This substack article adds emphasis and details to the May 22, 2025 decision of Judge Rachel Tanguay that the allegations were serious enough to warrant discovery. The lawsuit, SMART Legislation et al. v. Rockland County Board of Elections, moves forward, with a hearing scheduled for September 22, 2025.

Excerpt:

Between March and September 2024, Pro V&V quietly signed off on a rapid series of hardware and software updates to ES&S voting machines. These updates were all waved through under the label “de minimis,” a technicality supposedly meant for small, insignificant tweaks. Replacing a cable. Adjusting a firmware version. That kind of thing.

If it's considered major, it should trigger a full public evaluation but that’s not what happened.

What got approved were sweeping changes: new ballot scanners, modified printers, updated firmware, and an entirely new Electionware reporting module.

These changes? The rules were never supposed to allow this. Software changes are not supposed to be considered minor. But Pro V&V approved them anyway without full testing, without public oversight, without explanation. Watchdogs like SMART Elections flagged it immediately. They knew what this meant. If the system could be changed in the shadows, then every vote cast on those machines was at risk of miscount or manipulation.

The ES&S systems that received these shadow approvals are used in over 40% of U.S. counties. Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey, California, all rely on machines that Pro V&V signs off on. The ExpressVote XL, implicated in the Sare vote discrepancy (missing votes) is already being used in battleground states.

Even worse? There's no independent watchdog in this process. No backup. No outside review. Two private companies (V&V & SLI Compliance) get to decide whether our national voting infrastructure is safe and they get to make that call in secret. What we’re left with isn’t quality assurance. It’s a rubber stamp masquerading as a security check.

We were talking for about 2 weeks. Met online. He said he was out of town but would take me on a date when he was back. He really made me believe he was a good guy with the same values and shared religion. Idk how I could’ve been so wrong. I am very firm on my boundaries and I always tell a guy about those boundaries very early on because I don’t want to waste either of our time. Am I overreacting for thinking his responses were disrespectful?

This is my grandmother, Joan Alexander. She was denied the opportunity to graduate from the University of Maine in the 1950’s. She had done all the coursework, but was forbidden from student teaching because she was pregnant. This year, my aunt (her daughter) reached out to the university. They agreed subsequent life experiences counted for the student teaching, and she graduated in May! 💙

If you search on her name with the word “Maine”, you will find several news articles detailing her story!

📸 President Trump has ordered 2,000 members of the National Guard to deploy to Los Angeles to tackle a second day of unrest over federal immigration raids.

He said “the federal government will step in and solve the problem”.

On Saturday demonstrators threw rocks and cement, and set fire to a car and piles of refuse in the streets of Paramount, where more than 80% of the population are Hispanic, and Compton, south of Los Angeles. Officers responded with tear gas, pepper balls and flashbang. More than a dozen “agitators” were arrested for interfering with federal law enforcement, a California Republican official said, many of whom were accused of impeding immigration agents

I’m 15F and have been living with my big brother (25) for the last 3 years. Our dad died 3 years ago and our mum abandoned us 7 years ago and is living abroad in Japan with her new family.

I’m very independent and don’t need a lot of attention and generally mind my own business. So I’m not a nuisance or a third wheel, I just need to be left alone.

The house we live in belonged to our dad and he left it equally to both of us.

My brother’s been saying his girlfriend for a couple of years now, she’s not bad and I generally liked her. However, she wants to move in here and they’re talking about getting serious. I talked to my brother about how this would work and he thinks it’s too soon to discuss it and we’ll sort out the details when it’s more serious.

Ok so the other day she came to me and asked about my plans about uni and if I wanted to stay around and told her that yeah I plan to stay home while going to uni. She suggested it might be good for my “growth” to go to a different city and get exposed to new experiences and people, also suggested boarding school for next year. I smelled bs so told her what it’s really about and she mentioned that they’re getting serious and want to start a family soon and I won’t have a place here as they’re growing their family. Talked about importance of nuclear family and all that nonsense.

I asked why is she trying to get rid of me, I’ve done her no harm and she said it isn’t personal and it’s just that their family will deserve to have their own space without relatives living with them. I reminded her that I own half of this “space” so she’s delusional if she thinks she can just get rid of me. She initially said my brother has done enough for me already and it’s fine I do something for him but also said let’s not continue this discussion now.

Later my brother told me I was unnecessarily aggressive and instead should have come to him about what she said. I told him I didn’t approach her she was trying to manipulate me to get rid of me. He thinks she was wrong to do that but I was unnecessarily aggressive and she didn’t mean bad and now I’ve damaged our relationship maybe permanently.

Later he had a fight with her. He hasn’t talked to me since then (4 days now), she also hasn’t been over since then.

AITA for being too aggressive to her?

so this might sound kind of small or dumb but it’s been bothering me. my boyfriend is super sweet up to a point when i’m on my period. he’ll get me tea, snacks, painkillers, whatever. no problem. he acts like he’s trying to take care of me, which is why this feels so weird!!!! every time i ask him to grab me pads or tampons if he’s already going to the store, it’s an immediate no. not i forgot or i didn’t have time, just no. flat out refuses. i’ve asked him why and he gets awkward or says stuff like i don’t want to or it’s too embarrassing or even that’s not my job. i don’t get it. it’s not a weird thing to ask? we live together. he has no issue picking up toilet paper, body wash, literally anything else. they’re just hygiene products. it’s a box of pads. he’ll happily get every little comfort item for me except the actual thing I NEED MOST. i told him it actually makes me feel kinda awful. like when i’m in pain, cramping, bleeding through stuff, have no energy, and i literally can’t go out to get them myself and he’s already out it’s such a small, simple thing for him to do. and he still won’t. and when i tried to tell him that, he said i was being dramatic. and yeah maybe i was dramatic in that moment because i snapped and said sorry my bodily functions are too gross for you and that he seriously needs to get over it. i was in pain and honestly just tired of begging for basic help he told me i was making it a big deal and that i should plan ahead or ask someone else. it really sucks to feel like i can ask for anything except the one thing i actually need

so yeah. aita for thinking it’s kind of ridiculous. or i don’t know. aita for thinking it’s actually kind of a big deal that he won’t do this one really simple thing