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EXCERPTS: Punched Cards for VotingThe standard punched card, originally invented by Herman Hollerith, was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the Baltimore Board of Health. IBM developed pre-scored punched cards and the Port-A-Punch card punch. In the early 1960's, two professors at the University of California at Berkeley adapted this for voting. Joseph P. Harris, from the political science department, had the idea, and sought help from William Rouverol, of the mechanical engineering department. They made several improvements to the Port-A-Punch, patented them, and formed Harris Votomatic, Inc. to sell the result. Direct Recording Electronic Voting MachinesIn 1898, Frank...

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled that Biden’s executive action was unconstitutional because Congress didn’t approve the sweeping plan. In fact, the judge claimed it was one of the largest executive branch overreaches in the "history of the United States." The handout, announced by Biden in August, was intended to provide upwards of $20,000 of student debt relief to borrowers making under $125,000 a year. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the plan would have cost American taxpayers over $400 billion. The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis wrote, "Doesn’t matter to Biden. Its only purpose was to buy votes...

The FTX Community Chat admin sent a message to the official Telegram group of the exchange stating that the bankrupt platform was hacked and all apps were malware. The admin advised users to delete the app and not visit the website or open their mobile applications as they could end up with Trojans.

$2BN of clients' money is MISSING from collapsed crypto exchange FTX: Founder Sam Bankman-Fried 'secretly transferred $10BN to trading company Alameda Research run by his girlfriend' FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly shuffled $10billion in funds to his trading firm Alameda Research, with about $2billion now missing Sources said that the CEO showed spreadsheets revealing the missing funds from FTX, which along with Alameda declared bankruptcy Bankman-Fried denied making the secret transfers to his crypto trading firm, which is run by his girlfriend, Caroline Ellison He declined to comment about the missing funds and said his firm had 'confusing internal labeling'...

The Twitter exec who censored The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden — and brazenly likened members of the Trump administration to Nazis — has quit just days after getting public support from new boss Elon Musk. Yoel Roth, 35, until Wednesday had continued pushing the site’s shifting policies on trolling and hateful conduct — and appeared alongside new owner Musk, 51, in defending the platform in a crunch meeting with advertisers that same day. But Twitter staffers were told on Slack on Thursday that Roth was the latest key exec to have resigned, according to employees. Roth also confirmed his...

Living’s easy for this TikToker. A 19-year-old content creator is claiming she makes her month’s rent in just a few minutes due to her successful OnlyFans page. Belle Olivia, who touts more than 543,000 followers on TikTok, shared a now-viral clip to the app in which she claims she and her friends made their rent in a mere 10 minutes. The video shows Olivia in lingerie, someone laying down a towel and her friends setting up a tripod to film as Misfitloui’s “Smoking Drinking” plays, including the phrase “Go little porn star.” “Teamwork makes the dream work,” she captioned the...

@ElectionWiz JUST IN: Elon Musk’s first email to employees ends remote work. Employees will be expected to be in the office for at least 40 hours per week.

Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, and it appears he's already failing on his promise not to turn Twitter into a 'free-for-all hellscape.' But, I'm not here to talk about his policy blunders. That's a story for another day. No, I'm here to predict that Twitter, the site, will soon crash. And, once it fails, it won't be coming up for a while.Also: Ditching Twitter? How to get started with MastodonWhy? Simple. You can't lay off half of the staff of a cloud-based social network and expect things to keep running smoothly for Twitter's 450 million monthly active users. Indeed,...

Now that the Election in Florida is over, and everything went quite well, shouldn’t it be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 Million more votes in Florida than Ron D got this year, 5.7 Million to 4.6 Million? Just asking?

A former Twitter Inc engineer has accused the company of firing him days after it was acquired by Elon Musk because he developed a tool to allow workers to save important documents in anticipation of mass layoffs. The engineer, Emmanuel Cornet, filed a complaint with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Monday claiming he was engaged in protected activity when he shared the software on an internal Twitter messaging channel....Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint. Cornet, who was based in San Francisco, said in the complaint that he was fired on Nov....

Authorities released the name of the teenage suspect believed to be involved in the atrocious slayings of two North Carolina teens in September, the New York Post reported. According to a report, the suspect released rap songs online that described the murders. Two ATV riders discovered the bodies of 14-year-old Lyric Woods and 18-year-old Devin Clark on the afternoon of September 18 beneath a power line easement. Officers revealed that Woods and Clark died from multiple gunshot wounds. A resident close to the trail where the victims were located, David White, told WTVD that he had heard gunshots. “I heard...

Modern virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey claims he created a VR headset that would instantly destroy the user’s brain with explosive charge modules if the player’s character dies in the game. “If you die in the game,” Luckey wrote in his Monday blog post. “You die in real life.” Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the virtual reality head-mounted display Oculus Rift, said tying the life of a gamer to their virtual avatar has always fascinated him. “You instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the...

Breaking! Voting Machines are down and running out of Paper! I SMELL CHEATING!!! VOTING MACHINES ARE DOWN? MACHINES ARE OUT OF PAPER ? This is 2022 and we are the most advanced country but somehow this happening? I SMELL CHEATING

In the movie “The Longest Day,” Maj. Werner Pluskat tried to warn his superior about the approaching armada that he was seeing on the horizon. His superior asks where they are heading, and Pluskat responds, “Straight for me!” In the days before the midterm “Democratic D-Day,” President Joe Biden has increasingly sounded like Werner Pluskat. And he’s right. While Biden may or may not be the subject of an impeachment, a Republican-controlled House has plenty to investigate, and impeachment is unlikely his greatest fear. Here are the top three concerns, and there is every indication that Biden is wise to...

OLED screens can also be engineered to be bendable and malleable, without hindering their performance or causing any permanent damage. We’ve already seen devices like TVs and computer displays with a permanent curve to better fill a user’s peripheral vision, and even screens that can be flattened back out again for users who want to frequently switch between the two display modes. But LG is working to bring the flexibility of OLEDs to smaller devices, and today revealed the world’s first 12-inch panel that’s both flexible and stretchable, like a giant piece of rubber band, improving its ability to survive...

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Notorious Nigerian fraudster 'Ray Hushpuppi' who flaunted his bling lifestyle on Instagram is jailed in America for 11 years as FBI calls him 'one of the most prolific money launderers in the world' Ramon Abbas, 40, hacked into emails and convinced people to wire him money He laundered millions stolen from banks, a soccer club and a New York law firm He boasted 2million Instagram followers he tried to 'inspire' with his lifestyle A Nigerian influencer who flaunted his lavish lifestyle online has been jailed for 11 years after laundering millions of stolen dollars by hacking into emails and convincing...

She was an all-American in her freshman year and made the Southeastern Conference’s honor roll as a sophomore majoring in interdisciplinary studies. Ahead of the start of her junior season, Dunne is also at the leading edge of a movement shaking the old foundations of college sports: a female student athlete raking in cash thanks to the passage in 2021 of new rules allowing college athletes to sign name, image and likeness, or N.I.L., deals.

This past week I was in Lowes purchasing a refrigerator. I went to use my phone to read reviews of various models, and there were dozens of wi-fi networks available. They were all smart refrigerators and every refrigerator had its own network that showed on my phone. These networks are everywhere. I'm curious. Bet the voting machines are the same..

While we agree that by and large, most people who choose to serve within the US military to defend America have the very best intentions in mind, we had asked within an ANP story on November 7th if the Pentagon itself had been compromised and was being fully controlled by globalists and no long loyal to President Trump and America. Giving several recent examples of actions taken or words spoken by high ranking members of the military to help support our argument, we’ll take a look today within this story in another direction that helps to make that argument with...