The Fight Over Ballots Has Already Begun in Wisconsin
Drop boxes, which had been used for years in Wisconsin until they were mostly banned after Republicans mounted legal challenges, are back. They have become the subject of bitter debate.
In Wisconsin, registered voters may request an absentee ballot without providing a reason.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
Karen Cannestra does not like that drop box in front of West Bend City Hall.
Ms. Cannestra, 72 and retired, prefers to vote at her polling place in Wisconsin on Election Day, the way it was always done. It goes beyond personal preference, she says. Who knows the motives of the person who’s pulling those ballots out at the end of the day? Couldn’t somebody tamper with the process?
Isn’t that exactly what happened in 2020, she asked, when, she felt, the election was stolen?
“I don’t trust it, the drop box,” Ms. Cannestra said, before walking into City Hall to pay a utility bill. “No, no, no.”
Many Republican voters still believe former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claim that he won the presidential election in 2020. In Wisconsin, they are taking those fears over election fraud and directing them at the dozens of ballot drop boxes across the state, though there weren’t any major problems with voter fraud there in 2020.
Drop boxes, which had been used for years in Wisconsin until they were mostly banned after the claims of fraud, are back, and they have become the subject of bitter debate. City Council and county board meetings in the state have been consumed with battles over the boxes in recent days, a glimpse of what could soon be a repeat of 2020: the results of a legitimate presidential election being questioned and rejected by a wide swath of Americans.
A ballot drop box at West Bend City Hall is available for use at any time of day.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
In the central Wisconsin city of Wausau, Mayor Doug Diny stoked fears over drop boxes in September by personally removing one that had yet to be fully installed. Last week at a City Council meeting, one Wausau resident insisted that she had seen drop boxes covertly stuffed with ballots on four different occasions when she was living in Colorado four years ago. Another man said that he believed there was “corruption” on the City Council over the issue and that the city clerk, who has local authority over drop boxes, was not doing her job.
“I think it’s absolutely appalling what’s going on in our community,” he said.
In suburban Milwaukee last week, the Washington County Board of Supervisors voted to allocate $3,000 for video surveillance of drop boxes, should municipal clerks need the funds to tighten security.
Some officials went even further.
“Every citizen should have access to livestream of the camera and instructions for how to proceed if they see something suspicious,” said one supervisor, Linda Gurath.
Another supervisor, Tina Pridemore, wondered if someone could shove 20 ballots into a box at once, and said that she knew people who were willing to volunteer to stand near the drop boxes “to make sure that we’re not having this illegal voting,” she said.
Beleaguered city clerks, nonpartisan officials who are responsible for deciding whether their municipalities should have drop boxes, have tried to reassure the public that the boxes are perfectly secure.
Around the state, some of the drop boxes are free-standing, bolted to the ground like mailboxes outside City Hall or on street corners. Others are built into the walls of municipal buildings, allowing voters to drop absentee ballots through a slot and directly inside, where they are then collected by workers and locked into a vault until Election Day. As of Wednesday, at least 78 boxes were in use, election officials said.
In Wisconsin, any registered voter may choose to request an absentee ballot without providing a reason, and hundreds of thousands of people usually vote using absentee ballots, which can be returned in person or in the mail.
In Eau Claire, the drop box has a padlock, said Kristina Kuzma, the city clerk. “When we close it, we put a tamper-evident seal every time. We empty it once a day. We have two people go out and empty it together,” she said.
“We work really hard to be nonpolitical and to stay out of politics as much as we possibly can,” Ms. Kuzma added. “We just administer the election fairly.”
Lori Stottler, the clerk-treasurer in Janesville, said she checks the box at least four times a day to collect ballots.
“People have said things like, people can do X or Y to it, they could attempt to commit crimes,” she said.
Though they were used without controversy even before 2020, the drop boxes gained popularity during that presidential election, which was held during the pandemic. By spring 2021, 570 drop boxes had been placed in nearly all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, according to a state Supreme Court document.
Officials in Racine, Wis., have installed seven drop boxes across the city.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
Then Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging their use, and the state Supreme Court, which was controlled by conservative justices at the time, decided in 2022 to mostly ban them.
This summer, under a state Supreme Court with a newly liberal majority, the court reversed the ruling. Drop boxes were back, should city clerks decide to use them.
Meagan Wolfe, the state’s chief election official, said on Wednesday that voters “should have a great deal of confidence that that is a secure option.”
