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IJEMS-V8I1P101.Pdf SSRG International Journal of Economics and Management Studies Volume 8 Issue 1, 1-12, January, 2021 ISSN: 2393 – 9125 /doi:10.14445/23939125/IJEMS-V8I1P101 © 2021 Seventh Sense Research Group® The Counterfeiting of The Elections In The Usa 2020 By The Mafiotismus And The Representatives of The Financial Bank Resource Technological Mafiatized Materialism In Benefit of Biden Against Donald Trump And His Doctrine - In A Fictional Imitation of Democracy Lord Prof. Momtchil Dobrev, Prof. Mariola Garibova-Dobreva, Scientific Research Institute Dobrev & Halachev JSC. Bulgaria, Abstract : Lord prof Ph.D. Ph.D. Momtchil Dobrev- representatives of the Financial Banking Resource Halachev developed 2010 “Financially banking resource- Technology Mafia MATERIALISMUS. based technological mafia-driven materialism” as a based President Trump jumped on this elite, the oligarchy, principle materialismus since more than 17 century., 2010 from 2016 to 2020. President Trump thwarted the plans of “Theory and practice of the Mafiotismus” and 2001 the oligarchy in many areas. Apart from the fact that this “Theory of the mafia.” The 2020 US elections have proven olgarchy prepared for him both the pandemic, Kovid 19, exactly how the falsification scheme, fraud in elections and the falsification of the 2020 elections. organized by the elite, the oligarchy, the kleptocracy, and the mafia in the United States works. This mafia aims at A. Introduce the Problem the NEW WORLD ORDER and the enslavement of the In reality, for a proper understanding of the causes, entire planet and all nations. As President, Trump opposed grounds for fraud, and fraud in the 2020 elections in the this mafia, but it tricked him into rigging the election. United States, you need a more thorough analysis of the situation, the falsifications, the methods, the schemes, the Keywords — Elections 2020 USA, Mafia, мафиотизма organization itself. II. Research methods I. INTRODUCTION Research methods of occurrence of Financially banking In the year 2010, Lord Prof. Momtchil Dobrev resource-based technological mafia-driven materialism and developed the ‘Theory of Mafiotismus’ as a new state the MAFIOTISMUS, it is logic of work, existence, niveaou based on the prime minister's private and personal management, and its execution by activities by their interests. Based on this “Theory of Mafiotismus,” Lord representatives. Prof. Momtchil Dobrev developed 2010 the “Financially banking resource-based technological mafia-driven Analysis of the types of violations in the US Election materialism” as a based principle materialismus since more 2020. than 17 century. Analysis of the causes and possibilities for fraud and In the year 2001, Lord Prof. Momtchil DObrev falsification of the 2020 elections developed the Theory of the mafia and corruption theory. Analysis of the achievements of President Trump 2016 - Both theories have been developed by analyzing the mafia 2020 and corruption all over the world. Analysis of why the elite, the oligarchy, and the The 2020 US elections have proven exactly how the kleptocracy are against President Trump for his second falsification scheme, fraud in elections organized by the term. elite, the oligarchy, the kleptocracy, and the mafia in the Analysis of the achievements of President Trump in his United States works. This mafia aims at the NEW term 2016-2020 WORLD ORDER and the enslavement of the entire planet Analysis of requests for the imposition of a NEW and all nations. As President, Trump opposed this mafia, WORLD ORDE but it tricked him into rigging the election. This article analyzes and reveals all the falsifications III. THE FRAUD AND COUNTERFEITING OF THE and frauds during the US 2020 elections on November 3, US 2020 ELECTIONS in the USA 2020. The falsifications and frauds were committed by the elite, oligarchy, kleptocracy, and the US mafia - The United States has entered a deep political, economic, and moral crisis. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Momtchil Dobrev & Mariola Garibova-Dobreva / IJEMS, 8(1), 1-12, 2021 The foundations of American democracy, which - Proven software manipulation of the vote count is the boasted that it is not just a model, not just an example, not registration of votes for Biden in favor of Biden just a proof of the most developed and indisputable - Available software built-in ability to manipulate the democracy, have been undermined. results The events around November 3, 2020, became - Access of insiders directly to the machines and their censorship in well-defined media and social networks. software There was organic pluralism, in the democratic discussion - Manipulation of the software even during its installation by the internal people of the election commission There are also proven election frauds. - Electoral fraud was organized in all states Similar election frauds have been committed in - Programming voting machines to distribute more votes Bulgaria since 2013, and the government has learned about