Yesterday The American Spectator published my fourth and final article about the presidential race in Pennsylvania.

Immediately following publication, the polls closed and the vote counting started. And you know the rest.

After overcoming baseless smears, impeachments, civil and criminal cases calculated to bankrupt, imprison and destroy him, and surviving two assassination attempts, Donald Trump was re-elected President.

The man has unimaginable courage and determination.

Meanwhile, as of this posting, Kamala Harris has yet to address the public. Will she concede? Will she announce a plan to thwart the certification of the election results? Will she take hostages, barricade herself and demand a flight to Cuba?

Who knows? A distraught Marxist is capable of just about anything.

But here’s an inspired satirical take by Powerline‘s Lloyd Billingsley on the concession speech that Kamala should have given:

Harris Election Night Speech Revealed

Kamala Harris declined to address supporters on election night, but a person present at the watch party obtained what she claims is a draft copy of her speech:

Ladies and gentlemen, friends and supporters, thanks for coming out but it’s time to get real.  Despite what people might think, ancestry in Jamaica and India is not an accomplishment or qualification for office. I ran a terrible campaign but I really shouldn’t have been in the presidential race, or even in politics at all.

After law school, I wasn’t going that way but Willie Brown, 30 years my senior, set me up in a couple of six-figure posts with no actual work required. It’s a matter of record that I paid him back in kind, so why deny it? Willie backed my run for San Francisco DA, and attorney general in 2010.

I was so lightly regarded that the Sacramento Bee endorsed my Republican opponent Steve Cooley. He was the clear winner on election night, so for three weeks my campaign workers simply stuffed in the fake ballots until I prevailed by less than one percent.

Three years later President Obama said I was tough and brilliant and by far the best looking attorney general in the nation. So even then they were grooming me to be his replacement. Had I won on Tuesday, I would have been his fourth term. Joe Biden was his third, and let me tell you about him.

I never liked him and he never liked me, but Obama and Nancy Pelosi thought we were the dream ticket. With a lot of help from mail ballots and such, we became the Biden-Harris administration, but behind the scenes Obama was running the show. After the debate, he and Pelosi told Joe to step aside, so with no need for primaries and such, I became the Democrats’ candidate for president of the United States.

They paired me with Tim Walz, and I never liked him either. It was like throwing an anvil to a drowning woman. I could tell you a lot about Tim, Joe, Nancy, Obama, Gavin Newsom and Willie Brown, who after all these years probably still voted for me.  Now, with time on my hands, I just might write a tell-all book. Title suggestions welcome.

Meanwhile, I’m sorry all you criminal illegals won’t be getting sex-change operations paid for by American taxpayers. Just a thought, but you all might consider going back where you came from.

The draft of Harris’ speech has yet to be verified by CNN, MSNBC and PBS. The person who leaked the copy has declined to be identified.

As I said, this is inspired stuff. Kudos to Mr. Billingsley. All I can add to his brilliant piece is my advice to Kamala’s handlers that they take away her Glock until she has had a chance to emotionally recover from last night’s shellacking.

Finally, here’s my article.

Report From Pennsylvania: Part Four

This is part four of George Parry’s assessment of the 2024 election in Pennsylvania. Find part one here, part two here, and part three here.

The Pennsylvania Department of State reports that, as of Nov. 4, 2024, 997,540 mail-in ballots have been returned by registered Democrats, 587,546 by registered Republicans, and 205,323 by “Others.” As previously discussed in this series, these numbers will change since mail-in ballots will be accepted up until 8 p.m. on Election Day. 

But at present, the Democrat mail-in ballot advantage is 409,994 over Republicans.

Each Pennsylvania county has a board of elections that, among other things, handles voter registration and the issuance of mail-in ballots. Anyone wishing to vote by mail must submit a signed and dated mail-in ballot request form to the board of elections of the county in which the applicant resides. The application includes the name and address of the applicant, identifying numbers from, among others, a Pennsylvania driver’s license or the last four digits of a Social Security number.  

Once the application is processed, the county board of elections issues the mail-in ballot.

A similar process exists for voter registration. (In addition, so-called “motor-voter” registrations through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation are also vetted by the county boards.)

So it is that the county board of elections is the first line of defense when it comes to detecting fraudulent applications for both voter registrations as well as mail-in ballots.

Last week the Lancaster County Board of Elections flagged approximately 2,600 suspicious voter registration/mail-in ballot request forms and referred the matter to Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams.

According to Adams, many applications “appeared to have the same handwriting, were filled out on the same day with unknown signatures, and some were previously registered voters, and the signatures on file did not match the signatures on the application.” Lancaster County detectives have found false addresses, false personal information, mismatched Social Security numbers, and other issues.

In cases where much of the information was accurate, detectives spoke to the applicants named in the suspicious voter registration applications and found that they had neither completed nor signed the forms.

“At this point,” Adams said, “It is believed that the fraudulent voter registrations are connected to a large scale canvassing operation for voter registrations that date back to June.”

“We have confirmed violations of our Crimes Code as well as our Election Code. We have all available detectives working on this. We are all hands on deck so that we can properly assess the validity of these applications in a timely manner,” she said.