Wisconsin has a heavily decentralized election model, with more than 1,800 municipal clerks who administer local elections. Some clerks have cited the convenience that drop boxes offer for people who would prefer to not return their ballot in the mail, or voters who drop off ballots in the evening hours, on their way home from work.
Many conservatives in Wisconsin have since denounced the boxes and praised towns that have not used them.
At a rally in Dodge County this month, Sheriff Dale J. Schmidt took the stage, turning to address Mr. Trump, who was campaigning there.
“I have something very important I think you’re going to want to hear,” Sheriff Schmidt said. “In Dodge County, in this 2024 election, there are zero drop boxes for the election.”
As the crowd erupted in cheers, Mr. Trump gave a double thumbs-up.
“We’re going to make sure that we have the best, most secure election in Dodge County history,” Sheriff Schmidt said.
(Sheriff Schmidt was wrong about the number of drop boxes; several municipalities in Dodge County have them, as the clerks pointed out last week.)
Some clerks have opted out to use the boxes. In Racine in southeastern Wisconsin, seven of them are in use. In Kenosha, which is roughly the same size as Racine and also in the southeastern part of the state, there are none.
Michelle L. Nelson, the Kenosha city clerk and treasurer, said that she decided not to use a drop box, and instead expanded early voting hours.
“I know that some people think that they aren’t secure,” she said. “On the other side, there have been people who have asked, how can I as a clerk make sure that there isn’t intimidation?” Ms. Nelson added, envisioning a scenario where people could position themselves near the drop box and ask voters if the ballot was actually theirs.
Some Republican officials said that they have tried to persuade voters not to worry about the security of ballot drop boxes.
Jilline Dobratz, the city clerk in West Bend, has heard from residents who seem skeptical about the security of their ballots. Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
Stephanie Soucek, the chair of the Republican Party of Door County in northeastern Wisconsin, said she has tried to tamp down fears.
There is a drop box in the county seat of Sturgeon Bay, a city of 10,000 people, which Ms. Soucek says is safe and secure.
“I’m encouraging people that they can trust this process,” she said. “I feel like Republican voters have slowly come on board with the idea. It’s just taking time.”
At public meetings, residents have also spoken up in favor of the drop boxes, arguing that trying to remove them is a form of voter suppression.
“Making it harder to vote is out of touch with Wisconsin values,” Nancy Stencil of Wausau said at a City Council meeting last week.
Inside West Bend City Hall, Jilline Dobratz, the city clerk, said she has encountered voters who return ballots in person and slide them across the counter, underneath a wall of plexiglass.
“‘Make sure it counts,’” they sometimes tell her, Ms. Dobratz said.
“It’s tough to hear those things because I’ve been doing this over 11 years, I have many clerk friends and we work hard,” she said. “When people say negative things, it’s hard not to take it all personal.”
Vulnerable Senate Democrat Promotes Trump Ties in New Ad
The spot, which says that Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania had “sided with Trump” on trade and tariffs, was quickly denounced by the Trump campaign.
Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, distances himself from the Biden administration and highlights his support of certain Trump administration policies in a new TV campaign ad that aired in parts of the state on Friday, signaling a last-minute appeal to the former president’s supporters in a crucial battleground state.
In the ad, two voters — a married couple made up of a Republican and a Democrat in Old Forge, Pa. — praise Mr. Casey as an independent lawmaker, saying that he “bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China.”
The spot aired nearly 100 times in Pennsylvania on Friday, frequently in heavily Republican areas such as Johnstown and Altoona, according to data provided by the tracking firm AdImpact.
The Trump campaign quickly seized on Mr. Casey’s references to Mr. Trump in the commercial, attacking the senator on social media for “desperately trying to embrace President Trump” and saying he was “a shill for Kamala’s deranged, radical left agenda.”
An official with Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign in Pennsylvania said that Ms. Harris supports fracking, and that the ad was not an indication that Mr. Casey was separating himself from the vice president. When asked if Mr. Casey’s campaign had informed the Harris campaign about the ad before it aired, the official said that he would not discuss internal communications between the two campaigns.
Maddy McDaniel, a spokeswoman for Mr. Casey, said that the senator “always does what’s right for Pennsylvania, regardless of party,” and that “he stands with Pennsylvanians and doesn’t care what any politician has to say about it.”
