An assault on American voters is underway

[TheGreatBuzz]

Ummm….I’m not sure I like that.

[Long n Left]

47 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

Ummm….I’m not sure I like that.

Really? Foreign entities influencing our elections is a bad thing?

 

Im trying to remember back to the 80s, 90s, 00s. Wasn’t Russia our arch enemies? 

[GhostofSparta]

23 minutes ago, Long n Left said:

Really? Foreign entities influencing our elections is a bad thing?

 

Im trying to remember back to the 80s, 90s, 00s. Wasn’t Russia our arch enemies? 

I still remember 2012. Romney said Russia was still our enemy, and when Obama and the Dems laughed at this "Cold War thinking," the right went absolutely ape****. They knew in 2012 that Russia was still the big bad.

 

Not sure what changed between 2012 and 2016 for Republicans to suddenly fall in love with Russia, other than the constant daydreaming about having an autocrat like Putin in charge of America instead of an elected weakling like Obama who basically kept letting them do whatever they way.

[Larry]

15 minutes ago, GhostofSparta said:

Not sure what changed between 2012 and 2016 for Republicans to suddenly fall in love with Russia

 

Russia endorsed Trump.  

 

And rather than rethink their loyalty to Trump, they re-classified Russia and Putin as the leader that America needed to be more like.  

 

Edit:  

 

And suddenly, Ukraine became a grave threat to the integrity of American elections.  

 

I wonder who it could possibly have been, who told the Republican Party that they should point fingers at Ukraine?  It would be, somebody who has a beef with Ukraine, or something?  

 

Edited November 2, 2021 by Larry

[TheGreatBuzz]

1 hour ago, Long n Left said:

Really? Foreign entities influencing our elections is a bad thing?

Yea, I’m gonna need Jen Psaki to come out and explain this one.

[mcsluggo]

14 hours ago, Larry said:

 

Russia endorsed Trump.  

 

And rather than rethink their loyalty to Trump, they re-classified Russia and Putin as the leader that America needed to be more like.  

 

Edit:  

 

And suddenly, Ukraine became a grave threat to the integrity of American elections.  

 

I wonder who it could possibly have been, who told the Republican Party that they should point fingers at Ukraine?  It would be, somebody who has a beef with Ukraine, or something?  

 

 

 

 

[China]

Senate Republicans block John Lewis voting rights bill in key vote

 

Senate Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Act from advancing on Wednesday when the Senate took a procedural vote on whether to open debate on the legislation.

The final tally was 50 to 49 with GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voting with Democrats in favor.

The John Lewis voting bill that the Senate considered is aimed at fighting voter suppression and restoring and updating key parts of the landmark Voting Rights Act, originally passed in 1965. The measure is named in honor of the civil rights icon and late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia.

At least 10 Republicans would have needed to join with all 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus for the legislation to advance. That was not expected to happen as most Republicans have decried any Democratic attempts to enact new voting legislation in the current Congress as partisan and unnecessary.

Democrats have been under intense pressure to pass voting legislation as the party currently holds a majority in both chambers of Congress and the White House. But efforts by the party to do so have run into a wall of opposition in the Senate as a result of GOP resistance.

 

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[China]

U.S. Justice Department files lawsuit against State of Texas over voting law

 

The U.S. Justice Department is suing the State of Texas over Senate Bill 1, the new law that limits when and where Texans can vote. 

 

The lawsuit cites the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act of 1964 in challenging the bill signed into law in September.

 

“Our democracy depends on the right of eligible voters to cast a ballot and to have that ballot counted,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “The Justice Department will continue to use all the authorities at its disposal to protect this fundamental pillar of our society.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

[NoCalMike]

18 minutes ago, China said:

U.S. Justice Department files lawsuit against State of Texas over voting law

 

The U.S. Justice Department is suing the State of Texas over Senate Bill 1, the new law that limits when and where Texans can vote. 

 

The lawsuit cites the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act of 1964 in challenging the bill signed into law in September.

 

“Our democracy depends on the right of eligible voters to cast a ballot and to have that ballot counted,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “The Justice Department will continue to use all the authorities at its disposal to protect this fundamental pillar of our society.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

Texas probably doing this on purpose to get the Civil Rights Act back up before a now 6-3 Conservative Supreme Court.  Hoping they will finish it off after already striking down certain provisions in it last time.

