Trump Hats and Legal Chaos

Minnehaha County proves to be ground zero for the battle for election transparency and the epicenter of legal chaos.

Legal chaos: legal chaos refers to a state of disorder or turmoil in the legal system, often characterized by conflicting interpretations, unclear laws, or political interference.

The first public records request for cast vote records was filed Minnehaha County. Minnehaha County State’s Attorney Daniel Hagar’s office is responsible for the erroneous and unlawful statewide denial of public election records.

Minnehaha County led the way on 1st Amendment attacks by changing public comment from the beginning of the meeting to end of meeting, and reducing comment time from five minutes to three minutes, in response to a new level of citizen engagement at the local level.

All public records requests, commission comments, and communications from Minnehaha county officials while Ben Kyte (the golden boy for the establishment) was in office was clear that the county determined the Auditor was in charge of elections and the Commission had no say. This is consistent with Lincoln County’s stance.

But when outsider Leah Anderson was elected, Daniel Hagar and Co. suddenly had a different interpretation of the law. Now, the Commission determines the elections, suddenly became the “governing body”, and the Auditor was not allowed to do anything before notifying commission appointed liaison, Dean Karsky.

This change in interpretation was so noticeable that Lincoln County commissioners commented on the about face.

Anderson’s inquiry into 2020 and 2022 election records resulted in the State’s Attorney determining that the Commission is now the owner of the election records. Really? Since when? The Auditor is the guardian of the records, and the People are the rightful owners of documents. Not the commission.

Review of the prior elections by an outsider caused such a panic that the Commission resulted to attempting to eliminate three elected official positions, laying their true intentions bare before the entire state.

Lawfare is the name of the game in Minnehaha County, and it is being used to keep Leah Anderson in check by those who are legally required to defend her.

If you want to know what side Daniel Hagar aligns with, we found this on his website:

The most recent evidence of Minnehaha County State’s Attorney Daniel Hagar’s questionable legal interpretations starts back on April 26, 2022. Back in April 2022, absentee voting was being conducted for the Primary election. Donald J. Trump was NOT on the ballot.

Members of our group were at this meeting speaking on election issues. Gary Meyer was in attendance and you can see him in the back row, quietly minding his own business while donning his trademark Trump hat.

Half an hour into the meeting, Jeff Barth (Democrat, Trump Hater) noticed the Trump hat and texted Deputy State’s Attorney Eric Bogue that campaign material was being worn near a polling location.

So, clearly with no consideration that Trump was NOT A CANDIDATE on the ballot, contrary to all common sense, Eric Bogue rose from behind the desk, walked into the crowd, got in Gary Meyer’s face, and demanded he remove his Trump hat. Gary was not about to take it off and Bogue let him know that he would be removed from the meeting if he didn’t take off his hat. So, Cindy took the hat off of Gary’s head to avoid a tussle in the middle of the meeting. If you know Gary, he would not have backed down.

Now all of us knew that Gary’s first amendment rights were violated at that moment, and there was no legal claim to Bogue’s actions, but rather yet another instance of the Minnehaha County State’s Attorney’s office using lawfare and intimidation against it’s political opponents. (Just so you know, we’re all supposedly “Republicans”.)

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After this interaction, Theresa Pesche spoke with the State’s Attorney Office on the violation of Mr. Meyer’s first amendment rights, noting Trump was not even a candidate on the ballot. After this, the SA office allowed Gary to wear his Trump hat at the admin building during absentee voting in 2022.

Which leads us to last week’s KELOLAND headlines.

Now, if you didn’t already realize this, KELOLAND is working as the mouthpiece of the Karksy/Kippley end of the Commission.

What KELOLAND failed to report on is that a week ago a gentleman came into the Minnehaha County admin building to in-person absentee vote with a Trump hat on. He was told he couldn’t vote with the hat on by election workers. He refused to take it off and was referred to the Auditor, and Deputy Bogue then got involved. This voter was not willing to have his constitutionally protected rights violated and stood his ground, even willing to take a misdemeanor offense in protest. He was eventually allowed to vote with his Trump hat on.

The 45 day absentee voting period for the 2024 general election began on September 20, 2024. Election workers staffing in person absentee had already been instructed with the long-standing rule of no campaign related clothing at the polls. Last week, half way into multiple sessions of election worker training, Deputy SA Eric Bogue notified Leah Anderson that the SA Office had reversed their opinion, and will now allow campaign related clothing at the polls because further research provided that is covered by the 1st Amendment.

Got that? Another reversal of opinion.

Well, KELOLAND picked that up and quickly put it all over TV, claiming Leah Anderson changed her position. That is an important detail. Daniel Hagar changed his opinion, half way into election season in Minnehaha County. Here is what Anderson was told:

The ensuing barrage of media requests directed at Auditor Anderson were then re-directed to the man responsible for the change, Daniel Hagar. When questioned by KELOLAND about the change, Daniel Hagar said this:

Isn’t it just like a lawyer to manipulate words to further their own purpose and cover their own @$$? He’s “not saying that” while he is instructing Leah to publicly say that? Why won’t Hagar defend his own 180 degree flip on interpretation of the law?

I think we can all see what is happening here, and something stinks.

While the SOS office is saying one thing, halfway into the 2024 General Election, Minnehaha County SA Daniel Hagar is pulling a fast one, all featured on KELOLAND, while enraging the SOS office and causing more division amongst poll workers.

Regardless of what we think of the issue, the timing of this change is quite suspect to say the least. The State’s Attorney’s office wouldn’t have come up with yet another controversy, during an election period, to cause more public scrutiny of America’s Auditor, would they?

Mark this as another example of the State’s Attorney’s ability to change their interpretation of the law at any point in time to fit their political agenda. If you don’t think your SA office has a political agenda, think again. You just aren’t in their line of fire at the moment.

When do we get to the part where Minnehaha County reverses their stance on protecting fraudulent voting systems and mass voter registration fraud?

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Here are a few related items we found on X happening across the country. If people were more aware of their constitutionally protected rights, we might not have complied with such rules in the first place.

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