Category Archives: election subversion risk

“Independent State Legislatures and Presidential Elections: Addressing Misconceptions About Current Law and Prospects for Reform”

August 16, 2022, 8:39 amelection subversion risk, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Genevieve Nadeau and Helen White for Just Security: During the recent Senate Rules Committee hearing on Electoral Count Act reform, Senator Angus King (I-ME) asked a question that seems to be on many minds: What is the independent state… Continue reading

“Giuliani Is Told He Is a Target of Trump Election Investigation in Georgia”

August 15, 2022, 10:42 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into election interference by Donald J. Trump and his advisers, one of Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers said on Monday.Mr. Giuliani, who… Continue reading

“Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal”

August 15, 2022, 9:20 amelection subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo: A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized and more… Continue reading

“Doug Mastriano Plans to Use His Secretary of State Pick to Disrupt Pennsylvania Elections”

August 15, 2022, 8:03 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Bolts: Doug Mastriano is a Donald Trump loyalist, and an ardent proponent of the former president’s baseless conspiracies about the 2020 election. He was outside the capitol on Jan. 6th, brought supporters to D.C. that day, and has been subpoenaed… Continue reading

“Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds”

August 15, 2022, 7:51 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: First came Kristina Karamo, a community college instructor from Detroit who claimed without evidence that she witnessed fraud as a 2020 election observer — and who in April became her party’s pick for secretary of state, Michigan’s top election… Continue reading

“Graham must testify in Ga. probe of effort to overturn 2020 election, judge rules”

August 15, 2022, 7:48 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: A federal judge on Monday denied Sen. Lindsey O. Graham’s (R-S.C.) request to quash his subpoena in Georgia prosecutors’ investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election by President Donald Trump and his allies, signaling he… Continue reading

“At least 10 Republican nominees for state elections chief have disputed the legitimacy of the 2020 election”

August 11, 2022, 9:35 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Daniel Dale for CNN: In at least 10 states, the Republican nominee for the job of overseeing future elections is someone who has questioned, rejected or tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.Secretaries of state will play a… Continue reading

“Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts”

August 11, 2022, 8:03 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Miriam Seifter have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Wisconsin Law Review). Here is the abstract: Among the threats to American democracy, the most serious may also be the most banal: that future elections will be compromised… Continue reading

“Seizure of Congressman’s Phone Is Latest Sign of Escalating Election Inquiry”

August 10, 2022, 3:24 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: The F.B.I.’s seizure of Representative Scott Perry’s phone this week was at least the third major action in recent months taken in connection with an escalating federal investigation into efforts by several close allies of former President Donald… Continue reading

“Hunting for Voter Fraud, Conspiracy Theorists Organize ‘Stakeouts’”

August 10, 2022, 7:05 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: One night last month, on the recommendation of a man known online as Captain K, a small group gathered in an Arizona parking lot and waited in folding chairs, hoping to catch the people they believed were trying… Continue reading

“After Mar-a-Lago search, users on pro-Trump forums agitate for ‘civil war’ — including a Jan. 6 rioter”

August 10, 2022, 7:01 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NBC News: Some users on pro-Trump internet forums told users to “lock and load,” agitated for civil war and urged protesters to head to Mar-a-Lago in the hours after news broke that the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with MSNBC’s Symone Sanders About the Danger of Election Deniers Running Elections and How Congress Could Pass Legislation to Lessen the Risk of Stolen Elections

August 8, 2022, 5:36 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

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“In Wisconsin, G.O.P. Voters Demand the Impossible: Decertifying 2020”

August 8, 2022, 7:37 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: When she started her campaign for governor of Wisconsin, former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, a Republican, acknowledged that President Biden had been legitimately elected.She soon backtracked. Eventually, she said the 2020 election had been “rigged” against former… Continue reading

“Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show”

August 8, 2022, 7:34 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Reuters: he Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald Trump’s false election-fraud claims, according to a Reuters analysis of court filings and… Continue reading

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