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Oregon election authorities to begin clearing 800K inactive voters from its voter rolls

Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read said last week that the state is expected to purge 160,000 of its 800,000 inactive voters from the registry immediately, after they failed to meet the criteria to keep their registration active.

This is treason.

We should never use any voting machines.

All votes should be black pen on paper only, counted by hand by all parties, and in public view.

A Democrat-aligned federal judge in Oregon moved Monday to block the Trump administration from accessing the state’s unredacted voter rolls.

The ruling dealt another setback to the Justice Department’s effort to obtain detailed voter registration data from Democrat-run states.

U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai, a Joe Biden appointee, said he intends to dismiss the Justice Department’s lawsuit and will issue a written opinion in the coming days.

Yesterday, Politico ran a terrific elections story headlined, “Virginia state court blocks Democrats’ redistricting push.” The subheadline said it all: “The ruling is a major setback for Democrats’ efforts to redraw the lines in the state.”

If you’ve been following the great redistricting arms race, you know the playbook: one side redraws maps in their favor outside the normal census cycle, the other side screams unfair! and then rushes to do the exact same thing in their own states. It’s mutually assured gerrymandering.

Yesterday, circuit court judge Jack Hurley, Jr., in rural Tazewell County, Virginia, just dropped a reality check on the Democrats’ play in the Commonwealth. He blocked their entire push to ram through a constitutional amendment that would have let them redraw congressional districts mid-decade, potentially flipping the current purplish 6D-5R split into something dark blue – maybe even 10D-1R in their most hopeful schemes.

In other words, Democrats basically tried to turn Virginia all-blue, even though at least 40% of its residents vote red, with a rushed, last-minute constitutional referendum jammed onto ballots without proper notice and without even kissing voters first.

Judge Hurley didn’t decide whether the gerrymander itself was fair— he didn’t need to. He ruled that the whole process was procedurally invalid: Democrats rushed through it and skipped steps. Judge Hurley drily observed, “Certainly, both houses of the Commonwealth’s legislature are required to follow their own rules and resolutions.”

That’s probably all she wrote. The state constitutional amendment enabling the mid-census redistricting is now blocked. Kaput. There will be no voter referendum this spring. So there will be no new maps in time for 2026 midterms. The current court-drawn maps with their 6D-5R split remain in place, unless a state supreme court appeal succeeds. Most commenters think the state’s top judges lean conservative, so a reversal seems unlikely, given all the problems Judge Hurley pointed out.

Virginia Republicans called it “a decisive victory for the rule of law.” Democrats complained that “Republicans who can’t win at the ballot box are abusing the legal process... This was court-shopping, plain and simple!” Court-shopping. That’s rich.

The mid-decade redistricting wars rage on. California and Utah already delivered Democrat gains —lawsuits in progress— while Texas and other red states added more seats. Texas recently beat the Democrats’ challenge at SCOTUS, so its new +5-GOP map sticks. The gerrymander-go-round keeps on spinning, and where it stops, nobody knows.

Speaking of the Supreme Court, yesterday the Hill ran an unintentionally encouraging op-ed headlined, “The Supreme Court could bring Texas-style gerrymandering to your state.” Several outlets, including WaPo, ran the exact same op-ed yesterday, which seems to defy normal journalistic inclinations toward exclusivity, but who cares, especially when a narrative needs a push? The op-ed anguished over the most anticipated decision of the entire court term, maybe of the whole Trump 2.0 era.

One of the most influential decisions this Supreme Court term is over Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which regulates states into ensuring that minority districts exist. The rationale is not that electoral districts should reflect the state’s political makeup, giving Democrats and Republicans proportional representation. Haha! That would be silly. The Act is all about skin color, arrogantly presuming that people with similar melanin levels vote the same.

Courtwatchers forecast that SCOTUS is preparing to knock down one of the Act’s final pillars, causing the entire rotten racial edifice to topple over into the dustbin of history. If that does happen, then a whole bunch of states —particularly but not only Southern states— are salivating at the chance to redraw racially-reserved districts for political advantage— a goal SCOTUS has already explicitly approved.

“If this case is decided unfavorably,” the op-ed warned darkly, “all levels of government will rush to redraw their maps in discriminatory ways, disrupting the 2026 primary elections.” Or improving the 2026 primaries, depending on how you look at it.

It’s a nail-biter. The decision is expected this term. It could happen any day now —which would leave time for adjustments prior to the midterms— or it could come at the end of the term in July, possibly too late to make any difference this time around. You can bet the planning is well underway.

