Category Archives: chicanery

“GOP donor described botched vote fraud probe in recording, prosecutors say”

May 6, 2022, 6:14 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: On Oct. 17, 2020, influential GOP donor Steven F. Hotze made an urgent request during a phone call with a top federal prosecutor in Texas, according to a court filing Fridayby the Houston district attorney’s office.Hotze claimed that private… Continue reading

“Dozens of mail ballots are going to a GOP ward leader’s South Philly P.O. box, raising ‘ballot harvesting’ concerns”

May 6, 2022, 5:27 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

Philadelphia Inquirer: A mail ballot mystery is unfolding at an otherwise unremarkable post office box in South Philadelphia.City elections officials last week received applications from more than three dozen Republican voters across a pocket of the neighborhood. Those applications… Continue reading

“DHS watchdog says Trump’s agency appears to have altered report on Russian interference in 2020 election in part because of politics”

May 3, 2022, 8:19 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

CNN: Former President Donald Trump‘s Department of Homeland Security delayed and altered an intelligence report related to Russian interference in the 2020 election, making changes that “appear to be based in part on political considerations,” according to a … Continue reading

“Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes”

May 1, 2022, 7:31 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Since launching its investigation last summer, the Jan. 6 panel has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks before the insurrection. Members have asked three GOP lawmakers — Jordan of Ohio, Rep.… Continue reading

“Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud ‘evidence'”

April 28, 2022, 6:37 amchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

Reuters: Eighteen months after Donald Trump lost the White House, loyal supporters continue to falsely assert that compromised balloting machines across America robbed him of the 2020 election.To stand up that bogus claim, some Trump die-hards are taking the… Continue reading

Must-read CNN Oped by Judge Luttig: “The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election”

April 27, 2022, 6:59 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Judge Luttig: That objective is not somehow to rescind the 2020 election, as they would have us believe. That’s constitutionally impossible. Trump’s and the Republicans’ far more ambitious objective is to execute successfully in 2024 the very same plan… Continue reading

“‘Blurring of lines’: Private lawyer plays starring role in taxpayer-funded Wisconsin election probe”

April 25, 2022, 7:00 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Wisconsin Watch: A two-story office building in a Milwaukee suburb houses three entities that have led a months-long campaign sowing doubt about Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election.The gray, indistinct building in Brookfield lists about a dozen occupants, including a… Continue reading

“Dowless, key figure in NC absentee ballot fraud probe, dies”

April 24, 2022, 6:27 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

AP: Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., the key player in a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud probe that led to a do-over congressional election, has died.His daughter, Andrea Dowless Heverly, wrote that her father “passed away peacefully” Sunday morning, according… Continue reading

“Exclusive: Local election chief threatened by Republican leader seeking illegal access to voting equipment”

April 24, 2022, 8:35 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Reuters: A local Republican Party leader in North Carolina threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to voting equipment, the state elections board told Reuters.The party… Continue reading

“OAN network agrees to settle defamation claims brought by election workers”

April 23, 2022, 9:46 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Oregon Live: Two Georgia election workers agreed to settle defamation claims against a right-wing cable news channel, which they said falsely claimed they engaged in ballot fraud during the 2020 election, according to a court document filed Thursday.Fulton County… Continue reading

Listen to Audio of Kevin McCarthy Saying to Liz Cheney He Would Push Donald Trump to Resign After Jan. 6 Insurrection, the Same Day He Denied Saying It

April 21, 2022, 8:04 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Obtained by Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns as part of their upcoming book. After their article about McCarthy saying this posted, McCarthy denied it vehemently. Then they released the audio on Maddow.

Texas: “Steven Hotze charged for funding voter fraud investigation where repairman was held at gunpoint”

April 20, 2022, 3:34 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Houston Chronicle: Steven Hotze, the conservative activist who funded a private investigation into voter fraud that ended with the investigator pointing a gun at an innocent air conditioning repairman, has been indicted for his role in the episode.A Harris… Continue reading

“Libs of TikTok” Account and Bogus Claims of Voter Fraud and About Jan. 6

April 19, 2022, 7:42 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

From Taylor Lorenz’s must-read reporting on the person behind the influential “Libs of TikTok” account: Libs of TikTok reposts a steady stream of TikTok videos and social media posts, primarily from LGBTQ+ people, often including incendiary framing designed to generate… Continue reading

“Eastman shielding 37,000 pages of Trump-related email from Jan. 6 committee”

April 19, 2022, 7:33 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Attorney John Eastman revealed Monday that he has asserted attorney-client privilege on 37,000 pages of emails related to his work for then-President Donald Trump in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.The Jan. 6 select… Continue reading