#SCOTUS Rejects Bid to Block Count of Some #Pennsylvania Provisional Ballots
#Republicans had sought to block the counting of provisional ballots by voters whose mail-in ballots were deemed invalid. #Democrats celebrated the ruling as a win in a crucial state.
#VotingRights #EveryVoteCounts #law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz/024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/politics/supreme-court-pennsylvania-ballots.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#ElonMusk has been giving $1M checks to randomly selected people who sign a petition pledging support for #FreeSpeech [#HateSpeech & #disinformation] #GunRights.
The offer is limited to registered voters in 1 of 7 states that will likely decide the outcome of the Nov 5 #election - Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania & Wisconsin.
The #billionaire entrepreneur, who is spending heavily to back #Trump, had been ordered to attend the hearing but did not appear.
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is seeking to halt the giveaway less than a week before the tightly contested presidential #election between Trump & Democrat #KamalaHarris.
Krasner accuses Tesla #ElonMusk & his PAC hatching an "illegal lottery scheme to #influence voters."
The resignations ushered in new leadership, including Schierkolk, an *activist* with the local affiliate of the #RightWing group Stand Up #Michigan, which also works with a broader network of #ElectionDenial activists.
#law #ElectionLaw #criminal #conspiracy #disinformation #MediaLiteracy #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/28/us/politics/inside-the-movement-behind-trumps-election-lies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
In her resignation letter, Strand wrote of a peaceful town disrupted because “some individuals believe that it is OK to treat #CommunityService members with #disrespect, #slander, #libel, #stalking & many other forms of #harassment towards people who are just trying to make a difference for the good of the community we live in.”
#law #ElectionLaw #criminal #conspiracy #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/us/politics/michigan-election-voting-ballots.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/30/virginia-noncitizen-voter-purge-supreme-court/
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.
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
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/10/25/youngkin-voting-law-injunction-noncitizens/