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Konnech Inc has various products deployed within the U.S. Election Systems and abroad. Some products have to do with oversea voting underUOCAVAprovisions , and other products help disabled voters vote without going to a polling location. These products are often connected to the internet via smartphone applications utilizing cloud services that connect to the hardware. Konnech has deployed phone applications for over a decade while most of the public was still learning how to use their smartphones. Konnech has contracts with countless counties all over the United States, deploying their products to this day.
Konnech has many products that connect to the internet, but we will focus onPollChief, an Election Worker Management System (EMS). PollChief helps manage the poll workers, polling locations, campaigns, assets, mail-in ballots, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Smart Phone Application first surfaced in Hillsborough County, FL, on September 29, 2011.
Konnech offered many products in their early days before entering the Election world, including automated voicemail systems within school districts to notify parents of weather delays and language learning tools to help teach children and foreign exchange students. One city, in particular, has always given Konnech a shot.
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Private consortium that flagged 2020 election 'misinformation' defends its work with feds
Election Integrity Partnership denies it aimed to "decide what is or isn’t 'misinformation,'" says DHS never filed misinformation reports through its system. New statement doesn't mention State Department's misinformation reports.
By John Solomon and Greg Piper
A private consortium that played a major role in censoring social media content during the 2020 election has acknowledged anew it collaborated closely with two federal Cabinet agencies and state and local election officials on the project, but said most of its requests to Big Tech came from its own research.
The Election Integrity Partnership issued a lengthy statement Wednesday after a series of reports by Just the News on the breadth of its efforts to censor purported misinformation, which impacted nearly 22 million tweets, 4,800 URLs, 20 news organizations, several lawmakers and candidates and two dozen influencers, with a 35% success rate for content removal, labeling or "softblocking."
"Unfortunately, not everything written or said on TV about us has been correct," the statement says, claiming the consortium's researchers including students "have received threatening emails and social media messages."
It denied the consortium ever attempted to do factchecks or "decide what is or isn't 'misinformation'" as opposed to identifying attempted election interference and delegitimization of results. The Hunter Biden laptop story, for example, is not "in scope" for its project.
"To be clear, EIP did not send any reports of false rumors or disinformation to social media companies on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security or the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency," the DHS component that was instrumental in the consortium's creation.
"CISA's relationship with EIP was reviewed and approved by Trump Administration attorneys as compatible with CISA's congressionally approved authorities," the statement says.
The consortium's afteraction report does not say that CISA, whose interns were credited with the idea for the consortium, was prevented from filing "tickets" through the system to flag content and ask for action from Big Tech, however.
"Government and civil society partners could create tickets or send notes to EIP analysts, and they used these procedures to flag incidents or emerging narratives to be assessed by EIP analysts," that March 2021 report says.
It also noted that CISA's Countering Foreign Influence Task Force "aided in the reporting process" for the consortium "and in implementing resilience efforts to counter election misinformation." also reviewed tickets from its external partners. Consortium leaders determined whether reports were in scope with its mission.
The DHS-funded Center for Internet Security, which runs the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, was next with 16% of tickets, according to the after-action report, which said most of those "originated from election officials." The new statement says several involved Arizona's "Sharpiegate," and those posts were "possibly labeled or demonetized."
The consortium disclosed new details on how many reports of misinformation were filed by certain "civil society collaborators," and the content of those reports.
The Democratic National Committee, for example, filed four reports: "a claim about voting-by-mail that received little traction and was closed without action," a political ad with "false claims about voteby-mail fraud," a series of "spammy content farms with extreme political content" that were never referred for action, and an ad suspended by Facebook that "incorrectly claimed that completed ballots had been thrown out."
The new statement tellingly leaves out any mention of the State Department, whose Global Engagement Center did file tickets through the system, according to the after -action report.
About four in five tickets were filed by the consortium's own analysts, who The NAACP referred a single claim, that the Proud Boys were sending "threatening emails" on behalf of President Trump, which the consortium determined to be a hoax.
