Minneapolis Ballot Harvester Paid Cash For 2020 Absentee Ballot / Ilhan Omar Implicated (2/1 17:41 PST) (1 Viewer)

[Sea Duck]

How about when you put your ballot into a machine and it just disappears? What happens to it really? Nobody knows, it is ripe for fraud.

What is the higher probability of fraud, mail or no mail?

Every method of voting comes with a certain probability of fraud. The goal should not be to eliminate all but one method, but to ensure that no method is significantly more vulnerable than the others.

 

[GordonGekko]

Omar learned fast that politics pays well.     After paying her husbands firm 2.8 million during he re-election campaign she severed ties so there was no "perceived" issue.

Rep. Ilhan Omar is reportedly severing financial ties with her husband's political consulting firm after previous payments to his company totaling nearly $2.8 million ignited scrutiny and complaints to a campaign finance watchdog. 

In an email to supporters on Sunday, Omar, D-Minn., said her campaign was terminating its contract with E Street Group to “make sure that anybody who is supporting her campaign with their time or financial support feels there is no perceived issue with that support,” according to the Star Tribune, which first reported the news.

The contract was a very lucrative one for E Street Group LLC, which is owned by Omar's husband Tim Mynett: Her campaign reported paying the firm more than $1.6 million from the beginning of 2019 through July 22, 2020, according to Federal Election Commission data, on top of another $1.1 million in the third quarter of this year alone.

Direct Headline: GOP congressmen introduce bill named after Ilhan Omar that would prevent politicians from paying spouses with campaign funds

by Emma Colton February 07, 2021 04:21 PM

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-bill-spouses

Direct Headline: Tiffany, Gallagher Introduce OMAR Act to Stop Lawmakers from Funneling Campaign Cash to Spouses

February 5, 2021 Press Release

https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-gallagher-introduce-omar-act-stop-lawmakers-funneling-campaign-cash

Direct Headline: House Passes Schiff Measure to Prevent the Spouses of Elected Officials and Candidates from Collecting Campaign Checks

07.23.07

https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-passes-schiff-measure-to-prevent-the-spouses-of-elected-officials-and-candidates-from-collecting-campaign-checks

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Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi endorsed this type of reform in 2007, it's going to be hard for them to back away from it currently.

I suspect someone will eventually make a move to limit funneling campaign finance dollars from all members of the immediate family and all in laws of said immediate family.

The slippery slope that no one in Congress wants to see end is "zombie campaign" expenditures. Bill Clinton literally was swimming in cash like Scrooge McDuck after Hillary turned the DNC into a cash printing press in 2016.

 

[fatguyinalittlecoat]

I haven’t read the actual bills but the proposals sound good.  I hope they pass.

 

[Da Guru]

Direct Headline: GOP congressmen introduce bill named after Ilhan Omar that would prevent politicians from paying spouses with campaign funds

by Emma Colton February 07, 2021 04:21 PM

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-bill-spouses

Direct Headline: Tiffany, Gallagher Introduce OMAR Act to Stop Lawmakers from Funneling Campaign Cash to Spouses

February 5, 2021 Press Release

https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-gallagher-introduce-omar-act-stop-lawmakers-funneling-campaign-cash

Direct Headline: House Passes Schiff Measure to Prevent the Spouses of Elected Officials and Candidates from Collecting Campaign Checks

07.23.07

https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-passes-schiff-measure-to-prevent-the-spouses-of-elected-officials-and-candidates-from-collecting-campaign-checks

*******

Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi endorsed this type of reform in 2007, it's going to be hard for them to back away from it currently.

I suspect someone will eventually make a move to limit funneling campaign finance dollars from all members of the immediate family and all in laws of said immediate family.

The slippery slope that no one in Congress wants to see end is "zombie campaign" expenditures. Bill Clinton literally was swimming in cash like Scrooge McDuck after Hillary turned the DNC into a cash printing press in 2016.

:The Omar Act...well now she is infamous.