Twitter Is Censoring Sean Davis For Quoting PA’s Supreme Court Decision Allowing Post-Election Ballots

Big Tech is at it again, this time with Twitter censoring The Federalist’s co-founder Sean Davis. His offense? Accurately summarizing an official Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision. “Pennsylvania’s top court said that all ballots received after election day — even those without a postmark — must be assumed to have been cast by election day,” Davis said, quote-tweeting National Review Senior Writer David Harsanyi, who noted, “PA is allowing post-election day ballots. It’s a fact.” Twitter flagged Davis’s tweet because according to the Big Tech overlords, “Some or all of the content shared in this tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.” Now, in order to view the tweet, users must click past a warning screen. Nothing about Davis’s tweet, however, is “disputed.” It’s taken straight from a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling regarding ballot-counting.

According to a footnote in the Supreme Court decision, the Pennsylvania secretary of state recommended that the court “order that ballots mailed by voters by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day be counted if they are otherwise valid and received by the county boards of election by November 6, 2020. Ballots received within this period that lack a postmark or other proof of mailing, or for which the postmark or other proof of mailing is illegible, should enjoy a presumption that they were mailed by Election Day” (emphasis mine). The state Supreme Court endorsed the secretary’s plan, characterizing a postmark requirement on late ballots as voter disenfranchisement. As Davis noted in another tweet, the court rubber-stamped the Democratic secretary’s agenda to count indisputably late ballots without a postmark and with zero proof that they were legally cast by Nov. 3. That didn’t stop Twitter from censoring Davis’s tweet, an accurate summation of the official court ruling.

Twitter has been trigger-happy with its censorship of conservative voices throughout coverage of the election. In fact, this wasn’t even the only one of Davis’s accurate tweets that got suppressed. Twitter also flagged a tweet pointing out that in the middle of the night, Michigan suddenly reported an increase of more than 130,000 votes for Biden with not a single-vote increase for Trump — and no explanation. “So while everyone was asleep and after everyone went home, Democrats in Michigan magically found a trove of 138,339 votes, and all 138,339 of those ‘votes’ magically went to Biden? That doesn’t look suspicious at all,” Davis tweeted before Twitter censored it. Twitter even censored a tweet from the president on election night. “We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election,” President Trump said in the suppressed tweet. “We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!” The tech giant did not, however, censor a tweet from Democrat Joe Biden claiming he would win the election.

The partisan and erroneous censorship follows Big Tech’s pattern of limiting free speech — especially of right-wing media outlets and the President of the United States — with Facebook, Twitter, and Google at the helm. Another recent example occurred when the New York Post reported a bombshell Biden scandal in the run-up to the election. Twitter and Facebook censored the report, which revealed damning emails retrieved from a laptop hard drive allegedly owned by Biden’s son Hunter, with Twitter blocking the link to the story from being tweeted or even shared in private messages. Twitter locked the Post’s account for two weeks leading up to the election after it tried to tweet the story, which verified that the former vice president had lied about never having discussed Hunter’s overseas business dealings with his son or anyone else.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/04/twitter-is-censoring-sean-davis-for-quoting-pas-supreme-court-decision-allowing-post-election-ballots

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Drama re: Arizona. On MSNBC, Steve Kornacki reports on latest batch of AZ votes counted may tighten the race in Trump's favor, notes NBC hasn't called this race yet Fox & AP have called AZ for Biden. NBC, ABC, CNN and others haven't:

https://twitter.com/ElaheIzadi/status/1324175750774300672

2,258 N.J. Prisoners Will Be Released in a Single Day

In a sweeping acknowledgment of the risks of the coronavirus in cramped prisons, New Jersey will release more than 2,000 inmates on Wednesday as part of one of the largest-ever single-day reductions of any state’s prison population. More than 1,000 additional prisoners will be released in the coming weeks and months after earning early-release credits for time served during the health crisis — resulting in a roughly 35 percent reduction in New Jersey’s prison population since the pandemic began ravaging Northeast states in March. Beyond the health imperatives, the emptying of prisons and jails comes at a moment when there is intense national debate over transforming a criminal justice system that ensnares people of color in disproportionate numbers.

In New Jersey, supporters of the freeing of prisoners said it would not only help make prisons safer, but would also build on the state’s efforts to create a fairer penal system. But opponents said they were worried about releasing so many inmates at once and potentially posing a public safety risk in communities where they end up. The mass releases were made possible by a bill that passed with bipartisan support in the New Jersey Legislature and was signed into law last month by Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, as part of the first legislative initiative of its kind in the country. Prisoners in New Jersey within a year of completing sentences for crimes other than murder and sexual assault are eligible to be released as many as eight months early. They will be freed through the gates of state prisons and halfway houses, or driven by bus to transit hubs to begin treks to the county where they last lived, according to state officials and criminal justice advocates. The releases are set to start less than 24 hours after polls closed on one of the most consequential Election Days in modern history, amid concerns about the potential for civil unrest after President Trump repeatedly sought to sow distrust in the voting process itself.

Assemblyman Jon M. Bramnick, the Republican minority leader, said he opposed the bill because it included people convicted of certain violent crimes and left too many questions unanswered. “The legislation is way too broad for me to give my rubber stamp,” Mr. Bramnick said. “Is the public aware of who is being released and where they are going?” Other states have made large virus-related reductions to their prison populations this year, including Connecticut and California. California’s governor ordered the release of about 8,000 nonviolent offenders and two weeks ago was told by a judge to free or transfer 1,500 inmates from San Quentin, the state’s oldest and most notorious prison where more than 2,000 inmates contracted the virus and 28 have died from it. New Jersey had already released nearly 1,000 inmates early from its prison system under a pandemic-related executive order in April and freed close to 700 people from its county jails after a legal challenge. But the decision to take a systemwide step on a single day is unique and has drawn criticism from the mayor of Trenton, the state’s capital where gun violence is surging, and from lawmakers in Cumberland County, home to three sprawling state prisons.

Those who fought for the releases have argued that there was no time to waste in a state where the virus was seeping anew into prison populations after tapering off in the summer following outbreaks that killed at least 52 inmates. The infection rate in state prisons is now below 1 percent, but a federal prison in Fort Dix in central New Jersey is experiencing an outbreak involving at least 166 inmates and 10 staff members. An additional 41 people at Fort Dix have recovered from Covid-19, federal officials said. In the days before the release on Wednesday, criminal justice advocates and relatives of inmates expected to be freed said they had been given conflicting information about where people would be released and when. One woman said she was initially told by a social worker to pick up her husband at the gate of New Jersey State Prison in Trenton between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., but was later instructed to meet him in a parking lot of a McDonald’s across the street during a four-hour window in the afternoon. The hundreds of inmates without permanent addresses to return home to have been connected with county social services agencies and will be placed in shelters, senior Murphy administration officials said.

https://dnyuz.com/2020/11/04/2258-n-j-prisoners-will-be-released-in-a-single-day/