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Despite what you hear from Democrats, voting in the United States is ridiculously easy. Mail-in ballots, absentee ballots, provisional ballots if you're not sure, and ranked-choice ballots if you want to confuse everyone. But before all that, there's registering to vote. This, too, is ridiculously easy, although potential voters must make an effort to sign up. The funny thing about voter registrations is that they supply a "tell" for how an election will go. This is especially true in states where voters register by party. Alex Castellanos, senior aide to the campaigns of Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney, told Fox...

Just four months ago, our British cousins voted in an election that changed the course of their country. Today, we go to the polls and will hopefully change the direction of ours. There are some interesting comparisons between the two elections. Granted, we won’t know the result of the U.S. elections until tonight — or maybe later — but there are some weird similarities and some obvious differences between the two elections. Let’s start with the timing of these elections. The British elections took place on July 4, eliciting snickers from Americans. I don’t know if Britons ever think about...

Two polling sites in Fulton County were briefly evacuated Tuesday morning after receiving bomb threats. According to Nadine Williams, Fulton County’s Director of Registration and Elections, five polling stations in total were targeted. While authorities deemed the threats non-credible, the Etris-Darnell Community Center and C.H. Gullatt Elementary School were evacuated for about half an hour. Both sites have since reopened and resumed normal operations. Williams says the county is now pursuing a court order to extend voting hours at these two locations past the standard 7 PM statewide deadline to make up for the interruption. South Fulton School Police reported...

Former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin has been a vocal critic of her old boss, but whenever she was asked directly, she wouldn't commit to voting for Kamala Harris — until Tuesday morning. To kick off the show, she revealed that she officially cast her vote for a Democrat for the first time in her life.

[Catholic Caucus] Why does Pope Francis want Fr. James Martin, Rupnik colleague in the Vatican communications office?The Vatican communications office includes one of the foremost LGBT advocates in the Church and a close collaborator of one of the most scandal-plagued priests in Rome.Fr Martin (far right) and Govekar (3rd from right) at the Dicastery for Communication, plenary assembly 2024.With the Vatican in dire need of well-directed communications as the Holy See attempts to promote the Synod and the 2025 Jubilee, the inclusion of Father James Martin, SJ and a close ally of scandal plagued Father Marko Rupnik in the Vatican’s...

LBJ’s corrupt ghost still haunts South Texas during this most most important of American elections. The Commander Jay Furman for Congress Campaign reports that an alarming number of voters in Webb County Texas (Laredo) were not presented with correct electronic ballots during Early Voting. Apparently robbed of their most sacred American voice, the good citizens of Webb County are not surprised that the race to replace Department of Justice indicted (28-count) U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar is fraught with such bold injustice. Beginning several days into early voting, the campaign received reports from voters that Furman’s name was not appearing on...

Day #46 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the last couple of months. We are coming down the home stretch here, folks -- and we will be done by early next week, God willing! And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity threads like this, I'll...

Students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy will have access to Legos, cocoa, and coloring books in a post-Election Day “Self-Care Suite.” “In an email to McCourt students,” reports the Free Press, “Jaclyn Clevenger, the school’s director of student engagement, introduced the school’s post-election ‘Self-Care Suite.’” “In recognition of these stressful times,” she adds, “all McCourt community members are welcome to gather. . . in the 3rd floor Commons to take a much-needed break, joining us for mindfulness activities and snacks throughout the day.”

WATCH: Rachel Maddow says the government will pull all of @elonmusk ’s contracts for supporting Trump.

Election officials have confirmed widespread problems with voting machines and software on Election Day in two heavily Republican counties in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. Officials have confirmed issues with scanning ballots in Cambria and Bedford counties, which former President Donald Trump won four years ago with 68% and 83% of the vote. “The Cambria County Board of Election learned early this morning that a software malfunction in the County’s Electronic Voting System has prevented voters from scanning their ballots,” Cambria County Solicitor Ron Repak said in a statement. “This should not discourage voters from voting at their voting...

