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The Alachua County Supervisor of Elections office says registered voters are facing voter intimidation by an email claiming to be from the Proud Boys.

The email is being sent to registered Democrats in Alachua County insinuating that retaliation will be inflicted upon people who do not vote for President Donald Trump.

This email was sent to registered Democrats in Alachua County by a sender claiming to be from the Proud Boys, an extremist far-right group established in 2016.
The message suggests that the sender has gained access to “the entire voting infrastructure” and is using the obtained data to pick out registered Democrats. The sender tells the reader to switch their party affiliation to Republican in order to show compliance toward the sender’s demands.

The Alachua County Supervisor of Elections has issued a press release stating they are aware of the multiple instances of voter intimidation. The release also states that local, state and federal levels of law enforcement, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security, are working in conjunction with the county to face the threat.

The elections office says it will refer any and all forms of voter intimidation to state and federal law enforcement.

For more information, contact the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections at 352-374-5252.

Election Supervisor: Registered Voters In Alachua County Are Facing Voter Intimidation

Well if Dr. Johnny Bananas is saying it then it must be true!

White House Cites Herd-Immunity Petition Signed by Fake Experts Including ‘Dr. Johnny Bananas’

Dr. I.P. Freely, Dr. Person Fakename are also on board. (and no, none of these are a joke)

For all this talk from Republicans about how evil it would be to change the amount of Justices in the Supreme Court they must have forgotten about the eight times they attempted to do so in recent years in various State Supreme Courts.

Two of those attempts were successful.

GOP has been aggressively trying to pack supreme courts at state level, study says

Here’s a state-by-state rundown of the court-packing attempts Levy documented.

Arizona: Republicans successfully expanded the state Supreme Court from five to seven justices, over the objections of the chief justice, in 2016. Two new justices were chosen by the state’s Republican governor shortly thereafter. The bill’s GOP sponsor directly acknowledged the partisan concerns driving the effort, saying “if there were different person appointing [the justices], I might feel less comfortable.”

Georgia: Georgia Republicans pushed a successful court-packing bill through the legislature in 2016, allowing Republican Gov. Nathan Deal to add two justices to the seven-member court. Deal’s lawyer told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he hoped the more conservative court would issue rulings that were more favorable to businesses.

Florida: Other Republican court-packing attempts stumbled. In 2007, Florida Republicans attempted to more than double the size of the court, from seven to 15 justices, because they were upset over a ruling that found the state’s school voucher system unconstitutional. In 2011, Republicans proposed splitting the high court in two, adding three justices along the way. The change would have left “the [court’s] Republican-friendly justices as the ultimate arbiter of all the borderline constitutional civil matters,” as the Palm Beach Post put it at the time. That effort also failed to make it out of the legislature.

Iowa: The state Supreme Court’s 2009 ruling striking down the same-sex marriage ban similarly inspired Republicans in the legislature to attempt to pack two more justices into the court. That bill died in committee, in part because Democrats controlled the legislature and the governor’s mansion at the time.

Montana: Lawmakers have also attempted to unpack courts, by reducing the number of justices. One such effort was led by Montana Republicans in 2011, which would have eliminated the positions held by two of that court’s most liberal members. The bill’s supporters were frank about their partisan motivations, and it ultimately died in committee.

Oklahoma: In 2017, a Republican who had previously threatened to set himself on fire in response to some court rulings on abortion introduced a bill to shrink the court from nine to five members. At the time, most of the court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic governors. The effort failed.

Washington: In 2013, in what Levy calls “a particularly dramatic interbranch display of hostility,” Washington Republicans introduced a bill to remove four members from the state’s nine-member Supreme Court, immediately following the court’s overturning of Republican-imposed restrictions on tax hikes. The Brennan Center for Justice characterized the proposal as a threat to judicial independence. Levy notes that while the bill failed, Republicans have periodically attempted to revive it in recent years.

Pennsylvania: In 2014, state Republicans considered a proposal to reduce the size of the court as part of a larger package that also would have eliminated the office of the lieutenant governor and shrunk the general assembly. It had bipartisan support — a rarity among these cases — but was ultimately not taken up.

The howls of TDS and the Atlantic is FAKE NEWS yesterday, only to be admitted to by Trump today.

Donald Trump White House Press Briefing Transcript September 23

We want to have… Get rid of the ballots and we’ll have a very peaceful… There won’t be a transfer frankly, there’ll be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it, and you know who knows it better than anybody else? The Democrats know it better than anybody else.

Yesterday: Trump campaign's plan get rid of the ballots and simply declare Trump the winner

A jarring new report from The Atlantic claims that the Trump campaign is discussing potential strategies to circumvent the results of the 2020 election, should Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump, by first alleging the existence of rampant fraud and then appointing electors in battleground states where Republicans maintain a legislative majority, whom Trump would ask to bypass the state’s popular vote and instead to choose electors loyal to the GOP and the sitting president.

Trump Campaign Actively Discussing Radical Measures To Bypass Election Results

Original report at the Atlantic (paywall): The Election That Could Break America

What happens when the incumbent President of the United States falls apart due to questions from voters on the campaign trail?

Well clearly, if Thou Shalt Not Criticize Dear Leader, then, asking questions at a Q&A event was an Ambush!

Fox News Accuses ABC of Ambushing Trump With Voter Questions

“The president loves mixing it up with everybody,” Laura Ingraham said, “But this is an ambush.”

Voter questions on the campaign trail? Who could have possible seen that one coming?!?!

Everybody knows Trump can't handle questions from anyone other than Fox "News" opinion sycophants. If there's anybody to blame it's his own campaign for putting him up on that stage. They're apparently protected by Commandment I as well.

Clearly the President is not to blame for admitting to the negligent homicide of 190,000 Americans on tape with Bob Woodward.

Thou Shalt Not Criticize Dear Leader

Therefore:

Tucker Carlson Blames Lindsey Graham for Trump's Bob Woodward Interview

It seems like the people who are directly affected by Trump's incompetence are starting to turn.

Biden holds four-point lead among active duty troops

Clinton lost active duty troops by about 20% so that's a pretty huge swing.

Another reliably Republican group affected by Trump incompetence: Seniors

Biden Leads in Polls With Senior Voters

Black guy, no gun, shot in the back in front of his kids.

White guy, assault rifle, mows down a couple of folks in the street and can't even get arrested.

Kenosha Shooting: Video Shows Suspected Gunman Kyle Rittenhouse Being Allowed To Leave Scene

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Acting Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) released the fifth and final volume of the Committee’s bipartisan Russia investigation titled, “Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities,” which examines Russia’s attempts to gain influence in the American political system during the 2016 elections.

The Committee’s investigation totaled more than three years of investigative activity, more than 200 witness interviews, and more than a million pages of reviewed documents. All five volumes total more than 1300 pages.

Senate Intel Releases Volume 5 of Bipartisan Russia Report

Bipartisan Senate Report Shows How Trump Colluded With Russia in 2016

Russiagate Was Not a Hoax. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed what the Mueller report could not.