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Just prior to planting the flag at the summit.....tomorrow ?
Just 6 electoral votes short of the 270 needed to become the 46th US president
and leading in Nevada, a state that Hillary Clinton won in 2016, a state that has 6 electoral votes, the path to victory seems just a day away. While not taking it for granted,
Joe Biden has a consistent message to all Americans;
Today from the New York Times;
In response to:
Speaking in Delaware, Biden says it’s ‘clear’ he will reach 270 electoral votes.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday said it was “clear” that he would reach 270 electoral votes and win the presidency, though he stopped short of claiming victory.
“I’m not here to declare that we’ve won, but I am here to report that when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners,” Mr. Biden said in a speech at an event center in Wilmington.
After President Trump said in the early morning hours that vote counting should be halted, Mr. Biden offered a strikingly different message, paying tribute to democracy.
“Here, the people rule,” he said. “Power can’t be taken or asserted. It flows from the people. And it’s their will that determines who will be the president of the United States, and their will alone.”
Mr. Biden added that “every vote must be counted.”
“No one’s going to take our democracy away from us,” he said. “Not now, not ever.”
And in a continuation of one of the broad themes of his campaign, Mr. Biden offered a unifying message for the American people.
He said that the presidency “is not a partisan institution” and promised, “I will work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as I will for those who did vote for me.”
“My friends, I’m confident we’ll emerge victorious,” Mr. Biden said. “But this will not be my victory alone or our victory alone. It will be a victory for the American people, for our democracy, for America. And there will be no blue states and red states when we win — just the United States of America.”
by Thomas Kaplan
Speaking in Delaware, Biden says it’s ‘clear’ he will reach 270 electoral votes.
WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday said it was “clear” that he would reach 270 electoral votes and win the presidency, though he stopped short of claiming victory.
“I’m not here to declare that we’ve won, but I am here to report that when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners,” Mr. Biden said in a speech at an event center in Wilmington.
After President Trump said in the early morning hours that vote counting should be halted, Mr. Biden offered a strikingly different message, paying tribute to democracy.
“Here, the people rule,” he said. “Power can’t be taken or asserted. It flows from the people. And it’s their will that determines who will be the president of the United States, and their will alone.”
Mr. Biden added that “every vote must be counted.”
“No one’s going to take our democracy away from us,” he said. “Not now, not ever.”
And in a continuation of one of the broad themes of his campaign, Mr. Biden offered a unifying message for the American people.
He said that the presidency “is not a partisan institution” and promised, “I will work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as I will for those who did vote for me.”
“My friends, I’m confident we’ll emerge victorious,” Mr. Biden said. “But this will not be my victory alone or our victory alone. It will be a victory for the American people, for our democracy, for America. And there will be no blue states and red states when we win — just the United States of America.”
by Thomas Kaplan
Well said Joe. It seems your cognitive skills and respect for democracy and people in general are far superior to your rival's.
online today!
Oh, no!
Well on the way to the magic number of 270, before all sorts of Democrat vote stealing chicanery, is still our Brilliant and Dazzling, Ivy League grad, President Trump.
These abuses are so out there, that Mr.Trump's competent, VERY competent, legal cavalry are mounted, well armed and beginning the charge.
The same legal team that cut to pieces the many witch hunt parties. As evidenced by---Hilary financed fake Steele (Trump Russia-Moscow project) Dossier, the criminal use of the latter to spy on Mr. Trump's campaign, similar tactics for the Ukraine based attempt to stage an ersatz coup, ---all leading to the final failure to convict, in the grand jury indictment- like Impeachment. Sharp lawyers, all.
An old saying in the US Law, concerning the ease and validity of indictments from grand juries, is, " Grand Juries can even indict a HAM SANDWICH".
And so things are going to State level courts, for the half dozen of states, where Mr. Trump was clearly winning, until the criminal tricks began. Where these talented attorneys will prevail.
But in a rare case, SCOTUS may have the matter turfed to it, for constitutional scrutiny. .
Oh no! SCOTUS. Where hottie Judge Amy Barnett's presence now makes things six to three. In favor of Law and Constitution.
What could possibly go wrong for the Dem's shenanigans at that point?
