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September 8, 2020
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/an-eviction-wave-could-wreak-havoc-on-voting-by-mail/
The US Election Assistance Commission [https://www.eac.gov/] provides the National Voter Registration Application Form for U.S. Citizens (in 15 languages) with instructions, registration deadlines, and mailing address for each state: https://www.eac.gov/voters/national-mail-voter-registration-form
Again -- You Don't Need a Home to Vote - includes a table of State Voter Regulations starting on page 17.
https://nationalhomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-Manual_for-web.pdf
Pass it on.
💥Information on Voting and Homelessness💥
Do you know anyone who has recently been displaced? Do you know someone who is working with the homeless and needs voting information for them? Maybe this can help.
https://www.nonprofitvote.org/voting-in-your-state/special-circumstances/voting-and-homelessness/
You Don't Need a Home to Vote - includes a table of State Voter Regulations starting on page 17.
https://nationalhomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-Manual_for-web.pdf
Do you know anyone who has recently been asking questions about voter registration? Regardless of your situation, have you checked your voter registration? It's easy. Do it!
Check your voter registration: https://www.usa.gov/confirm-voter-registration
Change your voter registration: https://www.usa.gov/change-voter-registration
Contact your state or local election office: https://www.usa.gov/election-office
https://www.governing.com/now/The-Homeless-Have-Voting-Rights-but-Face-Many-Hurdles.html
In every state, individuals who are homeless retain the right to vote. “It’s a misconception that a lot of people who are experiencing homelessness don’t vote,” says Eric Samuels, president of the Texas Homeless Network. “They do, but they have issues with things like registering. If you move frequently, you have to keep up with registration.”
In some states, voters are not required to provide a permanent address – or any address. They can simply list a landmark, such as an intersection. “If they spend every night sleeping under the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge in Bangor, they can register to vote in that precinct,” says Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap. “We cannot turn down voter registration from those people because they don’t have a fixed address.”
Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia allow same-day registration, meaning people can register as late as Election Day, but Ohio voters must register 30 days ahead of an election. If they move during that last month, or start sleeping on someone else’s couch, their registration is no longer valid.
“If you move within that 30-day window prior to the actual election, you get into a more gray area,” says Bill Faith, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio. “Technically, you should vote at the address where you registered. If you’re in limbo, the only thing you can do legally is cast a provisional ballot.”
In some states, voters are not required to provide a permanent address – or any address. They can simply list a landmark, such as an intersection. “If they spend every night sleeping under the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge in Bangor, they can register to vote in that precinct,” says Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap. “We cannot turn down voter registration from those people because they don’t have a fixed address.”
Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia allow same-day registration, meaning people can register as late as Election Day, but Ohio voters must register 30 days ahead of an election. If they move during that last month, or start sleeping on someone else’s couch, their registration is no longer valid.
“If you move within that 30-day window prior to the actual election, you get into a more gray area,” says Bill Faith, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio. “Technically, you should vote at the address where you registered. If you’re in limbo, the only thing you can do legally is cast a provisional ballot.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/an-eviction-wave-could-wreak-havoc-on-voting-by-mail/
In most states, the cutoff to request a new mail-in ballot is less than 30 days before the election. If registered voters miss their state’s cutoff, they’re stuck with in-person options: voting at the polls or, in some states, picking up a mail-in ballot from the local election board. Both could be undesirable for people who don’t want to expose themselves to the pandemic, says Brandon.
For those who can’t get a mail-in ballot and do choose to vote in person, a recent change in address should not prevent them from voting at the polls. In the District of Columbia and the 21 states that have same-day voter registration, a resident can register a new address at the polling place, even if it’s just a temporary place to stay, such as a friend’s house. People who have become homeless need not even list a permitted address—they can list a cross street. The federal voter registration form, which voters can use to register in all but three US states, includes a blank map with a pair of unlabeled intersecting streets where voters can write in the street names of the crossroads nearest to where they are staying. In the states where same-day voter registration is not an option, residents can vote using their old address, provided it has been less than 30 days since they left.
