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Virginia’s voter website is down on the last day people have to register to vote. According to a message on the department’s website, the problem is due to a network outage. Below is the message found on the department’s website: "Due to a network outage the Citizen Portal is temporarily unavailable. We are working with our network providers to restore service as quickly as possible. We are working with our network providers to restore service as quickly as possible. Please check back later for your online voter registration or absentee needs.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A federal judge has denied a motion to extend voter registration even though a computer meltdown on the final day of registration might have prevented thousands of potential voters from taking part in November’s presidential election. In a 29-page ruling on Friday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Mark E. Walker noted the historical problems the state seems to have with elections. “Notwithstanding the fact that cinemas across the country remain closed, somehow, I feel like I’ve seen this movie before. Just shy of a month from election day, with the earliest mail-in ballots beginning to be counted,...

MIAMI – A federal judge has rejected a request to extend the registration of Florida voters even though the state online system crashed in the hours prior to Monday’s deadline and could have stopped thousands of eligible voters from voting in the November presidential election. In his strongly worded decision, US Federal Judge Mark Walker wrote, “this court cannot remedy what the state broke.” Walker’s decision came after many groups sued the state for an extension following the online voting system collapse on Monday, the last day Florida residents were eligible to register to vote in the November General Election....

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed on his campaign website to ban online gun and ammo sales, limit gun sales, ban “assault weapons,” force gun owners into buybacks or registration, and various other restrictions. Biden has expressed his anti-gun ideas, but his website spells out the specific measures he intends to take if he wins the election and assumes the presidency, which he describes as “constitutional, common-sense gun safety policies.” “Biden will enact legislation to once again ban assault weapons,” Biden’s website says. “While working to pass this legislation, Biden will also use his executive authority to ban the importation...

Investigation underway after system had issues on final day to register to vote in state Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis extended the state’s voter registration deadline Tuesday after unexpected and unexplained heavy traffic crashed the state’s online system and potentially prevented thousands of enrolling to cast ballots in next month’s presidential election. DeSantis extended the deadline that expired Monday until 7 p.m. EDT Tuesday. In addition to online registration, DeSantis ordered elections, motor vehicle and tax collectors offices to stay open until 7 p.m. local time for anyone who wants to register in person. “You can have the best site in...

On Monday, the last day in Florida to register to vote in the Nov. 3 general election, people trying to access RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov were greeted with error messages. From a desktop computer, a server error appeared but worked after some persistent refreshing. On the mobile website, Floridians hit a “service unavailable” error message but some were able to access it at around 6:30 p.m. As the midnight deadline loomed nearer, many tweeted they were still unable to access the site. The voter registration website, maintained by the Florida Department....

Voters who registered to voter in September (Rs/Ds): 1) West Va: 10,808/(1365) 2) S.Dakkota: 4334/1221 3) Pennsylvania: 64,064/29325 4) N. Carolina: 31,333/17614 5) N. Mexico: 8242/5506 6) New Jersey: 22,295/19776 7) Nevada: 14,151/8911 8) Nebraska: 8040/3455 9) Kentucky: 21,274/(5954) 10)Iowa: 10,821/4476 11)Delaware: 2458/2936 12)Colorado 14,467/17490 13)California 167K/114K 14)Louisiana 20,330/4670 15)Utah 14,641/14,241 16)OKlahoma---Reps have gained net 100,000 since '19

Republican voter registration is surging in Florida narrowing a historical Democratic advantage in the swing state ahead of the Nov. 3 election. In August, Republicans added a GOP record of about 58,000 new voters, Politico reported, or 41 percent more than new Democrats in Florida. “Florida looking good!” Trump tweeted Thursday morning after the story published. Polls suggest that Trump dramatically increased his support among Florida Latinos as he denounces Latin American socialism, but he’s at risk of a dramatic loss of support among senior citizens amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump will host a rally in Jacksonville, Florida, on Thursday...

Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania go out on Sept. 14, and Republicans are seeing continued growth in voter registration, a Capital-Star analysis has found. A month ago, the Democratic margin statewide was 783,116. It currently stands at 758,854. Altogether, that’s 4,121,353 Democrats, 3,362,499 Republicans.... Central: Blair:: R+708 Centre: R+291 Clearfield: R+592 Columbia: R+312 Huntingdon: R+189 Juniata: R+147 Mifflin: R+341 Montour: R+71 Northumberland:R+764 Snyder:R+273 Union:R+196 With COVID cases growing on campus at Penn State, Democrats may not get their usual bump from new and returning students in Centre County.... North Central Bradford: R+325 Cameron: R+37 Clinton: R+305 Elk: R+286 Lycoming: R+688 McKean:...

