Category Archives: chicanery
Must-Read from David Becker: “What We Know and Don’t Know about Election ‘Hacks’ in 2016”
Key read and reality check from David Becker.
“More on When Collusion with a Foreign Government Becomes a Crime”
Key Bauer followup:
Evidence Supporting a Finding of “Substantial Assistance”
It follows that the evidence in support of the “substantial assistance” would be different in quantity and nature from what is needed for a “coordination” claim. The evidence on the… Continue reading
Bloomingburg: “BREAKING: Jewish Developer Of Ultra-Orthodox Village Pleads Guilty To Voter Fraud”
The latest from the Forward on the Bloomingburg saga:
Shalom Lamm, the developer behind the controversial effort to build hundreds of homes for Hasidic families in the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg, pled guilty Tuesday to federal charges… Continue reading
“Sen. Mark Warner: More state election systems were targeted by Russians”
USA Today:
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told USA TODAY on Tuesday that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report leaked to the website The … Continue reading
“Intelligence Contractor Is Charged in First Leak Case Under Trump”
Charlie Savage for the NYT:
An intelligence contractor was charged with sending a classified report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election to the news media, the Justice Department announced Monday, the first criminal leak case under President Trump.
The… Continue reading
Intercept: NSA Report Shows Russian Attempted Election Hacking in Days Before the Election
The Intercept:
Russian Military Intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence… Continue reading
First Arrest Warrant in West Dallas, TX Absentee Ballot Fraud Case
“When Collusion with a Foreign Government Becomes a Crime”
Bob Bauer:
Commentary on Russian intervention in the 2016 elections has included one confidently expressed and perhaps growing view: that there may be a scandal there, but no conceivable crime. It is claimed that the Trump campaign could wink and… Continue reading
“Putin Hints at U.S. Election Meddling by ‘Patriotically Minded’ Russians”
NYT:
Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year to help the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump.… Continue reading
PunditFact Rates “False” FOX News Host’s Claim That a Candidate Can Collude With A Foreign Government in U.S. Elections
PunditFact:
Jarrett said that “you can collude all you want with a foreign government in an election,” because there’s no law that says collusion is a crime.
Three prominent election law scholars said there are at least four laws that… Continue reading
“New York Developer Pleaded Guilty in Voter-Fraud Conspiracy”
WSJ on the latest in the Bloomingburg saga:
Prosecutors said Mr. Nakdimen and his associates falsely registered voters to overcome local opposition to their 396-unit townhouse project in the tiny Catskills village of Bloomingburg. The developers anticipated making hundreds of… Continue reading
“ACLU seeks sanctions against Kobach and public disclosure of Trump documents”
Bryan Lowry:
The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal court to enable documents from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s November meeting with President Donald Trump to be made public.
Kobach earlier this month handed over the documents,… Continue reading
“Real Voter Fraud: Suppression, Intimidation and Denying the Right to Vote “
Jim Condos, Vt. Secretary of State writes:
I am deeply troubled by the announcement that the President signed an executive order establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud in our elections. Since the 2016 election, President Trump has… Continue reading