For those who can’t get a mail-in ballot and do choose to vote in person, a recent change in address should not prevent them from voting at the polls. In the District of Columbia and the 21 states that have same-day voter registration, a resident can register a new address at the polling place, even if it’s just a temporary place to stay, such as a friend’s house. People who have become homeless need not even list a permitted address—they can list a cross street. The federal voter registration form, which voters can use to register in all but three US states, includes a blank map with a pair of unlabeled intersecting streets where voters can write in the street names of the crossroads nearest to where they are staying. In the states where same-day voter registration is not an option, residents can vote using their old address, provided it has been less than 30 days since they left.
The US Election Assistance Commission [https://www.eac.gov/] provides the National Voter Registration Application Form for U.S. Citizens (in 15 languages) with instructions, registration deadlines, and mailing address for each state: https://www.eac.gov/voters/national-mail-voter-registration-form
Again -- You Don't Need a Home to Vote - includes a table of State Voter Regulations starting on page 17.
https://nationalhomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-Manual_for-web.pdf
Pass it on.
September 8, 2020
Kicking it back up.
Full article at source:
https://hillreporter.com/the-georgia-aclu-just-published-its-shocking-seven-year-study-of-state-republicans-unconstitutional-voter-disenfranchisement-scheme-77784
ACLU of Georgia - Voting and Elections Information for 2020
https://www.acluga.org/en/voting-and-elections-2020
September 8, 2020
trump can't refuse to leave. It'll be fine.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/trump-election-refusal-leave.htmlSo it’s the morning of Jan. 20, 2021. Trump doesn’t meet President-elect Joe Biden and his wife in the White House driveway, nor does he attend the inauguration on Capitol Hill. Instead, he proclaims, as he has many times by this point, that the election was a fraud (he has set the stage for this with his false claims about mail-in ballots), and at noon, instead of acceding to the transfer of power, Trump proclaims that the swearing in was FAKE NEWS and that he remains the president.
Here is what would happen next.
Here is what would happen next.
September 6, 2020
Agreed.
It's not unusual to rack up a few legal fees here and there involving an election. That's no big deal; it's part of it. But taking campaign money to pay for unrelated legal costs, including anything involving his kids -- that's just stealing. It would give me great joy to see Republicans antsy about being ripped off by donnie. Unfortunately, the article drops that hint early, then rather than expanding on it in any substantial way just quotes individuals who defend trump's actions.
Golf clap for the gotcha, NYT. 
The grifting shouldn't come as a surprise. This kind of thing has been going on from day one. Ugh.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ivanka-trump-inaugural-investigation-769774/
https://oag.dc.gov/release/ag-racine-sues-presidential-inaugural-committee
September 6, 2020
Fourteen years and counting since the warning - maybe it's time for a more proactive attitude. It's not enough to just point to the problem and take no steps to deal with it.
Agreed. For starters, the FBI needs to be a little louder about the problem.
Too often law enforcement is sympathetic to the ideology behind the gangs pretending to be militias. It's as though if they weren't cops, they'd be in those gangs. Likely some of them are.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement - OCT 21, 2016
But even if there aren’t hard statistics, the problem of racial bias among police isn’t new. In fact, it’s been a concern of the FBI for at least a decade. Exactly 10 years ago this week, the FBI warned of the potential consequences — including bias — of white supremacist groups infiltrating local and state law enforcement, indicating it was a significant threat to national security.
In the 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists and skinheads infiltrating police in order to disrupt investigations against fellow members and recruit other supremacists. The bulletin was released during a period of scandal for many law enforcement agencies throughout the country, including a neo-Nazi gang formed by members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who harassed black and Latino communities. Similar investigations revealed officers and entire agencies with hate group ties in Illinois, Ohio and Texas. [snip]
Neither the FBI nor state and local law enforcement agencies have established systems for vetting personnel for potential supremacist links, he said. That task is left primarily to everyday citizens and nonprofit organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of few that tracks the growing number of hate groups in America. [snip]
“I cannot imagine that the FBI today could issue a report concerning any kind of threat without people being alarmed and wanting immediate action,” he said. “But in this case there seems to be almost an acceptance of it. The thought is ‘it’s just ideology and they have a right to believe this.'” [snip]
“There needs to more direct enforcement,” Jones said. “It’s one thing to issue a memo, and another to have continued action after it. There was a warning 10 years ago and nothing else since then.”
