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Election workers face difficulties in reaching the mid-terms.
Costs for local election offices if they were to move back towards hand counting ballots would increase, according to former local voting administrator. Considering many of the Republicans who are call for hand counting are the same people who cast doubt on 2020 election because results weren’t finalised on election night, he said. Morrell said…
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The Battle Between Pocketbooks and Principles is Opinion.
Republican Mark Ronchetti, who is challenging Democratic New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, has said that “life should be protected – at all stages” on his campaign website last election cycle. Now, he’s putting out ads saying, “I’m personally pro-life, but I believe we can all come together on a policy that reflects our shared…
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The war may be heading towards a brutal new phase.
The Russian Defence Ministry said that the country’s military fired a total of 84 cruise missiles and attack drones against Ukrainian forces on Monday. Ukrainian officials said that they destroyed 56 of the Russian weapons. Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said that the country would enter Crimea at the end of the year to…
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The committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump.
The US House Select Committee has granted ex-President Donald Trump more time to turn over documents sought by the panel probing the January 6 terror attack on the US Capitol. The House panel on Thursday closed its hearing and voted to subpoena Trump to testify before them. The committee had sent a subpoena to Trump…
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There is a single minded goal of the Republicans.
The FBI should not be criticised for the actions of 2020 elections and Mar-a-Lago congressional committee on investigation of ex-President Donald Trump’s case, FBI Director Robert Mueller said. “I don’t know if I want to say it but I don’t think we should be criticised,” he added. The FBI had asked the White House to…
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The Justice Department thinks that ballot security efforts in Arizona are likely to be illegal.
The Texas Secretary of State’s office has said teams are needed to investigate alleged voting fraud in the US state’s Harris County. This comes after a clerk in the county said she had given a tabulator and a laptop computer, which served as a poll book, to a person claiming to be an investigator conducting…
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The Democrats should not underestimate the threat Trump poses.
Former US President Donald Trump is considering a 2024 presidential campaign, media reports said on Monday. Trump is expected to formally declare his interest in the presidential elections on Tuesday, reports further said. Trump had recently criticised US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over his leadership style and said Democrats want Republicans “dead”.
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Stewart Rhodes is a leader of the Oath Keepers.
A member of the Oath Keepers, a group of anti-government militia members, testified at the trial of the six people accused of plotting the Capitol riots in January that they had gathered in September for a campaign rally for former US President Donald Trump. Oath Keepers were planning to “stack” the Capitol in protest against…
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Solidarity rallies are held in the U.S. and Europe.
Amid anti-government protests, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that the protests were a plot against Iran by its enemies. Raisi made the comments after a 22-year-old woman died in police custody last month. Raisi had said that the protests, which have spread to universities and high schools, were being provoked by the US and Israel.
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Cuomo, once New York’s No. 1 Democrat, is not doing much to help his party.
Former New York Governor Lee Cuomo has backed Democratic governorship candidate Kathy Hochul, saying that Hochul is “New York’s best alternative in the race”. He added that he hoped that Hochul would win. Cuomo had resigned from his post in August after losing to Hochul in the Republican primary. Hochul is currently New York State’s…
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The Pennsylvania voter doesn’t feel like something was right in the 2020 vote.
An election official in Georgia’s Spalding County has alleged that the elections board voted to end Sunday voting because it was ” racially motivated”. The elections board had voted to end voting on Sunday and replace it with paper ballots and voting by mail. A grand jury is expected to subpoena the county’s former elections…
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DOJ calls for six-month sentence for a Trump ally.
The US House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack on Thursday voted to subpoena ex-President Donald Trump to appear before it. The committee had asked Trump to provide documents and testify about his interactions with the Capitol assailants. Earlier, ex-adviser Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for violating a…
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The GOP should not have placed a bet on Herschel Walker.
Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said she would accept the results of the upcoming election if she is elected as the state’s governor. “I support law enforcement and did so for 11 years (in state government),” she added. Abrams is up against Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp for the governorship of Georgia.
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A flood of GOP spending tightens the Senate races.
Democrats would need to win two seats in Pennsylvania to win control of the US House of Representatives in the General Elections. If Democrats take Pennsylvania, Republicans would need to pick up two seats to win control. If Democrats take California, Republicans would need to pick up two seats to win control of the US…
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The federal complaint says an intruder attempted to break Speaker Pelosi’s knee caps.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Congressman Paul Pelosi, were attacked by a man who broke into the couple’s San Francisco house on October 28. The accused David DePape told police that he planned to “hold hostage” Nancy Pelosi. He said he wanted to restrain Nancy so she could go to sleep, because…
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Democrats will not be getting as much Obama as they want.
US President Joe Biden has been stumping for Democratic candidates ahead of the US midterm elections. On Tuesday, Biden attended a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. “I can tell you, if Jesus Christ himself were an incumbent president, his members of his political party would probably stiff-arm him in a midterm election,” Lis Smith, a Democratic…
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Both Ethiopia and Tigray agreed to end the war.
The Ethiopian government has signed a peace deal with the Tigrayan National Liberation Front (TPLF) to end a six-year conflict in the region. As part of the deal, the two sides have also agreed to “disarm and demobilize” their armed forces. The conflict between the TPLF and the federal government had erupted in Tigray after…
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Trump sued the Attorney General of New York.
The US Justice Department said former President Donald Trump’s legal team did not provide certain details about his executive privilege claims in the Special Master review. In a court filing this week, the department said Trump’s team indicated that data hosting companies didn’t want to work with the former President. Earlier, Trump had filed a…
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Poll worker interference this year is worry of election officials.
US presidential candidate Martin Levine said potential poll workers with a level of distrust in the elections process may be doing the wrong thing to ensure nobody else breaks the rules. Levine said potential poll workers may be doing the wrong thing for the right reason. He added that he trusts his team when it…
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The 9th of January is when the committee hearing on its investigation happened.
US Secret Service Agents were aware of online threats against Vice President Mike Pence the day before he was due to appear before the joint session of US Congress, The Washington Post reported. “I saw several other alerts saying they’ll storm Capitol if he doesn’t do…right thing,” an agent was quoted as saying. The threat…
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Democrats are turning to the campaign trail for help.
US President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley Biden has said that she started to have a lot of resentment after her husband, former US Vice President Hunter Biden, was accused of sexual harassment. “I have been honest with you, I started to really have a lot of resentment,” she further said. Hunter Biden has denied the…
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An opinion on what a comeback means for Israel and the world.
Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday cast his vote for re-election in the country’s general elections. The votes were counted after polls closed at 9 pm on Wednesday. As per the official results, Netanyahu and his Likud party won the most votes in the elections, with the Yisrael Beytenu party winning the largest number of…
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6 experts offer help to Americans dealing with inflation.
Amid rising costs for everything from food to health care, US President Donald Trump has vowed to boost the minimum wage to $15 (around 10.50) per hour by 2023 if elected. However, it doesn’t make much of a difference to inflation as the current minimum wage is around $7.25 per hour, according to the National…