Category Archives: chicanery

“Watchdog group seeks investigation into RFK Jr. for voting from a ‘sham’ address”

January 10, 2025, 7:06 amchicanery, voter registrationRick Hasen

AP: New York election officials are being urged to investigate whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed voter fraud by casting his November ballot from a discredited address, as the former independent presidential candidate seeks Senate confirmation for a top public… Continue reading

North Carolina: “Attorney went around opposing counsel for order blocking certification of a disputed state Supreme Court election”

January 10, 2025, 6:56 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WUNC: n attorney representing the Republican candidate in a tight race for the North Carolina Supreme Court went before a Wake County judge this week without notifying opposing counsel to seek an order blocking certification of the election. In some… Continue reading

“Trump urges Garland to block release of Jack Smith’s final report”

January 7, 2025, 7:27 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Donald Trump and two of his allies are making a last-minute push to block special counsel Jack Smith from issuing his final report on his two dismissed criminal cases against the president-elect. Trump’s lawyers wrote to Attorney General Merrick… Continue reading

“F.B.I. Offers New Details in Hunt for Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect”

January 3, 2025, 7:23 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: F.B.I. officials on Thursday released new details of their investigation into the still-unidentified suspect believed to have placed pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, hoping to spur tips that might… Continue reading

“U.S. sanctions Russian and Iranian entities over attempted election interference”

January 1, 2025, 4:18 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

NBC News: The U.S. announced Tuesday that it is leveling sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia over attempted election interference. The Treasury Department said the entities — a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a… Continue reading

Pennsylvania: “Delaware County prosecutors allege paid canvasser tried to register dead people to vote in the 2024 election”

December 22, 2024, 10:55 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Philadelphia Inquirer: Delaware County prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a Collingdale woman who they say repeatedly tried to submit voter registration forms for dead people and against an elderly man who cast ballots in both Florida and Pennsylvania last month.… Continue reading

“Patel floated criminally probing police, lawmakers involved in Jan. 6 committee”

December 20, 2024, 7:26 amauthoritarian threats in US, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, has suggested that multiple individuals previously critical of the president-elect should be criminally investigated, according to a review by The Washington Post of dozens of hours of appearances on conservative… Continue reading

“Thirteen 2020 fake electors will cast real Electoral College votes for Trump on Tuesday”

December 17, 2024, 6:55 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

CNN: Thirteen Republicans who participated in the 2020 fake electors plot, including some who are facing criminal charges, will cast real Electoral College votes Tuesday for President-elect Donald Trump, as electors in the states finalize his victory. These Republican… Continue reading

“Trump sues Des Moines Register, top pollster for ‘brazen election interference,’ fraud over Harris poll”

December 16, 2024, 8:13 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Fox News: President-elect Donald Trump is suing the Des Moines Register and its top pollster J. Ann Selzer for “brazen election interference” and fraud over its final 2024 presidential poll showing Vice President Kamala Harris leading him in Iowa,… Continue reading

“The GOP stoked fears of noncitizens voting. Cases in Ohio show how rhetoric and reality diverge”

December 16, 2024, 7:50 amchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Before the November presidential election, Ohio’s secretary of state and attorney general announced investigations into potential voter fraud that included people suspected of casting ballots even though they were not U.S. citizens. It coincided with a national Republican messaging … Continue reading

“Restricting the Vote: Inside the Right-Wing Push to Rewrite Election Rules in 2025; Cleta Mitchell offered ALEC state lawmakers a list of restrictive voting policies”

December 13, 2024, 2:18 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Documented: In the immediate aftermath of Trump’s 2024 election victory, the right’s “election fraud” claims magically disappeared—but only temporarily. The fraud narrative is already reemerging to justify a wave of restrictive new voting laws in 2025, according to… Continue reading

“GOP Grabs Control of North Carolina Election Boards, Rushing to Negate November Losses”

December 12, 2024, 3:24 pmchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Deep dive from Bolts.

“Manhattan DA urges judge not to toss out guilty verdict in Trump hush money case”

December 10, 2024, 1:14 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Politico: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says Donald Trump’s imminent return to the presidency is not a reason to throw out the 34-count conviction that jurors delivered in the hush money case earlier this year. Bragg conceded in a… Continue reading

“Trump lawyers and aide face additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors”

December 10, 2024, 12:19 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

AP: Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the… Continue reading

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