2) ELECTION FRAUD
“Electoral fraud, election manipulation, or vote rigging is illegal interference with the process of an election, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates, or both.“
3) ELECTION FRAUD
“In national elections, successful electoral fraud can have the effect of a coup d'état or corruption of democracy. In a narrow election, a small amount of fraud may be enough to change the result.”
ELECTION FRAUD
“Electorate manipulation
Electoral fraud can occur in advance of voting if the composition of the electorate is altered. Deliberate manipulation of election outcomes is widely considered a violation of the principles of democracy.”
5) ELECTION FRAUD
Disenfranchisement
“The composition of an electorate may also be altered by disenfranchising some classes of people, rendering them unable to vote. In some cases, states have passed provisions that raised general barriers to voter registration..”
6) ELECTION FRAUD
“In some cases, voters may be invalidly disenfranchised, which is true electoral fraud. For example, a legitimate voter may be “accidentally” removed from the electoral roll, making it difficult or impossible for the person to vote.”
7) ELECTION FRAUD
Division of opposition support
“Under the right conditions, the democratic system is maneuvered into an equilibrious state in which divided opposition parties act as unwitting accomplices to single-party rule.”
8) ELECTION FRAUD
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Intimidation
“Voter intimidation involves putting undue pressure on a voter or group of voters so that they will vote a particular way, or not at all. Absentee and other remote voting can be more open to some forms of intimidation.”
9) ELECTION FRAUD
“Violence or the threat of violence: In its simplest form, voters from a particular demographic or known to support a particular party or candidate are directly threatened by supporters of another party or candidate or by those hired by them.”
10) ELECTION FRAUD
Attacks on polling places:
“Polling places in an area known to support a particular party or candidate may be targeted for vandalism,destruction or threats,thus making it difficult or impossible for people in that area to vote.”
[“Ballot Security Task Force”]
11) ELECTION FRAUD
Legal threats
“In this case voters will be made to believe, accurately or otherwise, that they are not legally entitled to vote, or that they are legally obliged to vote a particular way.”
12) ELECTION FRAUD
Legal Threats
“Voters who are not confident about their entitlement to vote may also be intimidated by real or implied authority figures who suggest that those who vote when they are not entitled to will be imprisoned, deported or otherwise punished.”
13) ELECTION FRAUD #unhackthevote
For example,in Wisconsin& elsewhere voters received flyers: "If you already voted in any election this year,you can’t vote in the Presidential Election",falsely implying that those who voted in earlier primary elections were ineligible to vote.”
14) ELECTION FRAUD #unhackthevote
More phony fliers—
"If anybody in your family has ever been found guilty of anything you can’t vote in the Presidential Election.”.."If you violate any of these laws, you can get 10 years in prison and your children will be taken away from you."
15) ELECTION FRAUD #unhackthevote
Coercion
“By singling out those who were against the majority,people would attempt to switch the voters decision. Their argument could be that since the majority sides with a certain candidate, they should admit defeat and join the winning side.”
16) ELECTION FRAUD
Disinformation
“People may distribute false or misleading information in order to affect the outcome of an election.”
17) ELECTION FRAUD
“Misleading or confusing ballot papers
Ballot papers may be used to discourage votes for a particular party or candidate, using design or other features which confuse voters into voting for a different candidate.”
18) ELECTION FRAUD #unhackthevote
Ballot stuffing
“Ballot stuffing is possible with modern voting machines. For example, a version of the Sequoia touchscreen voting machine has a yellow button on the back side that allows repeated voting.”
THREAD
Trump Knows Why Putin Wants Him To Declassify Our Intel Secrets About Sources And Methods.
Nunes gives cover to Trump by saying @GOP needs to see FBI efforts to “Frame” Trump and Russia.
But, Putin is FSB. He wants our Intel Agencies crippled.
2) Putin murders Western Intelligence Agents and Sources.
If Trump declassifies Sources, our overseas human assets will disappear or die.
“Russia has been accused of...harassment, assassinations and the novichok poisonings in the UK.” google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.…
3) Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin’s Plans for Midterms
“..the outing of an F.B.I. informant under scrutiny by the House intel committee — encouraged by Trump — has had a chilling effect on intelligence collection.” google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
THREAD
Trump Dismantles FBI CounterIntelligence To The Benefit Of Vladimir Putin And FSB
“Trump has relentlessly attacked these FBI and Justice Department officials as dishonest “Democrats” engaged in a partisan “witch hunt” led by the special counsel.” theatlantic.com/amp/article/56…
2) “Trump’s latest obsession is with Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who spent years investigating Russian organized crime and corruption—an expertise he shared with another Trump target named Christopher Steele...”
3)”Trump’s fixation with seeing Ohr ousted from the Justice Department could be perceived..as an attack on someone with deep knowledge of the shady characters..including Semion Mogilevich, the Russian mob boss, and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate close to Putin..”
Socialism—
A name reserved for liberals and progressives by Republicans meant to be disparagingly disgusting because it includes welfare for poor people. Ignorantly, it gets confused with communism.
2) DemocraticSocialism—
A term mistakenly associated with Scandanavian countries because they have a form of welfare state within a complex economy. Bernie Sanders adopts this label to avoid being called socialist.
3) Nordic capitalism/social democracy—
A comprehensive welfare state& collective bargaining at nat’l level w/high percentage of workforce unionized,while being based on economic foundations of free market capitalism,w/higher standard of living than USA& people generally happier.
#IDedicateThisWeekTo Edgar Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize winning international and war correspondent, who warned the world about Hitler& Mussolini, at risk to himself.
He was a beacon of truth, when the free press was under attack.
As did Hitler, Trump would have called him Fake News.
"Like other newsmen, I was crazy to see all I could... we rented bicycles and pedaled eastward... eager to see what we could of the recent battlefields.... When we finally arrived, I realized with delight that we were at the headquarters of the French Fifth Army.”
Edgar Mowrer
“To the north we heard the faint roar of guns..Before we knew it,we were under arrest as spies. In answer to my insistence that we were free-born Americans w/papers,...the captain cursed me roundly. Next a major led us to courtyard& locked us up in separate sheds."
Edgar Mowrer
THREAD
For Putin, Trump has betrayed America and executed a strategy to destroy The Alliance Of Western Liberal Democracies that have kept the peace for 70 years.
The Republican Party is co-opted due to corruption.
Attacks on our DOJ and @FBI serve Putin’s strategy to bury us.q
Donald Trump’s Betrayal of American and European Diplomacy
His withdrawal from the Iran deal is the biggest breach in transatlantic trust since the Iraq invasion. theamericanconservative.com/articles/donal…
“To the 28 member states of the European Union,..Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement (..JCPOA) was not just a diplomatic catastrophe of the highest order—it was a betrayal of everything America and Europe have worked towards for the past 15 years.