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My Cousin Elmo says, “You know we’re in trouble when science is searching the galaxy for intelligent life everywhere but Earth.”

During a recent tour of Donovan Mill in Gold Hill, Nevada for a newspaper article on the historic mineral processing plant, I heard a disembodied voice say, “Hello!”  While there, I took about one hundred photographs of the place.

In this one frame, jus’ beyond the large cyanide vats on the second floor, I captured this image. It is tucked back in a dark corner and can only truly be seen when enhanced from color to black and white and by playing with the contrast.

What the hell is it?

A case of pareidolia?

Paranormal entity?

What do you think?

The lead vessel ‘Dragon ’ dropped from hyper-drive and hovered outside of the thick radiation belt. Navigating the belt would leave the one thousand ship armada visible for a few minutes, but that was the chance that had to be taken if their objective were to be obtained.

It had been a difficult time on earth as a pandemic had swept the planet. Now the people stood and watched with hope as the glittering light of the Star of Bethlehem came into view for the first time in many years.

If a reptile could smile, the Commodore would have been beaming.

The Trump campaign may have lost its Nevada court case, but questions about Nevada’s election system remain unanswered.

The Trump campaign “never once presented sufficient evidence of widespread fraud,” Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford tweeted. “Yes, they spouted nonsense in the media. But they never backed it up in court.”

Ford and other government officials need to find out what happened, not jump to conclusions based on a preferred political outcome. This, after all, this no longer about Trump, but the integrity of Nevada’s election system.

However, Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles did produced a list of “non-U.S. citizens who obtained identifications,” according to a Trump campaign filing. The campaign then cross-referenced that list with the voter rolls and identified 3,987 non-U.S. citizens who voted.

Nevada has automatic voter registration, which can register non-citizens who receive driver’s licenses. In 2018, the California DMV announced that it improperly registered around 1,500 non-citizens to vote.

The court didn’t accept this list because of a timing issue.

The evidence of double, dead and out-of-state voters also deserves similar consideration. One such piece of evidence and again failed to make the cut is the Supplemental to Declaration of Jesse Kamzol, dated Dec. 2, 2020:

• 6,360 positive matches were made from within the DMV to the Voter File.
• 6,136 (96.5%) of those matched voter registration records have voter registration records that are ‘Active.’
• 3,987 (62.7 %) of those matched voter registration records voted/cast ballots that appear to have been counted, meaning, they are not shown as being provisional or rejected mail ballots per data collected from the Secretary of State (SoS) Barbara Cegavske and/or County Elections Divisions.
• 4,546 (71.5%) of those matched voter registration records have appeared to have attempted to vote, including provisional votes and rejected mail ballots per data collected from the SoS and/or County Elections Divisions.

Read Kamzol’s entire declaration at Supplement-to-Declaration-of-Jesse-Kamzol.pdf (nevadagop.org)

The campaign also based the claim on database comparisons. Its expert said his analysis had a less than five percent margin of error.

And while District Court Judge James T. Russell refused the DMV list, he did rely on Michael Herron, an elections expert for the state. Herron looked at Nevada election statistics from the 2012 election through the 2020 primary and concluded, “the illegal vote rate totaled at most only 0.00054 percent,” according to the ruling.

To reach that number, he examined reported cases of election fraud, then examined voter fraud literature from across the U.S. and concluded the Trump campaign’s allegations were highly unlikely.

The battle over vote counts did not end with the Trump campaign’s court loss.

Clark County, Nevada Registrar Joe Gloria found another 15 votes for Ross Miller, a Democrat, in the race for Clark County Commissioner District C. Those votes were all in favor of Miller, while his opponent, Republican Stavros Anthony received nothing.

On Friday, Dec. 11, officials with the Clark County Election Department said Miller had defeated Anthony by a total of 30 votes, up from the previous margin of 10 votes. But an email in court documents filed the same day shows the difference was actually 15 votes.

“We have finished our review of the recount and were able to identify the issue we shared with you on Friday,” the email to the campaigns from Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria said. “They were in fact duplicate batches of ballots that were read into the system. With assistance from our vendor we were able to identify the batches and have them removed.”

Stavros Anthony’s said in a statement “District C election is a disaster. I’m up by 2700 Election Day. Weeks later down 10 with 139 discrepancies. Election director cannot determine a winner. Clark County Commission orders a special election. Political pressure forces certification. Now 74 new ballots in a recount.”

Gloria eventually admitted to the Clark County Commission in November that with ‘139 discrepancies’ he couldn’t declare a winner. The Commission had been debating where or not to order a run-off when the ballots found.

As for the Clark County Election Department, where them majority of the alleged fraud took place, it doesn’t have anyone to investigate fraud. Instead, it refers all concerns to the secretary of state’s office, which has one part-time investigator for these issues.

At this time, the recount vote totals for Clark County Commissioner District C are Ross Miller, 76,592 and Stavros Anthony with 76,577. The Commission has certified the election win of Miller, despite the lingering questions of integrity.

In the end, it’s the citizens of Nevada who lose when election fraud is noted but ignored.

We had jus’ stepped out of the southeast corner of the main building, which was still under reconstruction. The woman volunteer was explaining how, the walls had buckled and the grizzly, which is used to separate different grades of ore, had been left dangling precariously in the air.

Next to me was a man, another volunteer who was helping fill-in missing details about the retrieval of the three-thousand pound piece of equipment. He had joined us as we walked from the front of Gold Hill, Nevada’s historic Donovan Mill to where we now stood.

Behind me came a deep, friendly voice, “Hello!”

Thinking we’d been joined by someone else, I turned only to find no one there. The man next to me chuckled.

“Heard him, didn’t you?” he asked.

“Yes,” I answered, surprised that he was so forthcoming about hearing a disembodied voice.

