Judge Declines to Block Musk's Voter Giveaway

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/judge-elon-musk-voter/2024/10/31/id/1186195/

A Pennsylvania state judge said Thursday that he will not immediately move forward with a lawsuit that seeks to stop Elon Musk's $1 million voter giveaway before the U.S. presidential election.

At a hearing in Pennsylvania, Judge Angelo Foglietta said he will place the lawsuit on hold while a federal court considers whether to take up the case.

Musk's bid to move the case frees him to continue the giveaway, because the matter likely won't be resolved until after Tuesday's election.

Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur who is spending heavily to back Republican Donald Trump, was ordered to attend the hearing but did not appear.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is seeking to halt the giveaway less than a week before the tightly contested presidential election between Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris.

Krasner, who championed progressive causes when running for district attorney, accuses Musk, CEO of Tesla, and his political action committee America PAC of hatching an "illegal lottery scheme to influence voters."

Musk has been giving $1 million checks to randomly selected people who sign a petition pledging support for free speech and gun rights.

The offer is limited to registered voters in one of seven states that will likely decide the outcome of the election: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Musk gave away the first $1 million at an Oct. 19 America PAC rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

After the hearing, Musk said "American Justice FTW" in a post on his social media platform X, using the abbreviation for "for the win."

Krasner's Oct. 28 lawsuit says the giveaway should be stopped because it amounts to an illegal lottery that violates consumer protection laws by using deceptive language.

According to published reports, Krasner asked the court for added security for the hearing, saying social media users posted an "avalanche" of inflammatory posts, including antisemitic attacks toward him, and posted his home address.

Musk said in a filing that Krasner's lawsuit raises questions of free-speech rights and election interference that belong in federal court.

Prosecutor John Summers told reporters outside the courtroom that he would seek to have the case returned to state court.

"This is a case that involves state law issues," he said.

Musk's lawyer Matthew Haverstick accused prosecutors of naming Musk as a defendant to generate a "circus atmosphere" and said he should not be required to appear in court.

"Mr. Musk was named as a defendant as a publicity stunt," Haverstick said, arguing that America PAC should be the only defendant.

Summers said Musk, owner of the SpaceX rocket company, could easily show up if he was inclined to do so.

"He's not going to get in a rocket ship and take it to Philadelphia - let's be serious here,” Foglietta said, drawing laughter in the courtroom.

In the lawsuit, Krasner's office said Musk and America PAC have not published clear rules for the giveaway and has not said how they are protecting voters' personal information.

Krasner also said people who receive Musk's money are "not actually chosen at random," citing two winners who attended two pro-Trump rallies.

The giveaway falls into a gray area of election law, and legal experts are divided about whether Musk could be violating federal laws against paying people to register to vote.

Krasner filed his lawsuit in a state court and he does not allege the giveaway violates federal law.

The U.S. Department of Justice warned America PAC the giveaway could violate federal law, according to media reports, but federal prosecutors have not taken any public action.

Musk has so far given nearly $120 million to America PAC, according to federal disclosures, and the group has taken on much of the door-knocking work of ensuring Trump's supporters turn out to vote.

Musk became an outspoken Trump supporter this year and has promoted the former president on his X social media platform. Researchers said on Wednesday that X has been ineffective in countering a surge in election misinformation.

Trump, in turn, has said that if elected, he will appoint Musk to head a government efficiency commission.

>>21871515

It won't be over until after they refuse to certify the election.

That's when the REAL fireworks will start.

Georgia Receives 15 Percent Fewer Ballot Requests From Overseas Voters Than In 2020

https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/31/georgia-receives-15-percent-fewer-ballot-requests-from-overseas-voters-than-in-2020/

During the 2020 election, the swing state of Georgia was part of a larger trend of abnormally high requests for overseas ballots through a system riddled with potential loopholes and lack of safeguards. But this year, the number of overseas ballots requested in the state reflects a nearly 15 percent decline from what Georgia sent to overseas voters in 2020.

Since 1986, U.S. military members, their family members, and overseas citizens have been allowed to vote absentee under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Voting Act (UOCAVA).

During the 2020 election in Georgia, 28,454 UOCAVA ballots were transmitted by the state to voters who had requested them, according to a report from the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC). But that number has declined by nearly 15 percent in 2024, with only 24,172 UOCAVA ballot requests in Georgia during this cycle, according to data from the Secretary of State. For reference, in 2016 only 18,634 UOCAVA ballots were transmitted by the state.

Georgia is one of several states that permits a “U.S. citizen who has never resided in the U.S.” to vote, as long as they have “a parent or legal guardian that was last registered in Georgia,” according to the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP). According to a 2023 fact sheet on UOCAVA voters from the EAC, the address where an overseas voter is registered may be “home to other registered voters,” and “election mail for a UOCAVA voter who no longer lives at that address” may still be sent to “current residents.”

“Election Officials should explain to the current resident that a military or overseas voter is eligible to use their former physical residence for voter registration purposes, even if they typically receive mail overseas,” the fact sheet says.

Further, all states are required to accept the Federal Post Card Application from those who fall under UOCAVA as both a registration form and an official request for an absentee ballot. As Department of Defense spokesman Joshua Wick previously told The Federalist, “FVAP coordinates with states” to ensure the information on the Federal Post Card Application and the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot — a “backup” ballot for voters under UOCAVA who not receive an absentee ballot “in time” to meet state deadlines — “will be sufficient to process the form and determine if the voter meets the residency requirements for that jurisdiction.”

