Category Archives: election subversion risk
“Advocates seek federal investigation of multistate effort to copy voting software”
WaPo:
An effort by supporters of former president Donald Trump to copy sensitive voting software in multiple states after the 2020 election deserves attention from the federal government, including a criminal investigation and assessment of the risk posed to election… Continue reading
“A Plot To Overturn An American Election”
TPM:
The messages you are about to read are the definitive, real-time record of a plot to overturn an American election.
TPM has obtained the 2,319 text messages that Mark Meadows, who was President Trump’s last White House chief of… Continue reading
“Obstruction Charge Takes Center Stage at Jan. 6 Court Hearing”
NYT:
Prosecutors and defense lawyers squared off on Monday at a federal appeals court hearing in Washington over the use of a criminal charge whose viability could affect the cases of hundreds of people indicted in connection with the Jan.… Continue reading
“What the Jan. 6 select committee’s final report will look like”
Politico:
The Jan. 6 select committee’s final report will begin with a voluminous executive summary describing former President Donald Trump’s culpability for his extensive and baseless effort to subvert the 2020 election, according to people briefed on its contents.… Continue reading
“Lofgren, Cheney Request Technical Fixes to Electoral Count Reform Act”
Cato:
Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Liz Cheney were the primary sponsors of the House’s version of Electoral Count Act reform, which was passed by the House earlier this year. That bill is unlikely to proceed now, with attention focused… Continue reading
I Spoke with Vox’s “The Weeds” Podcast: “The Bipartisan Bill That Could Protect Elections”
Donald Trump Calls to Suspend U.S. Constitution and Throw Out the Results of the 2020 Election. Have We Become Immune to How Radical and Dangerous This is?
Have we become immune to how radical and dangerous this all is?
Just some casual Saturday treason. pic.twitter.com/iPZgyUPmJP— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 3, 2022
ELB Podcast Episode 4:4: Lynn Vavreck & Chris Tausanovitch: Lessons for Democracy from the 2022 Midterm Elections
New ELB Podcast:
Did the 2022 U.S. midterm elections demonstrate that we have moved beyond risks to American democracy?
What explains continued, persistent divisions across the American public along party lines?
Does there remain a potential for violence associated with… Continue reading
“Trump expresses solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol”
WaPo:
Former president Donald Trump expressed solidarity with the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sending a video of support to a fundraising event Thursday night hosted by a group called the Patriot Freedom Project that… Continue reading
“Cochise County, after disregarding state elections law, may go to court without attorney”
Arizona Republic:
Cochise County officials may go to court Thursday without an attorney to represent them against charges that they broke the law by failing to certify the results of the Nov. 8 election.
County supervisors on Tuesday voted to… Continue reading
“The Bottom-Up Election-Denial Strategy; It’s wrong, it seems illegal, and it’s probably not going to work. For now.”
Elaine Godfrey for The Atlantic:
Something that became very clear in 2020 is that America’s election system relies not on spelled-out rules and regulations, but on human beings acting honestly. Before 2016, the certification process was not used as a… Continue reading
“Election certification delays few, but a ‘test run’ for 2024”
AP:
Before November, election officials prepared for the possibility that Republicans who embraced former President Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud would challenge the verdict of voters by refusing to certify the results.
Three weeks after the end of voting,… Continue reading
“Oath Keepers Leader Convicted of Sedition in Landmark Jan. 6 Case”
NYT:
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, and one of his subordinates were convicted on Tuesday of seditious conspiracy as a jury found them guilty of seeking to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power… Continue reading