In the 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists and skinheads infiltrating police in order to disrupt investigations against fellow members and recruit other supremacists. The bulletin was released during a period of scandal for many law enforcement agencies throughout the country, including a neo-Nazi gang formed by members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who harassed black and Latino communities. Similar investigations revealed officers and entire agencies with hate group ties in Illinois, Ohio and Texas. [snip]
Neither the FBI nor state and local law enforcement agencies have established systems for vetting personnel for potential supremacist links, he said. That task is left primarily to everyday citizens and nonprofit organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of few that tracks the growing number of hate groups in America. [snip]
“I cannot imagine that the FBI today could issue a report concerning any kind of threat without people being alarmed and wanting immediate action,” he said. “But in this case there seems to be almost an acceptance of it. The thought is ‘it’s just ideology and they have a right to believe this.'” [snip]
“There needs to more direct enforcement,” Jones said. “It’s one thing to issue a memo, and another to have continued action after it. There was a warning 10 years ago and nothing else since then.”
Fourteen years and counting since the warning - maybe it's time for a more proactive attitude. It's not enough to just point to the problem and take no steps to deal with it.
September 6, 2020
Good luck with local authorities who hand out water and tell armed militia cosplayers, "We appreciate you. We really do."
In all though, it's an extremely informative article; well worth following the link for the whole thing.
Yeah, good luck with that.
[History lesson followed by:] In all, it was a nice idea. But, once again, the militia largely disappointed during the War of 1812 and, in the following decades, enthusiasm for a mandatory and universal force waned, with citizens showing up to militia muster with broomsticks and corn stalks instead of rifles. Only the Southern states really kept up with the militia — because they needed it to enforce slavery. [snip]
“The laws of all 50 states prohibit, in one way or another, private militias that are not answerable to civilian governmental authority,” said Mary McCord, the legal director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, at Georgetown University. [snip]
We need to step back from this militia nonsense. These private paramilitaries are illegal and should be treated as such by the authorities.
“The laws of all 50 states prohibit, in one way or another, private militias that are not answerable to civilian governmental authority,” said Mary McCord, the legal director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, at Georgetown University. [snip]
We need to step back from this militia nonsense. These private paramilitaries are illegal and should be treated as such by the authorities.
Good luck with local authorities who hand out water and tell armed militia cosplayers, "We appreciate you. We really do."
In all though, it's an extremely informative article; well worth following the link for the whole thing.
September 5, 2020
The other interesting consulting firm from the FEC report is mentioned in this article:
Kanye did!
Found this while looking for something else:
Kanye West loaned $6.8 million to his 2020 presidential committee
https://abc11.tv/2EQMLAl
Kanye West loaned $6.8 million to his 2020 presidential committee, essentially self-funding his campaign during the first month and a half of his run, his initial campaign disclosure report shows.
In its first disclosure filing submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Friday, the West campaign reported bringing in a total of $6.8 million between July 15 and Aug. 31, with $6.76 million of that coming from West's loans to the campaign.
The campaign raised a little under $11,500 from eight donors that gave between $200 and $1,000 and smaller donors who gave under $200 during that time, the report shows.
In its first disclosure filing submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Friday, the West campaign reported bringing in a total of $6.8 million between July 15 and Aug. 31, with $6.76 million of that coming from West's loans to the campaign.
The campaign raised a little under $11,500 from eight donors that gave between $200 and $1,000 and smaller donors who gave under $200 during that time, the report shows.
The other interesting consulting firm from the FEC report is mentioned in this article:
Nearly $2.7 million of that money has gone to a Huntington, New York-based firm named Millennial Strategies, LLC, which has provided a wide range of services, including campaign management consulting, legal services, polling, ballot access services and election law research, according to the filing. Led by New York Democratic Lawyers Council Executive Director Alex Voetsch and Jeffrey Guillot, according to Millennial Strategies' website, the firm's current and past clients include a host of private corporations as well as political and advocacy campaigns, including Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign and the New York State Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee.
