Voter Intimidation is Illegal (Op-ed)

There are reports of voter-bullying taking place in Pennsylvania and Montana. People supporting Trump have received threatening letters, such as threatening their personal safety or livelihood.
This is illegal as it falls under the category of harassment and stalking. Nobody should try to infringe on another person’s vote by spying on them, then conducting an attack. It is also illegal under U.S. Code 18, Section 594 which reads as follows:
“Whoever threatens, intimidates, coerces, or attempts to threaten, intimidate, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such person to vote or vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice-President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.” — 18 U.S. Code, Section 594
Recently a video uploaded also showed an election office worker in Pennsylvania filming himself opening up mail-in ballots, then tearing up ballots marked with a vote for Trump. The video was secretly filmed, and the exact circumstances are unclear, however, both the action and the filming of it are illegal, and constitute psychological manipulation. Particularly as the elections office worker spoke to himself in an accent that definitely was not even native-born American.
It should be noted that voter fraud is also taking place but legitimized in terms of variable voter-ID laws. Depending on the state, voters may or may not have to present an ID. However those who have a temporary ID (such as a migrant) are often being approved to vote if they registered. Since the illegal migrants are able to register to vote or even encouraged to, this will definitely throw a jinx card into the legitimacy of the voting process. How about 10 million votes at least for Kamala Harris, even if they can’t spell her name?
Then there is the shameful arrest and unfairly severe prison sentence for Tina Peters, a former elections officer in Mesa County, Colorado, who is accused of tampering with voter machines. She alleges that because there was no clear voter-verification process, she had a third-party consultant come in and copy the voter machine records to ensure that those votes would be counted properly. Now she has been sentenced to at least 9 years in prison, which is really an outrage considering that she was a model mother.
Will the elections office workers tampering with votes even be fired from their jobs? We can imagine that under the current climate, the person shown tearing up Trump ballots will just be told to go home and not return to work. If it had been the other way around, tearing up Harris ballots, no doubt it would make the ABC Nightly News.
The extreme politicization of daily life over the past year has practically legitimized Trump Derangement Syndrome, a manifestation of manic obsessive delusional fears about former President Trump that rationalizes all kinds of acting out. In its worst manifestation, there are overt messages being broadcast at workplaces that one must vote for Harris, or else, something this reporter has witnessed. In apartment settings, neighbors will shout insults and randomized screaming about Trump voters, in effect heckling and trying to instill fear.
Of course, anyone whose cause for living has become so externalized that they resort to blaming all their deep personal problems on strangers, even planning illegal activities, are losers. Rioting, looting stores, attacking strangers, name-calling, public acting out, and so on, just demonstrate that these persons have nothing else to live for, no sense of dignity or self-respect, and are disconnected to love of God or respect for the Constitution. (Have some of the elections office workers even obtained their GED?)
Tina Peters concerns about voter-verification are legitimate. Anyone can do a search in the internet and uncover the variety of ways that people can commit voter fraud. Elections workers can stuff the ballot box with votes from people who have died or gone missing. They can dispose of ballot boxes or disappear them. They can substitute machines with alters. They can replace computer hardware with other hardware. They can tamper with the software remotely via hacking. They can plant viruses that allow access to the elections servers. They can plant a variety of malware. They can use illegals to vote and revote over and over again physically. They can cause the server or machine to breakdown or suffer disruptions that damage the accuracy of voting.
The voter-process is only as reliable and secure as the people who are involved in the elections board processes, and unfortunately, judging from the extent of corruption inside the current administration, especially with regard to the FTX trade scheme in Ukraine, and insider trading, and lack of results in actually focusing on America’s internal problems, it does not surprise anyone that they want to hang onto power by any means necessary. This is why the coverage over the attempted Trump assassinations has been so limited; it is why the incitement and false-accusations are being used to even encourage new murder attempts.
Obviously Tina Peters, as well as J6, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Roger Stone, and other alt-media right-leaning personalities are being used to “make an example of” to scare off voters. Even the Pope is in on it, suggesting in his insipid way that abortion is a crime that can eclipse all the other crimes being committed both here and overseas, never mind the general trend towards a complete unraveling of the American economy. What conscience do criminals really have? Isn’t that a rhetorical question to ask us to vote with our conscience?
The only way forward is to recognize that we must vote for the person with stronger common-sense, and exemplary leadership skills. Believe it or not, former President Trump serving burgers at McDonalds is an inspiring example of both being able to think outside the box, and creative political leadership. He doesn’t read lines from a teleprompter, and fumble and repeat himself over and over, especially if the teleprompter is turned off. As for the VP’s appearance at the “ho-sideshow” podcast or on “smoke-pot” podcast, well, it speaks for itself.
Anyone who accuses someone else as a tyrant, and whose only or best rhetoric involves attacking someone else’s reputation is stooping to the lowest common denominator. They are the type who fantasize about power and authority and will probably be the ones who deprive us of a productive democracy, herding us towards a technocractic totalitarianism. They are the ones who will be controlling and demanding our worship or else. History shows that Hera-worship tends to lead to a chaotic society. So if they have to also resort to cheating, don’t be afraid. Voter intimidation is just another trick up the devil’s sleeve.
And if you lose your job, benefits, house, friends, because you dared to stand up for what you believe, know that you are not alone. Just think of the growing ranks of political prisoners this country is taking and the insidious invasion of the social infrastructure by what is essentially an enemy foreign invasion, and know that you did your best to fight back. You are just one more shameful tally on the price that we are being made to pay for a democratic regime captured by dark forces and foreign powers that effectively own the Congress.
Addendum: Here is what Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano published “Open Letter to American Catholics on the eve of the 2024 Presidential Election” on October 22, 2024, and read aloud by AGN.
Screenshot from https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-voter-id-laws-state-1950691