Sharp lawyers, all. Jay Sekulow, and America's Mayor, Mr. Giuliani. Legal swords aloft.
These abuses are so out there, that Mr.Trump's competent, VERY competent, legal cavalry are mounted, well armed and beginning the charge.
The same legal team that cut to pieces the many witch hunt parties. As evidenced by---Hilary financed fake Steele (Trump Russia-Moscow project) Dossier, the criminal use of the latter to spy on Mr. Trump's campaign, similar tactics for the Ukraine based attempt to stage an ersatz coup, ---all leading to the final failure to convict, in the grand jury indictment- like Impeachment. Sharp lawyers, all.
An old saying in the US Law, concerning the ease and validity of indictments from grand juries, is, " Grand Juries can even indict a HAM SANDWICH".
And so things are going to State level courts, for the half dozen of states, where Mr. Trump was clearly winning, until the criminal tricks began. Where these talented attorneys will prevail.
But in a rare case, SCOTUS may have the matter turfed to it, for constitutional scrutiny. .
Oh no! SCOTUS. Where hottie Judge Amy Barnett's presence now makes things six to three. In favor of Law and Constitution.
What could possibly go wrong for the Dem's shenanigans at that point?
Sharp lawyers, all. Jay Sekulow, and America's Mayor, Mr. Giuliani. Legal swords aloft.
Lock Trump up !
Trump admits to his aides, that he is worried about all the state and federal prosecutions that are impending after he loses the election. Hey, if you can't do the time, don't commit the crimes ! 
Today from Salon;
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Today from Salon;
In response to:
President Trump tells advisers that he fears prosecution if he loses the election: report
Trump fears not only the state and local investigations already underway but also possible new federal probes
Roger Sollenberger
November 3, 2020 2:02AM (UTC)
With Election Day approaching and his poll numbers still flagging, President Donald Trump has allegedly begun to express concerns to aides about the potential criminal liabilities which may await him in a post-White House life.
The threats are broad: Trump's businesses are currently under investigation by the New York State attorney general and the Manhattan District Attorney's office for possible tax and financial crimes. He is also worried about the potential for new federal investigations, according to a new report from The New York Times.
Trump has reportedly expressed these concerns to advisers "for weeks." Aside from the known state and local probes, The Times did not specify which specific liabilities might have unnerved the president at the federal level.
The difference is significant, because presidential pardons only apply to federal crimes; they do not extend to state and local levels. The constitutional question of whether Trump would pardon himself before leaving office — which no president has tried — has simmered throughout his term. It even came up during Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings last month.
While former special counsel Robert Mueller's final report did not directly accuse Trump of any crimes, "it also does not exonerate him." Though Mueller laid out what many legal experts called textbook examples of obstruction of justice, he did not make a decision "either way" about whether to prosecute Trump. The lack of conclusion maddened the president's supporters and detractors alike.
That decision largely — but not solely, according to testimony from Attorney General William Barr — hinged on existing Department of Justice guidance which bars a sitting president from be criminally prosecuted. That same guidance deterred federal prosecutors from listing Trump as a co-conspirator by name in the indictment which ultimately sent his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to federal prison.
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York claimed in that case that Cohen had an accomplice in his hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, an unindicted co-conspirator whom the charging document against Cohen referred to as "Individual-1" — someone who had run "an ultimately successful campaign for president of the United States."
Because communications about those payments extended into 2017, it may be argued that the five-year statute of limitations would not apply to Trump's involvement in that crime as a co-conspirator if he were to be prosecuted in 2021.
Ken Starr, the independent prosecutor who investigated former President Bill Clinton, said before Mueller submitted his report in 2018 that he believed the former special counsel would either refer Trump to Congress for impeachment or he would face indictment once he is no longer president.
"Those are the two avenues that I see," Starr said at the time.
Further, there has been no reporting about what happened to the counterintelligence investigation that the FBI opened into Trump in 2017, and Mueller was prevented from digging into Trump's finances as a result of a decision from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the investigation's early stages. ....
