Date: November 1, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
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Election news and much more. It’s all here, including input from callers nationwide, on this edition of Crosstalk’s News Round-Up broadcast. Here’s your weekly sample:
–Nearly 62 million Americans had already cast an election ballot by early afternoon yesterday according to the University of Florida Election Lab.
–A democratic operative is on video explaining the process for influencing the results of an election.
–GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign sent a letter to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office requesting that it bolster election security.
–A federal appeals court ruled that the Mississippi law that allows mail ballots to come in up to five days after Election Day is illegal, because voters need to cast their ballots by Election Day.
–Someone in the control room at a local ABC-TV affiliate messed up. WNEP-TV in the Scranton area, was airing a Formula One race on October 27th when viewers noticed that Kamala Harris had won Pennsylvania by 5 points. They said it was a test for election night.
–Many Pennsylvania voters are reporting that they still haven’t received their mail-in ballots, days away from the 2024 election.
–A glitch exists in some types of Dominion voting machines. Voters who use a Dominion ICX voter assist terminal will experience an issue if they want to vote for candidates of both parties according to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
–Monday’s ruling from the Nevada Supreme Court on accepting mail-in ballots without a postmark, and after the election, strikes a devastating blow to election integrity for years to come.
–Machines in Nevada County, California, encountered a printing error last week and officials are unaware of just how many of the 77,000 ballots were potentially compromised.
–Voter confidence has been shaken with voting machines malfunctioning in several Illinois jurisdictions.
–The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state of Virginia is allowed to resume its purge of non-citizen voter registrations.
–America First Legal won its lawsuit against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes on Thursday over 218,000 voters who were incorrectly registered as providing proof of U.S. citizenship.
–Michigan officials have charged a non-U.S. citizen (Chinese student) for casting an illegal vote at an early voting site in Ann Arbor on October 27th.
–Investigators found incendiary devices adorned with the message, “Free Gaza” at the sites of two ballot boxes that were set on fire in Oregon and Washington on Monday.
–Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance on October 31st said his phone was hacked by Chinese entities.