Mr. Casey had a reputation early in his Senate career as a low-key moderate, but he gained prominence for his resistance to many of former President Donald J. Trump’s policies. He has also moved considerably to the left over the nearly 18 years he has been in the Senate — becoming more supportive of gun control measures and bills aimed at ensuring access to abortion.
Another Democratic senator running for re-election — Senator Tammy Baldwin, in the battleground state of Wisconsin — also aired an ad in her state’s major cities on Friday that portrayed her as working equally with Mr. Trump and President Biden on policies promoting American manufacturing. The ad says that Ms. Baldwin “got President Trump to sign her Made in America bill, then she got President Biden to make it permanent.”
The ads were the latest indication that both senators are tacking to the center as their races tighten. Mr. Casey sailed to re-election in 2018, defeating his Republican opponent by 13 points. A Times poll last week showed Mr. Casey leading David McCormick, a Republican businessman, by five points. Polling has shown Ms. Baldwin’s lead over her Republican opponent, Eric Hovde, a banking executive, to be shrinking in recent weeks.
Incumbent lawmakers and other candidates often highlight their efforts to reach across the aisle on issues that matter most to their constituents. Mr. Casey’s opponent, Mr. McCormick, for example posted a picture on social media of him shaking hands with Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, at a police conference after the first assassination attempt against Mr. Trump earlier this year.
But Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris and other top Democrats have spent years presenting Mr. Trump as a singular threat to American democracy while some of their Senate colleagues are amplifying their efforts to cooperate with Mr. Trump.
At least one of the claims in the ads is somewhat misleading, when it says he “bucked Biden to protect fracking and sided with Trump to end NAFTA.”
Mr. Biden took no actions against fracking in Pennsylvania.
On NAFTA, Mr. Casey had expressed support for steps the Trump administration took to renegotiate NAFTA, and to withdraw outright from another Pacific trade deal.
Mr. Casey voted for the updated trade agreement, but in a statement on his Senate website, he notes that significant changes were made before he and other Democrats supported it. It adds that “the initial version negotiated by the Trump Administration was a corporate trade deal and completely unacceptable.”
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20 октября 2022 года Санкт-Петербургский городской суд признал геноцидом советского народа преступления нацистов и их пособников во время блокады Ленинграда в годы Великой Отечественной войны.
Во время блокады Ленинграда, в семье а.п. от голода умер старший брат матери - Андрей, ему было 5 лет. Похоронен на Пискарёвском кладбище.
Против вступления Молдавии в ЕС на референдуме проголосовали 52,29% избирателей, за - 44,71% (ЦИК после обработки 70,1% протоколов).
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Никто из кандидатов не набрал нужного числа голосов - более 50% - в 1-м туре выборов главы Молдавии, будет 2-й тур 3 ноября, свидетельствуют предварительные данные ЦИК после обработки 75% протоколов.
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Просто представьте, как глава предвыборного штаба Андрей Спыну сегодня ночью объясняет Санду, почему жизнь такая непредсказуемая, а люди такие злые.
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Даже если они сейчас включат то, что PAS обычно включает на выборах — результат референдума будет бледным, неубедительным, никчемным.
Это будет провал.
▪️С таким звуком рушится на пол посудный шкаф, у которого внезапно сломалась ножка.
Санду пока лидирует на выборах президента Молдавии с 34,12%, вторым идет Стояногло с 30,09%, свидетельствуют первые данные ЦИК после обработки 13,9% протоколов.
На четырех участках, в том числе в Москве, всё еще продолжается голосование. Работу участков продлили до 23:00 мск.
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Молдаване проголосовали против вступления республики в ЕС: после обработки 21% бюллетеней «против» высказались 58%, «за» — 42%.
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Все желающие граждане Молдовы не успели проголосовать в Москве. Работу участка продлили на 2 часа, сообщили корреспонденту @SputnikLive избиратели.
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Третий президент Молдавии Владимир Воронин требует от ЦИК немедленно остановить массовые фальсификации на участках за границей...
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Одна из проблем объединения выборов президента Молдавии и референдума по евроинтеграции, о которой мы рассказали ранее, заключается в сложности разграничения явки по двум видам голосованиям.
Президентские выборы в Молдавии уже можно считать предварительно состоявшимися: избирательный порог в 33,3% превышен и достиг 48%.
▪️Однако в ЦИК отдельные цифры по явке на референдум объявили только два раза и с значительной задержкой.
