World’s Biggest Meatpacker JBS Wants Public Money to Fight Climate Change
Major Brazilian polluter champions agribusiness as a solution to hunger at G20.
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Permission to Cheat: Audits Can’t Detect Fake Votes on New Hybrid Voting Machines
Paper ballots are safe only if marked by hand, not by machine.
Drinking Water Out of Thin Air (VIDEOS)
Some private companies are turning their attention to the need for clean drinking water by inventing machines that can literally extract water out of thin air.
Antonio Veciana, Mystery Man in JFK Assassination, Part 1
More than 50 years after President John F. Kennedy’s death, details relating to his assassination are still accumulating like snowflakes in a blizzard.
Wrong Votes and System Failures Mar South Carolina Elections, Report Finds
South Carolina voters have been voting on the same faulty, outdated equipment with no audit-able paper trail since 2004.
NAACP Sues Tennessee County Over Mismanaging Voter Registrations (VIDEO)
Filed Wednesday, the NAACP lawsuit accuses the local election commission of bungling the processing of thousands of eleventh-hour voter registration applications.
Georgia Voting Machines Left Unsecured and Unguarded (VIDEO)
Video footage shows unattended voting machines in Fulton County left in an unlocked room completely vulnerable to attackers the day before early voting begins.
High Rate of Absentee Ballot Rejection Reeks of Voter Suppression
The entire state has a chronic problem with rejecting mail-in ballots.
Keeping Jim Crow Alive in Georgia With ‘Exact Match’
“Exact match” voter registration is a law enacted by the Republican-controlled Georgia state legislature; it carries on the infamous history of suppressing the African American vote in the Peach State.
Supreme Court Celebrates Columbus Day by Screwing North Dakota’s Native American Voters
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld a ruling from a lower court requiring ID and street address to cast a ballot in North Dakota. The ruling is expected to have an outsized impact on Native American rural communities in the state.
Group Asks Court to Return Accountability and Transparency to Georgia Elections
Though a federal judge ruled recently that it is too late for Georgia to switch to paper ballots ahead of the midterms, an advocacy group hopes that the same court will force Peach State officials to take several steps to make the upcoming elections more secure and transparent.
The Destruction of Ballot Images an Increasing Concern in Florida Counties
Broward County supervisor of elections destroyed both paper ballots and ballot images after a congressional candidate filed a records request.