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  1. Updated #USPS policy says #postmarks might not indicate the first day the Postal Service received the mail, but rather the day it was handled in one of its processing centers. Those centers are increasingly likely to be further away from certain communities because of recent consolidations within the Postal Service, which could further delay postmarks.

    #law #ElectionLaw #MailBallots #elections #midterms #VoterSuppression

  2. Updated #USPS policy says #postmarks might not indicate the first day the Postal Service received the mail, but rather the day it was handled in one of its processing centers. Those centers are increasingly likely to be further away from certain communities because of recent consolidations within the Postal Service, which could further delay postmarks.

    #law #ElectionLaw #MailBallots #elections #midterms #VoterSuppression

  3. Nearly 150,000 #MailBallots rejected in #California primary despite efforts to count every vote.

    Lawmakers concerned about #USPS #postmark changes.

    In January, a group of mostly Democratic US senators sent a letter to the USPS, alarmed that mail-processing changes might affect postmark dates for mail-in ballots during an #election year that will determine control of #Congress.

    #law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
    apnews.com/article/california-

  4. Nearly 150,000 #MailBallots rejected in #California primary despite efforts to count every vote.

    Lawmakers concerned about #USPS #postmark changes.

    In January, a group of mostly Democratic US senators sent a letter to the USPS, alarmed that mail-processing changes might affect postmark dates for mail-in ballots during an #election year that will determine control of #Congress.

    #law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
    apnews.com/article/california-

  5. The governor, in the statement, said that she was “appalled by the reckless failures that allowed this to happen.”

    “I believe the integrity of our elections is fundamental to our democracy,” she added.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections #NewJersey

  6. The governor, in the statement, said that she was “appalled by the reckless failures that allowed this to happen.”

    “I believe the integrity of our elections is fundamental to our democracy,” she added.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections #NewJersey

  7. Sherrill, a Democrat who took over in January, held a news conference to disclose the error tied to a software vendor that is being phased out of use in #NewJersey.

    State officials became aware of the error last week & began an immediate investigation into what had happened.

    “I want to underscore how seriously I take this matter,” Sherrill said.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections

  8. Sherrill, a Democrat who took over in January, held a news conference to disclose the error tied to a software vendor that is being phased out of use in #NewJersey.

    State officials became aware of the error last week & began an immediate investigation into what had happened.

    “I want to underscore how seriously I take this matter,” Sherrill said.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections

  9. “These individuals answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a US citizen when applying for drivers’ licenses & identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway,” the governor said in a statement.

    All 6,600 people will be removed from the voter rolls.

    NYT could not independently verify those figures.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections #NewJersey

  10. “These individuals answered ‘no’ when asked on a keypad whether they were a US citizen when applying for drivers’ licenses & identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway,” the governor said in a statement.

    All 6,600 people will be removed from the voter rolls.

    NYT could not independently verify those figures.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections #NewJersey

  11. #Trump is going to have a field day with this —

    Roughly 400 #noncitizens voted in #NewJersey after about 6,600 residents were improperly registered to vote between June 2023 & June 2024 because of a software error at the #DMV, Gov #MikieSherrill announced Tuesday.

    ALL of the people affected had disclosed that they were not citizens when registering for either a driver’s license or ID, but were nonetheless placed on the voter rolls in error.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections
    nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregio

  12. #Trump is going to have a field day with this —

    Roughly 400 #noncitizens voted in #NewJersey after about 6,600 residents were improperly registered to vote between June 2023 & June 2024 because of a software error at the #DMV, Gov #MikieSherrill announced Tuesday.

    ALL of the people affected had disclosed that they were not citizens when registering for either a driver’s license or ID, but were nonetheless placed on the voter rolls in error.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections
    nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregio

  13. #Trump is going to have a field day with this —

    Roughly 400 #noncitizens voted in #NewJersey after about 6,600 residents were improperly registered to vote between June 2023 & June 2024 because of a software error at the #DMV, Gov #MikieSherrill announced Tuesday.