President Trump tells advisers that he fears prosecution if he loses the election: report
Trump fears not only the state and local investigations already underway but also possible new federal probes
Roger Sollenberger
November 3, 2020 2:02AM (UTC)
With Election Day approaching and his poll numbers still flagging, President Donald Trump has allegedly begun to express concerns to aides about the potential criminal liabilities which may await him in a post-White House life.
The threats are broad: Trump's businesses are currently under investigation by the New York State attorney general and the Manhattan District Attorney's office for possible tax and financial crimes. He is also worried about the potential for new federal investigations, according to a new report from The New York Times.
Trump has reportedly expressed these concerns to advisers "for weeks." Aside from the known state and local probes, The Times did not specify which specific liabilities might have unnerved the president at the federal level.
The difference is significant, because presidential pardons only apply to federal crimes; they do not extend to state and local levels. The constitutional question of whether Trump would pardon himself before leaving office — which no president has tried — has simmered throughout his term. It even came up during Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings last month.
While former special counsel Robert Mueller's final report did not directly accuse Trump of any crimes, "it also does not exonerate him." Though Mueller laid out what many legal experts called textbook examples of obstruction of justice, he did not make a decision "either way" about whether to prosecute Trump. The lack of conclusion maddened the president's supporters and detractors alike.
That decision largely — but not solely, according to testimony from Attorney General William Barr — hinged on existing Department of Justice guidance which bars a sitting president from be criminally prosecuted. That same guidance deterred federal prosecutors from listing Trump as a co-conspirator by name in the indictment which ultimately sent his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to federal prison.
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York claimed in that case that Cohen had an accomplice in his hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, an unindicted co-conspirator whom the charging document against Cohen referred to as "Individual-1" — someone who had run "an ultimately successful campaign for president of the United States."
Because communications about those payments extended into 2017, it may be argued that the five-year statute of limitations would not apply to Trump's involvement in that crime as a co-conspirator if he were to be prosecuted in 2021.
Ken Starr, the independent prosecutor who investigated former President Bill Clinton, said before Mueller submitted his report in 2018 that he believed the former special counsel would either refer Trump to Congress for impeachment or he would face indictment once he is no longer president.
"Those are the two avenues that I see," Starr said at the time.
Further, there has been no reporting about what happened to the counterintelligence investigation that the FBI opened into Trump in 2017, and Mueller was prevented from digging into Trump's finances as a result of a decision from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the investigation's early stages. ....
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online today!
The Pittsburg Post-Gazette....
...first edition, 1786; circulation, 200 to 300+K. So, going long and strong. Last editorial endorsement for a Republican---1972. That would be half a century ago, for the stinky lower classes from Oz. And....................................,.........
In a very even tempered explanatory piece, does so for Mr. Trump's 2020 big re-erection bid. VERY big.
Others here have listed his many warts, and his many kept campaign promises, the latter done even with incredible ueber leftie Syndromic wind on his bow. Thanks to all. So I won't bore by repeating such. Hell, I'm boring enough as it is.
Basically, the article separates the annoying warts, from the real accomplishments. In doing so, mounts truth to power. Truncated list of accomplishments, to my eye. But valid. And nice even handed treatment of the warts. For example, that he's divisive. Oh yeah! And the racist, affirmative action, negro ex POTUS wasn't so? Pols are almost all divisive. Puleeze!
Read it. Don't easily be led by the Vierk's dirty little lies. Not at all for wrapping fish, as are most print media, at least this edition.
And isn't PA one of the most crucial States? Four more years.
In a very even tempered explanatory piece, does so for Mr. Trump's 2020 big re-erection bid. VERY big.
Others here have listed his many warts, and his many kept campaign promises, the latter done even with incredible ueber leftie Syndromic wind on his bow. Thanks to all. So I won't bore by repeating such. Hell, I'm boring enough as it is.
Basically, the article separates the annoying warts, from the real accomplishments. In doing so, mounts truth to power. Truncated list of accomplishments, to my eye. But valid. And nice even handed treatment of the warts. For example, that he's divisive. Oh yeah! And the racist, affirmative action, negro ex POTUS wasn't so? Pols are almost all divisive. Puleeze!
Read it. Don't easily be led by the Vierk's dirty little lies. Not at all for wrapping fish, as are most print media, at least this edition.
