2020 Election Results

[Jimmy Higgins]

No--MAGA books are written like children's books!

My point exactly. MAGA are children -- maladjusted children who cope with their family abuse and neglect by being cruel to animals and anyone smaller than themselves...

They are effectively that idiot sociopath in the horror movies, making terrible choices and getting other people killed. By the time they get theirs, it is way too late and nothing can be recovered. The GOP isn't 100% MAGA, but the MAGAs are generally controlling the GOP, because the MAGAs are pouring money into the GOP. But at some point, the McConnells will be out and then the GOP will be controlled by people that have a fairy tale understanding of economics or how the world works. They'll be like Musk at Twitter. Acting boldly and dumbly and the consequences will be severe, and they'll blame it on others.

 

[blastula]

It's already Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day, and i haven't even finished my Halloween candy yet.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

And you thought your mother-in-law was stubborn.

 

[ZiprHead]

Newt Gingrich ordered to testify before Georgia grand jury investigating 2020 election aftermath | CNN Politics

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich must testify before the Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a Virginia judge ordered Wednesday.

www.cnn.com

 

[ZiprHead]

Worker pleads guilty in Colorado election equipment tampering case

The former elections manager assisted in a security breach of voting equipment in a Colorado county, prosecutors said.

www.cbsnews.com

Funny how when there is funny business associated with elections it's almost always done by Republicans.

 

[ZiprHead]

Jan. 6 committee will make criminal referrals, chair Bennie Thompson says

But a House select committee in a statement later Tuesday did not say that criminal referrals were a certainty.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[ZiprHead]

Rudy Giuliani repeatedly lost his cool during his attorney-misconduct hearing and accused the disciplinary counsel of asking 'sneaky' questions

"I am shocked and offended this is happening to me," Giuliani said, later adding: "For that I'm going to get disciplined? God almighty."

news.yahoo.com

On day two of his attorney-misconduct hearing, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani lost his temper, accused the disciplinary counsel of asking unfair questions, and went on lengthy rants about the 2020 election while the panel's chairman pleaded with him to give straightforward answers.

Giuliani's asides during the virtual hearing were so extensive that at one point, the disciplinary counsel, Hamilton Fox, said he wasn't sure how long it would take him to get through his questions.

"It depends on whether I get answers or the same thing repeated over and over again," Fox said. "If we can get answers, then—"

Giuliani interjected, saying Fox had made an "unfair comment," and adding, "I'm defending myself, Mr. Fox."

"Ok, Mr. Giuliani, just hold off a little bit," the panel's chairman, Robert Bernius, said.

Giuliani's disciplinary proceedings stem from an ethics case brought by the Washington, DC, bar's Office of Disciplinary Counsel. The case focuses on Giuliani's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, when he was then-President Donald Trump's personal attorney.

I wonder if he had a little drinkypoo or two before the hearing.

 

[ZiprHead]

D.C. Bar counsel urges Giuliani be disbarred after panel says he most likely committed ethics violation

The panel's tentative finding, which isn’t final, came after Giuliani defended his work on a lawsuit that sought to toss out the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania.

www.nbcnews.com

The D.C. Bar's disciplinary counsel recommended Thursday that Rudy Giuliani be disbarred after a hearing panel tentatively determined that he most likely violated at least one professional conduct rule in his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania.

The panel said its determination was preliminary and nonbinding, and because of that it declined to specify what rule Giuliani, who contested the election results as former President Donald Trump’s lawyer, had most likely violated. It will release a final decision in several weeks, after hearing recommendations related to what discipline Giuliani should receive, assuming the preliminary finding stands.


Hamilton “Phil” Fox, of the Washington, D.C., Office of Disciplinary Counsel, called for the harshest penalty for Giuliani, disbarment, after the panel announced its tentative finding, saying Giuliani tried to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Well, it'll be great to see at least one person up top take some personal responsibility for their actions.

 

[Elixir]

Worker pleads guilty in Colorado election equipment tampering case

The former elections manager assisted in a security breach of voting equipment in a Colorado county, prosecutors said.

www.cbsnews.com

Funny how when there is funny business associated with elections it's almost always done by Republicans.

Yup. Even funnier how they only ever get caught in blue states with Dem secretaries of State.

 

[blastula]

The Senate passes election reform designed to head off another Jan. 6

The bipartisan legislation would update the certification process for presidential elections, which Donald Trump and his allies tried to exploit after the 2020 election.

www.npr.org

Hooray.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

The Senate passes election reform designed to head off another Jan. 6

The bipartisan legislation would update the certification process for presidential elections, which Donald Trump and his allies tried to exploit after the 2020 election.

www.npr.org

Hooray.

