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The Real Danger With Mail-In Voting Is Presenting Itself Clearly; Soros, Wealthy Donors Pouring Millions Into Fraud-Laced Effort

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By Townhall. Say what you will about President Trump on this issue. He may not frame it right or whatever, but he is right that mail-in voting is a disaster. There is a possibility of fraud. Sorry, even The New York Times admitted that, and on top of those concerns, it’s the viability of this system. We’ve lost close to 30 million ballots in the last four elections. They’re gone. Lost forever. Still, the so-called fact-checkers say mail-in voting is pretty much fine.

In New Jersey, municipal elections in Paterson have been a disaster. One-in-five ballots were discovered to be fraudulent. Four people are being charged. In New York, their primaries from a month ago have yet to be called. As Fox News’s Brit Hume noted, it’s a “train wreck” (via NYT):

More than three weeks after the New York primaries, election officials have not yet counted an untold number of mail-in absentee ballots, leaving numerous closely watched races unresolved, including two key Democratic congressional contests.

The absentee ballot count — greatly inflated this year after the state expanded the vote-by-mail option because of the coronavirus pandemic — has been painstakingly slow, and hard to track, with no running account of the vote totals available.

In some cases, the tiny number of ballots counted has bordered on the absurd: In the 12th Congressional District, where Representative Carolyn B. Maloney is fighting for her political life against her challenger, Suraj Patel, only 800 of some 65,000 absentee ballots had been tabulated as of Wednesday, according to Mr. Patel, though thousands had been disqualified.

(Read more from “The Real Danger With Mail-In Voting Is Presenting Itself Clearly in New York” HERE)
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Wealthy Americans Pouring Millions into Mail-In Voting Effort

By AP. Deep-pocketed and often anonymous donors are pouring over $100 million into an intensifying dispute about whether it should be easier to vote by mail, a fight that could determine President Donald Trump’s fate in the November election.

In the battleground of Wisconsin, cash-strapped cities have received $6.3 million from an organization with ties to left-wing philanthropy to help expand vote by mail. . . “The pandemic has created a state of emergency,” said Laleh Ispahani, the U.S. managing director for Open Society, a network of nonprofits founded by billionaire progressive donor George Soros. “Donors who haven’t typically taken on these issues now have an interest.”

How much will be spent is unclear because many of the organizations are nonprofits that won’t disclose those details to the IRS until well after the election. Even then, many sources of money will remain unknown because such groups don’t have to disclose their donors, commonly referred to as “dark money.”

(Read more about wealthy Americans’ mail-in voting funding HERE)

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Mass Fraud: Thousands of North Carolina Voters Double-Voted, Watchdog Group Finds

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Thousands of voters in North Carolina voted twice in one or both of the past two elections, according to a court filing in the key battleground state.

Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity group, announced Thursday that it had filed a brief in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina outlining the number of double votes.

A total of 16,700 duplicate votes were cast in the 2016 and 2018 elections, according to an audit by the watchdog group based on public records.

North Carolina was home to a disputed voter fraud case in 2018.

Public Interest Legal Foundation made the court filing in the case of Democracy NC et. al. v. North Carolina State Board of Elections, which seeks to suspend North Carolina’s protections for mail-in voters during the presidential election in November in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Specifically, the state’s public voter rolls show that even with election integrity mechanisms in place, voters registered in more than one precinct are credited for voting a second ballot.

This could be an individual voting twice or someone voting while using someone else’s identity. Such cases largely have resulted from poor maintenance of voter rolls at the local level—for example, not updating the rolls when voters move.

The audit found that in the 2016 presidential election in North Carolina, about 9,700 voters were credited with voting twice. Of these cases, about half—or 5,000—were mail-in ballots.

Two years later, during the 2018 midterm election, about 7,000 voters were credited with voting twice. Of those, 2,900 were mail-in votes, the audit says.

It is not clear how many of the same voters voted twice in both elections.

In one of the most high-profile voter fraud cases in recent years, the North Carolina State Board of Elections decertified the outcome of the 2018 race in the 9th Congressional District and ordered a new election after evidence of absentee ballot fraud emerged.

