2024 General Election Races

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Geez. Talk about taking things out of context. It's getting old.

[VHrox12]

Looks like Kamala might be picking Rick Moranis




Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro, potential Harris running mate, cancels weekend fundraisers ahead of VP announcement

Shapiro is widely believed to be the front-runner to be named as Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate

Louis Casiano Fox News
Published August 1, 2024 6:52pm EDT

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pen...ng-appearances

I don't know to me he looks like if Rick Moranis and Jake Tapper could have a baby out comes Josh Shapiro.

[MF5150]

I don’t think Kamala has eaten, let alone cooked, collards in her life.



That’s my contribution to this thread on this Friday evening.

[CaboChris]

I bet she can make a mean curry, though. Damn, I love me some Indian food. Lamb Vindaloo with some Garlic Naan.

[jimmy812]

And let the fellatio of Shapiro begin. I'm expecting 86, Scott, and chop to sloppily Hawk Tuah the fuck outta that dudes shcmekel. The media will be beside themselves.

It'll be the mirror of what happened when Vance was selected. In this case the left will fawn, and the right will harshly criticize. Typical behavior.

She's making the announcement on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, right, so I guess it makes sense that it's Shapiro.

I wasn't expecting Vance as Trump's VP pick--I thought he had better candidates. Not sure how I feel about Shapiro either--if it is him--I thought she'd go with someone a little more popular.

[bklynboy68]

I bet she can make a mean curry, though. Damn, I love me some Indian food. Lamb Vindaloo with some Garlic Naan.

Indian food is delicious.

[CaboChris]

Indian food is delicious.

It is. Never had until I went to UK.

It's "sopping" food. Filling as well with rice etc. I love to sop food. Get that Naan bread and dip it in the curry. Mmm.

[edwardv]

It is. Never had until I went to UK.

It's "sopping" food. Filling as well with rice etc. I love to sop food. Get that Naan bread and dip it in the curry. Mmm.

You still keep in touch with her?

[CaboChris]

You still keep in touch with her?

Fuck no. The last time I spoke to that gal was 2017. Wasn't meant to be. One of the biggest mistakes of my life, and vice versa. Water and oil. Oh well...saw London.

[edwardv]

Fuck no. The last time I spoke to that gal was 2017. Wasn't meant to be. One of the biggest mistakes of my life, and vice versa. Water and oil. Oh well...saw London.

I had many long distance flings when the internet was young. Great for geography and frequent flyer miles. Women won't do long distance anymore they smartened up. I know the feeling. Carry on

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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/jCp...ibextid=D5vuiz

[bklynboy68]

Federal agencies warn cyberattacks could limit access to election information, but not voting


The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned voters this week that attacks on election infrastructure this year could hinder their ability to access information about elections, but said they would not affect Americans' ability to vote.

Intelligence officials have warned Americans that foreign adversaries such as Iran and Russia are attempting to sway the upcoming presidential election. But FBI and CISA officials clarified that these attempts are not actually interfering with the electoral process, and that Americans can trust that their votes will be counted fairly.

“With Election Day less than 100 days away, it is important to help put into context some of the incidents the American public may see during the election cycle that, while potentially causing some minor disruptions, will not fundamentally impact the security or integrity of the democratic process,” CISA senior adviser Cait Conley said in a statement Wednesday.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are one method that voters might witness in the upcoming election, which overwhelm servers and make them inaccessible, according to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser. But those attacks can only limit access to information, and not actually harm a person's ability to vote, she explained.

"It is important to talk about these potential issues now, because nefarious actors, like our foreign adversaries or cybercriminals, could use DDoS incidents to cast doubt on the election systems or processes," Conley said. "An informed public is key to neutralizing the impact of foreign influence operations and disinformation."

The FBI and CISA said the warning is part of its ongoing commitment to educate Americans about critical election infrastructure and to ensure them that elections in the United States are still secure.

https://justthenews.com/politics-pol...ccess-election



Here we go

[CaboChris]

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/jCp...ibextid=D5vuiz

Trump should make his own ad about this. Would hurt imo. Just complete phoniness. It's insulting.

[bklynboy68]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-MJ6...hibHg3eGprdg==

[bklynboy68]

Ninth Circuit reverses its own ruling on Arizona voter registration rules.


PHOENIX — Arizonans who lack proof of citizenship can again sign up to vote in this year’s presidential and congressional races.

The action comes after two of three judges on a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals late Thursday overturned a ruling to the contrary by a different three-judge panel whose duty it is to rule on pending motions. The majority of this panel — the one actually assigned to hear the case — concluded the other judges should never have made such a radical change in voting registration rules so soon before the election, saying it would cause chaos.

