Category Archives: election subversion risk

“New evidence to show Trump was warned of violence on Jan. 6”

October 12, 2022, 7:30 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: The probably final public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to highlight newly obtained Secret Service records showinghow President Donald Trump was repeatedly alerted to brewing violence that… Continue reading

“This QAnon Secretary of State Candidate Is Promising to Reinstall Trump in 2024; ‘President Trump and I lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election,’ Jim Marchant lied at a rally on Saturday night.”

October 12, 2022, 7:28 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Vice News reports.

My New Paper: “Donald Trump Should Remain Deplatformed from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Despite the High Bar That Platforms Should Apply to the Question of Deplatforming Political Figures”

October 10, 2022, 7:34 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

I have posted this short paper on SSRN (prepared for this week’s Stanford/UCLA conference on replatforming Donald Trump). Here is the abstract: This short position paper, prepared for the Stanford Program on Democracy and the Internet/UCLA Safeguarding Democracy Project conference,… Continue reading

“Voting Systems: How They Work, Vulnerabilities, and Mitigation”

October 6, 2022, 3:41 pmelection administration, election subversion riskThe Big LieFranita Tolson

New report from Steven Rosenfeld (National Political Report, Voting Booth) and Duncan Buell (Chair Emeritus, USC Dept. of Computer Science). Short description of the report from its authors: This report describes how the systems that create ballots and detect and… Continue reading

“Money flowing to some election deniers sets off scramble in secretary of state races”

October 6, 2022, 1:55 pmelection subversion risk2022 Election Cycle, The Big LieFranita Tolson

CNN reports.

“Election officials confront a new problem: Whether they can trust their own poll workers”

October 6, 2022, 11:19 amelection subversion risk2022 Election Cycle, The Big LieFranita Tolson

Article in Politico sounding the alarm about 2020 election deniers and far right candidates encouraging like-minded individuals to become poll workers (not poll watchers, poll WORKERS) and engage in behavior that is problematic, to say the least. This development could… Continue reading

“Who’s Bankrolling Election Deniers?”

October 6, 2022, 11:09 amelection subversion risk, Uncategorized2022 Election Cycle, The Big LieFranita Tolson

Issue One has a new report out that shows that election-denying secretary of state candidates have collectively raised more than $12 million for their campaigns this election cycle — including more than $5.8 million raised by election deniers who prevailed in… Continue reading

“Talk of ‘Civil War,’ Ignited by Mar-a-Lago Search, Is Flaring Online”

October 5, 2022, 10:18 amelection subversion risk2022 Election CycleFranita Tolson

According to this article in The New York Times, in the hours after the FBI seized documents from Mar-a-Lago, social media saw a marked increase in posts that mentioned “civil war,” a trend that has only escalated in recent weeks.… Continue reading

“Election Deniers in U.S. Push Idea That Brazil’s Voting Was Tainted”

October 5, 2022, 9:59 amelection subversion risk, UncategorizedFranita Tolson

The New York Times has the story here.

“The Ongoing Electoral Efforts to up the Anti-Democratic Ante”

October 5, 2022, 9:22 amelection administration, election subversion risk, UncategorizedFranita Tolson

Important New Yorker article on the difficulties that election administrators face going into the midterm elections. Election administration has been a challenge because of newly enacted voting restrictions enacted by Republican-led legislatures and, importantly, the enforcement of some of those… Continue reading

Stanford/UCLA October 14 Event: “Should Donald Trump Be Returned to Social Media?” (Free Webcast)

October 4, 2022, 7:33 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Very excited about this event: The Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford University and UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project will host a half-day streamed conference, “Should Donald Trump Be Returned to Social Media?” Leading scholars in the… Continue reading

“Election officials brace for confrontational poll watchers”

October 3, 2022, 11:23 amelection administration, election subversion risk, Uncategorized, votingFranita Tolson

Important reporting from the AP about the surge of election deniers signing up to be poll watchers ahead of the 2022 midterms.

“How a Tiny Elections Company Became a Conspiracy Theory Target”

October 3, 2022, 10:20 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squad, UncategorizedFranita Tolson

Interesting New York Times story on how a small election software company, Konnech, became the focus of a right wing conspiracy theory surrounding the 2020 election. According to the Times, Konnech’s employees have faced increasing threats of violence despite the… Continue reading

“GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent’s ties to white nationalists include interview with Nazi sympathizer”

October 1, 2022, 5:46 amelection subversion riskRepublican Extremism, White NationalismTabatha Abu El-Haj

This headline from CNN says it all. Actually to be fair, Joe Kent has offered various explanations of this interview. But the bottom line appears to be: “The lady doth protest too much.” “While Kent has tried to shift his… Continue reading