Candidates are lined up on the voting ballot to compete for Vermont Secretary of State:
Democratic, Jim Condos (802)238-3809 jcondos@aol.com
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Progressive, Cris Ericson (802)875-4038 crisericson@aceweb.com
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Republican, H. Brooke Paige (802)883-2320 donnap@sover.net
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Independent, Pamala Smith (802)393-3414 pamalasmith@whatsthenarrative.com
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Is Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos “transparent”
enough to be re-elected in all honesty and good faith?
Let’s study the vote-by-mail controversy which might end
up in federal litigation for months after the Nov. 3, 2020
election because votes for President may be disputed.
“@PeteHirschfeld
Ballots for #VT’s first universal vote-by-mail election
are flying off the presses at L. Brown & Sons in Barre this week.
They’ll be transported to a mail house in northern
Massachusetts, then shipped via USPS to every registered
voter in the state.”
L. Brown & Sons
Toll Free: 800-486-1947
Phone: 802-476-3164
Fax: 802-476-3166
Does the Vermont Secretary of State have the legal
jurisdiction to mail voting ballots, which have been
printed in Vermont, out of state to Massachusetts
to an un-stated company in an un-stated city
for the purpose of mailing them to voters in Vermont?
Isn’t that a little around-the-bush? Couldn’t the
Secretary of State have hired 14 or more people to distribute
the ballots to our 14 Counties here in Vermont?
What is accomplished by the run-around to Massachusetts
and back? Shouldn’t jobs, delivery jobs, stay in Vermont?
Cris Ericson called L. Brown & Sons and was put on hold for 5
minutes – but they have nice “hold” music.
When the person came back he asked her if she was “Ericson”
and she said yes. He then informed her that the Vermont
Secretary of State Jim Condos had not given him permission
to speak to her. He gave her Attorney Will Senning’s number. The
problem here is that Jim Condos sent Cris Ericson an email
telling her to not communicate with him or people in his office.
Will Senning also works in Jim Condos’s office as the Elections
Director. JP Isabelle, also an elections person, working from home,
would not respond to Cris Ericson’s email request to know
the name and location of the business in Massachusetts
which the Vermont ballots had been shipped to.
Candidate Pamala Smith, running for Secretary of State,
discusses transparency on her website: “I would like to see
the Office perform well – in terms of effective oversight,
simplicity, and transparency…”
She keeps files on Jim Condos, the current Secretary of State.
She even has a “second installment of Condos files”.
Then, in bright red, yellow and green, she has meters asking
the public to determine “How trustworthy” Jim Condos is.
Pamala Smith does her third installment of the “Condos Files”.
Then, she focuses on the Bush V. Gore litigation from 2000,
where less than a thousand votes created
a controversy over the outcome of the Presidential election.
Candidate Cris Ericson views an old video she’s
seen several times, but which will set the standard for this
2020 Presidential election.
“RECOUNT” by HBO films, the story of the 2000 Presidential
election, starring, who else but the Florida Secretary of State!
The Democrats and Republicans have sworn to engage in
legal battles in court to win the 2020 election. Major political
parties are already accusing each other of hanky panky.
If no winner for the Presidential Election is declared by a
certain date in January, after the newly elected Vermont
Secretary of State is in office, then the Speaker of the House of
Representatives in the United States Congress can become
President! Time to read the US Constitution.
“Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Article 20, Section 3 Filling a vacancy in office of President.
If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President,
the President elect shall have died, the Vice-President elect shall
become President.
If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for
the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed
to qualify, then the Vice-President elect shall act as President
until a President shall have qualified;
and the Congress may by
law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a
Vice-President elect shall have qualified,
declaring who shall then act as President,
or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected,
and such person shall act accordingly until a President or
Vice-President shall have qualified.”
In the Vermont August 11, 2020 primary election there were
about 6,000 ballots that were discarded because
they were not filled out perfectly enough.
That’s equivalent to the hanging chads and other issues
raised in over a month of litigation in Florida in the
Presidential race between Bush & Gore in 2000.
So, the Vermont Secretary of State has a role to play in the
outcome of the 2020 Presidential election, just by accepting
or discarding voting ballots.
And just where are those ballots being mailed from in
Massachusetts? And why were Vermont ballots sent
to Massachusetts just to be mailed to Vermont voters?
The total cost of shipping them back and forth has to be
more than what it would cost to hire local Vermonters
to deliver them in each of 14 counties. To be sure, these
questions will be asked in federal courts by either
the Democrats or Republicans – which ever side appears
to have fewer votes until the discarded ballots are
re-examined and a winner for the 2020 Presidential
election is finally determined by the Supreme Court of the
United States, which all sides have already vowed to
appeal to.
H. Brooke Paige, Republican candidate for Vermont Secretary
of State, points out that Act 92, pased on March 30, 2020,
states “It is the intent of the general assembly that, if the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues its expected spread
in the state of Vermont, the citizens of Vermont should be able to
protect their health, safety, and welfare while also continuing to
exercise their right to participate in elections in order to maintain
our democratic institutions. Accordingly, this act sets forth temporary
election provisions in response to COVID-19.”
Massachusetts has had thousands of Covid-19 deaths, so why
should we allow their germs, viruses and bacteria
to be shipped to Vermont by touching our voting ballots?
We had no political petitions circulated this year so we could
avoid fingerprints with germs, viruses and bacteria which could
stick for days.
H. Brooke Paige also points out, “The use of an outside contractor
for mailing the early and absentee ballots from an out-of-state location
increases the likelihood of ballots being lost or misdirected, having
the incorrect ballots sent the voter (Vermont has over 275 different
ballots unique to each district and town) as well as ballots being
sent to deceased voters, forwarded to voters who have moved away
or sending duplicate ballots to voters who have changed their names,
through marriage or for other reasons, and both names remain on the
voter checklist.”
So, why don’t we just call some movie companies in Hollywood now and
say we’re ready! Come to Vermont! We’re going to totally screw up
the 2020 Presidential election!
October 28, 2019 Press Release: Montpelier, VT – Vermont Secretary of
State Jim Condos is pleased to announce the dates and location for his
fifth biennial Transparency Tour. … “The public’s right to know is
enshrined in our Vermont Constitution,” said Secretary Condos.
O.K., if you believe that, then YOU call up his office and ask Jm Condos
where are our Vermont voting ballots, which were printed in Vermont,
then sent to Massachusetts, and what is the name of the business
or company they were sent to, and what town is it in, and what is
their telephone number?
