Category Archives: chicanery
“Florida Dems planned to use altered forms to fix mail ballots across state after deadline”
Naples Daily News:
A day after Florida’s election left top state races too close to call, a Democratic party leader directed staffers and volunteers to share altered election forms with voters to fix signature problems on absentee ballots after the… Continue reading
“As recount politics heat up, two Florida election officials are the targets of online harassment”
WaPo:
Several pro-Trump Facebook pages and one Twitter account on Monday posted the home address and phone number of the Broward County, Fla., election supervisor who has been the target of blistering criticism from the president and other Republicans amid… Continue reading
“An Open-and-Shut Violation of Campaign-Finance Law”
Bob Bauer for The Atlantic:
It is a strange turn of events when a president famous for denouncing “fake news” is discovered to have entered into an agreement with a media organization to finance the concealment of very real but… Continue reading
“The increasing evidence suggesting Trump violated campaign-finance law”
Philip Bump for WaPo.
Blockbuster WSJ Story: “Donald Trump Played Central Role in Hush Payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal”
WSJ:
As a presidential candidate in August 2015, Donald Trump huddled with a longtime friend, media executive David Pecker, in his cluttered 26th floor Trump Tower office and made a request.
What can you do to help my campaign? he… Continue reading
Another Troubling Development for the Rule of Law and Election Administration: Rick Scott Requests Law Enforcement to Investigate Broward County Vote Counting, As He’s Locked in a Close Race for Senate, and President Piles On
Banana republic stuff spreads.
Marc Caputo and Matt Dixon for Politico:
Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday night that he was calling for a state investigation into Broward County’s handling of tens of thousands of ballots that have led to… Continue reading
“Russia Seen Adopting New Tactics in U.S. Election Interference Efforts”
Reuters:
If the goals of spreading divisive content have remained the same, the methods have evolved in multiple ways, researchers say. For one, there has been less reliance on pure fiction. People have been sensitized to look for completely false… Continue reading
“Brian Kemp and His Staff Caught in a String of Falsehoods”
WhoWhatWhy:
WhoWhatWhy asked the secretary of state’s office if it planned to conduct an audit to ascertain that unauthorized changes had not been made to voter registrations.
Broce responded, “There is no such vulnerability in the system as alleged by… Continue reading
“House Dem candidates snag free rent; Party lawyers get creative with campaign finance law.”
Politico:
House Democrats have exploited campaign finance law to pay rent for dozens of campaign offices used by their candidates in 2018 — an arrangement that’s further padded the party’s massive financial advantage in the midterms even as Republicans cry… Continue reading
“Brian Kemp Just Engaged in a Last-Minute Act of Banana-Republic Level Voter Manipulation in Georgia”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
In perhaps the most outrageous example of election administration partisanship in the modern era, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is running for governor while simultaneously in charge of the… Continue reading
Democratic Super PAC Mailer Quotes Breitbart in Mississippi Senate Race
“Why the First Amendment Does Not Protect Trump Campaign Collusion with Wikileaks and Russia”
Bob Bauer and Ryan Goodman for Just Security.
“Hoboken developer ‘Pupie’ Raia indicted in alleged cash-for-votes scheme”
NJ.com:
Frank “Pupie” Raia, a real-estate developer and major figure in Hoboken politics for decades, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday and accused of overseeing a cash-for-votes operation during the city’s 2013 municipal race.
Prosecutors allege Raia, 67,… Continue reading