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

[blueharvest]

Georgia voter roll audit finds only 20 noncitizens out of 8 million registered voters

An audit of Georgia's voter rolls found that just 20 noncitizens were registered to vote on a registration list of over 8 million, Georgia's secretary of state announced.

abcnews.go.com

 

[blueharvest]

Tennessee election officials iron out touch screen issues with unlikely tool: Coffee stirrers

Tennessee election officials iron out touch screen issues with unlikely tool: Coffee stirrers

abcnews.go.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

FD: 20 ballots burned in mailbox fire in Phoenix, arson investigation underway​

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/20-ballots-burned-mailbox-fire-phoenix-fire-department-says/75-4a5fe00f-ce00-48d8-985a-587027af8b16

 

[blueharvest]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

FD: 20 ballots burned in mailbox fire in Phoenix, arson investigation underway​

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/20-ballots-burned-mailbox-fire-phoenix-fire-department-says/75-4a5fe00f-ce00-48d8-985a-587027af8b16

Phoenix police ID suspect in arson of USPS mailbox that damaged ballots

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego says a suspect has been arrested after a USPS collection box was set on fire overnight, damaging ballots and other mail.

www.azfamily.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

'You will all be executed': Election season threats are growing more violent

Federal authorities are investigating threats against election officials and government workers that escalated from words to shootings and a bombing.

www.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

Colorado election officials say they identified at least a dozen fraudulent ballots

Three of the ballots made it through the process and will count, Colorado's secretary of state said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

'This video is fake': Pennsylvania officials say viral video of destroyed ballots for Trump a hoax

A video depicting mail ballots for former President Donald Trump being destroyed is being investigated as a hoax by law enforcement, officials said.

www.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

Don’t panic reading ‘electoral process porn’: There are plenty of safeguards to make sure voters’ wishes are respected

Those depressing articles that say ‘This one secret, magic thing will overturn the election results and your vote won’t count’? An election law scholar calls them ‘electoral process porn.’

theconversation.com

 

[blueharvest]

Michigan secretary of state calls Elon Musk’s voting claim ‘dangerous disinformation’

Billionaire Trump booster said ineligible voters are on state’s rolls, but elections official said his claim is misleading

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Judge orders Virginia to restore 1,600 voter registrations canceled in effort to purge noncitizens

A federal judge has ordered Virginia to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged in the last two months in an effort to stop noncitizens from voting.

apnews.com

 

[squeekness]

'You will all be executed': Election season threats are growing more violent

Federal authorities are investigating threats against election officials and government workers that escalated from words to shootings and a bombing.

www.usatoday.com

This shouldn't be happening in America.

 

[blueharvest]

This shouldn't be happening in America.

It's probably going to get worse over the next couple of weeks.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Sithborg]

****ing 5th circuit.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Election clerk allegedly assaulted during early voting in San Antonio

The suspect was arrested for assaulting the elderly. The Bexar County sheriff said “nothing” is worth going to jail for.

www.texastribune.org

 

[blueharvest]

Republican election official in crucial Georgia appeals order saying she must certify results

A Republican official in Georgia is appealing a judge’s order that she and other election leaders in the state’s most populous county must vote to certify results by the deadline set in law.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Florida postal worker accused of throwing ballot, election mail into woods

The postal worker came under suspicion after returning from a delivery route earlier than expected.

www.newsweek.com

 

[blueharvest]

Pennsylvania officials investigating 2,500 voter registrations for fraud

Election workers contacted the district attorney’s office after noticing several suspicious applications

www.theguardian.com

 

[blueharvest]

Groups denounce Spanish-language signs warning against noncitizen voting as an intimidation tool

Voting by noncitizens is illegal and extremely rare, so the signs in North Carolina are mainly being seen by lawfully registered American citizens who happen to speak Spanish.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Protecting Your Vote: 1 in 5 Election Day polling places have closed over last decade

As part of the monthlong series "Protecting Your Vote," ABC News examines the closing of thousands of polling sites following a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.

abcnews.go.com

 

[blueharvest]

An elections worker wanted to serve her country. A stew of conspiracy theories and vitriol awaited

Election operations in a northern Nevada county that's a political bellwether for the state are now being overseen by a deputy registrar who's the fifth person in the past four years to hold those duties.

apnews.com

 

[Teelie]

'This video is fake': Pennsylvania officials say viral video of destroyed ballots for Trump a hoax

A video depicting mail ballots for former President Donald Trump being destroyed is being investigated as a hoax by law enforcement, officials said.

www.usatoday.com

Of course, people will believe anything they see on the internet because AI and fake/altered videos are not a thing.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

San Marcos police investigating flyers threatening Kamala Harris supporters​

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/san-marcos/san-marcos-police-investigating-flyers-threatening-kamala-harris-supporters/

 

[blueharvest]

Americans accused of noncitizen voter fraud face doxxing and intimidation

Efforts to purge voter rolls of noncitizens have ensnared many U.S. citizens who were newly naturalized or victims of paperwork mistakes or clerical errors, experts say.

abcnews.go.com