Election Integrity Going Forward

We've made good progress in the last four years

The worst development of the 2024 Presidential election, would be if pro-American citizens believe that we now have the election integrity issue under control, so that we can “rest on our laurels” — i.e., relax and forget about that concern.

—> THAT WOULD BE A CATASTROPHICALLY BAD CONCLUSION!!!!!

There were less (NOT none!) shenanigans in the 2024 election due to an extensive four year effort by thousands of citizens working hard to fix the numerous holes that exist in our election system. My rough estimate is that we’ve done about 40% of the job.

There are still major changes needed to be done by both States and the Federal Government. A primary objective of Federal regulations should be to standardize election requirements. To have 50 sets of rules for Federal elections is absurd.

It is child’s play to advance partisan election requirements. The objective of these recommendations is to bridge the currently expansive gap between Democrat and Republican proposals, as it’s imperative that we negotiate a middle ground that meets the pro-American objectives of both sides.

This list was put together by a team of independent experts, who volunteered their time to advance the cause of US election integrity. To date, they have generated multiple reports on that nationally important subject.

The items on this list are explained in more detail in Part 3 of their Election Integrity Recommendations Report:

1. Election laws and regulations may not be changed within 120 days prior to that election.

2. Primary elections will be closed.

3. All votes, regardless of voting method, will comply with equal standards.

4. There will be 1+ week advance in-person voting, at convenient locations for every precinct.

5. Absentee voting will be allowed only in very specialized circumstances.

6. All absentee ballots must be received by Election Day.

7. Drop Boxes are prohibited.

8. Ballot harvesting is prohibited.

9. It is illegal for the state, county, or precinct to accept third-party election-related funds.

10. The state will provide appropriate voter assistance where needed.

11. Some type of legal ID is required when voting.

12. It is illegal to have any ballot-related equipment accessible from the Internet.

13. USPS will be fixed so that all ballots are delivered promptly and properly.

14. Election day voting will end at 7 PM, local time.

15. All absentee and early-voting ballots will be tabulated, and reported, first.

16. Legal election observers will be allowed complete access to the election process.

17. Fixing deficient ballots (or mail-in envelopes) will be restricted and must be fully transparent.

18. All counties will be required to report their election results in a standardized format (e.g., CSV).

19. Sample forensic audits will be required.

20. Chain of custody must be maintained for all ballots for at least 22 months.

21. Negative vote tabulations (e.g., to Edison) must have detailed transparent supporting data.

22. All eligible US citizens will be automatically registered to vote.

23. All states will be required to annually update their election rolls.

24. Rules prohibiting non-citizens from voting will be tightened.

25. A website and an 800 number will be set up for citizens to report possible improper election actions.

26. National uniform requirements for state vote certification will be established.

27. Citizens and state legislatures will have legal standing to file in-state election-related lawsuits.

28. States will seriously consider eliminating Electronic Voting Machines.

29. State recall rules (if and when a recall is allowed) must be consistent with state election rules.

30. A bi-partisan Federal commission will be created in 2025 to research and issue a public report on the voting rules and regulations of European Countries, Canada, Mexico, and Australia.

The bottom line —

It’s more than disconcerting that there is no continuity in all fifty states, on ANY of the above items! How does that make any sense?

The US House GOP legislators are planning on new election integrity legislation. I will be submitting this to them. Please post any suggestions to improve on any of the above recommendations, in the comments below.

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PS 1 — I would be glad to share some of my expertise with new federal department heads. For example, if anyone knows a good email address for Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, or Chris Wright, please email them to me (use email button at top of this page).

PS 2 — FYI I did send my letter to RFK, jr, but have not heard back yet. That is understandable as he has a LOT on his plate!

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WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2024 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time - but why would you?

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A New Way to Educate K-12 Students

Critically Thinking Outside the Box

Anytime serious citizens discuss what needs to be done to fix the US Public School System, the inevitable conclusion is that multiple major issues need to be properly addressed. Regretfully, in almost all situations, good people just give up.

Fully aware of the multi-headed dragon part, my strategy is to break this complex matter down into simpler elements. My reasoning is that if we just look at the whole task — e.g., sending a man to the Moon, and bringing him back — that the enormity of it will likely stop all productive progress. On the other hand, if we break down a huge matter into digestible components, all of a sudden it becomes doable.

As to reforming the US K-12 education system, I believe that the first order of business is to address the curricula. Refining that even further, step one is to fix the Science curricula, which has been seriously corrupted.

