“Loopholes Allow Foreign Adversaries to Legally Interfere in U.S. Elections”
Fred Wertheimer for Just Security.
Category Archives: chicanery
“Trump campaign embraces groups trying to court minority voters – one with false pitches”
WaPo:
Nearly a year after a gay freelance hairstylist living in Harlem posted a Facebook video repudiating the Democratic Party, Brandon Straka found himself in Trump Tower on Thursday speaking with Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and a senior… Continue reading
“Judge Orders Voter Fraud Alarmist To Be Deposed Again After Docs Raise New Questions”
TPM:
J. Christian Adams — a former member of President Trump’s voter fraud commission who has been sued for defamation for his reports claiming mass fraud — will have to sit for another deposition in the case, after a… Continue reading
“Trump Gives Attorney General Sweeping Power in Review of 2016 Campaign Inquiry”
NYT:
President Trump took extraordinary steps on Thursday to give Attorney General William P. Barr sweeping new authorities to conduct a review into how the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia were investigated, significantly escalating the administration’s efforts to place… Continue reading
“Faked Pelosi videos, slowed to make her appear drunk, spread across social media”
WaPo:
Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she’s drunkenly slurring her words, are spreading rapidly across social media, highlighting how political disinformation that clouds public understanding can now spread at the… Continue reading
Don Palmer, Now on the EAC, Assisted Christian Adams and PILF with “Alien Invasion” Report, Currently the Subject of Defamation/Voter Intimidation Suit
Tierney Sneed from TPM:
Before he was named by President Trump to the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, Donald Palmer, a former GOP-appointed secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections, assisted in the creation of sensational voter fraud reports that … Continue reading
“Prosecutors: Michael Cohen campaign finance probe is active”
AP:
Prosecutors aren’t quite finished investigating campaign finance violations by President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer.U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III agreed Tuesday to keep search warrant materials related to the investigation of Michael Cohen under seal until… Continue reading
In Important Step and In Rare Bipartisan Fashion, Federal Election Commission Unanimously Approves Measure to Provide Free or Reduced-Cost Cybersecurity Protection for American Campaigns [Subject to Disclosure of, and Limits on Sources of Funding for Effort (That Part’s Not Unanimous)]
This is very good news. You can find the advisory opinion here. It is unanimous, except the Republican commissioners would not have imposed the disclosure requirements or source limitations.
From Chair Weintraub’s letter:
Under the unusual and exigent circumstances… Continue reading
Canadian Billionaire May Have Violated Foreign Contribution Ban Via Domestic Subsidiary
NYT:
And Zekelman Industries made political donations in the United States — skirting or possibly violating a ban on contributions by foreigners — including $1.75 million last year to a group supporting President Trump…..Federal Election Commission rules prohibit any… Continue reading
Report: Russians Trying to Sow Racial Violence in U.S. as Late as 2018, with Plan to “recruit African-Americans and transport them to camps in Africa ‘for combat prep and training in sabotage.'”
The race-based aspects of Russian interference efforts in U.S. politics have not gotten sufficient attention:
Russians who were linked to interference in the 2016 U.S. election discussed ambitious plans to stoke unrest and even violence inside the U.S. as recently… Continue reading
“Miami Candidate’s Campaign Workers May Have Tampered With Absentee Ballots”
Miami New Times:
An explosive, 150-page WhatsApp chat leaked to Miami New Times appears to show members of Miami-Dade County Commission District 5 candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla’s 2018 campaign team discussing destroying or stealing absentee ballots from… Continue reading
Social Media Pollution Could Be Worse in 2020 Election
Jim Rutenberg NYT column:
The rules now in place just don’t match up with how certain groups influence voters via the internet. Thanks to savvy lobbying by tech companies, online election campaign speech remains almost entirely unregulated.The platforms won … Continue reading
Must Read from Tierney Sneed: Ginni Thomas, Wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Discussed Anti-“Voter Fraud” Campaign in Virginia Which Could Have Intimidated Minority Voters
Scoop from Tierney Sneed at Talking Points Memo (you’ve got to read the whole thing):
Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wanted to “target” the “most questionable” precincts in Virginia with an anti-voter… Continue reading