Tag: Voting

Yikes-bribery

I read/saw this on:

“the press is failing us — just when we need them the most by Jeff Tiedrich” Read on Substack . It’s a worthy read, and this bit is at the very end.

finally, here’s another thing Donny did yesterday. at grocery store photo op, he pulled out a hundred-dollar bill and handed it to a prospective voter.

what a guy, huh? by the way, there’s a word for handing cash to a voter. that word is bribery. but it’s all in a day’s work for America’s Con-Artist-in-Chief.

Within the above is a link to the below on Threads, but I’ve copied the text here:

It is illegal for a presidential candidate, or any candidate, to hand out cash to voters in the U.S.

Offering money or any form of valuable consideration in exchange for a vote is considered bribery and violates federal election laws.

The Federal Election Campaign Act and related laws prohibit this type of conduct to ensure elections are free and fair.

Both the person offering the bribe and the person receiving it could face legal consequences.

Some news we can use

These companies are bankrolling a multi-million dollar effort to elect Mark Robinson governor of North Carolina by Judd Legum

Maybe we here don’t patronize any of these entities anyway, but it’s worth tossing the info out whenever a discussion comes up, if it’s peaceful enough to do so. The entire piece is not much longer than this, but I wanted to put the details here rather than stuff we’ve seen already, in case everyone else is as busy as I am. Not complaining. Anyway, here’s the tea:

Judd Legum Sep 23, 2024 Read on Substack

Snippets:

None of this prevented the Republican Governors Association (RGA) from throwing its support behind Robinson. In a post on X on March 5, the day Robinson won the Republican nomination, RGA chairman Governor Bill Lee (R-TN) congratulated Robinson and said the organization “look[s] forward to supporting him in the general election.”

The RGA has followed through. Data from AdImpact, a company that monitors political ad spending, obtained by Popular Information, reveals that the RGA, an affiliated PAC, and an affiliated non-profit have spent more than $17.3 million since June 11, 2024 on ads in support of Robinson. The money has financed over 20,000 ads across North Carolina supporting Robinson’s candidacy. The actual expenditure by the RGA is far higher, as the $17.3 million does not include the cost of producing the ads, polling, or any other activities taken on behalf of Robinson. (snip)

During this election cycle, for example, DoorDash has donated $625,000 to the RGA. This money has been used to support Robinson and other Republican gubernatorial candidates. DoorDash’s support of Robinson, who has repeatedly maligned LGBTQ people with crude rhetoric, through the RGA, is not consistent with the company’s carefully crafted public image. 

The company regularly features LGBTQ-owned restaurants that deliver using DoorDash. On June 1, 2024, the company posted a blog post celebrating Pride Month. DoorDash said that it would spend the month “celebrating the diversity and vibrancy within the LGBTQ+ community by emphasizing how race, gender, sexuality, ability, and other aspects intersect to form unique individual identities.” The blog post claimed that DoorDash, “will continue to prioritize investing in and advancing opportunities for historically underrepresented people.” 

On June 4, 2024, the RGA received a $250,000 contribution from DoorDash. These funds, along with other large corporate contributions, helped finance the RGA’s ad blitz in support of Robinson that started later in June. (snip)

Top corporate contributors to the RGA this cycle include Google ($585,000), Walmart ($570,000), CVS ($550,000), Microsoft ($550,000), Travelers Insurance ($460,000), Amazon ($450,000), Deloitte ($400,000), Charter Communications ($385,000), Oracle ($325,000), Pfizer ($300,000), Coca-Cola ($250,000), The Motion Picture Association ($250,000), and Wells Fargo ($250,000).

Popular Information contacted each of these companies and asked if they had any concerns that their contributions to the RGA were being used to support a candidate like Robinson.

Wells Fargo declined to comment. The other companies did not respond. (snip)

Some republican maga stuff

GOP Rep Admits “No Evidence” Of Migrants Voting

“Well, obviously, it would take, you know, 10,000 inaccurate ballots or 20,000 ballots to turn things around,” he said. “No, we don’t have evidence of that. But who knows? If you find a little bit of cheating, who knows if you had the time and resources to look around for more. Who knows what you’d find.”

Grothman last appeared here in July when he lamented that society should return to living “like it was in the 1960s.”

He appeared here last year when he declared that low-income housing discourages people from getting married.

That same week he complained that Biden won’t nominate “straight white guys” to the federal judiciary.

He also appeared here in January 2023 when he posted a flag associated with the Christian nationalist movement outside his Capitol office.

Months earlier he gave a floor speech condemning the US Census for collecting data on LGBTQ Americans, which he found “horrifying.”

