Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new “Office of Election Crimes and Security” has identified 20 cases of suspected voting fraud since going into business on July 1, The Hill reported on Wednesday, August 18, 2022 (read story here). All of the cases are from Palm Beach, Broward, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘elections’
August 17th, 2022 - 5:25 pm § in Politics
Why you must do due diligence on down-ballot candidates
It isn’t just big political races that matter anymore. Extremists are trying to take over everything from election offices to library and school boards. If they win, the consequences will be unpleasant. It’s essential now to know what you’re voting for in every race for every offic[...]
August 2nd, 2022 - 10:00 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Dead voters in Arizona
You may recall after Fox News called Arizona for Biden an angry mob of Trumpers threatened to storm the Maricopa County elections office (story here). Weeks later, they called GOP Gov. Ducey a “traitor” for certifying the election (story here). Even after Biden took office, disgruntled A[...]
July 29th, 2022 - 12:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Rogue sheriff backs vote fraudsters, not election laws
At its heart, it’s a partisan stunt, but also a crime. Kinda like setting fire to a barn to “prove” an arsonist is on the loose. In Wisconsin, GOP activists fraudulently applied for absentee ballots using the names of prominent people, including the state assembly speaker, to ̶[...]
June 30th, 2022 - 3:47 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Biden’s hypocritical new stance on filibuster
Biden, who has opposed changing the Senate filibuster rule, is now calling for a “carveout” to pass federal abortion rights (see story here). But he still hasn’t endorsed carveouts for anything else, beyond the existing exceptions for spending bills and judicial nominees. Look, abo[...]
June 1st, 2022 - 3:20 pm § in Politics
John F. Kennedy Jr. reappears!
I’m not making this up; QAnon freaks are. He uses the handle “Juan O. Savin” now, but his birth name is Wayne Willott. Willott aka Savin is camera-shy (for obvious reasons), but I dug up this photo; judge for yourself if there’s a family resemblance to the Kennedys. But IR[...]
May 25th, 2022 - 1:02 pm § in Politics
What’s wrong with “stop the count”
The video below shows a scene in Detroit after the 2020 election. At the time, Trump was leading the initial tally in Michigan, so his supporters wanted election officials to stop counting votes. Their demonstration at the election office was disruptive and implicitly violent. They were asking for a[...]
May 21st, 2022 - 3:23 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
PA election: Now for the arcane stuff
As of Friday, May 21, 2022, Dr. Oz leads McCormick by 1,070 votes in the GOP Senate primary. It’s a fragile, razor-thin lead. This election probably will go to an automatic recount, as provided by Pennsylvania law. Recounts are always more accurate, because they pick up ballots that were misco[...]
May 18th, 2022 - 7:10 pm § in Politics
Colorado candidate wants to eliminate popular vote
Colorado’s governor is whoever wins the most votes. The same is true of Colorado’s other state offices. Greg Lopez, mayor of Parker, Colorado, doesn’t like that. He’s running for governor, and it means Denver (pop. 715,522) can outvote Parker (58,512). So Lopez, a Republican,[...]
Trump still thinks you win by declaring victory
Let’s try a simple quiz. You win an election by: [ ] Getting the most votes [ ] Declaring victory first [ ] Because you want to [ ] Stopping the count when you’re ahead [ ] Doing the election over if you lose Few, if any, Republicans will pick “1,” the correct answe[...]