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

[blueharvest]

Trump-aligned group is already planning lawsuits over election results

The co-founder of a Trump-aligned group told USA TODAY lawsuits demanding audits of 2024 election results are already in the works.

www.usatoday.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elections already have precise recount laws.

They’ve just planned to delay the inevitable and spread FUD and gaslight.

 

[blueharvest]

As election workers face increasing hostility, we spent time with them on the ground

The USA TODAY Network followed election workers in swing states including a clerk, lawyers, poll workers, poll watchers and a county commissioner.

www.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

Virginia asks US Supreme Court to reinstate removals of 1,600 voter registrations

Virginia has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens.

apnews.com

 

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[MagnarTheGreat]

Iron Range woman charged with voting twice

The 40-year-old allegedly submitted a ballot for her dead mother, an "avid Donald Trump supporter" who wanted to vote for him.

www.duluthnewstribune.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Lily Adler]

Iron Range woman charged with voting twice

The 40-year-old allegedly submitted a ballot for her dead mother, an "avid Donald Trump supporter" who wanted to vote for him.

www.duluthnewstribune.com

I want to feel bad because my mother would have wanted to do the same, but I get the feeling she's lying.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

If it's filmed they should know who did it, right?

 

[blueharvest]

NV Supreme Court upholds ruling on mail ballots received post-Election Day • Nevada Current

The Nevada Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court’s decision that election offices should accept and count mail ballots received after Election Day. Nevada state law specifies that mail ballots without postmarks or with illegible postmarks should be accepted and counted if they are...

nevadacurrent.com

 

[blueharvest]

Bulletproof glass and stockpiling Narcan: How election officials are preparing for mayhem

“There is no reason we should have to be planning for these domestic conspiracies...but we have to.”

www.motherjones.com

 

[blueharvest]

Ballot drop box fires rekindle concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a target

The suspected arson fires of ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington this week is a reminder of how the popular collection devices have been the subject of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

This is exactly how these kind of ballots work. They make the answers confusing.

 

[squeekness]

Ballot drop box fires rekindle concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a target

The suspected arson fires of ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington this week is a reminder of how the popular collection devices have been the subject of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election.

apnews.com

I have no doubt these fires were set just for that reason.

 

[blueharvest]

Freedom Caucus chair says he was taken out of context on legislature deciding presidential electors

The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus says news reports that quoted him saying the North Carolina Legislature should consider allocating the state’s presidential electors to Donald Trump before the votes are counted were taken out of context.

apnews.com

 

[Lily Adler]

Ballot drop box fires rekindle concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a target

The suspected arson fires of ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington this week is a reminder of how the popular collection devices have been the subject of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election.

apnews.com

How does setting these on fire "stop the steal"?

 

[blueharvest]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

‘This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots​

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fox59.com

RFK Jr. threw a fit just to get on or try to get on state ballots.

Early voting is long underway with existing ballots. It’s too close to the final Election Day to be messing with them again now.

 

[squeekness]

I mean, of course it was a republican.....

 

[blueharvest]

Federal cybersecurity agency says voters should feel confident in the election system | Houston Public Media

Following 2022 in which Harris County ran out of paper ballots, the federal agency addressed distrust and disinformation in the country’s ballot process.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Balloon Juice - Pennsylvania GOP Lawsuit Targeting Overseas Voters Dies on Its Ass

Excellent news for us broads (and gentlemen, and gentlethems) abroad, particularly us Pennsylvanians: HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit by six Republican members of Congress seeking to make Pennsylvania election officials institute new checks confirming the...

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Judge tosses GOP lawsuit over how to count Pennsylvania's overseas and military votes

A federal judge in Pennsylvania is throwing out a lawsuit by six Republican congressmen over how to count votes from members of the military and others who cast ballots from overseas.

www.pbs.org

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[blueharvest]

Nevada high court decides mail ballots with smudged or missing postmarks can be counted

Mail-in ballots with smudged or missing postmarks can be counted for up to three days after polls close on Election Day in Nevada.

apnews.com