Election Record Manipulation and Energy Policy Battles

On Friday, June 6, 2025, the anniversary of D-Day, Kim Monson explored critical threats to election integrity and energy affordability with computer scientist Walter Daugherity, energy policy expert Kevin Mooney, and Second Amendment advocates Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins from the Second Syndicate.

Cast Vote Record Alterations Uncovered in Arapahoe County

Start listening at 30:11 – Hour 1

Walter Daugherity, a computer consultant and senior lecturer emeritus at Texas A&M University with master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard, presents alarming findings about Arapahoe County’s 2020 election records. After the election, the county posted cast vote records showing statistically impossible patterns: on partisan issues like Amendment B to repeal the Gallagher Amendment and Proposition 115 on abortion, Republicans and Democrats voted in identical percentages within each block of ballots.

Daugherity explains that when this statistical anomaly was brought to the county’s attention in October 2024, officials changed the votes on nearly every ballot to make the results appear more believable, a federal crime under election record preservation laws. The altered records now show the expected partisan correlations, but the original records remain inexplicable without manipulation. Daugherity emphasizes that federal law requires maintaining a permanent paper record with manual audit capability, and this matter has been reported to the FBI.

“It’s common sense and unarguable that Republicans vote like Republicans and Democrats vote like Democrats and conservatives vote like conservatives and liberals vote like liberals.”

Walter Daugherity, Computer Scientist

Second Amendment Rights Under Threat in Federal Legislation

Start listening at 63:23 – Hour 2

Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins from the Second Syndicate sound the alarm on an unintended consequence of the Big Beautiful Bill. Current Colorado law treats the $200 NFA tax stamp as the licensing requirement for owning suppressors. If the federal bill eliminates this tax stamp without adding Section 3 of the Hearing Protection Act, Colorado residents would have no legal pathway to purchase suppressors under state law.

Collins clarifies that suppressors reduce but do not eliminate firearm sound. Even suppressed, rifle calibers like 5.56 remain extremely loud and require hearing protection unless using subsonic rounds. Garcia emphasizes that the Second Amendment protections are under death by a thousand cuts in Colorado, and informed citizens must engage at local, state, and federal levels to protect their rights.

“So just to be clear, suppressors do suppress the sound.”

Teddy Collins, Second Syndicate

Virginia Ratepayers Face 50 Percent Energy Cost Increase

Start listening at 72:43 – Hour 2

Kevin Mooney, senior investigative researcher for Restoration News, connects energy policy battles in Virginia to broader national concerns. The Virginia Clean Economy Act, which Mooney calls Virginia’s version of the Green New Deal, has already raised average utility bills from $119 to $135 per month, with costs projected to rise further. Utilities have begun hiding the true cost of wind and solar mandates from ratepayers.

Mooney warns that if Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins the Virginia governor’s race, she has pledged to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, adding carbon taxes that could cost Virginia ratepayers $523 million over the next few years on top of existing Green New Deal costs. He notes that Republican Glenn Youngkin withdrew Virginia from this scheme, providing a model for other states. Mooney argues that the climate movement is fundamentally about expanding government power rather than environmental protection, pointing to the closure of California’s $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar plant after just 11 years as evidence that these schemes fail to deliver on their promises.

“Nothing has done more to lift people out of poverty and raise living standards than fossil fuels.”

Kevin Mooney, Restoration News