Opinion

WRITTEN BY
Stephen MacDonald, GraniteGrok.com

Democrats have nothing. Well, that’s not entirely true. They are still adept at getting Republicans to eat each other’s lunch. It works like this. Every side has factions and pundits scrabbling for eyeballs, which results in (at least) two things. Click-bait BS headlines and hyperbolic exhortations. Dems do it, Bees do it, everyone does it- well, maybe not bees. But you get the point. And Democrats know that Republicans can be easily led to any trough filled with alleged broken Republican promises where they will heartily feed and spread the poison amongst themselves.

The circle jerk quickly becomes a circular firing squad, and no, I’m not claiming’ we’re immune, but I’ve debunked more than a few acts of internet fraud from both directions in my time, so in all things balance, I suppose

Read the complete article: The Left is Trying to Get the Right To Doom Pam Bondi

WRITTEN BY
Robin Lumb
This column first appeared in Jacksonville Today
http://jaxtoday.org 

As humorist Dave Barry used to say, “I swear I’m not making this up!”

The Republican Party of Florida is now openly claiming that it literally – and yes, I do mean literally – “owns” the word “Republican” and that it has the absolute legal right under Florida law to deny its use to any independent organization of registered Republicans unwilling to submit to its authority.
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WRITTEN BY
Staff Writer

When Missoula County redrew its floodplain lines last spring, homeowners awoke to a 30 percent plunge in their property values and new mandates for flood insurance, $939 permit fees, and strict building bans—changes identified in CAER’s overview fact pack on excessive regulation.

Read the complete Article: Flood Maps Weaponized for Land Control

OPINION

WRITTEN BY
Staff Writer

Donald Trump’s Truth Social post this morning—pledging to ban voting machines and mail-in ballots by executive order—was instantly polarizing. But here’s the hard truth: Trump isn’t the only one raising alarms. From progressives in Pennsylvania to independents in New Jersey, Americans of all stripes are increasingly skeptical of the machines that count their votes.
And they have good reason.

The Montana Example: Ripley’s Vanishing Votes

In Montana, Senator Ripley’s own rural precinct saw every single one of his votes shifted to his opponent by an ES&S tabulator programming error. All 25 ballots in that precinct—including those cast by Ripley himself, his wife, and their relatives—were wrongly credited to his competitor.

This happened back in 2012, and the election was officially certified with the error in place, because neither the county’s audit process nor the state’s certification procedures caught it and nothing has been implemented since then that would have caught these errors. The only reason it came to light is because the precinct was so small and personal—Ripley and his family knew immediately that something was wrong. In a larger precinct, where votes are more anonymous and diverse, the mistake might never have been noticed at all.

Read the complete Article: Why Americans Across the Spectrum Distrust Voting Machines