The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge based on constitutional free speech protections to a voter-approved measure in Alaska that required greater public disclosure of certain political donations as the justices passed up a chance to further curtail campaign finance regulation.
The justices turned away an appeal by several Alaskan residents and advocacy groups, represented by a conservative legal group, of a lower court's ruling upholding the law narrowly approved as a ballot initiative in 2020.
The initiative, called Ballot Measure 2, adopted sweeping changes to the state's elections system. The plaintiffs objected to what they called some of the most stringent disclosure requirements in the United States on political donors....
A trial court judge handling the case declined to block the law's enforcement. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Circuit upheld that ruling in March, saying the disclosure requirements were "reasonably tailored to the state's important interests in keeping the public informed."
Still a mess 3 months after the election despite no actual fraud being found. Election denial meets voter suppression meets male White supremacy, only in four of the state's 100 counties. Dem counties, of course. Shades of Florida 2000. The potentially disenfranchised are many overseas military voters and, as usual, women and POCs. Disgusting.
Update to the above: On Feb 7 Superior Court Judge William Pittman ruled in favor of the incumbent Dem winner of the Nov election. https://apnews.com/article/north-caroli ... 722cf00b3a
The case now goes to the RepuQ-dominated NC Supreme Court and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. https://ballotpedia.org/North_Carolina_ ... ions,_2024
This is the last undecided race in the nation from Nov. Yay NC.
RepuQs are democracy haters and assholes.
Damn straight, voters like the federal programs that help Americans.
Now, President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to make major cuts in government through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, run by billionaire Elon Musk — an initiative led by an unelected businessman who’s unlikely to ever run for office and was appointed by a termed-out president who no longer needs to face voters again.
The dynamic of cutting government while also cutting out those who answer to voters has alarmed even some fiscal conservatives who have long pushed for Congress to reduce spending through the means laid out in the Constitution: a system of checks and balances that includes lawmakers elected across the country working with the president....
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday outlining sweeping changes to the way federal elections are carried out nationwide, a responsibility the Constitution explicitly assigns to the states and Congress....
What part of "illegal" does MAGA not understand?
... The order reflects many of the falsehoods and conspiracy theories Trump has spread about federal election security.
The order reflects Dementia Donny.
... It aims to bar states from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, regardless of state laws on postmarking, and it directs the Justice Department to track and prosecute what the Trump administration considers election crimes.
Why does PINO despise the military? They can make up the bulk of late arriving ballots.
Fine by me as long as the USPS isn't gutted and they're real crimes being prosecuted.
... Election fraud is very rare. After the 2020 presidential election, dozens of lawsuits failed to surface evidence of widespread illegal ballots or other meddling....
It's like being in an Alice in Wonderland psychedelic trip on a goddamn dailoy basis.....the king of fraud bleating about fraud that doesn't exist. People late for top secret social media chat rooms and kids dying from measles or what they think the cure is (vitamin A) fucking up their liver instead. It's a brave new world. Pretty soon lettuce and other greens will soar in price and be infested with measles.
It's like being in an Alice in Wonderland psychedelic trip on a goddamn daily basis.....the king of fraud bleating about fraud that doesn't exist. People late for top secret social media chat rooms and kids dying from measles or what they think the cure is (vitamin A) fucking up their liver instead. It's a brave new world. Pretty soon lettuce and other greens will soar in price and be infested with measles.
... It’s kind of ironic, because the whole mantra of Republicans when it comes to elections is states’ rights. When Democrats tried to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act a few years ago, you heard over and over from Republicans that states should run their own elections. Well, suddenly Trump is saying that states actually don’t have the power to run their elections and should be run based on the way he wants them to be run. That means he wants states to require all this new documentation that they didn’t need before, that they may have to change their deadlines for mail ballots, and that Elon Musk and co. can go searching through their state voter rolls. This is pretty dramatic in terms of what states are doing right now.
This is kind of a minor thing, but the funniest part of the executive order, to me, was that Trump was saying that states need to implement voting machines that don’t actually exist. Basically, he wants to ban voting machines that use QR codes or bar codes, which are used in places like Georgia and Wisconsin. Trump is saying, No, you have to use a different kind of machine, but those machines don’t actually exist. This order, in some cases, is actually asking states to do things that not only are illegal but are actually just impossible....
... Known as SB 202, the law added a voter ID requirement for mail ballots, shortened the time period for requesting a mailed ballot and resulted in fewer ballot drop boxes available in populous metro Atlanta counties that lean Democratic and have a significant Black population. The law also banned the distribution of food and water by various groups and organizations to voters standing in line to cast a ballot.
1. Make the lines longer.
2. Make the lines Blacker.
3. Make the lines harder to tolerate, even dangerous for some.
4. Whine that this isn't voter suppression.
With a platform like that who needs issues?
... In addition to the Justice Department lawsuit, about a half-dozen other suits were filed by civil rights and election integrity groups raising claims based on the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination in voting.
Still a mess 3 months after the election despite no actual fraud being found. Election denial meets voter suppression meets male White supremacy, only in four of the state's 100 counties. Dem counties, of course. Shades of Florida 2000. The potentially disenfranchised are many overseas military voters and, as usual, women and POCs. Disgusting.
A North Carolina appeals court sided Friday with the trailing candidate in a close state Supreme Court election from November, ruling that tens of thousands of ballots were wrongly allowed in the tally. But they offered some of the voters a way to have their ballot count.
The 2-1 opinion by a panel of the intermediate-level Court of Appeals could eventually put Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin ahead of Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs. She currently leads in their race by 734 votes from over 5.5 million ballots cast.
The judges on Friday found that the State Board of Elections got it wrong in December when it dismissed Griffin's election protests. The ruling is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
TV news said "US Supreme Court". I would guess it goes to the NC Supreme Court first where RepuQs hold the majority, but Idk. Maybe there's a federal case pending.
While The Associated Press declared more than 4,400 winners in the 2024 general election, the state Supreme Court election is the only race that is still undecided.
We're "special".
Griffin's postelection protests challenged over 65,000 ballots in three different categories. Griffin currently serves on the Court of Appeals and had recused himself from deliberations within the court, where his colleagues ruled favoring him....
"Free elections under ... the North Carolina Constitution include the right to an accurate counting of votes," said the opinion backed by Judges John Tyson and Fred Gore, both registered Republicans....
Butthurt assholes can't admit how stupid it was to nominate wingnut Robinson for Gov. They hate democracy. Shameful.
His latest hallucination:
