Category Archives: chicanery

“Election officials around the country race to expand voting options as Postal Service crisis spurs alarm”

August 19, 2020, 8:48 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Election officials are racing to install more ballot drop boxes and secure large venues for Election Day voting, part of an urgent push to reassure Americans worried about trusting their ballots to a U.S. Postal Service engulfed in… Continue reading

“How Paul Manafort promoted Russian disinformation that has been embraced by Trump”

August 19, 2020, 8:46 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: The effort began only days after Paul Manafort resigned as chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in August 2016.Manafort faced scrutiny for accepting millions in off-book payments from pro-Russian Ukrainian officials — an uncomfortable situation for the longtime lobbyist,… Continue reading

“New Local Election Ordered in N.J. After Mail-In Voter Fraud Charges; A judge ruled that the election in Paterson had been irreversibly tainted. The president has used the case to assail mail-in voting as dangerous, though election experts disagree.”

August 19, 2020, 8:41 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT:

New Jersey: “Judge invalidates Paterson’s 3rd Ward results, orders new election”

August 19, 2020, 8:33 amabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

The system works.

President Trump Allows His Mail-in Ballot to Be Harvested

August 18, 2020, 3:14 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

The Hill: The Palm Beach County elections office received the completed ballots on Monday, a spokesperson for the office confirmed to The Hill.The president and the first lady’s ballots were dropped off in person instead of being returned to the… Continue reading

Roger Stone Sent Message to WikiLeaks to Release Podesta Emails Immediately in Response to Trump “Access Hollywood” Tape

August 18, 2020, 7:46 amchicaneryRick Hasen

As many suspected (via the Senate Report): Some details about the day of the Access Hollywood tape/Podesta emails release: Trump campaign team heard about the tape an hour before its release. Stone told Corsi to get Assange to "drop… Continue reading

“Bipartisan Senate report describes 2016 Trump campaign eager to accept help from foreign power”

August 18, 2020, 7:29 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

NBC News: In a thousand-page bipartisan report released Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee said the Trump administration obstructed its investigation with “novel claims” of executive privilege. It painted a portrait of a Trump campaign eager to accept help from a… Continue reading

“Legal Loopholes Leave the U.S. Vulnerable to Election Interference; Report finds Russia, China, and other countries have spent over $300 million to influence the democratic process in countries around the world.”

August 18, 2020, 7:19 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Foreign Policy: Authoritarian regimes including Russia and China have spent more than $300 million over the past decade to interfere in political processes of dozens of other countries around the world, according to a new report released Tuesday by… Continue reading

Is Kanye West Breaking the Law By Coordinating with the Trump Campaign While Running for President? Perhaps

August 13, 2020, 9:20 amcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about whether Kanye West, who is running for President and getting on the ballots in at least a few states, is somehow breaking campaign finance law by doing so given the… Continue reading

“Chinese network of fake accounts targets Trump with English-language videos”

August 12, 2020, 1:35 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: A network of fake Chinese accounts has been posting videos bashing President Trump, criticizing his recent closure of China’s consulate in Houston, his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his threats to ban the popular social media app TikTok,… Continue reading

“Trump aides exploring executive actions to curb voting by mail”

August 9, 2020, 9:01 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

Politico: Trump, impatient with the slow nature of lawsuits, suggested last week that the November election be postponed, though he later claimed he was merely trying to highlight the possibility of fraud after he faced a backlash from even… Continue reading

“Trump campaign ad manipulates three images to put Biden in a ‘basement’”

August 7, 2020, 7:46 amcampaigns, cheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: The Pinocchio Test Two of these photos fall under the category of “doctored” in the Fact Checker’s Guide to Manipulated Video. In the most egregious case, one image literally takes Biden from a nature preserve and puts him… Continue reading

“Kanye West Indicates That His Spoiler Campaign is Indeed Designed to Hurt Biden”

August 7, 2020, 7:30 amballot access, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Forbes: Amid various reports that Republican and Trump-affiliated political operatives are trying to get Kanye West onto various state ballots for November’s presidential election, the billionaire rap superstar indicated, in an interview by text today, that he was in… Continue reading

“State Dept. Traces Russian Disinformation Links”

August 6, 2020, 7:44 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Russia continues to use a network of proxy websites to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda in the United States and other parts of the West, according to a State Department report released on Wednesday.The report is one of the… Continue reading

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