Which would actually be against the law in Virginia and could get that election official reported and possibly charged?
No, we are encouraging voters to bring masks if they must show up in-person to vote. However, if someone is not wearing a face covering you may not turn him or her away. You may offer the voter curbside voting or offer them a face covering if you have any extra available. You cannot turn a voter away because they refuse to use a mask.
The buzz, of course, is that some of these officials believe that more Republicans than Democrats will refuse to wear masks and thus, they can tip the scales a little bit. Problem is that an election official denying a voter the right to vote could get them in significant legal trouble.
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I knew you would suck Trump's mushroom penis again and the big lie.
Glenn Youngkin’s pro-Trump supporters are already claiming voter fraud in Virginia
Steven Rosenfeld, Independent Media Institute
November 02, 2021
As the Virginia governor's race heads toward a nail-biting conclusion – with polls from Fox News saying that Republican Glenn Youngkin is ahead and the Washington Post saying that Democrat Terry McAuliffe is ahead – how prepared are election experts to quickly counter disinformation should McAuliffe, a former governor, pull ahead in the first unofficial results?
The answer is not very, according to interviews with election officials, Democratic Party lawyers, election protection attorneys, and experts in academia and policy circles.
At best, it appears that government officials and experts with election administration experience will say again what Americans heard after the 2020 presidential election: that the voting process is trustworthy, includes checks and balances, and therefore the results are legitimate. What is not likely to be seen is quick and easily understood proof of the winner based in public election records that attest to legitimacy of the voters and the accuracy of the vote counts.
"I just don't think there's a factual way to combat this, or debunk this, nor do I think that's an effective strategy," said David Becker, executive director and founder of the non-partisan Center for Election Innovation and Research. "The simple fact is that if McAuliffe wins, the election deniers will claim fraud, regardless of facts, and then will make things up to support their false claims. We need a broader narrative about the security of elections, and force them to answer to that."
Becker continued, "The fact is that since 2017, Virginia has paper ballots statewide, and in the last couple of years, has instituted risk-limiting audits throughout the state. Ballots cannot be made up or dumped. I am firmly against getting into a meaningless cycle where we have to prove that an election had integrity when we've already done so. We've seen how that won't change minds."
Becker is referring to post-election claims, most notably in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. In those states, pro-Trump legislators have launched "bad-faith audits" where they have hired Trump partisans with little election auditing experience, and given them great leeway look for problems that could be used to cast doubt on results where Trump lost.
During a press briefing on Monday by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which hosts a hotline to assist anyone having trouble accessing a ballot, Alexandria Bratton, senior program manager with the Virginia Civic Engagement Table, also pointed to the post-election audits—which would come after the results are certified just before Thanksgiving.
"Our elections, time and time again, have shown that we don't have any large-scale anything [wrong] that's really going on," Bratton said. "I think it's just a matter of using our facts, instead of some of the narratives that folks are trying to push to place fear into our voters."
Bratton's comments were similar to those from other election experts, including recently issued reports that said voting system-testing protocols and audits sufficed to counter disinformation. When Voting Booth noted that disinformation started on Election Day or sooner, while audits occurred weeks later — leaving a void that can be filled with conspiracy chatter — Bratton noted that false claims about Virginia's governor's race have already appeared, but reiterated that the job of election protection advocates is to help voters cast ballots and then arm them with facts.
"We've actually already started seeing some of that disinformation floating on social media… [and at] some of their rallies,
You are a traitor.
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"We've actually already started seeing some of that disinformation floating on social media… [and at] some of their rallies," Bratton said. "It's not even waiting for results to come in. Folks are already pushing those types of narratives to get those thoughts into folks' minds ahead of time. So what we have tried to do, as the nonpartisan election protection coalition, is just remind folks what the facts are, and when to actually see the results."
The partisan organizations most heavily invested in the governor's race are the political parties. Frank Leone, an election lawyer working with the Democratic Party of Virginia said the party has been "monitoring all that stuff pretty closely, which include Republican and MAGA [Trump's Make America Great Again] group efforts… basically watching everything they do with their theory that somehow in the middle of the night they are switching votes."
