Fire at metal recycling facility leaves smoke over Oakland's Jack London Square

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

https://abc7news.com/oakland-fire-smoke-wheres-the-schnitzer/6253028/

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) – A 1-alarm fire at a metal recycling facility in Oakland left thick black smoke in the air near Jack London Square and I-880 on Wednesday evening.

The fire broke out at Schnitzter Steel near the Port of Oakland around 4 p.m.

SKY7 was up above as crews worked quickly to get a handle on the flames.

The Oakland Fire Department says at this time no injuries have been reported.

Residents in the area of 3rd and Chestnut streets should close their windows, fire officials advised.

Jack London Square is owned/managed by Diane Feinstein's son-in- law, Rick Mariano

see >>9742799 pb & in notables

>>9743512

>trafficking in persons report

>LIVE

=NOTABLE==

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-byq5pKURPg

WOW. Soon to be speaker McCarthy just compared nancy pelosi to Peter who denied knowing Jesus…was in regards to some Saint's statue in CA

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>>9743667

mccarthy smacks down a couple reporters here, too.

smacks down Pelosi, schumer and Durbin.

https://www.wbur.org/npr/848347895/ballot-printers-increase-capacity-to-prepare-for-mail-voting-surge

interesting process on mail-in ballots

Ballot Printers Increase Capacity To Prepare For Mail Voting Surge

"This year we are going to mail probably around 40 to 50 million pieces. We'll print probably close to 80 million, up to 100 million pieces when you count inserts," said Jeff Ellington, the company's president and chief operating officer. He gave NPR a virtual tour of the facility via FaceTime because pandemic travel restrictions prevented an in-person visit.

Ellington explained that getting ballots to the right voters is a complicated, multi-step process. States need to decide what their ballots will look like and to get approval from the U.S. Postal Service for the design of the envelopes. After those envelopes are secured, companies like Runbeck step in.

"So I'm on the production floor looking at one of our HP printing presses and it takes a roll of paper that starts out at a thousand pounds, and then it goes through the machine, gets printed, and then gets trimmed to size," Ellington said, adding that the machine can print about 20,000 ballots an hour.

Standing near the printer are stacks of massive rolls of white paper that will eventually become ballots for millions of American voters. On this day, the company is producing mailings for Iowa, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. The latter's ballots need to be delivered quickly for Georgia's June 9 primary, which was delayed from March due to the pandemic.

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>>9743786

>interesting process on mail-in ballots

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Ellington shows how another machine folds the ballots, which emerge in neat stacks and are put in plastic bins by workers. They're then taken over to another machine called an inserter. On this day, the inserter puts ballots, instructions and an "I voted" sticker into envelopes for Las Vegas voters.

"You'll see the ballots being loaded, going down a conveyor belt and then inserted into an envelope," Ellington said.

This is one of the most sensitive parts of the process. Each ballot has a bar code that tells the machine exactly what kind of ballot it is — there can be thousands of varieties in a single election — and then determines from a database of voter registration records which person on the list should receive that particular ballot.

"And then your name and address will be printed on the envelope once that process is complete," said Ellington.

Runbeck already has five inserters and has ordered 11 more — the most its manufacturer can produce by November. Ellington said this will triple the company's capacity, but is unlikely to meet what's expected to be this year's unprecedented demand with so many voters nervous about going to the polls in person.

His company and others are warning states to decide soon what they plan to do or they could be out of luck.

"Decision-making needs to be right now," CEO Kevin Runbeck told the U.S. Election Assistance Commission at a recent online hearing about holding an election during a pandemic. "We cannot gear up, we cannot build equipment fast enough if you wait until July to place your orders."

Kim Wyman, the secretary of state for Washington, which has a long history of widespread mail-in voting, also spoke about the challenges for states trying to quickly shift to a lot more absentee voting.

"They're going to need high-speed envelope sorters. They're going to need tabulation equipment that can actually count ballots in a faster manner," she warned.

And those are only a few things election officials need to consider, Wyman said.

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"Decision-making needs to be right now," CEO Kevin Runbeck told the U.S. Election Assistance Commission at a recent online hearing about holding an election during a pandemic. "We cannot gear up, we cannot build equipment fast enough if you wait until July to place your orders."

Kim Wyman, the secretary of state for Washington, which has a long history of widespread mail-in voting, also spoke about the challenges for states trying to quickly shift to a lot more absentee voting.

"They're going to need high-speed envelope sorters. They're going to need tabulation equipment that can actually count ballots in a faster manner," she warned.

And those are only a few things election officials need to consider, Wyman said.

"I am very concerned that with only six months really to implement vote-by-mail or absentee voting in a jurisdiction that it's going to be a heavy lift, and if it's not rolled out properly, we will lose confidence in the results of the election," Wyman told the commission.

Some states, like Wisconsin and Ohio, have already run into glitches switching to largely vote-by-mail primaries at the last minute.

Back in Phoenix, Jeff Ellington is worried too.

"There's approximately 200 million registered voters in the country. And we will have the capacity to do approximately 20 million [absentee ballots]," he said.

Not everyone will vote by mail, of course, and some election offices will handle the mailing and printing of ballots on their own. But that still leaves a big gap to fill in a short period of time.

Correction: May 3, 2020 12:00 am — An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the CEO of Runbeck Election Services as Michael Runbeck. The CEO is Kevin Runbeck.

==somebody just has to give China printing company the voter info in electronic form….and we are off to the illegal ballots

>>9743807

>This is one of the most sensitive parts of the process. Each ballot has a bar code that tells the machine exactly what kind of ballot it is — there can be thousands of varieties in a single election — and then determines from a database of voter registration records which person on the list should receive that particular ballot.

>"And then your name and address will be printed on the envelope once that process is complete," said Ellington.

>Runbeck already has five inserters and has ordered 11 more — the most its manufacturer can produce by November. Ellington said this will triple the company's capacity, but is unlikely to meet what's expected to be this year's unprecedented demand with so many voters nervous about going to the polls in person.

>>9743831

> NASCAR

nascar no longer exists….it is now NOOSECAR

>>9743890

>https://twitter.com/dead_che/status/1276164295630430210?s=20

very notable, imho

>>9743978

do we have the names of the nursing homes that cooperated with these murders?

>>9744112

>do we have the names of the nursing homes that cooperated with these murders?

here is link

https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/covid-19/fatalities_nursing_home_acf.pdf