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Far-left Democrats in control in the state of Colorado have adopted a new law that would give all the state's Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote in a presidential election.
Little did they know that their scheme would call for the state's ballots be given to President Donald Trump.
Actually, their planning had no impact on the election, not even in the state, because the plan has had too little nationwide interest yet.
But in its outline, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which the state joined with more than a dozen other jurisdictions, the state's power always would have to go to the winner of that national popular vote.
In recent years, that's over and over been a Democrat.
But not this year, when Trump won some 72 million votes to Kamala Harris' 67 million.
The overall idea is to concentrate president-electing power in the hands of the few most populous states. The compact concept would eliminate the need for voting in Wyoming, Hawaii, Alaska and dozens more states, leaving the president picking power in the hands of the most populated handful of states.
Every election.
A report from Colorado Peak Politics notes that readers will recall Colorado's decision, by Democrats, to join the operation.
"The compact's goal is to eliminate the Electoral College that Democrats fear favors Republicans, and instead elect presidents based on the popular vote, which they thought favored Democrats," the report said.
To actually get rid of the Electoral College would take a constitutional amendment, since it's specified there. To get around that the states simply would "agree" on how to cast their ballots, an idea that has yet to be tested in court.
"That's how Democrats do democracy — by changing the rules in their favor," the report said.
But this year Trump won the Electoral College numbers, with about 300, and also the popular vote.
"Had this Popular Vote fad caught on as Colorado Dems and Polis had intended, they would all be forking over their votes this morning to Donald Trump," the report said.
The report noted, "Some 1.4 million voters are feeling mighty smug about their victory over Donald Trump in Colorado where he lost with only 43% of the vote. And yet Democrats passed a law in 2019 signed by Gov. Polis that pledges every vote cast in the state to Trump, because he won the national popular vote."
Incidentally, that compact would require votes from other participants to go also to Trump, as the winner of the popular vote, meaning, depending on membership, Trump this year could have ended up with 350, or even 400 Electoral College votes.
The compact is set up so that it does not go into effect until enough states are participating to control every election.
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As leftist media continue their meltdown in the wake of President Donald Trump's historic victory in the 2024 election, members of "The View" on ABC are blasting conservative news outlets as they call for regulation of social media.
"It would help if we could regulate social media," said co-host Sara Haines.
"Because one of the biggest offenders is D.C. and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations of social media."
Ana Navarro noted: "You're not going to get anything with Elon Musk in the administration."
Haines was responding to a comment from co-host Joy Behar, who opined: "And can we not let Fox News off the hook, please? And Newsmax and all the fake news that's been going out there."
"One of the things that we need to do – and it's not to abolish the Department of Education. As a former teacher, believe me – he's talking about doing that.
"I brought this up before. I'm gonna bring it up again. In Finland, kids in nursery school are learning to discern between fake news and real news. They should be teaching that in this country. Teach children tolerance. Teach them to think critically."
Sunny Hostin lamented how Trump "is a complete aberration."
"He is a politician that is twice impeached," Hostin said.
"How is it that we have normalized someone who started, who tried to start an insurrection, who is an election denier, who is a convicted felon, who is twice impeached, who has filed for bankruptcy six times. He's not a rich man."
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Among various problems at polling places across the nation, one county in Iowa will resort to hand counting its ballots this week.
As reported by the Des Moines Register, voting machines in some Story County precincts failed to work, resulting in the decision to hand count ballots beginning after polls close Tuesday night.
Story County Auditor Lucy Martin told the Register machines did not read "certain ballot styles" at about 12 of the county's 45 polling locations.
"We don't know why," she said. "The ballots were tested. The machines were tested."
Martin said she will ask the Story County Supervisors during a special meeting Thursday morning to approve a recount.
A spokesperson for Iowa's Secretary of State Office said department employees know about the problems in Story County.
"The auditor is working with the vendor and our office to resolve it," said Ashley Esquivel Hunt. "It is not stopping anyone from casting a single ballot. It may impact how quickly we can report the results."
In Story County, voters fill out their ballots by filling bubbles next to their preferred candidates with pens. They slide the completed paper forms into machines, which are supposed to tally their decisions. But Brett Barker, chair of the Story County Republican Party, said some machines spit ballots back at voters.
He told the Register that election workers are piling the ballots into locked boxes on site. In some locations, he added, the boxes can't hold every ballot. Election workers are putting the rest of the ballots into secure bags they keep on site.
The Republican Party says it has received reports about problems at nine of the county's 45 sites.
