Category Archives: chicanery

“Jury finds Seminole GOP chair guilty in ‘ghost’ candidate case”

September 1, 2022, 4:17 pmchicanery, third partiesRick Hasen

Orlando Sentinel: A jury of six people found Seminole County GOP Chairman Ben Paris guilty on Thursday of causing his cousin’s name to be falsely listed on independent “ghost” candidate Jestine Iannotti’s campaign contribution forms in 2020.Paris was sentenced… Continue reading

Washington State: “GOP Senate Candidate Scrubs Election ‘Integrity’ Section From Website”

September 1, 2022, 1:58 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

HuffPost reports.

“Conservative Lawyer a Likely Target in Atlanta Trump Investigation, His Lawyer Says; John Eastman, who developed strategies to block certification of the 2020 election, appeared before a grand jury in Atlanta on Wednesday.”

August 31, 2022, 12:06 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: John Eastman, the lawyer who developed strategies to block certification of the 2020 election, is “probably a target” in the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Donald J. Trump’s election loss in Georgia, one of Mr. Eastman’s lawyers said… Continue reading

“Election Data Breach Attracts Georgia Investigators”

August 27, 2022, 8:16 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT: The day after Donald J. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, a small group working on his behalf traveled to rural Coffee County, Ga., about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta.One member of the group was Paul Maggio, an executive… Continue reading

“Breaking: Fulton grand jury seeks testimony from Meadows, Trump campaign lawyers”

August 26, 2022, 7:20 amchicaneryRick Hasen

AJC: A Fulton County special grand jury investigating interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections is seeking the testimony of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell and others next month.Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis… Continue reading

“Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers”

August 22, 2022, 1:32 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo: Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.A Georgia computer forensics firm hired… Continue reading

“Robin Vos says Michael Gableman could lose his law license over 2020 election review, records violations”

August 17, 2022, 7:25 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman could lose his law license over his conduct during the taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election — but he stopped just short of calling for it.“It’s… Continue reading

“Trump Lawyer Proposed Challenging Georgia Senate Elections in Search of Fraud; On the day of President Biden’s inauguration, John Eastman suggested looking for voting irregularities in Georgia — and asked for help being paid the $270,000 he billed the Trump campaign.”

August 3, 2022, 5:32 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: John Eastman, the conservative lawyer whose plan to block congressional certification of the 2020 election failed in spectacular fashion on Jan. 6, 2021, sent an email two weeks later arguing that pro-Trump forces should sue to keep searching for… Continue reading

“Memo shows Wis. GOP lawyer privately opposed decertifying Biden’s 2020 win”

August 2, 2022, 7:26 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: It was an extraordinary public statement from a former state Supreme Court justice hired by Republican lawmakers to probe the 2020 election: Wisconsin should take a “hard look” at canceling Joe Biden’s victory and revoking the state’s 10… Continue reading

“House Jan. 6 committee to reveal Meadows’ pressure on Georgia election officials”

June 20, 2022, 1:18 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

LAT: The House Jan. 6 committee plans to show that President Trump’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows “had an intimate role … in this plot to put pressure on [Georgia] state legislators and on elections officials,” Rep. Adam B.… Continue reading

“US is worried about Russia using new efforts to exploit divisions in 2022 midterms”

June 20, 2022, 1:16 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

CNN: Homeland and national security officials are worried about how Russia could significantly exploit US divisions over the November midterms, considering scenarios like Russia staging smaller hacks of local election authorities — done with the deliberate purpose of being… Continue reading

“Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Election Official”

June 20, 2022, 11:26 amchicaneryRick Hasen

USDOJ release: A Nebraska man pleaded guilty today to making multiple threatening posts on an Instagram page associated with an election official.According to court documents, Travis Ford, 42, of Lincoln, made multiple threats in August 2021 toward the election… Continue reading

“Texas Republicans Approve Far-Right Platform Declaring Biden’s Election Illegitimate”

June 20, 2022, 7:07 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The Republican Party in Texas made a series of far-right declarations as part of its official party platform over the weekend, claiming that President Biden was not legitimately elected, issuing a “rebuke” to Senator John Cornyn for… Continue reading

“Texts Reveal GOP Mission to Breach Voting Machine in Georgia”

June 6, 2022, 7:10 amchicanery, voting technologyRick Hasen

Daily Beast: The Georgia Secretary of State claims it is investigating how a local election supervisor gave a cadre of 2020 election truthers improper access to an election computer system, in what initially seemed like the latest example… Continue reading

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