“We call’em ‘Joe the Ghost.’”

The woman sighed, “I’ve never heard him,” her face filled with disappointment.

Few things are more direct than offering people the chance to win Visa gift cards for voting and it’s not a widely used strategy, because federal law, 18 USC 597 to be exact, prohibits offering or making “an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote.”

“Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both,” the law reads.

But this didn’t stop the Nevada Native Vote Project, though which claimed on its Facebook page that it organizes and mobilizes “tribal voters through direct advocacy,” and in the meantime conducted raffles and giveaways in 15 Nevada native communities, with 116 voters receiving $6,650 in cash prizes.

“After voting, voters can enter our raffle, prizes include Visa gift cards and native beadwork,” a post addressed to the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (RSIC) said. The grand prize was a $500 gift card while four $250 gift cards, four $100 gift cards and eight $25 gift cards were also awarded.

“If you come here to vote or if you voted already, RSIC is having a raffle,” said RSIC spokeswoman Bethany Sam in one of the projects many videos.

In the same video, she is shown wearing a Biden-Harris anti-virus mask and in front of the Biden-Harris campaign bus.

There were also $50 Visa gift cards offered as raffle prizes to the Pyramid Lake Tribal Community, the Elko Indian Colony, the Moapa Band of Paiute, the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, and the Lovelock Paiute Tribe.

After the election, the Nevada Native Vote Project featured the “winners” of its Visa gift card raffles.

“Thank you for voting!” the photo said at the bottom, adding “Congratulations to all of the first-time voters and veteran voters,” another post announcing the Lovelock raffle winners said.

At least two locations offered gas cards for voting, which is acceptable under federal law but only if the gas cards are used for transportation to the polls. A now-deleted post from Election Day showed a picture of a ballot return envelope appearing to change hands and two men posing with gas cards.

“McDermitt and Owyhee voters dropping off their ballots and picking up their gas cards,” it read.

The Nevada Indian Commission, a state agency, even promoted this scheme. On its Facebook page, the commission shared at least six of the posts from the Nevada Native Vote offering gift cards by way of raffle or giveaway for votes.

To top this off, the Nevada Indian Commission also held its own giveaway. It offered three Native art prizes to voters.

Perhaps Nicholas Trutanich, who serves as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada should investigate this and bring charges where appropriate. But it has to happen soon-than-later because it’s doubtful a Biden administration will be interested in investigating its own election fraud.

But then again much of the evidence spoken of here was presented to District Court Judge James Russell in Carson City as the Trump campaign attempted to get the courts to look into voter fraud, but he couldn’t be bothered to take justice into consideration, only the law.

“Contestants did not prove…that illegal votes were cast and counted that should have been rejected during the signature verification process, or legal votes were not counted that should have been accepted” in numbers that would have swayed the outcome, Russell claimed.

And more recently, Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske sent out a press release stating she, “saw no wide-spread voter fraud,” which is exactly what happens when you don’t take the time to look.

It was a quiet morning as Brady sat by the campfire, nursing a cup of hot coffee with a touch of whiskey in it, and cooking a thick piece of bacon. It was around the same time that he heard a curious sound from behind, so he turned to look.

Of all the sights he had witnessed over the year 1920, in and around Beowawe, never before had he seen St. Nick seated cross-legged on a old Mormon hand-cart being pulled along by four pair of jackalope. Brady was truly amazed at how well the cart moved over the sandy loam.

Nick waved to him, bidding him a good day in fine and proper German or perhaps was it in Turkish, Brady wasn’t sure. Either way, he returned his greeting in English, tipping his cowboy hat, and watching as the jolly old elf and his long-eared, antlered team disappeared into the high desert morn.

“Damn it, I burned the bacon again,” he complained.

My Cousin Elmo says, “Sky watchers beware as Pluto will be in direct alignment with Uranus, so avoid bending over near strange dogs.”

The black rotary telephone rang and Agnes picked it up, “Hello?”

On the other end was a female in hysterics. She was screaming something about “get him to the hospital now, before he dies.”

Then the line went dead.

“Who was that?” her husband, Bill asked.

“I don’t know,” she said, “But she sounded really panicked. I think I should call the police and see if they might be able to find her.”

“It could also be a prank call,” he said. “But you do what you think is best.”

After half-an-hour with the police, a report filed, but no answers, it was nearly dinner time. Bill offered to take Agnes to her favorite restaurant and she accepted.

“I knew I shouldn’t have eaten that fish,” Bill said, as he drove them home. “I’ve got a nasty stomach ache.”

“Well, when we get home, we’ll get you straight to bed,” Agnes said.

“Okay,” he agreed.

It was around three in the morning when the phone rang again. The wife answered it and listened as a woman, angry now, asked through gritted teeth, “You didn’t take him to the hospital like I told you, did you?”

“Who is this?” Agnes asked.

“What? You don’t recognize your own voice?” the female growled in disgust before the line went dead.

Agnes hung up the phone and reached over to the still sleeping Bill. He was cold to the touch, stiff and lividity had already begun to set in.

Sonny figured that with a pandemic sweeping the world, he’d lock himself away in his home and do nothing but eat, drink and write. After all, he was a world-renown author and he’d always longed to do exactly that.

But that was over 270 days ago and no one had seen him since. Finally, a friend urged the cops to make a ‘welfare check,’ and after several minutes of knocking, the front door was breached.

They found Sonny sitting in his chair, in front of an unplugged computer. He had a face mask on with another three shoved down his throat.

On the walls of his office, written at least a thousand times in black ink and in a beautiful, cursive penmanship, were the words: “Whose still here…”

Scrawled in a jagged childlike print, using red crayon, was the single answer: “Shush, child. We never left.”