Since forty-nine (49) states are using the NGSS as the basis for their Science curricula, suddenly the first order of business is crystal clear: meaningfully upgrade the NGSS! That is a manageable challenge. To spell out what this would entail, I wrote a Report — which explains ten (10) ways that the NGSS needs fixing. They are all doable.

Unfortunately, instead of immediately working together to clear up this very solvable problem, some conservative allies then threw up another roadblock. They said: “OK let’s say we fix the Science curriculum. How do we get around the reality that many teachers are now from Marxist education colleges? Those important people will resist the needed curriculum changes, or outright undermine them. How do we fix that?”

That indeed is a good question about a legitimate concern. My answer has been: “We should solve one problem at a time. Let’s start by fixing the Science curriculum issue, then we’ll cross the teacher certification bridge when we come to it.”

The reality is that if we keep getting caught up with various issues, zero real progress will be made. This famous phrase applies: Perfect is the enemy of good!

A New Idea —

I’m open to considering any reasonable new idea and have been sent several. The most recent, and maybe most interesting so far, is about MacKenzie Price and her education alternative called 2-Hour Learning. In my looking this over, I can see several major benefits over the current system. I can also see some shortcomings.

Here are some substantial plusses:

1) Achieving very high test score results

2) Education is tailored to the individual student

3) Limited negativity influence from biased teachers

4) Significant time every day is spent on learning Life Skills (I’m a big fan of teaching more Life Skills in K-12. Here is my list of some suggested material to cover.)

Please watch this 3 min teaser: Five Mistakes from Traditional Schools:

After looking at that, and you would like to know more, watch her 21-minute video, which has a more detailed explanation of what this is about:

I also saw some potential shortcomings, so made up a list of constructive questions. I emailed her organization to see if I could have a chat with a representative. I’ll let you know what happens. BTW here is an example of what I’ll be asking them:

Your websites say (e.g., here) that “Kids need two things to learn” and then say that they are “Motivation” and “Personalized Coursework.” IMO there is a major item missing: “Critical Thinking.” Without that skill, it is unlikely that true learning (vs rote learning) will happen. Agree?

In your good Five Things video Critical Thinking is not mentioned. At the end of the overview video, you do mention Critical Thinking. However, I don't see any mention of Critical Thinking on your websites.

Is Critical Thinking prioritized?

If yes, exactly how do you teach Critical Thinking to students?

If you have some other questions you’d like asked, please post them in the Comments, below.

Takeaway —

The bottom line is that the US K-12 Public School System is in dire need of major reform. For multiple reasons, I don’t believe that scrapping it is a reasonable option.

Instead, we need to apply creativity and Critical Thinking to this nationally significant matter. A good first step would be to take it out of the hands of the Education Bureaucracy “experts,” who have had decades to solve this and instead have only made it worse.

I can provide numerous citations about that, but here is one that just appeared this week: How Academic Elites are Undoing Centuries of Progress. Although the article is about higher education, every bit of it applies to K-12 as well.

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Please vote for Michele Morrow to be part of the new Department of Education.

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Check out the Archives of this Critical Thinking substack.

WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2024 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time - but why would you?

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They Think We Are Fools

It's up to us whether or not they are right

{I wrote a draft of this a few months ago. Fortunately, there is now light at the end of the tunnel. With Critical Thinking these should all go the way of the buggy whip…}

Consider this sample of what we have been told on a daily basis by self-serving elites, about a variety of nationally important topics:

“Wind energy is low cost”— while it is actually high cost. (I’ll have an upcoming commentary about this long-running deception.)

“Wind energy is environmentally friendly” — while it is environmentally destructive.

“We need lots of wind energy to save us from climate disaster” — while there have been no scientific studies concluding that wind energy saves consequential CO2.

“We need to use masks, as they are safe and will prevent the spread of COVID” — while over a hundred scientific studies have concluded that they are not safe or effective.

“We all need to get multiple safe injections to protect us from COVID” — while there were ZERO scientific studies about the long-term safety of such injections.

“We are acting in the best interest of our citizens” (e.g., here) — while 600,000± Americans died from COVID when inferior treatments (e.g., Remdesivir) were FDA approved while we were not properly advised about ALL effective early treatment options.

We are supporters of election integrity” — while opposing such measures as voter ID, voter signature verifications, dropbox restrictions, etc.

“We have had accurate elections” — while there have been ZERO meaningful official audits of election legitimacy or accuracy.

“We can’t fix the border crisis until Congress acts” — while the prior President easily made significant improvements about the border, on his own.

“We are looking out for your child’s best interest” — while school officials give your child inappropriate sex information, without parental knowledge or permission.

“We are teaching your child to be more socially responsible” — while teaching your child to follow atheistic norms and Marxist ideology.

