Presidentsverkiezingen VS #66 Verregaande vaagheid

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Op maandag 20 september 2021 19:36 schreef Isdatzo het volgende:

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Gelukkig weet jij door met ijzersterke argumentatie te komen aannemelijk te maken dat die dubieuze stats niet kloppen. Of... zou het een gevalletje wensdenken van jouw kant zijn?

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It is perhaps a metaphor for the times that even the volunteer who checked you into the polls in November now has a legal defense committee.

The Election Official Legal Defense Network, which made its public debut on Sept. 7, offers to represent more than just poll workers, of course. Formed to counter the waves of political pressure and public bullying that election workers have faced in the last year, the organization pledges free legal services to anyone involved in the voting process, from secretaries of state to local election officials and volunteers.

The group already has received inquiries from several election officials, said David J. Becker, the executive director of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation and Research, which oversees the project. Without getting into details, Mr. Becker said their queries were “related to issues like harassment and intimidation.”

The network is the creation of two powerhouses in Republican and Democratic legal circles, Benjamin L. Ginsberg and Bob Bauer. In a Washington Post opinion piece this month, the two — Mr. Ginsberg was a premier G.O.P. lawyer for 38 years and Mr. Bauer was both a Democratic Party lawyer and White House counsel in the Obama administration — wrote that such attacks on people “overseeing the counting and casting of ballots on an independent, nonpartisan basis are destructive to our democracy.”

“If such attacks go unaddressed, our system of self-governance will suffer long-term damage,” they said.

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Op maandag 20 september 2021 21:21 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:

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Maar als de Autoriteiten het zeggen, dan luister je. En dan neem je het voor waar aan. Dat zijn de regels. Het maakt toch niet uit dat het onderliggende niet deugt. De Autoriteit heeft altijd gelijk.

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The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be safe and highly effective in young children aged 5 to 11 years, the companies announced early Monday morning. The news should help ease months of anxiety among parents and teachers about when children, and their close contacts, might be shielded from the coronavirus.

The need is urgent: Children now account for more than one in five new cases, and the highly contagious Delta variant has sent more children into hospitals and intensive care units in the past few weeks than at any other time in the pandemic.

Pfizer and BioNTech plan to apply to the Food and Drug Administration by the end of the month for authorization to use the vaccine in these children. If the regulatory review goes as smoothly as it did for older children and adults, millions of elementary school students could be inoculated before Halloween.

Trial results for children younger than 5 are not expected till the fourth quarter of this year at the earliest, according to Dr. Bill Gruber, a senior vice president at Pfizer and a pediatrician.

Pfizer and BioNTech announced the results in a statement that did not include detailed data from the trial. The findings have not yet been peer-reviewed nor published in a scientific journal.

But the new results dovetail with those seen in older children and in adults, experts said.

“There’s going to be a huge number of parents who are going to heave a big sigh of relief when they hear this,” said Dr. Kristin Oliver, a pediatrician and vaccine expert at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. “We’ve been waiting for these kids to be protected.”

Children have a much lower risk of Covid-19 than adults, even when exposed to the Delta variant. Still, some small number of infected children develop a life-threatening condition called multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C. Still others may have lingering symptoms for months.

Nearly 30,000 children were hospitalized for Covid in August; the least vaccinated states reported the highest rates. At Seattle Children’s hospital, about half of the children who are admitted for Covid are older than 12, according to Dr. Danielle Zerr, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at the hospital.

“I’ve been dismayed at the fact that the sickest children in our hospital with acute Covid-19 or MIS-C are children who could have been vaccinated,” Dr. Zerr said.

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Florida Republicans this spring insisted a contentious new election law curtailing access to ballot boxes was needed to prevent electoral fraud. It was not, they said, an attempt to gain a partisan advantage.

But a raft of internal emails and text messages obtained by POLITICO show the law was drafted with the help of the Republican Party of Florida's top lawyer -- and that a crackdown on mail-in ballot requests was seen as a way for the GOP to erase the edge that Democrats had in mail-in voting during the 2020 election. The messages undercut the consistent argument made by Republicans that the new law was about preventing future electoral fraud.

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Op maandag 20 september 2021 22:45 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Inderdaad. Elk weldenkend mens stelt bij het zien van dergelijke metrics direct een paar vragen. Waarom is bij enkel de groep blanke Amerikanen specifiek de politieke voorkeur meegenomen? Waarom is er één specifieke religie meegenomen? En waarom is opleidingsniveau en geografische informatie hier van belang?

