2016 US Elections - Exlusive discussion thread
2016 US Elections - Exlusive discussion thread
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Oh! God! This person is very dangerous.
Trump, skeptical of mail-in balloting, encourages voting more than once if necessary
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump is not letting up on his claims that the election could be rigged against him.
During a rally in Greeley, Colorado, on Sunday evening, Trump opened the event expressing skepticism of mail-in ballots in the state. He encouraged people to get a new ballot, even if they have already sent one in, and vote again.
"Who has sent their ballots in? And do you think those ballots are properly counted?" Trump asked the audience, to which they replied "No!"
Trump continued by expressing his skepticism and telling supporters to go get new ballots to ensure their vote is counted.
"If you go to university center, they'll give you a new ballot, they'll void your old ballot, in some places they do that four or five times, so by tomorrow, almost everyone will have their new ballots in."
For weeks, Trump has made the topic of election rigging and voter fraud a main talking point in his stump speeches. He encourages his supporters to sign up on his website to be "poll watchers" and says that if he loses on November 8, it will be because the race was rigged.
Supporters of Trump have been heeding his advice thus far during early voting. A woman in Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested Thursday and charged with voter fraud after she allegedly voted for Donald Trump a second time at a second polling place out of concern that her first vote for Trump would be counted for Hillary Clinton instead.
"I wasn't planning on doing it twice, it was spur of the moment," Terry Lynn Rote told The Washington Post, while echoing Trump's theory that "the polls are rigged."
CNN's Jeremy Diamond and Ashley Killough contributed to this report.
Trump, skeptical of mail-in balloting, encourages voting more than once if necessary
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump is not letting up on his claims that the election could be rigged against him.
During a rally in Greeley, Colorado, on Sunday evening, Trump opened the event expressing skepticism of mail-in ballots in the state. He encouraged people to get a new ballot, even if they have already sent one in, and vote again.
"Who has sent their ballots in? And do you think those ballots are properly counted?" Trump asked the audience, to which they replied "No!"
Trump continued by expressing his skepticism and telling supporters to go get new ballots to ensure their vote is counted.
"If you go to university center, they'll give you a new ballot, they'll void your old ballot, in some places they do that four or five times, so by tomorrow, almost everyone will have their new ballots in."
For weeks, Trump has made the topic of election rigging and voter fraud a main talking point in his stump speeches. He encourages his supporters to sign up on his website to be "poll watchers" and says that if he loses on November 8, it will be because the race was rigged.
Supporters of Trump have been heeding his advice thus far during early voting. A woman in Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested Thursday and charged with voter fraud after she allegedly voted for Donald Trump a second time at a second polling place out of concern that her first vote for Trump would be counted for Hillary Clinton instead.
"I wasn't planning on doing it twice, it was spur of the moment," Terry Lynn Rote told The Washington Post, while echoing Trump's theory that "the polls are rigged."
CNN's Jeremy Diamond and Ashley Killough contributed to this report.
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Very true halafu hii sheria ya DOJ kutosema chochote 60 days before the election inabidi ibadilishwe ili anayekiuka apandishwe kizimbani na akacheze lupango kwa miaka 5 au hata zaidi. Nadhani waliangalia hilo pia, kwani ukiivunja hii sheria watakufanya nini? Jibu hawatanifanya chochote kile.
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...but there are very valid reasons why this idea was put in place e.g. people who'll be travelling overseas for one reason or another, sick people who won't be able to vote on election day due to one reason or another. Workers who won't get permission from their employers on that specific day and they can not afford to forego one day salary/wages etc.
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Well...I think election day should be a federal holiday.
And, if you are not elderly or disabled then you shouldn't vote early.
Who ensures the votes cast a month before the official election date are not tampered with?
I don't like it one bit. All it does is provide opportunities for people to try to steal some votes.
It's just a bad idea.
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Upepo Ukoje?
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Hauleweki Mkuu but advantage Hillary, get out the vote campaign is very important for remaining one week or so. Michelle, Barack, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Bill Clinton should be all over the place in battle ground states.
