Mexican president tells Florida Hispanics: Don’t give ‘one single vote’ to DeSantis

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday called on Hispanic people in Florida to vote against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who launched his 2024 White House bid the day before, because of his immigration policies. “Hopefully Hispanics in Florida will wake up and not give him one single vote, to not…

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Barr: Trump will deliver ‘chaos’ and ‘horror show’

Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Friday that former President Trump will deliver “chaos” and a “horror show” if he returned to the White House in 2024. “If you believe in his policies, what he’s advertising as his policies, he’s the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them,” Barr said of Trump…

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North Carolina asked feds to open vote fraud case last year

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's top elections official issued an urgent plea nearly two years ago for the Trump administration to file criminal charges against the man now at the center of ballot fraud allegations that have thrown a 2018 congressional race into turmoil. N.C. Board of Elections Executive Director Kim Strach warned in a January 2017 letter first obtained by The Associated Press that those involved in illegally harvesting absentee ballots in rural Bladen County would likely do it again if they weren't prosecuted.

Walgreens, Microsoft, Dr Pepper Snapple, J.P. Morgan Chase and Humana reportedly supporting the Wisconsin state Republican party using a power grab to extend their gerrymandering

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/opinion/wisconsin-republicans-walgreens-campaign-finance.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

#election2018 #gerrymandering #DefraudingVoters

Opinion | The Corporate Donors Behind a Republican Power Grab

Walgreens and other major companies are key supporters of the Wisconsin legislators now trying to undermine democracy.

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"Fontes said tabulation took longer because ballots that could not be read by machines were hand counted, which had not been done in the last two election cycles. There were about 130,000 of those ballots."

http://kjzz.org/content/729959/maricopa-county-official-vote-count-approved

#election2018 #CountAllTheBallots #VoterSupression #AZnews

Maricopa County Official Vote Count Approved

Maricopa County had a 64.5 percent voter turnout for the 2018 election, compared to just 45 percent in 2014. With the big turnout came concerns about emergency voting centers and the time it took to count ballots.Four emergency voting centers were open in the primary and five during the general election. About 2,800 people used the centers in the primary.Maricopa Count Record Adrian Fontes said voters determine their own emergencies.

Christine Marsh nears AZ state senate incumbent Kate McGee w/in 267 as margin keeps dropping

Reports say AZ law requires recounts when separated by less than 200 votes or 0.5% with more than 25,000 votes

McGee has 47278 votes, Marsh 47011, so already down to 0.28% with reported 1000s more to count

Dems have gained Sec of State's featured races, with 5 taking the lead in 8 races since election night, including replacing Sec of State

https://results.arizona.vote/#/featured/4/0

#recount #election2018 #AZnews

Arizona Election Results

So cool. Got to spend some time the last few days deciphering ballots

It is eye-straining work

For instance, sharpies bleed through, confuse the scanners and are a pain to read

It was awesome to participate

There were hundreds of people a day working shifts to decipher ballots to be counted

Ripped ballots also confuse the scanners

#election2018

NPR Choice page

Judge gives thousands of #Florida voters with rejected ballots time to fix signature problems.

#Election2018
#MidTermElection
#recount
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article221698270.html

Judge gives thousands of voters with rejected ballots time to fix signature problems

Federal judge Mark Walker on Thursday ordered Florida’s 67 elections supervisors to give thousands of voters whose ballots were rejected over mismatched signatures time to fix the problem and have their votes counted. Gov. Rick Scott plans to appeal.

126,000 votes left to count in Maricopa County, AZ

147,000 votes left to count in the state

#election2018 #CountThemAll