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I never believed Trump actually won 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDI1Zcw5laM #Epstein #elections2024 #ElonMusk #Trump #votingmachines #bulletballot #ETA #votemanipulations #anomalies
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Trump official tried to ban voting machines in half of U.S. states: sources
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Trump official tried to ban voting machines in half of U.S. states: sources
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Early last summer, McNamara asked officials in the #Commerce Dept to consider the potential designation of #Dominion chips & software as a national security risk, the 2 sources said.
At the time, McNamara headed an #ODNI task force that worked with officials across the admin to investigate vulnerabilities in the nation’s #VotingMachines. The 2 sources said McNamara spoke about the issue to senior officials at the Commerce Dept, which is run by Secy Howard Lutnick.
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Olsen, who Democratic senators are seeking to remove from his post, aimed to invalidate #Dominion #VotingMachines before the #midterms, the 2 sources said.
Others involved in the deliberations included Paul McNamara, a senior aide of Trump’s spy chief #TulsiGabbard, & Brian Sikma, a special assistant to #Trump who works on his Domestic Policy Council, acc/to 1 of the 2 sources…. Olsen has worked closely with Gabbard's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (#ODNI).
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Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories
Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 people with direct knowledge of the matter.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-officials-tried-ban-half-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories-2026-05-22/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories
Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 people with direct knowledge of the matter.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-officials-tried-ban-half-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories-2026-05-22/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories
Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 people with direct knowledge of the matter.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-officials-tried-ban-half-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories-2026-05-22/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories
Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 people with direct knowledge of the matter.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-officials-tried-ban-half-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories-2026-05-22/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories
Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 people with direct knowledge of the matter.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-officials-tried-ban-half-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories-2026-05-22/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
"...Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.
Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot...."
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"...Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.
Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot...."
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"...Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.
Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot...."
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"...Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.
Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot...."
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"...Once completed, the machine spits out a paper ballot that includes both a human-readable summary of their selections and a QR code that encodes the same information. Voters can check that their selections have been recorded accurately before feeding the ballot into a tabulator, which reads the QR code to count the votes.
Critics of the use of QR codes—which include everyone from election deniers to computer scientists—claim that because humans cannot read the digital code, there is no way of knowing that the results encoded in it are the same as those printed on the ballot...."
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/dominion-sucks-actually/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/dominion-sucks-actually/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/dominion-sucks-actually/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/dominion-sucks-actually/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/dominion-sucks-actually/
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DHS Official Responsible for Election Security Previously Called to Ban Voting Machines
“The security of our election infrastructure depends on leadership that is trusted," a voting rights advocate said. -
“But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” Ticktin went on. “That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it.”
The “emergency” would empower the president to ban mail ballots & #VotingMachines as the vectors of foreign interference, Ticktin argued.
#law #Constitution #Federalism #states #VotingRights #ElectionInterference #democracy #coup #authoritarianism
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Ramping Up Election Attacks, Trump Does Not Let Reality Get in His Way
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Gabbard’s 2020 Election Claims Put Her Back in Favor With Trump
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WTAF? I’m just going to assume that they don’t know that #PuertoRico unfairly doesn’t get to vote in presidential #elections — idiots
Reuters Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for #Trump's spy chief, #TulsiGabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's #VotingMachines, said Gabbard's office & 3 sources familiar with the previously unreported events.
#law #ElectionLaw #BigLie #propaganda #idiocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-spy-chiefs-office-investigated-voting-machines-puerto-rico-2026-02-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
How Trump’s 2020 Election Claims Have Been Debunked Again and Again
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Not surprising that Trump takes orders from the anti-democracy head of Russia.
#MailInBallots #VoteByMail #VotingMachines
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/19/headlines/trump_says_hell_ban_mail_in_ballots_and_voting_machines_citing_advice_from_vladimir_putin -
#Trump, who has repeatedly floated the idea of a third term, suggested he had an idea for “3½ years from now,” when his 2nd term expires.
“You mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections?” he said. “Oh that’s good.”
Zelensky laughed & then said no.
Asked about his post on #MailinBallots & #VotingMachines from earlier today Trump declare, “Mail-in ballots are corrupt.”This is not at all where Republicans were before 2024.
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The disclosure came as #Trump vowed in a social media post Monday to eliminate #MailinBallots & #VotingMachines such as those supplied by #Dominion & other companies. It was unclear how Trump could [legally] achieve that.
#law #defamation #ElectionLaw #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #VoterSuppression #Trump #FactCheck #TrumpLies
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#trump continues to shatter #democracy in #America today he posted https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/32604 End to #MailInBallots & #VotingMachines. There will be immediate appeals #SupremeCourt. #Trump announced he will issue #executiveorder 2 #eliminate #MailInBallots & #voting machines ahead of 2026 midterm #elections arguing they R vulnerable 2 #fraud. Dems warn this would disenfranchise #voters & #legal experts stress that states, not president, have authority over election administration #maga #elections
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#Maine rejects #JusticeDepartment’s request for all #voters’ personal info, list of election officials
Secretary of State #ShennaBellows' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025
AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states.
"A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'
"The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24.
"Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'
" 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'
"Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said.
The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections."A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
"In addition to #VoterRegistration information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.
" 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads.
"The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'
"The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law.
"The American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information.
" 'This letter also fuels #FalseNarratives that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'
Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data.
"The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like #Michigan, #Arizona and #Wisconsin, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ #RegistrationRolls and #VotingMachines.
Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. #Maine, #Minnesota and #NewHampshire are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/K91De#District13 #MaineResists #MinnesotaResists #NewHampshireResists #Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #GovernmentOverreach #BigBrother #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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#Maine rejects #JusticeDepartment’s request for all #voters’ personal info, list of election officials
Secretary of State #ShennaBellows' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025
AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states.
"A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'
"The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24.
"Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'
" 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'
"Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said.
The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections."A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
"In addition to #VoterRegistration information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.
" 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads.
"The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'
"The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law.
"The American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information.
" 'This letter also fuels #FalseNarratives that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'
Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data.
"The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like #Michigan, #Arizona and #Wisconsin, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ #RegistrationRolls and #VotingMachines.
Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. #Maine, #Minnesota and #NewHampshire are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/K91De#District13 #MaineResists #MinnesotaResists #NewHampshireResists #Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #GovernmentOverreach #BigBrother #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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#Maine rejects #JusticeDepartment’s request for all #voters’ personal info, list of election officials
Secretary of State #ShennaBellows' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025
AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states.
"A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'
"The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24.
"Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'
" 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'
"Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said.
The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections."A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
"In addition to #VoterRegistration information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.
" 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads.
"The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'
"The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law.
"The American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information.
" 'This letter also fuels #FalseNarratives that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'
Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data.
"The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like #Michigan, #Arizona and #Wisconsin, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ #RegistrationRolls and #VotingMachines.
Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. #Maine, #Minnesota and #NewHampshire are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/K91De#District13 #MaineResists #MinnesotaResists #NewHampshireResists #Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #GovernmentOverreach #BigBrother #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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#Maine rejects #JusticeDepartment’s request for all #voters’ personal info, list of election officials
Secretary of State #ShennaBellows' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025
AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states.
"A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'
"The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24.
"Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'
" 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'
"Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said.
The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections."A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
"In addition to #VoterRegistration information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.
" 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads.
"The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'
"The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law.
"The American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information.
" 'This letter also fuels #FalseNarratives that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'
Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data.
"The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like #Michigan, #Arizona and #Wisconsin, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ #RegistrationRolls and #VotingMachines.
Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. #Maine, #Minnesota and #NewHampshire are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/K91De#District13 #MaineResists #MinnesotaResists #NewHampshireResists #Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #GovernmentOverreach #BigBrother #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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#Maine rejects #JusticeDepartment’s request for all #voters’ personal info, list of election officials
Secretary of State #ShennaBellows' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine."
by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025
AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states.
"A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'
"The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24.
"Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'
" 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'
"Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said.
The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections."A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
"In addition to #VoterRegistration information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.
" 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads.
"The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'
"The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law.
"The American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information.
" 'This letter also fuels #FalseNarratives that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'
Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data.
"The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like #Michigan, #Arizona and #Wisconsin, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ #RegistrationRolls and #VotingMachines.
Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. #Maine, #Minnesota and #NewHampshire are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/K91De#District13 #MaineResists #MinnesotaResists #NewHampshireResists #Authoritarianism #Fascism #USPol #GovernmentOverreach #BigBrother #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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No. Absolutely not. No computerised, or even electronic, system is safe and secure. They can't be; it's inherent. Then—if computerised—there's the firmware and software, fraught with problems no matter how carefully checked before going into production.
All of this is ignoring the wetware, our squishy clever-ape brains that insist on interfering with a system that works perfectly by making it more complicated, costly, and dangerous.
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#Politics #Voting #VotingMachines #Republicans #suppression #DOJ #RNC
Marc Elias:
One of the most under reported stories in the legacy media is how many states the RNC and DOJ are suing right now to access their voter rolls. It is a frontal assault on democracy that Democracy Docket covers every day, while legacy media both-sides Trump
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Pennsylvania Becomes Focus of Claims of Election Fraud on X - More than 60 percent of posts discussing election fraud on X on Tuesday focused on the st... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/technology/pennsylvania-election-disinformation.html #right-wingextremismandalt-right #presidentialelectionof2024 #voterfraud(electionfraud) #rumorsandmisinformation #votingmachines #pennsylvania #socialmedia
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@GottaLaff some reports of mild voter intimidation from #LehighUniversity students stuck waiting in line after #VotingMachines malfunction. Someone in a pickup truck, decked out in #MAGATerrorism has driven by several times attempting to bully the students. Over 1000 students inline currently. I'll be checking back in with them later today
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How U.S. voting machines work and why they're hard to hack.
A fact check from @abc: https://flip.it/xrQ_EA
For more fact checks, follow @fact-check-ElectionCentral
#USElection #Election #VotingMachines #USPolitics #Politics #News
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5 Reasons Early Voting Is Overwhelmed With Election Misinformation - Misleading anecdotes and rumors are spreading faster, and with more ferocity, than in the... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/early-voting-election-misinformation.html #ethicsandofficialmisconduct #presidentialelectionof2024 #presidentialelectionof2020 #voterfraud(electionfraud) #rumorsandmisinformation #conspiracytheories #votingmachines #absenteevoting #socialmedia
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Suzy wrote the lyrics for this song at the beginning of 2023.
Now, two weeks before one of the most important elections in history, it’s more relevant than ever. The Voting Machine represents democracy.
The video has had over 52K views on YouTube and today we released the track as a single on all streaming platforms.
#streaming #votingmachines #politics #harris #harriswalz2024 #trump #USelections2024 #uselection #MastoArt #FediArt #MastoMusic #FediMusic
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Oh well, that's an intersting twist! 😂
