Category Archives: chicanery
Trump Camp Will Fake Exit Polls, Possibly to Intimidate Voters and Lay Groundwork for Post-Election Shenanigans
Quite a story from the Guardian:
Donald Trump loyalists will attempt to conduct their own crowd-funded exit polling on election day, ostensibly due to fears that electronic voting machines in certain areas may have been “rigged”, the Guardian has learned.… Continue reading
On Meet the Press Daily with Chuck Todd Talking Trump, Vote Rigging, and Voter Intimidation
Watch here at MSNBC.
“State Dept. accuses Russia of ‘PR stunt’ in election-monitoring flap”
Politico:
The State Department on Thursday accused Moscow of a “PR stunt” after reports emerged that the U.S. had rejected Russia’s request to send delegates to “monitor” November’s polls — the latest twist in a bizarre election season sullied by… Continue reading
New Trump Comments on Conceding If He Loses Seem to Say Two Contradictory Things
WaPo on Trump’s latest comments, and it seems like he seems like he’s saying two contradictory things:
Donald Trump said Thursday that he would accept the results of the presidential election “if I win,” but he doubled down on… Continue reading
“Trump’s Bogus Voter Fraud Claims”
“What the New James O’Keefe Videos Show and What They Don’t”
Ed Kilgore for NY Mag:
Not being an election lawyer or someone trained to spot misleadingly spliced video material (something O’Keefe has been accused of in the past), I am in no position to make a comprehensive assessment of the… Continue reading
“Even Fox News Acknowledges ‘Experts Say Voter Fraud Is Rare’”
“Democrats Play Up Donald Trump’s Hedge on Accepting Election Result”
“Donald Trump Brings Election ‘Rigging’ Charges Front and Center”
Byron Tau for the WSJ:
Charges that election results might be rigged have moved from the fringes of U.S. politics to a central issue in the closing days of the 2016 campaign as Republican Donald Trump has repeatedly and without… Continue reading
“Fact check: Arizona GOP’s misleading claim on ‘ballot harvesting'”
“Let’s take Rudy Giuliani’s voter-fraud theories to their natural conclusion”
Philip Bump:
In the most recent RealClearPolitics polling average in the state, Hillary Clinton leads Trump by 6.2 points, earning 46.4 percent to Trump’s 40.2. Assuming 6 million people vote, that means that we’d expect the final vote tally in… Continue reading
“Donald Trump’s charge on the election’s integrity reverberates in both campaigns”
WaPo:
Questioned directly as to whether he would accept the outcome should Democratic nominee Clinton prevail Nov. 8, Trump demurred. “I’ll keep you in suspense,” the Republican nominee said. Clinton called Trump’s answer “horrifying,” saying he was “talking down our… Continue reading
“Kobach warns that non-citizens could tip election”
Bryan Lowry for the Wichita Eagle:
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an early endorser and adviser to Trump, says he thinks enough non-citizens are registered to vote in swing states that it could tip the balance of the presidential… Continue reading