⠀ "We had Iran right from the first day. It was over. It was over. And now it's even more so." ~Donald Trump
Question: If the war is "more" than over, why are we still fighting?
I don't think Donnie Bonespurs knows how wars work.
I don't think he even knows how words work.
(via (3) The Epstein Survivors Justice Act: How States Can Reopen the Epstein Case, Pardon or No Pardon)
The Department of Justice released more than three million pages of Epstein files on January 30. In the months since, federal prosecutors have brought no new charges against anyone in Epstein’s network, and reporting has documented records being withheld and removed from public view.
The fight is far from over, and the options that remain are at the state level.
Part of what you can do about any of this is understanding what these officials and organizations can do.
Nothing disclosed so far shows an organized voter fraud scheme or an altered election. But, surprising no one, Republicans and Trump officia
Yunior Rivas at Democracy Docket:
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) announced Tuesday that a software failure improperly registered roughly 6,600 people who told the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) they were not U.S. citizens.
Nothing disclosed so far shows an organized voter fraud scheme or an altered election. But, surprising no one, Republicans and Trump officials jumped on the error, with the Department of Justice announcing a civil rights probe and the White House demanding passage of the SAVE America Act.
In a letter to Sherrill, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon demanded the full names, dates of birth, nationalities, residential addresses and registration details of all roughly 6,600 people, along with information about when and where the fewer than 400 affected individuals voted. For any mail-in ballots, the department also requested the accompanying certification and signature.
The letter directs New Jersey to preserve all records related to the disclosure and says DOJ will notify the federal court overseeing its pending voter roll lawsuit against the state.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) announced Tuesday that a software failure improperly registered roughly 6,600 people who told the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) they were not U.S. citizens.
Nothing disclosed so far shows an organized voter fraud scheme or an altered election. But, surprising no one, Republicans and Trump officials jumped on the error, with the Department of Justice announcing a civil rights probe and the White House demanding passage of the SAVE America Act.
In a letter to Sherrill, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon demanded the full names, dates of birth, nationalities, residential addresses and registration details of all roughly 6,600 people, along with information about when and where the fewer than 400 affected individuals voted. For any mail-in ballots, the department also requested the accompanying certification and signature.
The letter directs New Jersey to preserve all records related to the disclosure and says DOJ will notify the federal court overseeing its pending voter roll lawsuit against the state.
Sherrill said the error occurred between June 2023 and June 2024, when people applying for driver’s licenses or identification cards were asked on a keypad whether they were U.S. citizens. Roughly 6,600 answered “no,” but the MVC’s software registered them anyway.
The state’s preliminary review found that fewer than 400 of those people subsequently voted in at least one election. Officials have not identified the elections, disclosed the exact number of ballots cast or said whether every affected person was still a noncitizen when they voted.
“We are actively working to remove those less than 400 voters from the rolls,” Sherrill said. “We have no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed.”
Sherill said the episode has no link to a separate, unsupported allegation from the Department of Homeland Security that as many as 35,152 noncitizens may be registered in New Jersey. Sherrill said the state asked DHS for the identities and evidence behind that number but has received nothing.
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Still, within hours, President Donald Trump’s allies and Republican officials began presenting the MVC failure as vindication for their broader claims that noncitizen voting is widespread. The White House and Trump’s political account said Congress must pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping Republican proposal that would impose strict proof-of-citizenship and photo ID requirements on voters, among other anti-voting measures.
Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters similarly claimed Sherrill “admitted what the RNC and NJGOP uncovered” through earlier public records requests, although the party did not establish that its previous list involved the same people or the same software error.
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Also lost in the GOP outrage is the issue of scale. New Jersey reported 6,682,699 registered voters and 4,321,921 ballots cast in the 2024 general election. The approximately 6,600 erroneous registrations amounted to about one-tenth of 1%, or 0.0001%, of the state’s registered electorate for that election alone. The fewer than 400 affected people who voted would be even more microscopic, representing less than one-hundredth of 1% of the number of ballots cast in that election, though the state has said the voting occurred across multiple elections and has not disclosed how many total ballots those individuals cast.
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Republicans are nevertheless using New Jersey’s disclosure to revive the SAVE America Act. The legislation would require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration and impose new photo ID requirements for federal elections. It stalled in the Senate, though Republicans continue pursuing versions of the proposal.
Typical from MAGA media hacks to advance an anti-voting rights agenda… all because New Jersey improperly registered 6,600 noncitizens to vote due to a software failure.
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