Anonymous ID: 582a1a Aug. 6, 2020, 12:12 a.m. No.10197550   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7556 >>7559 >>7586 >>7741 >>7868 >>7905 >>8033 >>8103 >>8125

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Supreme Court allows Florida to restrict voting rights of convicted felons

https://nypost.com/2020/07/16/florida-can-restrict-convicted-felons-voting-rights-supreme-court/

 

Supreme Court deals blow to felons in Florida seeking to regain the right to vote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-felons-in-florida-seeking-to-regain-the-right-to-vote/ar-BB16Ptrb

 

Not sure what the angle is here..was recently decided in FL.

Anonymous ID: 582a1a Aug. 6, 2020, 12:35 a.m. No.10197621   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7631

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The ruling declares that sentences are not complete until all probation, fines, restitution have been fulfilled. So what ever was required in the sentencing phase or other probationary requirements were, until all has been satisfactorily competed, no vote can be placed.

Anonymous ID: 582a1a Aug. 6, 2020, 12:48 a.m. No.10197674   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7678 >>7741 >>7868 >>7905 >>8033 >>8103 >>8125

25 percent of ballots in Brooklyn June primaries invalid

 

A staggering 25 percent of mail-in ballots cast in Brooklyn for June’s primary elections were declared invalid, it was revealed on Tuesday, as Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the Board of Elections to shape up by November. More than 120,000 absentee ballots were filed in Kings County for the June 23 primary but about 30,000 were initially disqualified — and it wasn’t the fault of the voters, according to Rodneyse Bichotte, head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party. Bichotte — also a state assemblywoman whose district includes Flatbush, Ditmas Park and Midwood — said the disqualifying issues included a lack of postmark or late arrival. The BOE was still untangling the mess six weeks after the primaries and was unable to provide hard citywide figures on Tuesday.

 

But the Brooklyn debacle suggests a troubling failure in a system that may be relied upon to a elect a president this fall with the pandemic still raging. “Americans should not have to risk their lives to participate in the most fundamental right of democracy,” said Bichotte, who blamed the snail-mail balloting bungle on a lack of federal funding for the US Postal Service. In addition to missing postmarks and signatures, which some first-time mail-in voters didn’t know they had to provide, several ballots arrived late because the BOE and USPS delayed deliveries. In a lawsuit over the ham-handed handling of the remote votes, Manhattan federal Judge Analisa Torres ruled Monday that late-arriving ballots must now be tallied for the primary. Those disqualified for other issues, however, will remain invalid. Though the ruling was not expected to change the course of any races, it was hailed as a victory for voting accountability.

 

De Blasio on Tuesday said the BOE needed to address the issue in order to make mail-in voting reliable by November. “The Board of Elections can do better and must do better,” he told reporters in his daily press briefing. The mayor said he has long had “deep concerns” about the structure of the BOE, which consists of 10 commissioners approved by the City Council. Nevertheless, de Blasio said he believed the BOE as structured could shore up mail-in balloting in time for November. “I am certain they can learn from this and be prepared for the general election,” he said. “Three months is a long time. “There are whole states in this country that do everything with mail-in [voting] and it works perfectly well.”

 

https://nypost.com/2020/08/04/25-percent-of-ballots-in-brooklyn-june-primaries-invalid/

Anonymous ID: 582a1a Aug. 6, 2020, 1:58 a.m. No.10197884   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7897 >>7905 >>8033 >>8103 >>8125

Announcing the Expansion of the Clean Network to Safeguard America’s Assets

Press Statement

Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State

August 5, 2020

 

The Clean Network program is the Trump Administration’s comprehensive approach to guarding our citizens’ privacy and our companies’ most sensitive information from aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Today, I am announcing the launch of five new lines of effort to protect America’s critical telecommunications and technology infrastructure. These programs are rooted in internationally accepted digital trust standards and built upon the 5G Clean Path initiative, announced on April 29, 2020, to secure data traveling on 5G networks into U.S. diplomatic facilities overseas and within the United States. The five new lines of effort for the Clean Network are as follows:

 

*Clean Carrier: To ensure untrusted People’s Republic of China (PRC) carriers are not connected with U.S. telecommunications networks. Such companies pose a danger to U.S. national security and should not provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States.