As of last week, at least 60 percent of the forms were determined to be fraudulent.

This turned out to be the canary in the coal mine.

Since then, similar fraudulent voter registration/mail-in ballot request forms have been detected in York, Berks, Cambria, and Monroe counties. 

For example, following a regular review of voter registration/mail-in ballot request forms, the Monroe County Board of Elections identified approximately 30 “irregular” forms. These were referred to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office, which has determined that, so far, “several” of them are “fraudulent as they were not authorized by the persons named as applicants.”

According to Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso, the forms in question were submitted by “Field+Media Corps,” a subsidiary of FieldCorps, an Arizona-based organization “working out of Lancaster County.”

Similarly, York County officials report that FieldCorps submitted many of the forms under investigation in that county. Those forms were submitted on behalf of “Everybody Votes,” a national nonprofit voter registration organization. 

Everybody Votes has issued a statement saying: “Our partners work diligently to ensure that all forms collected comply with all rules and regulations.”

But Salena Zito, the best and most reliable political reporter in Pennsylvania, reports on X that the “Monroe County District Attorney said that the fraudulent registration forms were traced to FieldCorps whose clients included Biden-Harris, [Democrat U.S. Senator] Mark Kelly and Arizona Democrats. Calls to the number listed went unreturned and the FieldCorps website was mysteriously taken down.”

Further to this point, Harmeet Dillon reports on X that FieldCorps has “been paid more than $2.9 million by Arizona Democrats alone so far this year, and hundreds of thousands by Mi Familia Vota, Democrats’ favorite vehicle for court challenges to tear down AZ voter protections!”

Back in Pennsylvania, officials at the state and local level point to their investigations as proof that “the system works,” the fraudulent applications have been segregated, and the election is safe and secure.

But they are missing the point or, more likely, whistling past the graveyard.

There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania. How many similar fraudulent applications have been submitted to boards of election in those counties that have either failed to detect the fraud or simply looked the other way because it served their political purposes to do so?

I’m talking about you, Philadelphia, and every other similarly disposed Democrat county in Pennsylvania.

In short, how many fraudulent voters and mail-in ballots are already in the system and how many more are on the way?

 We don’t know. It could be enough to flip the outcome of the election. And that’s a critical point of uncertainty to keep in mind as you ponder the polls and prognostications as Election Day approaches. 

Now, Pennsylvania law allows a voter to apply for and cast a mail-in or absentee ballot all at the same time. Such an “on-demand ballot” process is done in person at the election office. 

The deadline by which county election sites must receive such on-demand ballots was 5 p.m. on Oct. 29, 2024 (last Tuesday). Needless to say, this process is more cumbersome and takes more time than the act of voting in person on Election Day.

As the Tuesday deadline approached, long lines of on-demand voters formed at the Bucks County administration building in Doylestown and satellite offices in Levittown and Quakertown. (Bucks is one of the so-called “collar counties” around Philadelphia. The registration edge there recently flipped from Democrat to Republican.)

Despite voters waiting for hours, Bucks election officials closed down the lines around 1:45 p.m., well before the statutorily mandated 5 p.m. deadline. Hundreds of voters were turned away.

That evening, RNC Chair Michael Whatley appeared before a Trump rally in Allentown, and announced that the Trump campaign had “just filed a huge lawsuit against Bucks County for turning away our voters.”

“Democrat election officials are seeing our numbers,” he added. “They are seeing us breaking early vote records across Pennsylvania. They are terrified. And they want to stop our momentum.”

Nice speech. But the 587,546 Republican mail-in ballots returned so far are less than the 595,570 mail-in votes for Trump in 2020. While it’s true that the Republican tally will increase by Election Day and may exceed the 2020 total, as noted above, the current Democrat mail-in ballot advantage is 409,994. So the lowering of the 2020 Democrat 1.4 million mail-in ballot advantage is simply the result of Democrats not casting mail-in ballots. Which means, of course, that those one million “missing” Democrats who have yet to vote by mail may well turn out on Election Day.

In any event, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit alleging that election officials in Bucks County had turned away voters “without allowing the opportunity to even submit their applications”and “precluded them from voting by mail, as is their right under the Election Code.”

The court promptly extended the on-demand ballot deadline to 5 p.m. on Nov. 1, 2024. 

So that was a win for the Trump campaign. Well and good.

Meanwhile, in Allegheny County, waiting early voters witnessed non-English-speaking persons being escorted to the front of the line to cast their ballots. They were being guided by representatives from “Vote Today PA,” an organization purportedly funded by Working Families Power, which advocates for “economic fairness, racial justice, gender equity, climate sustainability.” The county explained in a statement that the voters had needed the assistance of translators.

So far, there have been no similar reports from elsewhere in Pennsylvania.

Finally, regarding Kamala Harris’ increasingly heated and unhinged warnings that, if elected, Donald Trump will turn America into a Hitlerian dictatorship, let me close with this brilliant observation by the Babylon Bee’s Kyle Mann: “Behind closed doors Trump often complained about how he got rejected from art school and was constantly threatening to annex Poland.”

That’s it for now.

George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor and retired trial lawyer. He blogs at knowledgeisgood.net.