Category Archives: chicanery

“Racine County sheriff seeks charges for 5 Wisconsin elections commissioners”

November 4, 2021, 9:59 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The Racine County sheriff is recommending charges against five state election officials because they told clerks to bypass state law during the coronavirus pandemic and send absentee ballots to nursing homes instead of first visiting in person.Attorney General… Continue reading

“Authorities Arrest Analyst Who Contributed to Steele Dossier; Igor Danchenko, a Russia analyst who worked with Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier of rumors and unproven assertions about Donald J. Trump, was taken into custody as part of the Durham investigation.”

November 4, 2021, 7:06 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Federal authorities on Thursday arrested an analyst who in 2016 gathered leads about possible links between Donald J. Trump and Russia for what turned out to be Democratic-funded opposition research, according to people familiar with the matter.The arrest… Continue reading

Atlanta: “The Jolt: Kasim Reed supporters spread erroneous report about mayoral race results”

November 4, 2021, 7:03 amchicaneryRick Hasen

AJC: Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed didn’t say anything publicly Wednesday about the dwindling chances of a comeback bid as election results continued to show him trailing third place behind Felicia Moore and Andre Dickens.But on social media, Reed and… Continue reading

“GOP uses voters to push election reforms in unlikely states”

October 23, 2021, 3:44 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Republicans have succeeded this year in passing a range of voting restrictions in states they control politically, from Georgia to Iowa to Texas. They’re not stopping there.Republicans in at least four states where Democrats control the governor’s office,… Continue reading

“Ahead of Jan. 6, Willard hotel in downtown D.C. was a Trump team ‘command center’ for effort to deny Biden the presidency”

October 23, 2021, 10:13 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: They called it the “command center,” a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with… Continue reading

“Nevada Republican who claimed someone stole dead wife’s ballot is charged with voter fraud”

October 23, 2021, 10:10 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: Donald Kirk Hartle looked troubled last November. It was a few days after Election Day and the Las Vegas man was telling a local news station that someone had stolen his late wife’s mail-in ballot and returned it… Continue reading

“Giuliani associate Lev Parnas convicted in campaign finance fraud case”

October 22, 2021, 2:28 pmcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: It took the federal jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan less than a day to find that Parnas committed fraud through donations to several state and federal candidates that were bankrolled by a Russian financier. Parnas was also… Continue reading

“John Eastman Is Right, His Election Memo Was ‘Crazy'”

October 22, 2021, 10:53 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Matthew Seligman for Slate.

“Trumpist county clerk barred after leak of voting-system passwords to QAnon”

October 17, 2021, 11:22 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Ars Technica: A Colorado judge on Wednesday barred Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from supervising elections due to the leak of voting-system BIOS passwords to QAnon conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Mesa County registered… Continue reading

“Opinion: The dangerous idea behind Trump’s coup effort is still alive. Let’s kill it.”

October 15, 2021, 8:44 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Greg Sargent: Recently, Claremont Institute — the think tank that employs Eastman and is developing a demented intellectual theory of Trumpism — put out a statement denying that Eastman ever suggested Pence should throw the election.That’s nonsense — Eastman’s memo… Continue reading

“Calls intensify to end Wisconsin’s election review amid blunders by ex-judge in charge”

October 14, 2021, 9:44 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The glaring errors became clear soon after a former Wisconsin judge issued subpoenas earlier this month in a Republican review of the state’s 2020 presidential election. Some of the requests referred to the wrong city. At least one was… Continue reading

Philadephia: “Mark Squilla Staffer Charged in South Philly Voter Fraud Conspiracy”

October 13, 2021, 6:53 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

This one looks troubling, because it is a crime committed by an election official: According to prosecutors, the conspiracy involved Beren and an individual currently identified in the complaint only as Consultant #1, who is described as a… Continue reading

“John Eastman’s Big Lie”

October 13, 2021, 8:07 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

George Thomas at The Constitutionalist: John Eastman was the architect of former President Trump’s plan to get his Vice President to declare him the winner of the 2020 election. The scheme turned on Eastman’s insistence that in seven states… Continue reading

“Pro-Trump PAC fined over foreign money offer”

October 13, 2021, 6:53 amcampaign finance, chicanery, federal election commissionRick Hasen

Lachlan Markay for Axios: A pro-Trump political group has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle allegations it illegally solicited $2 million from reporters posing as intermediaries for a Chinese national.Why it matters: A key player in the scheme, a veteran… Continue reading