“The Election Official Who Tried to Prove ‘Stop the Steal:’ How a group of conspiracy theorists enlisted a county clerk in Colorado to find evidence that the 2020 vote was rigged.”
Sue Halpern in The New Yorker on the Tina Peters saga.
Category Archives: election subversion risk
“What happens when the president calls you an ‘enemy of the people’? Election officials and public sentiment”
Joelle Gross, Samuel Baltz, and Charles Stewart III have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
False information about the legitimacy of recent American elections has prompted a barrage of harsh rhetoric against the officials who administer them.… Continue reading
“Cameras, Plexiglass, Fireproofing: Election Officials Beef Up Security”
NYT:
In Wisconsin, one of the nation’s key swing states, cameras and plexiglass now fortify the reception area of a county election office in Madison, the capital, after a man wearing camouflage and a mask tried to open locked… Continue reading
“Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county’s elections office before voting machine breach”
CNN:
A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county’s election offices on the same day a voting system there was breached, newly obtained video shows.The breach… Continue reading
Will Democrats Put Electoral Count Act Reform Up for a Vote Before the Midterm Elections? Seems Quite Uncertain
Politico:
There’s a host of questions facing congressional leaders, in addition to voting on marriage equality, like capping insulin costs, how to approve energy permitting reform sought by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and what strategy to use on funding… Continue reading
“More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall”
538:
From the Carolinas to California, Montana to Florida, election denialism has spread across the country. Candidates who support former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen will appear on ballots in nearly every state this… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of My Appearance on CNN Talking About Ginni Thomas, Justice Thomas, January 6 and the Supreme Court
You can watch it here:
“US election conspiracies find fertile ground in conferences”
AP:
Over eight hours with only a brief lunch break, attendees were deluged with election conspiracies, complete with charts and slide shows. Speakers talked about tampering of voting machines or the systems that store voter rolls, ballot-box stuffing and massive… Continue reading
Electoral Count Act Reform Potentially Up for Senate Vote This Fall
WSJ:
The Electoral Count Act hit 60 votes of support over the August recess, putting it on track to pass the Senate should Mr. Schumer put it on the floor for a vote. The legislation includes changing an 1887… Continue reading
In Saturday Night Speech, Trump Says Republicans Should Be “Ashamed” They Didn’t Help Him Overturn the Results of the 2020 Election
Video:
Trump says Republicans should be "ashamed of themselves" for not helping him overturn the 2020 election, then calls for Mitch McConnell to be "scorned" pic.twitter.com/EDqFVomcte— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 4, 2022
“Unpacking Biden’s argument about state-level threats to democracy”
NPR:
President Biden warns that there are threats to American democracy taking shape at the state level. NPR’s Michel Martin discusses how and why with political scientist Jacob Grumbach…MARTIN: Right now, we want to focus on one aspect of his… Continue reading
“Special grand jury seeks evidence of Coffee Co. election breach”
AJC:
The Fulton County special grand jury is growing increasingly interested in an alleged election data breach in rural Coffee County as part of its multi-faceted criminal investigation into Georgia’s 2020 election.The 23-person grand jury earlier this week approved… Continue reading
“Trump Embraces Conspiracy Theories He Only Winked at Before; The former president’s activity on his social network, Truth Social, openly promotes far-right and conspiratorial ideas that are usually confined to corners of the internet.”
NYT:
Mr. Trump has spent more than a decade on social media attacking enemies, cozying up to far-right ideas and sharing false information. He used Twitter to perpetuate the lie that President Barack Obama was not born in the… Continue reading
“Biden warns U.S. faces powerful threat from anti-democratic forces”
WaPo:
President Biden delivered a forceful address Thursday on what he called a dangerous assault on American democracy, warning that “too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal” as “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans… Continue reading