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True the Vote made an exciting announcement on their X social media page on Tuesday, stating that they will be working with sheriff offices across the county to provide live-streamed surveillance footage of ballot boxes. True the Vote describes itself as a leader in the effort to ensure free and fair elections in America. Our work focuses on empowering citizens to safeguard the electoral process and to protect their vote from fraud so their voice is not diminished Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of True the Vote, outlined the details in a video shared on the organization’s account, emphasizing that this...

President Nicolás Maduro has won Venezuela's presidential election, according to partial results published by the electoral council. The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, who is a close ally of Mr Maduro, said that with 80% of votes counted, President Maduro had 51.20% of the vote, compared to 44.02% for his main rival.

@visegrad24 BREAKING: Armed communist Maduro gangs “Colectivos” are now storming polling stations in Punta Cardón in the Falcón state, Venezuela. They are there to steal the boxes with the votes

US Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered remarks on ‘Bloody Sunday’ at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama. Garland told the black churchgoers that voter ID requirements are “discriminatory” and that he’s fighting to stop oppressive laws. “The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, the right from which all others flow. It is a right that members of this community bled for,” Garland said to the churchgoers. Garland insisted the “right to vote is still under attack.” “And that is why the Justice Department is fighting back,” he said. “That is why, one of the first things I...

A Wisconsin judge ruled Monday that state law does not allow the use of mobile absentee voting sites, siding with Republicans who had challenged the city of Racine's use of a voting van that traveled around the city in 2022. Republicans opposed the use of the van, the only one of its kind in Wisconsin, saying its use was against the law, increased the chances of voter fraud and was used to bolster Democratic turnout. Racine officials, the Democratic National Committee and the Milwaukee-based voting advocacy group Black Leaders Organizing for Communities refuted those claims and defended the legality of...

“A federal judge Friday refused to bar a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county where watchers have shown up armed and in ballistic vests, saying to do so could violate the monitors’ constitutional rights,” the Associated Press reported.U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi said the case remained open and that the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans could try again to make its argument against a group called Clean Elections USA.Victory for election integrityDems are gonna be upsethttps://t.co/q9Z0IyZTWy— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 29, 2022NEW: several people have been sitting outside the Maricopa County elections headquarters in...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Republican Party leaders, egged on by President Donald Trump, vowed on Wednesday to keep collecting ballots that voters deliver to party-furnished drop boxes in churches, gun shops and campaign offices, a practice they defended as perfectly legal. Republicans were responding to a cease-and-desist order on Tuesday from California’s top elections official, Secretary of State Alex Padilla, demanding removal of “unauthorized and non-official” vote-by-mail ballot boxes set up by the party in at least three counties. Padilla and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, both Democrats, said they were giving party officials until Thursday to comply with...

Attorney for Bikers for Trump leader Chris Cox says 15 tags could prove tampering with 37,500 ballots This is what democracy looks like. Bikers for Trump leader Chris Cox bustled through the throng of protesters at the Broward County elections office at the heart of the Florida recount fandango, drawing attention to colored zip-tie tags found on the ground near the building’s loading dock. Mr. Cox and a crowd of Republican activists are convinced that the 15 red and orange tags were cut off ballot boxes before the votes reached the election office, which could be a violation of state...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – Citing “security reasons,” Turkey’s top electoral board decided on Sunday to move some ballot boxes in at least 19 provinces from which the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) traditionally gets most of its votes, party officials said. Moving or merging the boxes meant that hundreds of thousands of voters in different villages, towns, and city centers would have to go elsewhere to cast ballots instead of their local polling stations on June 24, the day Turkey’s challenged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set for snap general and presidential elections. On Saturday, HDP lawmaker Mithat Sancar of Mardin visited...

The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946. The citizens, including some World War II veterans, accused the local officials of political corruption and voter intimidation. Here is what happened: Following World War II in 1946, violence erupted when returning American soldiers discovered their Tennessee county had been taken over by political corruption. Their plan to take it back involved bullets—lots of bullets—and dynamite. Why Athens in McMinn County, Tennessee became a battleground was due to Paul Cantrell,...