▪️В комиссии задержку объясняют тем, что якобы собирают данные о явке на референдум вручную в отличие от выборов.
▪️Первое объявление цифр по явке на референдум не обшлось без коллизий. Например, на брифинге глава ЦИК Анджелика Караман заявила, что к 12:00 на референдуме проголосовало 144 233 человека, что составило 16,14%.
А несколько минут спустя в комиссии опубликовали совсем другие цифры — 442 331 голосов при том же проценте. В ЦИК объяснили подмену путаницей при чтении — якобы в тексте слились цифры с буквами, из-за чего Караман неверно озвучила число проголосовавших.
▪️Провластные СМИ вовсе объединяют цифры по явке на выборы и референдум, что явно не соответствует действительности. Ведь не все голосующие на выборах берут бюллетени для референдума.
▪️Поступает информация, что на некоторых участках сотрудники избирательных комиссий от правящей партии PAS обязывают избирателей брать бюллетени для референдума, что является грубым нарушением.
Не исключено, что ЦИК Молдавии подгоняет цифры по явке на референдум к выборам, чтобы придать европейскому плебисциту законность. По официальным данным, к 18:00 явка на референдум уже составила 42%.
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Ну и нарушения, куда без них.
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Одно из главных — для полумиллиона живущих в России граждан Молдавии напечатали только 10 тыс. бюллетеней, а количество избирательных участков с десяти урезали до двух, причём оба — в Москве! При этом в США, Канаде, Швеции, Норвегии, Финляндии и Исландии впервые разрешили голосовать по почте. Наверное, граждане Молдавии, проживающие в России, облучены страшной пропагандой, поэтому им такое не положено? Или потому что всё-таки поняли, что благополучие не обязательно достигается вступлением в ЕС? Да нет, быть не может.
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Сообщение о бомбе на избирательном участке в Италии, в Болонье.
Факт инцидента подтвердил смотрящий от PAS зампред ЦИК Павел Постика.
Источники в посольстве Молдовы сообщили, что человек, совершивший звонок, говорил на итальянском языке.
▪️А на каком языке он еще должен был говорить — на хинди, что ли? Чтобы его заявления о бомбе там вообще никто не понял?
▪️Но с русским акцентом, да? Да ведь? Вам же хочется.
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Референдум по вопросу интеграции в Евросоюз в Молдове признан состоявшимся.
Его результаты пока не известны.
По данным ЦИК, в нём уже приняли участие 42,2% избирателей…
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По данным ЦИК Молдовы, в Японии в голосовании приняли участие 69 избирателей. Еще 73 гражданина Молдовы пришли на участок в Китае.
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Действующий президент Молдовы собирается заполучить победу на выборах главы государства путем различных манипуляций, считает первый заместитель председателя комитета Совета федерации по международным делами Владимир Джабаров.
"Проиграть на выборах действующий президент Майя Санду может только в одном случае - если подсчет голосов будет проводиться честно. Манипулировать результатами в Кишинёве уже научились — в основном у своих западных кураторов", — написал политик в своем Telegram-канале.
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"В режиме онлайн следим за информацией о голосовании в Москве, уточняем, что там участки были обеспечены максимальным количеством бюллетеней по 5 тысяч на каждый вид голосования - референдум и выборы".
Об этом заявила председатель ЦИК Анжела Караман.
По ее словам, главная причина, почему было открыто всего 2 участка в РФ - "большой риск для безопасности голосующих и работников на избирательном участке".
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В День президентских выборов и голосования по референдуму об изменениях в Конституции в Молдове открылось 1987 избирательных участков, сообщила пресс-секретарь ЦИК Родика Сырбу.
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Избирательные участки открыли двери. В Молдове началось голосование на президентских выборах и референдуме.
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После обработки 95% бюллетеней по всей Молдавии против вступления республики в ЕС проголосовали 51.52% молдаван.
Санду набирает 40.34%, Стояногло — 27.29%.
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В Гагаузской автономии Молдавии после обработки 100% голосов против вступления республики в Евросоюз проголосовали 94,84% избирателей, в Приднестровье — 62,56%.
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В Приднестровье против вступления Молдавии в Евросоюз проголосовали более 60% избирателей, свидетельствуют данные ЦИК после обработки всех протоколов в ПМР.
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Если референдум провалится 100% даю отменят выборы !
