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Ballot harvesting is illegal in North Carolina and Mark Harris and his campaign weren't just accused of collecting ballots and turning them in. They were destroying ballots that voted against him, filling in those that were left blank and forging witness signatures.

That is ILLEGAL in EVERY state.

California law allows a mail-in voter to designate any person to return the ballot to the elections official from whom it came or to the precinct board at a polling place within the jurisdiction. . There has been no evidence to suggest any ballots were not turned in or were marked by the "ballot harvesters" in California.

In Texas, it looks like the harvesters pleaded guilty or are currently awaiting trial.

Forgive us for not having heard about ballot harvesting for a county commissioner and a school board seat in a Texas town of about 17,000 people or even not having heard about an alleged scheme to harvest votes for unspecified "down-ballot candidates" in a city the size of Fort Worth. Interestingly enough, the Texas AG who is prosecuting the latter has been under criminal indictment for over 3 years. And what are those Republicans doing meeting with one of the accused in jail?

And I'd bet you didn't notice these Democrats who were convicted and sentenced in Arkansas either:

Hallum pleaded guilty last September to felony conspiracy to commit election fraud, resigning his seat on the day of his plea.

Yes, most of us didn't hear about a corrupt state legislator in Arkansas either.

BUT in North Carolina, we're talking about a candidate for the US House of Representatives in a very contentious battle between Dems and Republicans to win as many Congressional seats as possible. Of course anyone who is paying attention has heard of it.

Or maybe a few political bosses around the country harvesting ballots.

Hudson Hallum further told Carter that $20 to $40 was too much to pay for one vote, but that this amount was acceptable to pay for the votes of multiple members of a household. On that same date, Hudson Hallum also told Carter, “We need to use that black limo and buy a couple of cases of some cheap vodka and whiskey to get people to vote.” Two days later, Carter and Kent Hallum spoke with an individual in Memphis, Tennessee about getting a discounted price for the purchase of 100 half pints of vodka for the campaign.

Hudson Hallum was certified as the winner in the special primary runoff by 8 votes. Hudson Hallum also won the special general election held on July 12, 2011, and was subsequently certified as the winner of the House District 54 special election. At the time of the elections, District 54 included West Memphis, Marion, Earle, and Turrell, Arkansas, as well as other rural areas of Crittenden County.

Hudson Hallum and Kent Hallum tasked Carter, Malone, and others with identifying absentee ballot voters within District 54; obtaining and distributing absentee ballot applications to particular voters; determining when absentee ballots were mailed to absentee voters by the Crittenden County Clerk’s Office; and making contact with recipients of absentee ballots to assist those voters in completing the ballots. Once such absentee ballots were completed, the absentee voters typically placed their ballots in unsealed envelopes, which were retrieved by Carter, Malone and others and then subsequently delivered to either Hudson Hallum or Kent Hallum for inspection to ensure that the absentee ballot votes had been cast for Hudson Hallum. After inspection by Hudson Hallum or Kent Hallum, the absentee ballots that contained votes for Hudson Hallum were sealed and mailed to the Crittenden County Clerk’s Office. If a ballot contained a vote for Hudson Hallum’s opponent, it was destroyed.

Seven States Still Force Prohibition-era Bans on Election Day Alcohol Sales

I remember going to a bar after the first time I voted and was shocked to find I could NOT buy a drink to celebrate. Bars could only even open on election day if they made at least 30% of their revenue from non-alcohol sales.

Unfortunately, corruption still exists and this happened less than a decade ago:

Hudson Hallum further told Carter that $20 to $40 was too much to pay for one vote, but that this amount was acceptable to pay for the votes of multiple members of a household. On that same date, Hudson Hallum also told Carter, “We need to use that black limo and buy a couple of cases of some cheap vodka and whiskey to get people to vote.” Two days later, Carter and Kent Hallum spoke with an individual in Memphis, Tennessee about getting a discounted price for the purchase of 100 half pints of vodka for the campaign.

We have mail-in ballots where I live. I like it because I can fill it out at my leisure while I carefully study the candidates and issues and then I drop it off in person. The drawback of course is that the USPS is not infallible and a rogue postal carrier could collect ballots only from those who don't vote or perhaps only vote in Presidential elections and if anyone complains about not getting a ballot? It must have gotten lost in the mail.

I don't know if that has happened, but it's a possibility.

"There's no vote fraud!"

Again, BULLSHIT. How can you tell if there's vote fraud if you don't ID the voter? You can't.

