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I havenât really seen any of the more recent U.S. election news hitting tumblr yet so hereâs some updates (now edited with sources added):
Thereâs evidence of Trump cheating and interfering with the election.
Possible Russian interference.
Mail-in ballots are not being counted or ârecognizedâ in multiple (notably swing) states.
30+ bomb threats were called in and shut down polling stations on Election Day.
20+ million votes are still unaccounted for, and thatâs just to have the same voter turnout as 2020.
There was record voter turnout and new/first-time voter registration this year. We definitely should be well over the turnout in 2020.
U.S. citizens are using this site to demand, not only a recount, but a complete investigation into election fraud and interference for the reasons stated above:
Contact the President, Vice President, get help with a Federal Agency, or request a Presidential Greeting.
Here is what I submitted as an example:
An investigation for election interference and fraud is required. We desperately need a recount or even a revote. The American people deserve the right to a free and fair election. There has been evidence unveiled of Trump cheating and committing election fraud which is illegal. There is some evidence of possible Russian interference. At least 30+ bomb threats were called in to polling places. Multiple, notably swing states, have ballots unaccounted for and voting machines not registering votes. Ballots and ballot boxes were tampered with and burned. Over 20 million votes that we know of are unaccounted for. With record turnout and new voter registration this year, there should be no possibility that there are less votes than even in the 2020 election.
Sources (working on finding more links but if anyone wants to add info, itâs appreciated):
FBI addressing Russian interference and bomb threats:
The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None
Emails released by Rachael Bellis (private account, canât share original tweet) confirming Trump committing election fraud:
Pennsylvania's Centre County officials say they are working with their ballot scanner vendor to figure out why the county's mail-in ballot data is "not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software:â
Wisconsin recount:
The Milwaukee Election Commission, 'out of an abundance of caution,' will delay the reporting of about 105,000 absentee ballots that could d
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Multiple screenshots and images.
The first is a screenshot with a link and information for contacting the White House directly regarding election fraud. The instructions include choosing to leave a comment to President Joe Biden directly and to select election security as the reason.
The screenshot then instructs people to include any or all of the following information in a paragraph as a comment to the president:
32 fake bomb threats were called into Democratic leaning poll places, rendering polling places closed for at least an hour.
A lot of people reporting their ballots were not counted for various reasons.
This all occurred in swing states.
This is too coincidental that these things happen and swing in his favor after months of hinting at foul play.
Directly state that an investigation for tampering, interference, fraud is required, not just a recount.
The second image is from the FBI Twitter account that reads:
The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. https://t.co/j3YfajVK1m â FBI (@FBI) November 5, 2024
The next four Gmail screenshots of an email sent to Rachael Bellis from Chris T. Spackman that read together as follows:
Dear BELLIS, RACHAEL E., The Dauphin County Board of Elections received a challenge to your absentee ballot you applied for in the November 5, 2024 General Election. The challenge argues that a provision of the Pennsylvania Election Code takes precedence over the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which requires states and counties to permit U.S. citizens who move overseas to vote by absentee ballot for federal offices based on their last U.S. residential address.
The full text of the challenge that was filed appears below this email.
You may respond to the challenge in any of the following ways:
1. Call the Bureau of Registration and Election at (717) 780-6360;
2. Email a statement to the Bureau at Election [email protected]. Any statement you submit regarding the period during which you lived in Dauphin County, any family or connections that you still have here, and why you are now residing abroad would be read into the record.
3. Appear in person at a Board of Elections hearing scheduled for Friday, November 8 at a time to be determined in the Commissioners Public Hearing Room, 4th floor of Dauphin County Administration Building, 2 S 20d St, Harrisburg, PA 17111. The meeting is also likely to be livestreamed on Facebook on the Dauphin County channel.
Sincerely,
Christopher T Spackman
TEXT OF CHALLENGE BEGINS
Dear Dauphin County Board of Elections,
I am submitting this challenge to an absentee ballot application pursuant to 25 Pa. Stat.
3146.8(f).
25 Pa. Stat. 3146.8(f) Any person challenging an application for an absentee ballot, an absentee ballot, an application for a mail-in ballot or a mail-in ballot for any of the reasons provided in this act shall deposit the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) in cash with the county board, which sum shall only be refunded if the challenge is sustained or if the challenge is withdrawn within five (5) days after the primary or election. If the challenge is dismissed by any lawful order then the deposit shall be forfeited. The county board shall deposit all deposit money in the general fund of theâŠ
The rest of the forwarded email is cut off.