Leone said that MAGA factions have begun to copy Arizona activists by knocking on some voters' doors to ask them if they really requested a mailed-out ballot — a tactic that, as the Department of Justice warned Arizona's Trumpers, may violate federal voter intimidation laws. The state's Democratic Party is also monitoring GOP efforts to reportedly deploy several thousand poll watchers as a "line of defense against election fraud," as the Washington Post reported. Top Virginia GOP officials also have been saying that the state's use of drop boxes to receive the mailed-out ballots was an invitation for voting more than once — which is not true, as every return envelope goes through several checks to verify the voter before being opened.
Leone said the state party "was trying to be in the position to respond to these things," and was also concerned about what's been called the "Blue Shift." That's shorthand for the tendency of lower population, rural, GOP-heavy counties to report first on Election Night — presumably putting Youngkin ahead — followed by the state's urban centers, led by suburbs of Washington, D.C., which report their results later in the evening — presumably tilting the count toward McAuliffe. But for the most part, the party has "stayed out of the papers and haven't put our side in."
The Virginia Department of Elections has put up web pages seeking to debunk false claims about elections. Most of its messaging has been consistent with efforts by election officials in other states, emphasizing that there are many safeguards along the path of verifying voters and counting ballots—but not getting into much detail about those protocols and underlying data.
This overall status quo is not encouraging to Ion Sancho, who recently retired after three decades as an election official in Florida and was a technical advisor to the Florida Supreme Court during the Bush v. Gore litigation (where the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a state-based recount and appointed Bush president in 2000.)
"They are fighting the last war, the only war they have experienced, not the one we're in now," Sancho said, referring to election officials' responses to attacks on voting by Trump's base. "It's like the Defense Department always fights the last war, instead of anticipating the new one."
You are a traitor
https://www.rawstory.com/glenn-youngkins-pro-trump-supporters-are-already-claiming-voter-fraud/
Republicans are scared of losing their election and again they are claiming fraud even before the election results are available tonight.
Our nation is at the worst crisis in history because of Trump
Plagiarised
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2021/11/02/fairfax-county-virginia-voter-denied-entry-to-polling-place-for-refusing-to-mask-but-no-id-no-problem-n1529006
Pjmedia LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO you have lost more mind
CO Governor warns that
Colorado Hospitals are Close to Rationing Care
2:26 pm EDT
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) warned that surging coronavirus infections among the unvaccinated are bringing the state closer to rationing hospital care “in the next few days,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Polis:
“It’s the 20% who haven’t been vaccinated that are filling up our hospital wards. We would have none of these hospital capacity issues, or orders would be operative, if everybody was vaccinated.”
NO! NO! DON'T GET VACCINATED! IT'S ALL JUST A GOVERNMENT TRICK! THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO CONTROL YOU!
They are coming to turn you into a faggot Communist.
Have you ever wondered how American schools went from bastions of academic learning to centers where pornography is daily fare and boys wearing nail polish and skirts can legally roam through girls' restrooms and showers, raping and groping as they go?
Origins of Radical Sex Education
The origins of radical sex education date back nearly a century to a Marxist program implemented in Hungarian public schools in their quest to destroy Christianity in Western Europe. The curriculum included sex lectures and graphic instructional materials about free love and sexual intercourse. Students were encouraged to ridicule and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority. Hate was turned toward parents, clergy, and all dissenters.
The program was a huge success. Continued exposure to atheism, radical sex education, and rebellion against authority turned Hungarian students into bullies, thieves, murderers, sex predators, and sociopaths who disrespected authority.
Thousands and thousands of American girls are being raped by boys in skirts?
Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips ‘Vaccine Nazis’
2:56 pm EDT
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). who apologized earlier this year for comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust, ripped “vaccine Nazis” while saying she’s not vaccinated, NBC News reports.
Said Greene:
“They’re ruining our country, these vaccine Nazis.”
She added:
“I’m sorry. I know I’m using the word Nazi and everybody gets mad when I say it, but that’s exactly what they are.”
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No, the vaccine Nazi is the person you see in the mirror who's trying to keep people unvaccinated and getting sick and dying.
Why?
And some people are reporting IS A FUCKING JOKE!!!!!!!! It will soon turn into the voting was rigged as usual......
The Big Lie GOP is rearing its ugly head even before the polls close.....with no winner called.....getting ready to rile up the GOP base again in case things do not go their way.....If they get close to 2.8 million votes.....D's should win handily!!!!!!
Including insulin is a big step forward
tion drugs as part of their social spending and climate plan.
