“Why the First Amendment Does Not Protect Trump Campaign Collusion with Wikileaks and Russia”
Bob Bauer and Ryan Goodman for Just Security.
Category Archives: chicanery
“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
“Someone Paid Thousands Of Foreigners 20 Cents Each To Hide HuffPost’s Negative Coverage Of A Democratic PAC”
HuffPost:
HuffPost’s April 2016 report investigated the tactics of End Citizens United, a political action committee founded by three former staffers at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party’s official organ dedicated to electing Democrats to the House of Representatives.… Continue reading
“With $30 Million, Obscure Democratic Group Floods the Zone in House Races”
NYT:
A structure unknown even to some of those involved, Floridians for a Fair Shake and 13 other groups around the country are funded and coordinated out of a single office in Washington, with the goal of battering Republicans for… Continue reading
“How a right-wing troll and a Russian Twitter account created 2016’s biggest voter fraud story”
NBC News:
When Naim Tyler tweeted a video on Nov. 8, 2016, that showed an alleged voting machine malfunction in favor of Hillary Clinton, he expected some attention. But he didn’t realize what was about to happen.
The video… Continue reading
Postcard Advises Arizona Democrats to Vote on Wrong Election Day
cc: @rickhasen
— Arizona's Politics (@AZs_Politics) October 26, 2018
One of the Messages from Russian Interference in 2018 Elections Pushed Judicial Watch’s Claim that Voter Fraud Was Rampant in “Blue States” Without Voter ID
Here’s the complaint from the newest members of the Fraudulent Fraud Squad. As Adam Smith flags from page 16:
Hmm! https://t.co/gYTkyUISiW pic.twitter.com/643MZlkllS
— Adam Smith (@asmith83) October 19, 2018
The 11 California counties claim came from Judicial Watch.
More… Continue reading
“Justice Dept. charges Russian woman with interference in Midterm elections”
WaPo:
The Justice Department on Friday charged a Russian woman for her role in a conspiracy to interfere with the 2018 U.S. election, marking the first criminal case prosecutors have brought against a foreign national for meddling in the upcoming… Continue reading
Texas: “Attorneys accuse AG Paxton of seeking voter fraud charges to suppress minority vote”
Fort Worth Star Telegram:
Recent charges alleging that four women are part of an organized voter fraud ring on the city’s north side — announced just weeks before the Nov. 6 midterm election — are political moves geared to diminish… Continue reading
“Fake intern who recorded McCaskill campaign had access to voter info, campaign says”
KC Star:
A conservative activist with Project Veritas posed as an intern with U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s campaign and had access to voter information, according to a stack of documents McCaskill’s lawyer delivered to Attorney General Josh Hawley’s office Friday.… Continue reading
“Exclusive: Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming U.S. elections”
Reuters:
Facebook Inc (FB.O) will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations in the run-up to and during next month’s U.S. midterm elections, company executives told Reuters, the… Continue reading
“DHS finds increasing attempts to hack U.S. election systems ahead of midterms”
Pete Williams and Ken Dilanian for NBC News:
The Department of Homeland Security says it’s working to identify who — or what — is behind an increasing number of attempted cyber attacks on U.S. election databases ahead of next month’s… Continue reading
“U.S. Still Hasn’t Finalized Election Security Plans—and the Midterms Are Weeks Away”
Daily Beast:
The midterms are less than a month away. But working groups inside the intelligence community charged with overseeing election security are still trying to finalize plans for countering foreign interference in the 2018 elections, three senior officials involved… Continue reading
“4 Women Indicted in North Texas Voter Fraud Ring”
NBC DFW:
Four women who are accused of targeting elderly voters in 2016 were indicted on 30 felony counts of voter fraud and arrested following an investigation by the office of the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The defendants were… Continue reading