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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tic-votersOhio sheriff’s lieutenant apologizes after saying he won’t help Democratic voters
John Rodgers also received written reprimand for posting: ‘If you support the Democrat Party I will not help you’
Anna Betts Mon 4 Nov 2024
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article ... trump.htmlNOV. 4, 2024
Trump’s Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein: Everything We Know
By Margaret Hartmann, senior editor
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... york-timesProject 2025 chief’s book urges ‘burning’ of FBI
Revealed: new book by far-right Kevin Roberts calls for conservatives to ‘burn away the rot’ of US institutions
Martin Pengellyin Washington Fri 8 Nov 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... on/673251/The FBI Desperately Wants to Let Trump Off the Hook
He just won’t allow it.
By Adam Serwer
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... inst-trumpIs the F.B.I. Truly Biased Against Trump?
An agent turned whistle-blower claims that the Bureau was eager to investigate Hunter Biden—but protected Rudy Giuliani.
By David D. Kirkpatrick August 14, 2023
The “public’s safety and national security is at stake,” says the National Alliance of Retired and Active-Duty FBI Special Agents and Analysts.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/1 ... n-vietnam/How an Obscure Michigan State Professor Who Worked For the CIA Played a Leading Role in Facilitating U.S. Intervention in Vietnam
By Jeremy Kuzmarov - November 4, 2024
https://open.substack.com/pub/merylnass ... medium=ios1. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 changed most of our voting systems from paper ballots and punch cards to electronic machines, after the 2000 Presidential election was thrown into disarray by “hanging chads”: bits of cardboard that had been punched out of ballots but had not completely separated from their punch card. The Supreme Court ultimately decided the result of the 2000 election.
But the hanging chad problem did not need to happen.
NIST’s top expert on voting integrity, Roy Saltman, had predicted the hanging chad problem 12 years before it happened, and his report had been "distributed to thousands of local voting officials across the country... recommending "that the use of pre-scored punch card ballots be ended.’”
"As Sue Halpern wrote in The New Yorker in 2020, plenty of potential problems with electronic voting machines that Mr. Saltman identified remain: “tallies that can’t be audited because the voting machines do not provide a paper trail, software and hardware glitches, security vulnerabilities, poor connections between voting machines and central tabulating computers, conflicts of interest among vendors of computerized systems, and election officials who lack computer expertise.”
Mr. Saltman often said that there was no margin of error in voting, that civic engagement and confidence in the electoral system was too vital to a democracy to leave any grounds for misgivings."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/us/e ... -dead.html2. Once upon a time, the Chicago Tribune did serious investigative reporting. Chicago was famous for voter fraud… until the Tribune decided to do something about it in 1972, wrote about their exploits in 1973, and won a Pulitzer for its investigation.
“Twenty-six reporters were assigned to work on different aspects of the investigation. Many served as election judges and poll watchers in both the March 1972 primary and the November general election. One worked undercover as a clerk in the Board of Election Commissioners.”
“More than 1,000 specific acts of fraud were exposed and documented from the primary election of March 21, 1972.
Thirty election workers were found guilty and sentenced for fraud.
Forty-four indicted election workers were awaiting trial and five others were cleared of wrongdoing” when the story was published.
That was fifty years ago. Where are the recent stories like this?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1973/05/ ... zer-prize/3. After a Georgia courtroom watched U. Michigan Professor Alex Halderman hack a Dominion voting machine 3 ways, the federal government got involved.
Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency examined the Dominion machines and agreed the machines were susceptible to hacking–identifying 9 different vulnerabilities. Here’s the full story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution of June 3, 2022. You won’t want to miss this.
A U.S. cybersecurity agency reported Friday that voting touchscreens used in Georgia have security vulnerabilities that put them at risk to hacking attacks, though there’s no evidence those weaknesses have been exploited so far.
Election officials who rely on touchscreens manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems should increase security by conducting rigorous audits, strengthening physical protections of equipment and patching outdated software, according to recommendations by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The report also says that state and county governments can choose to eliminate bar codes that are printed on ballots, which could be manipulated to change how votes are recorded. The Georgia secretary of state’s office is considering abolishing bar codes.
The CISA report backs up allegations made in a federal court case that hackers could flip votes if they were able to gain access to voting equipment. After a four-month review, the agency cited nine vulnerabilities in Dominion’s touchscreens.
Other companies’ voting equipment could have similar flaws, but the CISA report focused on voting touchscreens used in Georgia. The review cited risks for future elections, and state investigations have repeatedly debunked allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
A Georgia election official said the real-world danger of hacking is remote because of layers of security in equipment that isn’t connected to the internet.
The secretary of state’s office will review the recommendations, seek additional election audits and look for opportunities to improve election worker training, said Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the secretary of state’s office. Currently, state law only calls for one race to be audited every two years after general elections.
CISA Director Jen Easterly said the agency is working with election officials to address potential security deficiencies.
“Many of these mitigations, which are typically standard practice in jurisdictions where these devices are in use, are able to detect exploitation of these vulnerabilities and in many cases would prevent attempts entirely if diligently applied, making it very unlikely that a malicious actor could exploit these vulnerabilities to affect an election,” Easterly said.
