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Tracking interference into our elections
In 2016, we had to worry about the Russians interfering in our elections. In 2020 we worried that the Russians would interfere again never did we think that the President of the Untied States would be the one inferring in our elections and attempting to steal the election. Some Republicans are now helping Donald J. Trump interfere with, subvert the law and the will of the people, and steal the election depriving 80,000,000 of their votes. Trump will fail in his attempt to steal the election however, the damage that he and his enablers have done to our democracy will be long lasting.
Story by Marisa Laudadio

Republicans wanted answers. Democrats wanted transparency. What they got was a closed-door deposition that kicked off with a bombshell claim.

In a private interview on Capitol Hill with the House Judiciary Committee, former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith said his team discovered “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trump criminally conspired to overturn the 2020 election — testimony that GOP lawmakers have so far kept private.

Smith confirms evidence of criminal conduct
Smith told the committee that his team met the highest legal threshold when investigating Trump’s actions after the 2020 election.

According to Smith’s opening statement, which was obtained by outlets including the Associated Press and NBC News, there was prosecutable evidence Trump engaged in a “criminal scheme” to subvert his election loss — conduct that preceded the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Smith also said investigators uncovered “powerful evidence” that Trump broke the law by retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., and by obstructing government efforts to recover them.

“I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump’s political association, activities, beliefs or candidacy in the 2024 election,” Smith said.

He added that party affiliation would not have changed his approach, saying he would prosecute a former president “based on the same facts today … whether the president was a Republican or Democrat.”
Story by Alex Griffing

President Donald Trump sparked a wave of anger and criticism on Monday when he told Dan Bongino that “Republicans oughta nationalize” voting and the federal government should take over running elections in “at least 15 places.”

“These people were brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally,” Trump said, repeating a baseless claim he regularly makes about illegal immigration and voting.

“And it’s amazing the Republicans aren’t tougher on it. The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.’” Trump was primarily talking about Minnesota, and he claimed he “won the state three times, but got no credit for it.” The last GOP presidential candidate to win Minnesota was Richard Nixon in 1972.
Story by Brian Clark Clark

The dispute goes well beyond ordinary partisan messaging. It touches one of the basic features of American elections, where state and local officials rather than presidents usually control how voting is administered.

A Republican governor is warning that Trump appears to be pushing for greater control over elections after Trump said Republicans should “take over the voting” and “nationalise” elections. Critics argue that Trump is seeking more influence over election administration, placing state officials and local voting systems at the center of a broader fight over federal power.

The warning matters because Trump’s remarks did not occur by themselves. They came as federal authorities renewed scrutiny of 2020 election records in Georgia and sought election materials in Michigan, raising fresh questions about the limits of presidential authority and the role of states in running elections.

Trump’s voting remarks raised alarms
During a podcast interview with Dan Bongino, his former deputy FBI director, Trump urged Republicans to “take over” voting in “at least 15 places,” according to the BBC. He also said Republicans should “nationalise the voting.”

Those comments are at the heart of the controversy. Elections in the United States are not generally administered by the federal government. State law governs much of the process, while thousands of local officials handle voting operations, including secretaries of state, county clerks, election boards and poll workers.
Story by Dan Gooding

A Trump administration official in California criticized the state’s voter ID rules on Monday, alleging that nobody was checking whether voters were American citizens, as it was reported that the federal government plans a wider crackdown on alleged voter fraud in select states.

In an interview with Fox News, U.S. Attorney for Central California Bill Essayli said the state allows “anybody to register to vote on the honor system. There isn’t anybody in government checking to confirm you are a citizen,” when talking about a case of voter fraud.

Essayli’s comments came as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to announce thorough investigations into voter fraud in states including New York, Pennsylvania and California, according to CNN. The department is set to announce more details on the crackdown Tuesday, the outlet reported.

“While ICE Homeland Security Investigations is not able to comment on any active investigations, HSI is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found,” a DHS spokesperson told Newsweek on Monday afternoon. “We have repeatedly demonstrated that illegal aliens can and do vote in our elections. Under President Trump, HSI is committed to restoring integrity to our election systems and ensuring that American citizens and only American citizens are electing American leaders.”
Story by Tierney Sneed, CNN

The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator.

The unnamed whistleblower is alleging that some of the procedures USPS is planning – under mandates put forward by President Donald Trump – have been hidden from the public. Those procedures will make an already complicated and risky plan even more vulnerable to potential mass disenfranchisement, the whistleblower says.

The new report – which was assembled by the whistleblowers’ lawyers and released by Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal – comes as multiple courts are considering the legality of the proposal, which would require that states submit to USPS lists of their mail-in voters. The agency will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s picked up by agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots.

“USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for a September 1 implementation - raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug,” said the report.
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