to Biden. these frauds from certain US structures. - Machine programming anywhere in all states. The United States undermined the name of a great - Counterfeit envelopes nation that seemed to serve as an example. - Stop counting in the middle of the night to prepare The United States undermined the name of a nation ballots for Biden that boasted its democracy and set its democracy as an - Sending observers home due to suspension of the census example. - "Voting from the graves" - voting for dead souls, long- The United States promoted its democracy and based dead people on that, and they IMPORTED DEMOCRACY IN OTHER - Voting out of nowhere "registered" Americans COUNTRIES. Based on the boasting of the best - Voting of people from one state to other states DEMOCRACY, the United States made YELLOW - Retrospective ballots - anti-dating - the return of the date REVOLUTIONS in different countries. of receipt AND AT THE SAME TIME, THEY DID NOT - Found ballots allegedly sent by mail, but they are not IMPORT DEMOCRACY, BUT IMPORTED folded and not placed in an envelope. CORRUPTION SCHEMES, IMPORTED FICTIONAL - Multiple exceedances of the number of Americans IMITATION OF DEMOCRACY. registered to vote. US ELECTIONS PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF A - Instantaneous - per second jumps in "votes" for Biden in FICTIONAL IMITATION OF DEMOCRACY the software with hundreds of thousands of pieces, and not The typology of electoral fraud conducted as such in a single piece for Trump. Bulgaria, fully supported by the United States, took place in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, FOLLOWERS OF BIDEN AND TRUMP on Wisconsin, in fact on the states on which the election of Facebook, TWITTER the President of the United States depended. The scams were: Biden's followers in the wind - 20 million. - Voting of "dead souls." Trump's followers on Twitter - 88.8 million - Voting more than once Biden's followers on Facebook - 7.78 million - Voting without identification Followers of Trump on Facebook - 34.72 million - Expulsion of election observers during the counting of votes With these data, it is somehow unthinkable to get such - The election officials from the commission filled in the election results as they come out ballots per kilogram The purpose of these scams was to steal Trump's "red - Machine voting and counting have been compromised states" and make the vote more widespread. In this way, - Acceptance of bulletins from the post office after the large-scale fraud is covered up. legal deadline - Receiving ballots from the post office without In reality, honesty in the choice was violated. identifying the voters If an election is uncertain, the election is declared - The number of dead and non-living in one state exceeds discredited. those entitled to vote Election observers were isolated, removed from the - There are more voters by mail than those who have the opportunity to monitor election officials' actions in the right to vote. counting of ballots. - Abuse of postal voting Election observers are placed 30 to 50 meters or more - On election night, counting stopped at the same time in from the places where the census takes place the disputed states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, They are invited to leave the polls in some places, even Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, to go home, because they have stopped the counting - And the next moment, the numbers who voted for Biden process. jumped by tens of hundreds of thousands of voters for Despite all the evidence, the censorship of social Biden without a single vote for Donald Trump networks Facebook, Twitter, and free media overflowed - Forensic audit of some of the voting machines in Antrim, with evidence - recordings, Michigan, proved the transfer of 6,000 votes from Trump Hundreds of witnesses signed affidavits to notaries to Biden describing the violations 2 Momtchil Dobrev & Mariola Garibova-Dobreva / IJEMS, 8(1), 1-12, 2021 Georgia, The number of dead and non-living in the Another scheme - Participants go door-to-door to state who voted in the election exceeds the actual number voters and persuade voters to allow them to take their of eligible voters completed ballots and send them on their behalf as a Those who voted by mail are more than those who public service. So they take the sealed envelopes and have the right to vote. take them home, open them on steam, replace the real Biden wins Georgia, an all-red state ”for Donald ballot with a fake one and seal the envelope. Trump with a red governor and a red legislature, which is . Then, for greater security, they are scattered in virtually impossible. different mailboxes not to attract this attention. Pennsylvania lacks 47 memory cards with more than 50,000 votes. PARTICIPATION IN POSTMANS In Pennsylvania, 1.8 million ballots were mailed to voters, and 2.5 million ballots were counted. This is a If there is a postman who is an opponent of Trump, he difference of 700,000, a proven fraud.
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