"In June last year, Luis, a resident of Virginia, was astonished to discover that his name and personal details, including home address, had been posted on the internet by a group known as the Public Interest Legal Foundation (Pilf).
Luis’s data had been released by the group, along with hundreds of other names, as an appendix to Pilf’s two-part report called “Alien Invasion”. The front cover showed a UFO hovering ominously over a billboard on which the famous tourism slogan “Virginia is for lovers” had been photoshopped to read: “Virginia is for aliens”.
“Voter intimidation looks different today – nobody needs to wear white hoods or burn crosses,” said Allison Riggs from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice who is lead counsel on the case. “Instead, you accuse people of crimes when they’ve done nothing wrong and put their names out there for the rabid masses to fixate on: that’s insidious modern-day intimidation.”
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Thousands at risk from rightwing push to purge eligible voters from US rolls
Conservative groups such as Pilf publish voters’ details online in what experts say amounts to ‘insidious modern-day intimidation’
"White House Deputy Cheif of Staff for Communications Bill Shine coached Kavanaugh for his Senate testimony."
Shine was available to go work in the White House since he was forced to resign in disgrace last year from his job as co-president of Fox News because he’d been named in too many lawsuits as an abettor of the multiple, large-scale sexual harassment allegations at the company."
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Republicans just don’t take sexual assault seriously as a problem
Just look at Bill Shine and Donald Trump.
Matthew Yglesias
Sep 24, 2018, 11:40am EDT
Now that the Republican Party has nearly eliminated the possibility of a woman voting Republican, election fraud is their only chance to win in 2018. AND there is a big push for election fraud.
Will Putin help out his kompromat President in the Whitehouse?
The Russian attacks on our democratic government is better understood if you know how the Russian Army views cyber warfare:
The Russian military doesn't use the term cyber or cyberwarfare. Instead, they conceptualize cyber operations within the broader framework of information warfare, a holistic concept that includes computer network operations, electronic warfare, psychological operations, and information operations.
Will Putin help out his kompromat President in the Whitehouse?
The Russian attacks on our democratic government is better understood if you know how the Russian Army views cyber warfare:
The Russian military doesn't use the term cyber or cyberwarfare. Instead, they conceptualize cyber operations within the broader framework of information warfare, a holistic concept that includes computer network operations, electronic warfare, psychological operations, and information operations.
"Less than two months before Election Day, 52% of registered voters said they would prefer Democrats to control Congress, while 40% preferred Republican control. That 12-point lead expanded from an 8-point Democratic edge in August.
“Republicans have had a series of weak surveys; this is beyond weak,” said Bill McInturff, the GOP pollster who conducted the survey with Democrat Fred Yang. “This is a survey that says the Republican coalition at the moment is unhinged and not connected.”
The poll found that Democrats are benefiting from a strong showing of support among women. By 3 percentage points, men want Republicans rather than Democrats to control Congress, 47% to 44%. Women, by contrast, favor Democratic control by 25 percentage points—58% to 33%.
Among white voters, the gender disparity was the largest since 2008.
The poll was taken Sept. 16-19, after an accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh became public and turned the spotlight on the politics of gender."
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
More Voters Want Democrats to Control Congress, New Poll Shows
Support grows among women, suburbanites for change in direction from Trump ahead of midterm election
Janet Hook Updated Sept. 23, 2018 4:47 p.m. ET
The specific results:
The Kaiser Family Foundation showed Democrats leading Republicans 49 percent to 37 percent, up from an 8-point 46-38 lead in April.
- Quinnipiac had Democrats leading 51 percent to 39 percent over Republicans, up from a 9-point lead in late June.
- As Vox reported on Tuesday, with a little more than three months left until Election Day, Democrats seem to be strengthening their position to win control of the House.
Three other recent pieces of evidence add to the case:
- On Tuesday, the University of Virginia’s Crystal Ball, one of the nation’s premier election forecasters, changed its ratings for 17 House districts — and all of them moved in favor of Democrats.
- Democrats’ lead in the generic ballot, if you go by the RealClearPolitics polling average, has quietly doubled (and then some) since the beginning of June, from a mere 3.2 percentage points to a healthy 7.8 points.
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Vox
2 new polls give Democrats a double-digit lead in the 2018 generic ballot
A pair of surveys from top pollsters give Democrats a 12-point advantage in the 2018 election’s generic ballot.
Dylan Scott
Jul 25, 2018, 2:20pm
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