OPINION: Finding election fraud where the Cyber Ninjas failed
Perhaps they were too busy examining ballots for bamboo shoots to see where the voter illegality really was.
Turns out, it was smack dab under their Cyber Ninja noses, and yet somehow they failed to slink in and discover that Arizona audit moneyman Patrick Byrne had illegally registered to vote in Park City, Utah.
Yes, of all the ironies, it appears Byrne, who went from Overstock to laughingstock for bankrolling the ambiguous Sarasota computer security company to find election fraud in Maricopa County, Az., violated Utah state statute by listing his place of business as his legal residence on his form.
And as any self-respecting ninja worth his weight in bamboo ballots will tell you, and state election officials will probably confirm, that’s kind of a no-no if true. The records seem to say it is.
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Byrne, along with former General Michael T. Flynn, our neighbor in Englewood and Q-Anon cult hero, is adamant the 2020 presidential election was rigged and Donald Trump robbed. Both men are behind three nonprofits registered in Florida by using Sarasota County addresses that have donated $4.7 million to Cyber Ninjas for the unrelenting pursuit of the truth.
According to the state of Utah, the address on Byrne’s voter registration form is 700 Bitner Road in Park City. That is a commercial building, according to a county official, and not a residence.
A person’s principal place of residency, according to Utah state statute 20A-2-105, is defined as “the single location where the person’s habitation is fixed and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning.”
The commercial building listed is where an investment holding company owned by Byrne called High Plains Investments is located.
Byrne, according to a profile in Forbes, used High Plains Investments to buy Overstock.com, a company that sold inventory it acquired from bankrupt dot-coms on the cheap, in 1999. Byrne’s $7 million investment resulted in $92 million in revenue three years later.
Byrne bizarrely stepped aside as Overstock.com CEO in 2019 after he publicly claimed he had an affair with a Russian operative named Maria Butina, infamous from the Mueller investigation, and at the direction of the FBI no less. But before he walked away, he cashed out stock worth $90 million through High Plains Investments.
Byrne has long been a conspiracy theorist and has spent millions on the pursuit of his version of the truth. He is so convinced the 2020 election was rigged that he and Flynn essentially snuck into the Oval Office in December and met with Trump. According to an account of the meeting on his website, they nearly talked Trump into ordering the National Guard to secure voting machines in six counties as proof.
Byrne is quick to point out he didn’t even vote for Trump. Heck, his book is called “The Deep Rig: How election fraud cost Donald J. Trump the White House, by a man who did not vote for him.” Byrne has written on his blog that he always votes Libertarian.
Those would be strong indications he participated in the 2020 election. So considering it appears he is illegally registered to vote, does that mean his vote was illegally cast and did not count?
According to a voting official in Utah, every county uses the same database that flags people who list commercial businesses as residences. If flagged, the person is contacted by the county to correct it. If there is no response, then a ballot is not mailed to the person.
However, a person could still go to a traditional voting place on election day, but a valid ID and proof of a residential address would be needed to vote provisionally. That vote would then come back to the county for processing before it could be verified.
Everyone – from the high-ranking Democrats on the House Oversight Committee who think this is all a sham and are investigating the pride and joy of Sarasota, to Republicans in the Arizona Senate who think the presidential election was indeed stolen – is waiting to hear the results of the audit.
After months of fantastical absurdities, including scouring ballots for bamboo shoots as proof they came from China, to theories that ballots were shredded and fed to 165,000 chickens that were then burned in a chicken farm fire, the results were supposed to be delivered last week, but there was an unfortunate holdup.
It seems a couple of auditors in the Sarasota company, including CEO Doug Logan, conveniently came down with bad cases of COVID.
Get well soon, ninjas.
America needs you back on the job.
Who else is going to find the fraud?
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