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Maricopa County officials just revealed that some of the 40,000 incomplete or damaged voter registration forms they received on registration deadline day included fraudulent registrations "Voter registration forms that tried to register Mickey Mouse, Jerry Seinfeld, Donald Duck, among others. This put a lot of pressure on the staff." "This does include one of the groups that has made news in Pennsylvania, and it is a group that we have worked with before and we have admonished them to submit better voter registration forms" This is not a coincidence. The upcoming Trump DOJ needs to prosecute every single bad actor...

Maricopa County, Arizona, Recorder Stephen Richer deleted his X account Thursday with hundreds of thousands of ballots still to be counted. The county’s slow reporting of election results has raised concerns — that the delay is allowing room for foul play. Lake was tied with or had taken a slight lead over Gallego in multiple polls going into Tuesday’s election .. RCP average only had Republican Donald Trump ahead in the state by 3 percent, but he currently has a 6.1 percent lead over Democrat Kamala Harris in the actual results. So the average of surveys underrepresented Trump’s support by...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Incumbent Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer has lost his reelection campaign to fellow Republican Justin Heap, according to projections from the Associated Press. Richer, one of the elected officials responsible for administering elections in Maricopa County, has become a pariah on the right to defend election integrity after several Republicans, including Donald Trump, Kari Lake, Abe Hamadeh, and Mark Finchem, claimed election tampering when they lost their respected races in 2022. [snip] Heap stops short of saying the 2020 and 2022 elections were stolen but said thousands of Republican voters don’t have faith in the county’s election...

(NEXSTAR) – 2022 was a rough year for many Americans, newly released U.S. Census Bureau data indicates. While the median household income climbed in five states, far more saw that metric drop last year. Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin all saw household income take a dip in 2022.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will vacate her congressional seat on Tuesday after becoming a wealthy woman during her six years of serving Wyoming. Cheney, who lost her Republican primary by nearly 40 points in August, will depart Congress on January 3 and return home as a defeated 56-year-old never Trumper. Cheney will not depart Congress empty-handed. During her six years in Congress, she has become very wealthy. Breitbart News reported in August that Cheney’s net worth ballooned from an estimated $7 million when she first took office in 2017 to possibly more than $44 million in 2020. Depending on the...

On Monday it was revealed that top Maricopa County election officer Stephen Richer, who helped to oversee elections in Arizona, donated to the far-left "resistance group" PatriotTakes. PatriotTakes is a hybrid pack that describes itself on Twitter as a group of "dedicated researchers monitoring and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy." ... Data available on the Federal Elections Commission's website shows that Richer donated $40.00 in July of this year. Previously, Richer had launched a PAC in 2021 to stop MAGA candidates .... Last week, during Tuesday's midterms elections, Richer was forced to apologize due to Maricopa County's...

In an op-ed on his Fox Business show Thursday, host Stuart Varney made the case of how President Donald Trump has made the U.S. richer while only being in office for six months. Despite the negative media coverage, Varney says investors look forward to what the current administration can continue to do: Look at this: Since his election win, the Trump rally has added $4.1 trillion to the nation's wealth. Anyone with a 401k, an IRA, college savings, retirement savings, mutual funds. Anyone with a dime in the market has taken a piece of that $4 trillion. Also, during this presidency, five American...

While Americans might enjoy throwing politically-charged barbs at their neighbors to the north, Canadians now have at least one reason to be smug. For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is richer than the average American, according to a report cited in Toronto's Globe and Mail. And not just by a little. Currently, the average Canadian household is more than $40,000 richer than the average American household. The net worth of the average Canadian household in 2011 was $363,202, compared to around $320,000 for Americans.

TACOMA – Nationwide, $3 billion in federal grants, contracts and loans has been set aside for 564 federally recognized tribes in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As a whole, Northwest tribes are faring better than most as the money filters down from federal agencies. However, a News Tribune analysis of the money allocated so far shows that the stimulus funds are not helping all tribes in the state equally. On the contrary, the stimulus is widening the gap between rich and poor tribes created by the relative success of their casinos. Of the $94 million awarded to Washington’s 29...

Icelanders richer than Norwegians? Icelanders are richer than Norwegians when Norway's Oil fund and Iceland's pension funds are compared reports the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, RÚV. According to the analyst department of Íslandsbanki, if the value of Norway's oil assets would be divided between the nation, each Norwegian would receive ISK 2.6 million. Icelanders on the other hand would receive ISK 3.8 million if the net assets of the Icelandic pension funds are divided between the nation - almost twice the amount that Norway's oil fund would pay each Norwegian. Norwegians plan to use the oil fund to pay out...

On Special Report with Brit Hume, Syndicated Columnist, Charles Krauthammer said that Saddam Hussein had stolen/ciphoned money from the Food For Oil program to use for influencing countries to help defray the sanctions, most notably, France, and that in the process Hussein had become richer than -- than Teresa Heinz-Kerry....