

Holly at Altitude
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@Cholly
2x founder - building #3 now, occasional writer, blockchain curious, golf fanatic, into food freedom. Accurate & free elections maxi










Fox News stages a propaganda-for-war interview with retired Robert Harward, former Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command. However, it’s not what he said that’s making him go viral. The world is a stage.



Today, a federal judge determined what we've known all along, the Trump admin was engaged in a vindictive prosecution against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is a win for all our rights & the Constitution.


‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ has officially ended after 11 years after being cancelled by CBS.



Trump says he is missing his son’s wedding:











The fact that comically stupid people were able to defraud the U.S. out of BILLIONS just goes to show how horrifically ineffective our government is.






Tonight on a Very Special Episode of Candace Hunter Biden shares his story of substance abuse and recovery, and Candace apologizes for contributing to his public humiliation. Which is all in no way related to the recent revelations about George Farmer's (alleged) DUI arrest.



A federal court in WI today denied the US DOJ their lawsuit seeking the statewide voter registration list. Below is what should be done now: I read the lawsuit, and then the court's order denying it. Here is where the US DOJ went wrong: The US DOJ had authority to investigate election-law compliance, but it used the wrong legal hook to force production of Wisconsin’s full unredacted voter database. They conflated HAVA maintenance duties with Title III production power. HAVA requires Wisconsin to maintain a computerized statewide list; DOJ used that as a reason to demand the list. But the claim they pled was a Civil Rights Act § 20703 production claim, not a standalone HAVA violation claim. The complaint’s requested relief was production of the full list “as required by 52 U.S.C. § 21083,” but the actual count was titled “Violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, 52 U.S.C. § 20703.” They asked for a current living database, not preserved election records. Title III’s structure is about retaining and preserving election-related records for 22 months after an election. DOJ asked for the current electronic SVRL with all fields, including sensitive identifiers. The court found that awkward because voter lists are continuously updated; HAVA itself requires regular additions, removals, and deduplication. The US DOJ relied too heavily on the phrase “sweeping.” DOJ quoted older Fifth Circuit cases saying Title III gives broad investigative power and a limited court role. But the court said even in a summary Title III proceeding, the judge still has to decide the threshold legal question: whether the requested material can be demanded under Title III at all. The US DOJ did not adequately bridge “registration record” to “entire unredacted voter list.” The court adopted the Benson/Fontes reasoning that § 20701 is aimed at records received from voters or outside sources, such as applications, registrations, and poll-tax records, not databases created and maintained by the state. Their request for personal information (PII) made the weakness sharper. Wisconsin had offered the publicly available voter list and refused the unredacted list because of state restrictions on elector PII. The US DOJ attached a proposed MOU to address privacy concerns, but the court never needed to reach the privacy issue because it found HAVA Title III did not apply in the first place. imo the US DOJ should have pled a direct HAVA enforcement claim under 52 U.S.C. §§ 21083 and 21111, supported by concrete facts showing Wisconsin’s voter-registration system was actually violating HAVA. Wisconsin is NVRA-exempt because of same-day/Election Day registration, but Wisconsin is not HAVA-exempt. HAVA independently requires a centralized statewide voter-registration list, unique voter identifiers, expedited entry of registration information, duplicate elimination, accuracy safeguards, and verification of driver’s-license/SSN4/unique-ID data. The US Attorney General may sue for injunctive relief to carry out those HAVA requirements. Therefore, a court-protected, field-limited production of the unredacted HAVA fields is necessary discovery or remedial relief in a live HAVA enforcement action - not a Title III demand for a “living” voter list. That would not guarantee a win, but it would be a stronger route. There is more, but you get the gist.

