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October 16, 2024

Good news: Judge further strikes down GA board's rules

The CNN article is a little sparse at the moment, but it looks perhaps like a judge has struck down the other rules that had been passed by the Trumpy GA board:

A judge in Georgia has struck down a slate of controversial new election rules passed by Donald Trump allies, including two that Democrats say would inject post-election “chaos” into the critical battleground state.

Among the rules Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox said violated state law are two that would require county election officials to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” into election results before certifying them and allow them to “examine all election related documentation created during the conduct of elections prior to certification of results.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/politics/georgia-trump-election-rules-struck-down

EDIT: CNN has updated the article a bit. The ruling also strikes down the hand counting of ballors rule.
October 16, 2024

Good news: Judge pauses GA rule that would require hand-counting ballots

A judge in Georgia has paused a new rule from the Georgia State Election Board that would have required officials to hand-count the number of ballots cast at each polling place.

“No training has been administered (let alone developed), no protocols for handling write-in ballots … have been issued, and no allowances have been made in any county’s election budget for additional personnel and other expenses required to implement the Hand Count Rule,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his order Tuesday.

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/georgia-hand-count-ballots-judge-paused/index.html

Note that the ridiculous board rule would only require counting the *number* of ballots, not determining who the votes were for. Still, it would slow the process down.
October 9, 2024

Right at the moment: 18 simultaneous active tornado warnings in FL

Amazing.

EDIT: Just dropped to 11 warnings. More expected. Several tornadoes have touched down.

Here is one YouTube channel following:

October 6, 2024

My count of political speeches for the past two weeks

What is going on here?

Looking at the C-SPAN schedule for the last two weeks, this is my count of the number of political speeches given:

Trump: 17
Vance: 8
Harris: 6
Walz: 2

Why the disparity?

September 16, 2024

Good news: Cornel West wont be on PA ballot

@SupremeCtofPA has affirmed that Cornel West will not appear on the PA ballot for President.
As such, PA's 67 counties can soon start printing and mailing ballots to those voters who have requested them.


https://x.com/adambonin/status/1835715755259662385

Link to ruling:

https://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/J-77-2024pco%20-%20106073356281214108.pdf?cb=1
September 15, 2024

Suspect identified

BREAKING | NBC News: Three senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter say the person in custody who was shot at by Secret Service while possessing a semi-automatic rifle in an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump is:

Ryan Wesley Routh

Reported w/
@KellyO


https://x.com/Tom_Winter/status/1835440321720619017

His date of birth is 2/18/66


https://x.com/Tom_Winter/status/1835440557826658508
September 14, 2024

Tim Walz speaking earlier today in Superior, Wisconsin

Tim Walz speaking earlier today in Superior, Wisconsin.

Some links:





C-SPAN link:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?538311-1/gov-tim-walz-campaigns-superior-wisconsin
September 8, 2024

My official Harris/Walz yard sign has shipped

I'm posting this info for others who are waiting. I'm in a majority GOP area, so I can't wait to put it up.

- Right after Walz was announced, the Harris website updated to show the new sign
- The "release date" was listed as September 5th
- I preordered the official Harris / Walz yard sign on August 16th.
- Late last night I got an email saying the sign has shipped
- It is shipping via UPS Ground


September 7, 2024

Walz live now at the Human Rights Campaign Dinner

EDIT: His speech has now ended, but you can watch the recorded speech below.

A link:



And this link has closed captions:

September 6, 2024

LOL. Person who asked "child care" question unhappy with answer

Reshma Saujani, the Economic Club of NY official who asked Trump about child care, prompting his epic word salad, is on CNN criticizing Trump for his "insulting" response and saying he's unfit to be president


https://x.com/atrupar/status/1832155922245746818

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