Category Archives: chicanery

Analysis: Facebook Oversight Board’s Decision Upholding Trump Suspension But Requiring Facebook to Reconsider “Indefinite” Suspension Is Good, But Doesn’t Go Far Enough in Requiring Trump to Abandon Claims of Stolen Election for Platform Restoration

May 5, 2021, 6:53 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

Facebook’s Oversight Board has issued its long-anticipated decision on whether Facebook was correct in removing Trump from the platform given his statements supporting the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. The Board determined that Facebook was correct: “In maintaining an… Continue reading

Trump Tries to Flip “Big Lie” Statement in Effort To Neutralize Term’s Use Against His Repeated and Dangerous False Statements that the 2020 Election Was Stolen

May 3, 2021, 8:46 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Vintage Trump. The tweet on the right was posted about an hour after the statement on the left. pic.twitter.com/ecBgKuGYyA— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 3, 2021

“Arizona Republicans Continue Recount Drive in ‘Fealty’ to Trump”

May 3, 2021, 6:51 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Bloomberg: Arizona Republicans still distraught that voters rejected both Donald Trump and their incumbent U.S. senator are hyper-scrutinizing millions of ballots, looking for anything other than the candidates themselves to account for their top-of-the-ticket defeats.Six months after a presidential election… Continue reading

“For Republicans, fealty to Trump’s election falsehood becomes defining loyalty test”

May 3, 2021, 6:36 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Debra Ell, a Republican organizer in Michigan and fervent supporter of former president Donald Trump, said she has good reason to believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.“I think I speak for many people in that Trump has never… Continue reading

“Antifa fears, UV lights: What the group running Arizona GOP’s election audit tried to keep secret”

May 3, 2021, 6:26 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Jane Timm for NBC News: The private companies hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to recount millions of ballots from the 2020 election are concerned about possible Antifa attacks and planned to use UV lights to hunt for fraud, internal documents… Continue reading

Five Years Probation for a PA Man Who Admitted to Voter Fraud by Voting His Dead Mother’s Absentee Ballot for Donald Trump

May 3, 2021, 6:22 amabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP reports.

“Who Watches the Poll Watchers? State legislators have introduced at least 40 bills in 20 different states that would expand the powers of poll watchers.”

April 29, 2021, 12:45 pmchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

New Brennan Center analysis.

“House Minority Leader McCarthy defends Trump’s response to Jan. 6 insurrection”

April 26, 2021, 7:29 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) continued to defend former president Donald Trump’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection, claiming in an interview Sunday that Trump was unaware the U.S. Capitol was being stormed until McCarthy called and urged… Continue reading

“‘Hindsight Is 20/20’: An Internal Report Shows How Facebook Failed To Prevent The “Stop The Steal” Movement”

April 22, 2021, 9:40 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

BuzzFeed News: Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of a House of Representatives committee that his company had done its part “to secure the integrity of the election.” While the social network did not catch everything, the… Continue reading

“Trump’s grip on GOP looms as support falters for independent probe of Capitol riot”

April 19, 2021, 7:48 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Congress’s pursuit of an independent investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection is facing long odds, as bipartisan resolve to hold the perpetrators and instigators accountable erodes, and Republicans face sustained pressure to disavow that it was supporters of former… Continue reading

Far Right Wing Bloggers Who Believe That Alabama SOS John Merrill Protected Voting Rights Too Much (!) and That He Allowed for Voter Fraud Outed Explicit Details of His Extra-Marital Affair

April 17, 2021, 4:13 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Quite a story: A former Spanish teacher in North Carolina, Noel Fritsch has in recent years built a career as a conservative operative with a history of involvement in Republican campaigns and far-right causes across the country.Described by a … Continue reading

“Why Local Election Officials In Georgia Take Issue With Many Parts Of New Law”

April 16, 2021, 11:51 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

NPR: Three weeks after it was signed into law, local election officials in Georgia are still trying to understand all the implications of the state’s controversial election overhaul.In a series of interviews, election officials said that while the Republican-led measure… Continue reading

“Armed ‘quick reaction force’ was waiting for order to storm Capitol, Justice Dept. says”

April 16, 2021, 9:43 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: As the Capitol was overrun on Jan. 6, armed supporters of President Donald Trump were waiting across the Potomac in Virginia for orders to bring guns into the fray, a prosecutor said Wednesday in federal court.The Justice Department has… Continue reading

“A cybersecurity expert who promoted claims of fraud in the 2020 election is leading the GOP-backed recount of millions of ballots in Arizona”

April 16, 2021, 7:18 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The nearly 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Ariz., last fall are currently packaged in 40 cardboard shrink-wrapped boxes and stacked on 45 pallets in a county facility in Phoenix known as “the vault,” due to its sophisticated… Continue reading

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