Importantly, the measure also would raise the bar for objecting to a state's slate of electors. As it stands now, it takes just one member of the House and one senator to challenge a state's electors and send both chambers into a potentially days-long debate period, even without legitimate concerns.

The new legislation would raise the threshold for an objection to 20% of the members of each chamber.

That's an improvement but still a very low bar. It needs to be higher, much higher than 20%.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Patooka]

Republican candidate's wife arrested and charged with casting 23 fraudulent votes for her husband in the 2020 election

She was charged with 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, three of fraudulent registration, and 23 of fraudulent voting.

www.businessinsider.com

End then there is this gem;

The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank, maintains a public database of ballot-fraud cases. A review of the database reveals an astonishing fact: In every listed indictment and conviction for voter fraud or other malfeasance in connection with the 2020 presidential general election, when the culprit’s political affiliation is known he or she turns out to be a Republican or “unabashed conservative.”

Here is the Heritage Foundation's database, anyone can check themselves.

 

[ZiprHead]

Yup, I've seen that and posted it before some time back. Thanks for posting it again. I forgot to bookmark it.

 

[blastula]

Charging decision in Trump election case 'imminent,' Georgia prosecutor says

A Georgia prosecutor investigating Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat in the state's 2020 presidential election told a judge that decisions on whether to bring criminal charges are "imminent."

www.reuters.com

The nation again looks to Georgia to save itself from itself.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The point of interest in Georgia was that the Judge wanted to release the investigation. The Prosecutor said, 'please wait', I've got a decision on charges coming up. If that decision didn't include actual charges, it'd be an odd thing to raise. So the prevailing thoughts are that if they said to put that release on hold, that there was going to be charges. And seeing that Trump directly intervened, there isn't much in the way of "small people" to take falls. Georgia's officials were clearly covering their asses as best they could.

So... Trump (and Graham?) seem to be the only potential candidates for charges. And we have a phone call recording against Trump.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

And Arizona has changed the law in order to be able to hide private documents from the public. This way, they don't look like a bunch of anti-democracy authoritarians when they try their theft again in 2024.

The new rules will greatly limit the public release of lawmakers’ communications. State senators will not have to disclose any text messages sent on personal devices, even when dealing with state business. For lawmakers in both the Senate and the House, emails and other documents will be destroyed after 90 days — in many cases, well before members of the public know to ask for them.

To be clear, there are possible reasons why the public having unrestricted access to such communications wouldn't exactly be desired, and how it can be abused, the trouble is, the Arizona legislators just pulled the maneuver after being embarrassed (not imprisoned... people should have gone to jail) by their attempts to subvert a Federal Election. It is pathetic.

 

[ZiprHead]

FBI says it has no records related to Trump's claim he 'sent' agents to stop voter fraud in Florida during 2018 election

The FBI's search for records in response to NBC News' Freedom of Information request came up empty, the agency said. Local officials had disputed Trump's assertions.

www.nbcnews.com

The FBI has said it can find no records related to former President Donald Trump’s assertions in November that he “sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys” to stop “ballot theft” in Florida during the 2018 election.

In a letter dated March 6 and received this week by NBC News, the FBI wrote that it had searched its Central Records System but was “unable to identify records” in response to a reporter’s Freedom of Information Act request seeking any records related to Trump’s claims.


The FOIA request was submitted a day after Trump on Nov. 10 described how he delivered a 2018 election win to now-Gov. Ron DeSantis by having the FBI intervene to stop election fraud in Broward County.

Trump issued the statement at a time when DeSantis, a Republican and potential presidential candidate, was garnering praise from right-leaning media for his resounding re-election victory last year.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

FBI says it has no records related to Trump's claim he 'sent' agents to stop voter fraud in Florida during 2018 election

The FBI's search for records in response to NBC News' Freedom of Information request came up empty, the agency said. Local officials had disputed Trump's assertions.

www.nbcnews.com

The FBI has said it can find no records related to former President Donald Trump’s assertions in November that he “sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys” to stop “ballot theft” in Florida during the 2018 election.

In a letter dated March 6 and received this week by NBC News, the FBI wrote that it had searched its Central Records System but was “unable to identify records” in response to a reporter’s Freedom of Information Act request seeking any records related to Trump’s claims.


The FOIA request was submitted a day after Trump on Nov. 10 described how he delivered a 2018 election win to now-Gov. Ron DeSantis by having the FBI intervene to stop election fraud in Broward County.

Trump issued the statement at a time when DeSantis, a Republican and potential presidential candidate, was garnering praise from right-leaning media for his resounding re-election victory last year.

Well, duh! He sent them by merely thinking of it!