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James48's Journal'Incredibly alarming': Republican poll worker in Michigan charged with tampering voting equipment
Source: Raw Story
A Michigan poll worker has been charged after a witness saw him inserting a USB drive into an electronic poll book after the Aug. 2 statewide primary, the Detroit Free Press reports.
James Holkeboer, an election inspector at the Gaines Township 8th Precinct, has been charged with falsifying records under election law and using a computer to commit a crime.
As Detroit Free Press points out, poll books contain voter registration data that includes personal and confidential information that election workers use to oversee elections at their precincts.
Holkeboer registered with the county as a Republican, according to Michigan Radio. Detroit Free Press reported that "an individual with the same name served as an alternate delegate for the 3rd Congressional District at the Michigan Republican Party's State Endorsement Convention earlier this year."
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/amp/james-holkeboer-charged-2658360472?fbclid=IwAR3U7DU_AcRc50c3vdmJJ2uP7rPOOSrbcdsyl_kwUJ6qXcpkftgrnlG9hnM
Voter fraud? Republican.
US Troops Are Volunteering to Fly Abortion Seekers Across State Lines
Using personal planes, off duty, and out of uniform, the pilots say it’s their ”patriotic duty” to help Americans.
JACQUELINE FELDSCHER | SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
http://GovExec.Com
U.S. troops are volunteering to fly people seeking an abortion from states that have banned the procedure to states where they can receive care, arguing that they donned a uniform to fight for freedom—including “freedom of choice.”
Elevated Access is a nonprofit founded in April that connects volunteer pilots with people needing an abortion who live in the more-than-a-dozen states where the procedure is banned. Those pilots use their own private planes, donating their time, fuel, and maintenance costs, said Fiona, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit who declined to use her last name to protect her privacy.
More than 800 pilots have volunteered to fly for Elevated Access, Fiona said. The group does not know how many of those have current and former ties to the military because the application does not ask about their military background. But, some pilots have voluntarily shared their military backgrounds or sent photos of themselves in a military uniform.
“I got an email from a pilot…in California and he’s an Air Force reservist offering to help us recruit more pilots from the military,” she said. “This is a guy who feels like…this is another way to serve his country.”
The group facilitated one flight so far from Oklahoma to Kansas in mid-June. “We have done one flight, and that was by design. We wanted to demonstrate it can be done,” Fiona said. “We’re not going to stand up a national airline overnight.”
More:
https://www.govexec.com/defense/2022/09/us-troops-are-volunteering-fly-abortion-seekers-across-state-lines/377626/
Group coordinating flights: https://elevatedaccess.org/
VA to Offer Abortions in Limited Cases
Source: GovExec.Com
By ERIC KATZ
The Veterans Affairs Department will soon begin offering abortion services in cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s life is at risk, the agency announced on Friday, citing abortion restrictions going into place in states across the country to justify the change.
Abortion opponents have disputed VA’s legal authority to provide abortions, but the Biden administration has maintained it would simply have to engage in a rulemaking process to reverse its current policy. Under the update, the department’s health care providers will offer abortion counseling and limited access to abortions for veterans and beneficiaries who qualify for care from its network. VA will early next week issue an interim rule to formally announce the policy, which will allow the department to immediately start providing the services.
In June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sparking a dozen states to fully ban abortions and several more to institute severe restrictions on the procedure. VA Secretary Denis McDonough quickly said he was “closely watching” the fallout from the decision to determine if the determine should respond to a “diminution in access to services.” VA will say in the forthcoming rule that new state laws are “creating urgent risks to the lives and health of pregnant veterans” and veterans’ beneficiaries.
“In response, VA is acting to help to ensure that, irrespective of what laws or policies states may impose, veterans who receive the care set forth in the medical benefits package will be able to obtain abortions, if determined needed by a health care professional, when the life or the health of the pregnant veteran would be endangered if the pregnancy were carried to term or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest,” the department said.
Read more: https://www.govexec.com/management/2022/09/va-offer-abortions-limited-cases/376691/
This is a major change of policy.
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