ON THE RECORD: Mitch McConnell took money from Dominion as Republicans blocked voting machine & election security bills three times this year

July 2020:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has reportedly told his colleagues that he will not allow the Senate to vote on election security legislation this session.

“The only logical conclusion is that Senator McConnell wants American elections to be vulnerable to hackers and foreign interference,” Wyden said. “It is unconscionable for Republicans to stick their heads in the sand and do nothing after what happened in 2016. If Congress doesn’t act, it’s only a matter of time before hackers successfully interfere again.”

The two largest voting machine vendors in the U.S., Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and Dominion Voting Systems, together supply more than 80% of the nation’s voting machines. The companies have operated extensive lobbying operations in states for years, and both companies recently hired new lobbyists to represent them at the federal level.

ES&S hired lobbying firm Peck Madigan Jones in Oct. 2018 and paid it a combined $150,000 to lobby the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in the fourth quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. ES&S did not employ any federal lobbyists in 2017, and when they reported lobbying in previous years it was at a much lower level, spending just $10,000 in many quarters. Dominion Voting Systems, which was recently acquired by New York-based hedge fund Staple Street Capital, signed its first-ever federal lobbying contract in January 2019 with Brownstein Hyatt Farber and Schreck and has paid the company at least $30,000 so far to lobby Congressional Republicans.

Several of the lobbyists working for ES&S and Dominion Voting Systems have recently made contributions to McConnell’s campaign and joint fundraising committee.

Brownstein Hyatt Farber and Schreck lobbyist David Cohen, who lobbies for Dominion Voting Systems on issues related to election security and monitors federal legislation for the company, gave McConnell $2,000 on March 31: $1,000 to his campaign committee and $1,000 to his joint fundraising committee. Lobbyist Brain Wild, who works alongside Cohen on the Dominion contract, gave McConnell $1,000 on the same day.

Emily Kirlin, a lobbyist for Peck Madigan Jones who lobbies for ES&S on election security and H.R. 1, gave McConnell’s campaign committee $1,000 on February 19, and her colleague who works with her on the contract, Jen Olson, gave McConnell $1,000 on March 4.

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They are cheep, that's chumpchange.

This was also posted in threads on GLP multiple times:

Thread: As he blocks election security, Mitch McConnell takes checks from voting machine lobbyists

Thread: Report: MITCH MCCONNELL RECEIVED DONATIONS FROM VOTING MACHINE LOBBYISTS BEFORE BLOCKING ELECTION SECURITY BILLS

Thread: JUST IN: Senate Republicans block two election security bills

Thread: Republicans block bipartisan election security bill for third time, claiming that threats to Russia would hurt Trump

So Mitch is on Dominion's payroll and Republicans blocked election security bills three times that would have provided security for voting machines and monitored Dominion, but now the GOP is blaming election security and Dominion for rigging the election against Trump?

Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

Guess who brought the machines to georgia.Non other than the conservatives brian kemp was the point man. Go getem.or whatever sit on your asses and do nothing but whine.

You would have to be crazy to believe Doug Jones had more votes than Judge Roy Moore in the State of Alabama. What ya say to that Mitch?

Sure, that's just the money that we know about. You can bet it took a lot more than that for them to block three bills that would have hurt Dominion and provided paper trails for voting machines.

Dayum.

You want a kraken...this is a kraken. And it's got public record proof.

Do a little digging on this and see what you come up with. September:

Donald Trump’s Favorite Voting Machines

Quick, secure, easy to use. And unlike old-style direct-recording electronic (DRE) machines that caused electoral controversy in Georgia and elsewhere because they didn’t print out paper ballots that can be recounted in case of close or questionable election results, the BMDs produce a paper record. All of this had been widely touted in a promotional video produced by the office of Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, with a $400,000 TV ad campaign paid for with federal election funds. Federal funds also financed some of the $107 million cost of Georgia’s 30,000 new BMD machines and accessories, purchased from Dominion Voting Systems, one of the nation’s two largest voting technology vendors.

Sure, BMDs had their critics, like Marilyn Marks, the president of the Coalition for Good Governance, and Richard DeMillo, a computer science professor at Georgia Tech. Marks, DeMillo, and a few others had waged a relatively lonely battle in Georgia, arguing, often in court filings, that BMDs have software-related security risks, that the paper ballots aren’t truly verifiable, and that it would be cheaper and less risky to have Georgia voters simply mark their ballots with a pen or a number 2 pencil like voters in most of America—with a voting machine or two reserved at each polling place for people with disabilities and others who might prefer to use them. Raffensperger’s office dismissed such concerns as “remote, unfounded speculation.”

Then the voting began—and almost everything went wrong. In hundreds of polling places, especially in and around Atlanta, voters waited in long lines for up to eight hours. BMDs malfunctioned, and printers broke down. Voters’ cards were inserted wrong. The e-poll books didn’t work as advertised. Many sites hadn’t printed out their voter registration lists, or they failed to have enough backup paper ballots available. How many voters grew so frustrated that they left without voting—disenfranchisement-by-election screw up—will never be known.

