i hit a nerve

Dear Friends,

I hit a nerve with Senator Erdman, hailed as one of our most conservative unicameral legislators. He read my letter at the top of this edition, titled SoS office in shambles, that I sent to a wide audience on Fri, Aug 25th, at 7:42 AM. (Please review for context.)

Mr. Erdman sent this reply, dated Aug 25th at 9:27 AM:

Mr Borer, I believe you have worked hard discovering the real issues with our elections. 

When you send me and others who agree there are serious issues with our elections, telling us we have done nothing and we are "You're all complicit."

That is not helping your cause. 

You may have missed the bill I introduced to fix our elections. 

LB 228. 

It is vote in person, in May and November, show a photo ID, vote on paper and count by hand at the precinct! Problem solved!  

So don't send me crap telling me I have done nothing! 

I don't remember you coming to my office or contacting me about 228. 

Perhaps you did and I have forgotten!

Steve 

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I responded to Mr. Erdman late yesterday (Sunday, the 27th) with the following:

Dear Mr. Erdman,

Thank you for responding. 

You said I'm not helping my cause. You misconstrued my intent.

I'm not looking for friendship with purported public servants who refuse to do their job. Nor am I looking for more legislation. We have too much of it already. The Election Act is a disaster. Nebraska statutes in general are a disaster.

We will NEVER secure real, honest, transparent, verifiable and constitutional elections that are OF, BY and FOR the PEOPLE, as long as every one of our purported elected public servants keep ignoring/betraying our Constitution (the supreme law of our State under God) and their oath. Our Constitution provides all that is needed for We the People to have real elections.

My "cause" is challenging people, people who claim they were elected to serve the People, to act like it, to honor their oath, to show some backbone, to stand up, to use their bully pulpit, and to tell the raw TRUTH about our elections and our SoS office...to their fellow public servants, to the public at large and to whomever will listen.

In other words, my urgent "cause" is to challenge people such as yourself to FIGHT for the rights of the People, not out of any sense of fealty to me, but out of a sense of fealty to God, the Truth, Righteousness and personal integrity...and to do so before the People decide to take matters into their own hands, per the Declaration. 

Those among us who purport to be elected members of our government are playing a serious game by not honoring their oath and denying People the right to give and withhold transparent and verifiable consent.

Now then, you might claim you are speaking out about our elections by writing the [recent] newspaper article (found below). That article did not tell the truth. It did far more damage than good, if it did any good at all. Here were the problems with it:

#1) You said Trump lost the 2020 election. That was a lie.
#2) You said Evnen's contract with ES&S goes for another seven years. That was a lie. It expires in a little over four years.
#3) You said, in so many words, that we have to use the machines as long as Evnen has a contract with ES&S. That was a lie. We don't have to use the machines just because we have a contract for their purchase.
At the same time, neither do we have to honor a contract that supersedes our Constitution, and/or involves defrauding the People it was supposed to serve. Fraud/deception vitiates/nullifies any contract.
#4) You insinuated that ES&S is at fault for not being transparent. That insinuation was/is wrong. Evnen is the one at fault for renewing his lazy predecessor's contract with ES&S in the first place. It goes without saying that secret and purportedly proprietary software has no place in public election vote-counting. Nevermind that there is nothing "proprietary" about addition, even computerized addition. Counting votes is a matter of simple addition. Any programmer can write such software. The claim by ES&S that they are protecting proprietary information is absurd, and a cover story for fraud. Any five year old can see that. Their claim that bad actors might take advantage of their proprietary software begs the question, how do we know bad actors aren't already doing so?? Please stop and think. ES&S is implicitly admitting their machines are easily hackable. Indeed they are...to the end of stealing our voice and vote. We are not having any more of it.

Conclusion:
The total lack of transparency is all the proof we need, i.e., all the proof any logical person needs, to know that something is seriously wrong with our "election" system.
Rigging an election is worth millions and billions and even trillions of dollars.
Evnen admits that our elections are high stakes elections.
He also admits that motives exist to cheat.
If that's the case, there's only one missing ingredient—opportunity.
And ES&S has plenty of that.
Whenever motive and opportunity exist, you will find fraud every time, if you look...which is why we are not allowed to do so.

Regarding your proposed LB228. It said nothing about *hand counts, as you claimed. It also called for new holidays. Who in the world is going to pay for those??? I thought you were for lower taxes?? That bill was dead on arrival. Nevermind that it wasn't needed in the first place. Again, our Declaration and Constitution already provide for self-government through verifiable Consent.

Senator, you might be busy doing some-thing, but you are not doing the right thing, and you certainly aren't telling the truth about our so-called elections and our SoS office.

Political power comes from being politically respected. Being politically respected comes from being politically feared. The greatest weapon my side has is the truth. People who aren't living up to their moral and political obligations and responsibilities fear that the truth about them will find the light of day.

