Appeals Court Upholds Block On Trump's Mail-In Voting Executive Order
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Updated #USPS policy says #postmarks might not indicate the first day the Postal Service received the mail, but rather the day it was handled in one of its processing centers. Those centers are increasingly likely to be further away from certain communities because of recent consolidations within the Postal Service, which could further delay postmarks.
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Nearly 150,000 #MailBallots rejected in #California primary despite efforts to count every vote.
Lawmakers concerned about #USPS #postmark changes.
In January, a group of mostly Democratic US senators sent a letter to the USPS, alarmed that mail-processing changes might affect postmark dates for mail-in ballots during an #election year that will determine control of #Congress.
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#Trump is going to have a field day with this —
Roughly 400 #noncitizens voted in #NewJersey after about 6,600 residents were improperly registered to vote between June 2023 & June 2024 because of a software error at the #DMV, Gov #MikieSherrill announced Tuesday.
ALL of the people affected had disclosed that they were not citizens when registering for either a driver’s license or ID, but were nonetheless placed on the voter rolls in error.
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“These individuals answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a US citizen when applying for drivers’ licenses & identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway,” the governor said in a statement.
All 6,600 people will be removed from the voter rolls.
NYT could not independently verify those figures.
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Sherrill, a Democrat who took over in January, held a news conference to disclose the error tied to a software vendor that is being phased out of use in #NewJersey.
State officials became aware of the error last week & began an immediate investigation into what had happened.
“I want to underscore how seriously I take this matter,” Sherrill said.
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What’s more, former intelligence officials have said, #China gathered the data not to manipulate voting results, but instead to better craft influence campaigns to shape voters’ perceptions.
While the documents outline some nascent interest by Chinese officials in influence operations, they concede Beijing never endorsed any broad-based effort to undercut #Trump.
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#Trump also referred to a report about #Venezuela showing it could successfully tamper with #VotingMachines.
But documents posted by the White House featured an analysis by the #CIA last month that assessed intelligence collected over nearly two decades about the Venezuelan government’s ability to rig elections through voting machine tech.
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And, John Solomon, who is leading #Trump’s task force on declassifying documents on a range of issues, told reporters outside the White House that the intelligence community documents show NO EVIDENCE that votes in election machines were changed in the past three #elections.
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The documents also do not contain any significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in #election systems. One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt∶ “We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results.”
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Takeaways From Trump’s Address Claiming Election Vulnerabilities
Documents released by the #Trump admin to support his claims do not back up his statements.
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Now, of course, #Trump has restocked the leadership of intelligence agencies with people who frequently echo his often-debunked lies about #elections.
After 24 minutes Trump ended his speech by urging passage of the SAVE Act.
The bill, known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, requires documentary proof of #US #citizenship for anyone registering to vote—something #VotingRights groups warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans.
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Noncitizen voting is already illegal under federal #law & incredibly rare.
All in all this was a great big nothing burger.
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#Trump address
ABC, NBC & CNN decided not to air the remarks live. CBS said it was “airing a special report” during the address.
Trump began by repeating campaign-style boasts
The White House has created a new website posting documents that Trump claims reveal major ‘areas of concerns’ in #election security.
Trump made vague allegations including a rant against one of his favorite targets — “members of the deep state.”
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#Trump claimed that intelligence agencies covered up China’s attempt to disrupt US #elections. But Trump appointed the very people who led those intelligence agencies in 2020.
Indeed, Trump was given the assessment from those agencies on Jan. 7, 2021, that no foreign country tried to change vote totals or fake ballots in the election. There’s no record of him objecting to the finding at the time.
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“Our country has to shape up,” #Trump said, calling it a “big announcement.”
“It doesn’t get bigger,” he added, “because without free & fair elections, you don’t have a country.”
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#Trump says he will discuss #elections security & #VotingMachines in an address to the country Thursday night, a likely escalation in his gaslighting efforts to suggest that #US election results cannot be trusted.
Trump has repeatedly described US voting systems as corrupt & vulnerable, despite the fact that he won 2 presidential elections.…
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#Trump “intelligence” pick #JayClayton says he’s not an #ElectionDenier but refuses to say Biden won the #2020election
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Get over it! #SoreLoser!
#Trump is planning a prime-time address on #2020election allegations.
Tomorrow night, Trump will argue that the country’s election infrastructure has vulnerabilities & refer to a recent probe of government files. He told reporters “it’s really big news.”
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The plan came after a confidential White House briefing on Monday to review findings from the #Trump admin’s broad reexamination of old #FBI records, including from the #2020election…. Trump then announced the speech on social media, without specifying the subject.
In recent weeks, FBI Dir #KashPatel has dispatched hundreds of agents to help the bureau’s Atlanta field office review 700 files by July 17….
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