Anonymous ID: e61775 Oct. 19, 2024, 5:26 a.m. No.21793597   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3848 >>3858 >>3902 >>3936

Michigan's Bloated Voter Rolls Under Microscope as Election Looms

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/michigan-voting-election/2024/10/18/id/1184667/

 

Michigan’s voter rolls are under scrutiny less than three weeks from the Nov. 5 election, following a report the state has 500,000 more registered voters than people old enough to vote. The discrepancy has led to concerns about election integrity.

 

The Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit in March after finding that 53 Michigan counties had registration rates of 100% or higher based on U.S. Census data.

 

Attorneys for the RNC wrote: “These voter registration rates are abnormally or, in the case of counties with greater than 100% registration, impossibly high.” While the lawsuit did not allege fraud, it argued the inflated rolls increase the opportunity for it. The suit also claims that inflated rolls cause political parties to spend more money on mailers and other voter outreach.

 

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat who’s been named in several lawsuits, maintains the state is in compliance with federal law and that the lawsuits are part of a broader effort to undermine confidence in the election process.

 

A spokeswoman for Benson said the legal complaints are an effort to “lay the groundwork to overturn the results of the election if they don’t like them.”

 

Secretaries of state are required by law to maintain clean voter rolls by removing people who have died, moved, been convicted of a felony, or have otherwise become ineligible to vote.

 

Benson’s office has removed approximately 800,000 voters since 2019 and plans to remove another 360,000 in 2025. Still, more than 200,000 new voters have registered since the RNC lawsuit was filed, further complicating the issue.

Anonymous ID: e61775 Oct. 19, 2024, 6 a.m. No.21793688   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3858 >>3902 >>3936

Montana Dem Sen. Tester Takes Donation From Dead Voter

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/jon-tester-montana-senate/2024/10/18/id/1184666/

 

Three-term incumbent Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont. — in a competitive race with Republican Tim Sheehy that could determine control of the Senate — is proving that dead people can contribute to Democrat political campaigns.

 

According to Federal Election Commission data, Tester received at least two donations from a dead person during the third quarter of this election season, the New York Post reported Friday.

 

Tester is trailing Sheehy by 8 percentage points (52%-44%) in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll. A Sheehy victory could give Republicans control of the Senate, given that the GOP is almost assured of picking up the seat in West Virginia vacated by Joe Manchin. Democrats have a slim 51-49 advantage in the upper chamber going into the election.

 

The FEC set a Tuesday deadline for filing third-quarter campaign finance reports, and Tester's revealed that his campaign received two $50 donations from Barbara McGowan of Bozeman, Montana — one on July 17, the day she died at age 83, according to her obituary, and another on Sept. 20.

 

In the FEC listing under "Employer/Occupation" for McGowan, it reads: "Deceased as of July 17."

 

FEC rules state that campaigns can accept contributions from an individual's estate made through a testamentary trust, subject to the same limitations and prohibitions that were applicable to the decedent during the decedent's lifetime. But the name of the trust and the name of the decedent must be listed on the campaign report. In this case, only McGowan's name and address were listed.

 

Newsmax reached out to Tester's campaign for comment.

 

Republicans are accusing Democrats of benefiting from allegedly fraudulent donations through online fundraising giant ActBlue, which set up a website for Tester.

 

On Tuesday, Mark Block, a chief of staff and campaign manager for the late Herman Cain, filed a racketeering lawsuit Monday in Wisconsin against ActBlue, accusing the group of stealing his identity to make 385 donations to left-leaning causes, including Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential PAC, the Post reported.

 

Block, a longtime Republican strategist, claimed in court documents that $884 had been given in his name and without his knowledge between May and October and suggested the contributions could be part of a scam ensnaring tens of thousands of other unwitting donors.

 

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the House Administration Committee are conducting investigations into other "potentially fraudulent" ActBlue donations that might have generated suspicious activity reports at the Treasury Department, the Post reported.

Anonymous ID: e61775 Oct. 19, 2024, 6:43 a.m. No.21793876   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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New Signs Point to Harris Loss Against Trump

https://conservativebrief.com/new-signs-2-86499/

 

There are new signs that Vice President Kamala Harris may be on track to lose her race against former President Donald Trump, as several vulnerable swing-state Democratic U.S. Senate nominees are starting to distance themselves from the Harris campaign, with some even shifting to praise Trump as they seek to protect their own electoral odds.

 

An analysis of major TV ads from the campaigns of Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) reveals that they are portraying the former president in a favorable or at least neutral light, suggesting a willingness to work with Trump if he wins in November.