💥Opinion piece in @washingtonpost written by Mary H. Kiraly, a former member of the Montgomery County Board of Elections & co-founder of the #Maryland Election Integrity Coalition
💥Even though the #Maryland legislature voted to move towards a paper ballot/optical scanner system in 2007, the elections administrator, Linda H. Lamone, fought against this for NINE YEARS!
⚡️News this week about Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin—who is reportedly very close to Vladimir Putin—is the largest investor in AltPoint Capital Partners, a co. that finances ByteGrid LLC, the software company that services parts of the #Maryland voter registration systems.
🔗Link to @NPR article about Vladimir Potanin's ties to the #Maryland election system.
⚡️Mary Kiraly also noted that in June the news came out that "an inadvertent programming error" affected 72,000 (but estimated to be 80,000 by the @baltimoresun, 4x as originally announced).
🔥These voters all had to file provisional ballots in the June 26th primary.
🗳️Lawmakers estimated that 80% of the voters affected did not cast votes in the June 26th #Maryland primary, according to the @washingtonpost.
🗳️Kiraly cautions that the Maryland Board of Elections badly needs cybersecurity experts to oversee the election systems or these types of controversies will continue in #Maryland.
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🇷🇺On the other hand, Dana Rohrabacher: The Kremlin Likes Him So Much They Gave Him a Code Name
ℹ️Refresher course: Putin kills people. His enemies. Journalists. Innocent people. He wants Democracy to die in every country lucky enough to still have it.
🔥White supremacist protesters—White nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members—brandished torches and marched onto the UVA campus in Charlottesville, VA.
👉Photo Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/@washingtonpost via Getty Images
🔥🔥Saturday, August 12, 2017 a similar, bigger rally called "Unite the Right" held at noon erupted in many brawls. Alex Fields, a reported Nazi sympathizer drove a Dodge Challenger blindly into the crowd and killed 32-year old Heather Heyer.
Trump: the violence? "Many sides."
🧚♀️MOB RULE?!?!
🧚♀️10/6/18 ▶️Women—upset with the inevitability with a Supreme Court nominee getting sworn in—a nominee who clearly lied, had multiple credible sexual allegations against him, had a surly demeanor and was blatantly partisan, protested peacefully.
💬"The history is exactly what I told you."—Mitch McConnell
🤥🐢An hour after Judge Antony Scalia died: "The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
🤥🐢"We simply followed the tradition in America, which is if you have a party of a different—a different Senate of a different party than the president, you don't fill a vacancy created in the presidential year. That went all the way back to 1888."
🤥🐢Will McConnell fill a SCOTUS vacancy in Trump's last year? "The answer to your question is, we'll see if there's a vacancy in 2020."
💬No answer.
▶️Mitch, you didn't attack Merrick Garland because you couldn't.
▶️You never mentioned "opposing party" caveat in 2016
🌍Unilever just recently announced it was abandoning plans to move its headquarters from the U.K. to Holland after the Brexit vote (the U.K. leaving the European Union) as many other companies have done.
🔥🔥Yes, Brett Kavanaugh. The judge cited twice=Gorsuch. Is this a coincidence?
▶️One of the 4 reasons Concord's lawyers moved to dismiss was that they claimed Concord had no knowledge that the crime they were committing was actually a crime. Kavanaugh supported this theory.
9⃣Yes, Brett Kavanaugh's opinions are cited NINE times by a Russian company seeking to get Mueller's charges dropped.
Mueller charged Concord, 2 other Russian companies and 12 foreigners associated with Russia for illegally using social media platforms to SOW POLITICAL DISCORD.
▶️couldn't he answer so many simple "yes" or "no" questions?
▶️didn't he ask for further investigation by the FBI?
▶️did he try to destroy evidence?
▶️is Trump mocking his accuser at his "rally?"
⁉️If Kavanaugh was innocent, why:
▶️is Trump fabricating this war against young men?
▶️does he claim all his friends refuted Dr. Ford's claims when Dr. Ford TOLD NO ONE FOR DECADES?
▶️did he say "Devil's Triangle" was a drinking game?
⁉️If Kavanaugh was innocent, why:
▶️did he say "boofing" was flatulence?
▶️did he claim no prior knowledge of Deborah Ramirez' claims before the @NewYorker article?
▶️did he evade Patrick Leahy's question about being called "Bart?"