Category Archives: chicanery

“Russia Secretly Gave $300 Million to Political Parties and Officials Worldwide, U.S. Says”

September 13, 2022, 5:32 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Russia has covertly given at least $300 million to political parties, officials and politicians in more than two dozen countries since 2014, and plans to transfer hundreds of millions more, with the goal of exerting political influence and… Continue reading

“Justice Dept. Issues 40 Subpoenas in Widening Jan. 6 Inquiry; Over the last week, it also seized the phones of two top Trump advisers, a sign of an escalating investigation two months before the midterm elections.”

September 12, 2022, 2:43 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: The Justice Department has issued about 40 subpoenas over the past week seeking information about the actions of former President Donald J. Trump and his associates related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on… Continue reading

“Democrats spend tens of millions amplifying far-right candidates in nine states”

September 12, 2022, 10:41 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Democrats have spent nearly $19 million across eight states in primaries this year amplifying far-right Republican candidates who have questioned or denied the validity of the 2020 election, according to a Washington Post analysis, interfering in GOP contests to… Continue reading

“Exclusive: Georgia probe into Trump examines chaplain’s role in election meddling”

September 10, 2022, 1:49 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Reuters: Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman didn’t recognize the man who banged on her door. Terrified, she called 911. She had reason to fear.By the morning of Dec. 15, 2020, when she saw the stranger’s red sedan parked in… Continue reading

“‘This cannot continue’: MAGA influencers are creating hell for California elections offices”

September 9, 2022, 7:35 amchicaneryRick Hasen

SF Gate: Natalie Adona, the clerk-recorder and registrar of voters in California’s Nevada County, is having a bad week. For almost two years now, her inbox has been inundated with public records requests from people who falsely believe the… Continue reading

“Trump’s Post-Election Fund-Raising Comes Under Scrutiny by Justice Dept.”

September 9, 2022, 7:22 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: A federal grand jury in Washington is examining the formation of — and spending by — a fund-raising operation created by Donald J. Trump after his loss in the 2020 election as he was soliciting millions of dollars by… Continue reading

“Federal grand jury probing Trump PAC’s formation, fundraising efforts: Sources”

September 8, 2022, 6:38 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

ABC News: A federal grand jury investigating the activities leading up the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the push by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the result of the 2020 election has expanded… Continue reading

“The Election Official Who Tried to Prove ‘Stop the Steal:’ How a group of conspiracy theorists enlisted a county clerk in Colorado to find evidence that the 2020 vote was rigged.”

September 7, 2022, 7:27 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

Sue Halpern in The New Yorker on the Tina Peters saga.

“Cameras, Plexiglass, Fireproofing: Election Officials Beef Up Security”

September 6, 2022, 10:16 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: In Wisconsin, one of the nation’s key swing states, cameras and plexiglass now fortify the reception area of a county election office in Madison, the capital, after a man wearing camouflage and a mask tried to open locked… Continue reading

“Judge removes Griffin from office for engaging in the January 6 insurrection”

September 6, 2022, 9:57 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Crew: New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin’s participation in it disqualified him under Section 3 of the 14th… Continue reading

“Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county’s elections office before voting machine breach”

September 6, 2022, 7:58 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

CNN: A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county’s election offices on the same day a voting system there was breached, newly obtained video shows.The breach… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Appearance on CNN Talking About Ginni Thomas, Justice Thomas, January 6 and the Supreme Court

September 4, 2022, 2:50 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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“Handling of Georgia election breach investigation questioned”

September 4, 2022, 12:29 pmchicanery, voting technologyRick Hasen

AJC: A recording first surfaced six months ago claiming that a team copied “every piece of equipment” in Coffee County’s elections office after the 2020 election, but it wasn’t Georgia investigators who confirmed that confidential voting data had been taken.Instead,… Continue reading

“Special grand jury seeks evidence of Coffee Co. election breach”

September 2, 2022, 4:21 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

AJC: The Fulton County special grand jury is growing increasingly interested in an alleged election data breach in rural Coffee County as part of its multi-faceted criminal investigation into Georgia’s 2020 election.The 23-person grand jury earlier this week approved… Continue reading

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