https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-senator-says-v**er-suppression-131053341.html

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) appeared to endorse v**er suppression during a campaign stop this month, saying efforts to undermine v****g among liberals at certain colleges would be a “great idea.”
“And then they remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to v**e,” Hyde-Smith can be heard telling a small crowd of young people outside her campaign bus in a video taken Nov. 3 and posted on online Thursday. “Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.”
Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate in April following the retirement of Thad Cochran, faces Democrat Mike Espy in a Nov. 27 runoff e******n. The Trump-backed Republican also came under fire last weekend for apparent r****t remarks, joking with a crowd about attending a public h*****g.
Campaign spokeswoman Melissa Scallan insisted Hyde-Smith was joking as she talked with students in Starkville, Mississippi, and claimed the video had been edited.
“It’s ok to still have a sense of humor in America isn’t it?” Hyde-Smith tweeted after the video circulated. “These students enjoyed a laugh with Cindy despite out of state social media posts trying to mislead Mississippians.”
GOP Senator Says V**er Suppression Is A 'Great Idea'

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) appeared to endorse v**er suppression during a campaign stop this month, saying efforts to undermine v****g among liberals at certain colleges would be a “great idea.”
“And then they remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to v**e,” Hyde-Smith can be heard telling a small crowd of young people outside her campaign bus in a video taken Nov. 3 and posted on online Thursday. “Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.”
Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate in April following the retirement of Thad Cochran, faces Democrat Mike Espy in a Nov. 27 runoff e******n. The Trump-backed Republican also came under fire last weekend for apparent r****t remarks, joking with a crowd about attending a public h*****g.

Campaign spokeswoman Melissa Scallan insisted Hyde-Smith was joking as she talked with students in Starkville, Mississippi, and claimed the video had been edited.
“It’s ok to still have a sense of humor in America isn’t it?” Hyde-Smith tweeted after the video circulated. “These students enjoyed a laugh with Cindy despite out of state social media posts trying to mislead Mississippians.”

It’s unclear which “other schools” Hyde-Smith referred to in the video. There are several historically black colleges and universities in the state.
“For a state like Mississippi, where v****g rights were obtained through sweat and blood, everyone should appreciate that this is not a laughing matter,” Espy spokesman Danny Blanton said of Hyde-Smith’s remarks. “Mississippians deserve a senator who represents our best qualities, not a walking stereotype who embarrasses our state.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

Why not raise your taxes to pay for it?

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What is "My county"? I think you're lying.

Typical for your lying POS President.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/judge-sides-nelson-rules-florida-law-matching-b****t-173003656.html

In the latest legal twist in the Florida v**e-counting controversy, a federal judge has ruled that the state's law requiring signatures on b****ts to match those on file is being applied unconstitutionally.
U.S. District Chief Judge Mark Walker has granted a preliminary injunction, sought by Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, ordering Florida’s secretary of state to direct local supervisors of e******ns that they must allow v**ers with suspected mismatched signatures to "cure" -- or validate -- their v**e-by-mail and provisional b****ts by 5 p.m. Saturday.
“The precise issue in this case is whether Florida’s law that allows county e******n officials to reject v**e-by-mail and provisional b****ts for mismatched signatures — with no standards, an illusory process to cure, and no process to challenge the rejection — passes constitutional muster. The answer is simple. It does not,” Walker wrote in the order.
The court ruling is not an order for county canvassing boards to "count every mismatched v**e, sight unseen," Walker wrote, but instead is an order to "allow those v**ers who should have had an opportunity to cure their b****ts in the first place to cure their v**e-by-mail and provisional b****ts now, before the second official results are fully counted."
V**e-by-mail and provisional b****ts have become increasingly popular, Walker said, but the county canvassing boards, which determine whether a v**er's signature on v**e-by-mail and provisional b****ts match state records, are "staffed by laypersons that are not required to undergo formal handwriting-analysis education or training."
Nevertheless, b****ts considered to have "mismatched signatures" are rejected as invalid v**es. V**ers who are notified before E******n Day of this discrepancy on their b****t can attempt to "cure," or address the problem, but the judge ruled that under previous law, the window to do so was too narrow, and in some cases, nonexistent.
If this "last chance" to cure is denied, "Florida law provides no opportunity for v**ers to challenge the determination of the canvassing board that their signatures do not match, and their v**es do not count," Walker ruled. -----MORE-----

https://qz.com/1465202/melania-trump-racked-up-a-174000-hotel-bill-during-a-one-day-trip-to-toronto/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo

A QUICK VISIT NORTH
Melania Trump racked up $174,000 in hotel bills for a day trip to Toronto
By Justin Rohrlich & Heather TimmonsNovember 15, 2018
US first lady Melania Trump ran up a six-figure hotel bill for a one-day trip to Toronto last year, according to federal spending records.
Government spending data show at least six separate Toronto hotel charges ranging from just under $12,000 to nearly $49,000 for a total of roughly $174,000. She did not spend the night.
The total was roughly eight times what it cost to house the first lady’s advance team, whose $18,000 in hotel expenses were broken out separately; in addition to the hotel charges, the first lady’s trip involved $21,000 in t***sportation costs.

