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Milwaukee Must Recount 31,000 Absentee Ballots Due to ‘Human Error’

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Milwaukee County will run 31,000 absentee ballots through counting machines again after “human error” left the doors of the machines unsealed during an initial count.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported:

Milwaukee’s central count location will rerun about 31,000 ballots after a “sealing” error with the tabulation machines was discovered at the downtown site, potentially delaying a final count by one to three hours, city spokesman Jeff Fleming said.

“It’s just out of an abundance of caution. We have no reason to believe that there was any compromise to any of the machines,” Fleming. “But because they were not fully sealed — human error — and not fully sealed, we are going to zero them all out again … and then rerun the balance that had already been processed.”

Caroline Reinwald, a spokesperson for the Milwaukee Election Commission, said that the doors had not been properly closed for the tabulation machines.

Reported about the problem circulated on social media as well.

(Read more from “Milwaukee Must Recount 31,000 Absentee Ballots Due to ‘Human Error’” HERE)

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Texas, Georgia Election Data Shatters Democrats’ Voter ID Lies

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It’s no secret that Democrats lie about commonsense election safeguards — especially voter ID laws.

While supported by the vast majority of Americans, these requirements, leftists baselessly argue, are evil because they suppress voters’ ability to cast ballots in any given election. In 2021, for example, Kamala Harris attempted to justify her opposition to such laws by outlandishly claiming voters — specifically those living in rural areas — have no way of making photocopies of their ID cards.

“I don’t think that we should underestimate what that [compromise on voter ID laws] could mean,” Harris said. “Because in some people’s mind, that means you’re going to have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don’t — there’s no Kinkos, there’s no OfficeMax near them.”

While it’s unclear what century the vice president believes we’re living in, Democrats’ insinuation that voters are too stupid to know how to acquire an acceptable form of ID to vote is not only insulting; it’s completely unsupported by the facts.

In a new report obtained by The Federalist, the Honest Elections Project (HEP) demonstrates how voter data from recent elections in Texas and Georgia disproves the left’s phony narrative that requiring eligible electors to provide ID when voting by mail “suppresses” their ability to participate in the electoral process. (Read more from “Texas, Georgia Election Data Shatters Democrats’ Voter ID Lies” HERE)

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Complaint Alleges as Many as 500 Ballots Were Dumped in a Milwaukee Drop Box

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Just a few days before the election, leftist-led Milwaukee is at the epicenter of another potential ballot scandal.

The Conservative Political Action Conference has filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission after receiving reports that an “unknown individual” shoved a “significant number of absentee ballots” into a Milwaukee absentee ballot drop box “before fleeing the scene.”

CPAC filed the complaint with WEC and local police, alleging illegal ballot harvesting and possible “fraud or corruption in the voting process.” Ballot harvesting is illegal in Wisconsin.

According to the complaint, obtained by Just the News, a witness reported that he observed an unknown individual stuff as many as 500 ballots into the unguarded drop box and flee after realizing he was being photographed. The witness attached four photographs of the suspect engaging in the alleged unlawful activity, but the photos are redacted in the complaint.

CPAC, best known for hosting conferences with top conservatives and grassroots activists, “received reports of illicit ballot harvesting at the dropbox location outside Milwaukee City Hall,” CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp wrote on his X account. “A witness reported an individual depositing a significant number of absentee ballots into the dropbox before fleeing the scene.

(Read more from “Complaint Alleges as Many as 500 Ballots Were Dumped in a Milwaukee Drop Box” HERE)

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Uh Oh, These States Are Already Having Voting Issues

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People are experiencing voter suppression at its finest while waiting to cast their ballot at Levittown, Pennsylvania— a Republican stronghold— because of an apparent staff shortage.

Voters lined up to vote on Friday were told they had to leave because there wasn’t enough staff to cover the long lines of people wanting to cast their ballots. Due to the overwhelming number of people who came out to vote, early in-person voting was extended to November 1. People in line said they couldn’t return on Election Day due to work and previous engagements. Some of the voters interviewed had been waiting in line for nearly six hours, saying they were frustrated and angry at the lack of preparation.

Also, in Levittown, voters were told to fill out their ballots and hand them to election workers, who said they would put them into the machine later.

The same is happening in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where “elections officials did the bare minimum to comply with court’s order to provide voting access through 5 PM today,” Trump campaign’s James Blair said.

Blair said that some polling sites in the area were staffed with just one or two workers even though the 2024 election would see some of the most significant numbers of people in history voting.

(Read more from “Uh Oh, These States Are Already Having Voting Issues” HERE)

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After Voter Finds Fraudulent Ballot Cast in His Name, New York Tells Him It Will Count Anyway

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“I’m sorry sir, but you already voted.”

“No I didn’t,” 55-year-old Mike Miner told a Wappingers Falls election worker on Sunday — yet that’s not what election records showed.

Miner told The Federalist that he decided to vote early, just one day after early voting began on Saturday.

“I went up to the table and was told I already voted,” Miner said. “I ask, ‘Where did I vote?’ Because, of course, this is very surprising to me. And they told me I voted in the town of Fishkill [which is located next to Wappingers], 22 minutes after early voting began on Saturday.”

