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Dahlia Lithwick and Raymond Vasvari for Slate. … Continue reading
Call me paranoid. But I worry this is a dry run (from Russia?) for more election day shenanigans. See MY UPDATED POST: If Today’s Internet Outage/Hacking Was a Dry Run for Election Day, Things Could Get Very Bad … Continue reading
NYT: Mr. Creamer is not seen on the Project Veritas videos approving or endorsing plans to instigate fights at Trump rallies, but his underling, Mr. Foval, is shown boasting about using unseemly methods, like planting people at the gatherings to … Continue reading
Karen Hobert Flynn oped. … Continue reading
Quite a story from the Guardian: Donald Trump loyalists will attempt to conduct their own crowd-funded exit polling on election day, ostensibly due to fears that electronic voting machines in certain areas may have been “rigged”, the Guardian has learned. … Continue reading
Watch here at MSNBC. … Continue reading
Politico: The State Department on Thursday accused Moscow of a “PR stunt” after reports emerged that the U.S. had rejected Russia’s request to send delegates to “monitor” November’s polls — the latest twist in a bizarre election season sullied by … Continue reading
WaPo on Trump’s latest comments, and it seems like he seems like he’s saying two contradictory things: Donald Trump said Thursday that he would accept the results of the presidential election “if I win,” but he doubled down on his … Continue reading
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Ed Kilgore for NY Mag: Not being an election lawyer or someone trained to spot misleadingly spliced video material (something O’Keefe has been accused of in the past), I am in no position to make a comprehensive assessment of the … Continue reading
Oh, karma. … Continue reading
Alex Burns for the NYT. … Continue reading
Byron Tau for the WSJ: Charges that election results might be rigged have moved from the fringes of U.S. politics to a central issue in the closing days of the 2016 campaign as Republican Donald Trump has repeatedly and without … Continue reading
Arizona Republic. … Continue reading
Philip Bump: In the most recent RealClearPolitics polling average in the state, Hillary Clinton leads Trump by 6.2 points, earning 46.4 percent to Trump’s 40.2. Assuming 6 million people vote, that means that we’d expect the final vote tally in … Continue reading
WaPo: Questioned directly as to whether he would accept the outcome should Democratic nominee Clinton prevail Nov. 8, Trump demurred. “I’ll keep you in suspense,” the Republican nominee said. Clinton called Trump’s answer “horrifying,” saying he was “talking down our democracy.” … Continue reading
Bryan Lowry for the Wichita Eagle: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an early endorser and adviser to Trump, says he thinks enough non-citizens are registered to vote in swing states that it could tip the balance of the presidential … Continue reading
Back on August 12, I wrote: With Trump’s dangerous and irresponsible hyperventilating about voter fraud and cheating in Pennsylvania potentially costing him the election, it is probably no surprise, as reported by theWeekly Standard, that Trump is seeking “election observers” … Continue reading
IBJ: A day after warning of potential widespread voting fraud, Indiana’s secretary of state acknowledged Wednesday that many of the thousands of altered registration forms she flagged might just be from residents rushing to correct their names or birth dates … Continue reading
NYT: Mr. Trump also insisted, as he has in recent days, that the general election has been rigged against him, and he twice refused to say that he would accept its result. “I will look at it at the time,” … Continue reading
TPM: The local Republican Party in Tarrant County, Texas – which includes Fort Worth and is state’s third most populous county – is being accused of egging on discriminatory voting practices with an email it sent calling for “poll watchers” … Continue reading
Weigel at WaPo: Scott Foval and Robert Creamer, two little-known but influential Democratic political operatives, have left their jobs after video investigations by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action found them entertaining dark notions about how to win elections. Foval was … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Undercover videos released this week feature a Democratic activist bragging about disrupting a rally for Gov. Scott Walker last year, talking about bringing people into Wisconsin from out of state and decrying Midwesterners as racist. The videos, released … Continue reading
Pam Fessler reports for NPR. … Continue reading
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The great Ryan Reilly reports for HuffPo. … Continue reading
Trip Gabriel for the NYT: is language has stirred increasing fears of intimidation of minorities inside polling places, where their qualifications to vote could be challenged, or outside, where they would face illegal electioneering. But as Mr. Trump casts doubt … Continue reading
Sari Horwitz for WaPo: But stealing an election in this country isn’t easy. In fact, experts say it’s nearly impossible given how voting works. And documented instances of voter fraud are actually very rare. Wendy R. Weiser, director of the … Continue reading
Brentin Mock: True the Vote and their affiliates are notorious for drawing harassment complaints for their unwelcome and unlicensed “policing” of black and Latino polling sites in Houston, Texas, and beyond. I personally watched and reported Republican Party-affiliated and True … Continue reading
The verdict: The videos are, as is typical of O’Keefe’s, work somewhat of a gish gallop, comprising a constellation of allegations and assertions that is virtually impossible to fact check without complete clips of the involved conversations. Nearly all the … Continue reading
BuzzFeed reports. I expect the Russians will simply shift to DC Leaks, Guccifer II or some other means of getting out what they want to get out. … Continue reading
Read it here. … Continue reading
Hard to know if this is a real dirty trick, or just a dirty trick to make it look like there are dirty tricks going on. Snopes: The provenance of the meme was unclear. It was most likely intended merely … Continue reading
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Moment of truth time ,people. Also: The GOP is trying to put out a ‘rigged’ election fire that it helped start … Continue reading
WISH: Thousands of birth dates and names listed on Indiana voter registrations were changed, officials said Tuesday, prompting an investigation into possible voter fraud. Hoosiers reported finding the incorrect information when checking to see if they were registered to vote, … Continue reading
Must-read from Ben Jacobs of The Guardian: Donald Trump’s “election protection” effort will be run by Mike Roman, a Republican operative best known for promoting a video of apparent voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers outside a polling place … Continue reading
WaPo: At a campaign rally here Monday evening, Dave Radtke, 66, said he expects Democrats will load people on buses in Chicago and bring them to Wisconsin to vote, where legal residents are allowed to register on Election Day. Josh Eilers, 22, said … Continue reading
WaPo: Donald Trump’s escalating effort to undermine the presidential election as “rigged” has alarmed government officials administering the vote as well as Democratic and Republican leaders, who are anxiously preparing for the possibility of unrest or even violence on Election … Continue reading
Josh Douglas for CNN. … Continue reading
WaPo editorial: Now, for the first time in modern history, a major-party candidate rejects both sides of that equation. If he loses, Donald Trump says, it will be due to cheating that makes the result illegitimate. If he wins, he … Continue reading
NYT editorial: Instead of disavowing this absurdity outright, Republican leaders sit by in spineless silence. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, are the two most powerful Republicans in the country and should … Continue reading
Tierney Sneed for TPM: Donald Trump is engaging in an unprecedented campaign of voter fraud fear-mongering. Not only is he putting Americans’ trust in the bedrock of U.S. democracy at risk, but what he has urged his supporters to do … Continue reading
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AP: When Brian Newby took the helm of a federal election agency, he left behind an unfolding scandal in Kansas in which he was having an affair with a woman he promoted in his previous job and used her to … Continue reading
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Zack Roth for NBC News. … Continue reading
I spoke with Alex Cohen of KPCC’s Take Two. … Continue reading
Richard Winger: The 2016 Green Party nominee in this race, Ray Parrish, was nominated in the 2016 Green Party primary with 66 write-in votes. A Libertarian, Kim Allen, ran in the Libertarian primary in this district this year. Allen received … Continue reading