И тогда ……. !
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«УП», как всегда «бегут впереди паровоза»…
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Санду заявила о беспрецедентных фальсификациях и не спешит признавать результаты голосования.
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Если Санду сейчас отменит результаты выборов и референдума, то ей придется отменять и парламентские выборы в 2025 году.
Потому что тогда на парламентских выборах им всем придет конец.
▪️Через считанные часы мы увидим, готова ли Санду примерить фуражку диктатора.
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Самый короткий брифинг в истории PAS и Санду:
- атака;
- покупка 300 тысяч голосов;
- узнаем результаты и выйдем с решением.
"Это разгром. Молдавский народ сказал свое слово. Санду, ты услышала? Ни твой ЕС, ни ты, ни твои еврохозяева здесь не нужны. Как же ты достала людей, что даже с конским админресурсом, блокировками, арестами, вбросами тебя просто вышибли с треском. Все понимают, что сейчас ты изо всех сил пытаешься украсть голоса. Но результат мы уже видим. И поверить в обратное ты никого не заставишь", — написал Шор в заблокированном для жителей Молдовы канале Telegram.
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Не понятно еще отмена выборов или госпереворот, не дай Бог 🤷♂️
Какой то цирк происходит.
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Санду заявила, что некие "криминальные группировки" якобы "купили 300 000 голосов".
По ее заявлению, этим объясняются результаты голосования на выборах и референдуме.
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"Решения" — это про отмену результатов выборов и итогов голосования по референдуму?
У Санду действительно не осталось других "решений", кроме захвата и узурпации государственной власти, насильственного уничтожения демократических процедур и подавления народного волеизъявления?
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На фоне предварительных результатов президентских выборов и референдума о вступлении в Евросоюз Майя Санду отменила брифинг..
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Майя Санду заявила, о "беспрецедентной атаке криминальных сил на Молдову".
Санду заявила, что когда станут известны финальные результаты, "мы вернемся с решениями".
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Референдум Санду в большинстве районов Молдовы потерпел провал.
Поддержку её референдум получил в Теленештском, Страшенском, Кантемирском и Криулянском районах.
▪️Но не всех еще посчитали..
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Реанимационные мероприятия продолжаются. Брифинг Санду перенесен на 03.00.
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Брифинг Майи Санду опять сдвинули по времени.
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Давайте на мгновение представим, что в Молдове никогда не вводили цензуру, не закрывали телеканалы, не блокировали СМИ, не отбирали у людей право голосовать, лишая их избирательных участков, не арестовывали и не судили оппозицию, что правящая партия не захватывала ЦИК, СИБ, МВД, правительство.
И как выглядели бы ТОГДА результаты сегодняшнего голосования.
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54,7% молдаван против вступления республики в ЕС. Обработаны 85% голосов.
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Moldova holds election, EU vote dogged by alleged Russian meddling
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The foreign ministry said two polling stations in Moscow - set up for Moldovans abroad - had been "artificially" overcrowded and there might be illegal attempts to bus voters in.
The vote has been overshadowed by election-meddling allegations.
Police accused Ilan Shor, a fugitive tycoon who lives in Russia, of trying to pay off a network of at least 130,000 voters to vote "no" and back a candidate he would only disclose at the last minute.
Shor, jailed in absentia for fraud and theft and under western sanctions, has offered to pay Moldovans to persuade others to vote "no" and back "our candidate". He denies wrongdoing.
In the run-up to the vote, state radio in Chisinau has urged people not to vote for money and asked them to report any such offers to the authorities.
On Thursday, law enforcement agencies said they had uncovered a programme in which hundreds of people were taken to Russia to undergo training to stage riots and civil unrest.
Russia denies interfering and accuses Sandu's government of "Russophobia".
Police chief Viorel Cernauteanu told Reuters a slew of voice and text messages from abroad in recent days had told Moldovans to either boycott the referendum or vote "no".
He said the police had acted to prevent any impact on the vote.
"There will be some kind of impact in any case, but I think it will not influence the votes overall."
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Moldova holds election, EU vote dogged by alleged Russian meddling
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As the war in Ukraine turns the political and diplomatic spotlight on Moldova, the former Soviet republic has sought to escape Moscow's orbit and embarked on the long process of EU accession talks.
