but republicans, especially those who wrote the bill, say it s just about election security. judge walker disagreed, saying the state did not prove its case, and in this blistering ruling, had passages like this one. quote, florida may, of course, regulate elections, including the voter registration process. here, however, the challenge provisions exemplifies something that florida has struggled with in recent years, namely governing within the bounds set by the united states constitution. when state government power threatens to spread beyond constitutional bounds and reduce individual rights to ashes, the federal judiciary stands as a firewall. the free state of florida is simply not free to exceed the bounds of the united states constitution. now, that last bit there could be a dig at governor ron desantis and his off-use free state of florida phrase. we have reached out to the governor s office about this. look, dana, we don t know what they re going to do, but i can tell you that
AUGUSTA Legislation supported by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows that would make permanent many of the innovative measures the State put in place for voting during the pandemic passed in the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee by a 5-4 vote, with four members absent.
The bill, LD 1363 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Elections, was sponsored by Sen. Louis Luchini, D-Ellsworth, on behalf of Secretary Bellows.
“We ve heard from Maine voters and local election officials that many of the changes enacted in 2020 to protect health, safety, and access to the ballot were beneficial, and were excited to continue them in future elections,” said Secretary Bellows. “Maine has a long history of leading the way on conducting free and fair elections with robust participation, and LD 1363 keeps us on that path.”
Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 9:27 AM Shutterstock San Antonio voters will decide the fate of two charter amendments in the May 1 election. Early voting for the May 1 citywide election gets underway Monday and will run through Tuesday, April 27. Voters will determine who serves as mayor, which candidates will fill 10 city council seats and who will serve on a variety of school boards. Those in outlying cities will have their own municipal elections in which to cast ballots. Alamo City voters also will decide the fate of two amendments to the city charter. Proposition A would broaden the range of projects the city can fund by issuing public bonds, while Proposition B would cut back on the San Antonio police union s bargaining power.
reporting, anyone else who has some desire to interfere perhaps with american elections, ransomware is a potential avenue for doing so. describe exactly how that would work and what could be done to stop that. yeah, there are two parts. if you remember back when we looks at the end of the mueller report, the first part people were worried about was changing votes. be actually getting in, changing the voting system so that the count came out different. that s actually much more difficult to do. what the russians did last time around and what could be even worse this time is going after those voter rolls. the way they could do that is by using basically off-the-shelf ransom wear that any cyber criminal uses or other variants which they have used in attacks that have been connected to them in places like ukraine. what the idea would be is they would send out messages essentially to parts of the voter registration process. this could be across any of the 50 states. when someone in one of
count came out different. that s actually much more difficult to do. what the russians did last time around and what could be even worse this time is going after those voter rolls. the way they could do that is by using basically off-the-shelf ransom wear that any cyber criminal uses or other variants which they have used in attacks that have been connected to them in places like ukraine. what the idea would be is they would send out messages essentially to parts of the voter registration process. this could be across any of the 50 states. when someone in one of those local governments mistakenly clicks on it, it would seize that data. it would essentially block that out, decrypt it, so that they can t access the voter rolls. it would either require a payment or in some cases may not ask for payment at all, essentially takes those vot errols and destroys them. imagine if you re heading into election day and you don t have those voter rolls, you don t know who can vote, you don t have a