The last image is a screenshot of the official statement from the Centre County, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners released on November 6, 2024 that states:
Centre County Working with Ballot Scanner Vendor to Export Election Results.
(Bellefonte, PA) -Centre County Elections Office is working continuously to provide mail-in ballot data in order to post unofficial results.
To this point, all ballots have been scanned, including all mail-in ballots.
Centre County's Election team and IT team have identified that the data are successfully being exported from the mail-in ballot scanners, but that the data is not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software.
Centre County's Administrator, John Franek, Jr. stated, "We have not stopped working, and we will continue to work until unofficial results are posted and reported to the Pennsylvania Department of State."
As a next step, Centre County has begun working with the equipment vendor to adjust configurations to make the two systems-the mail-in ballot scanner and the elections software where data are uploaded -compatible with one another.
We will provide updates as we make progress.
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Georgiaâs voting technology blunder
Angelenos! Iâll be at the Los Angeles Festival of Books TOMORROW (Apr 19) for a panel called âNature or Nurture: How Humans and AI Are Changing Each Otherâ with Adam Becker, Joanne McNeil, and Lucas Cantor Santiago.
Nearly 25 years ago, in the aftermath of Bush v Gore, I got involved in a bunch of ugly tech policy fights over voting machines. The hanging chad debacle in Florida prompted Congress to appropriate funds for states to purchase new touchscreen voting machines based on a robust, open standard. The problem was, those machines didn't exist.
The voting machine industry in those days was already very consolidated (it's far more consolidated today). They went shopping for a standards body that would publish a spec for a "standard" voting machine that could soak up those federal dollars in time for the 2004 election. The only taker was the IEEE, who unwisely offered to serve as host for this impossible rush job.
Once the voting machine reps were around a table at IEEE â largely sheltered from antitrust scrutiny thanks to the broad latitude enjoyed by firms engaged in standardization, which is otherwise uncomfortably close to collusion â they admitted what everyone already knew: there was zero chance they were going to develop a new standard in time for the election.
Instead, they decided they were going to publish a "descriptive standard." Rather than designing a new standard, they'd write down the specs of their own products â the same products that were considered so defective they needed to be replaced before the election â and call that the standard.
That was my first encounter with this issue as an activist. I had just started at EFF and a lot of our supporters were IEEE members, who were appalled to see their professional association being used to launder this incredibly politically salient, technically incoherent scam. We got a ton of IEEE members to write to the board, who shut down the standards committee and kicked the voting machine companies to the curb.
The voting machine companies weren't done, though. Diebold â one of the leaders in the cartel â knew that its voting machines were defective. They'd crash, lose their vote-counts and malfunction in other ways that were equally damaging to election integrity.
This was an alarming piece of news, but perhaps just as alarming is the way it came to light. A Diebold employee described this situation in a memo that was subsequently hacked and dumped by parties unknown. That memo, along with the accompanying tranche of extremely alarming revelations about Diebold's voting machine division, was the subject of one of the first mass-censorship copyright campaigns in internet history.
Diebold didn't dispute the veracity of these damning revelations: rather, it claimed that since the memos detailing its gross democracy-endangering misconduct had been prepared by an employee, that they were therefore works-made-for-hire whose copyright was held by Diebold, and thus anyone who reproduced the memo was infringing on the company's copyright.
Under Section 512 of the then-new Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Diebold was empowered to send "takedown notices" to the web hosting providers whose users had posted the memos, and if the web hosts didn't remove the content "expeditiously," they would be jointly liable for any eventual copyright damages, which are statutorily set at $150,000 per infringement.
Every web host folded. No one wanted to take the risk of tens of millions of dollars in statutory damages.
(Incidentally: anyone who tells you that "online safety" requires us to make online platforms liable for their users' speech needs to explain how this wouldn't empower every crooked company whose dirty laundry had ended up online wouldn't just do what Diebold did. It's not technically insanity to do the same thing over again in expectation of a different outcome, but it is awfully stupid and reckless.)
An FBI raid yesterday in Fulton County is a dark harbinger of whatâs to come
Jay Kuo at The Status Kuo:
We have a five-alarm fire in Georgia over voting records. And it comes right on the heels of the DOJâs efforts over the weekend to extort Minnesota out of its voter data.