Malicious code could be spread if someone gained physical access to voting touchscreens or the election management system computers that program them. In addition, hacks could infect voting equipment remotely if election workers used USB drives to transfer data from computers connected to the internet to election computers.
Georgia’s statewide voting system uses touchscreens to print out paper ballots, which are then fed into scanning machines that record votes.
Because scanning machines read bar codes printed on the paper ballots, voters would have no way of knowing whether a hack had changed the bar code so that it didn’t match the printed text of their choices.
Sterling said the flaws were only found after a federal judge allowed a computer scientist access to voting equipment and passwords.
“There’s no way anybody can sit there in a real election environment and exploit any of these things,” Sterling said. “Some of the vulnerabilities are there, but they’re there in any system. We have lots of mitigation, and that’s already built into our robust rules and laws.”
The vulnerabilities were discovered by Alex Halderman, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan who is an expert for plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit seeking to replace Georgia’s $138 million voting system with paper ballots filled out by hand.
Halderman’s findings have been sealed in federal court since July, but CISA conducted its review to assess the threat to election security and provide advice to Georgia and jurisdictions in 16 other states that use the Dominion Democracy Suit ImageCast X voting equipment.
Election officials should pursue improvements to election technology, ballot security and post-election audits, Halderman said.
“The vulnerabilities are significant, and the state should take responsible steps promptly to reduce the risk that they’ll be exploited,” Halderman said. “That doesn’t mean it’s time to panic, and it doesn’t mean that there is proof that any past election has been tampered with. But it does mean it’s time to act.”
Dominion said in a statement said the security of its voting system has been proven through thousands of elections and recounts.
“These issues require unfettered physical access to election equipment, which is already prohibited,” a Dominion spokeswoman said.
A hack that exploited voting touchscreens could alter bar codes so that ballots were tabulated inconsistently with the human-readable text of the ballot, according to the CISA report. If that happened, voters won’t be able to verify that their choices were what is actually counted.
The secretary of state’s office has been discussing whether to abandon bar codes in favor of a full ballot for more than a year, Sterling said. But that kind of change would create difficulties for auditing multipage ballots and drive up ballot printing costs borne by taxpayers.
Voters can help prevent the possibility of election tampering by reviewing printed ballots in polling places to ensure they’re accurate, said Mark Lindeman, a director for Verified Voting, a national election integrity organization that focuses on election technology.
“Voters need to be able to check their ballots,” Lindeman said. “
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... hts-groupsFears grow that woman arrested for undressing in Iran could be tortured in psychiatric unit
Protesters and political prisoners are being drugged, tortured and beaten in state-run institutions, say rights groups
Fri 8 Nov 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ate-summitCOPS 29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fuel deals at climate summit
Elnur Soltanov recorded speaking with fake oil and gas group that asked for deals in exchange for sponsoring talks
Helena Horton Environment reporter Fri 8 Nov 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... tral-banksClimate breakdown will hit global growth by a third, say central banks
New modelling finds risk to global economies much worse than previously thought, but group of central banks says even this may be an underestimate
Sandra Laville Fri 8 Nov 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... inance-aoe ‘Essential to act now’ to prevent chaotic climate breakdown, warns UN chief
On the eve of Cop29 in Baku, António Guterres says dangers are underestimated as irreversible tipping points near
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https://indepthnh.org/wp-content/upload ... S-List.pdfDishonest Police
Laurie List’s Legacy: They are called Exculpatory Evidence Schedules now, but InDepthNH.org continues its investigative reporting on the secret list that contains the names of law enforcement officers in New Hampshire who have a history of dishonesty, excessive force or mental instability. Catch up on our reporting here.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... rcna175714Trump overcharged Secret Service agents to stay at his D.C. hotel, new Democratic report says
Then-President Donald Trump also benefited from U.S. officials and others seeking jobs and pardons who paid for stays at his downtown Washington hotel, House Democrats allege
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https://indepthnh.org/2024/11/07/hanove ... st-appeal/Hanover Cop Who Faked Doctor’s Note Wins ‘Laurie List’ Appeal
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https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news ... 030079007/Brewster police officer indicted on child sexual abuse materials charges
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Nov. 07, 2024 By Kevin Shea | For NJ.com
CDC Planned Quarantine Camps, Nationwide/Jeffrey Tucker @ Brownstone Institute
Chilling
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-cdc ... ationwide/No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse.
Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. It broke. Once the news leaked that the shot didn’t stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support and the scheme collapsed.
It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back.
Features of the CDC’s edicts did incredible damage. It imposed the rent moratorium. It decreed the ridiculous “six feet of distance” and mask mandates. It forced Plexiglas as the interface for commercial transactions. It implied that mail-in balloting must be the norm, which probably flipped the election. It delayed the reopening as long as possible. It was sadistic.
Even with all that, worse was planned. On July 26, 2020, with the George Floyd riots having finally settled down, the CDC issued a plan for establishing nationwide quarantine camps. People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide. There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel.
The plan’s authors were unnamed but included 26 footnotes. It was completely official. The document was only removed on about March 26, 2023. During the entire intervening time, the plan survived on the CDC’s public site with little to no public notice or controversy.
It was called “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.”
by fruhmenschen » Tue Nov 05, 2024 2:50 pm