The Atlantic: 'The recorder’s critics fear that the fight could be used as pretext to cancel results MAGA doesn’t like in elections that could tip the balance in Congress...The conflict has already chilled participation among poll workers who are declining to work the election because “they fear the Recorder’s threats of retribution,” the attorney who represents most of the board has said."

Noble warned: “Trump’s executive order requiring the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of verified US citizens eligible to vote and the Postal Service to limit mail-in voting, could very well disenfranchise millions of voters while doing nothing to eliminate virtually non-existent voter fraud.”

From a last-minute switch to precinct-based assigned polls in Dallas County to a sudden FBI raid of the Fulton County election office, it’s clear that the Trump administration and republican officials are gearing up for some serious shenanigans this election. Our democracy depends on every voter having an equal chance to cast a ballot and have their vote fairly counted. That’s why Indivisible is launching the Election Defense Corps.

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Salon: "The president is pushing states to create citizenship lists to prevent non-citizens from voting...As the New York Times reported, “only about 54 percent of Americans have passports. Social Security cards, which are generally issued to Americans at birth, can also be possessed by noncitizens. Naturalized citizens do not have U.S. birth certificates, which prove citizenship by birthright. And no central index exists for naturalization records, according to the National Archives.” We don’t have a national ID card in America, but you can imagine that if this order is cleared by the Supreme Court, there would be no choice but to issue them, which would be a bureaucratic nightmare of epic proportions.

 Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview is the most capable AI model ever built. Anthropic engineers with no special security training asked Mythos Preview to find security flaws and overnight it found thousands. With a simple prompt, it found vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser. All by itself.  No human guidance needed. A hacker’s dream.

AI is coming for our votes.

I don’t know how closely you follow the drama around Elon Musk’s energetic romantic life or his various baby mamas, but a new wrinkle may in particular be worth our scrutiny.

One mama, former conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair, went on TikTok to mention, almost in passing and while applying her cosmetics on-camera, that Elon told her things on election night 2024 that made her believe he had helped rig Trump’s victory.

At about minute 33 of this excellent analysis of the reasons the Dems lost the 2024 presidential election (if they actually did), the Left Hook's Wajahat Ali suggests that Elon Musk may have thrown the 2024 election for Trump using electronic means - citing the same admissions we all noticed:

COMMENT::  Looking through this flawed report, I saw nothing related to the tactics used to suppress or disenfranchise voters or the threats posed to the vote count or .  There is a section on "ELECTION INTEGRITY” that relates to the vulnerability of the DNC databases, without referencing the current daily attempts by the Trump loyalists to seize control of voter databases in key states.  It is silent on the many threats to the vote count laid out in the Mueller report.  In this atmosphere of obliviousness,  New York State Democrats, specifically the Assembly Election law Committee chaired by Latrice Walker, have not advanced key legislation passed by the NY State to protect votes and voters this November in New York.  ALLEGRA DENGLER

Truthout: Whether or not they read Yarvin or Land or Thiel, they intuitively know that absolute power corrupts absolutely. The real goal is to give that clear vision to the masses of people, who may still mistake Republican tactics as politics as usual, rather than an existential threat to our way of life. …Fear is not enough. Beyond clearly seeing the danger, we also have to remember why democracy is worth everything."

MI Fair Elections: “Election infrastructure did not prepare for threats like this. ...Sophisticated cyberattacks no longer require rare experts…State and county voter roll databases face the same or even bigger risks. Hackers do not need to fake a single ballot to change results. They can alter registration data in hidden ways. This action can block real voters on a large scale or create enough confusion to destroy trust in the final count.”

The Atlantic: "Whatever the motivation (of Gov Polis) , clemency for Peters weakens the rule of law, and it will encourage those who wish to undermine elections.” The release of the local election official convicted of seven crimes is likely to encourage attacks on election integrity.

The Common Cause/ Black Institute lawsuit challenging the certification of the ExpressVote XL in New York was dismissed on Monday 5/11/26

• The judge's decision is here.

• The decision hinges on the idea that whether voters are using hand-marked paper ballots, where the voter's filled-in oval is interpreted by a scanner, or whether they are voting on an ExpressVote XL where the voter's intent is expressed first in text and then translated to a barcode - voters are still relying on the voting machine to interpret their ballot correctly. 

We know that everyone reading this email who is eligible will go out and vote or encourage others to vote. But today, we are asking you to go even further. We are asking our community to stand together and help protect those whose right to vote may be challenged here in New York State.  View a schedule of Hands Off Our Vote trainings.

This month's LNYV newsletter highlights more wins through the New York State Senate and New York City Council, busy activity in Albany, and a call to action before the 2026 Legislative Session in Albany concludes! General Coalition Updates. Plus action items.

The chairman of the Ulster County Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee, Democrat Jeff Collins of Woodstock, is calling for a formal ethics review by the County Ethics Commission and the State Board of Elections into an “apparent conflict of interest and potential misuse of election data” by Republic County Elections Commissioner John Quigley.

"Here’s the part that no one wants to discuss—but it’s necessary if we’re serious about ending this fascist takeover: we have to destigmatize the conversation about stolen elections….for decades, Democrats have effectively imposed a moratorium on confronting the GOP’s blatant election theft—and now, the U.S. and the world are in peril because of it"

"A legal battle is playing out in California between Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Democrats who say the Republican gubernatorial candidate’s seizure of more than 650,000 ballots is a political stunt that undermines public trust in voting….Voting rights experts across the political spectrum say the case could have nationwide implications as other Trump supporters and conservative activists push similar – and largely unfounded – accusations of electoral irregularities in an effort to get law enforcement to investigate them.”

"The order directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to work with the Social Security Administration to create lists of verified U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state. It also instructs the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to send absentee ballots only to voters on approved lists, and directs the attorney general to prioritize the prosecution of ballots sent to anyone else.”

Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections.

“We can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms,” Bannon, a close Trump ally, said on his War Room podcast Monday.