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

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[squeekness]

His mama must be so proud.

 

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Elections won't be impeded by 'weirdos’ after ballot box fires, says Washington lawmaker

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss ballot box fires in the state of Washington and calls for around-the-clock law enforcement presence at ballot drop locations.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

His mama must be so proud.

And he's only 35 years old. Hate ages you.

 

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Machete-wielding teen arrested after group accused of intimidating Democrat supporters at Florida polling station, police say

Caleb James Williams was arrested for allegedly brandishing his weapon at two women, aged 71 and 54, police said.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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What is wrong with people????

 

[Lily Adler]

Paul Giamatti?

 

[blueharvest]

Paul Giamatti?

Paul Giamatti mixed with Daniel Stern from Home Alone maybe.

 

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West Palm Beach man accused of racist threats, voter intimidation at Loxahatchee polling site

Deputies arrested a West Palm Beach man accused of intimidating and threatening voters outside of an early voting site in Loxahatchee.

www.palmbeachpost.com

 

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Hundreds of Pennsylvania voters are challenged based on postal service's change-of-address database

Counties in Philadelphia’s suburbs are being asked to reject the mail-in ballot applications of hundreds of voters in what the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania said are illegal challenges.

apnews.com

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

Good point. Though I'm sure they will argue there is so much more we don't catch.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Pennsylvania Residents Peppered With False Texts Claiming They Already Voted

In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, swing state voters are getting hit with mysterious texts.

gizmodo.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.

www.wired.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Machete-wielding teen arrested after group accused of intimidating Democratic supporters at Florida polling station, police say

Police arrested an 18-year-old wielding a machete with an 18-inch blade outside a polling station in Florida on Tuesday, who was part of a group of teenagers accused of intimidating Democratic supporters.

www.yahoo.com

 

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Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort

America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.

www.wired.com

Not really surprised. Trump's campaign is a hot mess.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

6,000 Las Vegas-area voters need to verify their signatures or votes won’t count​

https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/6000-las-vegas-area-voters-need-to-verify-their-signatures-or-votes-wont-count/

 

[blueharvest]

Hundreds of damaged ballots saved following fire at drop box in Washington

FBI is investigating and workers are contacting voters about new ballots after incendiary devices were put in drop box

www.theguardian.com

 

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Colorado blunder accidentally exposes voting machine passwords - officials say its OK

Colorado’s Secretary of State has claimed the breach does not present an immediate threat to the upcoming election

www.independent.co.uk

 

[blueharvest]

Devices used in Oregon, Washington ballot box fires had 'Free Gaza' messages, reports say

A message reading \

www.usatoday.com

 

[blueharvest]

The US election system is secure. But human nature is a vulnerability

When it comes to election security in the U.S., the weakest link may be human nature. Election and national security officials have said there's no way a foreign power could successfully alter enough votes to change the outcome of the upcoming presidential contest.

apnews.com

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted

Politicians have always courted the wealthy, but Elon Musk and co represent a new kind of donor, and an unprecedented danger to democracy, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

 

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