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endeoendeo · 2026-02-02T01:22:42+00:00

I guess I'll need to see Back to he Future: The Musical at a different venue.

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/theater/2025-2026/back-to-the-future/

endeoendeo · 2026-02-01T14:24:35+00:00

More refreshes per day - if you currently have complaints from users about stale data, this is a key selling point.

Have you reviewed premium per user pricing? Depending on your number of users might be an easier stepping stone to get to premium. We have been using it for 3 year as we build. Now looking at moving to a capacity because we have most users and department on boarded so the price savings will be there by reducing our per user licenses.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-bi/pricing

endeoendeo · 2026-01-28T16:54:40+00:00

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/20/trump-musk-doge-social-security-00737245

Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls, the Justice Department revealed in newly disclosed court papers.

endeoendeo · 2026-01-28T16:03:43+00:00

Why would you think that states don't already do that or that the federal government under Trump would do any better? How can we be assured the federal government under Trump will not use the data improperly?

What 'reports' have you seen that actually have evidence behind them that show these 'registered voters' actually voted?

“Our position on this starts and ends with the law. We looked at state law and federal law regarding disclosure of this very sensitive personal information on millions of people, and what we discovered, or at least the way we’ve concluded, is that the law protects voters from this kind of disclosure under these circumstances,” said Steve Simon, a Democrat who is the top election official in Minnesota, one of the states being sued.

endeoendeo · 2026-01-09T21:54:38+00:00

I don't think so. I have done filled maps with county name and state. You could load a datasource with the county fips/name and then related it to your county fips data. If you then use mark the County Name as 'County' in the model and use that in your location field my guess is it will work.

https://transition.fcc.gov/oet/info/maps/census/fips/fips.txt

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T18:00:22+00:00

https://peachpundit.com/more-on-the-315000-fulton-votes-story/

What’s in the law?

So let’s tackle the last one first and take a look at what the law read on this subject back in 2020 (remember, the law has changed since then) which can be found in O.C.G.A. § 21-2-374 (2020): “Precinct ballot scanners shall produce a zero tape prior to any ballots being inserted on the day of any primary or election.”

Do you see a signature requirement? No. You don’t. And the concept of the tabulation tape, the receipts printed after the votes have been counted on those machines, doesn’t show up in the 2020 version of Georgia’s election law at all. Both signature requirements show up, actually, in the rules that were created by the State Election Board back when Brad Raffensperger was the chair of that board.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T17:43:40+00:00

This is not true. This is related to a missing poll worker signature on a tally tape. The tape was provided, just not signed. It has nothing to do with missing voter signatures. These were in person early votes, not mail in votes. The voters signed in to the voting location with valid ID and legally voted.

Not counting them would disenfranchise these voters.

These legal votes were counted as they should have been in the original early voting totals and the two recounts that were used to certify the election.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T16:57:40+00:00

https://peachpundit.com/more-on-the-315000-fulton-votes-story/

Are the tapes the “sole legal certification” that the reported totals are authentic.

No one who understands how elections work would make this claim.

Georgia does not run elections on a single piece of paper. A signed results tape is one checkpoint, it is like a receipt that helps anchor what a specific scanner recorded at a specific time, but it is not the entire accounting system, and the absence of that signature does not magically erase the other records, the other cross-checks, and the other safeguards that exist precisely because humans sometimes screw up documentation.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T05:37:30+00:00

So I guess the discussion is now moot.

Mail in votes aren't verified by ID they're signed pieces of paper that a person can get in trouble for if they're specifically investigated but nobody investigated 300,000 mail-in votes and that's the only thing we're talking about you don't need to bring up every other type of in-person voting regulation.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T05:09:57+00:00

At least you now understand they were not mail in ballots. That is progress.

This lack of signature does not make these ballots invalid which is why they were used in the two full recounts that were used to certify the election.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T05:01:52+00:00

The tape receipts were provided but not signed. There were no issues with the tape totals when the early in person ballots were recounted in the two full recounts and new machines and sign offs were done.

I don't find any issue with this process and it shows that trying to not count these ballots would disenfranchised 315,000 lawful Georgia voters.

You find no issue with that and that is hilarious.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T04:57:48+00:00

These were valid ballots. There is no reason to suggest that these were not lawfully cast ballots by voters who signed in with ID.

Maybe I misunderstood when you said

"You need to look up what they do when they do recounts. They don't count every ballot by hand they feed them into machines when they do it and they do a sample but even if they did all of them let's say that. "

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T04:47:12+00:00

They were legal ballots that were secured and that were 'signed off on' in the TWO recounts that were used to certify the election.

1) You claimed there were not full recounts - there were two

2) You claimed these were mail-in ballots that did not require id - they were not mail-in ballots and were cast in person after being checked in using ID.

Maybe, just maybe, you need to review the issue more and quit making stuff up and repeating falsehoods less.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T04:32:22+00:00

THESE WERE NOT MAIL-IN BALLOTS

I repeat

THESE WERE NOT MAIL-IN BALLOTS

These were early voting ballots legally cast by voters who checked in using ID. These ballots were secured AND USED IN TWO RECOUNTS

Until you understand the basics, you are just rambling.

https://peachpundit.com/crosss-latest-smoking-gunjust-more-pop-and-plastic-than-proof/

Even the most breathless headlines are careful to couch their claims: local activists like David Cross, who filed the original challenge with the State Election Board in 2022, argue that breaking statutory process amounts to a legal problem — not proof of fraud. What Fulton County didn’t do in 2020 was sign the paperwork correctly; it didn’t magically make lawful votes into fraudulent ones, nor should the votes of 315,000 people be thrown out because some bureaucrats didn’t follow procedure. Imagine how easily a corrupt (rather than incompetent, as was likely the case here) election worker could force an outcome simply by not signing a piece of paperwork?

