“Why there could be voter intimidation at the polls on Election Day”
I spoke with Madeline Brand on KCRW’s Press Play.
Category Archives: chicanery
“Trump Renews Fears of Voter Intimidation as G.O.P. Poll Watchers Mobilize”
NYT:
The group of Trump campaign officials came carrying cellphone cameras and a determination to help the president’s re-election efforts in Philadelphia. But they were asked to leave the city’s newly opened satellite election offices on Tuesday after being… Continue reading
“Trump campaign tells elections boards across NC to ignore state guidance on absentee ballots”
WRAL:
County boards of elections across North Carolina on Tuesday started the process of determining which absentee ballots could be accepted for the general election and which needed further work by voters.With record numbers of voters casting ballots by… Continue reading
“‘Russia Doesn’t Have To Make Fake News’: Biggest Election Threat Is Closer To Home”
“Trump’s 2016 Campaign Listed Millions of Black Voters It Wanted to Stop From Voting, Leak Reveals”
Daily Beast:
Over three million Black voters in key states were identified by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign as people they had to persuade to stay at home on Election Day to help him reach the White House.The revelation comes… Continue reading
Mark Braden, Jim Bopp, and an Anonymous Republican Election Lawyer Say How Trump Would Be Removed If He Lost and Refused to Leave Office
Key quotes from the Hill:
“The Electoral College votes and those are sent to Congress and they declare a winner and then the president becomes president on Jan. 20,” said Mark Braden, an elections lawyer who spent 10 years as… Continue reading
“Trump Again Sows Doubt About Election as G.O.P. Scrambles to Assure Voters”
NYT:
President Trump declined for a second straight day to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost the election, repeating baseless assertions that the voting would be a “big scam,” even as leading Republicans scrambled to assure… Continue reading
“East Texas official arrested for alleged mail-in voter fraud involving 2018 Democratic primary for local seat”
Texas Tribune:
An East Texas county commissioner was arrested Thursday on charges that he and three associates committed voter fraud in a 2018 primary election.A grand jury indicted Shannon Brown, a Democratic Gregg County commissioner whose office is in Kilgore,… Continue reading
“Justice Dept. Discloses Pa. Ballot Inquiry, Prompting Fears of Politicization”
NYT:
The Justice Department on Thursday released details about an investigation into nine discarded mailed-in ballots in Pennsylvania, an unusual step that stoked new fears that President Trump’s political appointees were using the levers of law enforcement to sow doubt… Continue reading
Senator Rick Scott Wants to Disenfranchise Military and Other Voters Voting by Mail By Stopping Counting After 24 Hours
Jeremy Stahl for Slate:
On Thursday, Florida Sen. Rick Scott proposed a bill that would change election laws with less than six weeks to go until November’s election, causing complete mayhem and ensuring that untold number of otherwise valid votes… Continue reading
“White House touts unusual Justice Department announcement about ‘discarded’ Trump ballots in Pennsylvania”
Marshall Cohen for CNN:
The Justice Department said Thursday that it is investigating “potential issues with mail-in ballots” in the swing state of Pennsylvania and, in a highly unusual disclosure, revealed that several ballots marked for President Donald Trump… Continue reading
Justin Levitt (Who Was a Voting Official at DOJ) on the Bizarre DOJ Press Release on an Investigation Into 9 Potentially Mishandled Ballots
Thread starts here:
An investigation here may be reasonable. But there is NO legit reason for:1) a DOJ press release on a pending investigation, that2) announces a partial list of unconfirmed facts, including3) the identity of one of the… Continue reading
“Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County’s Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns”
ProPublica:
The previously unreported attack on Hamilton illustrates an overlooked security weakness that could hamper the November election: the vulnerability of email systems in county offices that handle the voting process from registration to casting and counting ballots. Although experts… Continue reading
“Facebook Takes Down Fake Pages Created in China Aimed at Influencing U.S. Election”
NYT:
Facebook has detected limited Chinese operations intended to both help and hurt President Trump’s re-election chances, the company announced on Tuesday, the first public disclosure of Chinese efforts to influence the presidential election in November.The Chinese activity, while modest… Continue reading