*Clean Store: To remove untrusted applications from U.S. mobile app stores. PRC apps threaten our privacy, proliferate viruses, and spread propaganda and disinformation. American’s most sensitive personal and business information must be protected on their mobile phones from exploitation and theft for the CCP’s benefit.

*Clean Apps: To prevent untrusted PRC smartphone manufacturers from pre-installing –or otherwise making available for download – trusted apps on their apps store. Huawei, an arm of the PRC surveillance state, is trading on the innovations and reputations of leading U.S. and foreign companies. These companies should remove their apps from Huawei’s app store to ensure they are not partnering with a human rights abuser.

*Clean Cloud: To prevent U.S. citizens’ most sensitive personal information and our businesses’ most valuable intellectual property, including COVID-19 vaccine research, from being stored and processed on cloud-based systems accessible to our foreign adversaries through companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent.

*.Clean Cable: To ensure the undersea cables connecting our country to the global internet are not subverted for intelligence gathering by the PRC at hyper scale. We will also work with foreign partners to ensure that undersea cables around the world aren’t similarly subject to compromise.

 

Momentum for the Clean Network program is growing. More than thirty countries and territories are now Clean Countries, and many of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies are Clean Telcos. All have committed to exclusively using trusted vendors in their Clean Networks. The United States calls on our allies and partners in government and industry around the world to join the growing tide to secure our data from the CCP’s surveillance state and other malign entities. Building a Clean fortress around our citizens’ data will ensure all of our nations’ security.

https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/

Anonymous ID: 582a1a Aug. 6, 2020, 2:18 a.m. No.10197950   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8033 >>8103 >>8125

Beirut explosion leaves up to 300,000 homeless, similar to Hiroshima: governor

 

The massive warehouse blast that killed at least 100 in Beirut has also left up to 300,000 people homeless, the city’s governor said Wednesday — comparing the devastation to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “I think there are between 250,000 and 300,000 people who are now without homes,” governor Marwan Abboud told Agence France-Presse, estimating the damage to be $5 billion. “It resembles to what happened in Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” destroyed by atomic bombs dropped on them by the US in World War II. “That’s what [it] reminds me of,” he said after the Tuesday explosion, according to CNN. “In my life, I haven’t seen destruction on this scale,” he said.

 

Abboud had tears in his eyes as he told reporters it was a “national calamity,” Morocco World News said. “This is a disaster for Lebanon,” the governor said through his tears. “We need to remain strong, we need to hold on and be brave … but this is too much …” Beirut’s mayor, Jamal Itani, said he was “speechless” at the scenes of devastation. “It’s like a war zone,” he said. Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said a two-week state of emergency should be declared, according to Aljazeera. He warned that the death toll would likely rise from the 100 so far reported dead, with at least another 4,000 injured so far. Prime Minister Hassan Diab also called for a day of mourning on Wednesday. At least 10 firefighters who raced to tackle the blast are still missing, Abboud told CNN, as hospitals are overwhelmed by casualties.

 

Pope Francis on Tuesday also offered his prayers Wednesday during his weekly General Audience from the library of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, CNN said. “Yesterday in Beirut, near the port, there were massive explosions causing dozens of deaths, wounding thousands and causing serious destruction,” the pontiff said. “Let us pray for the victims, for their families; and let us pray for Lebanon so that, through the dedication of all its social, political and religious elements, it might face this extremely tragic and painful moment and, with the help of the international community, overcome the grave crisis they are experiencing.” International aid is heading to Beirut, with Poland sending a team of about 50 firefighters, including 39 rescuers with 4 dogs and a chemical rescue module. A Greek military transport plane is heading to Lebanon with a search and rescue team with specialized equipment and a sniffer dog, while Cyprus says it will be sending help. Russia’s emergency officials said the country will send five planeloads of aid to Beirut after an explosion in the Lebanese capital’s port killed at least 100 people and injured thousands on Tuesday. Along with rescuers, medical workers, and a makeshift hospital, it will also send a lab for coronavirus testing, Russia said.

 

France, Jordan and other countries also said aid would be sent. Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi told a local TV station that it appeared the blast was caused by the detonation of more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored in a warehouse at the dock ever since it was confiscated from a cargo ship in 2014. It sent a mushroom cloud into the sky and rattled windows on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, about 100 miles away. President Trump said Tuesday US officials fear it may have been an “attack.”

https://nypost.com/2020/08/05/beirut-explosion-leaves-up-to-300000-homeless-city-governor/