Category Archives: chicanery

“Republican Official in Arizona Pleads Guilty in Election Certification Case”

October 21, 2024, 3:56 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: A Republican county official in Arizona who delayed certification of the 2022 election pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor charge of failing or refusing to perform her duty as an election officer. The official, Peggy Judd, had cited concerns… Continue reading

ELB Podcast 6:3: From Nov. 5 to Jan. 6: Are We Prepared for a Fair and Safe Election? (Ginsberg, Diamond, Kleinfeld, Tolson)

October 21, 2024, 1:54 pmchicanery, ELB Podcast, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Season 6, Episode 3 of the ELB Podcast: What are the risks to a peaceful transition of power once all the votes have been cast? What can we learn from history and from other democracies about our moment of democratic… Continue reading

“Protecting Your Vote: Nevada’s ‘swingiest’ county emerges as key battleground in election certification fight”

October 21, 2024, 6:21 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

ABC News: Politicos in Washoe County, Nevada, proudly refer to their home as “the swingiest county in the swingiest state,” where voters in the sprawling and sparsely populated swath of desert might very well tilt the scales of a deadlocked … Continue reading

“How Republicans pushed social media companies to stop fighting election misinformation”

October 21, 2024, 6:13 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

CNN: Three years ago, major internet platforms including Meta, Twitter and YouTube responded to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots with decisive action — suspending thousands of accounts that had spread election lies and removing posts glorifying the attack on… Continue reading

“U.S. cybersecurity chief says election systems have ‘never been more secure'”

October 20, 2024, 7:56 pmchicanery, voting technologyRick Hasen

NPR: Amid widespread concerns of outside interference influencing the results this year’s presidential election, the head of the country’s cybersecurity agency says election infrastructure is more secure than ever. State and local election officials across the country have made big… Continue reading

Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters

October 19, 2024, 6:40 pmchicanery, vote buyingRick Hasen

Hugo Lowell: “Elon Musk says on stage at a town hall that America PAC will be awarding $1 million every day until the election to a registered Pennsylvania voter who has signed his petition. Musk awarded the first $1… Continue reading

“Pro-Trump dark money network tied to Elon Musk behind fake pro-Harris campaign scheme”

October 19, 2024, 9:36 amcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Open Secrets: An initiative called Progress 2028 that purports to be Kamala Harris’ liberal counter to the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is actually run by a dark money network supporting former President Donald Trump. Building America’s Future, the dark… Continue reading

“Elon Musk-Funded PAC Chases Jewish and Muslim Votes With Wildly Conflicting Messaging”

October 19, 2024, 7:59 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Daily Beast: A pro-Donald Trump Super PAC funded by Elon Musk is chasing votes in two key swing states—in ways that outright contradict each other. According to Meta and Snapchat’s political ad disclosures, the Future Coalition PAC has… Continue reading

“Citizen advocates are training to disrupt 2024 elections in the name of election integrity”

October 19, 2024, 7:43 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Sarah Wire for USA Today: For the last four years, a network of right-wing activists and Trump allies, like Clements, has crisscrossed the country and held thousands of organizing meetings in order to create an army of tens of thousands of… Continue reading

Election Betting Markets as a New Source for Disinformation? “A Mystery $30 Million Wave of Pro-Trump Bets Has Moved a Popular Prediction Market”

October 18, 2024, 8:21 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WSJ: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck in the polls. But in one popular betting market, the odds have skewed heavily in Trump’s favor, raising questions about a recent flurry of wagers and… Continue reading

“At least 30 election deniers and 2020 fake electors serving as Trump electors this year”

October 17, 2024, 7:46 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: More than a dozen Republicans who were “fake electors” in 2020, including several facing criminal charges, are serving as former President Donald Trump’s official electors in battleground states this year, according to a CNN survey. Another 16 GOP electors… Continue reading

“Right-Wing Activists Pushed False Claims About Election Fraud. Now They’re Recruiting Poll Workers in Swing States.”

October 16, 2024, 1:12 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

ProPublica: Right-wing strategists still talk about what happened in Detroit in 2020, when poll watchers stood outside the absentee ballot counting center, banging on windows and shouting “Stop the count!” Conspiracy theories swirled that those volunteers had been kept out… Continue reading

Justice Gorsuch’s Fishy Story

October 15, 2024, 1:00 pmchicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Quite the flaying (fileting?) from Anush Khardori of Politico Magazine: It does not take long — the first chapter — before Gorsuch misleads the reader in Over Ruled. He is discussing the case of John Yates, a commercial fisherman who… Continue reading

“How Trump allies stoked election chaos in Detroit in 2020 — and what they’re planning in 2024”

October 15, 2024, 8:05 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Ryan Reilly and Jane Timm deep dive for NBC: How this will play out on Election Day is unknown. But an NBC News investigation can now report the extent of the Republican Party and Trump campaign’s involvement in the TCF… Continue reading

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