In that race, 61% of all mailed votes were cast for Republican Mark Harris over Democrat Dan McCready, although only 16% of those requesting a ballot were Republicans. In the new election, Republican Dan Bishop stepped in as the party nominee and won.

“This is a widespread concern in North Carolina,” J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of Public Interest Legal Foundation, said in a written statement. “We should be talking about how to strengthen our systems against misdeeds done out of the sight of election officials in 2020 instead of defending an imperfect system from total ruin.”

Those suing, Adams said, “are only raising the threat of worsening the settled fact that voter fraud is most common in the mail.”

The lawsuit in North Carolina by Democracy NC, the League of Women Voters, and others calls for waiving requirements that voter registration forms be submitted 25 days before an election, eliminating the witness signature on absentee ballots, allowing ballots to be received in ways other than mail, such as contactless dropboxes, and increasing early voting. (For more from the author of “Mass Fraud: Thousands of North Carolina Voters Double-Voted, Watchdog Group Finds” please click HERE)

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Soros Groups’ Vote-By-Mail Drive Aims to Expand Government Control; Vote-By-Mail Would Create Chaos and Distrust in November

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By Scott Walker. Liberals have made quick use of the coronavirus crisis to promote all manner of policy prescriptions that, under less dire circumstances, would be ignored or lamented by conservatives. The left’s latest gambit is the George Soros-backed vote-by-mail scheme, which promises an election cycle ripe for fraud.

But that’s merely one data point in a vast array of efforts being funded by the left-wing billionaire. His minions, with a great deal of help from rich Uncle George, are using the pandemic as an opportunity to prey on destabilization and panic to usher in their dream of expanding government control of our lives.

At Capital Research Center, we’ve just combed through the latest IRS filings from Soros’ top funding vehicles. They tell the tale, starting with vote-by-mail and absentee ballots in general.

The Brennan Center for Justice, heavily funded by Soros’ Open Society, is spearheading a plan that calls for a “universal vote-by-mail option for all voters,” or more precisely, absentee ballot initiatives. The newest portion of the plan involves “secure drop boxes in accessible locations for voters to drop off ballots directly.”

Democrats already have managed to pass into law some absentee ballot provisions using the coronavirus relief package. Deep in the bowels of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill Congress passed in late March was a vote-by-mail timebomb that conservatives will come to regret in the 2020 election. (Read more from “Soros Groups’ Vote-By-Mail Drive Aims to Expand Government Control” HERE)

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Vote-By-Mail Would Create Chaos and Distrust in November

By The Hill. Mandated mail-in voting and other extreme changes to the 2020 election in response to the COVID-19 pandemic could further undermine public confidence in the American electoral system.

Many states, most notably California, are pushing mass mail-in balloting. This move is driven by inflammatory rhetoric from largely left-leaning politicians and activists suggesting that voting in person is so dangerous that people will die from exercising the franchise. This irresponsible rhetoric is likely to be gravely suppressive of the right to vote, as it could scare many citizens from voting in person.

Mail-in voting is a proven and significant threat to election integrity. In 2005, the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission noted that mail-in ballots “remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” The commission highlighted the risks of blank ballots mailed to wrong addresses, as well as voter intimidation outside controlled polling places and vote-buying schemes.

One of the main reasons the Carter-Baker Commission identified absentee ballot fraud as “the largest source of potential voter fraud” is simple: It poses fewer risks for a person filling out and mailing a fraudulent ballot. By contrast, a person attempting “impersonation” fraud at a polling site must at least appear to cast the vote and, in consequence, may be found out and detained.

Mass mailing ballots to voters depends on voter registration rolls that are notoriously error-ridden. A Pew Research Center report issued during the Obama administration years noted that “24 million — one of every eight — active voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate,” and more than “1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as active voters.” Judicial Watch has found voter list maintenance issues in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado and California, numbering into the millions of voters. (Read more from “Vote-By-Mail Would Create Chaos and Distrust in November” HERE)

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No Surprise: Democrats Hold Sizable Lead in Vote-By-Mail Enrollment

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Democrats are holding a sizeable lead in vote-by-mail enrollment in Florida, leading Republicans by over 300,000 voters, according to Division of Election data released last week.