Raffensperger, a Republican, blamed Democratic county election officials for botching the rollout. They blamed him and suspected voter suppression. Neither Democrats nor Republicans in the state, however, called for the obvious fix: Get rid of the BMDs and just use hand-marked paper ballots for most voters in the upcoming November general elections. (A lawsuit to require just that, spearheaded by Marks, is now before a federal judge.)

Let’s say the November election is close, and Donald Trump comes up short in Pennsylvania or Georgia or North Carolina, or all of them, and loses the Electoral College vote. He has already sent every possible signal that he would contest such a result as fraudulent, would refuse to concede, and would litigate (or worse) to stay in office. It would make perfect sense for him and his lawyers to seize on the ambiguities of BMDs to argue that the voting was rigged and illegitimate.

The Trump campaign, the RNC, and the Pennsylvania Republican Party filed in late July a motion to intervene in support of Boockvar’s effort to insist on the use of BMDs this fall.

“Right now, Secretary Boockvar is fighting this case alongside the Trump campaign ,” notes John Bonifaz, the president of the reform group Free Speech for People, which is coordinating several similar lawsuits around the country.

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Arrest the GOP traitors first....

IKR....just four months ago, they were taking bribes from Dominion and blocked election security bills THREE TIMES which would have regulated Dominion and provided security with paper trails for their voting machines.

And now they are trying to blame Democrats for fixing the election with Dominion?

Gimme a break.

Or gimme a kraken.

Requested a pine for this find.

Not that there is a chance in hell that it will get pined.

Exactly. This is a pretty big deal but it definitley doesn't fit the narrative here.

I mean seriously, this is proof that it's actually the GOP who is in bed with Dominion and preventing voting machine paper trails.

The report warned, "Despite increased focus over the last three years, some of these vulnerabilities, including aging voting equipment, remain. As states look to replace machines that are now out of date, they should purchase more secure voting machines. At a minimum, any machine purchased going forward should have a voter-verified paper trail."

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McConnell and Republicans in the Senate blocked the bill that would have required this increased voting machine security paper trail. Three times. While taking money from Dominion.

How convenient. McConnell and the GOP sets up a deal with Dominion and blocks election security and paper trails in July so that they can blame everything on a rigged election in November.

Per Lin Wood - 80% of D politicians and 60% of R politicians are taking Chinese $.

Believe me, I think 98% of all of them are sucking on the tit of this corrupt system, but politicians like McConnell would not know about small donations totalling $6000 unless told directly. I will guarantee you that he knows to what depth his power depends on those machines being hackable. Hacks can be given as under the table gifts for same party or different party deals. Just like big money, I am sure the wielding of the blackbox voting machines rests in the hands of the establishment leaders.

Well no shit, only the fucking Neocon retards on here didn't see this coming.

Mitch has ALWAYS been a cabalist swamp creature, he's evil to his core. And his wife is his fucking gateway to the Chinese dollars.

It was the entire GOP Senate who blocked this. THREE TIMES. Many of them were also taking bribes from Dominion.

WTF do you think is actually going on here. This whole thing was a setup in case Trump lost.

We need to demand audits of all elections going back to 2003 so we can create a map of the false power structure. These people do not represent us anymore. They are rogue actors in America. We need to let them know that they do not represent us.

Huge.

Yeah right...per Lin Wood, but no verifiable evidence. Show us the beef and we can take that more seriously.

Here is Mitch McConnelll taking money from Dominion with proof.

You want a kraken with verifiable evidence?

Here is your kraken with verifiable evidence.

Looking forward to an explainer from Sidney Powell on this one.

He is obviously spineless

That is who wrote the checks to Mitch McConnell

And what about the rest of the Republicans in the Senate who also took money from Dominion and supported blocking the election security bill three times? The bill that would have required increased security and paper trails for all voting machines, thus preventing the doubts regarding vote fraud that they are now pushing?

Drawing on 20 years of Washington, D.C. experience, David Cohen has a proven track record of assisting clients with developing high-stakes legal and public policy strategies, then implementing those initiatives before federal and state agencies as well as the U.S. Congress.

David represents clients in complex congressional oversight matters, in addition to regulatory investigations and enforcement actions by state and federal agencies. David also helps clients with their legislative advocacy, with an emphasis on financial services and homeland security issues. He returned to Brownstein after two years as the Chief Administrative Officer for CLEAR, a leading biometric technology company, where he played a critical role in its expansion handling operations, risk management, legal affairs and government and public relations. While still in the public sector, David served as chief of staff to U.S. Customs Service Commissioners, was involved in the initial policy discussions surrounding the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, and as professional staff on the House Financial Services Committee.

Admitted in Maryland, David’s legal practice within the District of Columbia involves matters and proceedings before federal courts and agencies. David is not currently licensed to practice in the District of Columbia.


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