Reports from the press pool that accompanied Trump on her September 23, 2017, Canadian excursion showed that her schedule involved multiple hotel stops. Based on those reports, this was her itinerary for the day:
12:09 pm (Sept. 23): Arrives in Toronto. The first lady travels to a downtown Sheraton, meets with Britain’s prince Harry for 20 minutes, and then departs for the Ritz-Carlton.
4 pm: Returns to Sheraton. The first lady meets with US athletes competing in the Invictus Games (an event for disabled veterans created in 2014 by prince Harry) for 20 minutes. She delivers a speech that was one minute, 15 seconds long.
6:35 pm: Arrives at Air Canada Centre. The first lady greets prime minister Justin Trudeau and his family and watches the opening ceremony of the games from a VIP suite.

12:12 am (Sept. 24): Returns to Andrews Air Force base in Maryland.
How Trump and her staff ran up nearly $200,000 in hotel bills for a 12-hour trip is unclear (the total was nearly double the $95,050 bill for a hotel in Cairo, Egypt, where she stopped for a day last month during a trip to Africa). All six charges for the first lady’s Toronto hotel bills were paid to “miscellaneous foreign awardees” rather than a specific hotel. These links will take you to the documents for each amount, rounded here to the nearest thousand:
Hotel rooms: $35,000
Hotel rooms: $12,000

Hotel rooms: $19,000
Hotel rooms: $49,000
Hotel rooms: $43,000
Hotel rooms: $16,000

The top rate at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel is currently $574 CAD ($435) per night for a premium suite, plus $100.56 CAD in taxes for a total of $674.56 CAD:

The top rate at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel is currently $574 CAD ($435) per night for a premium suite, plus $100.56 CAD in taxes for a total of $674.56 CAD:

At the Ritz-Carlton, Toronto, standard rooms start at $679 CAD. The most expensive suite, the 2,415 square-foot Ritz-Carlton Suite, goes for $8,000 CAD per night, plus $1,401.60 CAD in taxes

The top rate at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel is currently $574 CAD ($435) per night for a premium suite, plus $100.56 CAD in taxes for a total of $674.56 CAD:

At the Ritz-Carlton, Toronto, standard rooms start at $679 CAD. The most expensive suite, the 2,415 square-foot Ritz-Carlton Suite, goes for $8,000 CAD per night, plus $1,401.60 CAD in taxes

Additional hotel charges for the FLOTUS advance team for the Toronto trip came to $18,000. Three separate t***sportation charges for the same trip came to $21,000: one for $13,000, one for $5,000 and one for $3,000.
Asked about the details of the expenses, the first lady’s office referred specific questions to the US State Department, which told us we would need to file Freedom of Information Act requests for more information. Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman, also said, via email:
What I can tell you is that when the President or First Lady travels, there are people who travel ahead on the advance team to ensure safety measures, medical care, communications, motorcade needs and logistics are all in place. Mrs. Trump travels with a much smaller contingent of staff than that of her predecessors, but the entities I mentioned above are legally required for all official travel.
The previous first lady, Michelle Obama, spent $18,320 on t***sportation over 10 days in Copenhagen, Denmark, during a 2009 trip that included speeches and meetings to push for Chicago to be the site of the 2016 Olympic Games. Her two-day visit to Chengdu, China, in 2014 cost over $220,000 in hotel bills, the Weekly Standard reported then. The figure included expenses for her advance team, communications staff, and security.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/disguised-illegal-v**ers-cost-republicans-midterm-victories-trump-211538601.html

Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Democrats wearing disguises and v****g more than once were responsible for Republican losses in tight congressional e******ns.

"The Republicans don't win and that's because of potentially illegal v**es," Trump was quoted as saying by right-wing website The Daily Caller.

Final results have yet to be declared in multiple races following last week's midterm polls, with tense recounts underway in Florida.

The midterm races for governor and senator in the politically important state are so close that recounts are obligatory. Republican Rick Scott was ahead of incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson by just 50.1 to 49.9 percent, according to the latest unofficial count.

Democrats have accused Republicans of maneuvering to prevent full v**e tallies, while Trump told The Daily Caller that v***r f***d had tipped the contest into chaos.

Trump claimed, without providing any evidence, that blatant use of f**e v**ers in disguise had swung close e******ns.

"When people get in line that have absolutely no right to v**e and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and v**e again. Nobody takes anything. It's really a disgrace what’s going on," Trump said.
Republicans have pushed hard for tighter rules requiring v**ers to show identification when they come to cast b****ts. Democrats have resisted, arguing that the number of false v**ers is miniscule and that demanding IDs would have the effect of suppressing turnout, especially of poorer b***k A******ns, in favor of the Republicans.

Trump shot back, saying that any ordinary shopper already carried documents that could be used at a polling station.

"If you buy a box of cereal -- you have a v**er ID," he was quoted as saying.

"They try to shame everybody by calling them r****t, or calling them something, anything they can think of, when you say you want v**er ID," he said.

We have already and it's still B*** S***.


https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Boxes-Found-in-Broward-Used-for-Office-Supplies-Not-B****ts-Officials-500307711.html