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Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts

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WASHINGTON (FNN NEWS) – President Donald J. Trump today announced his intent to nominate key additions to his Administration.

Vishal J. Amin of Michigan to be Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator in the Executive Office of the President. Mr. Amin is currently Senior Counsel on the House Judiciary Committee. Earlier in his career, he served in the Administration of President George W. Bush at the White House, as Associate Director for Domestic Policy, and at the U.S. Department of Commerce, as Special Assistant and Associate Director for Policy in the Office of the Secretary. He received his bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University and his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

Mark E. Green of Tennessee to be Secretary of the Army. Dr. Mark Green currently serves as Tennessee State Senator for District 22. He is the Chaplain of the Senate GOP Caucus and was selected as the Tennessee Journal’s Rookie of the year in 2013. Dr. Green is the CEO of Align MD, an emergency department staffing company, which provides leadership and staffing to emergency departments and hospitalist services in forty-seven hospitals in nine states. In 1986, Second Lieutenant Green graduated from West Point with a degree in economics and began his military career as an infantry officer. Dr. Green served as a rifle platoon leader, scout platoon leader, battalion personnel officer, a supply officer, an airborne rifle company commander in the famed 82nd Airborne Division, and commanded a recruiting company in U.S. Army Recruiting Command. As an Army physician, Mark served in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment where he made three combat tours to the Middle East. His military awards include the Bronze Star, the Air Medal, the Air Medal with “V” device for valor under heavy enemy fire, and numerous other medals for service.

Kevin Allen Hassett of Massachusetts to be a Member and Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. Mr. Hassett is the State Farm James Q. Wilson Chair in American Politics and Culture and the Director of Research for Domestic Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, where he has researched the impact of tax policy on the behavior of firms and welfare of citizens. Prior to joining AEI, Mr. Hassett served as a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, and as an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He has been an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidates John McCain, George W. Bush, and Mitt Romney, and a consultant to the U.S. Treasury during the administrations of both George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton. A native of Greenfield, Massachusetts, he received a BA with high honors from Swarthmore College and was awarded a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Kristie, and two sons.

Stephen T. Parente of Minnesota to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Planning and Evaluation. Dr. Parente, PhD, MPH, MS is Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance in Carlson School of Management, Associate Dean of MBA and MS Programs, and Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota. As a Finance Professor, he examines insurance, health IT and health reform. He is Governing Chair of the Washington, D.C. based Health Care Cost Institute, a non-profit with private insurer data representing 60 million insured. Dr. Parente serves as a Congressional Budget Office health advisor and was a health policy advisor for the McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign. He has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University

Neomi Rao of Washington, D.C. to be the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget. Ms. Rao is a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where she founded and directs the Center for the Study of the Administrative State. Her research and teaching focuses on constitutional and administrative law. Currently a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, Ms. Rao has previously served in all three branches of the federal government. She served as Associate Counsel to President George W. Bush; counsel for nominations and constitutional law to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary; and law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. She practiced public international law and arbitration at Clifford Chance LLP in London. Ms. Rao received her JD with high honors from the University of Chicago and her BA from Yale University.

Russell Vought of Virginia to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Vought spent twelve years on Capitol Hill in numerous roles. He served as the Policy Director for the House Republican Conference, under then-Chairman Mike Pence, and as the Executive Director of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), under then-Chairman Jeb Hensarling. He previously served as the RSC’s Budget Director under two other chairmen. He began his career working for Senator Phil Gramm for four years as a legislative assistant. Since leaving the Hill, Mr. Vought has spent the last seven years as Vice President of Heritage Action for America. He graduated with a BA from Wheaton College (IL) in 1998 and a JD from the George Washington University Law School in 2004. He and his wife, Mary, have two daughters, Margaret Ella and Porter.

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Orlando General Election is Tuesday, November 2, 2021

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ORLANDO, Fla. (FNN) – The City of Orlando General Election will be held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 for City Commissioner District 1, City Commissioner District 3, and City Commissioner District 5.
For more election information, click here.

Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Zuma Press Election workers set up voting booths at an early voting site at the Amway Center, Oct. 15, 2020, in Orlando, Florida.

Ways to vote:
  • VOTE-BY-MAIL Voters may request a ballot and vote by mail. The deadline to request an absentee ballot to be mailed is Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. Visit the Supervisor of Elections Office at ocfelections.com to request an absentee ballot or call 407.836.2070.
  • EARLY VOTING Early voting is conducted prior to Election Day at the Supervisor of Elections Office at 119 West Kaley Street. Visit ocfelections.com/early-voting for more information on early voting. Early voting dates and times for in-person voting are:
  • Monday, October 25 – Friday, October 29, 2021 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, October 30, 2021 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  • Sunday, October 31,2021 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Learn more on how to vote at ocfelections.com.

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Florida House Public Integrity and Elections Committee Review 2020 Election Physical and Cybersecurity

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FILE - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was joined by Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee, Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections President Tammy Jones and Florida's Election Supervisors to announce Florida would join 29 States in Enhancing Voter Registration in Orlando, Wednesday, August 21, 2019. (Photo by J Willie David III / Florida National News, FNN News Network)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FNN) – Many of the legislative committees are meeting in preparation for the upcoming legislative session on March 2, 2021.

