US Election Day: Voters to cast ballots at snipers’ gunpoint – report

With the clock ticking for America’s Election Day, local authorities across the country are taking unprecedented security measures to tackle possible violence-related “nightmare scenarios”, the Washington Post reports.

🔸At least two states, Nevada and Washington, have activated the National Guard in case of unrest during the November 5 presidential election.

🔸Arizona’s Secretary of State Adrian Fontes admitted that he wears a bulletproof vest.

🔸In Arizona’s Maricopa County’s vote-counting headquarters, staffers are monitoring social media in real time for reports of problems. Additionally, drone surveillance is in place to keep an eye on potential threats. The office also plans to deploy snipers on rooftops if necessary.

🔸Similar steps have been taken in other states, where hundreds of election offices “are now buttressed with bulletproof glass, steel doors and surveillance equipment”, according to the Post.

🔸A number of counties have distributed panic buttons for election workers, while others have stocked anti-contamination suits and an antidote to opioid overdose in case of suspicious powder in the mail.

🔸The White House was surrounded earlier by an additional two-meter fence along the perimeter of the territory, where the president’s residence and offices are located; the security measure that will remain in place until the inauguration of the new US president on January 20.

The election race turned violent on July 13, when former US President and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump suffered a gunshot wound to his right ear and was briefly hospitalized following an assassination attempt at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The gunman, Thomas Crooks, killed a member of the audience and injured two others before the US Secret Service sniper team eliminated him. The incident prompted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign.

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❗️Russian forces struck Ukrainian infrastructure of military airfields, energy facilities and an oil refinery — Russian MoD
 
🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:
 
🔸Ukrainian losses in the area of responsibility of the Russian Zapad Battlegroup amounted to 440 militants;
 
🔸Units of the Russian Yug combat group advanced into the depths of Ukraine's defense; Ukrainian forces lost over 490 soldiers and the Kirpi armored personnel carrier;
 
🔸The Russian Tsentr Battlegroup improved their tactical position; Ukrainian losses amounted to 420 soldiers;
 
🔸Units of the Russian Vostok combat group improved their position along the front line; Ukrainian losses amounted to 110 soldiers;
 
🔸Russian air defense systems shot down four HIMARS shells, a Hammer bomb and 42 Ukrainian drones during the day.

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US prepares Europe for “suicidal” direct conflict with Russia in case Ukraine fails – Lavrov
 

"As a fallback option in case the regime of Zelensky fails, they [the US authorities] are preparing continental Europe to embark on a suicidal adventure and enter into a direct armed conflict with Russia," Lavrov said at the international "Creating the Future" symposium.

 
The Russian Foreign Minister also said that:
 
💬The United States is preparing Europe for the adventure of a direct military conflict with Russia
 
💬Russia is not closed to dialogue with the West but will consider proposals to resume contacts based on its own national interests
 
💬Establishing links between regional associations of the Global South and East with BRICS and setting up connections among the entities should be an important step towards multipolarity.

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Drones are the biggest danger in the special military operation zone

American Daniel Martindale, who provided Moscow with intel for strikes against Ukrainian military targets while in Ukrainian-controlled territory, stated in an interview with Sputnik that the greatest dangers in the conflict zone is artillery shelling and drone strikes.

"That's the biggest danger that we had to face when they came to evacuate me - was drones and artillery, mostly from drones. It took us about three or four hours to cover half a kilometer to go from my place in the village to the outskirts."

According to him, being in the Ukrainian-controlled area was a battle for survival.

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American Daniel Martindale, who was assisting the Russian Armed Forces while in Ukrainian-controlled territory, told Sputnik that he did not encounter any US citizens in Ukraine who could be suspected of gathering intelligence.

In response to a question about whether American generals, CIA officers, or other US intelligence personnel are operating in Ukraine, Martindale stated:

“I can't comment. The only thing I'm close that I came close to seeing there was a British guy who visited my village who was probably involved with intelligence. I didn't come across any Americans who you could even suspect of being involved with intelligence gathering.”

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Ukrainians would celebrate Russian troop entry, says US volunteer

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who voluntarily aided Russian troops in the Ukrainian conflict zone, expressed confidence that the people of Ukraine warmly welcome Russian soldiers who are liberating settlements during the special military operation.