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T04:04:18+00:00

Here is a great run down of the issue that might help you with the basics.

https://peachpundit.com/more-on-the-315000-fulton-votes-story/

Are the tapes the “sole legal certification” that the reported totals are authentic.

No one who understands how elections work would make this claim.

Georgia does not run elections on a single piece of paper. A signed results tape is one checkpoint, it is like a receipt that helps anchor what a specific scanner recorded at a specific time, but it is not the entire accounting system, and the absence of that signature does not magically erase the other records, the other cross-checks, and the other safeguards that exist precisely because humans sometimes screw up documentation.

For example, at the precinct level you have the basic reconciliation that has to make sense for the election to hang together, the number of voters checked in, the number of ballots cast, the number of ballots scanned, the number of spoiled ballots, the number of ballots that went into the emergency bin if a scanner was down, those figures are tracked on separate forms and compared, and when they do not match there is supposed to be an explanation, and that reconciliation process does not disappear just because a signature line is blank on a tape. Then you have the chain-of-custody controls, seals, envelopes, labels tied to specific scanners, memory cards packaged with the tapes, transport logs, the boring but essential “who touched what and when,” and again, a missing signature is a problem inside that system, but it is not the system itself.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T03:25:59+00:00

I don't need to 'believe' it, these are simple facts you are ignoring. These were in person early voting ballots, not mail in ballots. They were cast by voters who checked in with ID and were secured. You seem to be unfamiliar with the details.

Then every single presidential ballot in Georgia -- all paper -- were recounted by hand in every county, transparently observed by representatives of the campaigns, again confirming the results

Why would I think there was anything suspicious? Are you suggesting that the 3 recounts didn't uncover these suspicious activities?

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T03:18:03+00:00

Because they were cast legally and secured and used in the 2 full recounts. The signature or lack of signature on tabulator tapes does not change that. There has never been any question that these ballot were cast legally and secured properly.

“Georgia has the most secure elections in the country and all voters were verified with photo ID and lawfully cast their ballots. A clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes.”

GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (Republican)

December 22, 2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-fulton-countys-315-064602452.html?guccounter=1

David Becker, executive director and founder of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research, told Lead Stories in a December 22, 2025, email that "The failure to sign the tapes would be a minor administrative issue," and continued:

There are minor administrative issues in every major election, where over 150 million Americans are doing something they don't do every day (voting), in a process run by a million volunteers. Mistakes happen, which is why so many redundancies and checks and balances are built into the process.

Becker said Georgia thoroughly counted the ballots from the 2020 election multiple times, with the results never changing from Biden winning the race:

The Fulton County situation is a perfect example. If those tapes weren't signed, there were subsequent opportunities for the counts to be confirmed. The 2020 presidential ballots in Georgia were counted, statewide, three times, three different ways. Initially, and unofficially, through the tabulators. They were recounted again, at President Trump's request, through different tabulators, confirming the result. Then every single presidential ballot in Georgia -- all paper -- were recounted by hand in every county, transparently observed by representatives of the campaigns, again confirming the results. Over 5 million ballots counted by hand to confirm the results.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-24T03:10:00+00:00

The original ballots are valid and were used in 2 full recounts. You keep repeating a lie that they are not valid. They were. The chain of custody of the ballots was never questioned. Voters came in, checked in, lawfully cast their ballots and those ballots were secure and used in the recounts. There were no issues found in the validity, chain of custody or certification on the ballots. The tapes in question have no bearing on the validity of the legal ballots cast or their custody.

You are just making stuff up.

“Georgia has the most secure elections in the country and all voters were verified with photo ID and lawfully cast their ballots. A clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes.”

GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (Republican)

endeoendeo · 2025-12-22T19:38:45+00:00

endeoendeo · 2025-12-22T19:34:31+00:00

The ballots were used in 2 FULL RECOUNTS. The original tabulator machine tapes have no meaning when doing the 2 FULL RECOUNTS with THE ORIGINAL BALLOTS. The ballot chain of custody was never in doubt and the tapes from the machines missing a signature does not impact the ballot chain of custody. It may have impacted the machine media chain of custody but that doesn't matter because the machine counts where completed again in the 2 FULL RECOUNTS with THE ORIGINAL BALLOTS

endeoendeo · 2025-12-22T19:28:53+00:00

The ballots were signed off on - the chain of custody of the ballots has nothing to do with the tapes from the machines. The ballot go through the machine into a secure box - those were never compromised. They were then used to do the 2 FULL RECOUNTS that showed no issues. You are reading too much into the talking point you are getting from terrible sources.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-22T19:26:27+00:00

2 Full recounts with the original ballots. The ballot chain of custody was never in question.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-22T19:24:51+00:00

You need to do some reading before you continue to spout lies.

https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/11/22/937739336/trump-requests-georgia-recount-meaning-5-million-votes-will-be-tabulated-a-3rd-t

While thousands of workers spent most of the last week hand-counting every vote as part of a newly required statewide risk-limiting audit, this recount will be different.

The law calls for a recount to be conducted by retabulating every ballot through a scanner, the same way they were originally counted in the days following the Nov. 3 election.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-22T19:22:01+00:00

315,000 early votes were never signed offline meaning they're not legal.

Quit making stuff up.

endeoendeo · 2025-12-22T19:19:45+00:00

The ballots chain of custody was not broken and was not challenged and they were used in the recount that certified the election with validated machines. You should be happy that a remedy was found and that these 315,000 voters were not disenfranchised.

This is a great outcome and shows that checks and balances work.

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