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No Mow May in the City of Menomonie - City Wide Yard Sale through out the Menomonie area through May 4th - Did you Pay Attention to the Election Results in the City?

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So, last year on April 17th, 2023 the City Council passed a resolution to establish a “No Mow May” Pilot Program “to create habitat and provide resources for bees and early-season pollinators.” according to Megen Hines, Environmental Program Coordinator for the City of Menomonie from last year’s news release of the “No Mow May” Program. It is also nice for residents to “support the pollinators by planting flowering trees, shrubs and native plants” along with “reducing or eliminating the use of herbicides and pesticides on their lawn.” Dandelions are the bees first go to food source upon coming out of hibernation thus letting our grass go wild for a month. It’s good for the bees and a great time to do earth grounding (barefooting time) in the long lush grass. So, according to Ordinance 5-1-4: Offenses Against Property; F.) Against Excessive Lawn Height; 3.) Maintenance, which requires lawns to be shorter then 9 inches from June 1st through October 31st means every May in the City of Menomonie is “No Mow May”. So, no need to register for the program like last year’s pilot run. Come on!?! Smile! It’s Dandelion Time : )

Who is looking for some great deals on stuff in Dunn County? Or just likes to go thrift hopping? Look no further. The Annual City Wide Yard Sale in the Menomonie Area is ON!! Forty Two places to check out to find that one of a kind item or to spruce up your home, office, closet (add to your wardrobe or change it up), yard, workshop, kids playroom, man cave stuff and anything else in between. Here is the Yard Sale Treasure Map link to help you with your thrift sale hopping adventure: https://yardsaletreasuremap.com/CommunityGuide. You may want to look over the 42 locations for the times they will be open for the public to check out what they have to offer. Some are open as early as 8 am on Friday while others are open in the afternoon only and others specify for Friday and Saturday only. It started today, May 2nd, but it was a very rainy day. Tomorrow, May 3rd is predicted to be a sunny day with a high of 71 degrees by 4 pm and in the morning should be in the 40’s to 60’s range. A perfect day for Treasure hunting in the City Wide Yard Sale in Menomonie Area. Saturday, which will be the last day for the city wide yard sale, calls for occasional rain in the morning with a high of 60 degrees. It can be fun thrift shopping with the umbrella at hand and singing in the rain with that great find you snatched up to add to your other treasures.

Did any one pay attention to the final vote totals in some of city races for the Dunn County Board of Supervisors, particularly in District 18 and 21? I found it quite interesting that District 21 incumbent received 156 votes as well as District 18 who ran for re-election after losing in the Spring 2022 election also receiving 156 votes while District 21 and 18’s opponents received in the 80 range of votes. Then in District 15 the one candidate received 144 votes while the other candidate received 70 votes. I don’t know about you, but it appears to be an algorithm going on in the city races. Especially in District 18 and 21 where both candidates received the exact number of votes. That’s not natural baby! This is why it is so important to reconcile the Dominion Image Cast Tabulators tape totals at the end of the night with the original paper ballots, doing a hand count. It’s just like reconciling our checkbook register with the bank statement to ensure the bank balance and our checkbook register matches up, right?? It just makes sense. Even looking over Cast Vote Records would be a tremendous help. I am also not a big fan of sharing a tabulator with 2 wards. Each ward should have it’s own tabulator which simplifies the reconciliation process. I just participated in a hand count demo on April 24th which had a fantastic tally sheet for all the races in the General 2022 Election. On one side of the counting table were two people in which one did the calling of each vote for a particular race on each of the paper ballots and the other did the verifying of the called votes from each paper ballot in stacks of 50, while the other two people on the opposite side of the counting table used the really nice tally sheet to mark the correct candidate that was called by the caller with corresponding number under the candidate called. Each candidate had a count of 130 on the tally sheet. After the Governor’s race we switched duties from being tally masters to being the master callers and did the Attorney General race. It was fun and quite easy once you get into a good rhythm. It is a really good idea to have a good paper ballot hand counting method/technique in place as a back up plan in case we do end up having an electrical outage. Again, it just makes sense.

Going back in regards to algorithms with voting machines. I happened to have found a really good video of Dr. Walter Daugherity, a Harvard Ph.D. expert in Computer Science, and Professor Emeritus at Texas A & M University who does an incredible job explaining the “analysis of cast vote records, and reveals how the underlying software design for Dominion, ES&S, and many other election vendors is the same”. He also goes into “what is evidenced as PID (proportional integral derivative) controlled algorithm that selects candidates in predictive fashion”. Dr. Daugherity also “explains how the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a private entity, funded by radical leftist group Democracy Fund and directed by the globalist Atlantic Council, controls the Albert Sensor network”. Daugherity goes into it further about how “the network monitors all election data in realtime, and CIS is able to share all private information of government workers to the shadow NGO's that work behind the scenes”. It even gets more interesting how he explains “the Albert Sensors exist behind county firewalls, and provides a two-way interface where the DHS and other bad actors can do unspeakable damage. For example, electronic pollbooks that are supposedly protected behind a firewall, were remotely accessed in Dallas county, and hundreds of fraudulent voters were checked in that weren't physically present”. At the end of his interview, he gave a detailed account of “how Dominion tabulators in Maricopa County were configured to not detect counterfeit ballots submitted in the 2020 election, most of which were printed on illegal paper sourced from Staples and Office Max”. The quoted lines were from the summary of the Rumble video, “Source Code, Fraud Algorithms, and Injecting Votes: Dr. Daugherity - "Let My People Go" Interview. https://rumble.com/v4sr9ok-source-code-fraud-algorithms-and-injecting-votes-dr.-daugherity. Please take some time to do a deep dive listen to the above interview of Dr. Walter Daugherity. After you listen of the complexity of our 3rd party voting machines you will understand why we need to go back to simplicity of simply hand counting paper ballots. If a County Clerk, City Clerk or any election official at the precinct level does not have access to the source code or Cast Vote Records, it is not a transparent election. Our ballots are being fed into unknown territory.

From One Dunn County Neighbor to Another - Have a wonderful First Weekend of May!

Laurie J Christianson

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