Current data shows Democrats enjoying a sizeable advantage, enrolling 1.46 million Democrats for vote-by-mail. Republicans, meanwhile, have 1.16 million signed up. According to Politico, Democrats “held an advantage of about 8,800 in vote-by-mail enrollment” in 2016. The news could signal trouble for the Trump campaign, which narrowly secured the Sunshine State in the last election, winning by less than 113,000 votes.

Democrats, both nationwide and in Florida, specifically, have been encouraging voters to apply for absentee ballots, citing concerns related to the novel coronavirus. However, Republicans, including the president and Attorney General William Barr, have warned against vote-by-mail on a large scale due to the increased risk of voter fraud.

The Democrat PAC Priorities USA filed a lawsuit last month against Florida officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), demanding changes to provisions to make vote-by-mail easier for November’s election. (Read more from “No Surprise: Democrats Hold Sizable Lead in Vote-By-Mail Enrollment” HERE)

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Democrats Create a Workaround to Advance Voter Fraud

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Despite what the media tell people, outside large urban areas, leftist political ideology isn’t very popular in America, and that’s true despite decades of leftism in education, news, and entertainment. Leftists, however, have developed a way to circumvent the fact that stubborn Americans will not vote for Marxist policies or politicians: they use judges to advance their agenda. That’s why, as we saw with the Brett Kavanaugh nomination, leftists will do anything to get their people on the Supreme Court and to keep conservative judges off the Court.

What works best for leftists is to have state attorneys and judges willingly work with them to overthrow the will of the people, the written law, or the Constitution. In Minnesota, leftists are using this tactic to force mail-in only voting on the state. Mail-in voting is an invitation to uncontrolled voting fraud, something that mostly favors Democrats. After all, the Democrats’ idea of a good election is to walk through the streets calling, “Bring out your dead!”

. . .The good news is that the Trump campaign and the local Minnesota Republican Party are actively fighting the tactic. Their fight is only going to be as effective as the federal courts in Minnesota allow it to be. As we’ve seen with the hard-left Ninth Circuit and the Roberts-controlled Supreme Court, activist judges believe that the black robes they wear give them a magical conduit to a purer form of “truth” that is always Marxist. (Read more from “Democrats Create a Workaround to Advance Voter Fraud” HERE)

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Appeals Court Rebukes Imperious Judge Over Absurd Absentee Ballot Ruling

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has taken federal District Judge Fred Biery to the proverbial woodshed over an outlandish order he issued in late May.

In that order, Biery required Texas to allow all voters to vote by mail even if they didn’t otherwise meet the state’s eligibility requirement for an absentee ballot.

In a stunning June 4 rebuke written by Judge Jerry Smith, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit said that Biery’s order will be “remembered more for [its] audacity than legal reasoning.”

The appeals court panel said that although Biery wanted “to take matters into his own hands,” the spread of COVID-19 has not given unelected federal judges “a roving commission to rewrite state election codes” and intervene just weeks before an election.

Smith summarized Biery’s order using Biery’s own silly language and bizarre arguments:

The district court suggests that, by requiring able-bodied, young voters who are present in the county to visit the polls in person when they may possibly contract the Virus (notwithstanding doubled early voting and other precautionary measures), the state officials wished ‘to return to the not so halcyon and not so thrilling days of yesteryear of the Divine Right of Kings,’ ‘the doctrine that kings have absolute power because they were placed on their thrones by God and therefore rebellion against the monarch [was] always a sin.’

‘One’s right to vote should not be elusively based on the whims of nature,’ the court opined and therefore, ‘[c]itizens should have the option to’ vote by mail.

Otherwise, according to [Biery], ‘our democracy and the Republic would be lost and government of the people, by the people, and for the people [should] perish from the earth.’

The 5th Circuit panel said, though, that “to resolve this appeal, we need not—and will not—consider the prudence of Texas’s plans for combating the virus when holding elections. Instead, we must decide only whether the challenged provisions of the Texas Election Code run afoul of the [U.S.] Constitution, not whether they offend the policy preferences of a federal district judge.”

Needless to say, the panel found that the provisions likely did not violate the Constitution, that Texas will likely succeed on the merits of its appeal, and stayed—i.e., blocked—Biery’s order from taking effect.