Miner was given an affidavit ballot, which is a provisional ballot that is secured inside an affidavit envelope. A bipartisan team at the Dutchess County Board of Elections investigated the situation and determined that since the signature provided Saturday did not match Miner’s actual signature, Miner’s affidavit ballot will count — but so will the fraudulent vote cast Saturday in Miner’s name. That’s because once a ballot is cast, the vote itself becomes anonymous, making it impossible to identify the fraudulent vote and remove it from the bunch. (Read more from “After Voter Finds Fraudulent Ballot Cast in His Name, New York Tells Him It Will Count Anyway” HERE)

Judge Kills Case That Would Require Pennsylvania To Verify Overseas Voters’ Identities

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Pennsylvania election policies for overseas voters have created vulnerabilities that could lead to corruption according to a court case. With early voting underway, the Pennsylvania Department of State and six members of Congress have been in a legal battle over whether these voters’ identities should be verified before they are given a ballot.

But the case was dismissed Tuesday, at the request of Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt, not based on the merits of the case but because of timing. Plaintiffs “delayed too long to file their action, they lack standing, they have failed to join indispensable parties, and they have failed to articulate a viable cause of action,” Judge Christopher C. Conner of the U.S. Middle District Court of Pennsylvania said in his decision.

The case was brought by U.S. Reps. Guy Reschenthaler, Dan Meuser, Glenn “G.T.” Thompson, Lloyd Smucker, Mike Kelly, and Scott Perry, who joined the action later.

The case stems from guidance the state gave counties regarding the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), a federal law that assures American citizens who are out of the country can still vote. Sometimes UOCAVA voters are called military voters because they used to be mostly military. But since 2014, nonmilitary voters have outpaced those in the military, data from the Election Administration and Voting Survey shows.

Voters who have lived outside the United States for years and are not sure if they will return may vote in Pennsylvania’s election. (Read more from “Judge Kills Case That Would Require Pennsylvania To Verify Overseas Voters’ Identities” HERE)

Democrats In North Carolina’s Helene Disaster Area Block Emergency Early Voting Locations

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The havoc wrought by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina brought disaster to homes and families, but that has not stopped Democrats from blocking the approval of emergency early voting sites in the heavily Republican area. The refusal to act forced the GOP-led state legislature to intervene.

Democrat-run local elections boards in McDowell and Henderson counties have failed to approve additional early voting sites in the disaster-stricken area, despite increasing calls for more access to voting. Both counties voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

“Ensuring the right to vote is upheld for western NC citizens devastated by Hurricane Helene should be a non-partisan issue,” western North Carolina native Clay McCreary said, according to The Carolina Journal. McReary is North Carolina political director of Restoration of America, an organization that has been advocating for additional voting opportunities in the disaster area. “We simply cannot allow the people of western North Carolina who have lost so much to lose their voice in the political process.”

Meanwhile, Democrats in nearby deep-blue Buncombe County, home to Asheville, have already given the go-ahead for new voting locations to replace the ones damaged by Helene, bringing the county’s total to 10.

Despite being mostly out of the news cycle, destruction in western North Carolina is still extreme, and the area has not yet recovered. (Read more from “Democrats In North Carolina’s Helene Disaster Area Block Emergency Early Voting Locations” HERE)

‘Shameful’: Judge Stuns State With Order That ‘Noncitizens’ Be Put back on Voter Rolls

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A federal judge has stunned officials in the state of Virginia with an order that they put a list of 1,600 people, removed from voter rolls under a state program that cracks down on election fraud, back on the voter rolls.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin promised an immediate appeal of the scheme that could undermine election integrity.

It is WRIC that reported on the ruling from a Joe 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. (Read more from “‘Shameful’: Judge Stuns State With Order That ‘Noncitizens’ Be Put back on Voter Rolls” HERE)

Critical Battleground State Shatters Early Voting Records as Americans Show up in Droves

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One of the most pivotal battleground states in the 2024 election has now seen more than 1.4 million residents cast their ballots early.

Georgia has been shattering turnout records since early voting began on Tuesday.

As of Monday morning, the Georgia state elections website showed 1,347,843 ballots were cast in person so far, while just over 80,000 absentee ballots have been returned and accepted.

“Today there is Sunday voting in several counties. And AGAIN the voters have set another record,” Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer in the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, wrote on X yesterday. . .

The Sunday total wound up being just over 42,400 votes cast – nearly double the 2022 tally. (Read more from “Critical Battleground State Shatters Early Voting Records as Americans Show up in Droves” HERE)

GA Judge Rules Election Officials Must Rubber Stamp Results Even if They Are ‘Non-Sensical’

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AGeorgia judge ruled Monday that election officials must certify election results even if the results show “more votes than voters.”

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that “no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance,” even if there is a “non-sensical result.” McBurney did, however, agree that election superintendents have a responsibility to investigate discrepancies and are entitled to review election-related materials as part of this process.

Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (FCBRE) member Julie Adams, who brought the suit, argued (as described by McBurney’s ruling) in part that “it is proper for her, as a co-election superintendent who has taken an oath to ‘prevent any fraud, deceit, or abuse’ to exercise discretion in certifying election results — a conclusion, which, if correct, would empower her to refuse to certify if she believed the results to be incorrect or not sufficiently reliable to merit certification.”

The Democratic Party of Georgia threatened Adams with legal action after she did not certify the results of the March presidential preference primary. Adams initially filed a suit in May seeking clarification about her role. Adams said she refused to certify the results after she was allegedly denied access to election-related documents and asked that the court clarify her role to be discretionary — meaning members should only certify the results once they are confident the election was administered lawfully — rather than ministerial — meaning members must rubber-stamp results regardless of any concerns.

McBurney dismissed the plea four months later in September after ruling Adams made a procedural error in her filing. (Read more from “GA Judge Rules Election Officials Must Rubber Stamp Results Even if They Are ‘Non-Sensical’” HERE)