[Townhall] The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a conservative watchdog group, on Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) accusing Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) of violating federal election laws earlier this year.
According to the NLPC, Waters' campaign sent out a "slate mailer" that included former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa who was running for Governor in the Democratic primary. Villaraigoa's campaign agreed to pay a $25,000 fee for the mailer. NLPC says Villaraigosa failed to pay for the mailer but a group called "Families and Teachers for Antonio" paid the fee.
"Whereas candidates like Villaraigosa may legally pay Waters' campaign for the proportional costs of their inclusion on her slate mailer, it is not legal for such payment to be made by a third party like 'Families and Teachers for Antonio,'" NPLC alleges.
NLPC filed a similar complaint with the FEC for another "slate mailer" which was part of the 2016 election. The watchdog group says Waters' campaign accepted $35,000 from the Democratic State Central Committee of California (DSCCC) to include then-Senate candidate Kamala Harris.
Waters has been sending out "slate mailers," which resemble a sample ballot distributed by political parties before an election, for years.
According to the FEC's 2004 advisory opinion, payments from other candidates "would not constitute support of, or in-kind contributions to, any federal candidate appearing in the brochure, so long as the authorized committee of that federal candidate reimburses the Waters Committee."
[Al Jazeera] The former chief of Cambridge Analytica - a controversial elections consultancy - has used a highly offensive racial slur to describe the prime minister of Barbados, according to leaked emails cited by The Guardian.
Alexander Nix, whose firm accessed data from millions of Facebook users without authorisation, referred to Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Information Minister Lucille Moe using the N-word in the messages dated October 2010, The Guardian reported on Monday.
The report said Cambridge Analytica's sister company, SCL Elections, was at the time pitching for business with the Barbados Labour party.
According to the messages published by The Guardian, a member of SCL's team wrote to Nix on 15 October, saying: "I get the distinct impression they don't want to talk to us."
To which the SCL Elections boss replied: "they just n*****s."
Nix did not respond to a request to comment on the issue, The Guardian said.
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[LATIMES] Randall Marquis has lived in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, for 31 years, but he knew it was a mistake when he received a notice last month that said he was newly registered to vote. He may have a state driver’s license, but he’s a citizen of Canada.
"When I saw that card, I just threw it out," Marquis said. "I know I’m not going to vote. I’m not allowed to vote, it’s stupid that I should be registered to vote."
The Newport Beach resident, who has a green card and is married to a U.S. citizen, was one of some 1,500 people who the California Department of Motor Vehicles said on Monday were wrongly registered to vote between late April and late September. These errors, which included other non-citizens, are in addition to the roughly 23,000 registration mistakes disclosed by the DMV last month.
Betcha that in November the margin of the Democratic candidates’ popular vote wins will be down by that much versus 2016...
Marquis contacted The Times on Sept. 30 to say that his attempt to get a replacement driver’s license at a DMV field office in late August ended with him being sent a registered voter notice by elections officials. DMV officials, in responding to a request for comment from The Times, then discovered additional errors that were blamed on employees making data entries.
"We have worked quickly with the Department of Technology to correct these errors and have also updated the programming and added additional safeguards to improve this process," DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said in a written statement.
Shimoto and Amy Tong, the director of the state’s technology department, notified Secretary of State Alex Padilla of the errors on Monday.
The revelation prompted Padilla ‐ who held a conference call with elections officials across California to discuss the new issues ‐ to ask for an independent audit of the implementation of the motor voter system.
Padilla said in a letter to Shiomoto and Tong that he is "deeply frustrated and disappointed" after the repeated errors. "Immediate and transparent action is imperative," Padilla wrote.
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How about getting rid of the 'motor voter system?
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"President Trump Hints That Bygones Are Not Bygones In The Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight"
They'd damn well better not be. For decades, the Democrats have been at war with America and all that's good about it-- and it's high time we started fighting back.
Please, no more "comity" in the Senate. No more "bipartisanship." No more "going along to get along."
The Democrats are enemies. Treat them that way. All of them.
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If they stayed within the standard lines of civility then bygones could be bygones. They did not. War has been declared and the Dems should be treated as hostiles until they prove by their actions that they are no longer enemies.
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They got the murderous Al Capone on tax evasion. The evil Maxine Waters is a rabble rouser who incentivizes her base to murder. If fund raising malpractice is the only way to take her down, that's a shame but we should do it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Just my guess. 
