“How absentee ballots and voter fraud stopped Texans from voting by mail”
Important article in the Dallas Morning News.
Category Archives: chicanery
Expanded Zuberi Allegations Show Problem of Foreign Influence in US Elections
Mother Jones:
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week described a dizzying array of secret foreign lobbying by a major donor to both political parties—a new twist in a case that could reveal whether there were foreign efforts to funnel… Continue reading
“Biden ad manipulates video to slam Trump”
WaPo:
An onslaught of political advertising is par for the course in any election year. The 2020 presidential contest proves to be no exception.So, on first glance, nothing was unusual when former vice president Joe Biden, who appears to… Continue reading
“Meet the Trump Fan Accused of Registering Democrats as Republicans”
NYT:
Something was indeed amiss: Ms. Hall, a 63-year-old and very ardent Republican whose ranch house in Clermont sports life-size cutouts of Donald and Melania Trump and a MAGA poster in the window, was charged last week with 10… Continue reading
“Wisconsin voter purge case appealed to state Supreme Court”
AP:
A conservative law firm asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday to quickly overturn an appeals court ruling that stopped the purging of more than 200,000 people from the state’s voter rolls, a move that Democrats argued was… Continue reading
“The Technology 202: Twitter’s first ‘manipulated media’ flag on Trump aide ignites fact-checking debate”
WaPo:
Social media sites are once again at the center of a debate over online speech after Twitter applied its new “manipulated media” label for the first time yesterday to a deceptively edited video of former vice president Joe… Continue reading
NYT: Erik Prince, Brother of Cabinet Secretary Working with Project Veritas to Spy on Teachers Union, Congressional Campaign
In normal times this would be a multi-day major story:
Erik Prince, the security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, has in recent years helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive intelligence-gathering operations that included infiltrating… Continue reading
New in APSR: “One Person, One Vote: Estimating the Prevalence of Double Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Detroit Free Press reports.
“‘Something has to be done’: Trump’s quest to rewrite history of the Russia probe”
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”
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