On Thursday, The New York Times revealed its third piece this week that focused The Gateway Pundit. Why are they escalating their assaults in opposition to our publication, that receives over 3 million views per day, just one week earlier than the 2024 presidential election?
The newest NYTs article, written by the highly-partisan Alexandra Berzon, targets The Gateway Pundit, together with contributor and investigative reporter Patty McMurray, Michigan election integrity professional Tim Vetter, and CheckMyVote co-founder Phani Mantravadi, who’ve impeccable reputations within the state of Michigan
This follows two different NY Instances articles earlier within the week that talked about or focused The Gateway Pundit.
The newest report was written by Alexandra Berzon, an investigative reporter centered on American politics, who beforehand authored another hit piece on Michigan election integrity groups earlier this yr.
Alexandra’s first mistake was reaching out to the Michigan Secretary of State’s workplace underneath the path of Jocelyn Benson for her “details.” Benson is extensively thought-about essentially the most partisan activist election official within the US at this time. She is often overturned in her struggle to make Michigan elections much less safe.
The title of the article is “Michigan Election Denial Activists Seize on Voter Report Glitch.”
Once more, reporter Berzon relied upon Jocelyn Benson as her so-called professional within the piece. That was her first deadly flaw.
Alexandra Berzon wrote this in regards to the Gateway Pundit report: “Election Integrity Information Analysts Declare They Have Proof of 208,075 Ballots Solid By 82,674 Voters… An Extra of 125,428 Votes Solid!”
TGP’s Patty McMurray reported that knowledge analyst Tim Vetter and co-founder of Verify My Vote, Phani Mantravadi, found a bombshell revelation that they found by monitoring the Michigan Each day Absentee Voter Experiences.
In response to the Each day Absentee Voter Experiences obtained by FOIA from the MI Bureau of Elections, on October 28, 2024, Tim Vetter and Phani Mantravadi, who’ve peer-reviewed one another’s work, declare 208,075 votes were cast in Michigan by 82,647 voters (based mostly on their voter ID’s).
The invention by Vetter and Mantravadi resulted in a stunning 125,428 extra ballots solid within the state. These ballots have been turned in by somebody who already voted, as recorded by the MI Bureau of Elections.
Tim and Phani provide proof, charts and knowledge for his or her reporting. They double-checked or peer-reviewed one another’s findings to make sure they have been right.
Right here is how Alexandra Berzon described the findings, as relayed to her by Jocelyn Benson:
On this case, the speculation was revealed Wednesday by Gateway Pundit, a far-right web site that often spreads misinformation about elections techniques. A author for the positioning, Patty McMurray, claimed that two co-founders of Verify My Vote had issued a “bombshell” report based mostly on Michigan’s absentee poll data.
Verify My Vote is one in every of various software program techniques designed within the final two years enabling election denial activists to trace and catch supposedly suspicious votes. However the techniques depend on flawed methodology, in keeping with elections consultants who’ve reviewed them.
Verify My Vote is a associate of Michigan Truthful Elections, a subgroup of the Election Integrity Community. The community is a set of nationwide, state and native teams fashioned after the 2020 election and animated by the election lies unfold by Mr. Trump and his allies. Ms. McMurray has participated in calls with Michigan Truthful Elections, in keeping with recordings of the group’s conferences reviewed by The New York Instances.
Alexandra is fairly unfastened together with her details.
For one, Check My Vote is a company centered on permitting people to confirm their voter registration standing and probably monitor their ballots.
The group claims that this sort of service facilitates voter engagement by offering transparency within the electoral course of. Verify My Vote is a non-partisan group particularly centered on restoring election integrity.
Berzon then wrote this in regards to the tens of 1000’s of additional ballots turned on this yr that used beforehand displayed poll numbers.
The report was marred by a glitch that made it seem as if some voters had voted greater than as soon as, in keeping with the secretary of state’s workplace. The report was rapidly corrected, in keeping with Angela Benander, a spokeswoman for the workplace.
The glitch was the results of a formatting error in a routine report generated from voter roll information, Ms. Benander mentioned in an announcement. The report counted folks’s previous addresses on separate traces, “leading to the identical poll for a similar voter showing on a number of traces of data all related to one distinctive voter ID,” she mentioned.
“Every of those voters solely had one vote recorded for this election,” Ms. Benander mentioned.
The incident underscores the extent to which small glitches and errors — that are inevitable within the administration of elections by 1000’s of jurisdictions and all 50 states — may be amplified by a well-organized community of election denial activists bent on elevating false claims to implement the notion promoted by Donald J. Trump and his allies that Democrats are rigging the election.
To be clear, The Gateway Pundit doesn’t have proof that these additional ballots have been faraway from the poll totals and Benson didn’t present the proof.
Michigan residents and a minimum of one state lawmaker are calling for Jocelyn Benson to launch her report on these very critical allegations involving over 100,000 potential ballots!