Still, the 5th Circuit panel continued its strong rebuke of Biery, saying that he was “[n]o stranger to rank speculation” when he “accused Texas of seeking to disenfranchise a certain ‘sector of the population because of the way they [sic] may vote.’”

The appeals court said that this “is an extremely serious accusation that calls into question the judge’s evenhandedness.”

The appellate judges were so troubled by it that they addressed it again later in the opinion and said this is a “grave and malicious accusation for a district judge to make.”

They said, “This kind of drive-by speculation about the state’s covert motives is utterly impermissible and finds no support in this record. Instead of searching for a conceivable basis for the rules, [Biery] jerry-rigged some straw men and proceeded to burn them.”

They summarized their finding saying, “it was not for the district judge to disparage Texas’s response to the Virus and constitutionalize his favored version of the Election Code.”

To justify his opinion, the panel noted, Biery cited (and, we might add, spun for his own purposes) “the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, the Bible, and various poems,” none of which are actual sources of applicable law for a federal judge.

While the 5th Circuit panel rebuked and rebutted Biery at nearly every turn in its opinion, the appellate judges took specific issue with two aspects of Biery’s screed: 1) the fact that he gave short shrift to the state’s concerns about voter fraud being more pervasive with the use of absentee ballots, and 2) the fact that he refused to abstain from hearing the case while Texas state law issues were working their way through Texas state courts.

With regards to the former, the appeals court said, “According to the district court, the fact that ‘[b]etween 2005 [and] 2018’—when, of course, far fewer than literally all Texas voters were eligible to vote by mail—‘there were 73 prosecutions out of millions of votes cast’ indicates not that voter fraud is difficult to detect and prosecute, but instead that ‘vote by mail fraud is [not] real.’”

As we’ve previously written, and The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database shows, Biery’s unfounded conclusion just isn’t true.

Judge James Ho, a recent Trump appointee, hammered home this point in a compelling concurrence. In it, he discussed a state’s strong interest in maintaining the integrity of its elections.

“The right to vote is fundamental to our constitutional democracy. But it means nothing if your vote doesn’t count. And it won’t count if it’s canceled by a fraudulent vote—as the Supreme Court has made clear in case after case.”

To further prove his point that states have a compelling interest in protecting the integrity of their elections and the greater likelihood of fraud occurring using absentee ballots, he cited other instances where courts recognized that such fraud occurs.

He even cited data from the Brennan Center for Justice, a liberal think tank that has the explicit goal of making “voting free, fair, and easy” and opposes almost all security measures intended to protect the integrity of the election process, including voter ID requirements.

The Brennan Center could hardly be painted as a dark force for voter suppression. In fact, Ho said that the Brennan Center “found ‘extensive problems with absentee ballot fraud’ in various elections—including a 1997 Miami election that ‘was overturned on the basis of absentee ballot fraud.’”

With regards to the latter issue (abstention), the 5th Circuit panel in a lengthy footnote criticized Biery for refusing to abstain while Texas state law issues worked their way through Texas state courts.

The “district court’s decision to forge ahead despite an intimately intertwined—and, at that time, unresolved—state-law issue was not well-considered.”

The appeals court panel went so far as to say that the “district court’s reasons for not abstaining are suspect,” and that Biery’s refusal to refrain from ruling on an issue being considered by the state courts “turned our jurisprudence on its head.”

The 5th Circuit panel also commented on the irony of the plaintiffs in the case, which included the Texas Democratic Party, telling the appeals court it should “refrain from intervening” in forthcoming elections and refuse to stay Biery’s absurd order because of “the proximity” of the upcoming elections.

That was despite the fact that the plaintiffs had just obtained “an injunction intervening in forthcoming elections” from Biery.

That, said the panel, “reminds us of the legal definition of chutzpah: … a young man, convicted of murdering his parents, who argues for mercy on the ground that he is an orphan.”

Clearly, the conduct of Biery troubled his judicial colleagues. Unfortunately, his conduct isn’t an isolated incident, where judges have behaved in a less-than-judicious—perhaps even partisan—manner when it comes to important election (and other) issues.

The need to depoliticize the courts and to appoint constitutionally committed judges is highlighted by this case.

