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When things do not go your way change them rules!
In Georgia, Now Stacey Abrams Wants a Federal Judge to Change the Election Rules
It is a long held rule in state elections that a person votes in his own precinct. Within counties, in some states, if a person's precinct has been changed the person can vote in their old precinct by provisional ballot and the races shared between the old and new precinct will count. But that typically only applies in the first election after a precinct change (In Georgia, if one shows up at the wrong precinct in the county in which they are registered, no matter the election their votes will count for the races the right precinct shares with the precinct in which they voted).
In Georgia, as in pretty much every other state, a person must vote in their own county. Stacey Abrams, the Democrat's nominee for Georgia Governor, has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to allow voters to cast votes outside the counties in which they are registered. She argues that as long as they are Georgia voters, the statewide races would be on the ballot in every county.
State and county officials object because of the burdensome and ridiculous standard this would impose. Counties are responsible for their own voters. To be compelled to keep up with other counties' voters would be too big a burden. Likewise, the alternative would be to centralize election processes with the...
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Registering criminals to vote is acceptable if they vote for Democrats in Broward. Just another day in la la land.
Broward County, Florida is once again at the center of a scandal involving incompetence, at best, and election fraud at worst.
Amid reports of years of controversies bedeviling Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes – including counting unlawful votes, destroying ballots, violating state law, and ignoring deadlines – a Parkland shooting victim's father brought something else to light that made him "sick to [his] stomach." (Daily Wire)
Amid reports of years of controversies bedeviling Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes – including counting unlawful votes, destroying ballots, violating state law, and ignoring deadlines – a Parkland shooting victim's father brought something else to light that made him "sick to [his] stomach." (Daily Wire)
In July, while in jail for murdering 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — including Andrew Pollack's daughter Meadow — the Parkland shooter was successfully registered to vote, in a process overseen by Snipes' office.
Referring to the suspect's case number, 18-1958, Pollack brought attention to the voter registration of the suspect while awaiting trial for mass murder and slammed Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for allowing the process to take place.
"I'm sick to my stomach. 18-1958 murdered 17 students & staff, including my daughter Meadow. Yet in July, Broward Sheriff @ScottJIsrael let people into the jail to get him & other animals registered to vote.The Despicable Democrats have no shame. Can't let them steal this election," Pollack wrote.
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"It's just outrageous and so hurtful to the victims and the families of the Parkland massacre to see this," Broward Commissioner Michael Udine agreed, the Sun-Sentinel reports. "Regardless of the legality, it doesn’t negate the pain and the hurt when the people of northwest Broward who were affected by this monster see something like this."
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https://freedomoutpost.com/
Finally:
https://www.prageru.com/
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More on Gaza. (See 1 below.)
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Look below the surface and there are rumblings that do not bode well.
Prosperity often allows one to drop their guard, to soften, to turn from their roots and, most important of all, to lose sight of what made them great,
Loony liberalism will be the ultimate destruction of America. Believing we can have anything we want and not pay for it is a fool's game and we are well into the late innings of playing.
It is a virus that has spread and now is part of the DNA of conservative dictum.
There is no free lunch unless you want to leave the bill for the next generation which is amoral.
Nations consist of family structures and families cannot borrow endlessly and eventually, neither can governments.
There is a fine line between being compassion and thinking you are omnipotent. One day the music will stop. (See 2 below.)
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1)Israel, Gaza trade rockets and airstrikes as botched undercover operation sets off new conflict
By Ruth Eglash, Loveday Morris & Hazem Ballousha
JERUSALEM - In the worst outbreak of violence since Israel and Hamas fought a 50-day war in the summer of 2014, Israeli military jets pounded targets in the coastal Palestinian enclave while [terrorist] Gaza groups struck Israeli communities with rockets and mortars throughout the night and well into Tuesday.
The latest flare-up in an already tense arena was triggered by a botched undercover Israeli military operation inside Gaza that turned deadly on Sunday night. Authorities on both sides reported new deaths Tuesday morning.
In Israel, one person was killed and two others seriously injured when a rocket hit a four-story residential building in the city of Ashkelon.
In Gaza, the Health Ministry said seven people were killed in the Israeli airstrikes, including [terrorist]s. Residents uploaded photographs of several prominent buildings they said were destroyed by Israeli bombs.
Briefing the press Tuesday morning, Israeli army spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said this was "the most severe attack on Israeli civilians by terrorist organizations from Gaza since our 2014 operation."
Close to 400 projectiles, a mix of rockets and mortars, were fired at Israel since hostilities flared on Monday afternoon, he said. A large portion were struck down by the Iron Dome defense system, but given the high number, Conricus said, some succeeded in scoring direct hits on homes and buildings.
In response, Israeli military jets hit more than 100 sites across the strip, including what Conricus called "four strategic assets belonging to Hamas." The five-story building housing the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV station, the [terrorist] group's internal security building and an office building used by its military intelligence were all reportedly destroyed.
The army also said Tuesday that its naval forces struck Hamas naval vessels, as well as numerous weapons storehouses and manufacturing facilities. The sites belonged to both Hamas, the [terrorist] Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, and the second-largest [terrorist] faction in Gaza, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
"It is Israel that initiated this round of violence," said Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official. "Israel didn't respect all the efforts being done and understandings reached to restore calm around the borders. Israel must take responsibility for its madness, which has led to the total deterioration of the situation on the ground."