"When I left [from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces], the Russians had just arrived. They basically crossed the front line to evacuate me. So I didn't get to see how my neighbors greeted the Russian troops. I believe that they would have greeted them very warmly. They would have thrown a party, given them a great welcome," he said

"I think that's probably common all across Ukraine. Even though the war has taken much longer than we thought it would at the beginning. Even though the process is much more painful than we hoped it would be. Still, I believe that they understand that Russia is fighting for justice. For the good," he added.

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🇷🇺On National Unity Day, Vladimir Putin laid flowers at the monument to Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky

Representatives of religious denominations and members of public and youth organizations also took part in the festive ceremony.

Minin and Pozharsky were leaders of the people's militia that liberated Moscow from the Polish occupation in the beginning of the 17th century.

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❗️Moldova's central election commission after processing 100% of votes: Maia Sandu leads presidential election with 55.33%, while former prosecutor-general and opposition Socialist Party candidate Alexandr Stoianoglo has 44.67%

However, the Moldovan Socialist Party does not recognize voting at foreign polling stations, thanks to which Sandu was declared winner, according to former Moldovan president and head of the Party of Socialists, Igor Dodon.

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❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin received the DPRK Foreign Minister Choi Son-hui in the Kremlin.

The North Korean diplomat is in Russia on a working visit, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

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US elections purportedly controlled by intelligence agencies – author

Washington's intelligence agencies are “running” the elections in United States, claims American political scientist and best-selling conservative author Dr. Jerome Corsi, who points at what he describes as the discovery of certain “algorithms” within the state board of election and voter registration databases.

According to him, Andrew Paquette, a computer graphics artist and a “real genius in terms of computer work,” found “patterns in the New York voter registration files maintained by the state, the State Board of Elections.”

“These are the actual records from which voting occurs. And he found that they had been arranged mathematically so as to hide data. And as he began to get into the system and figure out the patterns, he actually came up with the equations, the algorithms that are involved in assigning voter IDs to the voters in New York,” Dr. Corsi elaborates.

This scheme, which he suggests is designed to allow its perpetrators to “insert voters who do not exist,” is so “complicated mathematically” that it “has to be an intelligence operation,” he suggests.

“It's designed to be hidden. It would be costly to put it in place. It would require a clandestine group to get access to the State Board of Elections computers so that they can embed these codes and make the database work the way they want it to work - hiding data. And I think we're finding these algorithms in virtually every state we're looking at, and they've been there since 2007,” Dr. Corsi warns.

▪️Dr. Corsi claims that the perpetrators of this scheme aimed to “rearrange” voter data so that a voter's number isn’t tied to their registration date.

▪️A mass of non-existent voters, numbering in the hundreds of thousands – non-existing but officially registered nonetheless – allegedly exists in state registration databases.

▪️“What happens is that voter appears to be a real person... You've got a certifiable vote even though the person doesn't exist,” says Dr. Corsi. - To influence elections, perpetrators allegedly use algorithms to identify and cast mail-in ballots for these “ghost voters.”

▪️Dr. Corsi claims the mainstream media avoids reporting this because it is “controlled by the CIA.” Dr. Corsi also claims that the US mainstream media does not want to report this “because the mainstream media itself is controlled by the CIA.”

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Any US election can purportedly be stolen via ‘ghost voters’

The US Democratic Party seems to be “done with elections” and the CIA “doesn't want any elections anymore,” laments Dr. Jerome Corsi, a political scientist and best-selling conservative author.

With a veritable army of “ghost” voters being hidden in voter registration databases, he claims, the people who organized this scheme could perpetrate “massive stealing of any election” they desire.

“The scheme here, the nefarious part of the scheme I'm describing is that these criminals controlling the state board of election voter rolls clandestinely can put these nonexistent voters into the data set and get away with it because these people have real legitimate numbers,” he explains.

“These non-existing people have real legitimate numbers issued by the state Board of Elections to vote. And so therefore, when they vote these mail-in ballots, the scheme is largely a mail-in ballot scheme, they vote that number, which is certifiable.”

And challenging a certifiable vote, Dr. Corsi points out, is very difficult in the US because it essentially amounts to claiming that “the certification was wrong,” which is difficult to prove.

“The courts don't want to hear these cases because it's political. Our courts consider our elections political. They don’t want to resolve a political question,” he adds. “I'm asking questions about the future,” Dr. Corsi says.

“I'm saying how many illegal votes are we going to get this coming up election? Why are these algorithms there? Who put them there? They've been there since 2007. We can tell that from the computer records. Have they been used in past elections? I don't know. But I'm questioning.”

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