    ALL of the people affected had disclosed that they were not citizens when registering for either a driver’s license or ID, but were nonetheless placed on the voter rolls in error.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections
    nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregio

  14. #Trump is going to have a field day with this —

    Roughly 400 #noncitizens voted in #NewJersey after about 6,600 residents were improperly registered to vote between June 2023 & June 2024 because of a software error at the #DMV, Gov #MikieSherrill announced Tuesday.

    ALL of the people affected had disclosed that they were not citizens when registering for either a driver’s license or ID, but were nonetheless placed on the voter rolls in error.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections
    nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregio

  15. #Trump is going to have a field day with this —

    Roughly 400 #noncitizens voted in #NewJersey after about 6,600 residents were improperly registered to vote between June 2023 & June 2024 because of a software error at the #DMV, Gov #MikieSherrill announced Tuesday.

    ALL of the people affected had disclosed that they were not citizens when registering for either a driver’s license or ID, but were nonetheless placed on the voter rolls in error.

    #law #ElectionLaw #elections
    nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregio

  16. 🚨 The $1 million question: Where does political influence cross the legal line?
    Elon Musk’s Wisconsin voter payments are now in the hands of a prosecutor. Here’s what happened, what’s alleged, and what comes next. ⚖️
    shorturl.at/Jljkz
    #ElectionLaw #Wisconsin #Politics #Accountability #CivicWatch #ElonMusk

  17. 🚨 The $1 million question: Where does political influence cross the legal line?
    Elon Musk’s Wisconsin voter payments are now in the hands of a prosecutor. Here’s what happened, what’s alleged, and what comes next. ⚖️
    shorturl.at/Jljkz
    #ElectionLaw #Wisconsin #Politics #Accountability #CivicWatch #ElonMusk

  18. Railing against the FBI & intelligence agencies’ investigations into to Russian meddling in 2016 is one of Trump’s favorite themes. And in 2020, a majority of intelligence officials assessed that the Russian campaign to denigrate Joe Biden was the most robust.

    But #Trump barely mentioned #Russia in his speech Thursday, using most of it to lament Chinese efforts to denigrate him.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #VotingRights #elections #USpol

  19. Railing against the FBI & intelligence agencies’ investigations into to Russian meddling in 2016 is one of Trump’s favorite themes. And in 2020, a majority of intelligence officials assessed that the Russian campaign to denigrate Joe Biden was the most robust.

    But #Trump barely mentioned #Russia in his speech Thursday, using most of it to lament Chinese efforts to denigrate him.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #VotingRights #elections #USpol

  20. Railing against the FBI & intelligence agencies’ investigations into to Russian meddling in 2016 is one of Trump’s favorite themes. And in 2020, a majority of intelligence officials assessed that the Russian campaign to denigrate Joe Biden was the most robust.

    But #Trump barely mentioned #Russia in his speech Thursday, using most of it to lament Chinese efforts to denigrate him.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #VotingRights #elections #USpol

  21. Railing against the FBI & intelligence agencies’ investigations into to Russian meddling in 2016 is one of Trump’s favorite themes. And in 2020, a majority of intelligence officials assessed that the Russian campaign to denigrate Joe Biden was the most robust.

    But #Trump barely mentioned #Russia in his speech Thursday, using most of it to lament Chinese efforts to denigrate him.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #VotingRights #elections #USpol

  22. Railing against the FBI & intelligence agencies’ investigations into to Russian meddling in 2016 is one of Trump’s favorite themes. And in 2020, a majority of intelligence officials assessed that the Russian campaign to denigrate Joe Biden was the most robust.

    But #Trump barely mentioned #Russia in his speech Thursday, using most of it to lament Chinese efforts to denigrate him.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #VotingRights #elections #USpol

  23. And, John Solomon, who is leading #Trump’s task force on declassifying documents on a range of issues, told reporters outside the White House that the intelligence community documents show NO EVIDENCE that votes in election machines were changed in the past three #elections.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  24. And, John Solomon, who is leading #Trump’s task force on declassifying documents on a range of issues, told reporters outside the White House that the intelligence community documents show NO EVIDENCE that votes in election machines were changed in the past three #elections.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  25. And, John Solomon, who is leading #Trump’s task force on declassifying documents on a range of issues, told reporters outside the White House that the intelligence community documents show NO EVIDENCE that votes in election machines were changed in the past three #elections.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  26. And, John Solomon, who is leading #Trump’s task force on declassifying documents on a range of issues, told reporters outside the White House that the intelligence community documents show NO EVIDENCE that votes in election machines were changed in the past three #elections.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  27. And, John Solomon, who is leading #Trump’s task force on declassifying documents on a range of issues, told reporters outside the White House that the intelligence community documents show NO EVIDENCE that votes in election machines were changed in the past three #elections.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  28. #Trump also referred to a report about #Venezuela showing it could successfully tamper with #VotingMachines.

