My 2024 early voter tracker is live at the
@ufelectionlab
website. This site is also home for my turnout rate data and the
@vest_team
precinct boundary and election results data
A hedge fund bought the company, sold off all the land Red Lobster restaurants are located on, leased the land back to Red Lobster, and jacked the rent. Just so you know what is really going on here
Oh boy. This borders on interfering with someone's vote in a federal election which is a violation of federal law. It could also be a violation of state law
NEW: Billionaire Elon Musk has created a PAC collecting voter data from those living in key states through an online "register to vote" form that does not directly register people to vote.
All of this in an effort to help Donald Trump become president.
Gotta hand it to Meadows. When Rep. Chip Roy texted him saying "We need ammo. We need fraud examples." Meadows was a true trooper by voting twice in two states
THIS IS AN APPALLING ABUSE OF POWER. An election official running for office targets an opponent with an investigation. It undermines democracy and hurts confidence in the work done by professional election officials across the nation to run fair elections
Reporters: I can’t believe Biden used government resources to fly to Delaware to vote. For shame!
Also reporters: DeSantis flying immigrants to Massachusetts is a shrewd political move
When Democrats talk about election rigging they mean things like this. Ohio Republicans only allow one early voting location per county. The predictable result is very long voting lines in urban areas. And we all collectively shrug and say this is okay
VIDEO:
Lots of people voting early in BLUE Hamilton County/Cincinnati today.
And line is moving fast.
Get in line by 4 wherever you are in Ohio.
WATCH:
According to Florida's records, Trump voted a normal mail-in ballot sent to Mar-a-Lago, not an absentee ballot sent to the White House. Indeed, someone had to deliver it from Mar-a-Lago to the White House for him to vote it, which would be...wait for it...ballot harvesting
Absentee Ballots are a great way to vote for the many senior citizens, military, and others who can’t get to the polls on Election Day. These ballots are very different from 100% Mail-In Voting, which is “RIPE for FRAUD,” and shouldn’t be allowed!
Voter turnout update: now up to an estimated 115.2 million people voted for a turnout rate of 48.9%. If this holds, 2018 will beat 1966's 48.7% and will be the highest midterm turnout rate since 1914's 50.4%
You can draw a direct line between:
- The Arlington Cemetery worker declining to press charges against physical attacks by Trump staffers
- Trump egging on a supporter at a rally to attack the press
- The press' awful coverage of Trump and Harris
I don't say this lightly. We are witnessing the greatest roll back of voting rights in this country since the Jim Crow era. I appreciate the desire for bipartisanship, but Manchin and Sinema need to understand that history will not look kindly upon their filibuster defense
All across country Republicans weaponizing Trump’s lies to make it harder to vote. This is one of most disgusting things I’ve ever seen & underscores why Dems must urgently pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act & For the People Act to stop voter suppression
If Biden recalls a fact that you don’t remember as a political reporter you are no longer qualified to be a political reporter, especially if you keep your false post up after everyone.has called you out for it
Biden smiles when asked about Sen. Warner’s reported efforts to get him to drop out of the race. “Mark is a good man. He also tried to get the nomination, too.” (Warner didn’t run for office.)
For folks who don't know Jacksonville, the city and county are the same government. Wrong to think this is another "big" Dem city. It has outlying rural areas and a significant number of military retirees. It's a slightly red-leaning bellweather for the state. Why this is a bfd
It only took the Atlanta Journal-Constitution more than a month, after the election is well over, to discover the obvious: Kemp lied about Democrats hacking the Georgia voter registration system to create a last-minute explosive issue to sway the election
Here’s the problem with replacing Biden:
The media will shift their Biden bashing to his replacement while continuing to soften or ignore Trump’s insanity
In these troubled times we need to pursue Dr. King’s dream for America with passion and vigor. The words of his “I Have a Dream” address mean as much today as when they were delivered. Dr. King is a true American inspiration.
I wish reporters and pundits would frame voting laws more in terms of their effects on individuals’ rights and less on partisan gains. Horse race candidate coverage has unfortunately infected how media treat voting rights cc:
@marceelias
If the position being taken is that former Presidents can’t tape a video at Arlington, here’s the “Celebrating America” TV special for the Biden-Harris inauguration taped at Arlington and co-produced by the same person who produced the DNC.
So far in Georgia's run-off Senate elections, 623,605 voters have requested a mail ballot
In contrast, 1,782,580 people requested a mail ballot through the entirety of the general election
A mismatched signature does not equal an illegal vote. It is well known among election officials that peoples' signatures change over time, especially young people as they mature and people who suffered a stroke. Please stop promoting conspiracy theories
Wrong. It is the
#BrowardCounty
canvassing board that claims her vote is illegal, not me.
