Thread by @GrassrootsSpeak

While Ted Cruz incites sedition over election results in swing states Trump lost, Cruz's own state of Texas doesn't pass a smell test.

Do we just accept their election results without question?

A TX county who's actually SUING Trump also voted for him for the 1st time ever?🤔👇

Zapata County TX is 95% Hispanic/Latino

In Feb 2020 County Commissioners voted 5-0 to deny entry to US Customs & Border Protection

Then the County actually SUED Trumps WH claiming the building of the wall was a racist assault on residents

But Trump had a record breaking win?🤔

Since 1920 Zapata County hadn't voted for a Republican President
In 2016 Clinton trounced Trump winning 2-1
Yet in 2020 Trump flipped a 33-pt loss
into a 5-pt win?

We should accept this without question?

Especially considering that in 2020 Dems won EVERY OTHER RACE in Zapata

Zapata County had 725 new voters

2016 Votes for Prez =3142
2020 Votes for Prez = 3867

Did these new voters all vote for Trump? Could be since Trump got over 1000 new votes

2016 Trump Votes =1029
2020 Trump Votes = 2032

In 2020 Biden got 12% LESS VOTES than Hillary in 2016🤔

When I looked at Kentucky I found a county with more registered voters than age-eligible people. Same in Zapata.

In 2018 they estimated 6,683 people above the age of 18
In 2020 they had 8,257 registered voters

Zapata seems to have 24% MORE registered voters than people over 18?

Counties showing more registered voters than people may be due to officials not maintaining their voter rolls. People who move or die are often not removed.

But it also presents opportunity for those with nefarious intent. For example, Russia targeted systems in all 50 states.

Zapata wasn't the only odd results. Trumps 2016 Rio Grande Valley performance, a mostly Hispanic–Latino population, was dismal & represented a GOP 80-yr-low.

But again in 2020 he nearly doubled his votes

Some say its due to heavy campaigning, but there may be other explanations

In 2018, reports of vote flipping in the Beto-Cruz race were so prevalent the Sec of State addressed the issue. Texas didn't dispute it, they just told people to be careful when they voted.

Would Ted Cruz be in office today if we were able to properly audit/recount the results?

In 2020, Rudy Giuliani congratulated Texas on how smart they were to decertify Dominion🙄 Texas refused to use Dominion machines in 2020

But the Hart machines which reportedly flipped votes from Beto to Cruz were still used in most of the counties😳

Speaking of technology...

I worked with DC Report & reported how the Sec of State was warned about bugs in the ES&S machines being used in Texas for a year before the election. The technical issues called into question the trustworthiness of the machines. What did they do? Nothing

dcreport.org/2021/01/12/vot…

The Sec of State who ignored security concerns came on board after the prior SOS resigned after a bungled voter suppression plot.

A Judge stopped Texas after they issued "ham-handed & threatening" letters to 98,000 legal naturalized Americans to cause voting "fear & anxiety"

By the time the Judge halted the plot, out of the 98,000 voters who got threatening letters, ONLY 80 people (.0008%) were found to be ineligible to vote.

We need to update voter rolls since people move or die but this was more like voter suppression than voter roll maintenance😡

Putting all of this together it calls into question how Texas themselves are handling "free & fair elections" and if their own elected officials truly represent the will of the people.

Texas has led the fight claiming election irregularities but let's look at THEIR elections.

The GOP demand audits/hand count in states Trump LOST. But why not states that Trump WON? Cruz's own questionable election results were never recounted🤬

In Kentucky 6 counties were audited but not the ones where Mitch had odd results

We must legislate to mandate audit/recounts

The danger of Team Trump's disinformation campaign is it misdirects us & suppresses legitimate questions of how Graham, Cruz, Collins et al actually won.

Experts are concerned how technology cast & count votes & we can't wait til the eve of the next election to start fixing it.

We must address election security, voter suppression, oversight & mandatory audit/recounts to get ready for 2022.

It must start NOW or in 2 yrs we may see a new crew of gun-toting, conspiracy theory, seditionists head into Congress & can we trust the results that got 'em there?

If anyone is local in either Kentucky (from my previous thread) or Texas and can help us get data that we need please DM me. I am working with data scientists and we can use help from locals to request certain info!!