Polls show incumbent Maia Sandu, who has championed EU accession in four years as president, has a clear lead over her 10 rivals on the ballot, though the election will go to a Nov. 3 run-off if she fails to reach the 50% mark.
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Moldova has alternated between pro-Western and pro-Russian courses since the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union.
Ties with Moscow have deteriorated under Sandu. Her government has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, accused Russia of plotting her overthrow, and diversified energy supply after Russia reduced gas supplies.
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The foreign ministry said two polling stations in Moscow - set up for Moldovans abroad - had been "artificially" overcrowded and there might be illegal attempts to bus voters in.
The vote has been overshadowed by election-meddling allegations.
Police accused Ilan Shor, a fugitive tycoon who lives in Russia, of trying to pay off a network of at least 130,000 voters to vote "no" and back a candidate he would only disclose at the last minute.
Shor, jailed in absentia for fraud and theft and under western sanctions, has offered to pay Moldovans to persuade others to vote "no" and back "our candidate". He denies wrongdoing.
In the run-up to the vote, state radio in Chisinau has urged people not to vote for money and asked them to report any such offers to the authorities.
On Thursday, law enforcement agencies said they had uncovered a programme in which hundreds of people were taken to Russia to undergo training to stage riots and civil unrest.
Russia denies interfering and accuses Sandu's government of "Russophobia".
Police chief Viorel Cernauteanu told Reuters a slew of voice and text messages from abroad in recent days had told Moldovans to either boycott the referendum or vote "no".
He said the police had acted to prevent any impact on the vote.
"There will be some kind of impact in any case, but I think it will not influence the votes overall."
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Tugged Between East and West, Moldova Makes a Pivotal Choice
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The central electoral commission said on Sunday that updated electoral rolls included 2,714,239 people, and that more than 50 percent of voters had cast ballots by early evening.
Nicolae Panfil, a program director at Promo-LEX, a group that monitors elections, said that a “yes” vote in the referendum would have important, long-term consequences.
“It is not just an opinion poll,” he said, but a binding mandate for constitutional change to moor the country in the West.
The Watchdog survey suggested that while a majority of Moldovans favor integration with the West, a significant pool of voters in a country sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, a member of NATO and the European Union, still look to Russia. These include residents of largely Russian-speaking areas in the north near Ukraine and older Romanian-speakers who remember Soviet rule as a time of economic and political stability.
More than a third of those surveyed said they opposed amending the constitution and about the same proportion favored joining the Eurasian Economic Union, a Moscow-led bloc comprising Russia, Belarus and three other former Soviet republics.
Natalia Morari, an estranged former ally of Ms. Sandu who is running against her for the presidency, dismissed the referendum as a “political ploy” to gin up support for Ms. Sandu in the presidential race. She said it would do nothing to advance Moldova’s European aspirations and would have to be repeated once negotiations with Brussels are completed. “This referendum is not about real European integration and is just political technology,” she said.
“Russia is working actively to undermine Moldova’s election and its European integration,” the U.S. National Security Council spokesman, John F. Kirby, said on Wednesday. He added that “in the last several months, Moscow has dedicated millions of dollars to influencing Moldova’s presidential election.”
A spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, says Moscow “categorically rejects” accusations of Russian meddling in Moldova.
Любопытно тут два обстоятельства:
⏹️ В речи Трампа отчётливо прозвучало слово "надежда" (Hope). Тут Обамой образца 2008 года запахло;
⏹️ Трамп показал, как надо бросать соль через левое плечо. И хотя эта примета очень древняя, недоброжелатели почти наверняка и тут разглядят "русский след".
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Trump thrusts McDonald’s into the political arena in final days of campaign
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Donald Trump is pulling one of the most iconic American companies – McDonald’s – into the political arena in the final days of his third White House bid.
The former president is expected to stop by one of the fast-food chain’s Pennsylvania franchises during his Sunday swing through the Keystone State. There, he plans to work as a fry attendant, CNN reported last week.
It’s the same job Vice President Kamala Harris has said she held as a young woman, a biographical detail revealed during her first campaign for president. It has since become a centerpiece of the middle-class origin story she has made key to her pitch to voters as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
Trump, whose deep affection for the Golden Arches and its offerings is well documented, has meanwhile grown fixated on Harris’ employment there. In interviews and on the campaign trail, he regularly accuses Harris – without evidence – of making up the factoid. His visit to the restaurant is his latest attempt to sow doubt about the Democrat’s work history.