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Dat is natuurlijk omdat dit hele artikel is geschreven met het idee om A) in de bres te springen voor de zwarte bevolking want mimimi equity, vermeend achtergesteld, vermeend racisme (het bekende gejammer). En B) men wil het beeld te creëren dat het grote probleem eigenlijk laagopgeleide, blanke, evangelisch christelijke, Republikeinen zijn die op het platteland wonen.

En dit dan uit woede omdat er een paar Republikeinen hebben gezegd dat bij de zwarte bevolking de vaccinatiegraad het laagst ligt. Iets dat overigens ook klopt. En daar is niets mis mee, mensen zouden namelijk de vrijheid moeten hebben om zelf voor vaccinatie te kiezen of niet.

Maar voor hardcore MSM verslaafden, die dagelijks hun dosis Linksige en progressieve feel good berichten nodig hebben, gaat het niet om kritische vragen. Het draait simpelweg om blind afgaan op de geautoriseerde bronnen en het eigen wereldbeeld bevestigd zien. Je ziet ook direct de woede en frustratie als iemand wél kritische vragen durft te stellen, bijna alsof hun roes verstoord wordt.

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Op maandag 20 september 2021 21:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Er is nu een netwerk opgericht om de intimidatiepraktijken van Trump-aanhangers aan te pakken:

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Op dinsdag 21 september 2021 02:53 schreef OMG het volgende:
Oh, juist, ja, de emotioneel stabiele vreedzame conservatieven.

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Two veteran Republican campaign operatives — including one who got a pardon from then-President Donald Trump one month before he left office — are charged in a new federal indictment with funneling $25,000 from a Russian national into the Trump campaign in 2016.

Jesse Benton, 43, and Doug Wead, 75, made brief appearances Monday at a video hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, pleading not guilty to six felony charges including facilitating a campaign contribution by a foreign national, acting as a straw donor and causing the filing of false campaign finance reports.

The grand jury indictment alleges that Benton and Wead worked together to accept $100,000 from an unidentified Russian national in order to get the foreigner a meeting with then-candidate Trump at a fundraiser in Philadelphia on Sept. 22, 2016.

Neither Trump nor his campaign are mentioned by name in the indictment, but details in the 19-page document make clear that the scheme involved seeking the donation in connection with the Trump event and an opportunity to get face to face with him.

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The attorney, Bryan Skarlatos, added that prosecutors recently handed over a trove of new evidence, including tax documents found in the basements of "co-conspirators." It's not clear what co-conspirators he was referencing or how significant the new documents are to the case.

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In arguing for extra time to file, Skarlatos suggested even more evidence may be coming that his team will have to review -- possibly because new defendants may soon be in the mix. If others are charged, there may be reason to raise additional arguments that Weisselberg's legal team could not foresee.

"We have strong reason to believe there could be other indictments coming," Skarlatos said in court Monday. "Again, we're shooting at a moving target."

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"Peril" also describes the tense encounter in the Oval Office on January 5 when Trump pressured Pence to overturn the results of the election. While the showdown went on inside, the two men could hear MAGA supporters cheering and chanting outside near Pennsylvania Avenue.
"If these people say you had the power, wouldn't you want to?" Trump asked.
"I wouldn't want any one person to have that authority," Pence said.
"But wouldn't it be almost cool to have that power?" Trump asked, according to Woodward and Costa.
"No," Pence said. He went on, "I've done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It's simply not possible."
When Pence did not budge, Trump turned on him.
"No, no, no!" Trump shouted, according to the authors. "You don't understand, Mike. You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this."
Trump called Pence again the morning of January 6. "If you don't do it, I picked the wrong man four years ago," Trump said, according to the authors. "You're going to wimp out," he said, his anger visible to others in the office.
Even though Pence stood up to Trump in the end, "Peril" reveals that after four years of abject loyalty, he struggled with the decision. Woodward and Costa write that Pence reached out to Dan Quayle, who had been the vice president to George H.W. Bush, seeking his advice.
Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do.
"Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away," Quayle told him.
Pence pressed again.
"You don't know the position I'm in," he said, according to the authors.
"I do know the position you're in," Quayle responded. "I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That's all you do. You have no power."