 

Oh and there is now publicly available depositions of Rudy, Sidney Powell and a couple others pretty much admitting that the truth was never an objective of their election fraud nonsense, it was just to put disinformation out there in the public square and let it catch wildfire before the actual facts had time to catch up.  

[China]

Top Boebert challenger suspends campaign after redistricting

 

The top challenger to Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) suspended her campaign after a redistricting map was finalized by the courts.

 

Colorado State Sen. Kerry Donovan (D) announced Friday she was suspending her campaign after the redistricting map drew her outside of the 3rd Congressional District Boebert represents. 

 

“While each $15 check in the mail with a memo ‘we believe in you’ or $20 donation at a meet and greet made me more committed by the day, the congressional maps failed to recognize the complexity of rural Colorado and instead divided communities, protected incumbents and ignored Coloradans’ voices,” Donovan said in a statement. 

 

“As a result, there is no viable path forward for me to remain in this race, and I have made the decision to suspend my campaign for Congress,” she added.

 

The decision comes a month after Donovan decided to suspend fundraising efforts when the state’s independent congressional redistricting commission approved the redistricting map. 

 

There are multiple other Democrats in the running to challenge Boebert with challenger and Colorado state Rep. Donald Valdez (D) calling Boebert a “threat to democracy.”

 

Boebert has been one of former President Trump’s staunch supporters and helped peddled false election fraud claims. 

 

The challengers will have a tough time dethroning Boebert, as she won election in 2020 by 6 points.

 

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[China]

On 10/31/2021 at 11:32 PM, China said:

University of Florida bars professors from testifying in voting rights lawsuit

 

The University of Florida (UF) is prohibiting three professors from providing expert testimony in a lawsuit challenging a state law critics claim restricts voting rights, saying the school should not be placed in conflict with the administration of the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

 

Though the decision is being criticized as threat to academic freedom and free speech, the university said allowing Dan Smith, Michael McDonald and Sharon Austin to serve as paid experts for plaintiffs challenging the law would be “adverse to the university’s interests as a state of Florida institution”.

 

“The University of Florida has a long track record of supporting free speech and our faculty’s academic freedom, and we will continue to do so,” a statement said.

 

When he found out he wouldn’t be able to provide testimony, Smith tweeted an image of Hannah Arendt’s classic book The Origins of Totalitarianism.

 

“Dusting this classic off the bookshelf for some light weekend reading,” he wrote.

 

Lawyers for a coalition of civic groups challenging the law said in court papers the professors were told by the university their expert testimony would dissent from the DeSantis administration, creating a conflict.

 

“UF will deny its employees’ requests to engage in outside activities when it determines the activities are adverse to its interests,” read an email from an assistant vice-president to McDonald filed with the court documents.

 

“As UF is a state actor, litigation against the state is adverse to UF’s interests.”

 

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If I were one of these professors I'd likely testify anyway and make them fire me.

 

 

[China]

Republicans Are Erasing Decades of Voting Rights Gains Before Our Eyes

 

On Wednesday, Republicans blocked a vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Supreme Court’s gutting of the landmark voting rights law in 2013—and the lack of congressional action to fix it—means that the current redistricting cycle is the first in more than 50 years where states with a long history of discrimination do not have to approve their voting maps with the federal government.

 

Voting rights advocates are urgently warning that the absence of federal voting rights protections is having a devastating impact on representation for communities of color, erasing decades of hard-fought gains for once-disenfranchised groups and preventing fast-changing demographics from leading to a shift in political power, particularly in the South.

 

“Not to be melodramatic, but the South is burning,” says Allison Riggs, co-executive director of the North Carolina-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which is heavily involved with redistricting and voting rights in the South. “What we’re seeing is beyond our worst nightmares in terms of how bad these processes and outcomes are for voters of color.”

 

On Thursday, North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature approved new maps for the US House that will likely give white Republicans control of 10 or 11 districts out of 14 total in a state Donald Trump carried with just 49.9 percent of the vote in 2020. Democrats will control just three safe seats, with voters of color, who comprised 90 percent of the state’s population growth over the past decade, packed into urban areas like Charlotte and the Research Triangle. The state’s three largest, heavily Democratic counties—Wake, Mecklenburg, and Guilford—will each be split into three different congressional districts to dilute the power of communities of color and enhance the power of white rural areas.