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Delaware Supreme Court rules universal mail-in voting unconstitutional
ByBen Whedon
The Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a state law enacting universal mail-in voting violated the state's constitution.
"The Vote-by-Mail Statute impermissibly expands the categories of absentee voters identified in Article V, Section 4A of the Delaware Constitution," the court wrote. "Therefore, the judgment of the Court of Chancery that the Vote-by-Mail Statute violates the Delaware Constitution should be affirmed."
The court further rejected a component of the law that would have created same-day registration throughout the state.
"The Same-Day Registration Statute conflicts with the provisions of Article V, Section 4 of the Delaware Constitution," the judges found. "Consequently, the judgment of the Court of Chancery that the SameDay Registration Statute does not violate the Delaware Constitution should be reversed."
The court asserted that the three-page ruling would precede a "more formal opinion" but highlighted the state's plan to mail ballots to voters by Oct. 10 as the rationale for the "abbreviated order."
While absentee voting is constitutional in Delaware, per the Epoch Times, anyone seeking such an accommodation must be unable to reach their polling place, due to reasons such as illness or disability.
Friday's ruling is a blow to Democrats who have sought to make permanent COVID-19-era adjustments to the absentee voting process in a plethora of states.
White House says nuclear posture on Russia hasn't changed, following Biden's 'Armageddon' remark
"The kind of irresponsible rhetoric we have seen is no way for the leader of a nuclear-armed state to speak, and that's what the president was making very clear," Karine Jean-Pierre said.
ByNatalia Mittelstadt
The White House has not changed its position regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons despite President Biden’s remarks of a potential "Armageddon," press secretary Karine JeanPierre clarified Friday. nor do we have indications that Russia is preparing to imminently use nuclear weapons," JeanPierre told reporters aboard Air Force One, according to The Hill.
She said that Biden was simply reinforcing the administration's message that Putin's threats were irresponsible.
Watchdog files lawsuits over voter registration duplicates, finds millions lacking required ID
One voter with duplicate registrations is "in a mental hospital, a convicted child sex offender" and appears to have "managed to cast two ballots in the 2020 election," said election lawyer J. Christian Adams.
ByNatalia Mittelstadt
With midterm elections a month away, an election integrity watchdog has filed multiple lawsuits in Minnesota over duplicate registered voters while also finding millions of voter registrations in New York missing personal identifying information.
Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative election law nonprofit, filed six lawsuits in Minnesota counties over 515 duplicate registrants. The lawsuits were filed in Nicollet, Dakota, Hennepin, Olmsted, Todd and Ramsey counties.
PILF also found that 3.1 million registered voters in New York were missing personal identifying information, such as a driver's license number or Social Security number, which makes it difficult for the state to accurately maintain its voter rolls.
Under the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA), states are prohibited "from accepting a voter registration unless the voter registration contains a unique identifying number such as the last four digits of a social security number or driver's license number," according to a PILF press release.
The voter registration issues PILF discovered in Minnesota and New York could allow people to vote in elections twice or someone else to vote in place of someone who has moved or died.
HAVA also requires
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PILF President J. Christian Adams told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show on Tuesday that it's fairly easy for duplicate registrants to appear on voter rolls, as someone could simply register with their full name and middle initial in one instance while using their full middle name in another registration.
"We found a guy in Pittsburgh registered seven times," Adams said.
"This lawsuit flurry," Adams said of the six Minnesota lawsuits, "is hopefully going to clean up some Minnesota problems, because they've had these duplicates on the rolls for a very long time, and some, indeed, are casting two ballots."
One of the duplicates is "in a mental hospital, a convicted child sex offender, managed to cast two ballots in the 2020 election, it looks like," he said.
The Department of Justice Voting Section could fix this issue, as they have almost exclusive authority "to actually do something about inaccurate voter rolls and duplicate voter rolls, and they just don't do it since George [W.] Bush left office," said Adams, who worked in the section under the Bush administration.