Before that he appeared here in June 2021 when he authored a bill that would ban teaching the history of racism in Washington DC public schools.

His first appearance here came in September 2011 when as a Wisconsin state senator he authored a successful bill that banned mentioning contraception in sex ed classes.

Grothman opposes recognizing Kwanzaa and Martin Luther King Jr. Day as state holidays. In 2015, he authored a bill to place a ban on same-sex marriage in the US Constitution.

He ran unopposed in the 2022 election.

This is because of the lies Vance and tRump spread about Haitian eating peoples pets

Springfield Mayor Assumes Emergency Powers After Threats To Walmart, Kroger, And Planned Parenthood

This next one is because DeathSantis wants to be able to make a political hit job on this incident to score points and claim that Biden Harris refused to give tRump proper Secret Service protection. Hugs. Scottie

DeSantis Wails: Feds Shut Me Out Of Golf Course Probe

Read the full article. DeSantis has said that the feds can’t be trusted to properly investigate the shooting attempt since they are also prosecuting Trump for stealing classified documents.

Trump Shares Fake Photo Showing Harris With Sean Combs: “Have You Engaged In Diddy’s Freak Offs?”

This week, Montel Williams called out a now deleted post of an unaltered photo claiming that he was Diddy. Williams stated, “Here they go again with ‘all black people look alike.”

All four memes below were posted separately today by the multiple felon.

Comer Calls Walz Family “Scary And Indoctrinated”
Vance: Dems May Attempt Military Coup If Trump Wins
Ohio Catholic Bishops Blast Vance For Racist Lies
Felon Posts Unhinged Rant On “Unhappy Women”

GA Election Board May Force Hand-Counting Of Ballots

This is a two part post.  The first part is what they intended to do, the second is them doing it.  The intent is well expressed in the comments.  The goal is to have the red rural parts of the state that vote republican to be in and recorded with the urban blue lagging way behind so the cultist can claim tRump won and the Democrats cheated at the last minutes.  Then if time runs out for the count to be done the state will only certify the tRump voting areas leaving the cities out of the count, throwing the state to tRump even if Kamala Harris wins.  Again republicans know that their plans are unpopular and they don’t care.  They don’t want to represent people, they want to rule over the people.   Hugs.  Scottie

GA Election Board May Force Hand-Counting Of Ballots

September 19, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists

 

The Washington Post reports:

The Georgia State Election Board is expected to vote on a measure to force counties to hand-count all ballots this year, a requirement that could delay reporting of results by weeks if not months and that critics say is designed to inject chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest in a vitally important swing state. The board will take up the proposal, which would require the hand count in addition to the customary machine count, Friday morning at the state Capitol in Atlanta.

The flurry of rulemaking is the work of a new right-wing majority that took control of the board in May with an avowed mission of preventing fraud and other irregularities from tainting the presidential result this year. All three are supporters of former president Donald Trump, and the rules they are pushing have been promoted by the state’s leading proponents of the false claim that President Joe Biden stole the Georgia election in 2020.

Read the full article.

BeccaM2 days ago

Meaning they’ll never hit the deadline required by federal law.

BeccaM  TrollopeReader2 days ago

I’m thinking Florida, Nov 2000, all over again.

“She’s gonna win Georgia, so we’ll make sure she can’t have the electoral votes in time.”

gyges  BeccaM2 days ago

This is one of the things Raffensperger thought unlikely, but concerning, in an interview on NPR last Tuesday.

HKDaniel 2 days ago

This is the plan –

Rural districts are small and easy to count.
Urban districts are not.

Sooo, the Dump will have a large lead that will linger for weeks, then it will suddenly be Harris in the lead when the urban districts finally finish.

Cue the outrage machine. GA legislature refuses to certify and instead votes for the Dump.

Look for this playbook in a state near you very soon.

RoyalScribe  HKDaniel2 days ago

The blue counties won’t be allowed to finish. The election commission will suddenly say, “Oops, deadline has passed, we’re certifying with just the counties that finished their recounts.”

gyges2 days ago

Georgia Secretary of State Ben Raffensperger is concerned about delays and lack of security. Currently, the count audit that compares numbers of electronic tallies with paper slips is done in secure locations with a panel of auditors and party representatives. He’s concerned that decentralizing this reduces security and increases opportunity for fraud.

Heard a very good interview with him on NPR last Tuesday. I’d recommend giving it a listen. He’s still the same man of integrity we heard in the Trump tapes he released to the public.

 

GA Election Board Orders Hand-Counting Of Ballots

September 20, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists

 

The Washington Post reports:

The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count all ballots this year, potentially upending the November election by delaying reporting of results by weeks if not months.

