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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1387120)

1/13/2023 3:16:49 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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Breaking--5 minutes ago

This just in: Report recommends against state takeover of Fulton County voting
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By Matthew Brown

Georgia’s most populous county’s elections should not be taken over by the state, a new performance review report recommends. The long-awaited report found that while the Fulton County, home to Atlanta, faces issues in its elections, there is no evidence of widespread fraud in recent elections and that a takeover of its election board — a process enabled by Georgia’s 2021 voter law — would impede recent progress.

“Replacing the board would not be helpful and would in fact hinder the ongoing improvements to Fulton County elections,” the report reads.

Fulton County was an epicenter of the targeted harassment of election workers during the 2020 presidential campaign as President Donald Trump and his allies sought to overturn his loss in Georgia. Republicans enacted a 2021 voting law that added a slew of new requirements on how to cast a ballot. It also included a provision allowing for an “election takeover” of a county’s election board by the state.

The report admonished county election officials for “a lack of careful planning and precision in ensuring that processes were strictly followed” that “led to errors and to an overall environment that appeared unorganized.” The investigators, which included the general counsel to the secretary of state and election officials representing the Democratic and Republican parties, also observed a pattern of “disorganization leading to errors and those errors being used to make claims of fraud.”

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1387120)	1/13/2023 3:18:54 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wharf Rat Respond to of 1571405

And just for your entertainment, RuZZia claimed months ago that they destroyed four M2 Bradleys that weren't even sent to Ukraine yet: Russia tried to claim months ago it destroyed American-made armored vehicles that the US didn't even offer Ukraine until last week (yahoo.com) This is on top of the 44 HIMARS launchers that RuZZia claimed to have destroyed, which is quite an accomplishment because America only sent 20. Tenchusatsu

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1387120)	1/13/2023 6:17:46 PM
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Tenchu's Thoughts (Brief): The Quantity IS the Quality, Part 4.5 Last time I personally estimated that the Vagner thugs sacrificed a few thousand former prisoners in order to take Soledar: Tenchu's Thoughts: The Quantity IS the Quality, Part 4 No word yet on how many prisoners Vagner sacrificed to win this battle. Probably a few thousand, yet Vagner reportedly has 40,000 to "spare." Just to clarify, when I refer to a "few thousand," I'm only talking about deaths. I'm not talking about injuries, which is usually 2-3x more. Now we have an estimate from a White House official that correlates to what I predicted: Russian Mercenaries’ Human Wave Tactics Push Back Ukrainian Troops In Soledar (msn.com) Putin ally fighting to control salt and gypsum mines near Ukraine city of Bakhmut, says US \| Russia \| The Guardian Out of its force of nearly 50,000 mercenaries, Wagner has sustained more than 4,100 deaths and 10,000 wounded, including over 1,000 killed between late November and early December near Bakhmut, the US official said on Thursday. This estimate was published by the Guardian on January 6th which was last week. It's likely that this estimate didn't include casualties sustained in late December and early January, so I can believe that Vagner suffered another 2,000 deaths during their big push into Soledar. If you add that to the number of injuries likely sustained, which is probably around 4,000, that means Vagner lost about 15% of their force just so that Master Chef Prigozhin could sell salt to the rest of the world. In total, it seems Vagner may have lost as much as half of their total forces. That might be an overestimate, so perhaps a quarter makes more sense. All for what? Just to take one small mining town? Given that record, Vagner should be able to take maybe three or four more villages before they're completely dead dead dead. Tenchusatsu