Reece Gardner: Anything less than fair and free elections must not tolerated

I am sure that most of us would have preferred that the recent 2020 Election could have come and gone without controversy, but that just isn't the case. News continues to surface raising serious questions about what happened. The Election Audit is near completion in Arizona and the results are upsetting a lot of people, including some whom you would expect to be on board in the effort to bring the election results to an honest conclusion. U.S. Attorney General Garland, for example, seems to have the auditors in mind when he states that the DOJ is going to publish guidance explaining the civil and criminal statutes that apply to post-election audits.

He stated that "Some jurisdictions, based on disinformation, have utilized abnormal post-election methods that may put the integrity of the voting process at risk and undermine public confidence in our Democracy." He indicated that the U.S. Justice Department would be sending additional agents to the areas in question. In other words, question the auditors but not the RESULTS of the audits. Arizona State Senator responded, "You will not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison."

Former President Trump issued this statement: "If the Justice Department is going to add additional agents to investigate auditors, then it would seem that they have no choice but to look at the MASSIVE evidence of voter fraud which took place in certain Swing States during the 2020 Election." Then he added this: "Whether it be voting machines, underaged people, dead people, illegal aliens, ballot cheating, absentee ballots, vote buying, or other things, the 2020 Presidential Election may eventually be labeled 'The Crime of the Century'", when we look at what has happened to our Country, our Borders, our Economy, Inflation, and more in just the past five months." He concluded, "If there is going to be honor and greatness for America, any voting irregularities and fraud in this recent Election must be brought to light and never allowed to happen again."

With the 2020 Election being one of the most contentious elections in a generation, many states are still investigating their election results, joining Arizona in making plans for forensic audits. These states include, among others, Georgia, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. In Georgia 531 prominent Republicans sent a letter to Gov. Kemp calling for a full forensic audit of the State's 2020 Election results.

News of this bombshell letter comes as an audit of all Fulton County's ballots are set to begin. Even Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger , a loud opponent of this effort in the past, is now applauding it. The floodgates are opening. Folks, I am convinced that all that the overwhelming majority of the people in our great Country want in this effort are free and fair elections. Anything less than that must not be tolerated.

Now for a humorous close: There was a painter named "Jack" who was very interested in making money where he could. So he often would thin down his paint to make it go a bit further. He got away with this for some time. Eventually the local church decided to do a big reconstruction project. Jack put in a painting bid and, because his price was so competitive, he got the job.

And so he started erecting the trestles and putting up the planks, and buying the paint, and then thinning it down with turpentine. He was on the scaffold, painting away, the job nearly done, when suddenly there was a loud clap of thunder. The sky opened and the rain poured down, washing the thin paint from all over the church and knocking Jack off the scaffold and down to the lawn.

Jack was no fool. He knew that this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he fell on his knees and cried, "Oh Lord, forgive me! What should I do?" And from the thunder a mighty voice spoke: "Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"

Have a WONDROUS day.