The change was spearheaded by a pro-Trump majority that has enacted a series of changes to the state’s election rules in recent weeks and approved the hand-count requirement despite a string of public commenters who begged them not to.

Critics included democracy advocates who accused the board of intentionally injecting chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest as well as election supervisors and poll workers who said hand counts would take too long, cost money and almost certainly produce counting errors.

Read the full article.

JoeMyGod Mod2 days ago

Just as with Pennsylvania’s GOP-written law that mail ballots cannot be counted in advance, the cult will blame Democrats.

Raising_Rlyeh 2 days ago edited

The fact that the GA AG told them these rules likely violates the law gives me a little hope. Lawsuits need to be immediately filed

    • Michael Hampton 2 days ago

    Then when it takes them 6 days to count them all, trumpy and his cronies will be able to scream about the election being rigged. 

     

    Let’s talk about basic precautions on voting day….

    Great news-

    Nikki Haley’s Iowa co-chair will vote for Kamala Harris

    Snippets (but it’s worth the click):

    Dawn Roberts, who was one of three co-chairs for Nikki Haley’s Iowa caucus campaign, announced her support for Harris in a letter first published September 20 in Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck column on Substack, and a few hours later by the Des Moines Register.

    A lifelong Republican, Roberts was Polk County co-chair for then Governor Robert Ray’s campaigns and served as state co-chair for Gerald Ford’s 1976 presidential campaign. She became the first woman to lead the Polk County Republicans and was the GOP nominee for Iowa secretary of state in 1986. (snip)

    Roberts wrote in her endorsement letter that she was impressed by how Harris “showed a willingness to listen to a wider range of views to solve problems.” The vice president allowed people with different political perspectives, including some Republicans, to speak at the Democratic National Convention.

    At a news conference, she said she would consider having a Republican in her cabinet. All of these statements lead me to believe that she truly has the skills needed to bring us together as a country and hopefully the world. I heard her articulate that she has always brought groups of diverse individuals and opinions together to solve problems. That is a healthier and wiser way to lead. 

    At the debate, she continued to impress looking at the audience and emphasizing bringing the country together rather than divide, to lift people up rather than tear people down. 

    (snip-More, this is a big deal!)

    Clark State security finds suspicious package on campus, rules out threat

    (I clicked on a Springfield New-Sun article the other day; they let you read everything if you start an account or register or whatever; email address, user name, and a password. Anyway, it’s a very polite paper, and the work, so far as I’ve seen, is exemplary. If you click through to the page, take a look at their headlines to see how things are going in Springfield, thanks to the Republican ticket. Some of it is good news for residents; there is balance.)

    News By Brooke Spurlock 3 hours ago

    Clark State is investigating after officials found a suspicious package this morning on the College’s Springfield campus.

    The college’s security found the package around 8 a.m. on the Leffel Lane campus and immediately contacted police, according to a statement on the college’s website.

    “Police responded quickly and determined that the package was not of concern and no threat exists,” the statement said.

    Administrators and police searched the buildings and campus before the Springfield Police Division said the campus was safe at 11:12 a.m.

    Clark State closed all of its campuses this week and moved to remote classes through Friday as a result of two email threats of a potential bombing and shooting from last weekend.

    https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/clark-state-security-finds-suspicious-package-on-campus-rules-out-threat/4Z2NNWTAZRDS7MS4L7EUN76AFA/#

    Let’s talk about Harris showing Trump how he gets manipulated….

    This is perfect.

    Honestly, we are a little surprised you don’t get nearly this upset when they are killing our kids in school

    US still unprepared for Russian election interference, Robert Mueller says

    You know, I was going to post this, because of course Robert Mueller is an eminent authority on the subject of foreign interference in US elections, but as I was copying the snippets, it all struck me as more a way to sell Mr. Mueller’s book, and less solid news and any ways to counteract the interference. So, I’m going to leave the link here, but instead of posting any of the piece, I want to heartily encourage everyone to make sure you’re registered to vote, and encourage everyone you know-even the ones you secretly wonder for whom they’d vote-to verify their registrations, and Make A Plan To Vote. Next, urge everyone you know and care about to vote, even offer a ride, or to go vote together then grab lunch or something. Maybe sign up with a preferred campaign or two to phone or text bank, or to walk door-to-door for a candidate (in safe neighborhoods you know.) There are so many little things to do, and somebody’s gotta do them. Why not us? Even visiting about a candidate in the grocery or other line helps! Others are gonna do what they think they gotta do, but so do we, and what we gotta do is win this election handily, up and down the ballot with resounding blue votes. Let’s go!

    If you want to read about Mr. Mueller’s book, it’s at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/russia-election-interference-robert-mueller