“We are teaching your child to be a critical thinker” — while teaching our children to defer to consensus, experts, political correctness, computers, etc. (Note that this is teaching conformity, which is the direct opposite of Critical Thinking.)

“We are major supporters of Science” — while complying with scrubbing the traditional Scientific Method from being taught in US K-12 schools.

“We are strong advocates of women’s rights” — while allowing biologically born men to compete in women’s sports.

“We are all about defending the rights of minorities” — while encouraging minority entitlement rather than minority advancement through merit and hard work.

“We were elected to act in the best interest of our constituents” — while they are actually acting in the best interest of lobbyists and their clients.

“We follow the Science” — while instead exclusively adhering to political science (which has nothing to do with real Science)

“We are big advocates of harmony” — while promoting political agendas that foster distrust and reward civil unrest.

“We are patriotic Americans” — while advocating for policies like CRT, DEI, etc.

“We are advocates of free speech” — while castigating conservative conversations.

“We are honest brokers” — while promoting dishonestly characterized policies.

“We strongly favor the rule of law” — while weaponizing the justice system against political opponents.

“We are strong advocates of democracy” — while passing laws that mandate a wide range of unscientific measures, against the wishes of the citizenry.

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I could go on and on here. When the self-serving bad actors we are dealing with get away with something, they take that as a green light to go further. Clearly, we have allowed them to get away with WAY too much!

Their interpretation is that we are fools — uneducated, uninterested, unorganized, etc., etc. Until we apply Critical Thinking (and God) to the disastrous direction our society is heading, things will only get worse, and we will be getting what we deserve.

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Please vote for Michele Morrow here.

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I also consider reader submissions on Critical Thinking on my topics of interest.

Check out the Archives of this Critical Thinking substack.

WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2024 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time - but why would you?

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US Govt Agency Nominees from Citizens

A chance for YOU to submit your inputs

{This is connected with my prior substack piece: My Letter to RFKjr. If you have not read that, please do…}

President-elect Trump says that he and his team have learned from their first go-around. For example, this time they will be much better prepared when he takes the Oath of Office on January 21st, and will hit the ground running.

A good example of this is the interesting website where US citizens can: 1) nominate qualified citizens [including themselves] for government agency positions, and 2) vote for other citizens who have been nominated by someone else.

The site is Nominees for the People, and it appears to be operated by RFKjr’s people as members of the Trump team. They are asking for nominations (and votes for nominees) for a variety of government agencies:

The process begins with citizens signing into the website. It’s rather straightforward and should only take a minute or so to do that — so please sign up! Once you’ve done that you can: 1) nominate someone, and/or 2) vote for someone already nominated (one simple click).

I’ve submitted Michele Morrow to be considered for a position in the Department of Education. PLEASE VOTE FOR HER!

FYI: Michele is a very committed, competent, conservative woman who just narrowly lost the election for North Carolina Superintendent of Department of Public Instruction — primarily due to matters beyond her control.

All in all, the Trump Team should be congratulated for coordinating such a democratic effort. As humans, I’m sure that they will make their share of mistakes, but this is a very good start.

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Here are other materials by this scientist that you might find interesting:

I am now offering incentives for you to sign up new subscribers!

I also consider reader submissions on Critical Thinking on my topics of interest.

Check out the Archives of this Critical Thinking substack.

WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2024 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time - but why would you?

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My Letter to RFKjr

He has an extraordinary opportunity to be a MAJOR contributor

Considering the mess that Progressives have left America in, it could be difficult to know where to start fixing things. My view is that (other than adequately addressing the immigration disaster), our departure from real Science is arguably the most impactful matter that needs to be properly resolved.

Science is a process. The point of the Science process is to give the public the best understanding of the technical truths of our existence. But that is not happening!

Just a few real-world examples of this should convey the enormous adverse consequences of this almost totally ignored issue:

Example #1: Our energy choices should be made based on what real Science indicates that our best options are. None of that is happening!

Example #2: Our concern about Climate Change should be resolved by applying real Science. Almost none of that is happening!

Example #3: Our healthcare system (FDA, CDC, etc.) should be 100% focused on conveying to the public what real Science indicates is in their best interest. As the COVID-19 fiasco exposed, almost none of that is happening!

Example #4: Our K-12 education system should be teaching our children what real Science is — which includes training them to be Critical Thinkers. Due to the widespread adoption (49 states!) of the NGSS, none of that is happening!

Etc., etc.

To our profound detriment, what has replaced real Science is political Science. What that means is that technical matters are dealt with based on political correctness, on virtue signaling, on who profits, etc. None of these have anything to do with real Science, or what is in the best interest of the public and our country.

