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California v. Texas            Nov 10, 2020 

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California v. Texas            Nov 10, 2020 

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-   federal government agrees with the state and individual plaintiffs that the individual mandate is no longer constitutional under Congress’s taxing power
- the practical result will be essentially the same as the ACA exists today, without an enforceable mandate.

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Brown v. Board of Education Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954

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Brown v. Board of Education Dec 9, 1952 – May 17, 1954

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- The Supreme Court ruling decreed that schools should be desegregated

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As President Donald Trump continued to assert without evidence Tuesday that the presidential election was undermined by voter fraud, social media users falsely claimed that people had cast extra votes using the identities of dead people in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

There's no evidence that this happened.

The false claim that deceased voters cast votes "comes up every election," said Jason Roberts, a professor of political science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Experts told The Associated Press that it is common for state voter rolls to include voters with birthdates that make them appear impossibly old, but these are usually explained by human error, software quirks or voter confidentiality issues.

Here's a closer look at this dubious claim:

CLAIM: Dead people in Pennsylvania and Michigan voted in the 2020 presidential election.

THE FACTS: There is no proof of foul play involving deceased voters in the election, according to officials in both states.

One tweet that repeated the false claim stated: "These are some of the people who voted in #PA...840 were 101 years old or older, 39 lived through the Civil War, 45 were born in the 1800s." The tweet had over 18,000 retweets.

"A similar complaint was brought before a PA court -- and soundly rejected," the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General said in a statement. "The court found no deficiency in how PA maintains its voter rolls, and there is currently no proof provided that any deceased person has voted in the 2020 election."

There was one incident in Luzerne County where a registered Republican reportedly attempted to apply for an absentee ballot in his deceased mother's name, but he didn't make it past the application phase. "This case is more proof our election will be protected by state and local officials alike," Attorney General Josh Shapiro tweeted in October.

After social media users circulated videos that purportedly showed the names of dead voters in Michigan, The AP contacted one of the people named. She was very much alive and had just beaten her husband at cribbage.

According to experts, seeing strange birthdates on voter rolls that appear to belong to deceased registrants isn't evidence of voter fraud, and there are multiple reasons why it can occur.

Tracy Wimmer, a spokesperson for Michigan's secretary of state's office, told The AP that on rare occasions a ballot received from a voter may be recorded as though that person is too old to be alive. This can occur when an incorrect birth year is entered on voter rolls.

When the birthdate is entered, numbers could be accidentally flipped or simply mistyped, according to Tammy Patrick, a former Arizona election official who now works for the Democracy Fund, a foundation that works on voting issues.

"Some states have a default 'year of birth' that they entered for registrations that lacked a year of birth on the old paper forms when voter registration was moved from paper to computer," Roberts, the political science professor, explained in an email. "Those never get updated and as time goes on the voters with this issue look 'older' whether they are or not."

In Pennsylvania, some active voters are listed with the birthdate "01/01/1800." That date is used for "confidentiality reasons of the registered voters," such as if they're victims of domestic violence, according to a state website.

And sometimes people who appear to be voting while dead simply share a deceased person's name and birthday, Roberts said.

Absentee ballots cast by Michigan and Pennsylvania residents who die before Election Day are not counted, but voter rolls can sometimes lag behind.

Claims that hundreds of people over 100 voted in Pennsylvania suggest something nefarious, but Matthew Weill, Elections Project director at Bipartisan Policy Center, said that is "not so crazy" in the year 2020. "There are tens of thousands of centenarians in the US," he said.

Throughout the pandemic, social media posts showed seniors casting votes through mail-in ballots for the 2020 election. A 102-year-old woman from Illinois, Beatrice Lumpkin, was photographed casting a mail-in-ballot while wearing a hazmat suit.

Some of the claims about dead voters appear to stem from an active federal lawsuit that alleges Pennsylvania failed to "maintain accurate and current voter rolls" that include 21,000 apparently deceased registrants. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative group based in Indiana, amended the lawsuit on Nov. 5 against Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar.

