DAILY DOSE: June 30, 2021
Posted on 06/30/2021
1. Election Failures in the United States.
New York City election officials admit that 135,000 test ballots in the Mayoral Race were “accidently” counted as real votes. The New York Board of Elections tossed the city’s first-ever ranked-choice mayoral race into disarray Tuesday by releasing updated results showing Eric Adams’ lead in the contest shrinking drastically. The board was only to withdraw those tabulations hours later due to an embarrassing counting error.
Republican challenges in various states are occurring over the 2020 presidential election in states like Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia. The controversial mail-in voting season of 2020 has put many Republicans at odds with the result of the 2020 election. In 2016, there was uproar and recounts in states like Wisconsin, when Hillary Clinton was expected to win the U.S. presidential election (by the major public polls used by news).
2. BILL COSBY IS FREE. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction as a result of an agreement he had with a prior prosecutor that would have prevented him from being criminally charged in the case. The ruling bars any retrial in the case, according to court documents. Bill Cosby, at age 83, was two years into a three-to-10-year prison term for sexually assaulting and drugging Andrea Constand in 2004. Over 60 women had come forward with rape or sexual harassment allegations.
3. WE GOT ENOUGH WOOD. The lumber pricing bubble has popped. Lumber futures have fallen 42% in June alone.
4. Amazom.com Inc plans to have 10,000 electric vehicles on the road as early as 2022.
Amazon filed a 25-page motion filed wanting the recusal of FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan from ongoing antitrust probes of Amazon, citing her past criticisms of the company’s power. Amazon contends that Khan has made public comments about Amazon and its conduct, including that the company is “guilty of antitrust violations and should be broken up.”
5. Financial services could be excluded from the new global tax treaty.