On Wednesday, the FBI seized paper ballots and voter data from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia. Agents carted away some 700 boxes based on a dubious search warrant that claimed, without any apparent factual support, that there was probable cause to believe the records contained evidence of a crime. Never mind that they were already the subject of an existing civil suit by the DOJ, which had resulted in the judge sealing them. And never mind that the statute of limitations for any âelection crimesâ has likely already run. The latest escalation carries grim implications for Novemberâs midterms. The 2020 election in Georgia was ground zero for Trumpâs efforts to overturn the national election results. They included Trumpâs direct pressure upon Georgia officials to âfindâ him 11,780 votes. His obsession with having lost that state has now led to yesterdayâs dramatic and unprecedented seizure of Georgiaâs election materials. Based on what we already know, we must assume that Trump, with a big assist from the DOJ, intends to use the seized materials to reassert long-disproven claims to lay the groundwork for similar assertions of fraud in this Novemberâs midterms. And we now know the DOJ will assist Trump in seizing voting records going forward, meaning 2026 ballots and voter rolls across the nation are at high risk, too.
What we know so far about the FBI raid
On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant at Fulton Countyâs elections warehouseâlong the site of fantastical right-wing conspiracies over election fraud. The Bureau confirmed it was conducting âcourt-authorized law enforcement action,â and the warrant indicated the search was part of a criminal investigation into potential violations of federal laws covering the preservation of election records and illegal efforts to defraud voters. Federal agents were allegedly authorized to seize physical ballots from the 2020 election, along with tabulator tapes, ballot images and voter rolls. The seized materials comprise an extraordinarily broad sweep, targeting the very building blocks of a certified presidential election. The timing of the raid raises suspicions. The warrant was signed by a federal magistrate judge in Atlanta less than a week after Trump, speaking in Davos, Switzerland, publicly reasserted claims that the 2020 election was rigged. It also occurred on the heels of Pam Bondiâs extortion letter to Gov. Walz demanding Minnesotaâs state voter data. And just last week, Kash Patel fired the FBI official, Paul W. Brown, a special agent who was in charge of the Atlanta, Georgia office, though his firing could have been for unrelated reasons.
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Unpacking the context of the raid
So why are Trump and his DOJ focused on Fulton County, Georgia once more, such that they have taken the extraordinary step of seizing voting records from over five years ago? For starters, Trump personally has never gotten over his loss in Georgia in the 2020 election. Nor has he ever forgiven Republican officials in that state for confirming Bidenâs victory, nor the Fulton County prosecutorâs office for bringing a criminal RICO case against him and his co-conspirators for their attempted election subversion.
A few things should be restated for the record. Trumpâs loss in Georgia was confirmed by GOP state officials three times, including in a final hand count. The Trump campaign nevertheless pushed false claims of election fraud using video debunked by Georgiaâs own election officials. They even targeted and endangered the lives of election workers, notably Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who later prevailed in their defamation civil suit against Rudy Giuliani. Two months after that November 2020 election, runoff elections were held for Georgiaâs two U.S. Senate seats, both of which were won by the Democratic candidates, namely Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. This further confirmed that the entire state of Georgia was beginning to shift blue, and that Trumpâs easier loss was was consistent with political trends. Now that Trump is president again, he is determined to press criminal charges based on long-debunked claims of election fraud. Those charges ultimately may not go anywhere, given the amount of time that has passed. But that wonât stop the DOJ under Pam Bondi from drumming up allegations anyway and attempting to tarnish election officials and workers, once again, with bogus and stale allegations.
The FBIâs raid and seizure of 2020 election voting records of Fulton County, Georgiaâs election HQ this week is dark and disturbing.
This portends to the possibility of the Trump Regime attempting to rig elections to keep the GOP in control of the House and/or Senate next year, even though they would likely lose control of at least the House.
See Also:
The Big Picture (Jay Kuo): Bondiâs Shakedown Gives Away The Game
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I am writing to express my strong opposition to H.R. 22, the so-called âSafeguard American Voter Eligibilityâ (SAVE) Act. While this bill is framed as a measure to combat voter fraud, it is, in reality, a voter suppression effort that creates unnecessary barriers to voting and disenfranchises millions of Americans.
The SAVE Act would require voters to present narrow forms of âdocumentary proof of citizenship,â such as a passport or birth certificate, to participate in federal elections. This would disproportionately harm:
- Up to 150 million Americans who do not have a passport.
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Cuts to the U.S. cybersecurity agency and FBI affected the federal workers tasked with stopping foreign interference in elections.
