Only THEN, Can Power Be Transferred
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Submitted by Kat Stansell (Independent Journalist and Earnest Patriot) –
“We the People agree to peacefully transfer power because of elections. However, how we thought those election operated, has been radically changed by the states in just the last 10-15 years.” says Kristofer Jurski, founder of The People’s Audit.
Our Declaration of Independence tells us that a legitimate government exists at the consent of the governed. WE THE PEOPLE GIVE THAT CONSENT. With proper verifiable honest elections, we then agree to the transfer of power.
To consent is to agree. Our consent is the activation switch for true Constitutional governance.
However, the states are trying to fake our consent with a digital shell game that they have only recently introduced. Since our founding and for nearly 240 years, we operated under the assumption that physical documents were always kept and then reconciled with the election results.
“We MUST add a PHYSICAL ARTIFACT to our voting process.” says Jurski. . . .That is, the use of a physical PAPER ballot and ledger, for voter registration, ballots cast, and post-election verification.
Our voting is a three-part system:
1. As citizens, we have a right to vote, but for a fair election to happen, citizens must prove they are eligible to vote in a SINGLE PRECINCT. That is why we need voter applications and voter rolls. These should be verifying you are voting at the precinct that matches your place of residence and that you are only eligible to cast a single ballot in that precinct. As a physical person, that eligibility MUST be proven with a wet signature to a paper application. A real person must be represented by a real artifact.
2. If you can prove your eligibility to vote at your precinct’s polling location, then you MUST record your voice on a paper ballot. As a citizen, I should also have a right to know my ballot was not altered and was properly counted.
3. And to be able to verify, both locally and at the collective state level, our election MUST reconcile with those paper artifacts.
Why Paper for both the application and ballots?
Because this is how our country operated since our founding and only recently has this digital shell game been introduced. If you’ve every audited, you know that your digital spreadsheets or accounting systems are never trusted on their face. They must be shown to reconcile with bank statements and receipts to show you properly recorded the transactions.
“If the elections are the foundation of our governments’ legitimacy and the consent to allow them to have police power over us, then the bar for those elections should be higher than filling out our taxes or getting a driver’s license. Everything is downstream from our elections. “ says Jurski.
These are simple basics which have been a part of our Constitutional government for 240+ years. The last ten years or so, our Republic has gone off the rails.
We have been gaslit to think that asking for voter ID or having strict rules for the Voter Application process is somehow voter suppression.
“No one is trying to suppress anyone’s vote. We are trying to make sure we have the CORRECT ballot ready for them at their polling location. The only way to correctly get prepared for election day is to know how many people are actually eligible to vote somewhere.” Says Jurski
And to insure no one’s voice is stolen, it is paramount to check ID to make sure people trying to vote are who they say they are. There have been many reports of people showing up to vote and being told they already voted. Instead of these cases being treated as identity theft, the polling locations typically give the person a provisional ballot and then never look into what happened.
WE MUST have paper records in three spots: voter registration, the vote itself, and the audit or reconciliation of the vote totals. They must be protected and maintained after the election. Requiring this is NOT “voter suppression”. It is creating honest elections, and returning to our founding documents.
“Well-managed, trustworthy public and private organizations around the world have relied on regular financial and operational audits for many decades”, Jurski continues, “which are very often required by law, because of the critical role they play in transparency, accuracy and accountability.”
I understand. Allow me a quick minute to share.
I once managed the Federal Reserve account for the seventh largest bank in the nation. Each Fed member bank had to have their account within 3% of their Fed-mandated balance, based on the assets in the bank. Make a new loan in Singapore? Somebody in London did a partial pay-down? It changed that balance.
If a bank missed its target balance two Wednesday afternoons in a row, it’s survival was at the whim of the Federal Reserve Bank. The Franklin National Bank of Long Island, NY, found that out in 1974.
I had a guy who kept track of it all on paper – the back of an envelope actually. Computers be damned, said George. In the ten years we worked together, he was never wrong; he kept his envelopes in a large file in his desk. George explained to me that a piece of paper was THE only way to be accurate. Computers, he said, did not provide the records required.
