🇺🇸 Discussion: Voting Rights, Electoral College, Ranked Choice Voting, and Election Law

[blueharvest]

‘The law is clear’: US states signal willingness to prosecute election crimes

In some battleground states, authorities have pursued charges against officials who have interfered in past votes

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

4 voters charged with intentionally voting twice in Michigan primary election

Michigan authorities say four people in suburban Detroit intentionally voted twice in the state's August primary election.

apnews.com

 

[squeekness]

4 voters charged with intentionally voting twice in Michigan primary election

Michigan authorities say four people in suburban Detroit intentionally voted twice in the state's August primary election.

apnews.com

Wooo!! Four voters! That would have changed everything!!!

 

[blueharvest]

A Huge New Court Victory for Voting Rights Could Just Swing the Whole Election

Online voter registration in Nebraska ends in two days; in-person registration ends in nine.

slate.com

 

[blueharvest]

Wooo!! Four voters! That would have changed everything!!!

Maybe they were just testing it out, to see if they could get away with it. Then try it on a much bigger scale in November.

 

[blueharvest]

Trump Plots to Declare 2024 'Rigged' -- Using GOP Efforts to Slow the Vote Count

Donald Trump and his allies have worked to make sure 2024 mail-in ballots are counted slowly, so he can again demand officials “stop the count.”

www.rollingstone.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[InCali]

Wooo!! Four voters! That would have changed everything!!!

Vote twice and go to jail (which I’m okay with unless it’s a mistake). Pressure the Secretary of State to fake 12k votes and collude with your staff to overturn an election, hire high priced attorneys to kick it down the road.

It makes sense. This is America dammit

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters #ELB

Hugo Lowell: “Elon Musk says on stage at a town hall that America PAC will be awarding $1 million every day until the election to a registered Pennsylvania voter who has signed his petition. Musk awarded the first $1 million … Continue reading Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying...

electionlawblog.org

The Washington Post - Former GOP lawmakers, officials call on AG Garland to investigate Musk

Elon Musk Is Trying to Be the MrBeast of Politics

The billionaire is giving away $1 million a day to registered voters. The lottery is the next evolution of politics as entertainment in America.

gizmodo.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Votes won't be counted for Arkansas medical marijuana ballot measure, court says

The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that votes won't be counted for a measure that would have expanded medical marijuana.

apnews.com

In Monday's 4-3 decision, the justices ruled the measure did not fully inform voters that it would have stripped the Legislature's ability to change the 2016 constitutional amendment that legalized medical marijuana in the state.

Yeah I bet that's why these people didn't allow it.

 

[blueharvest]

Minnesota poll worker fired after leaving ballots unattended in open car trunk

Hennepin County officials say there was ‘no evidence of tampering’ even as ‘lapse in protocol occurred’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[blueharvest]

Philadelphia man charged with election threats to 'skin' and kill state party official

A Philadelphia man was charged with threatening to skin a state party official alive for recruiting poll watchers, the Justice Department announced.

www.usatoday.com

 

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[Mike5575]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/video/elon-musk-michigan-voter-information-jocelyn-benson-digvid

Musk, without evidence went on to accuse Michigan's Secretary of State of being a liar. Jack Dorsey never should have sold Twitter to Elon.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Activists connected with Cleta Mitchell's Election Integrity Network are advocating for racially profiling voters they claim may be noncitizens​

Conservative election integrity activists are call for racially profiling voters as part of their misguided efforts to curb noncitizen voting

www.mediamatters.org

Without racism there is no MAGA movement.

 

[blueharvest]

Voters are facing competing ballot measures on abortion and elections. What happens if both pass?

Voters in Arizona and Nebraska will see competing measures on their ballots this November. In Nebraska, one measure would create a right to abortion while another would restrict it.

apnews.com

 

[Mike5575]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

GA Supreme Court nerfs that MAGA elections board.

 

[blueharvest]

Efforts to restore voting rights for people with felony convictions lag in the Gulf South

A new report shows that more people with past felony convictions can vote in this election cycle than previous ones, but millions remain disenfranchised.

www.wwno.org

 

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[squeekness]

"I am not a bigot."

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Idaho jailed her for registering to vote. She says she’ll never vote again

Laurie Erickson says the department of corrections didn’t tell her she couldn’t vote, but the district attorney pressed charges anyway

www.theguardian.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories

With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run.

apnews.com

American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show​

Russian documents reviewed by The Post expose the workings of a Moscow network that has become a potent source of fake news targeting American voters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/23/dougan-russian-disinformation-harris/

 

[blueharvest]