Election 2022 (Dems in charge of Senate. Reps take the House. Herschel Walker headed back home to ignore his children )

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Gop wins big in house and could win big in senate but are hampered by poor candidates. So, 22 could see a split decision.

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North Carolina certifies the Green Party, which could allow it onto the Senate ballot

 

The North Carolina Board of Elections voted Monday to certify the Green Party as a political party in the state — a decision that could allow the party's U.S. Senate candidate to be on the November ballot in one of the nation's most competitive races.

 

If a federal judge rules next week that Matthew Hoh can be on the ballot, it could complicate the election for Democratic former state Supreme Court Justice Cheri Beasley, who is in a close contest against Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd.

 

In the past, many Democrats have blamed Green Party presidential candidates for siphoning votes from Al Gore in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in 2016 as they lost the presidency. The North Carolina race could determine which party controls the Senate.

 

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I'm certain that:  

 

1)  The NC decision was not made based on whether it would help the R party.  

 

2)  And the Green Party candidate will no doubt drop out, rather than helping to elect an R.  

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'Women Against Matt Gaetz' hold protest outside campaign rally in Niceville

 

A group of women who call themselves "Women Against Matt Gaetz" were in Niceville Saturday protesting to vote the congressman out of office during the upcoming election.

 

Channel 3 was at a Gaetz campaign rally Saturday where protests were heating up against the congressman.

 

"Women have had enough of him and had enough his mouth speaking derogatory to women who are simply expressing their rights," Samantha Hope Herring, Women Against Matt Gaetz creator said.

 

A new Facebook group called "Women Against Matt Gaetz" is gaining followers by the hundreds.

 

"It has gone from us just creating it to like 1,300 in two days," Herring said. "By speaking up, we can organize together to vote him out. That's the number one thing we want to see happen. And we also are going to be asking Congress to censure Matt Gaetz."

 

Protestors spoke against the congressman's recent comments about women who protested the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

 

As well as Gaetz's recent vote against a bill that would combat human trafficking.

 

"Women all feel strongly about their rights being trampled on and having no respect even Matt has a mother. Can you imagine how embarrassed she is? All people have mothers and all mothers are women," Kathy White, Okaloosa County Democratic Women's Club president said.

 

A spokesperson for the campaign sent the statement that says in part hundreds of women for Matt Gaetz came to his rallies Saturday and "woke activists" sharing hate online isn't their focus.

 

Channel 3 has provided the full statement below:

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Hundreds of women for Matt Gaetz showed up to rallies today in real life. Woke activists sharing hate online aren’t our focus. Matt Gaetz is pro-life and wouldn’t have it any other way.

 

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MAGA Candidate Kari Lake’s Campaign Tries to Troll Dee Snider—and It Backfires Spectacularly

 

Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider has roasted Arizona MAGA candidate Kari Lake after her campaign repeatedly used his song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” at events. After seeing the song was used at an event, Snider tweeted Thursday that he could not “legally or morally” stop Lake—a gubernatorial candidate who pushed the Big Lie and who considers abortion the “ultimate sin”—from using the song. But the issue boiled over when Lake’s campaign tweeted out the lyrics of Snider’s song in a political ad on Sunday. “HEY IDIOTS!” Snider wrote in reply. “READ THE 1ST LINE: ‘We’ve got the right to CHOOSE!’ This is a PRO-CHOICE anthem you or co-opting. It was NEVER intended for you fascist morons!” He added that he denounced everything Lake stands for. “Remember when you were anti-establishment?” Lake’s campaign replied, sharing a picture of Snider testifying at a 1985 Parents Music Resource Center senate hearing in which he spoke against censorship in music. “Remember when you didn’t read my testimony?” Snider shot back. “I stand for what I have always stood for. Anti right wing, anti fascist, anti asshole. Pretty much your candidate in a nutshell.”

 

 

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The Eric Wars have ended

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I voted for Lucas Kunce in the MO Dem primary.  That was the only thing on the ballot.

[China]

Maricopa County Attorney sends cease-and-desist letter to GOP candidate over pen thefts

 

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has sent a letter asking a county supervisor candidate to stop telling voters to steal pens being provided at polling sites as in-person voting gets underway statewide. Mitchell issued a cease-and-desist to GOP candidate Gail Golec Tuesday morning.

 

 

Golec, who is running for a seat on District 2 of the county’s Board of Supervisors, is spreading an unfounded conspiracy claim that the use of Pentel felt-tip pens bleeds through and provides “ghosts votes,” thereby changing the outcome of the election. In response to Mitchell’s letter, she said that her “Intention is to Protect Our Vote, not encourage you to steal pens.”