“I’m going to McDonald’s to work the french fry,” Trump told supporters Saturday at a rally in the Pittsburgh area. “I think I’m doing it tomorrow, and I think it’s in a place in Pennsylvania, and I’m going to stand over that french fry.”
Harris has largely ignored Trump, as well as calls from his supporters and inquiries from conservative news outlets to provide proof of her time there. Her campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment about Trump’s accusation and his upcoming visit to McDonald’s.
A campaign official told CNN that Harris worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California, during the summer of 1983 when she was still a student at Howard University in Washington. She worked the register and manned the fry and ice cream machines, according to the official.
On Drew Barrymore’s talk show earlier this year, Harris told the actor, “I did fries. And then I did the cashier.” And as a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris mentioned her work at the fast-food chain while joining striking McDonald’s workers on the picket line.
Her time there was repeatedly referenced onstage at this summer’s Democratic National Convention as her allies contrasted her upbringing with Trump’s upper-class roots. Former President Bill Clinton joked that Harris would “break my record as the president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s.” Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett asserted that “one candidate worked at McDonald’s,” while “the other was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”
“Can you simply picture Donald Trump working at a McDonald’s?” said Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. “He couldn’t run that damn McFlurry machine if it cost him anything.”
Trump over the years has repeatedly questioned the biographies of his rivals, often without merit. He was one of the loudest voices in the debunked “birther” movement that falsely questioned Barack Obama’s citizenship and eligibility for the White House, eventually leading the Hawaiian-born president to release his long-form birth certificate. During the 2016 Republican primary, Trump pushed an unfounded conspiracy theory that Sen. Ted Cruz’s father aided in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This election cycle, Trump wrongly suggested his Republican primary opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, wasn’t a natural-born US citizen and falsely claimed that Harris has only lately embraced her Black heritage.
Yet, even as he lobbed these accusations, Trump littered his own personal story with exaggerations and fabrications. He coined the phrase “truthful hyperbole” in his best-selling autobiography “The Art of the Deal,” an oxymoronic term that nevertheless illustrates his relationship with facts about himself.
“It’s an innocent form of exaggeration,” he wrote, “and a very effective form of promotion.”
During a 2007 deposition, lawyers caught Trump lying at least 30 times over two days, mostly over mundane facts about his businesses such as the size of his workforce, a payment for speaking fees and the cost of his golf membership. He also once claimed that he stood on the rubble at ground zero after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and that he paid his workers to clear away the debris, neither of which is backed by public record.
And there are multiple accounts of Trump calling reporters under the alias “John Barron,” a supposed executive at his company who once duped a Forbes reporter into inflating Trump’s fortune on the magazine’s list of wealthiest people.
It’s unclear why Trump has latched on to Harris’ McDonald’s employment or why a visit there was warranted during one of his few remaining weekends before Election Day. But in recent interviews, Trump has suggested that a small detail about his rival’s past shouldn’t be dismissed.
“We would say, well, that’s not a big lie. It’s a huge lie,” Trump said, “because McDonald’s was part of her whole thing.”
Trump also visited a McDonald’s early in his presidential campaign, this one in East Palestine, Ohio, after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed there, sparking an environmental and public health crisis. There, he joked to a woman working the register, “I know this menu better than you do. I probably know it better than anybody in here.”
The former president has long stated his affinity for fast food. During a 2016 CNN town hall, Trump, a self-described “very clean person,” attributed his preference for their offerings to the quality control, saying, “You’re better off going there than someplace you have no idea where the food is coming from.”
“I think the food is good. I think all of those places, Burger King, McDonald’s, I can live with it,” he added. “The other night I had Kentucky Fried Chicken. Not the worst thing in the world.”
Trump brought that affection into the White House, where he once served Clemson’s national championship football team a smorgasbord of burgers and pizza. His son-in-law Jared Kushner quipped in his autobiography that he knew Trump had turned the corner in his battle with the coronavirus when he requested his favorite McDonald’s order.
“McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake,” Kushner recounted.
In an appearance last week on Fox News, Donald Trump Jr. bemoaned that the network in its interview with Harris didn’t ask her which McDonald’s she worked at. He also asserted that his father’s familiarity with the chain’s offerings would surpass the Democratic nominee’s.
“I think my father knows the McDonald’s menu much better than Kamala Harris ever did,” Trump Jr. said.
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