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There’s no such thing as Voter Fraud. Focus on Taking Guns Away…

Is voter ID coming to Nevada? Democratic-linked lawsuit says no

A lawsuit filed last week seeks to block a ballot initiative for the 2024 election that would require voter ID in Nevada.

The complaint, filed in Carson City District Court by Nevada voter Jennifer Fleischmann with the help of Democratic-linked attorneys, argues that the initiative would require an unfunded government expenditure.

David Gibbs, president of Repair the Vote PAC, filed an initiative petition in November to amend the Nevada Constitution by requiring voters to present photo ID at a polling place and by adding an extra identification measure to mail ballots.

The petition includes a list of acceptable ID, such as a Nevada driver’s license, a passport, tribal or university ID, an ID card issued by a state or U.S. government, or another form of government-issued photo ID that the Legislature may approve.

It would require those voting by mail to give the last four digits of their driver’s license number, Social Security number, or a number provided by the county clerk.

The plaintiff argues that each acceptable form of photo ID mentioned in the petition generally requires the payment of a fee to a government entity.

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that requiring voters to pay a tax or a fee to obtain a photo ID to vote constitutes an unlawful poll, the complaint says.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/is-voter-id-coming-to-nevada-democratic-linked-lawsuit-says-no-2965669/

Best “news” all day. Do I hear a violin playing?

News deserts’ grow as US outlets slash 2,700 jobs: ‘We have suffered a huge loss here

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Top news outlets across the US have been forced to slash their workforces at the fastest rate in three years, leaving a larger share of Americans in so-called “news deserts”.

Collectively, media companies have shed some 2,700 positions from their respective newsrooms — the most since COVID-19 ravaged payrolls in 2020, according to CNN, citing data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Most recently, The Washington Post told its already-battered workforce that 240 layoffs were impending — an announcement that triggered a 24-hour strike over what staff called management’s failure to bargain in good faith.

The DC-based paper is just one of many news outlets struggling to devise a sustainable business model in the decades since the internet upended the economics of journalism: Earlier this month, Yahoo News and Yahoo Sports announced plans to slim down its workforce by 20% — or 1,600 employees — before year’s end.

The impact has been so severe that even late Berkshire Hathaway icon Charlie Munger said, “We have suffered a huge loss here,” and called the media landscape’s shift away from traditional newspapers “a terrible thing that’s happened to our country.”

“Now about 95% of [US newspapers] are going to disappear and go away forever,” lamented Munger, who died last month at 99. “And what do we get in substitute? We get a bunch of people who attract an audience because they’re crazy.”

Vogue owner Condé Nast trimmed about 5% of its staff last month…. Vox Media kicked off the year by saying goodbye to 7% of its workforce….

..In another sign of a decline, the 151-year-old Popular Science also revealed in November that it has stopped publishing its quarterly online periodical — three years after putting out its final print edition, according to The Times.

Shortly thereafter, progressive magazine The Nation said it would be ditching the 48-page weekly publishing schedule it’s had since 1865 for a monthly offering with a more robust 84 pages.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/14/media/news-deserts-grow-as-outlets-slash-2700-jobs/