Category Archives: chicanery

New in APSR: “One Person, One Vote: Estimating the Prevalence of Double Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections”

March 6, 2020, 10:46 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Sharad Goel, Marc Meredith, Michael Morse, David Rothschild, and Houshmand Shirani-Mehr have written this article for the American Political Science Review. Here is the abstract: Beliefs about the incidence of voter fraud inform how people view the trade-off between electoral… Continue reading

“Facebook Removes Misleading Trump Census Ads”

March 5, 2020, 7:41 pmcampaigns, census litigation, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Facebook said on Thursday that it had removed misleading ads run by President Trump’s re-election campaign about the 2020 census, in a stand against disinformation ahead of the decennial population count that begins next week.Earlier this week, Trump Make… Continue reading

“Report: Russian social accounts sow election discord – again”

March 5, 2020, 9:28 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP: Four years after Russia-linked groups stoked divisions in the U.S. presidential election on social media platforms, a new report shows that Moscow’s campaign hasn’t let up and has become harder to detect.The report from University of Wisconsin-Madison professor… Continue reading

“Sick: Trolls Exploit Coronavirus Fears for Election Fun”

March 4, 2020, 12:16 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Daily Beast: Accounts from self-identified supporters of Bernie Sanders’ candidacy also joked that Biden voters, who tend to be older and presumably more at risk of serious illness from coronavirus, should stay away from polling places. In tweets now deleted… Continue reading

“Michigan’s swing state status could put it at risk for Russian election interference”

March 3, 2020, 7:57 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Detroit Free Press reports.

“‘Something has to be done’: Trump’s quest to rewrite history of the Russia probe”

February 16, 2020, 10:48 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: The U.S. intelligence community long ago produced evidence of Russia’s illegal interference in the 2016 presidential election to try to boost Donald Trump’s candidacy. Then the special counsel investigating the matter detailed myriad ways President Trump sought to stymie… Continue reading

“Foreign Information Is Not a Campaign Finance Violation”

February 14, 2020, 8:44 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

Jim Bopp in the NLJ: The Democrat members of Congress and their media allies are totally off base. No President could effectively exercise his constitutional authority if his every interaction with foreign officials is subject to second-guessing under campaign finance… Continue reading

“Feds reviewing previously unreported cyber attack on Florida elections office”

February 13, 2020, 1:49 pmchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Miami Herald: Less than five weeks before Florida’s March presidential primary, the Department of Homeland Security is investigating a previously unreported cyber attack on Palm Beach County’s elections office, according to Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link.Link, who was … Continue reading

“Election Meltdown, Part 3 Delving into the big bag of dirty tricks ahead of the 2020 election.”

February 8, 2020, 9:23 amchicanery, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

You can listen to the third episode of the Election Meltdown podcast (in conjunction with Dahlia Lithwick and Slate Amicus) at this link. (Episode 1 on voter suppression/voter fraud is here and Episode 2 on election administrator incompetence (timely!)… Continue reading

“Docs: Shadow Inc. Directly Tied to Left-Wing Media Operation”

February 7, 2020, 4:09 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

This is troubling, especially this part: McGowan said that Courier journalists have full editorial independence. Asked whether they had license to report freely on Democratic politicians or were tasked with, as the document says, “Reach[ing] voters with strategic narratives… Continue reading

“The Cybersecurity 202: Senate panel wants politicians to put party aside for election security. Fat chance in 2020.”

February 7, 2020, 7:52 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: A long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee report admonishes politicians to forget about politics when dealing with election interference operations and to exercise maximum restraint before suggesting an election was hacked or corrupted.Good luck with that. “Restraint” is not the operative… Continue reading

Was There Intentional Jamming of the Iowa Democratic Party Phone Line to Make It Harder to Report Caucus Results? Conduct Reminiscent of 2002 New Hampshire Election Hotline Case or Uncoordinated Behavior?

February 6, 2020, 8:43 amchicaneryRick Hasen

A report in Bloomberg says that once the phone number for Iowa Democratic Party officials to report precinct caucus results became public, there were lots of calls from Trump supporters jamming the lines. The Trump campaign said it had nothing… Continue reading

“The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President; How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election”

February 6, 2020, 7:57 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Deep dive by McKay Coppins in The Atlantic.

Trump “Jokes” Again, For At Least the 28th Time, About Remaining in Office Beyond His Legal Term Limit

February 5, 2020, 5:47 pmchicanery, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

This, in response to the Senate acquittal vote. (See my earlier Slate piece on this topic.) Having just been acquitted in his Senate trial, the President immediately threatens to violate the 22d Amendment pic.twitter.com/A3Bu4Syh40— Elizabeth Joh (@elizabeth_joh) February … Continue reading

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