"The story at hand begins during the pandemic summer of 2020, when the then-governor, Democrat Steve Bullock, issued a directive permitting counties to conduct the general election fully by mail."Lott, also a Senior Adviser for Research and Statistics at the Office of Justice Programs in the Trump administration, outlines the "troubling" conclusion of the state's audit:
Its conclusions were troubling: 4,592 out of the 72,491 mail-in ballots lacked envelopes — 6.33% of all votes. Without an officially printed envelope with registration information, a voter's signature, and a postmark indicating whether it was cast on time, election officials cannot verify that a ballot is legitimate. It is against the law to count such votes. What's more, according to auditors, county employees claimed that during the post-election audit, some of the envelopes may have been double-counted, possibly indicating an even higher number of missing envelopes.The audit also tested a sample of 15,455 mail-in envelopes for defects.
In April 2002, Elliot was charged with murder for using a kitchen knife to stab his mother, Bridget Johnson in the chest three times in their East 224th Street home in the Bronx, according to previous reports. The deadly attack took place in front of Elliot's 5-year-old sister, sources told The Post. It's unclear what led to the slaying. Johnson, 42, died a couple of days later.This video is from the same day:
Elliot was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years-to-life in prison. He was denied parole twice — first at a February 2017 hearing and again in December 2018, according to a state Department of Corrections official. But the following year, he was approved for release in September and sprung on lifetime parole two months later.
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A resident at the Four Points by Sheraton — the West 40th Street homeless shelter where Elliot was staying during the alleged attack — said he knew the brute well after spending time with him at another shelter.
"He told me he was [a] diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic," the man, who declined to give his name, told The Post. "He's quiet. He doesn't talk much. He is really paranoid. He has mental issues."
The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said family structure and social class had a bigger impact than race on how people's lives turned out.More on the topic from Dr. Sewell:
The main findings were:A foreword to the report by chairman Tony Sewell, an education consultant and ex-charity boss, said: "We no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities."
- Children from ethnic-minority communities did as well or better than white pupils in compulsory education, with black Caribbean pupils the only group to perform less well
- This success in education has "transformed British society over the last 50 years into one offering far greater opportunities for all"
- The pay gap between all ethnic minorities and the white majority population had shrunk to 2.3% overall and was barely significant for employees under 30
- Diversity has increased in professions such as law and medicine
- But some communities continue to be "haunted" by historic racism, which is creating "deep mistrust" and could be a barrier to success
While the "impediments and disparities do exist", it continued, they were "varied and ironically very few of them are directly to do with racism".
The report added that evidence had found that factors such as geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion had "more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism".
Comment: The US wants its 'pound of flesh' and will persist no matter who appeals for Assange.