TALLAHASSEE (11/16/2018 03:19 PM EST) — After getting crushed in the 2018 midterms, the Florida Democratic Party is now playing defense after staffers sent altered state election documents to voters, a move state officials have asked federal prosecutors to investigate.

The issue arose after state party staff sent voters forms that are intended to fix vote-by-mail ballots that had been initially rejected. Those forms, which are official state documents, were sent with altered dates, leading the Florida Department of State to turn over the paperwork to several U.S. attorneys and request an inquiry into the “irregularities.”

After saying earlier in the week that the state officials were trying “divert attention” away from the Department of State, which is part of Gov. Rick Scott’s administration, the Democrats on Friday took a different approach: They lawyered up.

Commentary: Recently, Facebook took down Lara Trump’s interview with former President Donald Trump, warning that Trump’s content was banned on the platform. In doing this, Facebook made a new escalation in its censorship project. First, Facebook took the position Trump could not post because his claims of election fraud, leading up to the events of Jan. 6, posed a clear and present danger to the peaceful transfer of power. Second, Facebook said Trump could not post at all, in a sense implying that even his future posts might pose a similar danger. Now Facebook has taken it a step further by taking the position that even interviews with Trump conducted by others cannot be posted. Trump, let’s remember, is still the leading figure in the Republican Party, the most prominent voice of opposition, and a potential candidate in the 2024 presidential race. And Facebook and other media platforms even seem …

There is great media focus on the Republican-dominated legislatures determined to unfairly reduce, restrict, or eliminate likely Democratic Party voters — just look at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game dust-up over proposed Georgia voting laws. Since those voters are often minorities, the suppression efforts are both unethical and racist. The antiseptic view of the phenomena, however, is that those GOP legislatures would rewrite election laws to benefit the Black and Brown population if they were reliable Republican voters.

The political party in power suppresses the opposition, regardless of whether they are Republicans or Democrats. Denying representation can be shamelessly overt or subtly disguised. The more dominant a party is, the more opportunity there is to manipulate voter participation and election outcomes.  As more elected offices are won, the dominant party is emboldened to further suppress the opposition and increase their hold on power.

When Democrats are in a majority, they are just as eager to squelch fair voting and representation that doesn’t comport with their agenda. Gerrymandering (delineating voting districts to facilitate preferred outcomes) is one example where Democrats and Republicans are equally enthusiastic. The majority party draws electoral boundaries to their advantage.

The public relations advantage for Democrat suppression is that their manipulation of voting districts is less likely to correlate with racial bias. Here in Colorado, our divide is more commonly urban vs. rural viewpoints in local elections. Urban voting districts with a high proportion of Democrat voters exercise undue influence over their rural neighbors because Colorado counties with populations of less than 70,000 are required to employ At-Large voting for county commissioner elections. The practice allows one voting block to win all elected seats, not just their proportionate share.

This is a practice that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg described as a preeminent second-generation way to deny equal opportunity to minority voters and candidates (Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, Attorney General – 2013). At-Large voting is banned in all federal elections, but Colorado Democrats have fought off every appeal to do the same for our local elections because it works in their favor.

An official in Texas’ Attorney General’s office testified during a state House hearing that the number of election fraud cases in Texas is at an “all-time high.” The amount is “higher than our historical average by a long shot,” said Jonathan White, the head of the election fraud agency within the Texas Attorney General’s Special Prosecution Division, to the Texas House Elections Committee last week, reported The Texan. When asked by a state lawmaker if there were trends in election fraud prosecutions, White said that “have 510 offenses pending against 43 defendants in court right now,” saying it’s “for several reasons probably.” He did not elaborate. White said that about 80 percent of those pending cases involve alleged mail-in ballot fraud, and 60 percent of resolved cases involved mail-in voting. The attorney general’s office prosecuted 534 election fraud-related cases committed by 155 people since 2005, according to the report. “I think we …

Gateway Pundit received and published video of a Detroit city van delivering tens of thousands of ballots in USPS boxes that were not sealed, that had no chain of custody documentation and that arrived nearly 8 hours after the deadline to accept ballots. As a reward for their investigative reporting on election integrity, they were permanently banned from Twitter.

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Gateway pundit published two videos of ballots being dropped off hours after the deadline in Detroit, Michigan, debunking Big Tech and the mainstream media’s election fraud narrative. They were deleted from Twitter and Facebook. The Gateway Pundit founder was permanently banned by Twitter. In this video, a black Hyundai Elantra also drove into the TCF Center in the early morning on November 4th. Small items were exchanged in two recorded trips through the driver’s open window with someone from inside the TCF Center who came out to meet the car’s occupant.