The group has taken legal action in a handful of places to try to force voter-roll pruning. In December 2019, the group filed a lawsuit against Detroit election officials alleging that the city had over 2,500 dead people on the voter rolls -- including one born in 1823. The lawsuit was dropped in June 2020 after election officials updated voter rolls.

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Associated Press writers Beatrice Dupuy in New York and Jude Joffe-Block in Phoenix contributed to this report.

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This is part of The Associated Press' ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories on the platform.

Here's more information on Facebook's fact-checking program: https://www.facebook.com/help/1952307158131536

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Election breathes new life into false 'dead voter' claims

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As President Donald Trump continued to assert without evidence Tuesday that the presidential election was undermined by voter fraud, social media users falsely claimed that people had cast extra votes using the identities of dead people in Pennsylvania and Michigan. There's no evidence that this happened.

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“It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.”
― Lyndon Johnson

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Yes= would essentially give them less freedom on how they work, but they do get benefits instead

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With the whole chance of fraud and all that. I think its all just excuses for clashing parties. Mail in ballots have been a thing for a long time but now it becomes a problem is ridiculous.

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Voting no would change no funding for schools and govs.

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In Connecticut, a pickle, by regulation, must bounce when dropped from a foot’s height.

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Promoting the value of environmental stewardship to its youngest citizens is instrumental to the future of the planet.

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One of the things I live by is to just roll with things, if things don't go my way I just see what went wrong and move on with my life.

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No= hire drivers as independent contractors. not get standard benefits and protections.

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The importance of Extracurricular activies

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The importance of Extracurricular activies

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Things such as music/drama let students open their minds in ways they don't normally in actual school. These things are disappearing due to budget cuts are school just thinking its useless.

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I honestly have no hope for the president.

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donald trump's reckless return met with a dramatically changed white house  - cnnpolitics

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Trump's reckless return met with a dramatically changed White House

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President Donald Trump may be eagerly seeking a return to normal after three nights in the hospital. But the White House he arrived home to Monday with dramatic and reckless flourish has changed drastically since he was airlifted off the South Lawn at the end of last week.

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Thoughts on the new appointment of the supreme court justice

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Thoughts on the new appointment of the supreme court justice

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I honestly think that it should wait. RBG said herself that she wanted the world to wait till after the election to replace her. Even though they dont have to, at least respect her wishes for as much as she did for us.

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Voting yes would make taxes go up for properties 3mil+ go to local govs and schools.

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Even after having an run in with Covid himself, he still refuses to make it any more serious

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no masks and no back up measures: how the white house became ripe for an outbreak - cnnpolitics

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No masks and no back up measures: How the White House became ripe for an outbreak

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President Donald Trump had just concluded a hurricane briefing with local officials in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in August when Republican Sen. John Kennedy approached the President with a request for autographs from local law enforcement officials.

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LETZ GOOO FINALLY

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25th amendment: pelosi pushes new bill to determine whether a president is capable of serving - cnnpolitics

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Pelosi pushes new bill to determine whether a President is capable of serving

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to say Friday whether extraordinary constitutional measures should be invoked to remove President Donald Trump from office, saying, "that's not for us to decide," even as she throws her weight behind a new bill to give Congress a role in determining whether the President of the United States must be forced out of office because he's incapable of doing his job.

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Oh yes he doesn't believe he is contagious that must mean its safe for others.

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trump's physician expects his return to public events on saturday  - cnnpolitics

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Trump's physician expects him to return to public events on Saturday

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President Donald Trump's physician said Thursday that the President "has completed his course of therapy for COVID-19," and he expects him to "return to public engagements" on Saturday. But there have still not been any independent sightings of Trump, who's been itching to return to the campaign trail with just a few weeks until Election Day.

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Like honestly who would have known, that these were not fact checked

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declassified russia documents: how team trump used fox news as a laundromat for unverified russian information about top democrats  - cnnpolitics

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How Team Trump used Fox News as a laundromat for unverified Russian information about top Democrats

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While most of the nation was largely fixated over the past week on President Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis, the President and his allies in right-wing media have been engrossed with something else entirely.

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What do I know/Want to know about Government?

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What do I know/Want to know about Government?

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.