 

 

Arizona’s Family and numerous media outlets, including the Associated Press, previously reported on “#SharpieGate,” where social media posts suggested that election officials in Maricopa County provided voters with Sharpie pens, which interfered with ballots being recorded, specifically those for President Donald Trump. This latest misinformation attempt came in response to an announcement by election officials that they were switching to Pentel brand felt-tip pens on Election Day. It should be noted that Golec has been endorsed by both former President Donald Trump and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell.

 

 

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Trump endorses Adam Steen over Assembly Speaker Robin Vos

 

Former President Donald Trump has handed out another endorsement in Wisconsin, this time backing Adam Steen in the 63rd District Republican primary over Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.

 

The announcement was anticipated after Trump issued a series of statements signaling support for Steen without naming him directly, adding "anyone would be better” than Vos.

 

It comes after Trump has consistently bullied Vos on his social media platform over his refusal to decertify the 2020 election in Wisconsin. Vos and other top Republicans have pushed back against decertification because legal and constitutional experts have said it's not possible.

 

“Wisconsin’s 63rd Assembly District has a rising patriotic candidate named Adam Steen, who is running against the RINO Speaker of the Assembly, Robin Vos,” Trump said in a statement. “Robin Vos consistently blocked efforts at conducting a full cyber forensic audit of the 2020 Election….Adam Steen, on the other hand, is a motivated Patriot. He has had the courage to stand up strongly against “Speaker” Vos….Adam Steen has my Complete and Total Endorsement!”

 

The endorsement comes days before the Aug. 9 primary election and after Trump suggested Vos would "lose" if he didn't attempt to overturn the election results.

 

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Edited August 3, 2022 by China

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Eric Schmitt defeats Eric Greitens to win Missouri’s G.O.P. Senate primary.

 

Eric Schmitt, the Missouri attorney general, easily captured the Republican nomination for an open Senate seat on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. His decisive victory derailed the political comeback of former Gov. Eric Greitens, whose campaign had been clouded by allegations of domestic abuse, infidelity and corruption.

 

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I need to remind myself of this from time to time.

 

 

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Pro-Trump activists swamp election officials with sprawling records requests

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pro-trump-activists-swamp-election-110416623.html

 

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(Reuters) - Pro-Trump operatives are flooding local officials with public-records requests to seek evidence for the former president’s false stolen-election claims and to gather intelligence on voting machines and voters, adding to the chaos rocking the U.S. election system.

 

The Maricopa County Recorder's Office in Arizona, an election battleground state, has fielded 498 public records requests this year - 130 more than all of last year. Officials in Washoe County, Nevada, have fielded 88 public records requests, two-thirds more than in all of 2021. And the number of requests to North Carolina’s state elections board have already nearly equaled last year’s total of 229.

 

The surge of requests is overwhelming staffs that oversee elections in some jurisdictions, fueling baseless voter-fraud allegations and raising concerns about the inadvertent release of information that could be used to hack voting systems, according to a dozen election officials interviewed by Reuters.

 

Republican and Democratic election officials said they consider some of the requests an abuse of freedom-of-information laws meant to ensure government transparency. Records requests facing many of the country's 8,800 election offices have become "voluminous and daunting" since the 2020 election, said Kim Wyman, head of election security at the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Last year, when she left her job as Washington secretary of state, the state’s top election official, her office had a two-year backlog of records requests.

 

"You still have a group of people in each state that believe that the election was stolen," said Wyman, a Republican.

 

In April, the official in Arizona’s Maricopa County in charge of responding to public records requests, Ilene Haber, assigned four of her nine staffers to pull 20,000 documents out of holding boxes, sort them for scanning, and then carefully return them to their proper place. It took four days.

 

The staffers were filling just one of several records requests from Haystack Investigations, who had asked for chain-of-custody records for all 2.1 million ballots cast in the election. The firm says on its website that it conducts a variety of investigations for companies, law firms and individuals. The company worked on Arizona's "forensic audit," the examination of Trump's defeat in the county by pro-Trump partisans that ended last year without uncovering voter fraud.

 

The labor-intensive Haystack requests illustrate the growing challenge facing stretched election offices across the country. In Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, extensive requests like the one submitted by Haystack make up about one-quarter of the total the office has received this year, said Haber, the director of communications and constituent services in the Maricopa County Recorder's Office.

