This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461235
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461235
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Meanwhile, in Michigan
The second paragraph:
The panel found that the attorneys sanctioned failed to investigate their own claims before filing them, apparently never read the Michigan election law they accused election workers and voters of violating and filed exhibits that undermined their own allegations about Dominion voting machines.
All three judges on the panel were appointed to the bench by Republicans.
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Corruption… thy name is Ken Paxton …
And friends
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A year after persuading Texas lawmakers to buy millions of child identification kits that had no proven record of success, a businessman with a troubled history found an in with the state’s attorney general.
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An inkless fingerprinting kit is just a piece of paper or other surface, right?
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Gotta be bad when even Republicans aren’t buying your BS.
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FWIW, when I was printed for my security clearance ~15 years ago, no ink was involved. I am not sure how it worked.
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Ken Paxton: Exhibit A in when your instincts are totally criminal and part of your DNA.
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#NeverNotGrifting
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Most modern method now is digital scan.
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Local police took the prints. At least one of us lacked the necessary skills. It involved rolling my finger tips on some sort of pad. It was not working; cop provides moisturizer, which he says will help (I am not making this up!). I don’t recall any optical or touch-sensitive equipment.
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Republicans
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Grifters On Parade
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True, but does not align with the description of an inkless fingerprinting “kit.”
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No ink, just snake oil.
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There are plenty of chemicals that react with skin oils or moisture. But in the context of missing children, I don’t really see the use, unless somehow you’re going to convince everyone to take kids’ fingerprints before they go missing and then file them in a database, but somehow you’re at just the wrong technological level. And now, of course, any phone will do.
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Leave it to the Texas Rump kissers to stand out amongst a whole industry of fear and paranoia-based safety theater.
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Follow along with all Ken Paxton’s impeachment travails over in the hive:
https://forums.talkingpointsmemo.com/t/paxton-impeachment-trial-watch-trial-starts-september-5th/238007
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