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Tuesday November 1st, 2022 morning edition

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of people watching ballot boxes in Arizona, sometimes armed or wearing ballistic vests, raise serious concerns about voter intimidation, the Justice Department said Monday as it stepped into a lawsuit over the monitoring.

The statement from the Justice Department comes days after a federal judge refused to bar a group from monitoring the outdoor drop boxes in the suburbs of Phoenix.

Threats, intimidation and coercion are illegal under the federal Voting Rights Act, even if they doesn’t succeed, the government’s attorneys wrote.

While lawful poll watching can support transparency, “ballot security forces” present a significant risk of voter intimidation, the court documents state.

The Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans is appealing the order in the swing state with several closely contested races this year.

The group sued a group calling itself Clean Elections USA after reports that people were watching 24-hour ballot boxes in Maricopa County, including some who were masked and armed.

Complaints that people were watching the boxes, taking photos and videos, and following voters alarmed local and federal law enforcement. »

4 men plead guilty to conspiring to rape drugged wives after exchanging wife-sharing fantasies

Authored by channelnewsasia.com

The court heard that the men met their respective accomplices online as early as 2010, on the forum Sammyboy and other platforms for wife-sharing fantasies.

The court heard that the men discussed various wife-sharing fantasies, exchanged details of their sex lives and would share explicit images and footage.

They agreed to use a sedative to sedate their wives, so that other men could rape them. »

Microsoft will keep Call of Duty on Sony platforms "as long as there's a PlayStation out there to ship to"

Authored by eurogamer.net

Speaking to the Same Brain Youtube channel, Spencer pledged to keep releasing Call of Duty games on Sony's consoles "as long as there's a PlayStation out there to ship to".

Still, regulators have questioned how long this will actually last, if and when Activision Blizzard is owned by Microsoft.

"Giving Microsoft control of Activision games like Call of Duty" had "major negative implications", Sony said at the time. »