Fortunately, the 5th Circuit stopped (at least temporarily) Biery’s regal decree from upending Texas’ election procedures, and in the process took a step toward reminding judges to focus on what the law requires, rather than what their own partisan preferences are when it comes to state policies.

Judges need to act like judges, not legislators. (For more from the author of “Appeals Court Rebukes Imperious Judge Over Absurd Absentee Ballot Ruling” please click HERE)

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Pelosi: Republicans Are Afraid of Vote by Mail; Lawsuit Claims Michigan Risks Fraud, as County Has More Registered Voters Than People Who Can Vote

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By Breitbart. Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused the Republican Party of being “afraid of the vote.” Thus, she argued Republicans were attempting to limit voting by mail.

Host Brooke Baldwin asked, “Do you any concern how things will go in November just from what they experienced in Georgia late last night.”

Pelosi said, “I agree with the distinguished mayor had to say, and she has firsthand experience in the voter suppression that exists, and it takes many forms including not being ready for an election that you know what your responsibilities are. Let me say that in the HEROES Act which we hope will be passed which supports our first responders and our health care workers, our heroes in all of this, our teachers and the rest, against the fight against the coronavirus, and helps state and localities do their job — also having their considerable resources for voting by mail. This is not only a democracy issue of helping people vote at home, therefore, making it easier for them, it is a health issue in the time of the coronavirus. To see what happened in Georgia, where in certain neighborhoods that are more affluent and more white, it took you 20 minutes to vote. But it took hours in other neighborhoods. One could be suspicious that could be by design. So, again, in the bill, we have $3.6 billion—” . . .

She added, “But I will tell you if you saw the Republican playbook on voter suppression, you would see that there is a plan here that says we’re afraid of the vote, we’re going to do everything we can to limit it. Limit it in terms of geography, locations, and in terms of timing as to how late or in advance polls are open and limit it in terms of mechanics of the election when it comes to voting by mail. But you know what, we don’t agonize, we organize. We’re going to be ready for all of this — because that is what we owe our Constitution, and that is what we owe our democracy. That is what we owe our children and all of the American people.” (Read more from “Pelosi: Republicans Are Afraid of Vote by Mail” HERE)

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Lawsuit Claims Michigan Risks Fraud, as County Has More Registered Voters Than People Who Can Vote

By Fox News. A voter filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Bureau of Elections Director Jonathan Brater and other officials, claiming that in at least 16 counties voter rolls have not been properly maintained and that this leaves them vulnerable to fraud in November’s election.

Tony Daunt, a Republican active in his state and county parties, alleges that the Michigan voter registration rates in these counties are “suspiciously high” because their voting records have not been cleaned out to remove ineligible voters, including those who have died, moved, or been convicted of felonies. . .

The lawsuit cited data compiled by the Honest Elections Project, which includes information from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014-18 American Community Survey and the latest count of registered voters from Benson’s office.

In one county, the number of registered voters actually exceeded the number of people of voting age.

“Comparing the registered voter count to the 2014-18 American Community Survey reveals that Leelanau County has a registration rate of 102%,” the complaint says. In 15 other counties mentioned in the lawsuit, that percentage is above 90 percent. (Read more from “Lawsuit Claims Michigan Risks Fraud, as County Has More Registered Voters Than People Who Can Vote” HERE)

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USPS Mail Carrier Charged with Fraud After Allegedly Tampering with Vote-by-Mail Requests

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Federal and state prosecutors in West Virginia announced Tuesday that it they had charged a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier with attempted fraud for allegedly tampering with requests for vote-by-mail absentee ballots.

A joint statement by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell, and Secretary of State Mac Warner said:

Thomas Cooper, 47, of Dry Fork, stands charged with attempting to defraud the residents of West Virginia of a fair election. An affidavit accompanying the criminal complaint states Cooper fraudulently altered eight absentee ballot requests in Pendleton County, of which the complaint states he fraudulently changed the party affiliation on five from Democrat to Republican.

“Manipulating one’s absentee ballot or application is not a laughing matter – it’s a federal offense,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “We must protect the integrity of the ballot box, and this demonstrates the aggressive action we will take to do so. It is more important now than ever for voters to watch for unexplained or suspicious marks and/or any other irregularity with their ballot. If something looks suspicious, let us know right away.”