VIDEOThe Democrats failed to do one very important thing this campaign season. They did not place political analyst Bob Shrum in a lead-lined container to keep him from communicating with the outside world. Why? Because of the documented "Shrum Curse" (you can look it up online) in which all predictions and hopes expressed by Shrum turn out to be the opposite. On Election Night 2004 he congratulated candidate John Kerry by personally telling him, "May I be the first to say 'Mr. President?'" On September 2, 2016, Shrum declared Hillary Clinton the winner because the election was essentially all over....

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Pope Francis makes personal visit to notorious abortionist Emma BoninoPope Francis has often praised Emma Bonino as one of the nation’s 'forgotten greats,' despite her prolific abortion activism and her claim to have performed abortions herself.Pope Francis made a private visit to notorious Italian abortionist Emma Bonino today after she was recently discharged from hospital following breathing problems.Late Tuesday morning, Pope Francis made an unannounced visit to Bonino at her residence in Rome. Francis had left the Vatican to be present at the Pontifical Gregorian University for a series of public meetings with the university community earlier...

Election Day 2024 is finally here. The Land’s Community Journalists, and network of other writers, are reporting what they’re seeing around Greater Cleveland today. Early reports note long lines and enthusiastic voters at locations throughout Northeast Ohio. See some of the early observations below. Ronaldo Rodriguez Jr. is working at Pilgrim Church in Tremont on Tuesday. He said staff have already had to open two overflow areas for voters to queue. Erin McIntrye voted in Old Brooklyn. She said she arrived at 7:15 a.m. and left at 8:15 a.m. Voters who arrived even earlier — in the neighborhood of 6:30...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“A man gave a great dinner to which he invited many. When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’ But one by one, they all began to excuse themselves.” Luke 14:16–18Do you ever excuse yourself from the will of God? Do you pass up His invitation to feast at the table of His great dinner? More than anything else, the invitation God has given us to this “great dinner” is the invitation to participate in the Holy Mass and to pray. The fact...

George @BehizyTweets This is why Trump said he can win New Jersey. An army of Jewish voters flooded the polls in Lakewood to vote for Trump. It's the largest Jewish community in the state of New Jersey When have you ever seen this? 🔥

Pennsylvania’s Cambria County has been forced to make an election day switch to paper ballots following widespread issues with voting machines in the heavily Republican locality. The technology issue predominately impacts ballot scanners, meaning the printed electronic votes must be hand-counted for tabulation. “The Cambria County Board of Election learned early this morning that a software malfunction in the County’s Electronic Voting System has prevented voters from scanning their ballots. This should not discourage voters from voting at their voting precincts,” Cambria County solicitor Ron Repak said in a statement early Tuesday morning. He added: “The Board has filed a...

Detroit auto shop owner Michael Murphy supports former President Donald Trump, and he thinks someone with the city has a problem with that. In recent weeks, Murphy told WJBK, political signs he put up outside Pointe Auto Tech on Detroit’s east side have been repeatedly removed, while signs promoting Vice President Kamala Harris nearby have been left untouched. “A white City of Detroit truck pulling up and taking them,” he said. After the first time the signs were swiped on Oct. 21, “I got some more,” Murphy said, only to have those removed, as well. “They said I was not...

CINCINNATI, Ohio — VP hopeful JD Vance cast his vote today here — just 30 minutes from the city of Middletown, where he famously grew up in a drug- and alcohol-addicted home. “For me to be standing here today is a testament to the American dream,” Vance told reporters outside the precinct. “My heart is just overwhelmed with gratitude.” The senator expressed cautious optimism as he confirmed he voted for himself, former President Donald Trump and Senate candidate Bernie Moreno. “I feel good,” Vance said. “But you never know until you know. Our message is that we do expect to...

Just spoke to a Democrat consultant friend on the ground in a swing state who told me I could repeat some of what we discussed. Here's what I can tell you; take it with a grain of salt if you like but I think he's being straight with me. Nobody really thinks Kamala is going to win at this point. Canvassing is going poorly almost everywhere, with few exceptions. The party is getting their high-follower influencer accounts to push out motivational stories just to keep morale up and get them over the finish line with some dignity, but it's not...

Leading Report @LeadingReport BREAKING: “The margins don't add up right now for the Democrats in any of these battleground states," according to former VP press secretary Marc Lotter.