Barker said he is recruiting more GOP poll watchers to observe the hand count in affected precincts.
"This is mostly about reassuring the public that their votes are counted," he said. "If we are able to say things are observed, we can reassure people."
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President Donald Trump has been in the bull's-eye of at least two assassination threats in just the past few months: One sniper hit him in the ear and then was shot dead by police while the other was arrested after being chased away from concealment at a golf course Trump was playing.
Now there's a veiled threat to Trump's life from Russia: specifically Vladimir Putin's No. 2 at the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
A Boston Chronicle report notes that person is Dmitry Medvedev, Russian's former president, who "indirectly" offered a threat to Trump when speaking about America's presidential election this year.
The results of that vote, he said, will not change anything for Russia.
He said that's because he believes both parties in America are "seeking Russia's defeat in the war with Ukraine," the report explained.
He dismissed Kamala Harris as "stupid and manipulated" and Trump as "predictable."
Further, he said the war won't end quickly, as Trump has promised.
"He won't stop the war. Not in a day, not in three days, not in three months. And if he really tries, he could become the new JFK," Medvedev threatened.
The Sun said the comment was "chilling," and RT Today had this observation, "The deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia has alluded that should the Republican be elected U.S. president and try to stop the Ukraine conflict, he could be assassinated."
Trump several times has expressed his confidence that he would be able to bring a halt to the violence that erupted when Russia invaded Ukraine and took some of its territory in short order.
"Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also expressed skepticism regarding the Republican nominee's ability to stop the conflict overnight, noting that no 'magic wand' exists with which he could do so," the report said.
And it confirmed Medvedev, on a Telegram posting, wrote "that Moscow does not have high expectations regarding the outcome of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election. He argued that 'for Russia, the election won't change anything, as both candidates' stances completely reflect the bipartisan consensus that our country has to be defeated,'" the report said.
Medvedev did warn that if Harris is elected, the nation's leadership decisions would be made by "other officials and members of former President Barack Obama's family."
Medvedev also warned, the report said, the West is wrong to think "Putin wouldn't turn to nuclear weapons if NATO sought to inflict a defeat on Russia in the Ukraine war."
He said escalating more is "the road to hell. It's really a road to World War Three."
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The 2024 campaign of former President Trump and JD Vance is joining the Republican National Committee and Georgia GOP in filing lawsuits Sunday in state and federal court challenging several Georgia counties that are allegedly "illegally remaining open over the weekend to receive absentee ballots after early voting ended."
"Early voting was required to end statewide on Friday, Nov. 1," the campaign indicated. "At the last minute several heavily Democrat counties announced they would open their offices over the weekend to receive mail ballots. This is illegal, so we immediately filed a state court lawsuit."
Defendants named include officials in seven Georgia counties: Chatham, Fulton, Dekalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, Clayton and Clarke.
The campaign said: "In a win for election integrity, the counties retreated from plans to keep drop boxes open over the weekend, but we continue to fight the illegal re-opening of the centers in state and federal court.
"This is a clear, partisan violation of the law intended to boost Democrat efforts in Georgia. With just two days until our country's most important election, it is critical for officials to follow the law and run the election in a fair and transparent manner."
"These actions by some Georgia counties do nothing but undermine the security of our elections and drive up mistrust in the process. Georgia must take immediate action to protect the vote."
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On the heels of confirmation from a Michigan state official that there are problems with Dominion voting machines being used in the 2024 election, a sheriff's office in that state has confirmed it has provided information regarding various issues to state investigators in Texas.
An investigation into the company that created the Dominion voting machines, which have been the subject of claims of malfunctioning in both the 2020 and 2024 elections, has been confirmed by a statement by the Michigan sheriff.
The statement is from the Barry County sheriff's office in Hastings, Michigan, and explains it has an "ongoing investigation into election-related crimes" and that it has been going on since 2020.
That office, the statement confirms, "has opened a criminal investigation related to Dominion Voting Systems, Election Systems & Software, Hart InterCivic, and SolarWinds…"
No other information was released regarding the investigative work being done by either office.
There were a multitude of claims during 2020 about Dominion machines being faulty, and the company was so concerned about its reputation that it sued multiple commenters, eventually settling with Fox for hundreds of millions of dollars.
A report at National Pulse confirms now that, "Dominion voting machines are already stirring controversy in the 2024 election amid ongoing early voting. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has confirmed that some terminals are experiencing issues nationwide with split-ticket ballots."
Benson confirmed, "This is a nationwide issue with Dominion voter access terminals in uh in the counties that use them. The voter access terminals, of course not all the machines just the ones that are accessible, have an issue with the uh straight party voting and a programming issue that's affected the machines nationwide."