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Harry Reid: Comey may have violated the Hatch Act
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol September 13, 2016 in Washington, DC
Washington (CNN) Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said on Sunday that FBI Director James Comey may have violated the Hatch Act, barring political activity by federal employees, through a late election season letter to Congress about the scope of the bureau's probe of Hillary Clinton's private email service as secretary of state.
Comey's letter on Friday to congressional committee chairs said the FBI is reviewing newly discovered emails that might be linked to Clinton's private server. The new emails were found several weeks ago, law enforcement officials told CNN Sunday, but the FBI did not disclose them until Friday. The timing raises questions about why the information was released just days before the election.
"I am writing to inform you that my office has determined that these actions may violate the Hatch Act," Reid said in his letter to Comey. "Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law."
There has been no immediate response from the FBI.
The Hatch Act prohibits FBI officials from using their official authority to influence an election. Reid said that by releasing this information, which he says is not conclusive or pertinent, Comey may have broken the law. Reid referenced a memo from Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates from March of this year that establishes all Justice Department employees, including Comey, are subject to the Hatch Act.
Reid accused Comey of having intent to aid one political party over the other in the election and called his behavior a "double standard" due to the fact that, as Reid claimed in the letter, Comey has information related to Donald Trump's dealings with Russia.
"I wrote to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public," Reid writes. "And yet, you continue to resist calls to inform the public of this critical information."
"By contrast, as soon as you came into possession of the slightest innuendo related to Secretary Clinton, you rushed to publicize it in the most negative light possible."
Reid is not alone in claiming that Comey violated the Hatch Act. In a New York Times op-ed, Richard W. Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007, says that he filed a complaint the F.B.I. with the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates Hatch Act violations.
"Violations of the Hatch Act and of government ethics rules on misuse of official positions are not permissible in any circumstances, including in the case of an executive branch official acting under pressure from politically motivated members of Congress," Painter writes in his opinion. "Such violations are of even greater concern when the agency is the F.B.I."
On Sunday night, Republicans came out in opposition to Reid's letter. Among them was Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who tweeted, "Harry Reid is a disgrace to American politics, among worst men ever in Senate. He can't go soon enough, & many Democrats privately agree."
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol September 13, 2016 in Washington, DC
Washington (CNN) Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said on Sunday that FBI Director James Comey may have violated the Hatch Act, barring political activity by federal employees, through a late election season letter to Congress about the scope of the bureau's probe of Hillary Clinton's private email service as secretary of state.
Comey's letter on Friday to congressional committee chairs said the FBI is reviewing newly discovered emails that might be linked to Clinton's private server. The new emails were found several weeks ago, law enforcement officials told CNN Sunday, but the FBI did not disclose them until Friday. The timing raises questions about why the information was released just days before the election.
"I am writing to inform you that my office has determined that these actions may violate the Hatch Act," Reid said in his letter to Comey. "Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law."
There has been no immediate response from the FBI.
The Hatch Act prohibits FBI officials from using their official authority to influence an election. Reid said that by releasing this information, which he says is not conclusive or pertinent, Comey may have broken the law. Reid referenced a memo from Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates from March of this year that establishes all Justice Department employees, including Comey, are subject to the Hatch Act.
Reid accused Comey of having intent to aid one political party over the other in the election and called his behavior a "double standard" due to the fact that, as Reid claimed in the letter, Comey has information related to Donald Trump's dealings with Russia.
"I wrote to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public," Reid writes. "And yet, you continue to resist calls to inform the public of this critical information."
"By contrast, as soon as you came into possession of the slightest innuendo related to Secretary Clinton, you rushed to publicize it in the most negative light possible."
Reid is not alone in claiming that Comey violated the Hatch Act. In a New York Times op-ed, Richard W. Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007, says that he filed a complaint the F.B.I. with the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates Hatch Act violations.
"Violations of the Hatch Act and of government ethics rules on misuse of official positions are not permissible in any circumstances, including in the case of an executive branch official acting under pressure from politically motivated members of Congress," Painter writes in his opinion. "Such violations are of even greater concern when the agency is the F.B.I."
On Sunday night, Republicans came out in opposition to Reid's letter. Among them was Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who tweeted, "Harry Reid is a disgrace to American politics, among worst men ever in Senate. He can't go soon enough, & many Democrats privately agree."
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