The Wire - October 30, 2024

//The Wire//2300Z October 30, 2024////ROUTINE////BLUF: ELECTION INTEGRITY ISSUES CONTINUE AS EARLY VOTING INCIDENTS HIGHLIGHT CONCERNS.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE------HomeFront-United States: Election irregularities, fraud, and voter intimidation tactics continue as before:Pennsylvania: Direct and open voter intimidation continues to be carried out by volunteers affiliated with the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. Individuals have been observed to deceptively portray themselves as election officials or poll watchers, who are in no way affiliated with official election integrity efforts. These individuals have been observed telling prospective voters that they can’t vote, or that they are at the wrong polling place.In Bucks County, several lawsuits have been filed regarding the illegal closure of polling places yesterday by law enforcement. This afternoon a judge issued a judgement confirming that the closure of early-voting places was illegal, and while the polling places will not re-open, citizens desiring to vote early may apply for an early mail-in ballot until November 1. Throughout Pennsylvania, a local ABC affiliate TV station allegedly mistakenly aired an election day “test” news ticker, which just so happened to show a Kamala Harris victory. AC: While the news station itself claims the news ticker leak was an error, these kinds of “errors” seem to be happening quite often in Pennsylvania, and only end up favoring one particular candidate.Colorado: A spreadsheet containing the passwords and access data for nearly all voting machines statewide was allegedly “accidentally” leaked to the entire world by being uploaded to the official Secretary of State’s website. AC: While many may attribute this incident to incompetence, this could also be a deliberate effort to plant the seeds of shifting blame away from state officials regarding election integrity issues. Now, state officials can always say “we were hacked”, which is a less-severe implication than government officials deliberately changing votes.Ohio: The Secretary of State has filed a lawsuit against the federal government due to the Department of Homeland Security not providing citizenship verification data as required by law.Michigan: Initial early voting data indicates that over 114,000 Michigan voters have voted multiple times from multiple addresses. AC: This has been a hot topic in Michigan, as state officials have attempted to downplay the fact that out of 7.6 million eligible voters throughout the state…somehow 8.2 million people are registered to vote. State officials have frequently made claims that this discrepancy is due to the intricacies of how the voter rolls are purged. However, seeing as the data very obviously highlights this gaslighting, and hundreds of thousands of ineligible votes have already been cast in this election, Michigan citizens are unlikely to be reassured or surprised upon the miraculous discovery that the illegal voting which was expressly not supposed to happen, has indeed already happened.Also in Michigan, this afternoon the Secretary of State admitted during a televised press conference that not only have issues been reported with Dominion Voter Access Terminal voting machines (which provide assistance to disabled voters in casting their ballots), but that the programming issues have been reported nationwide. Straight-party voting reportedly causes issues within the system, though exactly how this occurs is unknown. AC: This may come as a surprise to some, as this issue nationwide implies that these devices, which are not supposed to be networked or connected to the internet, somehow probably are, in a continuation of the years-long issues pertaining to the networking of various voting machines. As the Secretary of State has admitted to this issue, and explicitly stated that her colleagues in other states have reported the same issues, this ha