Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #2124
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
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Monday, June 26, 2023
Seven months after 2022 elections, U.S. counties still uncovering Election Day problems
Following reviews over the past seven months on how their election departments administered the 2022 midterms, several counties across the U.S have found numerous issues that highlight processes and procedures that need to be addressed for future elections.
Such jurisdictions have conducted audits, reviews, or investigations to determine root causes. Several counties released the reviews in June, seven months after the elections occurred.
1. Berkeley County, South Carolina: An audit of the county Board of Voter Registration and Elections’ administration of the 2022 elections released this month by the state Election Commission gave 30 recommendations.
The audit found that 25 of 440 poll workers and two polling location technicians were paid despite not receiving training for their positions. Checklists for opening and closing polls weren’t adequately completed for all polling locations, and neither were ballot reconciliation worksheets to ensure that all ballots were accounted for, according to the audit.
2. Cobb County, Georgia: A county elections division employee made an error that led to more than 1,000 absentee ballots not being mailed in time for the November election. The error wasn’t discovered until weeks later, and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit for several absentee voters. A judge then extended the deadline for the county to accept absentee ballots.
The county’s Internal Audit Department presented its nearly 80-page report last week to the Board of Elections, recommending that the board automate reports at various stages of the ballot process, log the number of ballots as they’re returned, secure the absentee ballots within the department, and log ballot counts every day at each stage of the process with supervisor verification and employee initials.
3. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania: The county district attorney investigated the causes of the ballot paper shortage that occurred at several polling places in Luzerne during the 2022 general election. The DA found that 16 of the 143 polling places in the county ran out of paper for the ballot-on-demand printers. The acting elections director at the time, who started her job nearly four months before the election, didn’t order more paper ahead of the election, despite saying she would. The DA’s report also found that high staff turnover and the loss of institutional knowledge began around 2019, which he said were the underlying causes for the Election Day issues.
4. Maricopa County, Arizona: A former Arizona Supreme Court chief justice wrote a report commissioned by the county on the issues that occurred at vote centers. Roughly 70 vote centers in the county experienced ballot printer issues on Election Day 2022, which resulted in ballot tabulation machine errors. The report, which was released in April, found that between the August primaries and the November general contest, the county expanded the length of ballots from 19 to 20 inches to include all of the required information for the races. The increased ballot size – in combination with the use of 100-pound ballot paper – was too great a strain on the printers, the report concludes.
One of the printer companies disputed some of the claims in the report, saying that the county should have reviewed the printer manual or contacted it before using 100-pound paper for the printers.
5. Washoe County, Nevada:
A Tale of Two Systems
The presidential son gets off with a slap on the wrist
"First of all, my son has done nothing wrong," President Joe Biden told MSNBC last month. It was but one of a litany of such statements from Biden, who has behaved as if any question from the press about his son’s criminal activity—and there haven’t been many—is an affront, an indignity, and an insult to the office.
Well, he lied.
The younger Biden owed more than $1 million in taxes over several years, and over $200,000 for the years in which he struck the plea deal. Even then, his celebrity lawyer pal didn't fork over the money to the federal government on his behalf until the Department of Justice started investigating him. He also copped to owning a gun while he was coked up, and lying about it when he bought the firearm in 2018. That’s a felony, but Hunter is getting off with a slap on the wri—uh, probation and enrollment in a "diversion program."
Democrats, very much including Biden, love to talk about the two systems of justice in this country: one for the rich and well-connected, the other for racial minorities and the poor. When it came to his son, apart from lying to the American people, Biden’s statements about Hunter Biden’s innocence constituted presidential interference with the Justice Department probe.
So we’ll wait for the left to cry foul over this and the fact that the presidential son got off with a slap on the wrist for crimes that would have landed others behind bars.
The rank bullshit that has emanated from the White House on related issues is secondary but not unimportant. It wasn’t even a year ago that Biden signed the inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act into law. In the weeks beforehand, we heard endless jawboning from administration officials about why the additional $80 billion the law is now funneling to the IRS, much of it for increased enforcement, was necessary to hold the powerful to account.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, for one, pointed to "typically very high-net worth, high-income individuals and businesses that have opaque sources of income that are not paying the taxes that...
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