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Category Archives: chicanery
The latest set of filings from Democrats (led by Marc Elias) against the Trump campaign, state Republican parties, and Roger Stone’s “Stop the Steal” group: Nevada Complaint Arizona Complaint Pennsylvania Complaint Ohio Complaint [corrected link] I haven’t yet gone through each … Continue reading
Cincinnati Enquirer: Outside of a single unsubstantiated tweet, there is currently no evidence Donald Trump supporters with dogs harassed African-Americans voting early in Cincinnati. At about 10 p.m. Sunday, Christian writer and progressive political activist Jim Wallis tweeted to his 32,600 … Continue reading
Toby James for The Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
NYT editorial on the consent decree. … Continue reading
WaPo: Donald Trump’s campaign manager on Sunday forcefully disavowed a supporter as “deplorable” for chanting “Jew-S-A!” at a weekend rally, the latest incident of anti-Semitic rhetoric used by some of the GOP nominee’s backers. “[The man’s] conduct is completely unacceptable … Continue reading
CNN: Trump kicked off his rally here on Sunday by encouraging his supporters to “make sure” their ballots are properly counted, saying that he is a “skeptical person” when it comes to the state’s largely vote-by-mail process. He then encouraged … Continue reading
I’m afraid these kinds of stories of possible voter intimidation will increase as we get closer to election day, and many will be hard to fact check. … Continue reading
Philip Bump performing a useful service. For example, on dead people “voting,” here’s a common one, an administrative foul-up: But there are stories about ballots being cast for dead people! Is this vote-rigging? No. Is this in-person voter fraud? Probably … Continue reading
Electionland: An image has begun circulating on Twitter that appears to show an immigration officer arresting someone in line to vote. The image is a hoax, as is the accompanying threatening language directed at Hispanic voters. The image is a … Continue reading
NYT: Donald J. Trump has found a new reason to question the legitimacy of the 2016 election — ballots — and he wasted little time here on Saturday before taking issue with the voting system in this largely vote-by-mail state. … Continue reading
Boston Globe/Center for Responsive Politics: From 2010 through 2014, Strouss and Bradley, along with founding partner Michael Thornton and his wife, donated nearly $1.6 million to Democratic Party fund-raising committees and a parade of politicians — from Senate minority … Continue reading
People who do this are often not the sharpest tools in the shed. Then again, if you are told how easy it is to rig an election, maybe you try such nonsense. … Continue reading
Wired reports. … Continue reading
Literal stuffing of the ballot box by an election worker: A 74-year-old woman tasked with inserting Miami-Dade County voters’ completed mail ballots into a counting machine was arrested Friday after co-workers caught her illegally marking ballots, resulting in an unknown … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
NYT: Donald J. Trump’s campaign set off a wave of concern about its tactics on Thursday after a senior campaign official was quoted describing a sophisticated “voter suppression” effort, a term that usually connotes aggressive attempts to keep people from … Continue reading
Josh Zeitz for Politico Magazine. … Continue reading
Ryan Reilly for HuffPo: The founder of a fringe right-wing group issued a “call to action” this week asking members of the organization to go undercover to watch for voter fraud and voter intimidation at polling places on Election Day. … Continue reading
Patrick Marley: Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel asked Wisconsin’s top judge Thursday to investigate a leak in September that hurt conservatives — but not earlier ones that helped them. “Even a cursory review of those documents published (by the Guardian U.S.) … Continue reading
Discovery now and oral argument on November 2. Lyle Denniston has the details. … Continue reading
The CS Monitor reports. … Continue reading
WSJ: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been raising hackles for weeks about a “stolen” election, and on Wednesday morning, in a suburban public library in northern Virginia, more than two dozen Republicans heeded his call. The group had signed … Continue reading
Steven Mazie for The Economist. … Continue reading
This must-read Bloomberg Business piece explains that with Trump behind, the campaign’s strategy depends upon lowering Democratic turnout: To compensate for this, Trump’s campaign has devised another strategy, which, not surprisingly, is negative. Instead of expanding the electorate, Bannon and … Continue reading
