Category Archives: chicanery
“North Carolina Asked Feds To Indict Alleged Fraudster Last Year”
AP:
North Carolina’s top elections official issued an urgent plea nearly two years ago for the Trump administration to file criminal charges against the man now at the center of ballot fraud allegations that have thrown a 2018 congressional race… Continue reading
“Doug Jones ‘Outraged’ by Russian-Style Tactics Used in His Senate Race”
NYT:
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama on Thursday said he was “outraged” to learn of deceptive online operations used by fellow Democrats to assist his election last year, and called for a federal investigation into the matter.
He was responding… Continue reading
“N.C. election officials sounded alarm about alleged election fraud to federal prosecutors in January 2017”
WaPo:
North Carolina state election officials told federal prosecutors in January 2017 that they found evidence of efforts to manipulate the absentee ballot vote in rural Bladen County in the 2016 election and warned that such activities “will likely continue… Continue reading
Must Read: “Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics”
Somehow missed this NYT story yesterday:
As Russia’s online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar… Continue reading
North Carolina: “Shadowy 9th District figure says he took cash in 2014 election”
WRAL:
The man at the center of a state inquiry into 9th Congressional District election results indicated in a signed declaration last year that he essentially took cash under the table during the 2014 elections to help Bladen County’s current… Continue reading
North Carolina: “‘Do u care who u vote for?’ 2016 investigation found evidence of ballot harvesting”
News and Observer:
McCrae Dowless, a Bladen County elected official and political operative, paid workers to collect absentee ballots and return them to him before the 2016 election, witnesses told state board of election investigators, according to documents released … Continue reading
Remember “American/Western Tradition Partnership” Involved in Montana Elections in Case that Went to SCOTUS? Looks Like the National Right to Work Committee Was Secretly Behind It, Violating Montana Campaign Finance Laws
Montana Free Press:
Thousands of newly uncovered documents and recently filed court records bolster already mounting evidence tying the anti-union National Right to Work Committee to the political activities of conservative nonprofit groups accused of improperly coordinating Republican legislative… Continue reading
“Russia and Republicans attempt to suppress black vote, but Russians are slicker”
“Embattled Florida elections official sues to get job back”
AP:
A former Florida elections official is asking a federal judge to reinstate her after she was removed from office by Gov. Rick Scott.
Embattled Broward elections supervisor Brenda Snipes filed a lengthy federal lawsuit on Monday against Scott and… Continue reading
Trump Foundation Shutting Down in Settlement as NY AG Finds, Among Other Things, Illegal Coordination with the Trump Campaign
WaPo:
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced that the Donald J. Trump Foundation is dissolving as her office pursues its lawsuit against the charity, Trump and his three eldest children.
The attorney general’s suit, filed in June, alleged… Continue reading
“Ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone admits to spreading lies online in lawsuit settlement”
NBC News:
Former presidential adviser and longtime Republican operative Roger Stone admitted in federal court papers filed Monday that he has spread false information online.
In the settlement, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Stone retracted… Continue reading
“Editorial: N.C. GOP, more than state Elections Board, needs transparency”
WRAL editorial:
It is hard to imagine where the North Carolina GOP leadership found the gall to have the Ninth Congressional District Republican Executive Committee pass a “resolution” demanding the State Board of Elections “immediately certify” Mark Harris the… Continue reading
“The mostly unanswerable question: Which close races were won by dirty tricks?”
Philip Bump for WaPo:
When Georgia’s secretary of state, Brian Kemp, announced on the weekend before this year’s midterm elections that Democrats in the state had tried to illegally access the state’s voter database, the announcement was treated with a… Continue reading