The Public Integrity and Elections Committee met on February 9, 2021, to discuss whether or not Florida’s laws are working to produce secure, reliable, fair, and efficient elections. The presentations during this meeting were intended:

  • Give the members of the committee an opportunity to learn more about the nuances of election law
  • To appreciate what went right in the 2020 election
  • To evaluate areas where there might be room for improvement

Secretary of State Laurel Lee talked about the physical and cybersecurity of the elections, with her main focus being on infrastructure.

On May 22, 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis instructed Secretary Lee to do a review of the statewide elections infrastructure to identify any vulnerabilities and address any vulnerabilities that were identified not only at the state level but across all 67 counties.

To create a baseline, the Department of State needed reliable information and the same information across all counties. The Department developed a plan along with the Supervisors of Elections from across the state. This plan involved sending Department of State cyber navigators to each of the 67 counties to conduct an election specific risk assessment on the individual networks.

This meant for the first time ever, the State Department had statewide visibility on the elections related systems, networks, and physical facilities. They were then able to send resources and personnel to the areas most in need and to work side-by-side with each county to address and mitigate any vulnerabilities.

Secretary Lee said that with the help of our federal partners, which included the US Attorney, FBI, and Homeland Security all critical intelligence and threat information was passed along in a timely manner and these partners helped in the fight against election-related misinformation.

Another new thing for this election was that the state joined the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) in order to enhance election security and maintain accurate voter rolls. Membership in ERIC allowed the state and the Supervisors of Elections to cross-check their rolls with those of all other member states to find deceased voters, duplicate registrations, or other list maintenance activities in order to maintain more accurate and up-to-date rolls.

The State Department also used ERIC to conduct the state’s most sweeping effort to date to register new voters. 2.2 billion postcards were sent out to potential voters. Within 10 days of the households starting to receive those postcards, the state saw 300,000 new registrations with a total of 14.4 million registered voters this year which is an increase of 1.4 million.

Secretary Lee applauded Judge Pete Antonacci, former Supervisor of Elections in Broward County for his and his team’s work on correcting the many problems plaguing Broward County elections. She said that in 2020, Broward County was truly a success story.

When asked by the committee about the breakdown in the online voter registration site this year and in past years, Secretary Lee said that her office had made improvements to the system but they were only expecting to handle 100,000’s of thousands of new registrations on the last night of registration but instead they had millions of voters trying to register. Her office immediately began to upgrade the system and she extended the deadline for another 24 hours, giving voters time to register online. Secretary Lee said that improvements have been made to the programming as well as the system capacity so that the online registration system now will be able to handle huge numbers of voters who may try to register online.

Judge Antonacci offered his observations to the committee from his time as Elections Supervisor. Judge Antonacci said that his biggest concern is with mail-in ballots. Broward County received 475,000 mail-in ballots over a 32-day period in the 2020 election. He said that verifying signatures is definitely an area that needs improvement. Antonacci also said that vote by mail request lists are available to certain political entities which makes ballot harvesting possible because these entities can now show up at a voter’s home and this should be addressed by the legislature.

Judge Antonacci also said that he was concerned about the people who came to the dropbox sites and deposited large numbers of mail-in ballots. He feels that there should be a limit to the number of ballots that are allowed to be dropped off by one person.

Supervisor of Elections Mark Earley disagreed with this observation by pointing out that because of the pandemic, many neighborhoods had one person designated to pick up all the mail-in ballots for the neighborhood and drop them off at a dropbox location. He also said that he knew of many families in his county that did the same thing.

The committee appeared to have their concerns and questions addressed. There were a few questions posed to Secretary Lee that she did not have the answer to but she promised to get those answers for the committee.

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Lynn DeJarnette is a reporter for Florida National News. | info@floridanationalnews.com

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Trump Campaign Launches ‘Native Americans for Trump’ with Kick-Off Event Featuring Donald Trump Jr.

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Donald Trump Jr. speaks at the Native Americans for Turmp coalition launch in Williams, Arizona. Photo: Donald Turmp campaign.

WILLIAMS, Az. — Yesterday, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. officially launched the ‘Native Americans for Trump’ coalition with an event at the Williams Rodeo Grounds in Williams, Arizona featuring Donald Trump Jr. President Trump has been the fiercest ally of the Native American community, and the grassroots support for him around the country is reflected in the launch of the campaign’s newest coalition.

“President Trump has shown unprecedented support for the Native American Community by advocating for tribal sovereignty and providing real solutions to the critical issues facing the Tribal Nations,” said Donald Trump Jr. “Native Americans for Trump is mobilizing support for President Trump’s re-election because four more years under this Administration’s leadership means a greater future for our communities for generations to come.”

Native Americans for Trump is focused on mobilizing Tribal Nations for President Trump’s re-election. Never before have we seen an American President dedicated to uplifting and protecting the Native American community. Re-electing the President will ensure greater economic opportunity, safer tribal communities, and better healthcare policies for generations to come.

Sharon E. Clahchischilliage, Navajo, and Carlyle Begay, Navajo, will lead the ‘Native Americans for Trump’ coalition as co-chairs.

Other key members of ‘Native Americans for Trump’ include:

Ben Keel, Chickasaw
T.W. Shannon, Chickasaw
Jason Lambert, Cherokee
Michael Stopp, Cherokee
Cameron Jacobs, Lumbee
Elisa Martinez, Navajo/Zuni
Michael Woestehoff, Navajo
Jerome Kasey, White Mountain Apache

For more information, please visit nativeamericans.donaldjtrump.com

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