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As of Tuesday, at least three dozen cases related to voter rolls and their maintenance are pending in 19 states, according to the liberal-leaning Democracy Docket, which tracks election litigation.
Some of the lawsuits have been brought by the Republican National Committee against state election officials in the battleground states that are atop both Trump’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ must-win lists, including Georgia, Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin.
When asked how it would even be possible to have assassination teams walking around, Gaetz said there is simply “insufficient scrutiny to stop them from doing so.”
“Three of these teams are foreign-inspired, from my understanding — Iranians, Ukraine, Pakistan — and, you know, the work is obviously challenging to protect — protective detail, like a presidential campaign that is vigorous and out campaigning,” he said.
Given this threat, Gaetz said they are investigating to see if they have the right protective detail, such as the correct sniper teams and the right tactical teams.
“And we’ve seen a few times where resources have been pulled off of the Trump detail for the Jill Biden detail or for the John Bolton detail. And we’re going to question whether or not that was sound, given what we knew about the efforts to kill Trump,” he added.
Gov. DeSantis: The answer is no; they’re not being cooperative. Yes, I am concerned. For example, we were rebuffed—our investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. I think they’ve taken the position that they don’t want the state of Florida to be involved in this. But here’s the thing: there were multiple violations of Florida law across multiple jurisdictions.
We believe at least three judicial circuits where this guy, Ryan Routh, committed potential violations of Florida law. We have a duty to investigate this. We have a duty to bring the appropriate charges. And we also have a duty to inform the public about how this happened. So, I don’t anticipate them being cooperative. I think they’ve just taken that position, and that’s unfortunate.
In a landmark ruling, a federal judge in South Carolina has declared that voter rolls are public records and must be made available for inspection by election integrity advocates, a decision that could set a precedent nationwide.
The ruling, issued by Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, came in response to a lawsuit filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to election integrity.
PILF sought access to the South Carolina Statewide Voter Registration List under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993, which mandates that states maintain accurate voter rolls and make records available for public inspection.
The SEC initially denied the request.
The SEC argued that South Carolina law only permitted access to these records by qualified electors of the state, not by out-of-state organizations like PILF.
However, Judge Anderson ruled that the NVRA’s requirements take precedence over state law, determining that South Carolina’s restrictions were preempted by federal law.
The judge emphasized that Section 8 of the NVRA clearly mandates the public availability of voter registration records to ensure the integrity of the electoral process and to maintain accurate and current voter rolls.
In a big win today, the Georgia State Election Board passed Resolution 181-1-12-.12 by a 3-2 count. The resolution simply requires the hand counting of physical paper ballots at the precinct level to ensure it matches the total reported by the tabulators. This does not involve a hand-count tabulation of the vote totals but rather simply the total number of physical ballots cast at that particular precinct.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was joking when he endorsed US Vice President Kamala Harris’ election campaign, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. The outcome of the election doesn’t matter, Lavrov added, because Washington is controlled by the “deep state.”
Putin “has a good sense of humor” and “often resorts to jokes during his speeches and interviews,” Lavrov told Sky News Arabia earlier this week.
In a tale as old as time, the Republican Party is preparing to stab their own voters in the back once again and surrender to Democrats on critical legislation.
After first pulling the bill before a scheduled vote, House Speaker Mike Johnson eventually put the legislation up for a vote last Wednesday. Democrats almost unanimously joined 14 Republicans in sinking the bill by a 220-202 margin.
Now, Johnson is reportedly throwing in the towel and is now seeking to fund the U.S. government without addressing election security.
originally posted by: IndieA
HUGE! Georgia State Election Board Passes Rule Requiring Hand-Count of Ballots at Precinct Level
In a big win today, the Georgia State Election Board passed Resolution 181-1-12-.12 by a 3-2 count. The resolution simply requires the hand counting of physical paper ballots at the precinct level to ensure it matches the total reported by the tabulators. This does not involve a hand-count tabulation of the vote totals but rather simply the total number of physical ballots cast at that particular precinct.
Wisconsin Republican Representative Tom Tiffany has demanded an investigation into the cause of a “clerical error” that resulted in over 2,000 voters in the swing state to receive duplicate ballots.
“The City of Madison really prides itself on being extremely transparent in our election administration,” stated Madison city’s communicators director, Dylan Brogan. “On the day we found out a clerical error occurred, we immediately reached out to voters.”
Although Brogan attempted to downplay the major error, Tiffany (R-Wis.) still demanded an independent investigation into the matter.
“The City of Madison clerk said the duplicate absentee ballots were sent to one ward yesterday,” Tiffany posted on X. “Now, they say it’s 10. There needs to be an independent investigation now, not after the election.”
Wisconsin is an extremely important swing state, as President Joe Biden previously edged out Trump in the state by less than 21,000 votes in 2020.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a three-month stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown in 341-82 vote.