With Trump as our next President, we have an unprecedented opportunity to make major inroads against the Left’s concerted efforts against real Science. Here I’m sharing what I will be suggesting RFKjr to do regarding the healthcare debacle. I’ve focused on the FDA as they are at the top of the heap.

To narrow this down even further, I’m advocating for major changes on how the FDA grants Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs). That may sound academic, but the current incompetent EUA process is the main reason that unscientific COVID-19 injections and medications (e.g., Remdesivir) were allowed. It is also the primary reason that scientifically proven treatments (e.g., Ivermectin) were not approved.

Properly fixing the FDA’s EUA issue would set a precedent that would carry over into ALL aspects of all healthcare agencies. As such it would arguably be the most significant (and beneficial) US healthcare change made in the last fifty years…

For more background on the rationale behind my technical recommendations to RFKjr, carefully read the sample lawsuit that I drafted awhile back. It is filled with citations.

My recommendations (esp. for serious matters like COVID-19) are:

1 - The FDA be required to include a representative sample of chronic illness subjects in both testing and placebo groups of all clinical trials for products seeking EUAs.

Where an EUA has already been granted, or when the above is (or was) not practical:

2 - The FDA be required to include in their EUA Fact Sheets for Healthcare Providers:

“This EUA was granted after a very limited scientific assessment of this product for this medical condition. As a result, the FDA has a low confidence level regarding the safety or efficacy of this product for this condition.”

3 - Since the safety and efficacy for the majority of Americans from such EUA products are not scientifically established, the FDA should be directed to prohibit any EUA product manufacturer from claiming that their product is Safe or Effective.

4 - The FDA should be obligated to require that all EUA clinical trials (and subsequently the FDA) publicize Absolute Risk — preferably, exclusively.

Note 1: This is consistent with an important FDA advisory publication. A key conclusion (see page 60) is that the public is: “unduly influenced when risk information is presented using a relative risk approach; this can result in suboptimal decisions. Thus, an absolute risk format should be used.”

Note 2: The CONSORT 2010 Statement — Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomized Trials states: “… presentation of both absolute and relative effect sizes is recommended…”

5 -The FDA should be obligated to promptly develop and publicize regulations for Informed Consent regarding the public’s taking of EUAs.  (These should be comparable to the FDA’s informed consent conditions for clinical trial subjects [which includes many pages of conditions and caveats: see here].)  EUA product recipients should effectively be considered to be clinical trial subjects.

6 - The FDA must be prohibited from granting an EUA based on a subset of any RCT results (e.g., like here).

7 - The FDA be required to give detailed acknowledgement in their EUA Fact Sheets for Healthcare Providers, of the critical omission of inadequately testing persons with chronic diseases. Since (due to this omission) the majority of American adults are put at additional risk by taking this EUA product, the FDA must give them notice (necessary for informed consent) that their underlying chronic disease condition may worsen (including death) when taking this EUA product.

Takeaway —

The bottom line is that the FDA, et al have been taken over by Big Pharma and other parties who have political and/or economic objectives inconsistent with what is in the best interest of public health (children and adults).

This needs to be aggressively and properly addressed. My recommendation is to recognize the indisputable departure they have made from real Science, and to focus on a real world example (e.g., FDA EUAs) as a representative matter to properly fix.

This is 100% consistent with what RFKjr said that Trump assigned him to do: 1. Clean up the corruption in our government health agencies. 2. Return those agencies to their rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science. 3. Make America Healthy Again by ending the chronic disease epidemic.

Success in correcting this one important issue would have profoundly beneficial impacts on the health of US citizens (male and female, adults and children) — and would resonate throughout the US healthcare system.

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PS — I realize that RFKjr has a special interest in the healthcare of children, and the EUA matter directly affects essentially all children.

PPS — RFKjr’s efforts regarding healthcare should be in parallel with the efforts of other pro-Science parties to fix education, energy, and climate change policies…

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Here are other materials by this scientist that you might find interesting:

I am now offering incentives for you to sign up new subscribers!

I also consider reader submissions on Critical Thinking on my topics of interest.

Check out the Archives of this Critical Thinking substack.

WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

Media Balance Newsletter: a free, twice-a-month newsletter that covers what the mainstream media does not do, on issues from COVID to climate, elections to education, renewables to religion, etc. Here are the Newsletter’s 2024 Archives. Please send me an email to get your free copy. When emailing me, please make sure to include your full name and the state where you live. (Of course, you can cancel the Media Balance Newsletter at any time - but why would you?

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