Category Archives: chicanery
Kansas: “Secret recording: O’Donnell, Capps, Clendenin plot how to get away with Whipple smear”
Wichita Eagle:
A secret recording released Friday shows that three Republican officials sought to frame the county’s Republican chairman for a falsified ad they put together smearing then-mayoral candidate Brandon Whipple. One compared their mission to that of the… Continue reading
Iranian Video of Purported Hack into State Voter Registration Database Appears to Be Staged
Analysis from EIP:
This week has seen a flurry of activity related to potential voter suppression, starting with the sending of threatening emails, purportedly from the Proud Boys, to voters in several states; the release of a video purporting to… Continue reading
Should We Be Worried About Russian Interference in the 2020 Elections? Reasons for Comfort, Reasons for Concern, and BIG Reasons for More Early Voting
By Richard L. Hasen
The latest murky revelations from U.S. intelligence officials that Russian government operatives are probing state voter registration databases as they did in 2016 raises the question: is this all they’ve got? Why aren’t the Russians doing… Continue reading
“Trump Campaign Draws Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters”
NYT:
The Trump campaign has been videotaping Philadelphia voters while they deposit their ballots in drop boxes, leading Pennsylvania’s attorney general to warn this week that the campaign’s actions fall outside of permitted poll watching practices and could amount to… Continue reading
“Md. elections officials say video’s allegation of ballot fraud is untrue. But it’s already gone viral.”
WaPo:
Elections officials in Maryland’s most populous jurisdiction held an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss a viral video alleging that an election worker attempted to tamper with a mailed-in ballot.A thorough investigation revealed no evidence of fraud or misconduct,… Continue reading
Florida: “Armed guards at St. Pete early voting site told deputies they were hired by Trump campaign, election officials say”
WFLA:
Two armed guards set up in a tent outside an early voting location in downtown St. Petersburg claiming to be with the Trump campaign, according to Julie Marcus, the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections.“The Sheriff [Bob Gualtieri] told… Continue reading
“Threatening emails to Democratic voters spark investigations in Florida and Alaska”
WaPo:
Authorities in Florida and Alaska on Tuesday were investigating threatening emails sent to Democratic voters that claimed to be from the Proud Boys, a far-right group supportive of President Trump, but appeared instead to be a deceptive campaign making… Continue reading
“Federal lawsuit filed to halt firm hiring armed guards for Minnesota polling sites”
California Ballot Drop Box Targeted in Possible Arson
This is terrible and these boxes are designed to make this difficult to do.
People interfering with ballots like this can face felony charges.
“Trump Campaign Lawyers Are Aiding a Leading Proponent of QAnon”
NYT:
Senior lawyers for the Trump campaign set up a small law firm last year that is working for Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican House candidate in Georgia with a history of promoting QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory.While… Continue reading
“White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump”
WaPo:
U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with the matter.The warnings were… Continue reading
“Learning From Paterson’s Election Scandal to Prevent Voter Fraud”
NBC News New York video report:
Recent election fraud problems in Paterson are being used by President Trump to question vote-by-mail ballots, but election experts say the problems there are the exception rather than the rule. NBC New York’s… Continue reading
“Microsoft Takes Down a Risk to the Election, and Finds the U.S. Doing the Same”
NYT:
Microsoft and a team of companies and law enforcement groups have disabled — at least temporarily — one of the world’s largest hacking operations, an effort run by Russian-speaking cybercriminals that officials feared could disrupt the presidential election in… Continue reading