Since 2009, "there's been nothing out of the Voting Section at the DOJ to fix this problem," he lamented.
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CISA, who forwarded it to the FBI and other government agencies," the statement says. "Soon afterward, a united team of leadership from across the Trump Administration announced that this campaign had originated in Iran, and two Iranian individuals have since been indicted for attempting to interfere in the U.S. election."
While none of its collaborators came from the political right, the consortium claimed for the first time that the Republican National Committee had been invited to participate but did not respond. media organizations, which included Just the News, "were not provided directly to any partner organization," though they were included in a recent peer-reviewed paper "as well as a statement to the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol."
Regarding the flood of federal grants the consortium's members received from the Biden administration following the 2020 effort, the statement says their researchers "have a long track record of receiving research funding from the National Science Foundation to study online rumoring and disinformation."
Though its list of "repeat spreaders" of misinformation is all conservative influencers, including Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Jack Posobiec and Charlie Kirk, the consortium said it did not intend to target conservatives.
"We reported on election rumors and disinformation targeting and spreading within Democrat-voting audiences," but its research determined "far-right influencers catering to Trump -voting audiences" were responsible for "the vast majority of false rumors and disinformation," the statement says.
The "repeat spreaders" lists of influencers and They received an NSF grant to "study online disinformation that preceded the formation of the EIP" and now another one specifically supporting this research, according to the EIP, which denies the new grants were "rewards" for censorship.
Alluding to members of Congress who have threatened legislation and even litigation in response to the consortium's work, the consortium said, "Several of our leaders have testified repeatedly on these topics, and we would be happy to return to Congress to discuss our work."
Congressman says daughter died of unexplained ‘sudden cardiac arrhythmia’
ByJust the News staff
A U.S. representative this week revealed that his young daughter died earlier this year of an unexplained cardiac event for which the family still does not have an answer.
Illinois Democratic Rep. Sean Casten said on social media on Friday that in June his daughter, Gwen Casten, "died of a sudden cardiac arrhythmia."
"In layman’s terms, she was fine, and then her heart stopped," he wrote, adding that "we don’t know what caused the arrhythmia, and likely never will."
Casten said his late daughter was "a healthy 2022 teenager. She ate well, exercised, got regular check-ups, didn’t suffer from any behavioral health issues, and had close relationships with family and friends."
"She was fully vaccinated, and quarantined after occasional positive, asymptomatic COVID tests during the omicron wave."
"She had just come home from an evening with friends,” he added, “[she] went to bed and didn’t wake up."
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is no way for the leader of a nuclear-armed state to speak, and that's what the president was making very clear," Jean-Pierre said.
Last month, Putin said that he was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory as he accused the U.S. and its allies of "nuclear blackmail" and working to "destroy" his country.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told CNN that Putin's comments were just "saber-rattling," while White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that there would be severe consequences if Russia follows through on the threat. Biden spoke at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser in New York City on Thursday night where he was skeptical that Putin would use smaller nuclear weapons that wouldn't cause "Armageddon."
"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis," Biden said, referencing the 1962 standoff with the USSR.
"We've got a guy I know fairly well, Biden said regarding Putin. "He's not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming."
Biden releases 10 million barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve following OPEC+ cut
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve levels are at their lowest since 1984.
ByMadeleine Hubbard
The White House plans on releasing 10 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve next month in response to the decision from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day.
The White House condemned the oilproducing countries for the decision, saying the are "aligning with Russia" and that President Biden will "continue to direct SPR releases as appropriate," in addition to the millions being released in November. Biden has been trying to keep U.S. energy prices as low as possible by tapping into the reserve, which is now at its lowest levels since 1985, according to Energy Department data.
Gas prices are already rising in response to OPEC's announcement. The average price for a gallon of regular gas in the United States is $3.86 as of Thursday, $0.03 more than than it was Wednesday, according to AAA.
The oil cartel's decision comes just months after Biden met with officials from Saudi Arabia, a leading OPEC+ member, in an attempt to boost oil supplies.
