Project veritas voter fraud

Voters’ registration INQUIRER FILE PHOTO / NINO JESUS ORBETA MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has already recorded over 58 million registered voters for the 2022 polls as of January or eight months before the end of voter registration, a poll official said on Thursday. “As of January ERB (Election Registration Board) hearing, nasa 58,204,224 ang registered voters natin (we have 58,204,224 registered voters),” Comelec Deputy Executive Director for Operations Teopisto Elnas said during a hearing of the Senate committee on electoral reforms. This figure includes registered voters in previous elections whose records have remained in Comelec data. The voter registration will end on September 30. The Comelec is targeting to have 4 million new voter registrants before the deadline. Of this number, a total of 1.3 million have already registered, while the records of 1.6 million voters from the Sangguniang Kabataan elections would be extracted and added to … [Read more...] about Comelec: 58M voters registered so far for 2022 elections

Federal prosecutors have indicted noted cybersecurity eccentric John McAfee for securities and wire fraud for misleading investors at the peak of the last cryptocurrency boom. In late 2017 and early 2018, McAfee urged his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers to invest in a number of obscure cryptocurrencies. Prosecutors say he failed to disclose his own financial stake in those tokens—and in some cases outright lied about it. McAfee has been in custody in Spain since his arrest at a Barcelona airport last October. He was already facing extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges; the self-described Libertarian hasn't filed a tax return for several years. Now he will face additional charges of securities and wire fraud alongside bodyguard Jimmy Watson, who allegedly helped McAfee carry out some of his pump-and-dump schemes. The criminal complaint covers much of the same ground as a civil lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange commission at the time of his … [Read more...] about Feds indict John McAfee for cryptocurrency pump-and-dump fraud

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Thursday it is not closing its doors on the possible extension of the voter registration for the 2022 elections. Comelec Commissioner Marlon Casquejo said this during a hearing of the Senate committee on electoral reforms but added that extending the September 30 deadline will trigger a tight schedule for the agency’s preparations. “We are not closing doors. What I am saying is it will be a very, very tight schedule for us in our timeline. Ang daming apektado (A lot will be affected) from the configuration [of machines] to everything. But again, we will look into that situation,” he said. Casquejo was responding to the suggestion of Senator Francis Pangilinan to extend the deadline for voter registration for at least 30 days. In raising this point, Pangilinan said the filing of candidacy for politicians in October would help in the information campaign to encourage more Filipino adults to register for the polls. … [Read more...] about Comelec says ‘not closing doors’ on extending voter registration deadline

The Thai government is opening an embezzlement investigation into an order placed with a local company for 112.5 billion baht worth of surgical gloves. The Public Warehouse Organisation’s administrative office director allegedly signed off on the order without approval. PM Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered the director of the organisation’s administrative office, Roongroj Phuthiyawat, to be transferred to an inactive post in the PM’s office while both criminal and disciplinary investigations take place. The organisation is partnering with the Department of Special Investigation and the Anti-Money Laundering Office for the embezzlement probe. The organisation cancelled the purchase with the Nakhon Pathom company Guardian Gloves, saying the contract was unlawful. A down payment of 2 billion baht was made already. Roongroj says he didn’t do anything wrong and acted within the law. But the organisation says Roongroj was the acting director at the time he signed the purchase. An acting … [Read more...] about Thai government opens fraud investigation over 112.5 billion baht glove purchase

Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country are increasingly embracing measures to limit voting access after losing the highest-turnout election in American history. The party’s embrace of restrictive new measures and rollbacks of popular vote-by-mail and early voting programs that enjoyed bipartisan support just a few years ago is a reflection of the new incentive structure facing the Grand Old Party. Rather than recalibrating positions after an electoral loss to better appeal to the vast middle, Republicans today appear to see more advantage in excluding as many voters as possible from communities likely to vote Democratic. ADVERTISEMENT In Georgia, the GOP-controlled state House this week voted to strictly limit absentee and early voting. In Arizona, the Republican-controlled state Senate approved a measure to remove voters from a permanent absentee ballot list if they do not vote in two consecutive elections. Republicans are working on another measure to … [Read more...] about On The Trail: GOP’s tyranny of the minority