September 5, 2020
Atlas Strategy Group LLC http://www.atlasstrategygroup.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggkeller
Gregg is a busy bee who also has worked for Mitt Romney, John McCain, Jim Talent, and Bush-Cheney Missouri.
Kanye is pulling in big guns for his little venture as far as consulting goes.
Other interesting names on the itemized FEC report
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00751701/1436461/sb/ALLAtlas Strategy Group LLC http://www.atlasstrategygroup.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggkeller
Gregg Keller is the Principal of Atlas Strategy Group, and widely considered to be one of the top public affairs specialists working in the country today. Atlas provides extensive strategic services to Fortune 500 corporations, trade associations, non-profits and political campaigns across a range of practices including coalition-building, third party engagement, campaign management, strategic consulting, communications and fundraising.
Keller has served as Executive Director to two of America's most prominent political organizations: the American Conservative Union (ACU) and the Faith & Freedom Coalition (FFC). ACU is the country's oldest grassroots conservative organization and hosts of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest political event held annually in the United States. Keller was the first-ever Executive Director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, America's largest social conservative grassroots organization, with more than 1 million members and affiliates in more than 30 states. [MORE]
Keller has served as Executive Director to two of America's most prominent political organizations: the American Conservative Union (ACU) and the Faith & Freedom Coalition (FFC). ACU is the country's oldest grassroots conservative organization and hosts of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest political event held annually in the United States. Keller was the first-ever Executive Director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, America's largest social conservative grassroots organization, with more than 1 million members and affiliates in more than 30 states. [MORE]
Gregg is a busy bee who also has worked for Mitt Romney, John McCain, Jim Talent, and Bush-Cheney Missouri.
Kanye is pulling in big guns for his little venture as far as consulting goes.
September 5, 2020
Link from another reply tweet:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lincoln_Strategy_Group
Charming.
Fortified Consulting
West paid something called "Fortified Consulting" over $1.47 million. Fortified has the exact same Tempe, AZ address as the Lincoln Strategy Group, another Republican firm.
Link from another reply tweet:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lincoln_Strategy_Group
Lincoln Strategy Group is the new name of the political consulting and PR firm previously known as Sproul and Associates.
In June 2008, "a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy ... for purposes of 'registering voters.'" The contract was controversial, as the firm (under its previous name, Sproul and Associates) "has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket." [1]
Nathan Sproul, who was formerly the executive director of the Arizona State Republican Party, founded Sproul and Associates in 2003 and is based in Tempe, Arizona. Sproul and Associates had worked in 21 different states for various city, state, congressional, and national campaigns. He currently serves as the co-founder and Managing Director of Lincoln Strategy Group. Sproul himself specializes in campaign/public affairs management, get-out-the vote efforts, ballot initiative management, media and public relations, and business and political leadership. [2]
[MORE]
In June 2008, "a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy ... for purposes of 'registering voters.'" The contract was controversial, as the firm (under its previous name, Sproul and Associates) "has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket." [1]
Nathan Sproul, who was formerly the executive director of the Arizona State Republican Party, founded Sproul and Associates in 2003 and is based in Tempe, Arizona. Sproul and Associates had worked in 21 different states for various city, state, congressional, and national campaigns. He currently serves as the co-founder and Managing Director of Lincoln Strategy Group. Sproul himself specializes in campaign/public affairs management, get-out-the vote efforts, ballot initiative management, media and public relations, and business and political leadership. [2]
[MORE]
Charming.
September 5, 2020
Best reply:
https://twitter.com/jayblackisfunny/status/1302035789858115586Jay Black
@jayblackisfunny Replying to @LindseyGrahamSC and @realDonaldTrump
Have you tried driving to the White House and playing “In Your Eyes” on a boom box outside his window?
@jayblackisfunny Replying to @LindseyGrahamSC and @realDonaldTrump
Have you tried driving to the White House and playing “In Your Eyes” on a boom box outside his window?
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