Medicare drug price negotiation was one of the final unresolved issues on the $1.85-trillion bill, which Democrats hope to finish writing as soon as Tuesday. Other policy issues still subject to negotiation include climate and immigration.
The drug-price proposal was left out of a framework released last week by the White House, and some Democrats had been fighting to find a way to include a modified version.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that a deal had been reached and that a key holdout, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) supported the plan. "This deal will directly reduce out-of-pocket drug spending for millions of patients every time they visit the pharmacy or doctor," Schumer said.
Like the social spending bill on the whole, the revised Medicare negotiation plan would be dramatically more limited in scope than what many progressive Democrats had hoped for.
Medicare already does that for older people like me.
12 minutes ago the Wall Street RINO
WASHINGTON—Democrats reached an agreement on provisions designed to lower the price of some prescription drugs, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said, appearing to resolve one of the final issues in the party’s negotiations over their $1.85 trillion social policy and climate bill.
The agreement would empower Medicare to negotiate the price of some drugs, impose a discount on drugs whose prices rise faster than the rate of inflation and cap out-of-pocket costs for seniors at $2,000 annually.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said government price negotiations would begin with 10 drugs in 2023. The rebate on drug prices rising faster than inflation would apply to drugs in both the Medicare and the commercial markets and begin in 2022.
“This deal will directly reduce out-of-pocket drug spending for millions of patients,” Mr. Schumer said.
The deal between Democrats and a few centrist holdouts on drug pricing puts Democrats another step closer to finishing the $1.85 trillion legislation, which party leaders hope to bring to the floor in the House this week.
JamesoldCoward
So you believe they are not an All star team.
We , agree.
Stop running Jamesold Coward
"Comparisons to the Insurrection to demand about the my of George Floyd is racially charged beliefs. Not political purposes
Any help ?
or is he finally getting help ?
odd the "pastor" is so quiet about this
kind of like Biden's dementia
* roger amick in case you couldn't guess
Jenna Ellis
RULING:
https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1455618094945218563
BREAKING: The Youngkin legal team with a victory on the mask issue. They obtained this directive, sent to all election officials. NO ONE can be turned away for not wearing a mask.
Breaking.....Record turn out for early voting in VA!!!! We all know what that could mean!!!!!
Tue, Nov 2, 2021 3:32 pm
PBS NewsHour ges
WHAT TO WATCH IN VIRGINIA’S GOVERNOR’S RACE
By Lisa Desjardins, Correspondent
The Old Dominion has elected 73 governors in its history, leaders who have gone on to win U.S. Senate seats and three presidencies.
True to that historic form, Virginia’s choice this year could have broad implications for both the Capitol and the White House. The state has been Democrats’ foothold in the south for the past two decades and what happens there could be portentous or fortuitous to their chances of keeping Congress and the presidency. Democrats have dominated for years: Since 2001, Virginia has held 17 major statewide elections (governor, U.S. senator, president) and Democrats won 14 of them.
But as President Joe Biden’s approval ratings wane, Republicans are threatening to take back the Richmond governor’s mansion in this year’s vote.
The race has developed into a fault line over schools... But we also want to highlight five other things to watch for in today’s voting and the coming election results.
Northern Virginia turnout.
A key, glaring question in this election and the next: Are Democratic voters motivated enough to show up in the numbers they did in 2020? In Virginia, that question is especially important in the suburbs and exurbs around Washington D.C., which are both Democrats’ most-concentrated and largest areas for votes. Several hundred thousand voters have already cast ballots in the region, which is record early-voting turnout. But that still leaves a few hundred thousand ballots or more to be cast.
Democrats still need significant Election Day turnout in order to keep in charge in Richmond. They must win Northern Virginia with something on the order of 60 to 66 percent of the vote in order to be victorious in the state at large. If you’d like to watch a single county, make it Fairfax County, the largest in Northern Virginia.
Swing areas.
The Old Dominion is blessed with gorgeous scenery — the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west, the Atlantic Ocean in the east and rolling rivers from north to south. Its political landscape is just as scenic. Out of the state’s 11 congressional districts, three are nationally-known swing districts, including two where Democrats hold the Congressional seat but voters have also backed former Republican President Donald Trump in at least one election. Particularly watch how voters cast their ballots (and how many of them do) in the growing areas around Norfolk and the southern coast, where Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria will be a top Republican target next year. Another good spot to check: Henrico County, around Richmond, from which Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger also will need some strong Democratic love in 2022.