    But documents posted by the White House featured an analysis by the #CIA last month that assessed intelligence collected over nearly two decades about the Venezuelan government’s ability to rig elections through voting machine tech.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  29. #Trump also referred to a report about #Venezuela showing it could successfully tamper with #VotingMachines.

    But documents posted by the White House featured an analysis by the #CIA last month that assessed intelligence collected over nearly two decades about the Venezuelan government’s ability to rig elections through voting machine tech.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  30. #Trump also referred to a report about #Venezuela showing it could successfully tamper with #VotingMachines.

    But documents posted by the White House featured an analysis by the #CIA last month that assessed intelligence collected over nearly two decades about the Venezuelan government’s ability to rig elections through voting machine tech.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  31. #Trump also referred to a report about #Venezuela showing it could successfully tamper with #VotingMachines.

    But documents posted by the White House featured an analysis by the #CIA last month that assessed intelligence collected over nearly two decades about the Venezuelan government’s ability to rig elections through voting machine tech.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  32. #Trump also referred to a report about #Venezuela showing it could successfully tamper with #VotingMachines.

    But documents posted by the White House featured an analysis by the #CIA last month that assessed intelligence collected over nearly two decades about the Venezuelan government’s ability to rig elections through voting machine tech.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  33. What’s more, former intelligence officials have said, #China gathered the data not to manipulate voting results, but instead to better craft influence campaigns to shape voters’ perceptions.

    While the documents outline some nascent interest by Chinese officials in influence operations, they concede Beijing never endorsed any broad-based effort to undercut #Trump.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  34. What’s more, former intelligence officials have said, #China gathered the data not to manipulate voting results, but instead to better craft influence campaigns to shape voters’ perceptions.

    While the documents outline some nascent interest by Chinese officials in influence operations, they concede Beijing never endorsed any broad-based effort to undercut #Trump.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  35. What’s more, former intelligence officials have said, #China gathered the data not to manipulate voting results, but instead to better craft influence campaigns to shape voters’ perceptions.

    While the documents outline some nascent interest by Chinese officials in influence operations, they concede Beijing never endorsed any broad-based effort to undercut #Trump.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  36. What’s more, former intelligence officials have said, #China gathered the data not to manipulate voting results, but instead to better craft influence campaigns to shape voters’ perceptions.

    While the documents outline some nascent interest by Chinese officials in influence operations, they concede Beijing never endorsed any broad-based effort to undercut #Trump.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  37. What’s more, former intelligence officials have said, #China gathered the data not to manipulate voting results, but instead to better craft influence campaigns to shape voters’ perceptions.

    While the documents outline some nascent interest by Chinese officials in influence operations, they concede Beijing never endorsed any broad-based effort to undercut #Trump.

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections

  38. The documents also do not contain any significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in #election systems. One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt∶ “We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results.”

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #Trump #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  39. The documents also do not contain any significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in #election systems. One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt∶ “We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results.”

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #Trump #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  40. The documents also do not contain any significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in #election systems. One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt∶ “We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results.”

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #Trump #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  41. The documents also do not contain any significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in #election systems. One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt∶ “We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results.”

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #Trump #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  42. The documents also do not contain any significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in #election systems. One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt∶ “We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results.”

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #ElectionLaw #midterms #Trump #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VotingRights #elections #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy

  43. There has never been ANY public evidence to corroborate claims by #Trump & his allies of foreign manipulation either in the casting or tabulation of votes in the 2020 contest, or other recent #elections, or of significant fraud involving paper ballots. Some of the top officials during Trump’s first term—including his attorney general, Bill Barr—said following his defeat in 2020 that there was NO EVIDENCE of fraud.

    #law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #coup #Jan6