I traditionally have a thread heading to the election, here we go.
Get out the popcorn for this one.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to formally announce next week he is running for president in 2024, NBC News reported Thursday, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
The governor's official entry into the Republican primary field will put him head-to-head with former President Donald Trump, the party's current frontrunner for the nomination. Trump has already spent months treating DeSantis as his primary campaign rival, thrashing him with torrents of criticism over his gubernatorial record, his political skills and his personality.
"The Department demands that you immediately investigate these matters ... as well as to reinstate all registrations which have been erroneously placed on hold,” Schmidt told the Republican county.
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Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt sent a letter to the Lancaster County Board of Elections claiming employees of the Republican-controlled board had broken state and federal law by denying voter registration requests and in-person mail ballot requests from college students.
County election officials had been improperly rejecting students' voter registrations because they did not have a Pennsylvania driver's license or were already registered in another state, according to the letter, dated Monday. In some cases, Schmidt wrote, county staff were leaving applications in pending status for long periods of time.
Though it is illegal to vote in two states, it is not illegal to be registered in two states, and college students have a right to vote in the state where they attend school. It is, however, illegal in Pennsylvania to deny people voter registration because they are registered elsewhere or because they do not have a Pennsylvania ID.
Senate candidate Dave McCormick is registered to vote in CT and PA-- 15 year gap in PA voting resumed in 2022 when running against Dr. Oz and purchased Pittsburgh home.
The concerning applications were not specific to one political party, officials said.
Sounds like the thief has to be a postal worker. We made the national news when two postal workers implied that fraud was rampant with mail in ballots but , as it turned out, an investigation revealed that the postal workers just made it up.
Fires set in drop boxes destroy hundreds of ballots in Washington and damage 3 in Oregon
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Police say they have identified a "suspect vehicle" connected to incendiary devices that set fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state early Monday.
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Authorities are investigating after early morning fires were set in ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon, and in nearby Vancouver, Washington, where hundreds of ballots were destroyed.
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Officials said Monday that fires at ballot drop boxes in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington damaged hundreds of ballots. (AP video: Claire Rush/Produced by Javier Arciga)
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In this image made from a video provided by KGW8, authorities investigate the scene as smoke pours out of a ballot box on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Vancouver, Wash. (KGW8 via AP)
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In this image made from a video provided by KGW8, authorities investigate smoke pouring out of a ballot box on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Vancouver, Wash. (KGW8 via AP)
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A damaged ballot drop box is displayed during a news conference at the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Portland Police Bureau spokesman Mike Benner displays an image from surveillance video during a news conference at the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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A damaged ballot drop box is displayed during a news conference at the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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A replacement ballot drop box is unloaded on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Claire Rush)
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In this image made from a video provided by KGW8, authorities investigate smoke pouring out of a ballot box on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Vancouver, Wash. (KGW8 via AP)
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This image released by the Portland Police Bureau shows a ballot box after an incendiary device was discovered inside, in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (Portland Police Bureau via AP)
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A replacement ballot drop box is unloaded on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. The Portland Police Bureau reported that officers and firefighters responded to a fire in one ballot drop box on Monday morning. (AP Photo/Claire Rush)
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Police tape surrounds a ballot drop box damaged by a fire on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Vancouver, Wash. (Monika Spykerman/The Columbian via AP)
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Police tape surrounds a ballot drop box damaged by a fire on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Vancouver, Wash. (Monika Spykerman/The Columbian via AP)
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Assistant Chief of Police for the Vancouver Police Department Troy Price, left, talks with Greg Kimsey, the longtime elected auditor in Clark County, Wash., after a news conference at the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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A damaged bin that was in a ballot drop box is displayed at the Multnomah County Elections Office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Assistant Chief of Police for the Vancouver Police Department Troy Price, listens during a news conference at the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Election workers collect ballots from a newly placed ballot drop box outside the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott speaks during a news conference at the Multnomah County Elections Office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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A damaged ballot drop box is displayed during a news conference at the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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A fire-damaged ballot drop box bin is seen next to the drop box during a news conference at the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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A voter drops off a ballot for the 2024 election in a newly installed drop box at the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Ore., after the pervious drop box was damaged. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Updated 4:32 PM AKDT, October 28, 2024
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Incendiary devices were set off Monday at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — destroying hundreds of ballots in what one official called a "direct attack on democracy" about a week before a heated Election Day.
The early morning fire at the drop box in Portland was extinguished quickly thanks to a suppression system inside the box as well as a nearby security guard, police said, and just three ballots were damaged there.
But within a few hours, another fire was discovered at a transit center drop box across the Columbia River in Vancouver. Vancouver is the biggest city in Washington's 3rd Congressional District, the site of what is expected to be one of the closest U.S. House races in the country, between first-term Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican challenger Joe Kent.
We should expect all manner of chaos and d disruption.
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subee said:
Sounds like the thief has to be a postal worker. We made the national news when two postal workers implied that fraud was rampant with mail in ballots but , as it turned out, an investigation revealed that the postal workers just made it up.
No, this is more involved with company's hired to register PA residents to vote---they pay employees to get citizens sign voter registration forms; some workers possibly committed fraud as handwriting same on multiple forms along with signature not matching prior voter records.-- thus fraudulent activity.
No, this is more involved with company's hired to register PA residents to vote---they pay employees to get citizens sign voter registration forms; some workers possibly committed fraud as handwriting same on multiple forms along with signature not matching prior voter records.-- thus fraudulent activity.
I rarely encourage people to vote. What you describe above seem ripe for exploitation. I'm farklempt. If people don't care enough to register. IMHO, who needs them?
I rarely encourage people to vote. What you describe above seem ripe for exploitation. I'm farklempt. If people don't care enough to register. IMHO, who needs them?
We agree.
If one isn't engaged enough to register and doesn't care to vote, why do we want them voting?
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subee said:
I rarely encourage people to vote. What you describe above seem ripe for exploitation. I'm farklempt. If people don't care enough to register. IMHO, who needs them?
I think that some people just don't see voting and engagement with our democracy as their patriotic duty. I try to influence that POV toward participation.
I think that some people just don't see voting and engagement with our democracy as their patriotic duty. I try to influence that POV toward participation.
And I just encouraged someone who was going to sit it out. She had heard some of the things Harris has said that made both of us cringe. She finally conceded that it would be silly to sit out an election because the candidate isn't perfect. (She's decades younger than I and despises Trump). In our purple state every.vote.counts. It's too disheartening to talk to morons who have no inkling what's going on in the world. My young friend is a super intelligent woman who was worth my valuable time. I think that the people who have thought about it and then just throw their hands up can be saved:) If I ever had to make up (with a gun at my head) who to support in the present Israeli war, I'm not sure anyone could help me out with that one but being a reasonable person, I would listen because there's that damn gun at my head. That's almost the pressure I feel about this one because Trump is a very dangerous person and the lives of Jews would be made just a little less safe. Michigan is filled with Yahoo's with guns.
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Liars like Trump tell so many lies that they make people feel confused and overwhelmed. People who aren't paying close attention don't know what to think.
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Other Lancaster County PA news:
Pa. Secretary of State Schmidt says Lancaster County violated state law in turning away student voters
"The Department demands that you immediately investigate these matters ... as well as to reinstate all registrations which have been erroneously placed on hold,” Schmidt told the Republican county.
Senate candidate Dave McCormick is registered to vote in CT and PA-- 15 year gap in PA voting resumed in 2022 when running against Dr. Oz and purchased Pittsburgh home.