Over the last month, the U.S. government has worked quickly to pause, disband and dismantle the U.S. effort to fight foreign meddling in elections, raising concern among federal lawmakers and election officials across the country who rely on the federal cybersecurity agency and its counterparts to warn them about attacks on election systems.Â
First came a flurry of notices forcing out Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency personnel who are tasked with stopping foreign interference in U.S. elections â at least a dozen have been put on leave or fired over the past month. Then, on Attorney General Pam Bondi's first day in office on Feb. 5, she disbanded the FBI task force targeting foreign influence operations originating from places like Russia, China and Iran.Â
The focus on election security has been turned toward the past, rather than the future. In an internal memo earlier this month, CISA's acting director announced an internal investigation to assess every position and program that touches election security â including election misinformation and disinformation â dating back to President Trump's first term in office, with findings to be delivered in a final report on March 6.Â
Despite GOP talk of election integrity, the midterms could be less secure than 2024.
Letâs talk election safety!
Today I was getting lunch, and my mom was watching the LULAC webinar on elections. I was about to go back to work when I heard Nevada Secretary of State, Cisco Aguilar say that Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has been instrumental in fighting to to keep ICE away from polling stations, by restoring them as sensitive locations.
Safe to say I did not know she was working on that, and so I ran to grab my computer and started taking notes.
I am SO glad I did, cause this call was INCREDIBLE.
First, and certainly least important, I learned that the only two Latino Secretaries of State, Nevadaâs Aguilar and Arizonaâs Adrian Fontes are literally cousins. Their family should be very proud cause itâs so clear they care a whole lot.
Letâs start with Aguilar, cause he spoke first.
We have not been talking about Secretary of State races a whole lot. In fact, if you asked me who was runningâŠ.in any stateâŠ.Iâd have nothing for you. Thatâs a problem. They are our best line of defense against Republican bullshit before, during and after elections.
Luckily, just because we arenât paying attention, or maybe just me, doesnât mean they arenât acting. They are focusing on keeping the seats we have, and gaining some seats as well.
There are 26 states with SoS elections in 2026, we have 13 states we need to hold and 13 we could flip. Find out if you live in one of those states and consider this election as important as who you vote for in Congress. Who we vote for for SoS in â26, determines how we are able to vote in â28.
But thereâs also the matter of getting people to feel safe voting at all. One of the best ways to do this is for everyone who is able to sign up to be a poll worker, especially Latino, AANHPI and Black people, because itâs easier to get someone to feel safer when they see someone who looks like them in a position of authority in the room.
He also said that itâs important to communicate directly with voters and become âtrusted messengers.â For him, that means making ballots available and easy to access in a variety of languages, also getting texts in that language too.
He said especially in terms of Latinos, in Nevada, 1/3 of voters are Latino, but 50% of young students are, meaning Nevada is rapidly becoming more Latino, so heâs putting a lot of time and effort into make it as easy as possible for them to start businesses and feel like the SoS is a safe and helpful resource.
Fontes echoed alot of what Aguilar said, but also focused more heavily on the legal and legislative side.
He started by saying ânow is the time to remain uncomfortable.â These fights are going to be hard and painful but we canât shy away from them. Everything that happened in the past week with Swalwell is a testament to that.
He is putting focus into making sure that all law enforcement agencies in AZ know that it is illegal for anyone with a weapon to be in a polling place. He also mentioned that Republicans tried to introduce a bill that would change that, and thanks to a whole lot of pushback, it failed. Public pressure works!
He shouted out special elections and their importance, like the recent election that kept Turning Point candidates off the Salt Water River board and how we have to highlight and support election administrators at all levels.
Finally, he elaborated on what Aguilar said about communication.
He said becoming a trusted messenger isnât about repeating the same message over and over again till itâs believed, but rather showing that youâre trustworthy through work in other areas. Each SoS office does several things. Itâs important to put as much time and energy and focus into those other parts as elections. Someone is more likely to trust the safety and security of the election process if they have easily been helped by the office before.
Itâs also worth mentioning that the disinformation hasnât changed, just the method of spreading the misleading message. And both Democracy Defenderâs Fundâs Norm Eisen as well as League of Women Voterâs Celina Stewart reiterated this along with Fontes.
They are prepared for EVERYTHING.
Eisen said:
We are gonna peacefully but lawfully fight in the court of law but also in the court of public opinion to explain what itâs all about, and we are gonna win!
And Fontes explained that part of the importance of all of these illegal rulings is to help Americans understand what is legal and what is illegal, even when the president doesnât care. I hadnât thought of that angle before. Most people donât know whatâs in the constitution, the more people who know the more informed voters are.
Finally, Iâll leave you with this. Stewart reminded us all that Trumpâs mail in voting executive order happened because heâs losing. Because what those who are fighting like hell on the ground are doing. It IS working, even if it doesnât feel like it.
So, now that youâre fired up and ready to fight, letâs go win some elections! Cause, your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower, but only when you use it!