.” She expressed additional “disappointment in the behavior of several people at the Forsyth GOP meetings.” She accused the GOP presiding officer of inappropriately permitting her Republican opponent to “blurt out campaign ‘folderol’ (her word) prior to [her] scheduled presentation.” She accused the people at the Forsyth GOP of a “willful, orchestrated decision to not learn more about [her].” She accused them of “insincerity” and “whining.” She accused the GOP Executive Committee of treating her “inhospitably.” Finally, she accused her Republican opponent Marc Morris of trying to take over her time to speak, and in the process chided the GOP president for offering no intervention."
This is why I did not support your candidacy. You have unsupportable opinions, and you attack anyone who does not agree with you. That is not smearing. That is the truth, as anyone can see. And now, 6 years later, you maintain a grudge. Those are not good traits for a representative of the people. Obviously, I was right.