The Duchess of Sussex, a.k.a. American D-list actress Meghan Markle, is joining up with former First Lady Michelle Obama in an effort to encourage women to register to vote. The event is a “couch party” promoted by When We All Vote which has a goal to reach 300,000 eligible female voters in honor of the passage of the 19th Amendment. It takes place tonight so Michelle will be fresh off her dark and ugly speech delivered at the Democrat convention. Other guests scheduled are Valerie Jarrett, Glamour editor-in-chief Samantha Barry, who is a When We All Vote board chair,...

Republicans are closing the voter registration gaps in key swing states, according to the Trump Victory data obtained by Axios. While Democrats hold an advantage in voter registrations in several key states, the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee are closing the gap, registering 100,000 new voters prior to the upcoming election. Many of those new registrations are in key swing states like Pennsylvania, Florida, and North Carolina — three states Donald Trump narrowly secured in 2016

These days, we Republicans take our good news any way we can get it. This is from Pennsylvania: [T]hereÂ’s good news for the GOP: Registration shifts across the state show Republicans are gaining voters at five times the rate of Democrats.Since the 2016 primary election, Republicans have added about 165,000 net voters, while Democrats added only about 30,000. Democrats still maintain a 800,000-voter edge over Republicans. But thatÂ’s down from 936,000 in 2016, when Trump still won the state by less than 1%. The Democrats are the party of riots and arson, of favoring criminals over police officers, of...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an impassioned speech about gun violence Friday in announcing a ban on 1,500 types of firearms. While Trudeau’s speech carried emotional weight, there is one glaring problem with the ban’s implementation — how can the nation’s government ensure citizens turn over their now-banned weapons when there is no way to know exactly how many such firearms are in circulation? “Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country,” Trudeau declared, even though police believe the weapons used in the Nova Scotia attack were...

EXCLUSIVE: Voters in Florida, Michigan and Colorado are threatening to sue their states after an independent organization discovered that each has counties with unusually high voter registration rates -- in some cases, they found more registered voters than actual people eligible to vote. The data was compiled by the Honest Elections Project, a new nonprofit organization that blames the seemingly implausible statistics on a failure of states to properly update voter rolls to account for people moving, dying or being incarcerated. The group examined publicly available registration records and compared it with citizen voting-age data from the U.S. Census Bureau,...

Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia installed online voter registration kiosks in its emergency department this month to help boost the number of registered voters in the state, reports Philly Mag. Hospital patients, visitors or employees can use the kiosks to check their registration status and register to vote. At present, about 12 percent of eligible voters in Pennsylvania are not registered to vote. Many of these individuals come from underserved populations and often face various socioeconomic challenges that are directly affected by public policy. As a result of these challenges, many unregistered voters end up in Einstein Medical Center's ED. The...

A nonpartisan group in Washington, D.C., says targeted mailings that encourage voter registration are going out to 1 in 8 residents of New Mexico. The Voter Participation Center says it will attempt to reach more than 248,000 people in the state by mail in January as part of a national campaign to reach populations that are statistically underrepresented in elections. The effort seeks to narrow the gap between those eligible to vote and those who are registered to vote — a gap that is especially pronounced among Latinos, said center founder and President Page Gardner. New Mexico has the highest...

There is confusion about what constitutes “gun registration” I hope to clear up that confusion. A lot of people wrongfully believe that when you go to a gun store to purchase a firearm and you fill out the ATF Form 4473 for the background check, that this constitutes a “gun registration”. This is not a gun registration, this is a background check to verify that you are legally allowed to possess a firearm. Let me explain. On the first page of the 4473 under Section A, you write your personal information and answer questions such as, have you ever been...

Gov. Ron DeSantis has agreed to allow Florida to join a national electronic center to exchange voter registration data with other states, an effort long-sought by county supervisors of elections. DeSantis said Wednesday Florida will become the 29th state to participate in the Electronic Voter Registration Information Center, known as "ERIC," a consortium of states known that share voter registration information. DeSantis announced the move during an appearance with county election officials at the Orange County supervisor of elections office in Orlando, saying the effort will ensure the integrity of voter-registration lists. “It’s my judgment it makes the most sense,...

New Zealand's Prime Minister has proposed extreme new controls on gun ownership for the country. They are explicitly designed to move gun ownership in New Zealand from a right to a privilege. The Prime Minister is attempting to follow the Australian playbook on imposing extreme restrictions on gun ownership. From stuff.co.nz: Firearm owners will have to register their guns amid the largest changes to gun laws in decades.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced details of the firearm law overhaul on Monday, saying it would come with a message ingrained in law: firearm ownership is a privilege and not a right....

New Zealand attempted controls on firearms ownership from 1845 to 1885. It was not very effective.  From 1885 to 1912, the arms control law was generally a dead letter. From 1912 to 1945 arms control was again attempted, primarily as a means of preventing revolution. From 1945 to 1965, there was again a peaceful enjoyment of firearms with few controls in New Zealand. There were registration controls on the books, but they proved ineffective. Because of increasing crime rates, from the middle 1960's to 1983, the New Zealand police struggled with the ineffective registration system.  The information was obtained...