Morning Reads – Thursday, October 29, 2020

It was on this date in 1974 that President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital status.

Also, it’s National Cat Day & National Oatmeal Day. Celebrate in a way that tickles your fancy.

Peaches

• County Election data released by hacker even though the ransom wasn’t paid.
• Another poll! This one tilts Biden.
• But Newt says the polls are wrong about Georgia.
• There was another Senate debate last night…and of course they left Shane Hazel out.
• We’re at high risk for militias doing stuff.
• Why wouldn’t we manipulate the rural jobs tax credit?
• How the Peach State voters are reported on in France.
• Wild spending in GA-6 & GA-7.
• The apparently underestimated demographic in Georgia.
• Georgia Is Still a Purple State Only in Theory
• Federal appeals court rules Georgia county redistricting violated Voting Rights Act
• Georgia EMCs, telecom providers float competing rural broadband offers

Jimmy Carter

• ‘Most Bet-On Event in History’
• What if a state can’t agree which presidential candidate won?
• How America Became a Country Full of… [don’t open if you work for the Faith & Freedom Coalition]
• Ted Cruz says Republicans are going to do what Republicans are already saying they’re doing, but they’re going back to it, but they’ve been promoting it already.
• Add ‘passports’ to the list of things we can argue about in 2020.
• SCTOUS puts NC on notice about absentee ballot counting.
• Democrats vow to rein in financial data collectors, citing breakdowns

Sweet Tea

• Where I’m headed to wait out the election.