She added, "And I think all of us that used Dominion machines were um were unhappy to learn about this uh during the uh the testing period and um as early voting began. So we're working with Dominion to seek accountability uh on that front uh. And also are working with our clerks to ensure voters are aware of this uh programming issue that will require them to ensure they are uh voting every section on the ballot."
A report from Newsweek said the "warning" from Michigan was that it would make casting a ballot harder.
"Voters with disabilities and others in the battleground state can use Dominion Voter Assist Terminals (VATs) to help them mark their ballots," the report said. But, "People using the machines will have to carefully follow instructions to verify their ballot selections or they will receive an error message, the department said in a press release."
It happens if a voter selects the "straight party" option at the beginning, and then casts various voters later.
The Michigan government said, "Although the issue will not stop people from voting or making their preferred selections, and it will not change anyone's votes, it will make the process more inconvenient for some voters using the VATs."
The report explained voters using VAT machines "will have to select either the 'straight party' option if they wish to vote straight ticket or vote for each race on the partisan selection of the ballot if they wish to split their ticket."
Michigan officials said it was not possible to fix the blunder.
Dominion Voting Systems said in a statement the Michigan government "confirmed there is no issue preventing any voters from voting or making their preferred selections and casting their paper ballot."
State officials later claimed that the issue affected only some voting machines in their state.
Elon Musk, on social media, had a basic question: "What's going on @dominionvoting?"
Comments on social media included, "Paper ballots would have no issue," and "What are they doing?"
Also, "It is disastrously easy to manipulate a single line of code and produce different results. Are they trying to provoke a civil war?"
Suspiciously, there already has been evidence of vote fraud in Pennsylvania and Colorado, in additional to the suggestion of that problem in Michigan.
And Colorado Democrats had posted voting machine passwords online, apparently for weeks before Republicans called out the security breach. Interestingly, former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters had been sentenced to jail for allegedly misusing one password.
"Use paper ballots and hand count them instead. There. Problem solved" said one person.
Benson's graduate work was focused on white supremacy and neo-Nazism and she once worked with the extremist Southern Poverty Law Center, which routinely labels pro-family and pro-life organizations "hate" organizations, and even applies that label to Christian groups that do not support the ideology of transgenderism.
In Michigan, she pushed for election-day registration and unrestricted absentee ballots.
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Homeschool parents long have faced the double burden of taxes that support their local public school, but also the costs of paying for their own supplies, curriculum, and more. A definite double-whammy.
But President Donald Trump is pledging, if elected, to change that.
In a video, he explained, "When I am re-elected I will do everything I can to support parents who make the courageous choice of homeschooling."
He noted under the Trump tax cuts of his first term, "We allowed families to use 529 education savings accounts to spend up to $10,000 a year tax-free on tuition for grades K-12. This was a tremendous win for school choice."
But while that applied to parents paying tuition to a school for their student, it did not apply to homeschool families.
"So to support the growing homeschool movement in my next term, I will immediately fight to allow homeschool parents the same incredible benefit," Trump said.
In fact, homeschool numbers across the United States have exploded since the COVID pandemic, which pushed schools to do online classes, and that allowed parents all of a sudden to see the leftist ideologies actually being pushed in the classrooms of their local public schools. Multiple fights erupted, including when schools demanded the authority to control what was in the room in the family's home where online classes were watched.
Trump said his plan is for $10,000 a year per child, "completely tax-free, to spend on costs associated with homeschool education."
He said, "I will also work to ensure that every homeschool family is entitled to full access to the benefits available to non-homeschool students, including participating in athletic programs, clubs, after-school activities, educational trips, and more."
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Just days ago, a former county clerk in Colorado, a Republican, was jailed for nine years following an investigation that began when she was accused of posting a password for an elections system online.
Now the state's secretary of state, Democrat Jena Griswold, who previously tried to remove President Donald Trump from the 2024 election ballot, has admitted she posted multiple election system passwords online.
Griswold's agenda to banish Trump, endorsed by the all-Democrat state Supreme Court, was publicly rebuked by the U.S. Supreme Court, ending that part of her campaign against Trump.
The report said the state official claims the information was "improperly included," but the blunder was reported to the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency anyway.
In the leftist state, some 1.2 million ballots already have been mailed in, but a statement from Griswold's office claimed there's no "immediate" threat to the election, "nor will it impact how ballots are counted."
State officials claimed there are "two unique passwords" for each component of the system and they are held by different parents.
