This is, IMO, going to be a big topic in the coming year. Republicans have stated their aim to make voting more restrictive in just about every state where they have the means to do so. Democrats would like to pass the Voting Rights Bill named after John Lewis. I’m going to go look up the map of all the states which have pending legislation to restrict voting. Now that we have the election in the rear view, I thought we could try to make this a general discussion thread, where people who have concerns about voting abuses can post as well and we can discuss it from both sides. Please keep memes out of this thread and put them in the boards where we go to talk about the other side, lol.
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He’s one of the highest paid state employees in California and one of its most incompetent….so this falls right in line that he would be pulling something like this.California sheriff running for governor seizes more than a half million ballots from 2025 election
A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.apnews.com
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President Donald Trump reportedly voted by mail in an upcoming local special election in Florida, despite the Republican’s frequent and false claims that mail-in voting is plagued with fraud.
The president cast a mail-in ballot in his home county of Palm Beach as part of a race for the state legislature, The Washington Post reports, even though the Republican was in the area over the weekend when early in-person voting was available.
In a Truth Social post on Monday, the president encouraged voters to take part in the “very important” special election and shared a link to help find their voting location. The post did not mention Trump wouldn’t be joining Floridians in person at the polls.
The Trump administration dismissed the Post’s reporting, calling it a “non-story” because it’s well known that the president uses mail-in voting, given that his main residence most of the time is the White House.…….
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The president cast a mail-in ballot in his home county of Palm Beach as part of a race for the state legislature, The Washington Post reports, even though the Republican was in the area over the weekend when early in-person voting was available.
In a Truth Social post on Monday, the president encouraged voters to take part in the “very important” special election and shared a link to help find their voting location. The post did not mention Trump wouldn’t be joining Floridians in person at the polls.
The Trump administration dismissed the Post’s reporting, calling it a “non-story” because it’s well known that the president uses mail-in voting, given that his main residence most of the time is the White House.…….
Trump reportedly cast Florida mail ballot as he pushes SAVE America Act restrictions
President Trump and his allies are pushing to restrict the practice, following years of election conspiracy theories
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See it’s only safe, secure, and worth counting when he does it. What a hypocrite.President Donald Trump reportedly voted by mail in an upcoming local special election in Florida, despite the Republican’s frequent and false claims that mail-in voting is plagued with fraud.
The president cast a mail-in ballot in his home county of Palm Beach as part of a race for the state legislature, The Washington Post reports, even though the Republican was in the area over the weekend when early in-person voting was available.
In a Truth Social post on Monday, the president encouraged voters to take part in the “very important” special election and shared a link to help find their voting location. The post did not mention Trump wouldn’t be joining Floridians in person at the polls.
The Trump administration dismissed the Post’s reporting, calling it a “non-story” because it’s well known that the president uses mail-in voting, given that his main residence most of the time is the White House.…….
Trump reportedly cast Florida mail ballot as he pushes SAVE America Act restrictions
President Trump and his allies are pushing to restrict the practice, following years of election conspiracy theories
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MADISON, Wis. — Conservative activist Harry Wait said he ordered ballots in the names of prominent local politicians four years ago to expose the risks of voter fraud.
Prosecutors determined he was right that voter fraud was an issue — but they believed he was the culprit.
On Tuesday night, a jury convicted Wait of one felony count of identity theft and two misdemeanor counts of election fraud, according to online court records. The jury acquitted him on a second identity theft charge. He faces a maximum penalty of seven years in prison but is unlikely to receive a punishment that severe.
The verdict came as President Donald Trump and his allies put a focus on the dangers of voter fraud and pressed Senate Republicans to abandon the filibuster and pass legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast ballots.
Voter fraud is rare, and Wait’s case shows that those who try to uncover it can pay serious consequences if they push legal limits.
Wait, a 71-year-old retired business consultant, is the president emeritus of a group in southeastern Wisconsin known as HOT Government, which Wait says pushes for honest, open and transparent leadership. Wait has spent years railing against the state-run website that allows Wisconsin voters to find their polling places and order mail ballots.
He used that system in 2022 to request ballots in the names of State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the most powerful Republican in the state, and Cory Mason, the mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, and a Democratic former state lawmaker.
Wait asked for the ballots to be sent to his home and then announced he had done so, saying he was highlighting a flaw in the state’s voting processes that bad actors could exploit to cast ballots for other people. The state Justice Department launched an investigation and charged Wait.
One of the municipal clerks who received a request from Wait sent him a ballot; the other did not. Election officials have said that actions like Wait’s are extremely rare and that they would have quickly caught on to them even if he hadn’t disclosed what he did. The state tracks where ballots are sent and investigates when voters question whether someone tried to vote in their name, election officials said.
Wait has said the ease with which he ordered ballots shows the state’s online portal is vulnerable to mischief. In the four years since he was charged, he has said bringing the issue to light was worth the criminal charges.
“I’d do it again in a heartbeat, because to save the republic, soldiers have to draw blood and blood be drawn,” Wait told The Washington Post in 2022.
