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#10 Georgia Election Chief Criticizes Fulton County for Last-Minute Ballot Acceptance Decision - Ashley Oliver for The Washington Examiner, and Rahul Bali on X
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended four blue Atlanta-area counties that opened election offices over the weekend to accept straggling absentee ballots, but he said Fulton County, in particular, should have communicated about it better. Raffensperger, a Republican, said he thought Gwinnett County election officials handled the process more transparently because they decided over the summer that their county would extend absentee ballot acceptance...
#9 Pennsylvania Election Officials Weighing In on Challenges to 4,300 Mail Ballot Applications - ABC News for AP, Tom Lisi, and Pittsburgh Post Gazette on X
More than 4,000 mail ballot applications have been challenged across 14 Pennsylvania counties, leaving election officials to decide voter eligibility during hearings that will extend well past Election Day. State elections officials say the “mass challenges” focused on two separate groups -- people who may have forwarded their mail without also changing their voter registration and nonmilitary U.S. voters living overseas. The overseas voters are only entitled to cast ballots under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act for president and congressional seats. The state had a 5 p.m. Friday deadline to for anyone to challenge mail-in ballot applications; any ballots from those voters whose applications were challenged must be sequestered until the county elections board officials hold a hearing to adjudicate the claims. Those hearings must be no later than Friday, three days after Election Day...
#8 8 States Will Vote on Measures That Would Explicitly Ban Noncitizens From Voting - Morgan Phillips for Fox News, Mike Netter, and Insurrection Barbie on X
Eight states will take to the polls on Tuesday to decide on ballot measures that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote. Ballot measures in Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Wisconsin come after House Republicans passed a bill over the summer that would require proof of citizenship to vote. That bill has not been taken up by the Senate. Some municipalities allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, like Washington, D.C., and a handful in Maryland, Vermont, and California. New York City’s law allowing noncitizen voting was struck down in court earlier this year...
#7 Judge Denies MO’s Attempt to Block Election Monitors in St. Louis - Staff for First Alert 4 St. Louis, Bob, Reuters Legal, and Attorney General Andrew Bailey on X
Monday night, a U.S. district judge rejected Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s effort to block federal election monitors for St. Louis on Election Day. Ashcroft announced his office, along with that of AG Bailey, filed a lawsuit intending to block the U.S. Department of Justice from monitoring a polling place in the St. Louis area for compliance with federal voting rights laws. U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk denied the state’s motion for a temporary restraining order during a virtual hearing Monday evening. The Department of Justice is the federal government’s law enforcement arm and performs these compliance checks every election cycle. Until 2022, no Missouri polling place was on the list of those to be monitored by the DOJ during Ashcroft’s tenure as Secretary of State...
#6 RNC Secures Major Election Integrity Victory in Dem-Run Georgia County - Candace Hathaway for Blaze Media, Jenna Ellis, Michael Whatley, and Joni Job on X
The Republican National Committee secured a significant legal victory for election integrity on Monday in a Democrat-run county outside of Atlanta, Georgia. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Cobb County, the third largest country in the state, cannot accept absentee ballots after the Election Day deadline, according to RNC chairman Michael Whatley. In a Monday afternoon post on X, he wrote, “HUGE election integrity victory in Georgia.” He explained that the county wanted to accept 3,000 late absentee ballots, but the court has blocked it. “We just got word that we WON the case. Election Day is Election Day — not the week after,” Whatley stated. “We will keep fighting, keep winning, and keep sharing updates.” RNC co-chair Lara Trump called it a “YUGE victory.”
#5 Notorious Wisconsin Election Official Is Ordered to Follow the Law - M.D. Kittle for The Federalist and on X
Swing state Wisconsin’s most notorious elections clerk repeatedly failed to follow election integrity laws. Now, on the eve of Election Day, the state’s elections regulator is ordering Green Bay Clerk Celestine Jeffreys to comply. The Wisconsin Elections Commission sent a letter to Jeffreys late last week after finally dealing with a complaint filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) on behalf of Green Bay residents. According to the complaint, the clerk did not comply with procedures for auditing voters who registered to vote at their polling places on Election Day for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 elections. “In short, and as detailed further in the analysis below, the Commission finds that the Complaint did show probable cause to believe that a violation of law or abuse of discretion occurred with relation to Clerk Jeffreys’s procedural actions,” the WEC order states...
#4 Pennsylvania County Gives Update on Probe of Suspicious Applications, Says 17 Percent Are Fraudulent - Misty Severi for Just the News, and Red Wave Press on X
Commissioner Ray D’Agostino on Monday updated voters on an investigation into 2,500 suspicious voter registration forms that were flagged to the county's elections board last month, confirming that 17% of the forms so far are fraudulent. A total of four Pennsylvania counties are investigating possible fraudulent voter and mail-in ballot applications in the final spin into Election Day. Those counties are Cambria County, Lancaster County, Monroe County, and York County. York and Lancaster both uncovered thousands of potentially fraudulent applications, while Cambria and Monroe saw less than 50 each...
#3 New Details: Election Passwords Posted Online for More Than 3 Months - Maddie Rhodes for Fox 31 Colorado, Jeff Carlson, Ashe in America, 9 News Denver, and Sheri on X
After partial passwords for voting systems were recently discovered posted on the Secretary of State’s website, an investigation found the passwords were posted in June. The Department of State said a former staff member, who left “amicably” before the incident, created a spreadsheet containing passwords in a hidden tab – which was not part of their security practice. This was posted online on June 21 and stayed on the Department’s subpage for voting system equipment until late October.
#2 States Previously Plagued by BLM Riots Ready National Guard in Case of Election Day Unrest - Katherine Hamilton for Breitbart, Ken Kmak, MJTruthUltra, The Hoffman Lenses, and TheRealGSN on X
Several states, including some Democrat-run states plagued by Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots in 2020, have readied the National Guard in case violence breaks out on Election Day. Washington Democrat Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Friday that he has activated some National Guard members to be on standby Monday to Thursday in case they need to assist local law enforcement. Seattle, Washington, was the home of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) that far-left rioters established after the death of George Floyd. Inslee said the move is “precautionary,” but pointed to “election-related unrest” that has occurred ahead of Tuesday. On October 28, devices with “Free Gaza” written on them were allegedly detonated inside ballot boxes in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. The Portland Police Department believes the incidents are connected.
#1 What Election Night Trends Could Provide Early Clues on Results?- Jeff Arnold for News Nation, The Investigative Examiners, Fox Across America, TLK, Aaron Klein, Jefferson X, and Hugh Jass on X
After months of political buildup, the 2024 election has arrived in what has remained a neck-and-neck race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris throughout the presidential candidates’ respective campaigns. How long the nation will have to wait for a presidential winner to be declared remains one of the biggest unanswered questions heading into Tuesday as well as which states could take the longest to report their results. However, a few trends could emerge early on that could signal which way things are leaning, and that could be worth watching in the hours after the polls close and results are released Tuesday night and the days after...
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