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Former President Donald Trump won a lawsuit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, alongside the Republican National Committee on Wednesday after law enforcement turned voters away from mail-in voter registration before the original deadline lapsed. As a result, the state ruled in favor of Trump and extended the deadline to request a mail-in ballot from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1.

Although this was a victory for the Trump camp as well as for voters, Pennsylvania officials have stayed silent on how this was able to happen in the first place.

Shapiro was quick to criticize Trump, who he said has ‘attacked our elections over and over,’ but has remained silent following the verdict, failing to clarify whether there will be any investigation into the individuals who violated the Pennsylvania election code.

“Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before,” Trump said ahead of the ruling. “REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!”

Prior to the ruling, Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro responded to Trump’s claim, saying he is just trying to “stoke chaos” ahead of the election.

“Republican and Democratic clerks of elections are doing their jobs here in Pennsylvania — and together with law enforcement, they’re making sure only eligible voters are able to register and vote,” Shapiro said in a post on X before the ruling.

“He’s now trying to use the same playbook to stoke chaos, but hear me on this: we will again have a free and fair, safe and secure election — and the will of the people will be respected,” Shapiro continued.

Shapiro was quick to criticize Trump, who he said has “attacked our elections over and over,” but has remained silent following the verdict, failing to clarify whether there will be any investigation into whether individuals violated the Pennsylvania election code.

Blaze News reached out to officials like Shapiro, as well as Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmitt, Attorney General Michelle Henry, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Bucks County Deputy Director of Communications James O’Malley, and Director of Policy and Communications Eric Nagy.

As of this writing, none of them have responded to a request for comment from Blaze News.

“This is illegal, and [Shapiro] should do something about operatives in his own party depriving people of their right to vote,” Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said Thursday of the allegations. “If he doesn’t, he is complicit in voter fraud.”

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We’ve been warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence for decades, and now it’s finally here.

Most recently, the state-run media went nuts over an AI-generated image of Donald Trump in a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform, but that’s not the kind of “deepfake” that Americans should be concerned about.

“Deepfake images, audio and video, are reaching a level of sophistication that far surpasses anything we’ve seen before now,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” says, reading from his new book, “Propaganda Wars.”

This is a massive issue, especially considering that there are more elections happening simultaneously across the globe than ever before in human history.

“We’re one of the last,” Glenn says. “So have deepfakes been used in the last year? Yes. Warning, usually in the last day or two because there’s not enough time to combat it. So right before everybody goes in for the final day, something is released on one of the candidates, and it shows them doing something or saying something.”

And this has already happened in America.

Just last year in Chicago, there was a mayoral race that was extremely contentious between Brandon Johnson and Paul Valas.

Right before one of the rounds of primary voting, a deepfake audio of Valas was released in which he was flippantly discussing cops killing people as if it were a good thing.

“None of this was true. It was a deepfaked audio; none of it was real, but it circulated widely right before the election, and Brandon Johnson ended up doing a lot better than people thought,” Justin Haskins, co-author of “Propaganda Wars,” tells Glenn.

Johnson, who is African-American, then went on to win the race.

“Johnson was the anti-establishment, socialist candidate, presented himself to the African-American community as ‘I’m going to represent you,’ and here you had audio of the other candidate saying, ‘I don’t care if black people get killed by cops,’” Haskins says.

“There’s no way of actually tracking the specific correlation between this and the outcome of the race; it’s just not possible. But that’s the whole point. It creates all sorts of uncertainty and confusion, and we don’t know how many people were impacted by this. Maybe not enough to swing the election, but maybe it was enough to swing the election,” he adds.

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Barry Wernick, a Republican running for Texas House District 108, reported Tuesday that he filed a complaint with the Texas secretary of state against the Dallas County Elections Department after he claimed he found his actual ballot posted online.

Wernick, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, shared the news on X, explaining how he made the shocking discovery.

‘Irreparable damage may have already been done.’

According to Wernick, he went to the DCED’s website to view his sample ballot and was redirected to the Clarity Elections portal.

