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Bytes Europe<p>Former Greece deputy supervisor reaches guilty plea <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/763055/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/763055/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CommunityService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityService</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GrandLarceny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrandLarceny</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greece</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GuiltyPlea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GuiltyPlea</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MichelleMarini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichelleMarini</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PublicTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTrust</span></a></p>
Axomamma<p>"It gives judges the opportunity to invite the governor to set aside an election with which they or the governor may be displeased"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PublicCorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicCorruption</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://boltsmag.org/georgia-judicial-elections-loophole-scrutiny/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boltsmag.org/georgia-judicial-</span><span class="invisible">elections-loophole-scrutiny/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p>
Kailee ♾️ Voting Midterms God<p>ATTN: This is most important court hearing to watch next week. The GOP does not want this case in federal court because they know a federal judge is not likely to toss out 60,000 lawful votes. Their plan is to have the partisan <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NC</span></a> state Supreme Court decide.</p><p>The blatantly unconstitutional conduct of throwing out votes, voter suppression, and fraudulently contesting Biden's win on/after January 6th with lies and fraudulent electors. Corrupt AF!</p><p><a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/4th-circuit-to-weigh-whether-nc-supreme-court-election-challenge-will-proceed-in-state-or-federal-court/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracydocket.com/news-alert</span><span class="invisible">s/4th-circuit-to-weigh-whether-nc-supreme-court-election-challenge-will-proceed-in-state-or-federal-court/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/electionlaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electionlaw</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> is known for…eschewing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulatory</span></a> restrictions. He is notorious for setting sky-high expectations for employees &amp; then cutting loose individuals or whole teams that disappoint him.<br>
<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>’s recent political ops have shown some of those hallmarks. Multiple contractors working w/AmericaPAC were suddenly fired &amp; the group received a warning from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> last month that Musk’s daily million-dollar voter giveaway could breach <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Young said he was surprised to hear <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> describe the giveaway as random at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> rally. He also acknowledged that the winners signed NDAs preventing them from speaking about the terms of the contracts.</p><p>Musk's giveaway falls in a gray area of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a>, &amp; legal experts are divided on whether <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> could be violating federal laws against paying people to register to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>John Summers, a lawyer for Krasner's office, said the admissions that the giveaway was not random made it not just an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a> lottery but also a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a>.</p><p>"If their story is true," Summers said in a closing argument, "it's one of the greatest scams of the last 50 years.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…Krasner said he would seek financial penalties against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericaPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericaPAC</span></a>.<br>Musk lawyer Chris Gober said the giveaway was not a prize, but rather <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/compensation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compensation</span></a> for people chosen to serve as spokespeople for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PAC</span></a>.</p><p>Later, Chris Young, an adviser for America PAC, testified that he selected winners out of a pool of candidates who appeared in videos for the group &amp; allowed it to use their images after reviewing their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> &amp; meeting them outside event venues.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The reps of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmericaPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericaPAC</span></a> were trying to persuade Angelo Foglietta, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pennsylvania</span></a> state judge, that the giveaway was not an "illegal lottery" as Philadelphia DA Lawrence Krasner alleged in a lawsuit seeking to block the contest ahead of Tue's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a>.</p><p>At the end of the hearing, Foglietta said he would issue a ruling shortly. The decision will not impact the future of the contest…. The PAC says its 2 remaining winners will be from Arizona &amp; Michigan….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>'s pro-<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> group hand-picks $1M voter giveaway winners, aide testifies</p><p>Musk's pro-Trump super <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PAC</span></a> has hand-picked the winners of its $1M-a-day giveaway to registered voters, a lawyer &amp; an adviser for the group said in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> on Monday, despite the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a>'s assertion the winners would be chosen “randomly."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionLaw</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-weighs-challenge-elon-musks-1-million-voter-giveaway-2024-11-04/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/legal/judge-weighs</span><span class="invisible">-challenge-elon-musks-1-million-voter-giveaway-2024-11-04/</span></a></p>
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Schierkolk is tied to a network of *#activists* [#criminals] who have pushed several baseless #ConspiracyTheories about corruption in elections &, at times, advocated the hand-counting of ballots, apparently believing that electronic voting machines are insecure. #Trump & his allies spread the idea widely after his defeat in 2020, claiming, falsely, that the machines had changed the votes to #Biden.

#law #ElectionLaw #criminal #conspiracy #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

2 local #election officials in #Michigan have been removed from overseeing the vote, in a forceful move to keep #Trump-aligned ofcls from trying to subvert election rules.

Tom Schierkolk, the clerk of Rock River Township in MI’s UP, & his deputy, David LaMere, were removed after telling state ofcls that they intended to hand count ballots before sending their tally on for the county canvass….

#law #ElectionLaw #criminal #conspiracy #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
nytimes.com/2024/10/30/us/poli

Michigan Clerk Removed From Election Duty Over Plans for a Hand CountThe New York Times
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The #US govt has regularly dispatched hundreds of monitors to voting locations…, aiming to protect ballot access, discourage improper #partisan #influence & act as a moderating force on political campaigns.

While the #DOJ has the #legal right to request access to polling sites, inflamed partisanship & ideological #extremism has contributed to greater resistance to such activities in some #GOP-controlled states….

#law #ElectionLaw #Election2024 #Republican #illiberalism #Vote #HarrisWalz2024

#SCOTUS allows #Virginia effort to strike #SUSPECTED noncitizen voters

VA Gov #GlennYoungkin (R) asked the justices to intervene after lower courts blocked efforts to cancel registrations of #voters who COULD BE #noncitizens.

A divided #SupremeCourt cleared the way Wednesday for VA ofcls to remove ~1,600 voters from the state’s registration rolls LESS THAN ONE week before the presidential #election.

#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #ElectionLaw #Vote #HarrisWalz2024
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Supreme Court allows Virginia effort to strike possible noncitizen votersThe Washington Post
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US Dist Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles rejected arguments from attys for Gov #Youngkin (R), who had signed an executive order Aug 7 to expedite the removal of #RegisteredVoters who checked a box on their driver’s license applications indicating they were not US citizens. FULLY QUALIFIED VOTERS who simply skipped or overlooked the question have been caught up in the purge, as have those who became #citizens years after their first interaction w/ the DMV.

#law #ElectionLaw #racism #HarrisWalz2024

Federal judge bars #Virginia from purging voters in #election’s home stretch

The #DOJ argued that eligible voters were getting swept up in the state’s effort to remove noncitizens.

The judge barred VA ofcls from automatically canceling the voter registrations of *suspected* noncitizens, saying the #law prohibits states from purging their voter rolls 90 days before a presidential election.

#ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression #BigLie #MAGA #Republicans #racism #HarrisWalz2024
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

Federal judge bars Virginia from purging voters in election’s home stretch The Washington Post