Details on ballot box fires in Pacific Northwest

by CLG (Citizens for Legitimate Government)

Woman arrested at Pa. voting center, RNC Chair alleges voter suppression –The arrest of Trump supporter Val Biancaniello at a Delaware County voting center sparked allegations of voter suppression from GOP Chair Michael Whatley | 29 Oct 2024 | A Trump supporter was arrested and cited for disorderly conduct at a Delaware County voting center on Monday, sparking allegations of voter suppression from Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley. The incident occurred on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, as voters waited in line to cast on-demand mail-in ballots at the Voter Service Center at the Government Center Building in Media, Pennsylvania. Whatley posted a 20-second video on the social media platform X of the arrest of Val Biancaniello, a Republican National Committee delegate, state committeewoman and supporter of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump… In the video, Biancaniello repeatedly says, “Do not get out of line,” while being led away in handcuffs by two Delaware County Park Police officers who provide security for the building.

519 voters receive wrong ballots in Stonington, CT, in early voting glitch | 28 Oct 2024 | On the second day of early voting last week, as many as 519 voters received the wrong ballots in Stonington, Connecticut, where voters from two different state House districts use the same early polling place, Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas said Monday. “The registrar was able to determine that one of the poll workers handed out the wrong ballot, so she very quickly and smartly sequestered those ballots,” Thomas said. “And because early voted ballots are under seal and someone has signed them, they are contacting those voters and giving them an opportunity to come back and recast their ballot.” Registrar of Voters Elissa Bass said 519 ballots were cast that day, but she believes only a few were given the one wrong one.

Oregon authorities confirm fires at ballot boxes in Washington and Portland are connected | 28 Oct 2024 | Authorities in Portland, Oregon, on Monday said they have identified a “suspect vehicle” that is connected to two fires that were set in ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver, Washington, Monday morning. One fire was set by incendiary devices at ballot boxes in Portland at 3:30 a.m. local time… The fire was extinguished by the time law enforcement showed up, but three ballots were damaged by the blaze. Approximately two hours later, another fire broke out in Vancouver, which was also set by an incendiary device on the outside of the box. The second fire destroyed hundreds of ballots. Police officials said that material from both incendiary devices showed that the attacks were connected. They were also connected to another fire in Vancouver, Washington, at a ballot box on Oct. 8.

26 Republican attorneys general join Virginia in petitioning Supreme Court to rule on allowing non-citizens to vote | 28 Oct 2024 | Twenty-six Republican attorneys general joined Virginia on Monday in urging the Supreme Court to halt a lower court decision that restored the voting rights of 1,600 [illegal] residents. The amicus brief backs Virginia’s contention that the ruling is overly broad and lacks standing under a provision of the National Voter Registration Act (NRVA), which orders states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance 90 days before an election. It now has the support of every Republican-led U.S. state, giving it outsize attention in the final stretch before the election. In the amicus brief, attorneys general urged the court to grant Virginia’s emergency motion and “restore the status quo,” noting that doing so “would comply with the law and enable Virginia to ensure that noncitizens do not vote in the upcoming election.”

Biden on Trump backers: ‘The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters’ | 29 Oct 2024 | Joe Biden raged against “Kill Tony” podcast host Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of garbage” and suggested that was a good description for supporters of former President Donald Trump. “Donald Trump has no character. He doesn’t give a d-mn about the Latino community,” Biden said, according to an NBC reporter. “Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage.” “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said.

McConnell says calling Trump fascist encourages another assassin to ‘finish the job’ | 25 Oct 2024 | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday warned that Kamala Harris is “inviting” another assassination attempt against Donald Trump by calling him a fascist. “The man who was caught waiting in ambush in Florida left others with a chilling call to arms: ‘It is up to you now to finish the job.’ Labeling a political opponent as a ‘fascist,’ risks inviting yet another would-be assassin to try robbing voters of their choice before Election Day,” the Republicans wrote in a joint statement. “Vice President [sic] Harris may want the American people to entrust her with the sacred duty of executive authority. But first, she must abandon the base and rhetoric that endangers both American lives and institutions.”

Trump assassination attempt: Secret Service knew airspace protection would end with former president onstage –Former president protected by presidential TFR for only about 15 minutes while onstage on July 13 | 24 Oct 2024 | Through public records, interview transcripts and a Senate panel investigating the July 13 security failure, Fox News Digital has learned that the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) knew former President Trump would be onstage at the open-air rally after the Federal Aviation Administration’s temporary flight restriction (TFR) expired. An agent testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that they warned a superior in advance but did not receive the requested security extension, citing previous instances when the former president remained at a rally after the restrictions expired. The FAA typically issues TFRs for things like natural disasters, professional sporting events, and presidential movements. No aircraft, including civilian drones, are permitted to fly when a TFR is in place.