And isn't PA one of the most crucial States? Four more years.
Kamala Harris Is A FAKE, A PHONY and A FRAUD !!!
Kamala Harris a FAKE a PHONY and a FRAUD. Just months before she agreed to try to help Biden get elected president she broke down in "tears" because she was all broken up about his racist record. WAAAAA WAAAAA WAAAAAA BOO HOO
The only thing this woman ever said that is true is that Biden IS a racist. He has a decades long record of racism and it continues to this day. Everything else that comes out of her mouth is a FRAUD.
The only reason Biden picked her is because she is a woman and black and a far left lunatic with a voting record to the left of Bernie Sanders, to try to trick stupid black people, women and leftists to vote for him. How stupid can people be?
The only thing this woman ever said that is true is that Biden IS a racist. He has a decades long record of racism and it continues to this day. Everything else that comes out of her mouth is a FRAUD.
The only reason Biden picked her is because she is a woman and black and a far left lunatic with a voting record to the left of Bernie Sanders, to try to trick stupid black people, women and leftists to vote for him. How stupid can people be?
Stocks have their worst week since March
From the NY Times;
Perhaps now Trump will finally actually do something to prevent the spread of the virus, rather than deny
it's existence and importance, since to him, stocks are much more important than human lives.
In response to:
BREAKING NEWS
Stocks suffered their biggest weekly drop since March, as the jump in coronavirus cases and new restrictions in Europe added to investors’ worries.
Friday, October 30, 2020 4:17 PM EST
Stocks fell on Friday, dropping for the fourth time in the past five days, a retreat that has added up to Wall Street’s worst week since financial markets were gripped by panic over the pandemic and the economic damage that shutdowns and stay-at-home orders would cause.
BREAKING NEWS
Stocks suffered their biggest weekly drop since March, as the jump in coronavirus cases and new restrictions in Europe added to investors’ worries.
Friday, October 30, 2020 4:17 PM EST
Stocks fell on Friday, dropping for the fourth time in the past five days, a retreat that has added up to Wall Street’s worst week since financial markets were gripped by panic over the pandemic and the economic damage that shutdowns and stay-at-home orders would cause.
Perhaps now Trump will finally actually do something to prevent the spread of the virus, rather than deny
it's existence and importance, since to him, stocks are much more important than human lives.
Record number of USA Covid-19 cases once again.
Moments ago from The New York Times;
Rising infections and over 225,000 dead Americans. Oh yeah, quite an "accomplishment".
In response to:
U.S. reports more than 500,000 cases in a week, a record, as cities and states enact new restrictions.
The United States has reported a record of more than 500,000 new cases over the past week, as states and cities resort to stricter new measures to contain the virus that is again raging across the country, especially the American heartland.
The record was broken on the same day the Trump administration announced what it called its first-term scientific accomplishments, in a press release that included “ENDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC” written in bold, capital letters.
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. was confirmed on Jan. 21, and the country did not record 500,000 total cases until April 11. Testing was severely limited in the early days of the pandemic.
The new restrictions range from a nightly business curfew in Newark, N.J., to a two-week stay-at-home order in El Paso, Texas, to a halt in indoor dining in Chicago.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Tuesday that he was stopping indoor dining and bar service in Chicago, effective at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30.
The city joins New York and Wisconsin, states that earlier this month issued restrictions or outright bans on indoor dining in restaurants and bars to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The restrictions have been loudly opposed by a restaurant industry that has been decimated by the pandemic.
Chicago is now averaging more than twice as many coronavirus-related hospital admissions per day as it was a month ago, Mr. Pritzker’s office said, and the share of tests that are coming back positive has almost doubled since the beginning of October.
The U.S. has reported a record daily average of about 71,000 new cases over the past week, an increase of about 40 percent from the average two weeks earlier. Eighteen states, including Illinois, have recorded their highest seven-day average of new cases, and three states (Tennessee, Wisconsin and Oklahoma) have set a record seven-day average for deaths. On Tuesday, Oklahoma and Wyoming broke single-day death records and Kentucky reported a new daily cases record.
Mr. Pritzker’s announcement follows a similar indoor dining ban that includes southern Cook County, just outside Chicago, which was announced Monday.