What Thursday’s ruling did was restore an order issued last year by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton who had concluded that federal law specifically allowed people to register to vote in federal elections without the same kind of proof that Arizona requires of those wanting to cast ballots in state or local elections.

But it provoked an angry reaction from Senate President Warren Petersen who said it is just another example of “the radical 9th Circuit.’’

“They routinely engage in judicial warfare to carry out their extremist liberal agenda that’s contrary to the laws our citizens elected us to implement,’’ said Petersen, a Gilbert Republican. And he vowed to seek immediate review by the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of the November election.

A similar reaction came from Scot Mussi, president of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club which crafted the 2022 law at issue. He called it “a travesty of law’’ and “poorly reasoned.’’

In the meantime, county election officials are once again able to accept registrations from those using the state form even if they do not have what state law calls “documented proof of citizenship.’’

Maricopa County alone, which rejected 202 state forms in the past two weeks that didn’t have such proof, is once again accepting them.

In Pima County, Marion Chubon, the chief deputy recorder, said her office does not process registration forms after the deadline to sign up for the primary.

“We have thousands of state forms dropped off by voter registration groups in the last few weeks,’’ she said, saying that processing them will resume after the deadline to cure primary ballots, which is Sunday.

The underlying fight is over a 2022 Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to register, a precursor to being able to cast a ballot.

Several rights groups filed suit, calling the requirement “a baseless assault on Arizona’s election system based on a conspiracy theory that non-citizens are voting, despite a persistent lack of credible evidence to support such claims.’’ And they cited a federal law that allows people to register without citizenship proof if they avow, under penalty of perjury, they are entitled to cast ballots.

Bolton agreed, blocking the state from enforcing the mandate.

Two weeks ago, however, a panel of the 9th Circuit which handles legal motions said she was only partly right.

The judges said the state cannot turn away those who use a federal form to register, one that does not require proof of citizenship. They agreed with Bolton that states are required to accept the federal form.

But the judges accepted arguments by Petersen and House Speaker Ben Toma that the state can reject those who sign up using the state form if they don’t also submit proof of citizenship, even if those people are only signing up to vote in federal elections.

The new panel, however — the one that already was assigned to consider the state’s appeal of Bolton’s ruling — said that was wrong, if for no other reason than the timing: It came even as Arizona was signing people up for the Nov. 5 general election.

The judges noted there is long-standing Supreme Court precedent that courts should not upset the rules for registration so close to an election.

“The motions panel ... misunderstood the extent of confusion and chaos that would be engendered by a late-state alteration to the status quo of Arizona’s election rules in apparent disregard of the Supreme Court’s admonition,’’ the majority wrote.

And there is something else.

They pointed out there there is a separate consent decree with the secretary of state agreeing to direct county recorders to accept the state form, even without proof of citizenship.

What makes that important is Petersen and Toma, seeking to stay Bolton’s order, have to prove that they are likely to prevail on appeal. And the appellate judges said unless and until that decree is set aside, they are not likely to succeed.

Of the more than 4.1 million registered voters, there are about 35,000 Arizonans who have signed up to vote without proof of citizenship and will be entitled to vote in November not only for president but also weigh in on who is the state’s next U.S. senator as well as who is elected to each of the state’s nine seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Central to all of this is the question of whether those who register without proof of citizenship are not legally entitled to vote.

“The federal-only ballots are made up of groups like Native Americans, college students and the elderly,’’ said Aaron Thacker, spokesman for Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. He said these are people who may not have easy access to the documents the state requires to prove citizenship.

Thacker also pointed out that it already is illegal under federal and state law for anyone who is not a citizen to vote in Arizona elections.

And even Toma and Petersen, in their legal filings, failed to document a single case of non-citizens voting.

Mussi had a different take.

“How do you know that they’re not trying to vote?’’ he said, defending the 2022 law. “It’s a common-sense measure,’’ saying it balances the state’s need to restrict voting to those legally entitled to cast ballots with various ways that individuals can prove their legal presence.

The new order is unlikely to be the last word, even if the Supreme Court refuses to take up the appeal that Toma and Petersen have promised.

The same three judges that just upheld Bolton’s original order, at least for the time being, is set to hear arguments on the whole issue next month.



https://tucson.com/news/state-region...62b9dd2c1.html



Let's just say it right now, this election will be a shit show. This is now the fourth (?) state this year to have changed something in their election law that would allow unverifiable ballots.Also add Pennsylvania saying that it will be days before they get a tally. WTF? For all the chest pounding of the 81 million votes Bden got, it was about 30-40,000 votes that swung the election his way. This will be a bumpy ride because any questioning of dubious activity will be attacked by the media and their minions. Republicans of course can count on "conservatives" and "republicans" to be the first ones to go agaisnt them too.

November will be a shit show.