Trump says he’ll WIN New York and warns Kamala will cause ‘World War Three’ at monster MSG rally with wife Melania | 27 Oct 2024 | Donald Trump rocked a packed Madison Square Garden on Sunday night with nine days left of the presidential election campaign. The former president took the stage in deep-blue New York City after being introduced by his wife and former first lady Melania Trump in her first rally appearance of the race. The Republican nominee said it would be an “honor” to win New York and warned that voting for Kamala Harris is a “gamble” that could “cost millions of lives” and lead to “World War Three.” Trump’s speech at the end of the five-hour MAGA marathon touched on his promise to crack down on illegal immigration and introduced a tax credit for family caregivers. Sen. J.D. Vance, Dr. Phil, Hulk Hogan, Dana White, Tucker Carlson and members of the Trump family addressed the 20,000 capacity arena and railed against Kamala Harris’s polices. MAGA fans lined up in their thousands overnight to listen to the Republican nominee make his final pitch to voters.

Trump closes out packed MSG rally dancing with wife Melania to ‘YMCA,’ says he wants to ‘win New York’ –Trump signs off to the tune of ‘New York, New York’ | 27 Oct 2024 | Twenty thousand MAGA die-hards flooded Madison Square Garden for a sold out rally for former President Donald Trump in New York City. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of New York City as Madison Square Garden reached capacity ahead of the 45th president’s appearance in the Big Apple. The crowd roared with applause as RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, and Hulk Hogan took the stage. Donald Trump concluded his speech to Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.”

Trump makes light of Eric Adams’s indictment at MSG rally: ‘They upgraded his seat in an airplane. That’s a very serious charge’ | 27 Oct 2024 | Former President Donald Trump made light of the federal charges against Eric Adams and suggested the New York City mayor was targeted for political reasons during his huge MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Trump claimed to nearly 20,000 supporters that Adams “has been treated pretty badly” because Hizzoner spoke out about the migrant crisis that has engulfed the Big Apple for much of his tenure. “You know, when he said that this whole thing with the migrants coming into New York, this is just not sustainable. You know, we can’t do it. We’re trying to run a city, we got 100,000 migrants coming.” Trump said. “We can’t do it, we just can’t do it, it’s not feasible, it’s not good.” “He said it very nicely,” Trump continued. “I said, ‘well, he’s going to be indicted by these lunatics for saying that.’ A year later, he got indicted.”

Fetterman calls Trump’s support in Pennsylvania ‘astonishing’: ‘You can see the intensity’ | 26 Oct 2024 | Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman opened up about the state of the presidential race in his key battleground state and called former President Trump’s support there “astonishing” while predicting that Elon Musk’s endorsement is “going to really matter.” “There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists,” Fetterman told the New York Times in an interview published Saturday morning when asked about enthusiasm for Trump in Pennsylvania. “And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing.” Fetterman continued, “I was doing an event in Indiana County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long. [There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, Where does this all come from? It’s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It’s just – it’s real.”

Ohio town erupts in civil war as 3,000 African migrants take over and refuse to pay taxes – leaving locals furious and ‘overwhelmed’ | 27 Oct 2024 | A tiny Ohio town is wrangling with a sudden influx of African refugees whose arrival has almost doubled the population over the past year. Close to Cincinnati, Lockland was home to 3,500 people in 2023, but local officials say it has since taken in more than 3,000 legal Mauritanian asylum seekers.”If you look at 2021, 2022, the United States had seen a huge influx of immigrants from Mauritania,” Lockland Village Administrator Doug Wehmeyer told Fox News Digital. “In the last year it’s just ballooned,” Lockland Mayor Mark Mason told ABC affiliate WCPO. “TikTok stories telling people how to get to the Village of Lockland and I think that has aided the explosion.”

I don’t want war with Russia – Vance –Washington needs to engage its adversaries diplomatically, Trump’s running mate has said | 28 Oct 2024 | The US is not at war with Russia and should not seek one, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance has said. The senator from Ohio was asked during his appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday whether he saw the Russian leader “as an ally or an enemy.” Putin is “clearly an adversary, he is a competitor,” but Washington needs to be “smart about diplomacy too,” Vance responded. “Just because we don’t like somebody doesn’t mean that we can’t occasionally engage in conversations with them,” he suggested. Host Kristen Welker pushed him further on whether he would directly refer to Putin as an enemy. “We are not at war with him. And I don’t want to be at war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia,” the senator said. “I think that we should try to pursue avenues of peace.”  