In Chicago, outdoor service will be allowed if tables are spaced six feet apart; reservations are required, and service shuts down at 11 p.m. All social gatherings in the city will be limited to 25 people or 25 percent of the venue’s capacity, whichever is less.
“We can’t ignore what is happening around us,” Mr. Pritzker said in a statement. “Because without action, this could look worse than anything we saw in the spring.”
U.S. reports more than 500,000 cases in a week, a record, as cities and states enact new restrictions.
The United States has reported a record of more than 500,000 new cases over the past week, as states and cities resort to stricter new measures to contain the virus that is again raging across the country, especially the American heartland.
The record was broken on the same day the Trump administration announced what it called its first-term scientific accomplishments, in a press release that included “ENDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC” written in bold, capital letters.
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. was confirmed on Jan. 21, and the country did not record 500,000 total cases until April 11. Testing was severely limited in the early days of the pandemic.
The new restrictions range from a nightly business curfew in Newark, N.J., to a two-week stay-at-home order in El Paso, Texas, to a halt in indoor dining in Chicago.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Tuesday that he was stopping indoor dining and bar service in Chicago, effective at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30.
The city joins New York and Wisconsin, states that earlier this month issued restrictions or outright bans on indoor dining in restaurants and bars to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The restrictions have been loudly opposed by a restaurant industry that has been decimated by the pandemic.
Chicago is now averaging more than twice as many coronavirus-related hospital admissions per day as it was a month ago, Mr. Pritzker’s office said, and the share of tests that are coming back positive has almost doubled since the beginning of October.
The U.S. has reported a record daily average of about 71,000 new cases over the past week, an increase of about 40 percent from the average two weeks earlier. Eighteen states, including Illinois, have recorded their highest seven-day average of new cases, and three states (Tennessee, Wisconsin and Oklahoma) have set a record seven-day average for deaths. On Tuesday, Oklahoma and Wyoming broke single-day death records and Kentucky reported a new daily cases record.
Mr. Pritzker’s announcement follows a similar indoor dining ban that includes southern Cook County, just outside Chicago, which was announced Monday.
In Chicago, outdoor service will be allowed if tables are spaced six feet apart; reservations are required, and service shuts down at 11 p.m. All social gatherings in the city will be limited to 25 people or 25 percent of the venue’s capacity, whichever is less.
“We can’t ignore what is happening around us,” Mr. Pritzker said in a statement. “Because without action, this could look worse than anything we saw in the spring.”
Rising infections and over 225,000 dead Americans. Oh yeah, quite an "accomplishment".
Once again, it is conservatives that do the real voter fraud
Yesterday from Salon;
(continued in my next comment box below)
In response to:
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman hit with 15 new felony charges one day after testifying in related case
Roger Sollenberger
Tue, October 27, 2020, 8:35 PM EDT
Weeks after Michigan prosectors hit the pair of right-wing provocateurs with charges in an alleged voter-intimidation robocall scheme, Jacob Wohl, 22, and Jack Burkman, 58, have been indicted by an Ohio grand jury on separate felony counts.
Local prosecutors charged Wohl and Burkman each with eight counts of felony telecommunications fraud and seven counts of felony bribery for allegedly sowing false fears about voting by mail in targeted minority communities in Ohio, plus multiple other states. Warrants were issued for the pair's arrest, who face up to 18 years and six months in prison if convicted.
(Ohio defines "bribery" in this instance as "attempt by intimidation, coercion or other unlawful means to induce such delegate or elector to register or refrain from registering or to vote or refrain from voting at a primary, convention or election for a particular person, question or issue.")
The duo, representing themselves, testified one day earlier before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in a civil lawsuit brought on behalf of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in relation to the same alleged scheme. The suit alleges that Wohl and Burkman violated the Ku Klux Klan Act with the calls. (Wohl and Burkman are both Jewish.)
Recordings featuring a woman's voice falsely told recipients that mail-in ballots could be used to "collect outstanding debt," "track down old warrants" and "track people for mandatory vaccines." The recording cited in the lawsuit said the calls were made on behalf of Project 1599, Burkman's group.
"Stay safe," the calls concluded, "and beware of vote by mail."