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Biden Denies Fraud in Mail-In Voting: ‘No Evidence Whatsoever’; GOP Groups Sue California Governor, Claim Vote-By-Mail Order Is ‘Brazen Power Grab’

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By Breitbart. Sunday on WISN’s “Up Front,” presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said there was “no evidence whatsoever” that mail-in voting is fraud-ridden. . .

Biden said, “I will tell you what, you mean Trump fraud? Look, he’s sitting in the White House filling out absentee ballots to vote in a primary in Florida. Now, why is it not fraud when he does it, and anyone else would do it? There’s no evidence whatsoever.” (Read more from “Biden Denies Fraud in Mail-In Voting: ‘No Evidence Whatsoever'” HERE)

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GOP Groups Sue California Gov. Newsom, Claim Vote-By-Mail Order Is ‘Brazen Power Grab’

By Fox News. The Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and California Republican Party sued Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Sunday, claiming an executive order sending mail-in ballots to all registered voters in the state is an “illegal power grab” that invites potential fraud.

Newsom’s order, aimed at allowing voters to avoid exposure to coronavirus, will send ballots to all registered voters including inactive voters. This has led to concerns that ballots sent to people who have moved or died will end up being filled out and submitted anyway unless voter rolls are inspected and cleaned out before ballots are mailed. Many Republicans have expressed concern that Democrats could try using these ballots improperly, to swing races in their favor.

“In a direct usurpation of the legislature’s authority, Governor Newsom issued an executive order purporting to rewrite the entire election code for the November 2020 election cycle,” read the complaint, filed Sunday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. “This brazen power grab was not authorized by state law and violates both the Elections Clause and Electors Clause of the U.S. Constitution.”

The lawsuit claimed Newsom “has created a recipe for disaster” by ordering ballots be sent to everyone registered to vote including inactive voters, arguing that “it invites fraud.” The Republicans also claimed that by giving Newsom the sole power over determining where and if in-person voting will take place, it will lead to “arbitrary and disparate treatment of individual voters,” violating the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

As examples of potential foul play, the complaint noted that mailed ballots easily could be intercepted by the wrong parties if they’re mistakenly sent to the wrong addresses or if the recipients lived in large residential buildings. Additionally, the Republicans wrote, voters could be susceptible to pressure from others when voting outside the private, secret confines of a voting booth. (Read more from “GOP Groups Sue California Gov. Newsom, Claim Vote-By-Mail Order Is ‘Brazen Power Grab'” HERE)

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Former Judge of Elections Admits to Stuffing Ballot Boxes for Democrats in Return for Bribe Money; Trump Claims ‘Total Election Fraud’ as Coronavirus Could Force States to Vote by Mail

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By The Blaze. Former Philadelphia Judge of Elections Domenick J. DeMuro has pleaded guilty to stuffing ballot boxes for Democratic candidates in primary elections in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced in a news release Thursday, detailing how DeMuro, 73, defrauded the public and took bribes in doing so. He was charged and pleaded guilty on the same day.

The two counts were listed as follows:

(1) conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections, and (2) a violation of the Travel Act, which forbids the use of any facility in interstate commerce (here, a cell phone) with the intent to promote certain illegal activity (here, bribery).

During the plea hearing, DeMuro admitted that a political consultant, who was not named, gave him money in return for him illegally adding votes to certain Democratic candidates who had either hired the consultant or were the consultant’s preferred candidates. (Read more from “Former Judge of Elections Admits to Stuffing Ballot Boxes for Democrats in Return for Bribe Money” HERE)

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Trump Claims ‘Total Election Fraud’ as Coronavirus Could Force States to Vote by Mail

By WJLA. As state election officials scramble to expand absentee voting options amid the pandemic, President Donald Trump has called into question the integrity of the process, accusing his rivals of trying to steal the November election by mail.

Before leaving the White House for Michigan Thursday, President Trump rejected the idea of states adopting vote-by-mail systems. “We don’t want them to do mail-in ballots because it’s going to lead to total election fraud,” Trump told reporters. (Read more from “Trump Claims ‘Total Election Fraud’ as Coronavirus Could Force States to Vote by Mail” HERE)

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