Either way, this promises to be a blockbuster Supreme Court term, including this VRA case and other monumental decisions, such as whether Trump can keep running his tariff dashboard the same way, whether men can play in women’s sports, and whether presidents have authority to remove Fed governors like mortgage fraudster Lisa Cook. It’s going to get spicy.

Against all odds, the SAVE Act appears to be advancing in the Senate. After a reporter asked about the holdup, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) explained that the Senate was adding a photo ID requirement to the bill’s existing requirement of U.S. citizenship. “At some point, we’ll have that vote,” Thune promised.

“I’m for it, and I think most of our colleagues in the Senate are,” the Majority Leader said.

The House version of the bill requires anyone applying for federal voter registration to submit proof of U.S. citizenship, and directs the states to identify and remove non‑citizens from voter rolls. If the Senate adds an ID requirement, that would be a game-changer.

The hurdle to pass it would then shift to the oft-discussed ‘silent filibuster’ problem.

Regardless of filibuster problems, it could still pass if a handful of Democrats support the bill. You might wonder who opposes a commonsense bill requiring citizenship and a photo ID to vote in federal elections? Opponents say black folks don’t understand how to use IDs, so the whole thing is racist. Plus, Democrats can’t win if IDs are required. So.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they passed the ID requirement in time for midterms? For now, we can still bask in the warm glow of that dream. What we need is election-integrity news that could shift the Overton window and force some Democrats to get on board.

Speaking of election integrity, there’s been a major, terrific development in Atlanta, the capital of “water-main break” tactics and unsupervised overnight ballot counting. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an indignant story headlined, “FBI raids Fulton County election office seeking ballots from Trump’s 2020 loss.” The sub-headline confirmed that 2020 is far from over: “The move is an escalation in the ongoing battle over the results of the presidential election more than five years ago.”

FBI agents descended on the warehouse in force, their black SUVs and tractor-trailer-sized evidence vans screeching to a halt in a coordinated blitz. Armed with a court order signed by Magistrate Judge Catherine Salinas, they stormed the facility, sealing off entrances and methodically carting away boxes upon boxes —upwards of 700 in total— brimming with physical ballots from the 2020 election, digital voter rolls, and ballot images.

It was a scene straight out of a political drama: FBI techs in tactical gear inventorying documents under the frantic eye of the county’s clerk, Che Alexander, while stunned election workers watched helplessly from the sidelines. It came with no warning, no leaks— just a sudden, surgical strike authorized by the Justice Department, fueled by lingering allegations of voter fraud in the county that had tipped Georgia’s razor-thin 2020 margin for Joe Biden. ...

Well. For everyone who has been impatiently waiting for some action— here you go! This is the Democrats’ worst-case scenario, and it is playing out right on schedule. Consider the timing. The SAVE Act is teetering on a razor’s edge in the Senate, and it just needs a high-profile election story to push it over the top into law. Well, here you go.

Fulton County was already reeling under recent official admissions that 315,000 ballots were improperly counted without poll workers’ signatures. Biden won by 11,000 votes.

On December 9th, Fulton County Attorney Ann Brumbaugh stunned the State Elections Board when she admitted that the 315,000 votes violated state law. She added the county “had misplaced other tabulator tapes and documents.” About 148 tabulator tapes remain unaccounted for, so far.

Tabulator tapes are like receipts. They are printed by ballot machines to verify that the number of voters matches the number of votes. They are a key piece of the verification and certification process in every county election. Following the admissions, the State Election Board eventually voted 3-0 to refer the case to the State Attorney General’s Office, where Fulton County could be fined as much as $5,000 for each missing or unsigned tape.

Georgia’s Secretary of State —and longtime election-fraud denier— Brad Raffensperger denied the many failures were evidence of fraud, citing simple procedural mistakes in one of the most highly contentious elections of anybody’s lifetime. “A clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes,” he tweeted, lamely. Watchdog groups scoffed derisively.

And why shouldn’t they scoff? If these were just simple procedural mistakes, as Raffensberger claims, why did it take five years and any number of lawsuits to uncover them? Why didn’t the county just admit this stuff right up front?

Again, consider the timing. In December, Fulton County admitted that 315,000 ballots were illegally counted. The county still refused to turn over records. One month later, the FBI raided the warehouse. Boom.

"315,000 ballots were improperly counted without poll workers’ signatures. Biden won by 11,000 votes."

Patrick says

"315,000 ballots were improperly counted without poll workers’ signatures. Biden won by 11,000 votes."

This proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the 2020 election was stolen in Fulton County, Georgia.

Patrick says

"315,000 ballots were improperly counted without poll workers’ signatures. Biden won by 11,000 votes."

This proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the 2020 election was stolen in Fulton County, Georgia.