If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. US Navy and National Guard vet. Lifelong liberal. Birb and hooman parent๐๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ข
This is the route that ICE agents took yesterday while their prisoner with a broken neck was bleeding profusely. The red dots are hospitals with ERs.
They were hoping he would just die.
@VigilantFox Who the fu#k does Maher think he is? He's a stand-up comedian. Ditto Rogan. How the hell dummies decided their opinions mattered so much is beyond me
And there you have it. Howard Lutnick swoops in, makes last minute demands and kills thousands of negotiating hours. The lack of discipline within the Trump regime is brutal
@TheRealDKGray@joncoopertweets@grandmagrit I live in Buffalo NY. We love our Canadian neighbors ๐ Lots of magats in the suburbs and countryside, but their numbers are falling. I hate Trump and his fascist regime.
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Maggie Haberman shares new details about Trump aide Natalie Harp and her rise inside the White House: โShe is a channel by whichโฆ foreign leaders try to reach him.โ
This video is a great representative of how @JamesOKeefeIII is a liar and a bad person.
And why you should be very skeptical of any video he posts.
1)
The election workers followed the law.
When OโKeefe, impersonating a registered voter, asked to vote, the poll workers repeatedly asked for his identification.
He said he didnโt have identification and asked if he could still vote.
The poll workers told him yes, he could vote, but it must be a โquestioned ballotโ that goes into a security envelope.
It is NOT immediately counted. Iโll get to that later.
The election workers did the right thing. They followed the law.
2)
This โquestioned ballotโ is called a โprovisional ballotโ in most other states. Provisional ballots are required by the federal Help America Vote Act (2002) section 302.
This is done so that no voter is mistakenly turned away (disenfranchised).
It is the safety valve of in-person voting.
The โquestioned ballotโ is required by Alaska Law (AK Stat ยง 15.15.215 (2025)). https://t.co/5HABDgH9lF
3)
As mentioned, the โquestioned ballotโ goes into an envelope. The voter must provide identifying information on the ballot envelope and then seal the envelope.
The envelope is set aside until it is taken to a bipartisan board.
That bipartisan board uses information from the election office and from the voter to determine eligibility. If eligible, it is tabulated. If not eligible, it is kept in its sealed envelope.
See, e.g., this explainer video: https://t.co/8qGenlQ6yk
This meant to preserve a voterโs right to vote, but it also protects against fraudulent vote attempts like the one OโKeefe contemplated.
4)
OโKeefe of course knows this. Because he cites to both the state statute (15.15.215) and an August 10 social media post from the Alaska Division of Elections that includes this information.
But he ignores the information and omits it in his video.
Hereโs the relevant statute: https://t.co/5HABDgH9lF
And hereโs the social media post: https://t.co/3wrCaEd2ei
Now watch the OโKeefe video and see how deceptively theyโre edit / truncated.
5)
OโKeefe did not expose an opportunity fraud. He did not expose unlawful conduct by election administrators.
He did, however, record some seemingly sweet, civically-minded older Americans working the election site who tried to help him with his alleged issue.
Those good Americans will now be seen by millions of Americans.
A handful of those viewers will harass the poll workers. One or two viewers might even make a a threat. And all the poll workers did was exactly the right thing as required by law.
6)
While OโKeefe did not uncover unlawful conduct, he might have created unlawful conduct.
It is unlawful to be in a voting location without being a poll worker, a voter, or an otherwise-authorized person.
It is unlawful to impersonate another voter, even if you donโt actually cast a ballot. Alaska Stat. ยง 15.56.040(a)(1).
Fun times.
7)
OโKeefe is doing all of this in the context of pressuring Lisa Murkowski to support the SAVE America Act.
But nothing OโKeefe did in the video would be changed as a result of the SAVE America Act.
Nothing.
FT: Bessentโs bond-market battle โis starting to look like his bossโs war in Iran .. a tangled set of objectives, an underestimated opponent and an implausible path to victory. And like the conflict in the Middle East, we are all going to suffer ..โ
@FT
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Elon Musk spent $290M to elect Trump. Now he wants to spend up to $200M to buy a Senate seat in Texas and keep Republicans in control of Congress.
Thatโs not democracy. Thatโs oligarchy.
End Citizens United. Ban super PACs. Get billionairesโfrom both partiesโout of elections.
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