Category Archives: chicanery

“State Dept. Traces Russian Disinformation Links”

August 6, 2020, 7:44 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Russia continues to use a network of proxy websites to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda in the United States and other parts of the West, according to a State Department report released on Wednesday.The report is one of the… Continue reading

“Republican operatives are helping Kanye West get on general election ballots”

August 6, 2020, 6:56 amballot access, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

CNN: Republican operatives, some with ties to President Donald Trump, are actively helping Kanye West get on presidential general election ballots in states ranging from Vermont to Arkansas to Wisconsin.The effort is raising questions about whether Republicans are pushing… Continue reading

“Bice: Wisconsin Republicans help Kanye West in his attempt to get on state presidential ballot”

August 4, 2020, 8:33 pmballot access, chicaneryRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The rapper’s campaign turned in a number of signatures on Tuesday in a bid to get on the November presidential ballot in Wisconsin. He is making similar attempts in Ohio, Arkansas and West Virginia.Reid Magney, spokesman for… Continue reading

Trump Made at Least 713 Statements and Tweets Since 2012 Calling Voting and Elections into Question, Including 91 from January through July of This Year

August 3, 2020, 8:52 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Incredible stats from Susan Glasser in the New Yorker: In fact, Trump’s attack on the legitimacy of the upcoming election has been intensifying for months, as his poll standing has sunk. Trump’s “Twitter Richter scale,” as the Democratic lawyer Norm… Continue reading

“Inside the Project Veritas Plan to Steal the Election; James O’Keefe’s group is part of a sprawling campaign to delegitimize mail-in balloting in the fall—a campaign being led by the White House.”

August 3, 2020, 8:30 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

TNR reports.

“Ransomware feared as possible saboteur for November election”

August 2, 2020, 2:35 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

AP: Federal authorities say one of the gravest threats to the November election is a well-timed ransomware attack that could paralyze voting operations. The threat isn’t just from foreign governments, but any fortune-seeking criminal.Ransomware attacks targeting state and local… Continue reading

Republicans and Democrats Fight Over Green Party Ballot Access in Montana

July 27, 2020, 7:06 amballot access, chicanery, third partiesRick Hasen

The issue is in the hands of a judge, with Republicans wanting the Green Party on the ballot (to siphon votes from Democrats) and Democrats seeking to kick the Green Party off.

“Trump keeps touting New Jersey fraud case to attack mail voting. Local leaders say he’s not telling the whole story.”

July 26, 2020, 6:34 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

Rosalind Helderman for WaPo. White House officials said the president has railed privately about the New Jersey city’s election to his advisers. And conservative groups have launched their own efforts to spotlight the problems in Paterson, including Judicial Watch and… Continue reading

“Election Officials Are Vulnerable to Email Attacks, Report Shows Six jurisdictions used software that Russian spies have targeted in cyberattacks”

July 26, 2020, 12:22 pmchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

WSJ: Many of the thousands of county and local election officials who will be administering November’s presidential election are running email systems that could leave them vulnerable to online attacks, a new report has found.Cybersecurity vendor Area 1 Security… Continue reading

“U.S. Warns Russia, China and Iran Are Trying to Interfere in the Election. Democrats Say It’s Far Worse.”

July 25, 2020, 1:31 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: American intelligence officials issued a public warning on Friday that China was “expanding its influence efforts” in the United States ahead of the presidential election, along with Russia and Iran, but Democrats briefed on the matter said the threat… Continue reading

“Ex-congressman from Abscam scandal faces new vote-buying charges”

July 23, 2020, 8:13 pmchicanery, vote buyingRick Hasen

WaPo: An ex-congressman once convicted as part of the infamous Abscam investigation in the 1980s is facing new corruption charges for allegedly bribing a Philadelphia elections official to stuff ballot boxes.Michael “Ozzie” Myers, who was famously caught on a… Continue reading

“Trump’s assault on election integrity forces question: What would happen if he refused to accept a loss?”

July 22, 2020, 2:04 pmchicanery, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

WaPo: President Trump’s relentless efforts to sow doubts about the legitimacy of this year’s election are forcing both parties to reckon with the possibility that he may dispute the result in November if he loses — leading to an unprecedented… Continue reading

In Must-Read Piece on Dysfunction at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Jessica Huseman Reveals that Excellent Republican Commissioner Matt Masterson Was Forced Out by Von Spakovsky and EAC Commissioner McCormick for Being “Insufficiently Partisan”

July 22, 2020, 9:40 amchicanery, election administration, Election Assistance Commission, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

In my 2012 book, The Voting Wars, I chronicled how Congress created the United States Election Assistance commission in 2002 after the debacle of 2000’s Bush v. Gore, how the agency started out with great promise as one that… Continue reading

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