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Today Facebook was shaken by the revelation that the personal information of more than 500 million users was leaked to the public. Buried in the reports is the fact that Facebook knew about this leak as early as January of this year, and did nothing to contain it.

Hackers published the personal information, including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and email addresses publicly on a hacker forum earlier today. Shockingly, Facebook – and the wider Internet – was made aware of this breach as early as January of this year, and the big tech platform seemingly did nothing to mitigate the damage.

Business Insider reported that “A Facebook spokesperson told Insider that the data was scraped due to a vulnerability that the company patched in 2019” and “he leaked data could provide valuable information to cybercriminals who use people’s personal information to impersonate them or scam them into handing over login credentials, according to Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, who first discovered the entire trough of leaked data online on Saturday.”

All 533,000,000 Facebook records were just leaked for free.

This means that if you have a Facebook account, it is extremely likely the phone number used for the account was leaked.

I have yet to see Facebook acknowledging this absolute negligence of your data. https://t.co/ysGCPZm5U3 pic.twitter.com/nM0Fu4GDY8

— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021

The leak was first publicized earlier this year, when a hacker attempted to sell access to the private information on a hacking forum. Motherboard reported that “A user of a low-level cybercriminal forum is selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, and conveniently letting customers look up those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot.”

Facebook apparently knew about this breach since at least this time, and Facebook has apparently done nothing to mitigate the damage. A cyber security expert acknowledged that the big tech platform would likely not be able to stop the damage, but ” Facebook could notify users so they could remain vigilant for possible phishing schemes or fraud using their personal data.”

Facebook has yet to publicly acknowledge the breach or release of the information on its press release web page. Of their recent releases, two pertain to COVID-19 vaccines, one relates to the Oculus virtual reality system owned by Facebook, and another discusses changes to the platform’s news feed.

On March 1, 2021, Atlantic Media, a minority shareholder and former corporate owner of The Atlantic, became aware that a serious issue was affecting its systems. Upon deeper investigation, it was discovered that an unauthorized actor had accessed its servers. Atlantic Media immediately engaged external forensics experts to lead an in-depth investigation into the situation and took measures to safeguard its systems as a team worked aggressively to restore the security and functionality of both systems and servers.

The forensic investigation found no evidence that any subscribers’, customers’, or clients’ financial or sensitive information was involved.

Regrettably, however, as Atlantic Media today informed employees, the investigation determined that certain portions of the network file-share server were potentially briefly accessible to the unauthorized actors. The potentially accessible folders on that server included one containing W-2 forms, W-9 forms, and other tax documents that contain names and Social Security Numbers of certain current and former employees of Atlantic Media; its current and former subsidiaries and affiliates, including The Atlantic; and some specific independent contractors. Atlantic Media does not have evidence of any fraudulent use or public disclosure of these data.

Atlantic Media is mailing an official notice to anyone employed in the U.S. by Atlantic Media or its affiliates or subsidiaries between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2020, as well as to certain independent contractors. The letter will include information about enrolling in complimentary credit-monitoring and identity-restoration services. As an additional resource, Atlantic Media has also established a dedicated call center so that anyone impacted can call with questions or to request more information. To reach the call center, you may call, toll-free, 833-416-0935. (If calling from outside the United States, a toll call can be placed to 936-265-7650 using any applicable international dialing code).

Atlantic Media takes this incident very seriously, and sincerely regrets the inconvenience it has caused. In addition to the extensive security safeguards already in place, the company has subsequent to this incident taken a number of additional steps to enhance the security of its systems and the data it maintains––and this will remain an ongoing priority.

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The state of Pennsylvania removed more than 20,000 deceased voters from being able to vote after a lawsuit that was settled by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, according to an announcement from a public interest group, which said it reached a settlement with Pennsylvania state officials this week. The lawsuit (pdf) was filed in November and alleged that some 21,000 dead people were still on the state’s voter rolls during the 2020 presidential election. Pennsylvania agreed to compare its voter-registration database with the Social Security Death Index before removing the names from the rolls. “This marks an important victory for the integrity of elections in Pennsylvania,” Public Interest Legal Foundation President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said in a statement in announcing the court’s decision. “The Commonwealth’s failure to remove deceased registrants created a vast opportunity for voter fraud and abuse. It is important to not have dead voters active on …

Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a judge to dismiss Dominion Voting Systems Inc.’s lawsuit alleging he exploited false election-fraud claims to hawk gold coins, cigars and supplements on a podcast.