MI State Rep. Joshua Shriver is asking for an investigation. His request will seemingly be ignored.
The SOS and State Director of Elections should instantly open pertinent QVF transaction logs to the general public and clarify the duplicate anomaly intimately.
They need to show to Michigan voters that additional ballots are usually not being solid past the one per eligible voter, permitted by regulation.
— Rep. Josh Schriver (@JoshuaSchriver) October 31, 2024
Former MI Senator Patrick Colbeck has filed a FOIA request, demanding that MI SOS Benson present adequate proof of the so-called “glitch.” Colbeck, who many take into account to be the premier election integrity professional in Michigan, inspired residents to name and or electronic mail the SOS Benson and MI Bureau of Elections and demand transparency on this matter:
BREAKING: FOIA Request for “Glitch” Information Submitted MI SoS Jocelyn Benson says that it was a “Glitch” within the day by day BallotsCastReport offered by her workplace which was liable for the discharge of knowledge indicating that 125,428 unlawful ballots had been solid as of 10/30/24 for the #2024Election.
The burden of proof lies on Benson to offer adequate data for different folks to confirm her “Glitch” principle. In different phrases, I imagine Benson ought to “present her math”.
That’s why I issued the next FOIA request to her workplace this morning. By regulation, she should reply inside 5 enterprise days. She will then prolong her response deadline for an additional 10 enterprise days. She will then, underneath MI FOIA regulation, wait “till the cows come dwelling” to offer a response (i.e. there isn’t any deadline).
In the event you share my want to validate or invalidate Benson’s “Glitch” principle, I encourage you to name, electronic mail and write Benson’s workplace to request a immediate and thorough response to my FOIA request.
Right here is Senator Colbeck’s tweet:
BREAKING: FOIA Request for “Glitch” Information Submitted
MI SoS @JocelynBenson says that it was a “Glitch” within the day by day BallotsCastReport offered by her workplace which was liable for the discharge of knowledge indicating that 125,428 unlawful ballots had been solid as of 10/30/24 for the… pic.twitter.com/BM3BxsNmPp— Patrick Colbeck✝️ (@pjcolbeck) November 1, 2024
Additionally, Angela Benander from the Michigan Secretary of State’s workplace says Michigan’s SOS report “counted folks’s previous addresses on separate traces leading to the identical poll for a similar voter showing on a number of traces…”
At first look, that assertion doesn’t even make sense. Why would a voter’s earlier addresses be included on a present report that tallies who at the moment voted within the state?
Additional – we all know that this assertion is a lie. Patty McMurray investigated after which reported on the reported addresses belonging to only one voter ID within the state.
14 of the 19 addresses weren’t professional. Patty reported:
The checklist under is a screenshot of the info displaying the a number of addresses utilized by the ONE voter ID to solid 29 votes on 10/25/2024 in Detroit.
Though the MI SOS referred to the info that went viral on social media yesterday as “formatting errors,” we found one thing else that was very odd in regards to the checklist. The one voter ID that was used to allegedly solid 29 votes, as proven within the knowledge under, is tied to 19 completely different addresses. We determined to look into these 19 addresses, and what we discovered was disturbing. Solely 3 of the addresses under are single-family residential houses. In response to MI election regulation, if a voter registers to vote at a multi-family dwelling, like an condo or apartment, they need to embrace both “unit #” or Apt. #” with their registration, so the poll is delivered to exactly the right location. The 11300 E. 7 Mile deal with is an condo complicated with a number of items. This could be thought-about an incomplete deal with, and in keeping with Phani Mantravadi, a voter can’t register to vote with an incomplete deal with. 2640 Trumbull is a residence, however the voter’s title (which we’re not disclosing, as they’re seemingly unaware of this case) tied to the ID shouldn’t be registered to vote there. The identical is true for the 562 Marlborough St. deal with.
Learn Patty’s wonderful report right here.
Might it’s a coincidence that, except for 14 of the 19 addresses tied to the one voter ID within the MI Bureau of Elections knowledge, that nearly each deal with listed alongside the voter ID belongs to a homeless shelter, meals pantry, soup kitchen, restoration heart and even a US Publish workplace?
If the Secretary of State insists these have been earlier addresses for this voter then she has some critical explaining to do — contemplating 14 of the 19 addresses are invalid addresses!
The Gateway Pundit reached out to NYT reporter Alexandra Berzon for touch upon her extremely flawed propaganda piece.
Here’s a copy of our electronic mail:
Hello Alexandra –
We learn your hit piece this morning and had a pair questions.
Why did you not attain out to our reporter Patty McMurray?
Did you ask the Michigan SOS workplace to offer you proof about this incident being a glitch?
Are you conscious that this has occurred in a number of elections?
Clarify what you imply by formatting errors?
Does that imply that any particular person can alter the election outcomes.
Look ahead to listening to from you.
Jim Hoft
Founder-Editor
The Gateway Pundit
We are going to publish any updates that we obtain.