Clarity Elections is an election night reporting portal that is operated by SOE Software.

“After clicking on the link & being transferred to the Clarity Elections portal, instead of seeing a sample ballot, I viewed a downloadable & printable .pdf file of my actual die-cut mail-in ballot with a colored stamp of the initials (HG) of Election Administrator Heider Garcia,” Wernick stated.

Wernick shared a screenshot of Garcia’s initials at the bottom of the ballot. He noted that the online ballot’s markings were consistent with an actual ballot and not a sample.

The images of the online ballot were “not locked, encrypted, or watermarked in any way,” Wernick added.

He called for the DCED to immediately take the ballots offline.

“Because there is no law against publishing an actual mail-in ballot, anyone with access to a registered voter’s legal first name and last name and the same voter’s birth date could easily and legally print out or digitally manipulate that voter’s ballot,” he continued. “Then that person could illegally and potentially surreptitiously inject it into the system thereby disenfranchising and diluting my vote, in this instance, and any other registered voter’s vote without getting caught.”

Wernick added, “Irreparable damage may have already been done. But enjoining Dallas County Elections Department from publishing this information could mitigate any future potential damage to our election system.”

Blaze News replicated the process Wernick used to access his ballot by using another Texas voter’s information. The results were identical: The ballot displayed online lacked a “sample” watermark, included timing marks, and featured Garcia’s initials at the bottom, just like Wernick’s.

Rick Weible, who appeared in Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “Vindicating Trump” and has repeatedly attempted to expose the vulnerabilities of the Election Systems & Software accumulator, said, “This ballot can be printed and used for swaps and injections … no timing marks or initials should be on any sample ballot.”

In a statement to Blaze News, the Texas secretary of state said, “I cannot speak to any formal election complaints because that information is considered private.”

“I can point out that printing a sample ballot does not provide a means for it to be inserted into the election process as there are checks for ballots both for in-person voting and voting by mail. There is not a way for voters to use a sample ballot in place of a regular ballot,” the secretary of state added.

The Dallas County Elections Department and SOE Software did not respond to a request for comment.

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In a shocking survey by the Barna Group, it’s been revealed that 32 million church-attending Christians are planning to sit this election out and not show up at the ballot box.

“There’s a really important data point in that Barna research, and it’s that it’s not just Christians that are sitting out, it is regular churchgoers, so it’s not just the people who culturally identify as Christians,” bestselling author and Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham tells Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

But why is it happening?

“One, obviously, we have to acknowledge the abortion issue. I think the Republican Party’s conflicting messaging on this cycle has depressed enthusiasm a little bit,” Basham explains.

“But, there’s also something else that I think is more significant going on and that is the fact that a lot of this voter suppression, lack of enthusiasm, has been deliberately orchestrated by left secular foundations and billionaires,” she continues.

Basham believes “they have been working for the last few years to try to convince Christians, ‘Hey, you don’t need to vote. It’s not important that you play a part in the political process. In fact, it could be political idolatry.’”

One example is a Bible study curriculum called “The Afterparty,” which was created by David French, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, and a Democrat Party Duke Divinity professor.

“All three never-Trumpers, two of whom are supporting Kamala Harris openly,” Basham says. “They created this supposed political Bible study curriculum to go into conservative churches, conservative college campuses. There was an effort to get it on 185 conservative college campuses, and it teaches Christians that politics are really complex.”

“‘It’s not always clear who you should vote for, and what we really need to do is turn down the rhetoric, and, in fact, we don’t know how we should vote except on the issue of alleged racial injustice,’” she says, giving an example.

“It makes it pretty clear when you read the curriculum who they want you to vote for, and that curriculum is exclusively funded by hard left secular foundations, Rockefeller philanthropy advisers, and the Hewlett Foundation, which also backed Planned Parenthood and transgender initiatives for youth and things of that nature,” Basham explains, adding, “These are not Christians, and they are funding these kind of operations in order to, I would say, really suppress that Christian vote.”

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