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The 2020 Election Coup The 2020 Election Coup How the Democrats and Their Allies Stole the 2020 Presidential Election David Walker Copyright 2021 by Open Horizons Open Horizons P O Box 2887 Taos NM 87571 575-751-3398 Web: https://MyIncredibleWebsite.com Contents Introduction A Transparent Fair Election? The Lack of Evidence! Really? The Too Many Voters Cheat The Vote Dump New Ballot Discoveries Pause the Count Controversy The Endless Countdown Mail-In Ballot Shenanigans Margins Out of This World The Ghost Gambit, aka Dead People Voting The Alien FlimFlam The Vacated Movement The Down-Ballot Void The Bellwether Break-Down Impossible Probabilities The Poll Watcher Torture The Poll Worker as Voter Election Officials as Violators of the Law Witness Intimidation The Ballot Dump Mail-In Ballot Rejections SharpieGate The Military Mission The China Connection The Nursing Home No-No The Disability Dodge The Goal Post Gambit Change the Rules Ploy The Miracle Cure The Tech Bubble Trick The Night Before Christmas Caper The Glitch Gimmick Unverified Signatures Scam Competitor Cancellations Early Voter Remorse Insider Trading Information Buy Votes Scheme The Threat Matrix The Stolen Ballot Jig The Time Travel Twist The Postal Dis-Service Social Media Censorship Voter Suppression by Polls Non-Polling Metrics Media Mayhem Pinocchio’s Pretense The Vandal Veto The Georgia Run-Off What Are We to Do? It’s in the Hands of God Exhibit I: The Doug Ross Graphics Exhibit II: The Expert Affidavit Exhibit III: Billionaires Buy the Election Exhibit IV: The Pennsylvania Flim-Flam Exhibit V: Judge Rules 9 Ways Election Officials Failed Exhibit VI: Election Commentary by John Droz, Jr. Exhibit VII: Talking Points on Voting Machines Exhibit VIII: The Immaculate Deception: Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities Exhibit IX: Republicans Can Take Actions to Protect and Nourish Patriots Exhibit X: A Day by Day Chronicle of the 2020 Election and Aftermath Tell Your Friends to Read This Book! Introduction The 2020 election reeked with fraud, manipulation, scandalous behavior, and aberrations carried out in a concerted, coordinated effort by a few leaders, electoral workers who joined in the effort, and a mainstream media willing to look the other way. There was no fraud, they say. Nothing to see here, they say. Biden clearly won, they say. It was the safest and most secure election ever, they say. This book reveals the facts of all the things that were not part of a safe, secure, or fair election. The sad thing is that the fraud impacted more than just the presidential election where Trump clearly won before the concerted effort to count ballots over and over again, illegal ballots, empty ballots filled out by machines, mail-in ballots without signatures, pristine ballots that never would have survived the U.S. mail in that condition. Trump should have won the presidential election. Surprised that he did not win? John James should have won the U.S. senator election in Michigan. He was leading before the flood of illegal ballots and the illegal pushing out of legal observers at counting stations in Detroit. Surprised? Kelly Loeffler should have won 50% of the vote for U.S. senator in Georgia, but she lost in a clearly illegal run-off election in 2021. Surprised? Her fellow Georgia senator, David Perdue, should also have won with 50% of a legal vote in the 2020 election, but he lost in a clearly fraudulent run-off election in 2021. Surprised? Nick Freitas should have won the U.S. representative election in Virginia’s 7th district against Abigail Spanberger. He had a clear lead until more ballots were suddenly discovered on a flash drive. Most of the votes on that drive were for Spanberger. Surprised? Sean Parnell should have easily won the U.S. representative election in Pennsylvania’s 17th district against Conor Lamb. But the illegal shenanigans around mail-in voting allowed by the Democrat governor, the Democrat secretary of the commonwealth, and the Pennsylvania supreme court enabled Lamb to eke out a win. And, as it turned out, there were 60,000 more votes than voters in Lamb’s district! Surprised? How many other U.S. representative elections in 2020 were won illegally by the Democrats? The truth is simple: The Republicans should be in control of the presidency, the senate, and the house of representatives after the 2020 general election—if it had been run fairly and openly. The 2020 election was stolen, plain and simple. The 2020 election was a coup of the first order. An illegal coup was staged against the people of the United States during the 2020 general election. Can we now stop calling this an election? By pretending this insurrection is a legitimate democratic process, we're playing into our enemy's hands, giving