 

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[China]

Dominion Voting Sues Fox, Seeking Election Evidence From Murdochs

 

Dominion Voting Systems Inc., the company falsely accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election, sued Fox Corp. in an effort to gain access to Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s documents about its coverage of the contest.

 

Dominion is trying to find out how much Murdoch and his eldest son, Fox Corp. Chief Executive Officer Lachlan Murdoch, were involved in Fox News’s broadcasting of bogus claims that Dominion conspired with foreign hackers to flip millions of votes away from then-President Donald Trump.

 

Dominion sued Fox News in March, but the network has balked at searching the Murdochs’ documents, Dominion said in a suit filed in Delaware state court.

 

“Indeed, Fox News has disclaimed any responsibility for searching or producing the Murdochs’ documents, or working to facilitate any discovery from Fox Corporation at all -- despite Fox Corporation’s clear involvement (through Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, and others) in managing Fox News, including through editorial input and control,” Dominion said.

 

The searches are warranted because the Murdochs “exert direct control” over editorial decisions at Fox News, which Dominion accused of pushing the conspiracy theory to avoid losing viewers who supported Trump, according to the complaint, filed Monday. The claims were repeatedly made on-air by Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s main lawyers in the fight to overturn the election results, and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell.

 

“The filing today changes nothing of substance in this case,” Fox Corp. said in an emailed statement. “Fox is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and we will continue to vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court.”

 

Dominion is fighting to salvage its reputation even as millions of Americans continue to believe the conspiracy theory, which helped trigger the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot by a mob of Trump’s supporters.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[ixcuincle]

 

[EmirOfShmo]

10 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

FBI Raid of QAnon idiot

Also, they raided the home of Boebert's former campaign manager.

 

"The FBI carried out a court-ordered search of Peters' home in Mesa County early Tuesday morning, leaving her 'terrified,' Peters said Tuesday night in an appearance on Lindell TV, an online channel run by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump supporter and proponent of discredited claims the 2020 election was stolen," Colorado Politics reports. "Lindell said one of the homes raided by law enforcement authorities belongs to Sherronna Bishop, a Garfield County resident and former campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-2655749166/

 

 

[China]

Iranian nationals charged in campaign to undermine 2020 US election

 

Two Iranian nationals have been charged in a disinformation campaign meant to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, including by threatening physical violence if registered Democrats failed to switch their affiliation and vote for then-President Donald Trump.

 

Seyyed Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian obtained confidential information about American voters from at least one state election website, sent those people threatening emails and gained access to a news network's computer system that would have allowed them to disseminate false claims about the election, according to the indictment.

 

ABC News reported in October 2020 Iran and Russia had obtained voter information.

 

"As alleged, Kazemi and Kashian were part of a coordinated conspiracy in which Iranian hackers sought to undermine faith and confidence in the U.S. Presidential elections," said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams.

 

The indictment did not name the state infiltrated, but Florida law enforcement and the FBI previously had said they were investigating the threatening emails sent to registered voters.

 

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[GhostofSparta]

9 hours ago, China said:

Iranian nationals charged in campaign to undermine 2020 US election

 

Two Iranian nationals have been charged in a disinformation campaign meant to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, including by threatening physical violence if registered Democrats failed to switch their affiliation and vote for then-President Donald Trump.

"See? Voter fraud is real, just we claimed. Like those half a dozen people that tried to vote for Trump on behalf of dead relatives. Now will you let us pass laws to stop black people from voting?"
-Republicans

[The Evil Genius]

 

[China]

Judge orders pro-Trump attorneys who brought frivolous election fraud case to pay more than $180,000 to defendants they sued

 

Two lawyers who went to court to claim voter fraud after the 2020 election must pay nearly $180,000 to the defendants they sued, a federal magistrate judge ordered Monday, saying their lawsuit aimed to "manipulate gullible members of the public and foment public unrest."

 

The order from Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter of the US District Court in Colorado adds to the federal judiciary's condemnations of attempts by attorneys supporting then-President Donald Trump to use the courts to vet right-wing conspiracies in the days after the presidential election.