Pro Publica/Electionland: Yesterday TMZ posted an article declaring voter fraud to be “a real concern”. (Yes, that TMZ.) Here’s how the story begins: NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and most blogs are trying to convince you there is virtually NO EVIDENCE … Continue reading
NYT’s The Upshot: Philadelphia attracts attention for its place in a swing state. It was where a 2008 news article about two New Black Panthers patrolling a polling place gained mythic proportions. And the city — once home to a … Continue reading
The bizarre Roger Stone “exit poll” story gets weirder, via HuffPo. … Continue reading
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Another must-read from Michael Wines of the NYT: While Donald J. Trump repeatedly claims that the election is “rigged”against him, voting rights groups are increasingly battling something more concrete in this year’s ferocious wars over access to the ballot box: … Continue reading
NYT: A video posted on Monday by a British newspaper appeared to show a Republican consultant with ties to Donald J. Trump offering to disguise the source of contributions to a “super PAC” intended to aid Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. … Continue reading
Business Insider: Conservative activist James O’Keefe released another undercover sting video on Monday that he claimed proved Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton illegally coordinated with an outside organization. But what O’Keefe considered illegal activity is most likely not, election law experts … Continue reading
Pippa Norris for The Monkey Cage: What do Americans think they would do if their presidential candidate does not win? The Reuters-IPSOS poll gave registered voters six hypothetical choices. Respondents were allowed to choose more than one option. The most … Continue reading
Big from Ari Berman: After the primary, leaders of eight different student groups—including the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian parties and the Black Student Union—asked the city to put an early-voting location on campus to alleviate long lines. But city officials ignored … Continue reading
The Columbus Dispatch reports. … Continue reading
Politico has the audio of Trump talking about his comment on keeping us in suspense if he loses: “Yes, I think too much is being made,” Trump told Bo Thompson on WBT-AM’s “Charlotte’s Morning News.” “But, you know, everybody had … Continue reading
TIME reports. … Continue reading
Doug Chapin blogs. See my earlier post, If Today’s Internet Outage/Hacking Was a Dry Run for Election Day, Things Could Get Very Bad … Continue reading
Sigh. … Continue reading
Max Fisher for the NYT. … Continue reading
Politico:”He is not willing to not concede if he loses and there’s no fraud.” … Continue reading
#WearRed #StopFraud If you wear red when you vote #Republican, Republican poll observers can count votes and determine #Democrat #VoterFraud — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 22, 2016 (For background on Trump supporters wearing red to supposedly ferret out voter fraud—just … Continue reading
BuzzFeed: A right-leaning nonprofit has proposed an 11th-hour effort to place news articles critical of HIllary Clinton and other Democrats in black newspapers in the runup to the November election, BuzzFeed News has learned. The American Media Institute has approached … Continue reading
It would be funny if his earlier comments were not so corrosive; As Donald Trump once again warned his supporters on Saturday that voter fraud is rampant and could cost him the election, he wondered aloud if he’s receiving any … Continue reading
Horrifying and condemnable conduct. David French: Trump’s alt-right trolls have subjected me and my family to an unending torrent of abuse that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I distinctly remember the first time I saw a picture of my then-seven-year-old … Continue reading
Jonathan Swan for The Hill: In campaign talking points sent out Wednesday and obtained by The Hill, the Trump team told Republican surrogates to cite examples of voter fraud in North Carolina, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Under a headline ‘Must make … Continue reading
Earlier I suggested that today’s Internet hack which disrupted things could be a dry-run for election day. The NY Times now reports the pernicious and widespread nature of this attack: And in a troubling development, the attack appears to have relied … Continue reading
Josh: Concerned about voter suppression? Bands of feral Trumpers descending areas with large populations of black or Hispanic voters to harass and vet voters? Me too. So in Episode #7 of the Josh Marshall show I talked to my favorite … Continue reading
From Jenna Johnson’s fabulous piece: The gloomy mood has extended to his signature rallies, which Trump used to find fun. He would bound onto rally stages bursting with energy and a sense of excitement that intensified as the crowds chanted … Continue reading