If what your reporting found is accurate, then you have confirmed what I have been saying, that we have ample reason to carefully scrutinize the actions of the BrowardElection supervisor.
All you need to know about higher education priorities:
@UF
's new football couch is traveling to Gainesville on a private jet
I've been forced out of my office for months due to mold issues from hurricane water damage
Folks, California lost a seat, but it gained 2.2 million people since 2010, the third largest population gain after Texas (4.0 million) and Florida (2.7 million)
So your hot take California lost population is wrong. It's a large state that didn't grow as fast as the others
This story really reads ass-backwards. Arlington Cemetery staff told Trump federal law prohibits campaign photo-ops in Arlington Cemetery, and when someone tried to stop him, they were abused and pushed by Trump's staff
NPR: Trump campaign staff "verbally abused and pushed" an Arlington National Cemetery official who tried to prevent them from filming and photographing at the burial site
The rambling doesn’t matter. The sound bites were made. Tomorrow the clips will be Hulk Hogan intro and fist pumping 🇺🇸 glory. Shared on social to many impressionable people who don’t spend hours watching a political speech. The warrior image is cast.
It really isn’t far fetched to imagine Trump winning Election Night vote. Declaring himself winner and launching investigations and lawsuits to stop further vote counting. Scott is showing him how
I don't think most people understand that a vote for many Republican secretaries of state and governors across the country is a vote to never have a choice again. They'll only accept elections where Republicans win, including Trump in 2024
“I’m going to win the election and accept the result,” Kari Lake, Arizona governor candidate, says on
@CNNSotu
to
@DanaBashCNN
, refusing to say if she would accept the results if she loses
—>>
@politico
reporting just now: “Future Forward, the flagship super PAC blessed by President JOE BIDEN, received $150 million in new commitments from major Democratic donors in the 24 hours since the president announced he would step aside from the race, Elena Schneider
Alabama hasn't had a close statewide election in a while. Now the state is being put under a magnifying glass and every shady vote suppression tacit will come to light: police at polling locations, placing people on inactive status, asking for more id than required by law, etc
NYT: anonymous “ally” says Biden thinking about dropping out - must publish story now!
Named woman in court filing says Trump raped her as a 13 year old - crickets
The media is all in for Trump and it won’t stop if Biden drops out. The problem is much bigger than Biden
Why wouldn't Biden publicly call for a ceasefire? Because he was working privately to negotiate one and public statements would have derailed the negotiations. I'd much rather have a president that makes smart decisions even if doing so is unpopular at the time
Raffensperger would not have taped Trump's infamous perfect call if Lindsey Graham hadn't called before and then lied publicly about what was said. That put Raffensperger on alert to protect himself
1. One thing that's crucial to remember about Trump's attempt to pressure Brad Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes" is when that call happened. It did not happen, as many ppl seem to think, while Georgia was still counting or even re-counting votes.
Nevada has ZERO infrastructure for Mail-In Voting. It will be a corrupt disaster if not ended by the Courts. It will take months, or years, to figure out. Florida has built a great infrastructure, over years, with two great Republican Governors. Florida, send in your Ballots!
A real pizzagate:
1. States register people under age 18
2. Trump's voter fraud commission asked for voter files with this information
3. They hired a child pornographer and gave minors' identifying information to him
Many election management systems use 1900 as a missing data code for records that had no discernable birthdate when the state transitioned their paper records into an electronic system
ANOTHER ONE: Apparently June Aiken (born in 1900) voted via absentee ballot in Jackson County, Michigan. That would make them 120 years old!
Born in 1900!!
The Trump campaign is contacting local election offices, telling them to ignore their states' election laws -->
“The NC Republican Party advises you to not follow the procedures,” Trump campaign operative Heather Ford wrote in an email
Census Bureau staff testified that using administrative records matching would produce more accurate citizenship statistics than asking the citizenship question. The only reason to ask the question is to intimidate people
Why wouldn’t we want to know how many citizens we have in the US?After all they are the only ones who can vote legally. It will also give us, finally, an accurate picture of the illegal population in US. Could it be Dems want to facilitate voter fraud? But there is no vote fraud?
As we near Thanksgiving, my heartfelt thanks to all the election officials who put themselves in danger so that our democracy could continue. My list of election officials who died or fell ill to COVID-19
The NFL says it will halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in a $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims. The practice had made it harder for Black players to qualify.
