[Link] FBI Raids Home of GOP Election Official Linked to QAnon’s Ron Watkins

Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com

The FBI has raided the home of a Republican election official in Colorado accused of facilitating the leak of sensitive election data to QAnon influencer Ron Watkins.

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[Link] The plan to tighten Australia’s voter ID laws is just a clumsy uptake of US culture wars

Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

It resembles many initiatives of the Morrison government, and most of the ideas which have emerged from Australian conservatism more broadly in the past decade or more, in that it is opportunistic, unoriginal, and so unnecessary as to be baffling.

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