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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to have left them unswayed...

After meeting with President Trump, Michigan GOP lawmakers say they're not aware of any information that would change Joe Biden's victory in the state. “The candidates who win the most votes win elections," they said in a statement.

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After three weeks of waiting, we thought every U.S. House race in the country was finally decided. No such luck. FiveThirtyEight has uncalled the North Carolina 9th District1 — an extremely close race that we thought the Republican had won — in light of allegations of voter fraud that, it turns out, may go back to 2016.

On Tuesday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections met with the expectation that it would certify Republican pastor Mark Harris’s apparent 905-vote win over Democratic veteran Dan McCready. But it did not, citing the board’s responsibility “to assure that an election is determined without taint of fraud or corruption and without irregularities that may have changed the result of an election.” Although the state Republican Party objected, all nine members of the board of elections voted to delay the certification. On Friday, there was no sign that the race would be certified anytime soon; the board of elections voted to hold an evidentiary hearing on or before Dec. 21.

The week of the election, investigators began looking into possible absentee-voter fraud in Bladen and Robeson counties, in the 9th District’s less populated eastern end. On Thursday, local media reported on several affidavits submitted by the North Carolina Democratic Party in which voters said that people came to their doors to collect their unsealed absentee ballots. One voter alleged that her ballot was incomplete at the time and that the collector said “she would finish it herself.” Another claimed to have received an absentee ballot that she did not request.

FiveThirtyEight also took a look at absentee-by-mail ballots in the 9th District and found that the absentee statistics and the election results do imply that something unusual happened in absentee-by-mail voting in Bladen County (and, to a lesser extent, Robeson).

In six of the district’s eight counties, fewer than 3 percent of total votes were absentee-by-mail ballots. But in Bladen County, that number was 7.3 percent, suggesting a push to get people there to vote by mail. Absentee-by-mail ballots tended to be much better for McCready than other ballots — except in Bladen County. There, absentee-by-mail ballots were more Republican-leaning than the rest of Bladen’s votes by 8 percentage points. But if we look at the whole district, absentee-by-mail ballots were 24 points more Democratic-leaning.

Something looks off in Bladen County’s absentee ballots

Share of votes that were absentee-by-mail and margins by county as of Nov. 30, 2018

Ballot Margin County Absentee-by-mail Share Absentee- by-mail All Other Difference Bladen 7.3% R+24 R+16 R+8 Robeson 2.2 D+21 D+15 D+6 Scotland 2.3 D+21 D+13 D+7 Cumberland 2.2 D+16 D+4 D+12 Mecklenburg 5.8 D+29 D+8 D+21 Richmond 2.0 D+29 D+2 D+27 Anson 2.0 D+49 D+16 D+33 Union 2.8 D+21 R+21 D+43 Districtwide 3.8 D+23 R+1 D+24

Source: North Carolina State Board of Elections

Particularly troubling is the fact that only 19 percent of Bladen County’s accepted absentee-by-mail ballots were cast by registered Republicans; 42 percent were cast by registered Democrats, and 39 percent by unaffiliated voters.

Michael Bitzer, a political science professor at Catawba College who studies North Carolina politics, told the Charlotte Observer that it’s hard to square that statistic with the fact that Harris received 61 percent of Bladen’s absentee-by-mail vote. As Bitzer noted in his analysis, Harris would have had to win every registered Republican, along with nearly every unaffiliated voter and some registered Democrats, to reach that total, which seems implausible. In other counties, McCready’s margin in absentee-by-mail ballots tracked closely with the percentage of absentee-by-mail ballots cast by registered Democrats.

Bitzer also found that Robeson and Bladen counties had unusually high percentages of requested absentee-by-mail ballots that were then never returned — 40 percent in Bladen and 62 percent in Robeson, while no other county exceeded 27 percent. By raw numbers, Robeson’s 1,180 unreturned ballots far exceeded even the 762 in far more populous Mecklenburg County, which cast more than three times as many total ballots as Robeson.