If Republicans really wanted to restore faith in elections, they would clearly and without equivocation tell the truth: Biden was elected president in the most secure election in American history
Something's going on: Gwinnett County, GA is rejecting more than 9% of all mail ballots they receive, and is responsible for 40% of rejections statewide. Rejection rates for Asians and African-Americans are much higher than Whites
REMINDER—Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin election officials were not allowed to begin processing absentee ballots until on or just before Election Day, after Republican-led state legislatures opposed changing laws to allow earlier preparations like other states.
A reminder Wisconsin Republicans prevented election officials from preparing mail ballots for counting in advance of Election Day so Trump could whine about them when the results were reported
Look at this in Wisconsin! A day AFTER the election, Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM, when they learned he was losing badly. This is unbelievable!
Kansas Republican voters have nominated a candidate for Attorney General who was ordered by a court to take remedial law classes because he didn't know proper court procedures
Turnout update: With still some states yet to report certified or official results, turnout for the 2018 midterm stands at 118 million ballots counted for a turnout rate of 50.1%. First time since 1914 the U.S. has broken 50% in a midterm election
Glenn Youngkin issued an EO saying that election officials are going to use DMV records to try and find non-citizens on the rolls. No explanation of how naturalized citizens, who may get a driver's license as a non-citizen and then register after naturalization, will be protected
Just the third in line for the presidency casually throwing around idiotic conspiracy theories to disparage his political opposition. This is the real story if the media had the guts to cover it
This is what real election rigging looks like: Cobb County is closing early voting polling locations for the Senate run-off election, including those in heavily persons of color communities
How serious is Biden about bipartisanship? We’re about to find out. Today, 10 Senate Republicans will make a counteroffer to Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan and meet with the president to discuss their idea.
A periodic reminder that in 2018 as Secretary of State Kemp made a bombshell accusation two days before the November election that Democrats hacked Georgia's voter registration system. They did no such thing
The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen.
For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward - under oath - and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I
Florida's election records combined with Trump's travel schedule establishes that someone transported Trump's mail ballot from Mar-a-Lago (where the ballot was sent) to the White House. Assistance with mail ballots by a non-family member is what Republicans call ballot harvesting
To the young people getting woke to the politics of gun control, here's the reality:
The old farts who are elected to office don't give a damn because you don't vote. Average midterm turnout rates for ages 18-29 is a pathetic 20%. If you want to change the world start by voting
New: Georgia Senate GOP will likely walk back many of the strictest changes in their omnibus voting bill after voting rights groups, Democrats and even some Republicans said eliminating no-excuse absentee voting isn't necessary.
#gapol
Why is Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger working so hard to add drop boxes and take other steps to make it harder for Republicans to win. Is he really that intimidated by Stacey Abrams?
Personally, I could do without the hundreds of emails and tweets asking me for some new feature, new data visualization, or asking me to give away data. Also stop demanding I update a state if I haven't done so immediately. Did you know I'm one person? I do this for free?
Whelp. The NC Supreme Court will allow RFK Jr. to break NC law in an attempt to help Trump, forcing cash-strapped local election officials to print new ballots to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars
Fulton county elections official Beverley Walker died from COVID during the primary. We should be grateful for the many election officials who have scarified much this year
Fulton County, GA elections workers completed the absentee ballot count while fighting a coronavirus outbreak in its election warehouse. Dozens of workers tested positive over the last several weeks. An employee tested positive yesterday, according to an official.
#Election2020
This scenario literally happens in some statewide races for offices like governor, replacing states with counties, and strangely we abide by the popular vote within the state
I used this hypothetical example: R candidate wins 48 states by identical 54-46 margins, D wins CA, NY & DC by 75-25 margins, D wins national popular vote. Who should win?
Sincerely, to all the Republicans who think Biden stole the election. You are being lied to. One of the chief architects of the Big Lie admitted in court that she lied to you. If it is revealed someone lied to you please be strong enough to rethink if you should ever trust them
Last night the asymmetric information war was on full display. Trump stated that he would pardon J6 criminals while reporters concentrated their attention on the trivial that Biden had Marines in the background and his pro-democracy speech was too political
Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in a Texas prison for casting a provisional ballot when she wasn't certain she was eligible to vote
This clown ought to get at least the same treatment if this isn't just some lame joke
Stood in rain for hour to early vote today. When I got home I filled in my stack of mail-in ballots and then voted the ballots of my deceased parents and grandparents. They vote just like me!
#Trump2020
Trump in Doral: "Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing and hosp--lee. And we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming, 'What can I do? What can I do? Help me God, what can I do?' We are a nation whose
The killer for the White House and campaign has to be that there is tons of great/good news that is getting buried right now
Inflation cooling
Voters economic outlooks rising
Nearing Israel-Hamas deal
Jobs steady