"Gaza is still looking for calm and a better tomorrow," he said.
Abu Hamza, spokesman for the Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades, said the overnight bombardments, including on homes belonging to faction members, had lead "to a decision to expand the circle of response."
He warned residents of Israeli cities of Beersheva and Ashdod "to stay alongside their shelters."
Egypt has urged Israel to stop the escalation of violence and is also working with the Palestinians to end hostilities, according to Egyptian state television Tuesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has remained conspicuously silent since the start of the latest violence, convened his security cabinet Tuesday morning as residents of Israel's southern cities, forced to stay indoors and near protected areas, expressed their anger and frustration that a long-term diplomatic solution has yet to be found to the continual rounds of hostilities.
Israel and Hamas have fought three deadly wars in 10 years, with flare-ups becoming increasingly frequent in recent months as Hamas has urged residents to protest at the fence along the border with Israel.
Since March, more than 200 Palestinians have been killed, mostly by Israeli sniper fire, in weekly demonstrations protesting the increasingly difficult humanitarian conditions in the strip, where Israel imposes tight restrictions on trade and travel. Recent U.S. cuts to aid for Palestinians have exacerbated their woes.
Israel maintains the protests are a cover for Hamas to break into Israel.
Gaza [terrorists] have also taken to floating incendiary kites and balloons across the border, igniting fires.
There had been a glimmer of hope this past weekend that a long-term understanding to restore calm mediated Egypt, the United Nations and Qatar, was proving fruitful. Israel on Thursday took the unusual step of permitting $15 million in cash from Qatar to enter Gaza to pay long-delayed salaries of Hamas civil servants in an attempt to ease the suffering of the territory's 2 million residents.
That understanding appears to have been wrecked by this botched Israeli covert operation that took place Sunday night. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, said an undercover team was involved in a "very meaningful operation for Israel's security."
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On the surface, last week's midterm elections really weren't awful. Sure, the left picked up a House majority, but the president's party routinely loses ground in Congress in midterm elections. Hell, even President Ronald Reagan saw the GOP lose yardage in the 1982 and 1986 midterms. Granted, having to say, "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi" is like saying "Sure, I'll have seconds of the stewed beets," but at least that "Beto" clown got his walking papers. Besides, the GOP can stock the federal judiciary with competent judges while the House Democrats spend the next two years arguing over whose name goes first on the latest bill to impeach President Donald Trump. Indeed, far from the anticipated hemorrhage, last week was more like a bad paper cut. Sure, it stings, but it won't even require stitches.
But that's on the surface. Beneath the veneer of acceptable losses, the midterms offered a warning that the GOP had bloody well better take seriously. While the infection of liberalism is slowly spreading to cover nearly the entire East Coast, and has essentially destroyed the opposite shore, it appears to be metastasizing to far-flung regions of the American body. Senator Ted Cruz defeated "Beto," but he hardly stomped him flat, and O'Rourke's campaign taught the Democrats that they can use their control of the media in concert with a monster spending campaign to great effect.
In Arizona, voters gave John McCain's already-shaky Republican seat to far-left Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. The changing demographics in the desert turned their backs on badass A-10 pilot Rep. Martha McSally to embrace a liberal who spent half her campaign discussing how much she hated them.
Deep in the heart of Dixie, the Democrats, who haven't dominated the landscape since they still had real KKK members on their roster, made noticeable noise. Although Stacey Abrams didn't win, she made a hell of a splash. Again, a "red" state turned purple by fawning media coverage working hand-in-glove with liberal cash. Considering Abrams on her own was a gaffe-prone curiosity, it's fair to say that her success essentially means Oprah Winfrey almost bought a governor's mansion.
In Florida, Representative Ron DeSantis barely outpointed socialist Mayor Andrew Gillum of Tallahassee in a gubernatorial contest which involved little more than Gillum using the media to paint DeSantis — and anyone else who mentioned his appalling corruption — as racist. In the Sunshine State's Senate battle, Phil Scott edged incumbent Bill Nelson in a race which I doubt Scott could have won without his own foundation as governor.
It's worth noting that both Florida and Georgia face junior varsity versions of the disputed presidential election of 2000. Much like that farce, Abrams, Nelson and Gillum are all engaged in brazen attempts to "find" enough votes to steal victory from the jaws of defeat. Perhaps learning their lesson from Al Gore's famous faceplant, the trio are using a combination of celebrity money and media misinformation to manipulate the situation to their advantage. Facts about bogus votes and imaginary attempts at voter suppression have faded behind celebrity- and reporter-spouted half-truths, outright lies and tangential character attacks on the Republicans. They've even begun floating the idea of "House" and "Senate popular votes" as being proof of a need to reduce American elections to pure popularity contests.
While the Democrats came uncomfortably close to the winner's circles in places in which they would formerly have been also-rans, they produced winners deep in their liberal redoubts who would have been on the other side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Much like the lukewarm leftists who are spreading like mold into places like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona and Virginia, the ones at the heart of the infection will look for ways to escape their urban confines. Given their innate authoritarianism, their "by any means necessary" mantra is clearly more than a metaphor.
The GOP may have come out ahead of short-term expectations last week, but their long-term expectations may need some tempering. If they — and, more importantly, conservatives as a whole — don't get their acts together, the next close calls will go the opposite way.
— Ben Crystal
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