Ukraine to force another 160,000 men into military – official –The draft will reportedly take place over the next three months | 29 Oct 2024 | Kiev will conscript 160,000 more troops over the next three months, according to statements from lawmakers and media outlets. More than a million soldiers have already been drafted, yet high losses have left the Ukrainian Armed Forces plagued by manpower shortages. Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, Ukrainian lawmaker Alexey Goncharenko said, “1.05 million citizens have been recruited into the defense forces” since the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022. “We aim to call up 160,000 more individuals, which will allow us to staff military units with up to 85% personnel,” he said, noting that this information came from Alexander Litvinenko, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.

Medvedev promises ‘fireworks’ at German military factory in Ukraine | 27 Oct 2024 | Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev anticipates a fireworks display at Rheinmetall’s weapon manufacturing facility in Ukraine after the company announced that one of its production plants, constructed to support Kiev’s war effort, is already operational. Germany’s largest arms maker finalized plans to establish a joint venture with the state-owned Ukroboronprom defense group earlier this year, to manufacture artillery ammunition, armored vehicles and air-defense systems. As part of the partnership agreement, Rheinmetall, which produces a vast array of weapons including Leopard tanks, stated it would build four factories on Ukrainian soil. Moscow responded to the announcement, warning that such facilities are considered “legitimate targets” for Russian strikes.

When the CIA doesn’t get its way: Georgia’s pro-Western president calls for mass street protests –Salome Zurabishvili has said she does not recognize the Saturday parliamentary election results she blamed on Russia | 27 Oct 2024 | Georgia’s president, Salome Zurabishvili, does not recognize the national parliamentary election results and called on people to join protests against it. The elections were held in Georgia on Saturday. According to the official results, the ruling Georgian Dream party received almost 54% of the vote, while various opposition forces attracted between 11% and 3%. Earlier, the president [falsely] claimed that the vote was won by what she called “European Georgia,” and despite alleged “attempts to rig elections.” On Sunday, she held a series of meetings with various opposition parties. Several pro-Western opposition forces, including the Unity-National Movement (UNM) and ‘Coalition for Change’ announced on the same day that they would not be joining the new parliament as they did not recognize the vote results either.

Georgia’s pro-Western opposition – which got only 10% of the vote – refuses to accept election defeat | 27 Oct 2024 | Leaders of several opposition parties in Georgia have said they will not recognize the results of the weekend’s national parliamentary vote. According to the official results, the ruling Georgian Dream party received almost 54% of the vote, while various opposition forces attracted between 11% and 3%. Georgian Dream party chairman Mamuka Mdinaradze has claimed the party is likely to win at least 90 of the national chamber’s 150 seats, up from the 74 it won in the last election. The party will then be able to form the next government since a simple 76-strong majority is needed in Georgia to pick the next prime minister and cabinet. Tina Bokuchava, who heads the pro-Western Unity-National Movement (UNM) [CIA-backed] party, has accused the nation’s central election committee of doing Georgian Dream’s bidding and of “stealing the European future” of Georgia. According to official results, the UNM received just over 10% of the votes. Bokuchava still maintained that her party would “fight like never before for the return of our European future and will not come to terms with the stolen election results.”

6 BART employees who refused COVID-19 vaccine to receive more than $1M each | 24 Oct 2024 | Six former BART employees are each due a 1 million payout after accusing the agency of wrongly firing them because of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. On Wednesday, a jury in the U.S District Court for the Northern District of California sided with the employees who refused the vaccine for religious reasons. BART has been ordered to pay the group more than 7.8 million, with the individual employees receiving between nearly 1.2 million and 1.5 million each. In a class-action lawsuit filed in October 2022, employees said BART granted the vaccine exemption but denied accommodations… Employees said when they refused to receive the vaccine, they were fired.

Lassa fever suspected in death of Iowa resident who traveled to West Africa –The CDC is assisting Iowa health officials to identify people who had contact with the patient after symptoms began. | 28 Oct 2024 | Health officials are investigating the death Monday of an Iowa resident as a suspected case of Lassa fever, a frightening viral disease rarely seen in the U.S., health officials said. The patient returned to the U.S. from West Africa early this month. The person was not sick while traveling, so the risk to fellow airline passengers is “extremely low,” officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The virus is not spread by casual contact and patients are not believed to be infectious before symptoms occur. The patient had been hospitalized in isolation at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center. Testing by the Nebraska Laboratory Response Network early Monday showed that the patient was presumptively positive for Lassa fever.