Burkman, who in August denied involvement, appeared to confess to placing the calls during the New York hearing. When the judge asked whether he had been "acting alone or with anyone else prepared that message and caused it to be sent," Burkman replied in the affirmative.
"Oh, yes, your honor. Yes," he said, adding: "Yes. Yes. Yes."
And indeed, Wohl and Burkman were reported to have conspired with a notorious election trickster just this year: leaking grand jury information in the trial of longtime Trump associate GOP operative Roger Stone, whom President Donald Trump pardoned in July.
Cuyahoga County prosecutors allege that 8,100 calls were placed to phone numbers located in Cleveland and East Cleveland, more than 3,400 of which were answered by a live person or voicemail.
"The right to vote is the most fundamental component of our nation's democracy," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley said in a statement. "These individuals clearly infringed upon that right in a blatant attempt to suppress votes and undermine the integrity of this election. These actions will not be tolerated. Anyone who interferes with others' right to vote must be held accountable."
In a statement announcing the charges in Michigan — where the pair went free after pleading not guilty and posting $100,000 bail — state Attorney General Dana Nessel described similar robocalls targeting areas with "significant minority populations" in the state. Nessel had indicated that investigations were ongoing in Ohio and New York, as well as in Pennsylvania and Illinois. ....
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman hit with 15 new felony charges one day after testifying in related case
Roger Sollenberger
Tue, October 27, 2020, 8:35 PM EDT
Weeks after Michigan prosectors hit the pair of right-wing provocateurs with charges in an alleged voter-intimidation robocall scheme, Jacob Wohl, 22, and Jack Burkman, 58, have been indicted by an Ohio grand jury on separate felony counts.
Local prosecutors charged Wohl and Burkman each with eight counts of felony telecommunications fraud and seven counts of felony bribery for allegedly sowing false fears about voting by mail in targeted minority communities in Ohio, plus multiple other states. Warrants were issued for the pair's arrest, who face up to 18 years and six months in prison if convicted.
(Ohio defines "bribery" in this instance as "attempt by intimidation, coercion or other unlawful means to induce such delegate or elector to register or refrain from registering or to vote or refrain from voting at a primary, convention or election for a particular person, question or issue.")
The duo, representing themselves, testified one day earlier before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in a civil lawsuit brought on behalf of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in relation to the same alleged scheme. The suit alleges that Wohl and Burkman violated the Ku Klux Klan Act with the calls. (Wohl and Burkman are both Jewish.)
Recordings featuring a woman's voice falsely told recipients that mail-in ballots could be used to "collect outstanding debt," "track down old warrants" and "track people for mandatory vaccines." The recording cited in the lawsuit said the calls were made on behalf of Project 1599, Burkman's group.
"Stay safe," the calls concluded, "and beware of vote by mail."
Burkman, who in August denied involvement, appeared to confess to placing the calls during the New York hearing. When the judge asked whether he had been "acting alone or with anyone else prepared that message and caused it to be sent," Burkman replied in the affirmative.
"Oh, yes, your honor. Yes," he said, adding: "Yes. Yes. Yes."
And indeed, Wohl and Burkman were reported to have conspired with a notorious election trickster just this year: leaking grand jury information in the trial of longtime Trump associate GOP operative Roger Stone, whom President Donald Trump pardoned in July.
Cuyahoga County prosecutors allege that 8,100 calls were placed to phone numbers located in Cleveland and East Cleveland, more than 3,400 of which were answered by a live person or voicemail.
"The right to vote is the most fundamental component of our nation's democracy," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley said in a statement. "These individuals clearly infringed upon that right in a blatant attempt to suppress votes and undermine the integrity of this election. These actions will not be tolerated. Anyone who interferes with others' right to vote must be held accountable."
In a statement announcing the charges in Michigan — where the pair went free after pleading not guilty and posting $100,000 bail — state Attorney General Dana Nessel described similar robocalls targeting areas with "significant minority populations" in the state. Nessel had indicated that investigations were ongoing in Ohio and New York, as well as in Pennsylvania and Illinois. ....
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online today!
Why?
I post a lot of this sort of thing but to this day I still don't understand why they do it 
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