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KCNF’s Steve Pershing recently argued before the Fourth Circuit on behalf of our client, Christine Gibbons, who was ousted from her position as a Lynchburg voter registrar following years of harassment related to false fraud claims surrounding the 2020 election.    Read more about the case and our argument here:   https://lnkd.in/e9BQKB4e   #FourthCircuit #EmploymentLaw #EmploymentLawyers

Democracy quick facts: ➡️ Hand counting ballots is inefficient, expensive, and prone to error. ➡️ Election administration is chronically underfunded. ➡️ Voter fraud is extremely rare. https://lnkd.in/gePxc_U3

The 2020 election placed conversations about the integrity of our democratic voting procedures into every home across America. During the November 3rd returns a clear picture began to be broadcast to the nation that Donald Trump was taking a decisive lead in early returns. Many went to bed assuming that the election would be called by the time they woke up on November 4th. In the overnight hours news media began showing vote totals adding up for the presidential challenger, Joe Biden. Immediately claims of election tampering and fraud began pouring in.   In the immediate aftermath the Trump campaign team went looking for the evidence of massive voter fraud. By Wednesday afternoon as the shock gripped the President and the nation, Alex Cannon picked up the phone and called Ken Block. Alex was a lawyer for the Trump campaign. Ken was an expert in voter data, a tech entrepreneur, two-time candidate for Governor, and the founder of the centrist political party, who remained active in Rhode Island. After careful consideration of Mr. Cannon’s request to work to find voter fraud evidence, Ken agreed to work for the campaign to research.   The deadlines were tight, with most states certifying the election by the first week of December. In Ken Block’s new book, “Disproven”, he documents the email requests and daily challenges to get to the bottom of the fraud claims to help court cases. Each chapter of his book is a study of how the story of fraud came to be, what the data states, and a conclusion of whether the claim was legitimate for the courts. In the end, Ken concludes that he could not prove voter fraud with any certifiable evidence that would have changed the election outcome. However, he uncovers and presents major issues in the systems used to record the will of the nation. He joins America Emboldened to discuss his findings, and what he would propose could begin to reform our elections in the future.

The 'games' that are played around voting rights are thoroughly anti-democratic. Voters shouldn't have to pre-check their voter registration status BUT it makes sense to do it. Here's a link that you can use regardless of where you live: https://lnkd.in/ggp_G6e Do it now so that you can be confident that your registration is valid in time for your state's registration deadlines for primary and general elections. #2024elections #voteblue #voting

Any and all voting should require ID and confirmation. All vote counting should be monitored and video taped, any "broken pipes" or vote dumps at 2 am should require a complete recount. Any fraud should have mandatory sentencing. "The COVID pandemic permitted Democratic secretaries of state to finagle the in-person and mail-in voting protocols, which courts retroactively ruled illegal." "More than 20% of voters who used mail-in ballots in 2020 admit they participated in at least one form of election fraud. " https://lnkd.in/gV3DtHYW

According to this #kellogg article, the USA’s Electoral College system works to curb election fraud due to the conflicting feasibility and utility of doing it. In solid red/blue states, it’s feasible for the dominant party to commit fraud but pointless because the state is theirs anyway. In swing states, where the power structure is not monolithic, it’s useful to commit fraud (because the result can be impact the general election) but unfeasible because the other party can/will work to prevent it.

Check out this story from USA TODAY: Don't be fooled: 5 false election claims to look out for this season Social media feeds will be filled in the coming months with some predictable (and wrong) election claims. This guide will help you navigate it. https://lnkd.in/gS-7uy6w

The GQP's Imaginary Voter-Fraud Problem It was a telling comment. At a Wednesday news conference, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) promoted an effort to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting, he was asked if he had an estimate for how big the problem was. He did not. It also undercuts the leader of the Republican Party, former president Donald Trump, who has ridiculously pegged the number of illegal votes by undocumented immigrants in the 2016 election at 3 million to 5 million (just enough, as it happens, to explain away his 2.9 million-vote loss in the popular vote). After the 2020 election, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani also ridiculously pegged the number of such illegal votes in Arizona alone at between 40,000 and 250,000. There is precisely no evidence that this is a problem on any significant scale. The idea that large numbers of people who are in this country illegally would take the risk of being detected to cast a single vote in a presidential election is nonsensical on its face. Johnson, at the very least, is implicitly acknowledging that Trump’s and Giuliani’s numbers are pulled out of thin air. But, given the continued GOP focus on this issue, it’s worth noting how much Republicans have found or come to admit that actual evidence of widespread voter fraud simply isn’t there: Giuliani acknowledged as much even as he was publicly lodging such claims, according to Rusty Bowers, the Republican former Arizona state House speaker. Bowers testified to the House Jan. 6 committee that Giuliani told him at one point, “We’ve got lots of theories; we just don’t have the evidence.” Pro-Trump groups and lawyers who made specific claims of voter fraud have repeatedly backed off those claims and acknowledged their lack of evidence when faced with defending themselves in court. A 2023 report from a Republican-led Michigan state Senate committee debunked, point by point, many of Trump’s and Giuliani’s claims about voter fraud in that state. “This Committee found no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud in Michigan’s prosecution of the 2020 election,” the report said. A much-touted Texas lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results, which went to the Supreme Court, acknowledged that widespread voter fraud wasn’t proved but said that was because it had been rendered “undetectable” — despite public claims from the likes of Giuliani that the fraud was “easily provable.” A voter-fraud commission that Trump launched after taking the White House in 2017 found no evidence of widespread fraud in 2016 and was disbanded. A 2022 report from a group of venerated Republican officials emphasized that “some election fraud goes undetected.” But it found after a review of virtually every major claim in six battleground states that “there is absolutely no evidence of fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election on the magnitude necessary to shift the result in any state, let alone the nation as a whole.” ©️Washington Post 2024

After extensive analysis using raw survey data coupled with mail-in vote totals, we concluded that mail-in voter fraud almost certainly changed the 2020 election outcome in all six crucial swing states. https://lnkd.in/gsqYpZiR

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