It was Tina Peters, former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk, 68, and a gold star mother, who was jailed for nine years.
According to a report from the Gateway Pundit, "She made a copy of her machines' information before performing the action requested by [Colorado leftist secretary of state Jena] Griswald, who demanded that all voting machines' election data should be erased (which is against the law) after the 2020 election."
The investigation of Peters began when authorities alleged she posted "election system passwords on the internet."
Peters maintains she had nothing to do with the crime of which she was accused and is being targeted for documenting election fraud in her county, the report explained.
She said she had gotten multiple reports of suspicious election events, but instead of investigating those situations, the FBI raided her home.
The report said, "Peters' defense team argued that her actions were within her authority as she sought to preserve what she believed were critical election records. Defense attorney John Case contended that there was no wrongdoing in copying hard drives, claiming that state officials intended to erase vital information during their updates."
Democrat appointee Judge Matthew Barrett imposed the sentence.
Denver reporter Kyle Clark asked Griswold about her blunder, and whether it was a crime, like Peters' offense:
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The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped into a fight in Virginia, stopping a lower court's order that the state add some 1,600 noncitizens back onto the voter rolls.
Fox News reports the decision by the high court was to take up a challenge from Virginia on an emergency basis.
The lower courts had demanded that the state reinstate hundreds of noncitizens to the state's voter rolls.
"We are pleased by the Supreme Court's order today," the governor explained in a statement distributed on the situation.
The fight is over whether a process in the state, to remove people identified as noncitizens, often by their own identification, from voter rolls.
Meanwhile, the National Voter Registration Act bans "systemic" removals during a 90-day period before an election.
The Joe Biden Department of Justice had sued the state, among multiple attacks on election integrity laws it has launched in recent days, declining to recognize the state's process is "individualized" and meets the requirements of state and federal law.
The state had identified those on the voter rolls without citizenship and told them to prove their citizenship or be removed.
Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares told the Supreme Court the NVRA does not extend to protections for 'self-identified noncitizens."
And he said the state's process is "individualized."
Meanwhile, attorneys general from all 26 Republican-led states joined Virginia in its fight in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, backing its assertion that the removal program was conducted on an "individualized" basis, and further, that the Justice Department's reading of the protections granted under NVRA are overly broad and do not apply to noncitizens.
It was a Biden-appointed judge, District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles, who claimed that Virginia's state program to work on keeping its voter rolls clean was "systemic," not "individual."
Her claim is that because of her determination, the rolls were cleaned within 90 days of an election, and that's in violation of the National Voter Registration Act.
It was the Biden administration, which has run a program of open borders for the nation for nearly four years now, removing obstacles that would prevent illegal aliens from simply walking onto U.S. land and taking advantage of the multitude of social and financial benefits programs, that sued the state for trying to remove those who are not eligible to vote.
Youngkin's order requiring the updates of voter lists was based on a 2006 state law signed by Tim Kaine, a Democrat who then was the state's governor.
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The 2024 presidential election is suddenly hotter than ever as hundreds of ballots have been burned in arson attacks on ballot boxes in numerous states.
The attacks took place at two ballot drop boxes Monday morning in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, and local authorities have turned the investigation over to the FBI.
The first blaze broke out in Portland around 3:30 a.m. local time, as "incendiary device" was placed inside the box.
KGW-TV reports: "Security personnel extinguished the fire before officers arrived. Portland police determined an 'incendiary device' was put inside the ballot box to ignite the fire. The bureau's Explosive Disposal Unit removed the device."
A half-hour later around 4 a.m., at a drop box 15 miles away in Vancouver, Washington, hundreds of ballots were damaged at the C-TRAN Park and Ride at Fisher's Landing Transit Center.
KGW noted: "The officers found a 'suspicious device' next to the ballot box, which was smoking and on fire, according to Vancouver police. A KGW crew saw flames and smoke coming from the ballot box around 6:30 a.m.
"The Metro Explosive Disposal Unit retrieved the device and the fire was extinguished, Vancouver police said."
"Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey told KGW that hundreds of ballots were severely burned, many of which were destroyed. Kimsey said anyone who dropped off a ballot in that box after 11 a.m. on Saturday should contact the elections division at 564-397-2345 or elections@clark.wa.gov."
CNN reports: "Other fires affecting ballots have been recently reported across the country. Last week, a mailbox outside a Phoenix post office was set on fire, damaging an unknown number of ballots. A 35-year-old man was charged with arson in connection with the incident. The Phoenix Police Department said he told them it was not politically motivated."