Weeks after election, CT stopped monitoring online voter fraud talk
Kasturi Pananjady and Dave Altimari, CTMirror.org
Jan. 18, 2021
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A Connecticut Official Ballot Drop Box that was installed across from Milford City Hall next to FedEx, UPS and USPS boxes is photographed on July 20, 2020.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
In the immediate aftermath of the Nov. 3 election, an intelligence analyst named Hannah Glidden was working for the Connecticut Secretary of the State’s office under a novel contract. Her job was to flag any social media talk of voter fraud or disinformation about the election in Connecticut.
It didn’t take long to find some.
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Less than a week before election day, watchdog groups are expressing concern about how the structure of voter registration may open the door for electoral manipulation.
Linda Paine, co-founder of the Election Integrity Project, a statewide watchdog organization, said California is the only state in the U.S. not to maintain a consolidated statewide database of voter information.
In fact, the California Secretary of State has been working since 2005 to implement VoteCal to bring the state into compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002, which mandates states maintain a single, uniform statewide voter registration list, according to the Secretary of State website.
JEFFERSON, Texas â The Marion County Commissioners Court has approved a master agreement with election vendor, Hart Intercivic, for the purchase of new election equipment.
âThis is for our voting machine,â explained Pct. 4 County Commissioner Charles Treadwell. âThis is the item thatâs been discussed for the last couple of years because the machines were getting old and we decided to go ahead and purchase the machines. This is the approval of the master agreement.â
County Clerk Vickie Smith and County Judge Leward LaFleur previously noted that the equipment will cost about $255,000. The commissioners court earlier this month approved a resolution between the state for a $120,000 HAVA (Help America Vote Act) Election Security Sub-Grant that will save the county significantly on the new, upgraded election equipment. The countyâs matching requirement is $16,000.
Censorship, American-style: Big Tech speech control factored into Trump s defeat:
Speaking one’s mind is an abiding American tradition. It is becoming rarer, though, as censorship intensifies. The just-completed 2020 presidential election featured a torrent of political messages designed to win votes, but the flow was channeled to shield voters from messages that conflicted with “progressive” values dear to social media’s masters. Put bluntly, Big Tech played a pivotal role in Joe Biden’s apparent victory and Donald Trump’s defeat. The president’s response is equally stark: a veto of the $740 billion 2021 National Defense Authorization Act: He had demanded it contain language removing social media’s freedom to suppress speech. It didn’t.
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed said that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pick to fill the U.S. Senate seat of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is a real blow to the African-American community.
Newsom on Tuesday tapped Calif. Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who would become the first Latino to hold a U.S. Senate seat from the state. Definitely, this is a real blow to the African-American community, Breed said of the choice during a news conference to offer Covid-19 updates. It s an unfortunate situation as we are trying to move this country forward and making sure that Black lives truly matter and that African-Americans have a seat at the table, especially African-American women, after what was done in this race on a national level, definitely is unfortunate.