It turns out that the data irregularities in Bladen County extend to past elections, too. The 9th District saw a contentious and razor-close Republican primary in May 2018, when Harris ousted incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger by 828 votes. Bladen accounted for 56 percent of the absentee-by-mail ballots (456 of 811) cast in that primary despite being home to just 6 percent of those who voted — and Harris won 437 of those absentee-by-mail votes to Pittenger’s 17, a massive gap nowhere near either the absentee-by-mail results in other counties or the other results in Bladen. And in the 9th District’s 2016 Republican primary, 22 percent of the race’s absentee-by-mail ballots were cast in Bladen County. That time, they went disproportionately to Pittenger challenger Todd Johnson — he won a whopping 221 of Bladen’s 226 absentee-by-mail votes.

None of this necessarily means that there was wrongdoing in the North Carolina 9th. True voter fraud, remember, is quite rare. High levels of absentee-by-mail ballot requests and high candidate performance among those ballots could also be a function of strong get-out-the-vote programs run by the campaigns of Harris and Johnson. Still, given the irregularities in absentee-by-mail votes in Robeson and Bladen counties, we should take seriously the possibility that voter fraud occurred here.

If it did, the big question is whether fraud actually swung this incredibly close election. In Bladen County, where the evidence suggests that too many absentee-by-mail ballots were cast, only 684 absentee-by-mail ballots were accepted; they went for Harris 420-258.2 If fraudsters did indeed collect absentee-by-mail ballots in Bladen County in order to mark them off for Harris, it didn’t produce enough illegal votes to cancel out his 905-vote margin districtwide. But in Robeson County, 1,180 absentee-by-mail ballots that were requested were never returned. If some of those ballots were destroyed, that is a big enough number that McCready could theoretically have gained 906 votes — although it’s still unlikely. Plenty of absentee-by-mail ballots never get returned for one reason or another (lost in the mail, people get too busy, etc.), even in a normal election. But with 1,364 absentee-by-mail ballots cast between the two counties (679 for Harris), and 1,675 absentee-by-mail ballots requested and not returned, it may be impossible to conclude whether voter fraud across both counties changed the election outcome.

Where do we go from here? It’s unclear. If the state board of elections finds that fraud did indeed taint the results, it has the authority to call a new election — even if the fraud wasn’t widespread enough to change the winner. And according to the U.S. Constitution, the soon-to-be-Democratic House of Representatives has the final say on the qualifications of its members; it could theoretically refuse to seat Harris until it’s satisfied that he won fairly.

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Mondaire Jones, one of the first Black & gay members of Congress, loses primary

U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) lost Tuesday’s crowded Democratic primary election to represent New York’s 10th Congressional District. One of the country’s first openly gay Black members of congress was defeated in the 12-person contest by Levi Strauss heir and former Trump impeachment lawyer Daniel Goldman. BREAKING: Daniel Goldman wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New York's 10th Congressional District. #APRaceCall at 12:39 a.m. EDT. https://t.co/2nlgpjiEZK — AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 24, 2022 Jones, who was endorsed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), came in third in the crowded primary race. He currently represents New York’s 17th Congressional District, where he was challenged by Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D), the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Maloney drew criticism for running against a sitting Democrat, as well as for being a white politician trying to unseat one of the two Black and gay members of congress. Rather than running against Maloney, Jones opted to run for New York’s newly drawn 10th district. Goldman is expected to win the solidly Democratic seat in November. Ahead of Tuesday’s primary, Jones told The Grio that “to lose me in the House would be a blow to our democracy and the fight to protect fundamental rights,” adding, “I have been a leading progressive member of Congress, who has brought the rest of the Democratic caucus with him on issues like Supreme Court expansion, and voting rights and democracy reforms.” Jones was elected in 2020 and was selected to be the Freshman Representative to Leadership, the “most influential role available to a freshman member of Congress.” When they took office in January 2021, he and Rep. Richie Torres (D-NY) become the nation’s first out gay Black members of Congress. As a member of Congress, Jones was an advocate for LGBTQ rights. “I didn’t have images growing up of queer people and sort of respected in public life, whether on television or in politics,” he said in June. “And I certainly didn’t see queer people of color in those roles.” “I think I am uniquely situated to galvanize communities that have historically been shut out of the political process,” Jones told LGBTQ Nation in 2019, “and leverage that to apply pressure on Republicans in Congress who are not speaking to the views of most Americans, who are being allowed to get by because so many people are disillusioned with our politics that they’re not paying attention to what’s going on and they’re not holding their representatives accountable.” “The result in Mondaire’s race is deeply sad for the LGBTQ community,” LGBTQ Victory Fund President and CEO Annise Parker said. “We’ve lost a fierce advocate and LGBTQ pioneer in Congress who used every ounce of his political power to fight for a more equitable and fair America.” Back in New York’s 17th Congressional District, Maloney easily won his primary battle against progressive challenger, Rep. Alessandra Biaggi (D-NY). He got 67% of the vote and she got 33%. In New York’s 15th Congressional District, Torres advanced to the general election unopposed. http://dlvr.it/SX9FkM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just won her seat in the House, proving young women can run the world

