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Category Archives: chicanery
NYT: Over the past month, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has received two starkly different messages about hacking into American computer networks from the current and future presidents of the United States: Don’t you dare, and don’t worry, we’re … Continue reading
San Diego Union-Tribune: Rep. Darrell Issa said in a fundraising appeal Wednesday that he is mounting an effort to challenge the legality of some ballots still being counted in his tight re-election race . Issa said that he leads Democrat … Continue reading
BuzzFeed: In the final three months of the US presidential campaign, the top-performing fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, … Continue reading
Daily Beast: A campaign watchdog group filed a complaint with federal election officials that alleges Stephen Bannon—recently named one of Donald Trump’s top White House advisers—may have gotten paid illegally during Trump’s campaign by pro-Trump billionaires. And now, a new … Continue reading
At the time of this writing, Rep. Darrell Issa leads challenger Doug Applegate for California’s 49th congressional district by about 3,700 votes. But there are still an unknown number of provisional and other ballots left to be counted. On Friday … Continue reading
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More from North Carolina. … Continue reading
A big fight involving possible absentee ballot fraud and the Rhode Island House speaker. … Continue reading
McClatchy: A man was arrested in Fort Bend County, Texas for attempting to vote twice Tuesday, the county sheriff’s office announced in a tweet. The voter claimed he was working for Donald Trump and that he was simply testing the … Continue reading
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Candice Hoke for The Hill. … Continue reading
Helen Winston on a story I’ve been fascinated by. (Earlier coverage.) … Continue reading
No one falls for this garbage ,but really, a mayor? … Continue reading
Charles Stewart and Merle King for The Monkey Cage. My worries are more about the infrastructure (traffic, electricity, internet). More about that soon. … Continue reading
AP: Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have paid at least $1.8 million to a political operative whose roster of companies include several that have been repeatedly investigated for voter registration fraud, even as Trump has complained that … Continue reading
WFAE reports. … Continue reading
ABC: As Donald Trump swept his campaign across the country in a final sprint, he claimed that long lines in Clark County, Nevada, were evidence of electoral wrongdoing. “It’s being reported that certain key Democratic polling locations in Clark County … Continue reading
Ryan Reilly: A man wearing a Donald Trump shirt and carrying a weapon stood outside a voting location in Loudoun County, Virginia, on Friday. Authorities in the nation’s richest county are apparently OK with that. Erika Cotti encountered the man … Continue reading
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This one filed in the NV case: I am not employed by Stop the Steal nor am I an officer of it. I do happen to be a volunteer for it, as are many other people. In no sense do I … Continue reading
Wow story from NBC News (though hard to know if this is a deliberate misinformation campaign aimed at deterrence): U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia’s electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin’s command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by … Continue reading
David Corn for Mother Jones. … Continue reading
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Sheera Frenkel for Buzzfeed. … Continue reading
Reuters: The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, people … Continue reading
Greg Sargent for The Plum Line. … Continue reading
The Guardian: The entire internet infrastructure of the African nation of Liberia has been brought to a grinding halt after it was targeted by hackers using the same weapon that caused the largest cyber-attack in history just two weeks ago. … Continue reading
NBC News video: U.S. Homeland Security, military and intelligence officials tell NBC News that the U.S. government is gearing up for an unprecedented effort to protect the voting process on Election Day. “deeply concerned.” US officials fear Twitter, Facebook interference, … Continue reading
Jeff John Roberts for Fortune. … Continue reading
A Twitter user complained about dirty tricks using tweets telling voters they can vote by text from home. (They can’t). Twitter says it won’t remove the items. Bad policy. UPDATE: TPM reports the account has been suspended. … Continue reading
Recode: A huge percentage of election-related talk on Twitter isn’t coming from humans. It’s coming from bots. And the majority of those bots are gunning for Trump to win the race, according to a paper released yesterday from Oxford University’s … Continue reading
The latest from AZ. … Continue reading
The Fix reports. … Continue reading
Electionland: Supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continue to gather in front of the West Palm Beach, Florida, supervisor of elections’ office and shout at Hillary Clinton supporters and voters through bullhorns as they use the early voting location, … Continue reading
Hard to believe this is 2016. Let’s hope law enforcement is ready. And there’s this: It is difficult to know at what scale these plans will materialize because Anglin and his fringe-right ilk are serial exaggerators, according to Potok. And … Continue reading
See this order (via Jon Ralston). … Continue reading
NYT: Three years after the 2013 elections revealed serious flaws in New York City’s campaign finance laws, the City Council may finally be moving to fix some of the worst problems — but not without including a few changes that … Continue reading
IBT reports. … Continue reading
Patrick Marley: Attorney General Brad Schimel’s initial inquiry into a leak of John Doe documents was so cursory no one from his office contacted prosecutors who had access to the material. And while the Republican attorney general hopes to launch … Continue reading
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The Orlando Sentinel reports. … Continue reading
Letter from Dems’ Angelo Genova just filed in DNC v. RNC case: As discussed during this afternoon’s conference call with the Court, plaintiff Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) has uncovered evidence that the Republican National Committee (“RNC”) – contrary to the … Continue reading
Pretty broad discovery required in short order, with hearing on November 4. The judge rejected much of the discovery sought by the DNC given the time frame, but this should alone should be pretty educational on what efforts are actually … Continue reading
Following up on a link to Foer’s Slate piece, see Licthblau and Myers: In classified sessions in August and September, intelligence officials also briefed congressional leaders on the possibility of financial ties between Russians and people connected to Mr. Trump. They … Continue reading
Wow: Today, State Representative Chris Taylor issued a press statement calling on Attorney General Brad Schimel to investigate and prosecute Eric O’Keefe, Director of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, for exercising his First Amendment Rights. Attorney General Schimel issued the … Continue reading
NBC News: The FBI has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business connections, law enforcement and intelligence sources told NBC News Monday. Word of the inquiry, which has not blossomed into a … Continue reading
Franklin Foer with one of the more bizarre, and worrisome, stories of this bizarre and worrisome election season. … Continue reading
Wow report from Manu Raju at CNN. … Continue reading
Today, via Sopan Deb. … Continue reading