credence to the lie that a decrepit, corrupt, sickly old man, Joe Biden, has been elected president of the United States. This is not an election; it's a coup. — Peggy Ryan, columnist, American Thinker Ignoring the Facts The mainstream media are ignoring all the evidence, the affidavits, the irregularities, the impossibilities. Nothing to see hear. Move on. Sadly, the mainstream media is calling Republican attempts to call for a fair accounting of the election as an immoral and corrupt power grab when what they are actually supporting is a real coup against the American people. [The Republicans] are definitionally people who signed on to a desperate desire to subvert the will of the American people, to disenfranchise voters in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan based on lies and conspiracy theories, putting an immoral and corrupt power grab above democracy. — Jake Tapper, CNN talking head The truth is that the mainstream media are the ones who are subverting the will of the American people. They are the same people who are working so hard to disenfranchise the voters of the 19 states that challenged the election in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. They are the ones who are supporting this coup against the American people, based on lies and conspiracy theories of their own. The Democrats (and their partner leftists, BLM Marxists, and antifa terrorists) are celebrating the coup as well. In the streets. Without masks. Whooping it up and challenging anyone to question Biden’s so-called victory—a victory called by the mainstream media. And what the Democrats really want to do is to destroy the Republican Party and its supporters. Listen in to their proposal. It’s not just one person asking for such a commission. It’s many. When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe. — Robert Reich, Democrat leader The Big Tech people are celebrating their win as they continue to censor talk of election fraud and any other talk of aberrations, impossibilities, and hundreds of affidavits. I guess evidence doesn’t matter in this case. Nor truth. Google and YouTube, for example, announced that they were de-platforming any challenges to Biden’s fraudulent victory. Again, truth doesn’t matter in this case. No one person should have as much power as Mark Zuckerberg, and no corporations should have the power that the tech companies have amassed. — Andrea Widburg, deputy editor, American Thinker The Department of Justice, the FBI, and the rest of the DC swamp have remained silent (except when they are celebrating the illegitimate win). Will we ever see any true justice? Not likely. That’s sad. If you think our esteemed authorities will turn a blind eye to serious secession efforts the way they did to blatant violations of the Electors Clause and 14th Amendment in the Texas case, go ahead and try. But something tells me your effort won't get far before it's met with overwhelming opposition from the national government, including its courts. — Mark Landsbaum, columnist, American Thinker The court jesters—State courts, district courts, courts of appeal, even the Supreme Court justices have joined in this coup by refusing to recognize any fraud, any real standing for legitimate suits, and even supporting laches as an excuse to ignore the illegitimacy of this electoral process. This is a coup on all levels. An illegitimate coup. A sad coup. Will Americans stand up against it? Will the courts ever take a brave stance? Just ask yourself: Who raised the issue of Court packing? We didn’t. Why would the Democrats raise an issue that was hurting them? We would never bring it up; we never thought of packing the Court. They did. It was a systemic effort, that succeeded, to intimidate the U.S. Supreme Court. — Dick Morris, political commentator Too many Republicans have surrendered to this coup as well. They are bowing down already to Joe Biden and the Democrats. They call it nonsense. They want to do away with any challenges to an illegitimate election. Move on. Nothing to see here. Let’s keep the deep state in place. Let’s keep the DC swamp in place. Let’s keep our place in both. But every American who cares about the rule of law should take comfort that the Supreme Court— including all three of President Trump’s picks— closed the book on this nonsense. — Ben Sasse, U.S. senator It is not nonsense. It is the most basic common sense to people who actually follow the truth. The book on the 2020 presidential election should never have been closed. The truth should have seen the light of day. It must still see that light! We have to ask more questions about this fraudulent election! I don't know whether the Democrats stole the 2020 election, but I do know that they tried hard to steal it.
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