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just won her seat in the House, proving young women can run the world

She shocked everyone when she won her primary in June, upsetting 10-term Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley, and now, 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made history as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

Beating out Republican candidate Anthony Pappas, Ocasio-Cortez claimed victory in New York's 14th district, which covers parts of the Bronx and Queens; Ocasio-Cortez is a Bronx native.

BREAKING: Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins election to U.S. House in New York's 14th congressional district. #APracecall at 9:44 p.m. EST. @AP election coverage: https://t.co/miEWlbTVZW #Election2018 #NYelection

- AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 7, 2018

A Latina who grew up in a working-class family, Ocasio-Cortez worked previously as a Bernie Sanders campaign organizer (the former presidential candidate and current Vermont senator campaigned with Ocasio-Cortez in this election) and as an education director with the National Hispanic Institute, a leadership organization.

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Own your power. . For so many, it's radical to feel comfortable in your own skin - and to know that you are more than enough, just as you are. . One of my favorite quotes is from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: “Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” . So take up space. Speak up. Hold the door open and take others with you. Accept that you will be criticized no matter what - that is the price of fighting for change and innovation. I consider constructive criticism a blueprint for improvement and a medicine for ego. . Ultimately, the people who get down, stay focused in adversity, and do the thankless work of change are the ones who transform society. We can all be a part of that, if we so choose. We can all knock a door, register our cousin to vote, or educate ourselves on an issue we're curious about. . We are all capable of awakening and commitment. And because of that, we can all be great. .

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Chabot - R wins re-election in OH-1

BREAKING: Republican Steve Chabot wins re-election to U.S. House in Ohio's 1st congressional district. #APracecall at 10:30 p.m. EST. @AP election coverage: https://t.co/miEWlbTVZW #Election2018 #OHelection

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) November 7, 2018

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Gotta be the day after my birthday, really? Okay then, at least I’ll learn  something.

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BREAKING: Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell sets up key procedural vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.

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澳大利亚 - 拜登推“最低时薪15美元”纾困方案 在参院碰壁 | 澳洲唐人街

澳大利亚 – 拜登推“最低时薪15美元”纾困方案 在参院碰壁 | 澳洲唐人街

Democrats are ready to shove a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package through the House today. But a minimum wage boost to $15 an hour is unlikely to be in the final version that reaches President Joe Biden. https://t.co/Dzcchv21i5 — AP Politics (@AP_Politics) February 26, 2021 美国参议院议员反对将「最低时薪15美元」纳入疫情纾困方案。 美国总统拜登的1.9万亿美元疫情纾困方案中，未来4年联邦最低时薪将调高到15美元，是民主党力推的重要项目，但在参议院这关碰壁了。 根据CNN报导，白宫发言人莎琪（Jen…

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AP Calls Winner of Georgia Senate Races for Democrats Warnock and Ossoff

AP Calls Winner of Georgia Senate Races for Democrats Warnock and Ossoff

The Associated Press Wednesday called a win for both Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the two Georgia Senate runoffs. BREAKING: Democrat Jon Ossoff wins election to U.S. Senate from Georgia, beating incumbent Sen. David Perdue. #APracecall at 4:16 p.m. EST. #GAelection https://t.co/lGfinjTqT4 — AP Politics (@AP_Politics) January 6, 2021 Both Warnock and Ossoff have taken…