the Guardian
Majority verdicts in England and Wales brought in ‘partly for racial and class reasons’
Study by Appeal finds there was a desire to dilute influence of minority ethnic and working-class jurors
 Allowing convictions by 10 votes out of the 12 jurors may have been adopted in the UK as a way to facilitate repression of minorities.
the Guardian
ECHR rules Lithuania allowed ‘inhuman’ treatment of alleged 9/11 suspect by CIA
Strasbourg court says interrogation in secret location broke human rights laws
 The European Court of Human Rights found Lithuania guilty of allowing the CIA to use one of its "black sites" to torture someone accused of participating in the September 2011 terrorist attacks.
[3/3] … changed the party into Tory Light. A former leader of Labour said, "The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing." Starmer's choice is "nothing". How can Britain get itself a true Labour Party, or something comparable? I think it must start with Corbyn, Ideally he should be joined by several progressive-minded Jews, to demonstrate that this party may criticize Israel's actions, but it will never tolerate antisemitism.
[2/3] … England will go bankrupt in 2025. Tories won't help avoid that, of course. Clearly that crisis is something they desire. What could their motive be? They have adjusted the fuse to make it explode after the next election; that could be one purpose, but I think they must have another alongside that. It would be natural for the Labour Party to try to fix this, but that would require spending money. Starmer understandably refuses to borrow that money, but he won't do that because he has …
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the Guardian
One by one, England’s councils are going bankrupt – and nobody in Westminster wants to talk about it | John Harris
One in five say they will be insolvent by next year. These local crises add up to a national catastrophe that’s about to explode, says the Guardi...
2023: November - February Political Notes
 https://labourlist.org/2015/01/the-labour-party-is-a-moral-crusade-or-it-is-nothing-and-nows-the-time-to-fight/
2019: January - April Political Notes - Richard Stallman
 Due to big Tory cuts in support for local government, plus inflation, 1/5 of the local governments in …
[3/3] … there Fraud can be committed using paper ballots too, and that has been done for centuries. However, a big fraud with paper ballots tends to be bulky and thus hard to hide.
[2/3] … centralized fraud that would be hard to detect. This case is not about any specific allegation of actual rigging. Republicans have used may efforts to rig US elections, including gerrymandering and voter suppression, and are continuing to do so, but this case is not about those methods. Facts suggested that a few US elections were rigged through voting machines around 20 years ago, but there was no proof. pol notes about those instances, or copy links from evoting.html if they are …
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the Guardian
Georgians may vote with pen and paper after years of debate and Trump associates’ hacking
Plaintiffs in trial six years in the making say state’s computerized voting machines put votes at unacceptable risk of being altered
 https://stallman.orgevoting.html
2021: September - December Political Notes - Richard Stallman
2014: September - December Political Notes - Richard Stallman
 A court case demands that Georgia stop using voting machines that write the votes on ballots in a code that voters can't read if they try. As explained here, devices like this create the possibility of a …