 

"The requests are getting bigger, more detailed, more burdensome, and going back even further” in time, she said.

 

Heather Honey, who heads Pennsylvania-based Haystack, said the requests were unrelated to the firm’s work on the Arizona audit and were for her own research. “All are meaningful and contribute to specific professional research activities,” said Honey, who has sought similar election-related records in Pennsylvania.

 

The local officials told Reuters that the surge in requests from election deniers is drowning their staffs in extra work at a time when they are struggling to recruit and retain voting administrators vital to democracy. Election workers have already endured an onslaught of death threats and harassment from Trump activists. Reuters has documented more than 900 such hostile messages since the 2020 vote.

 

"The concern is burnout," said Jamie Rodriguez, the interim registrar of voters in Washoe County, Nevada. "With burnout does come the potential for mistakes."

 

Rodriguez took over this week from the former registrar, who resigned after being targeted with death threats and other harassment.

 

Ryan Macias, an election security consultant for CISA, likened the swarm of records request to a denial-of-service cyber-attack, in which hackers attempt to overwhelm a network with internet traffic, and said it was creating potential security risks given the stresses already weighing on election workers.

 

"We have the attrition rate; we have people who are under threat from the community, people who are getting death threats, people who are overworked," Macias said at a gathering of state election directors in Wisconsin on July 19.

 

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All 50 U.S. states have freedom-of-information laws that are used routinely by journalists, advocates, academics and everyday citizens to access records on government. Such statutes aim to ensure the public has the information needed to hold their leaders accountable. Local officials told Reuters they believe in the importance of such laws and said they are trying to find creative ways to lessen the burden of the election-related requests on their staffers.

 

Rather than ask for a bigger budget, Haber of Maricopa County said she has trained her whole team to help respond. Washoe County temporarily halts the production of documents at a certain point prior to the election, to ensure staff can focus on administering the vote, Rodriguez said. Donald Palmer, a commissioner on the federal Election Assistance Commission, told a gathering of secretaries of state on July 8 in Baton Rouge that they should help local officials more efficiently respond to the deluge of requests by, for instance, creating a "reading room" site to simultaneously respond to duplicative requests from different people.

 

Rodriguez said most of her nine current staffers joined in 2021 or 2022 after a rash of staff departures. She is trying to limit their overtime to keep them fresh for November.

 

But the records requests aren’t letting up. One request sought various information on the county's election workers during the 2022 primary, including their phone number, mailing address and party affiliation. Another one was filed in late June by Robert Beadles, a businessman who moved from California to Reno in 2019 and is now leading a movement to push election-fraud theories and target politicians who don't support his agenda. Beadles requested 38 different data sets.

 

Beadles tells visitors to his website, operationsunlight.com, to send requests to their county clerks for a list of voters in the November 2020 election, broken down by voting method, and the total number of ballots cast for each candidate. He asks them to email the records to Shiva Ayyadurai, a leading purveyor of election fraud conspiracies.

 

Neither Beadles nor Ayyadurai responded to emails seeking comment.

 

As strapped government staffs struggle to keep up with the extensive inquiries, some election officials express concern about slipping up and releasing information that could compromise election security.

Samuel Derheimer, director of government affairs at voting-equipment manufacturer Hart InterCivic, said his company has seen an explosion of requests from election officials for help determining when releasing certain records threatens election integrity. Public records requests sometimes target operational manuals containing security protocols that should not be released to the public, he said.

 

Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said one of the challenges is analyzing whether seemingly separate individuals or groups might be working together to piece together sensitive information about voting equipment and processes.

 

"That's when your antenna starts going up," she said. "We are having to spend a lot of extra time thinking in those terms."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Two Republican candidates who lost by big margins say they're 'not conceding'

 

Two Michigan Republicans who lost their primary races by more than 10 percentage points declared on social media Wednesday that they were "not conceding" while make dubious claims of election day wrongdoing.

 

Real estate broker Ryan Kelley, who finished in fourth place in Michigan's GOP primary race for governor and was 25 percentage points behind the winner, Tudor Dixon, was the first candidate to question the results. The Allendale man posted a statement at about 1:24 a.m. on some of his social media platforms. Then, at about 5 a.m., he released the same message on his official Facebook page.

 

Then, at about 1:30 p.m., Michigan Senate candidate Mike Detmer of Howell, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, posted that he was "not buying" the results of the election. Detmer lost his race to incumbent Sen. Lana Theis, R-Brighton, by about 16 percentage points, according to unofficial election results.

 

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