Category Archives: chicanery

“Pro-Trump dark money network tied to Elon Musk behind fake pro-Harris campaign scheme”

October 19, 2024, 9:36 amcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Open Secrets: An initiative called Progress 2028 that purports to be Kamala Harris’ liberal counter to the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is actually run by a dark money network supporting former President Donald Trump. Building America’s Future, the dark… Continue reading

“Elon Musk-Funded PAC Chases Jewish and Muslim Votes With Wildly Conflicting Messaging”

October 19, 2024, 7:59 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Daily Beast: A pro-Donald Trump Super PAC funded by Elon Musk is chasing votes in two key swing states—in ways that outright contradict each other. According to Meta and Snapchat’s political ad disclosures, the Future Coalition PAC has… Continue reading

“Citizen advocates are training to disrupt 2024 elections in the name of election integrity”

October 19, 2024, 7:43 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Sarah Wire for USA Today: For the last four years, a network of right-wing activists and Trump allies, like Clements, has crisscrossed the country and held thousands of organizing meetings in order to create an army of tens of thousands of… Continue reading

Election Betting Markets as a New Source for Disinformation? “A Mystery $30 Million Wave of Pro-Trump Bets Has Moved a Popular Prediction Market”

October 18, 2024, 8:21 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WSJ: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck in the polls. But in one popular betting market, the odds have skewed heavily in Trump’s favor, raising questions about a recent flurry of wagers and… Continue reading

“At least 30 election deniers and 2020 fake electors serving as Trump electors this year”

October 17, 2024, 7:46 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: More than a dozen Republicans who were “fake electors” in 2020, including several facing criminal charges, are serving as former President Donald Trump’s official electors in battleground states this year, according to a CNN survey. Another 16 GOP electors… Continue reading

“Right-Wing Activists Pushed False Claims About Election Fraud. Now They’re Recruiting Poll Workers in Swing States.”

October 16, 2024, 1:12 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

ProPublica: Right-wing strategists still talk about what happened in Detroit in 2020, when poll watchers stood outside the absentee ballot counting center, banging on windows and shouting “Stop the count!” Conspiracy theories swirled that those volunteers had been kept out… Continue reading

Justice Gorsuch’s Fishy Story

October 15, 2024, 1:00 pmchicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Quite the flaying (fileting?) from Anush Khardori of Politico Magazine: It does not take long — the first chapter — before Gorsuch misleads the reader in Over Ruled. He is discussing the case of John Yates, a commercial fisherman who… Continue reading

“How Trump allies stoked election chaos in Detroit in 2020 — and what they’re planning in 2024”

October 15, 2024, 8:05 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Ryan Reilly and Jane Timm deep dive for NBC: How this will play out on Election Day is unknown. But an NBC News investigation can now report the extent of the Republican Party and Trump campaign’s involvement in the TCF… Continue reading

“Election certification in Georgia is mandatory, judge says”

October 15, 2024, 7:44 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

AJC: Certifying elections is a required duty of county election boards in Georgia, and they’re not allowed to refuse finalizing results based on suspicions of miscounts or fraud, a Fulton County judge ruled Tuesday. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney rejected… Continue reading

“Democratic campaign office in Arizona closes down after being shot at 3 times in 3 weeks”

October 11, 2024, 2:34 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

USA Today: The Arizona Democratic party closed a field office in Tempe, Arizona that was the target of three shootings in three weeks. The incidents come amid a 2024 election cycle that has seen multiple instances of threats or violence,… Continue reading

“Vance, Given 5 Chances to Say Trump Lost in 2020, Takes None”

October 11, 2024, 7:22 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Heading into the final three weeks of the 2024 election, Senator JD Vance of Ohio will still not say whether his running mate won or lost the last race for the White House. In an interview with The New… Continue reading

“Roger Stone Suggests Using ‘Armed Guards’ During Election in Secret Video”

October 11, 2024, 7:16 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Rolling Stone: In undercover audio provided exclusively to Rolling Stone by liberal documentarian Lauren Windsor, the Trump ally and notorious Republican “dirty trickster” suggests bringing armed personnel to election locations in order to get the results they want. “We have to… Continue reading

“Far-right conspiracy site Gateway Pundit settles 2020 defamation lawsuit brought by Georgia election workers”

October 10, 2024, 1:08 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

Marshall Cohen for CNN: Gateway Pundit, the far-right conspiracy site, has settled a defamation lawsuit from two Georgia election workers who were falsely accused of rigging the 2020 results. Details of the settlement were not made public. But the parties… Continue reading

“‘It’s Just a Really Bad Idea’; Georgia Election Officials Are Reeling Over New Voting Rules”

October 10, 2024, 10:52 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Notus: After Georgia’s election board passed new voting rules over the summer, local officials have been rushing to implement the regulations before an election that is just 26 days away. So far, it’s not going great. “We actually, just… Continue reading

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