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Massachusetts | November 8, 2021

MIT alums: We can’t support a school that caved to woke mentality 

Massachusetts | November 8, 2021

We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than 50 years ago. MIT was academically rigorous, and it taught us our crafts and the essence of problem-solving, enabling us to thrive in our careers. We owe much to our alma mater and have donated to it regularly.  No more.  The current MIT administration has caved repeatedly to the demands of “wokeness,” treating its students unfairly, compromising the quality of its staff, and damaging the institution and academic freedom at large.  We object to MIT’s politically correct measures, including the firing of its Catholic chaplain…(Excerpts from the  New York Post)

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District of Columbia | September 8, 2021

New U.S. guidelines ban network-connected voting systems, acknowledging vulnerability to attack . . .

District of Columbia | September 8, 2021

After years of warnings about state-sponsored hackers and the contentious end of the 2020 election, the federal commission that sets the standards for American voting machines has made a major change rather quietly: Going forward, vote systems cannot be connected to any digital networks, and wireless technology must be disabled too. The Election Assistance Commission’s Voluntary Voter System Guidelines 2.0 were released earlier this year without much fanfare and nominal media coverage, even though they were the first major revisions since 2015 and the first complete overhaul since VVSG 1.0 was issued 16 years ago…. (Excerpts from Just the News)

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Texas | September 7, 2021

Gov. Greg Abbott signs election integrity bill, SB1, into law

Texas | September 7, 2021

B1 sets new ID requirements for voting by mail, enhances protections for poll watchers, prohibits drive-thru voting and more.

Today, after months of controversy, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 1 into law, which changes voting laws in the state of Texas.

SB1 got national attention when state Democrats left Austin for Washington, D.C., trying to prevent the bill from moving forward by breaking quorum.

Ultimately, Abbott had to call two special sessions to get enough Democrats to reach a quorum so Republicans could pass the bill.

Despite Democrats’ efforts, SB1 became law in the state, but the fight is far from over. Abbott was joined by Sen. Bryan Hughes, who is the bill’s author, and Rep. Andrew Murr. Democrats say the law makes it more difficult to vote in the state and unfairly targets minority voters… (Excerpts from KTRKABC)

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Texas | September 7, 2021

What’s Really in the Texas Voting Law

Texas | September 7, 2021

The Democrats who fled Texas in July to block their Legislature’s voting bill eventually had to go home. On Tuesday the bill passed, and Gov. Greg Abbott says he’ll sign it. Cue the shouts of “voter suppression,” as Democrats push H.R.4, Congress’s latest plan to federalize U.S. elections.

The Texas bill isn’t a blockade of the ballot box. The two most-cited provisions will ban 24-hour voting and drive-through voting, practices that weren’t even used until last year, when one county tried them in a pandemic. It isn’t crazy to think polling sites are likelier to attract trouble, or at least suspicion, at 3 a.m…. (Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal)

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California | August 26, 2021

Torrance police find 300 unopened recall ballots, with gun, drugs and mail, in sleeping man’s car

California | August 26, 2021

Authorities are investigating why 300 unopened vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming recall election were found – along with a gun, drugs and stolen mail – in a car parked at a Torrance convenience store.

The discovery was made Aug. 16 when Torrance police were called around 10:45 p.m. about a man sleeping in his car at a 7-Eleven parking lot.

“Inside the vehicle, the officers found a loaded handgun, some narcotics, and then they found a bunch of mail and what turned out to be over 300 election ballots in the backseat of the vehicle,” said Sgt. Mark Ponegalek with the Torrance Police Department.

“They appeared to be in a box, but they were also kind of strewn across the backseat of the vehicle and so there was just a large portion of mail in that backseat.”

Police say the man was a felon. The drugs found included Xanax pills and methamphetamine. Police say they also found multiple California driver’s licenses and credit cards in the names of other people…. (Excerpts from ABC 7)

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Florida | August 25, 2021

AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES MAJOR NATIONAL EFFORT TO PROTECT VOTING RIGHTS

Florida | August 25, 2021

Chairman Blackwell, “…Make It Easy To Vote And Hard to Cheat.”

Atlanta, GA—Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) launched its Center for Election Integrity (CEI), which will participate in a national effort to conduct research, educate stakeholders, and develop policies that help make it easy to vote, but hard to cheat.

The United States Constitution grants state legislatures direct authority over its elections. Through a strategic approach, CEI will work with state partners to highlight what measures can be taken to help ensure their elections are free and fair.

Ken Blackwell, CEI Chairman, said, “We must help make sure that people have confidence in our system and that we give citizens a fair vote count. CEI is excited to work in conjunction with many other organizations that have been fighting for secure voter laws, undergirding, and amplifying their good work. We want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”

CEI will work to amplify the importance of voter identification, require ballots to be returned by election day, stop the practice of ballot harvesting, ensure voter rolls are consistently cleaned and kept up to date, prohibit the privatization of elections, and litigate cases of voter fraud…. (Excerpts from America First Policy Institute)

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