AND THEY STILL DON’T! Not in public and private organizations around the world, nor in grocery stores nor for our own bank accounts.
Definitely NOT in our election processes.
We use paper audits often in our everyday lives. We MUST use them in our voting processes, possibly the most crucial place of all.
Jurski gives an every-day-use example that is familiar to everyone. Grocery shopping.
As you check out at the cashier, you are provided with a receipt, which is the digital record of the physical items you purchased. The paper receipt can than be compared to the items bagged and in the basket to ascertain the accuracy of the transaction and make sure that the customer was neither over- nor under-charged. The customer can then compare his receipt with what is in the bags, in essence making a physical audit of the purchase.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) says that best practice in auditing involve the investigation and comparison of both digital records and physical evidence.
It is NO DIFFERENT FOR OUR ELECTIONS.
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 both require state and local officials to conduct on-going , year-round list maintenance of registered voters to ensure accuracy.
“When these two laws were passed,” says Jurski, “our elections had not yet entered the digital age…therefore, Congress assumed that there would be physical documents (eg. paper voter registration forms and ballots) to use for verification.
“Reconciliation is one of the most common auditing practices to ensure accuracy in an account transaction record,” Kris reminds us that one of THE most common forms of this is balancing your checkbook. You compare your check record to the bank statement. Pretty basic stuff. Why can’t this be done in elections?
In Florida, Jurski’s home state, after the anomalies of the 2020 election, qualified experts examined available state and county election records. “It was discovered, in nearly every county, that was audited, THERE WERE MORE VOTES REPORTED THAN VOTERS WHO VOTED.,” JURSKI STATES. These experts were typically told by the state, that “voter rolls are fluid and changing on a daily basis”. Subsequent requests for Legislative reports were repeatedly ignored.
From the time that machines became involved in our voting process, dishonesty, fraud, calculated malfeasance, or whatever you would care to call it, has purposefully clouded and stolen our consent.
Requiring auditable paper records does NOT disenfranchise anyone.
The 2020 election results have been proven inaccurate. Those who support the fraud are the ones who support the machines. Down the line.
Recently a group of 27 Congressional Communists led by Lieawatha, and the Dick, Blumenthal, referenced the investigation of election fraud as “fearmongering”.
Frankly, those who have engaged in and benefited by, election fraud are terrified. The new sheriff in town (aka, Trump) may just expose – and, I pray – correct our systems.
The SAVE Act is being debated in the Senate right now; it has passed the House. Its requirements for voter registration are: Proof of Citizenship confirming citizenship. It requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship (passports, birth certificates, certificates of naturalization or other government-issued documents) when registering to vote in federal elections. It also establishes a program to identify and remove non-citizens from voter lists and criminal penalties for violations.
Jurski says that, in addition, we must demand a piece of paper with a “wet” signature’ for the application to vote.
NONE of this disenfranchises a legitimate voter. It’s the illegitimate ones for which the Left weeps. SAVE simply verifies that the applicant is a legitimate citizen with rights to vote in our elections.
Once again, I beg you to go to your legislators and demand the return to paper voter registration and paper ballots. Don’t let them lie about the “difficulty” and “cost’ of going back to these basics. What they’re trying to hide is decades of malfeasance, in the name of ‘efficiency’.
A real person needs something physical to represent them. The paper application does this. It verifies the ballot cast in that name. Verification of results (certification of an election) cannot happen unless and until all votes are counted by hand. Machines are proven inaccurate and insufficient for verification.
Machines are simply a cesspool of fraud.
States have been abusing our rights and it MUST stop. Tell your Representatives. Be loud and clear.
We want our Constitutional Republic and the freedom that makes it so unique.
Post Script: In a Jan. 31 2026 election, a highly conservative district in TX just went to a Democrat candidate for State Senate – in a District that Donald Trump won by 17 in 2024.
No place is safe.