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Trump talk.
The former president has sent out more messages and even participated in a conservative call-in show to support Youngkin in the past few days. This comes despite the Republican gubernatorial candidate himself avoiding references to Trump, much less campaigning with him. Republicans believe the more Trump enters the Virginia atmosphere, the worse it would be for them in the generally moderate state. It will be telling to see how much Trump is in headlines, if at all, related to the race.
Voter fraud or intimidation complaints.
As is now usual practice, both parties have set up call-in lines and assembled legal teams in preparation for either voter intimidation or fraud claims. In addition, both have raised accusations that the other is ready to contest the election, while asserting such action is beneath them. We’ll be checking on Twitter for any allegations of election wrongdoing or hijinks. If the election is close, watch any and all statements on how each party handles the results. This is especially important if the race remains close and counting (as well as possible recounting) could take days.
Anger.
Whichever party wins, the Virginia races are a temperature check for the nation’s political emotions. The commonwealth long prided itself on the “Virginia way,” a political honor system which centered on trust of and decorum by individuals. The principle puts principle and statesmanship over politics and hostility. But in the past year, Virginians have seen raucous school-board meetings, in particular in Loudoun County, and rising anger from all parts of the spectrum. That’s not the traditional Virginia way and is especially notable in a state known for a more even temper. Reactions to today’s elections could tell us something about the nation, and its mentality at large
The Democrat party is no longer liberal; it is fascist/communist. The party no longer believes in the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, and more. In short, the Democrat party as currently constituted does not believe in the Constitution. Democrats seek to abrogate it on every level and have gone far toward that goal. The Democrats have become enemies of the Republic as founded. They are bullies. Republicans are Baum's cowardly lions and scarecrows, except for the good guys. We all know who they are; they are great but too few.
Why aren't the Republicans in Congress demanding the resignation of A.G. Garland? Of Anthony Blinken for Afghanistan? Jake Sullivan for Afghanistan? Of Joe Biden for crimes against America: the calculated invasion of the southern border of nearly two million untested, unvaccinated migrants; the shutdown of all our own energy production, causing a catastrophic rise in gasoline prices; vaccine mandates despite the knowledge that they cannot deter infection or transmission; crushing inflation; and the supply line crisis?
Biden's has been the most destructive administration in U.S. history — so much so that it cannot be misconstrued as misadventure. It is obviously intentional. No government would do this much damage by accident or inadvertence. It can only be by design. This bunch is Obama 2.0, phase two of "take America down and out." Biden is just their front. He's their puppet, and they chose their frontman poorly.
Thugs they are, thugs they will always be. They didn't use to be, but they are now. Americans must wake up and defend themselves and their country from these cutthroat executioners of the U.S. as founded.
"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."
—Machiavelli
Let us not be further deceived that this administration means anything but tyranny for us all.
Comfortably Smug
CHART:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1455633873510047750
Lol Dems about to pass the Bezos Bailout?!?
Tax cuts for their millionaire donors is infrastructure
Marc Goldwein - GET VAXXED!
A 5-Year SALT cap repeal would be the LARGEST part of Build Back Better. Even just the part going to the top 5% would be.
Budgeting is about values. Are these really our values? https://crfb.org/blogs/5-year-salt-cap-repeal-would-be-costliest-part-build-back-better
Funny roger didn't mention this when he read the bill
nor the "pastor"
nor political_lire
but Bezos and his billionaire friends are beaming !!!
The Democrat party is no longer liberal; it is fascist/communist. The party no longer believes in the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment
Funny how rat the plagiarist checker ignores this wanton steal from the American Stinker......sad how dishonest he and the GOP continues to be!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
I notice the liberal media keeps calling VA a dead heat. It is not. Youngkin is significantly ahead.
And the same media have been doing the dems work repeating their smears, Lies, and phoney spin.
No, the vaccine Nazi is the person you see in the mirror who's trying to keep people unvaccinated and getting sick and dying.
The FULLY VACCINATED Saint Colon of the Bowel could not be reached for comment.
Ginger twat, the White House spokestool, is vaxxed and also had her booster. That's 3 injections. And she -
Just
Tested
Positive
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany is now complete. This gives Russia hard currency and strategic leverage over Germany. Biden did nothing to stop this project.
