https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/after-historic-fiasco-puerto-rico-repeats-gubernatorial-primary-1.1480790

Puerto Rico is having a do-over of its gubernatorial primary election Sunday after it mismanaged the first vote so badly that tens of thousands were unable to cast a ballot.

“You will never be able to convince the losing candidates –- or voters who saw their candidate lose –- that this was a fair process,” said Pedro Reina Perez, a political analyst and professor at the University of Puerto Rico. “This is a perfect storm if your objective is to dynamite the entire democratic process.”

The Puerto Rico electoral commission blamed the printing press for leaving more than four dozen voting precincts without ballots. On the streets of Puerto Rico, a debate rages over whether the fiasco was a symptom of gross incompetence or outright corruption. Some legislators have called for a federal investigation into the debacle.

“We hope that Sunday runs smoothly and that there is no need for new lawsuits,” said Mayte Bayolo-Alonso, the legislative attorney for the Puerto Rico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which had asked the court to protect residents’ right to vote. “We need a smooth election because Puerto Rico needs stability.”

That's weird

https://www.axios.com/democratic-convention-keynote-stacey-abrams-9de2bc6f-a758-419c-b64f-2be68ee00121.html

In a group headlined by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, 17 Democrats will jointly deliver a single keynote address at the virtual Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.

Why it matters: The illustrious speaking spot, which was famously given by little-known Senate candidate Barack Obama at the 2004 convention, is often awarded to rising stars within the party. Due to limited time for programming at the pared down convention, no member of the keynote lineup was given a solo speaking slot.

Is the post fixing to lose another editor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/14/kamala-harris-moderate-not-even-close-welcome-leftist-trojan-horse-operation/

No, she doesn’t. Harris was the “most liberal compared to all senators” in 2019 according to GovTrack, the nonpartisan government transparency watchdog — to the left of even her democratic-socialist colleague, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Harris wasn’t “pragmatic” either. GovTrack found she “joined bipartisan bills the least often compared to Senate Democrats.” According to Manhattan Institute budget expert Brian Riedl, Harris has proposed a mind-numbing $46 trillion in new spending over the next decade. She supports the economically ruinous Green New Deal, Medicare-for-all and free taxpayer funded health care for undocumented immigrants. She is also an abortion zealot who has suggested that a faithful Catholic who belongs to the Knights of Columbus is unfit to serve as a federal judge. She opposes deportation of those who illegally enter the United States and once compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the Ku Klux Klan.

Where There Are Riots Ballot Harvesting Is Allowed

https://pjmedia.com/columns/victoria-taft/2020/08/16/imagine-antifa-ballot-harvesters-it-isnt-hard-to-do-n776914

Riots, looting, and arson have plagued Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, LA, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Columbus, Madison, Albuquerque, and several others.

Just for grins and giggles, let’s check the state ballot-harvesting protocols for these places, compliments of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

I’ve already explained about the loopholes in California and Oregon, but it bears repeating that there are no limits on the number of ballots a public employee union member person may “harvest.” Oh, there are rules, of course. For example, when you set up your ballot-harvesting mega station, say at a nursing home community or grocery store parking lot, you have to have a sign, which includes this phrase in 50-point font: “NOT AN OFFICIAL BALLOT DROP SITE.” There are no rules about filling out someone’s ballot.

In Washington state there appear to be no rules. None. Good luck with that, CHAZ, CHOP, Antifastan, Seattle. Ditto with New York. Rules? We don’t need no stinking rules.

In Minnesota, where the riots began, ballot-harvesters are limited to three ballots. But nobody requires identification, so the total number of ballots anyone can turn in is basically a multiple of three.

Illinois has a rule that, besides dead people routinely voting, people in nursing homes and other residential care facilities may have a friendly SEIU union member staffer help you out and take your ballot.

Missouri made me go to the dictionary to figure out what its rules are. “An absentee ballot may be returned in person by a relative of the voter who is within the second degree of consanguinity [the fact of being descended from the same ancestor] or affinity.” Come on, maaan, I never said I was Skip Gates.

In the District of Columbia, anyone can register for an “emergency ballot,” but the person who takes it to the election receptacle must be “an authorized agent” and you must have a very good excuse for sending someone else to do your job.

In Georgia, ballot harvesters are limited to ten ballots and only for people in the hospital, disabled or illiterate. Gee, only ten? Denver has a ten-ballot limit for ballot harvesters, too.

In Houston, ballots are required to be put in a “mailer envelope” and, uh, mailed. The only person who can vote a ballot in-person is the voter. No ballots are accepted by persons other than the voter during the election period.

In Arizona and Ohio, only family members are allowed to harvest a ballot, but no signature or identification is required.

Wisconsin has no rules and New Mexico requires a caregiver, family member or other person to bring in a ballot whose outside envelope was signed by the voter.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/barack-obama-privately-voiced-concerns-115052803.html

Barack Obama has privately voiced doubts about the ability of Joe Biden, his former Vice President, to beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election, according to a report.

According to Politico, Obama told an unnamed Democrat during the 2020 primary campaign, in which he declined to endorse any candidate: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fk things up."–

Obama has now backed Biden in the race to the November election against President Trump but is said privately to be concerned that Biden does not have an intimate connection with the electorate.

"And you know who really doesn't have it? Joe Biden," Obama told another Democratic Party candidate during the primary run, according to Politico, hitting out at his former Vice President's lack of an intimate bond with the Iowa electorate

Over 60 Portland 911 calls go unheeded overnight as police respond to riot

https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-riots-911-calls

More than 60 emergency calls to police went unheeded overnight in Portland as officers were preoccupied with hundreds of demonstrators downtown and were pelted by rocks.

On the 80th consecutive night of protests, the Portland Police Bureau declared a riot around midnight Sunday after a crowd of hundreds had blocked traffic for three hours by the Penumbra Kelly Building in the 4700 block of East Burnside Street, trespassed on the closed property and engaged in “violent, tumultuous conduct.”

The targeted building is owned by the city and is used by city and county employees, including the Police Bureau.

From midnight to about 2:45 a.m., protesters ignored warnings from police to disperse and began arguing amongst themselves.

Some threw objects at police cars in the parking lot of the building and spray-painted over security cameras. Others shined green lasers at officers’ eyes and pelted police with softball-sized “river rocks” and glass bottles.