Attorneys Gary D. Fielder and Ernest John Walker will have to pay attorneys fees of $50,000 to Facebook (now Meta), about $63,000 to Dominion Voting Systems, about $63,000 to the non-profit Center for Tech and Civic Life, more than $6,000 to the state of Pennsylvania and nearly $5,000 to the state of Michigan.

"They need to take responsibility for their misconduct," Neureiter wrote in his order, adding that the lawsuit defamed the defendants.

 

He continued: "I believe that rather than a legitimate use of the legal system to seek redress for redressable grievances, this lawsuit has been used to manipulate gullible members of the public and foment public unrest. To that extent, this lawsuit has been an abuse of the legal system and an interference with the machinery of government. For all these reasons, I feel that a significant sanctions award is merited."

The lawsuit from late December 2020 was an attempt to create a class action challenge to the election on behalf of American voters, including eight named plaintiffs. Neureiter previously wrote a scathing 68-page opinion condemning the post-election lawsuit.

 

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[China]

South Dakota Supreme Court rules against pot legalization

 

The South Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's ruling that nullified a voter-passed amendment to the state constitution that would have legalized recreational marijuana use.

 

Gov. Kristi Noem instigated the legal fight to strike down the amendment passed by voters in November. Though the Republican governor opposed marijuana legalization as a social ill, her administration's arguments in court centered on technical violations to the state constitution.

 

The high court sided with those arguments in a 4-1 decision, ruling that the measure — Amendment A — would have violated the state's requirement that constitutional amendments deal with just one subject.

 

"It is clear that Amendment A contains provisions embracing at least three separate subjects, each with distinct objects or purposes," Chief Justice Steven Jensen wrote in the majority opinion, which found recreational marijuana, medical marijuana and hemp each to be separate issues.

 

About 54 percent of voters had approved the constitutional amendment last year. But Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. Rick Miller sued on Noem's behalf.

 

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[Long n Left]

^^Not cancel culture.

 

On a positive note. In Michigan to spend Thanksgiving with my youngest (staying at U of M because there’s some big game in a couple days), and there is a dispensary just a half mile away. Wife and daughter went shopping yesterday, and I took a little walk to do likewise. 
 

HAPPY Thanksgiving!

[NoCalMike]

17 hours ago, China said:

South Dakota Supreme Court rules against pot legalization

 

The South Dakota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's ruling that nullified a voter-passed amendment to the state constitution that would have legalized recreational marijuana use.

 

Gov. Kristi Noem instigated the legal fight to strike down the amendment passed by voters in November. Though the Republican governor opposed marijuana legalization as a social ill, her administration's arguments in court centered on technical violations to the state constitution.

 

The high court sided with those arguments in a 4-1 decision, ruling that the measure — Amendment A — would have violated the state's requirement that constitutional amendments deal with just one subject.

 

"It is clear that Amendment A contains provisions embracing at least three separate subjects, each with distinct objects or purposes," Chief Justice Steven Jensen wrote in the majority opinion, which found recreational marijuana, medical marijuana and hemp each to be separate issues.

 

About 54 percent of voters had approved the constitutional amendment last year. But Highway Patrol Superintendent Col. Rick Miller sued on Noem's behalf.

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

That's a neat freedom loving small gov't flex by the Governor. 

[China]

How This Attorney General Beat Trump 40 Times in Court

 

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro knows how to win elections, run elections, and keep them safe and fair. In his home state, he set a record for the most votes ever in the history of Pennsylvania for any office at any time.

 

He also told Molly Jong-Fast in the latest episode of The New Abnormal that he oversaw—and won—at least 40 cases of alleged voter fraud brought against the state after President Joe Biden rightfully won the 2020 election and former President Trump didn’t.

 

Shapiro says the success rate is due to the prep he and his fellow Democrats did the minute they noticed Trump making Big Lie mutterings.

 

“When the former president began talking about how vote by mail was not OK and that the Democrats were going to try and steal the election, all of his greatest hits, I immediately put together a team in my office made up of lawyers from both our criminal division and our civil division,” he says. “We basically had three focuses that we were trying to deal with first.”

 

One was making sure people had access to the polls, the second was making sure voting was safe, and the third: “How could we deal with the inevitable legal challenges that would come after the election, trying to deny people's votes from being counted?”

 

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