On Wednesday, Wait said he would appeal his conviction but was prepared to pay a price for his actions.
“What I’m afraid [of] is that any whistleblowers that are coming down the road that have this information are going to be scared to do it,” he said.
Ann Jacobs, the Democratic chair of the state’s bipartisan Elections Commission, said Wisconsin’s online voter portal is set up to balance access to the ballot and voter security. Voters who don’t like the state’s election policies should contact legislators instead of committing a crime “as some sort of stunt for personal aggrandizement,” she said.
“I hope the message [the verdict] sends is, ‘If you break election laws, you will be caught and you will be convicted,’” Jacobs said.
Wait’s supporters have lauded him as a hero. At rallies, some have worn “Free Harry” T-shirts and others military-style dog tags with Wait’s name, the date he ordered ballots and the designation of “patriot.” On Monday and Tuesday, his backers posted video updates about his trial and filled the courtroom in Racine.
Wait got involved in reviewing election practices after Trump lost the 2020 election. Reviews have repeatedly found the results were correctly tallied, but Wait has said he believes the election was rigged. Trump, too, has continued to falsely claim that election was stolen, and his administration recently seized ballots in Georgia and election data in Arizona as it investigates...............
Prosecutors determined he was right that voter fraud was an issue — but they believed he was the culprit.
On Tuesday night, a jury convicted Wait of one felony count of identity theft and two misdemeanor counts of election fraud, according to online court records. The jury acquitted him on a second identity theft charge. He faces a maximum penalty of seven years in prison but is unlikely to receive a punishment that severe.
The verdict came as President Donald Trump and his allies put a focus on the dangers of voter fraud and pressed Senate Republicans to abandon the filibuster and pass legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast ballots.
Voter fraud is rare, and Wait’s case shows that those who try to uncover it can pay serious consequences if they push legal limits.
Wait, a 71-year-old retired business consultant, is the president emeritus of a group in southeastern Wisconsin known as HOT Government, which Wait says pushes for honest, open and transparent leadership. Wait has spent years railing against the state-run website that allows Wisconsin voters to find their polling places and order mail ballots.
He used that system in 2022 to request ballots in the names of State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the most powerful Republican in the state, and Cory Mason, the mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, and a Democratic former state lawmaker.
Wait asked for the ballots to be sent to his home and then announced he had done so, saying he was highlighting a flaw in the state’s voting processes that bad actors could exploit to cast ballots for other people. The state Justice Department launched an investigation and charged Wait.
One of the municipal clerks who received a request from Wait sent him a ballot; the other did not. Election officials have said that actions like Wait’s are extremely rare and that they would have quickly caught on to them even if he hadn’t disclosed what he did. The state tracks where ballots are sent and investigates when voters question whether someone tried to vote in their name, election officials said.
Wait has said the ease with which he ordered ballots shows the state’s online portal is vulnerable to mischief. In the four years since he was charged, he has said bringing the issue to light was worth the criminal charges.
“I’d do it again in a heartbeat, because to save the republic, soldiers have to draw blood and blood be drawn,” Wait told The Washington Post in 2022.
On Wednesday, Wait said he would appeal his conviction but was prepared to pay a price for his actions.
“What I’m afraid [of] is that any whistleblowers that are coming down the road that have this information are going to be scared to do it,” he said.
Ann Jacobs, the Democratic chair of the state’s bipartisan Elections Commission, said Wisconsin’s online voter portal is set up to balance access to the ballot and voter security. Voters who don’t like the state’s election policies should contact legislators instead of committing a crime “as some sort of stunt for personal aggrandizement,” she said.
“I hope the message [the verdict] sends is, ‘If you break election laws, you will be caught and you will be convicted,’” Jacobs said.
Wait’s supporters have lauded him as a hero. At rallies, some have worn “Free Harry” T-shirts and others military-style dog tags with Wait’s name, the date he ordered ballots and the designation of “patriot.” On Monday and Tuesday, his backers posted video updates about his trial and filled the courtroom in Racine.
Wait got involved in reviewing election practices after Trump lost the 2020 election. Reviews have repeatedly found the results were correctly tallied, but Wait has said he believes the election was rigged. Trump, too, has continued to falsely claim that election was stolen, and his administration recently seized ballots in Georgia and election data in Arizona as it investigates...............
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I think that Wait publicly announced what he did, because he knew the system would catch him and that would undermine his argument that the system was broken. Can't say the system is broken after you get the knock on the door from law enforcement who are there to arrest you, because they caught you.
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California sheriff running for governor seizes more than a half million ballots from 2025 election
A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.
California sheriff seizes more ballot materials in defiance of state officials
Chad Bianco, running for governor, previously confiscated 650,000 ballots for baseless voter fraud investigation
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He's in the FA stage of FAFO.California sheriff seizes more ballot materials in defiance of state officials
Chad Bianco, running for governor, previously confiscated 650,000 ballots for baseless voter fraud investigationwww.theguardian.com
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I’m voting for the midterms and the next Presidential election by mail. Just as I have for the past 15 years. This is a croc that will not go as he expects.
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