Republicans know there is voter fraud. In the first person. https://www.denverpost.com/201...

http://occupydemocrats.com/201...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=946...

http://nhpr.org/post/mancheste...

https://www.arktimes.com/arkan...

http://archive.jsonline.com/ne...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/0...

Yesiree, Republicans know full well that there is voter fraud, and that is because so much Votter Fraud is performed by Republicans - highly ranked ones even - And your wet dream of a voter ID is going to do nothing, not one thing but eliminate a trite old chestnut of a talking point.

Personally, I'm in favor of voter ID - but given that Republicans bring it up every election cycle like it is the cure blessed by God himself for them thar godless commiecrats and their letting them chocolate people - who always commit fraud, amirite? - is just Bullshit - to use your term.

Phase it in, make it free ( hey, maybe we can get that Russian Oligarch who funnels money to Republicans through the NRA to chip in ) and start long before elections.

But how is that going to actually stop Republican election fraud? Or is that Okay because the Republican party has shown it has a lock on the moral high ground?

On the one hand, if these allegations are true, heads should damn roll.

On the other, Tesla is a great target for a he-said-he-said lawsuit. High profile, lots of cash, great timing right before the make-or-break moment where they have to make good on their affordable cars before GM and the other old guys power into the market.

Tesla's got to be a pressure-cooker company right now to get that production up. But if floor management is creating problems like this, there's a huge incentive to for senior management to give a beat-down to the floor managers. No workers, no Tesla 3's, no Tesla... and there goes Elon Musk puttering around dog-faced in a Bolt.

Who the fuck to believe. To my knowledge, these Tesla things are not sticking like the way they stuck on Uber. But who the fuck knows... news and lawsuits are full of bullshit these days, it's not easy to know truth from some Russian kid with a smartphone masquerading as a Texan. All that's reliably true is Tesla has money, and any cheap-suit lawyer would see an opportunity to make a quick settlement out of them, rather than risk more bad press and production delays as they try like mad to make their delivery date.

I agree. Some other things has to be done before the kids's education has any future.

So it's okay to put up a sign in a bar that says "no blacks or hispanics?"

There is the gun range which has a sign saying, "Muslim Free Zone" and so far they're able to get away with it.

or for a pharmacist to refuse to fill a prescription because the person is a Muslim?

No, but we do have pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control because it might offend their religion.

Not to mention there are those bakeries and photographers who refuse to cater to gay people who want to get married.

While the courts have ruled against the above practices, the owners can simply be more selective in who their clients are, thus getting around the issue. This is the same thing businesses do when interviewing. They see someone's great resume but when they come in they realize the person is over 40 and disqualify them.

The reason they can give is simply, "We found someone more aligned with our requirements" even though they are discriminating by age.

And when Charlie Fuqua gets elected to the House of Representatives, he will deport all the Muslims dirtying up our glorious country. And he will institute the death penalty for bad children.

1. Huckabee does not hold prayer meetings on the lawn. He administers. He is perfectly able to distinguish between his beliefs and the need for administration. The schools are in much better shape now than they have been in the history of Arkansas.

There is ample evidence of a) the ease in which Diebold voting machines can be patched and b) votes being switched to Republican candidates. Diebolds CEO vowed to deliver the 2004 presidential election to Mr. Bush.

Concerns are already mounting in Texas and Arkansas that votes are being flipped in early 2006 voting.

It's not a conspiracy when so many municipalities conclude that Diebold machines are not fit for elections.

I for one welcome our new Mormon overlords...

"Ahem. Welcome to hell. Yes, you are in Hell."

"Hey, I was a good Protestant! Why am I not in heaven?"

"Umm, you chose the wrong answer. The correct answer was ... the Mormons. Yes, the Mormons. Now ..."

(On YouTube too)

The problem is that many want a black and white solution to gray problems. The problems facing todays educators cannot be solved with one solution. A few years back both the Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes looked at one of the best public schools systems in the nation: The Department of Defense schools for military families.

At first, you would think that they would be one of the worst performers. The students are uprooted every few years as their parents are transferred. A majority of the students come from families that live just above the poverty line.

But the students rank among the best in the nations when it comes to test scores. The gap between minority and white students is almost non-existant with a high percentage of the students being minorities. Eighty percent of students go to college.

How do they do it? Some answers given:

More money is spent per student than in most public schools. Parents are heavily invovled with the education. Discipline is almost never a problem. A higher percentage of teachers have masters than most other schools. All these factors intertwine.