“This includes the signed voter affirmation stating that all the information provided is true under penalty of perjury,” Wick said. “The state or local election office is the ultimate arbitrator as to a voter meeting the state’s residency requirements.”

Notably, the Federal Post Card Application allows voters to indicate they want to receive “voting materials” via “email or online.” As noted in an FVAP “2020 Overseas Citizen Population Analysis Report,” “email was the most common mode of ballot receipt in 2020” for overseas voters, “unlike in 2018 and 2016.”

But as NPR noted in 2023, “voting online is very risky” even as “hundreds of thousands of people are already doing it.” The piece noted a report from a UC Berkeley working group of security experts who spent more than a year examining internet voting found that “at internet scale, it would be effectively impossible to stop widespread fraud without strong digital credentials.”

During the 2020 election, more than 913,700 overseas ballots were counted — a nearly 36 percent jump from 2016 levels. As my colleague Beth Brelje noted, this number of UOCAVA ballots in 2020 was high despite the Department of State arranging to bring home 101,386 Americans from 136 countries due to the pandemic.

And while the number of UOCAVA ballot requests has decreased in Georgia, Democrats previously announced they are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into “mobilizing the overseas vote” with Democrats Abroad — “the official Democratic Party arm for the millions of Americans living outside the United States.” As Democratic National Committee Executive Director Roger Lau said in an August statement announcing the investment: “Democrats are leaving nothing to chance” in such a close election.

“With the largest investment in Democrats Abroad this cycle, we’re going to win this election by engaging voters inside and outside the U.S.,” Lau said, “and this investment shows our commitment to leaving no stone left unturned.”

Judge backs America First Legal bid to secure list of 218K voters without citizenship proof

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/america-first-legal-wins-lawsuit-list-218k-voters-without-citizenship-proof

America First Legal (AFL) won its lawsuit against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) on Thursday over 218,000 voters who were incorrectly registered as providing proof of U.S. citizenship.

The Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County ruled on Thursday that Fontes must provide the list of more than 218,000 voters who did not provide proof of U.S. citizenship by Monday.

"Defendants shall release to Plaintiff no later than noon on Monday, November 4, 2024, the original list of approximately 98,000 Affected Voters as specifically identified in Richer v. Fontes," the court order reads.

"Defendants shall release to Plaintiff no later than noon on Monday, November 4, 2024, any other datasets, compilation of information, lists, or communications from MVD containing personally identifying information (PII) about Affected Voters," the court added.

AFL sued Fontes earlier this month, after the secretary of state’s office said that an additional 120,000 Arizona residents were found to have been placed on the state's voter rolls as providing proof that they are U.S. citizens, despite the fact that they had not done so.

Approximately 79,000 Republicans, 61,000 Democrats, and 76,000 Other Party members have been affected.

The secretary's announcement came two weeks after he explained that there was an error in state systems that labeled roughly 98,000 voters as having provided documented proof of U.S. citizenship when they had not done so.

Arizona is a state with the unusual situation of bifurcated elections, in which residents who provide proof of U.S. citizenship can vote in all elections while the others may vote only in federal elections, resulting in ballots cast by voters who haven’t proven their U.S. citizenship.

AFL argued in its lawsuit that the secretary of state’s office illegally withheld the list of 218,000 voters who have not provided citizenship proof. Fontes' office rejected a public records request for the list and county recorders have also not received the list, despite state law requiring the local offices to investigate voters registered without citizenship proof.

https://truthsocial.com/@OAN/posts/113404085037931633

>>21871720

NICE!

>>21871723

Why are you worried about men or women voting more than the other instead of party being voted for?

You know what would have REALLY thrown the demoncraps for a loop?

Conservatives registered as demoncraps, then DINOs during mid-terms vote for lesser known demoncraps, and then in general election DINOs voting for all REPS.

That would really shake them up hard.

DISCLAIMER!

(being sarcastic)

You know what would have REALLY thrown the demoncraps for a loop?

Conservatives registered as demoncraps, then DINOs during mid-terms vote for lesser known demoncraps, and then in general election DINOs voting for all REPS.

That would really shake them up hard.

DISCLAIMER!

(being sarcastic)

THEY B SKERT!

Report: Dems Playing Blame Game Already

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/democrats-harris-election/2024/10/31/id/1186212/

Democrats are already starting to play the blame game with less than one week left before the presidential election, reports The Hill.

Some have looked to fault President Joe Biden for not stepping down sooner while others say Vice President Kamala Harris has been off message on the economy.

"People are nervous, and they're trying to cover their a** and get a little ahead of Election Day," one Democratic told the news outlet. "It's based on anxiety, stakes, and the unique nature of this cycle.

"We didn't have a traditional process for this election. We didn't have a primary. People just had to fall in line," the strategist added, saying "it's not surprising to me" that some of the blame game is happening.

If Harris loses, "there will be a mad dash to assign blame," the person said.

Another aide told the Hill Harris' decision to pick Tim Walz as her running mate would also be picked apart should she lose to GOP nominee Donald Trump.

"[Harris] is going to look real silly for not picking [Josh] Shapiro," one former aide in the Obama White House said.

"I'm not sure Walz got her anything. A lot of people I'm talking to say he seems like a great guy," a Democrat donor told The Hill.

"Would I want to have a beer with him? Absolutely. But let's face it, he wasn't a great choice."

>>21871942

Looks like Ralphie in his bunny suit. KEK!

>>21871955

He's not wrong, though. KEK!