The Keystone XL pipeline was canceled on Joe Biden’s order. The pipeline would have help maintain energy independents as well as created thousand of good paying jobs. (Biden thinks you have to have a college degree to deserve a good paying Job.)
Putin has Biden in a dog collier leading him around on a leash.
Anonymous Myballs said...
I notice the liberal media keeps calling VA a dead heat. It is not. Youngkin is significantly ahead.
The media is simply fulfilling their obligation as water carriers for the DNC. If they told the truth tonight's steal would be impossible. Calling it a dead heat allows Scumbag Marc Elias and team McAuliffe to declare victory at 4 AM tomorrow.
Benny
THREAD:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1455582351472406529
Terry McAuliffe gave $500K to wife of disgraced FBI official, Andrew McCabe
The money directed by McAuliffe began flowing two months after the FBI investigation into Clinton began in July 2015.
https://nypost.com/2016/10/24/clinton-ally-gave-500k-to-wife-of-fbi-agent-on-email-probe/
funny how he managed to clear Hillary
and later get fired for lying but Biden gave him back pay and restored pension when he took over
the swamp sticks together
Hunter smiles
. Biden did nothing to stop this project.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And what would he do to tell the Germans what to do????? Cramps with another absurd comment.....Imagine Germany telling floriduh to shut Disney!!!!!!! The Keystone Pipeline was of NO BENEFIT to the US other than transporting dirty tar sands Canadian oil to refineries on the Gulf that could handle it!!!!!!!! How many more times are you going to post the same STUPID comment???????
Funny how rat the plagiarist checker ignores this wanton steal from the American Stinker......
take it up with the alky, BWAA. He's the serial plagiarizer around here. I can't keep up with his alky-lanche of copy/pastes.
You're an imbecile.
Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
According to media reports, Democratic negotiators are working on a repeal of the SALT deduction cap for up to five years, which would cost $475 billion and give the richest 5% $400 billion in tax cuts.
apology to roger, not really yet part of bill
I'm a bit confused on what's going on
just that I can smell it from here
According to media reports, Democratic negotiators are working on a repeal of the SALT deduction cap for up to five years, which would cost $475 billion and give the richest 5% $400 billion in tax cuts.
LOL. Sure makes liars out of the pederast and alky who constantly parrot that the repubs are the party of the rich.
That's always been a fable and this proves it.
Democrats - billionaires are evil
also Democrats - Let's give them another $400 billion
Bezos's Washington Post and the rest of the FAKE NEWS will write glowingly about the Democrats and savage the evil rich man party of Republicans
political_lire will copy and make it out as a good thing
Take it up with the alky, BWAA
I got no beef or time to worry about Roger.....just that I note that your hypocrisy is only bounded by your lack of intellectual honesty to items you agree with,,,.....very sad what a loathsome biased moron you are!!!!!!! Asshole
yep
Democrats Eye 5 Years of SALT Relief
November 2, 2021 at 5:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Punchbowl News: “We’ve been told by multiple sources involved in the talks that Democrats look like they’re going to go with five full years of SALT deductibility relief. A final decision will be made today. This is very tentative, our sources caution. But it would be a huge win for the pro-SALT repeal members in blue states”
https://politicalwire.com/2021/11/02/democrats-eye-5-years-of-salt-relief/
ROFLMFAO !!!
General Lee
Wasn’t that the car in the Dukes of Hazard?
The one with the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia painted on the roof?
.just that I note that your hypocrisy is only bounded by your lack of intellectual honesty to items you agree with,,,..
BWAA, the alky is so fucked in the head and spams the board with so much shit i notice little of it and read hardly any. Most of what the alky posts is news that was posted fucking hours ago. The rest is shit from 'raw story' that he pulls out of his nursing home ass.
There's a reason he's locked down in a 'facility' and you probably should be too.
So go fuck yourself, and then eat a pistol.
According to media reports, Democratic negotiators are working on a repeal of the SALT deduction cap for up to five years, which would cost $475 billion and give the richest 5% $400 billion in tax cuts.
LOL. Sure makes liars out of the pederast and alky who constantly parrot that the repubs are the party of the rich.
JAMESNEWBRANDON,,, is funny.
Biden's new plan
Build Billionaires Better
Animal Farm
JAMESNEWBRANDON, is a lot like Alky, they can cut n post, but when challenged , they cut n run.
Zero debating skills.
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! And what would he do to tell the Germans what to do???
It’s called diplomacy, shit for brains.
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