I can assure you we will continue speaking the truth.

Robert J. Borer

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Erdman's Newspaper Article
Are Nebraska’s elections fair, accurate, and transparent? To answer this question, concerned citizens must consider how Nebraska counts its ballots in statewide elections. Nebraska uses ES&S vote counting machines to count its ballots during statewide elections. ES&S stands for a company called Elections Systems & Software. Understanding how these ES&S vote counting machines work is critical for answering these crucial questions about the integrity of our elections.

The use and accuracy of vote counting machines have come under attack ever since Stacey Abrams lost her 2018 gubernatorial race to Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State, who conducted the election, and Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. In addition, when Fox News in April of this year agreed to pay Dominion, another manufacturer of vote counting machines, $787 million in order to avert a defamation lawsuit, the settlement left more questions than answers and further raised suspicions about the use of these vote counting machines.

There is a lot of important information that citizens who are concerned about the integrity of our elections need to know about our state’s use of vote counting machines and that information is not being made available for public viewing. So, today I would like to update readers about some recent developments regarding our use of  ES&S vote counting machines.

Christopher Gleason recently invoked the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on behalf of The Justice Society in order to request Audit Logs from ES&S. An Audit Log is like the little black box on an airplane. The Audit Logs record every action and every event that ever occurs when using a vote counting machine. If any nefarious activity ever occurs, the Audit Logs would catch it and make a record of it.

ES&S is not releasing important ballot counting information to the public. ES&S denied the FOIA request filed by Christopher Gleason on the grounds that releasing the Audit Logs could compromise the security of future elections. In responding to the FOIA request, ES&S said, “The Logs should additionally be protected from disclosure as the Logs contain sensitive information that if publicized could provide a roadmap to bad actors to attempt to compromise your ES&S voting system.”

Concerned citizens do not need to know any sensitive information which would compromise the integrity of future elections; instead, they merely need enough information from the Audit Logs to ensure that past election results have never been compromised or tampered with and  ES&S has the capability to release this this kind of information to the public with ease. For example,  ES&S machines can be told to print election summaries and precinct reports without compromising sensitive data. In fact, ES&S advertises the ease of this function as a major selling point on its website: “The DS200 generates a detailed audit log of all actions and events that occurred on the unit, which can be printed at any time.”

Without a mechanism of transparency to hold election officials accountable for the results of elections, suspicion will likely continue to grow around the use of these vote counting machines. Concerned citizens in Nebraska have now been backed into a corner and are being asked to believe the good word of ES&S.

What many Nebraskans don’t know is that Nebraska has just committed itself to using these ES&S vote counting machines for the next seven years. Nebraska’s Assistant Secretary of State, Wayne Bena, recently signed a contract with ES&S for $15,746,546.10 for use of the machines over the course of the next seven years. What this means is that any desire to move to hand counting ballots will be off the table for the next seven years.

Earlier this year I introduced legislation that would have required Nebraskans to show a photo ID when voting at the polls, required the use of paper ballots, and required ballots to be counted by hand at the precinct level during statewide elections. Counting ballots by hand is how we used to count ballots in Nebraska, so it can be done. Had the Legislature adopted these methods, we could have averted all of the controversies that will continue to surround the use of these ES&S vote counting machines for the next seven years.
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That’s it for today. Next up, perhaps on Wednesday, we put the spotlight on school shenanigans in Burwell, at the request of a fellow Patriot.

God bless,

Robert J. Borer
P.S. Here are some notes from some training I received a few years ago from the Foundation for Applied Conservative Leadership (FACL):

What is Politics?
The Adjudication of Power
The process of figuring out who rules whom.
Not compromise, but CONFRONTATION.

So if the American system of checks and balances works, and politics is the adjudication of power, What is POWER?

REAL POLITICAL POWER IS forcing politicians to act the way you want or replacing them.

Power is often confused with Access (being listened to, having a seat at the table, having your phone calls returned, but NEVER BEING PERCEIVED AS A THREAT)

POWER ISN’T ACCESS

Unless you are politically feared, you will not be politically respected.

Would you rather be feared and respected, or loved and manipulated?

The above is great in principle, but there’s a fundamental problem at its foundation. It only works when we have real elections that enable us to get rid of poor/corrupt “public servants.” We don’t have that, and we haven’t had that for some time. We the People have no say in our own elections. “They” want us to think we do, but the fact is, our elections have been taken over by subversive and greedy forces and corporations, through a hidden digital (electronic technology) world. (Hence the fight we’re in for our very existence.)

Here’s a short video with Mike Rothfeld, founder of FACL:
https://facl-training.org/real-nature-of-politics-clips

Okay. I’m done. :-)