The bill included $231 million for the Secret Service “to carry out protective operations including the 2024 Presidential Campaign and National Special Security Events.”
The measure did not include the SAVE Act which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote.
House Speaker Mike Johnson suspended the rules which requires two-thirds support because he didn’t have the backing from Republicans.
The stopgap bill had to be passed with Democrat support.
The measure will head to the Senate and ultimately to Joe Biden’s desk on Wednesday evening ahead of the September 30 deadline.
Deputy Clerk of the City of Madison, Jim Verbick, has confirmed that 2,215 duplicate absentee ballots are being sent out across ten wards, just weeks ahead of the critical presidential election.
Verbick claims that the ballots were sent due to a data processing error, which was allegedly caused by a mistake when attempting to merge files containing absentee ballots for voters with identical ballot styles, WKOW reported.
“There was a human error that occurred. Despite duplicate ballots being sent out, we will only accept one ballot from every voter, and when we get them back we will make sure that we only have one ballot.”
Waukesha – A brave and courageous Wisconsin election integrity supporter recently filed a lawsuit, with the assistance of two outstanding election integrity attorneys, in Waukesha County Circuit Court against the Wisconsin Election Commission, Elections Administrator Meagan Wolfe and the Department of Motor Vehicle Director Craig Thompson asking for a Writ of Mandamus and Declaratory Judgement from the Circuit Court Judge in Waukesha County ordering WEC, Administrator Wolfe and Administrator Thompson to immediately follow the law by removing any non-US citizens with a Wisconsin Driver’s License and or Photo ID in the WisVote database before the November 5th Presidential Elections.
A newly leaked phone call between Arizona’s Democratic statewide officeholders reveals how they scrambled to find a narrative before announcing a statewide error that validated the citizenship of nearly 100,000 voters.
“It’s going to validate all of their theories about illegal voting in our elections,” said Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs on the call obtained by the Washington Post. “They’re going to be calling for new 2020 and ’22 elections as well,” Hobbs worried, referencing her own election that she rigged and stole from Kari Lake last midterm cycle.
Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes admitted that “all of these elections are challengeable” as a result of the state not verifying voters’ citizenship.
On September 26, Georgia citizens filed suit in Federal Court against Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State. The plaintiffs argued that according to data from Georgia state voter rolls and U.S. Postal Service (USPS), there are many individuals who have moved out of the state, but remain registered to vote in Georgia. This violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
Their suit demands that Raffensperger follow the NVRA and Georgia law to maintain accurate and timely registrations in Georgia’s voter rolls. The lawsuit seeks to enforce laws that protect Georgians’ right to vote from dilution.
Earlier in 2024, the Common Sense Elections team, using official Georgia data, demonstrated thousands of anomalous addresses at which a mail-in ballot could be sent but not likely received by a real voter.
The team also found over 30,000 Georgia voters with multiple voter ID numbers, the voting equivalent of having the government deliberately issue multiple Social Security Numbers.
Georgia was found by Common Sense Elections to have some of the worst, most inaccurate voter rolls in the country.
This lawsuit does not seek to cancel or remove any registrations from Georgia’s voter rolls.
Instead, it asks the court to order that Secretary of State Raffensperger direct the County Election offices to conduct activities to determine whether these apparently invalid registrations include accurate current addresses – something the counties should already have been doing per NVRA and Georgia law guidelines.
According to a whistleblower who attended a recent security briefing, the FBI’s primary objective with this operation is to monitor Trump voters during the upcoming election—a disturbing indication of federal interference aimed at intimidating those who dare to support the 45th president.
Representative Alexander Kolodin (R-AZ) was quick to act, sending a forceful letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, warning that such actions would not be tolerated.
The representative encouraged any Arizonans who experience violations of their civil rights at the polls to file complaints with the U.S. Attorney’s office and to report incidents to his office.
Kolodin expressed little faith that the Biden-Harris regime would take these complaints seriously but emphasized the importance of documenting any voter intimidation efforts in the event of post-election litigation.
Kolodin concluded his letter with a message to Arizona voters: “Do not be deterred from voting by these last, desperate acts of a dying regime about to be swept away by the winds of history. Rest assured, if the powers that be were confident of the outcome, they would not be trying so hard to keep you away from the polls.”
The Republican National Committee (RNC), along with the Georgia Republican Party and the Fulton County Republican Party, has filed a lawsuit against Nadine Williams, the Director of Fulton County Department of Registration & Elections.
The lawsuit alleges that Williams intentionally excluded qualified Republican poll workers from the hiring process for the upcoming November 2024 election, hiring only 15 Republicans out of 804 total election staff.
The lawsuit, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, seeks an emergency writ of mandamus, demanding Williams immediately appoint the Republican poll workers that were submitted for consideration.
Under Georgia law, political parties are entitled to submit lists of qualified individuals to serve as poll workers, and election officials are required to ensure balanced representation from both parties at polling places.