Latest on Arizona’s pseudo-audit
Newsweek reports on internal divisions among participants, apparently because preliminary figures tracked officially certified results (thus confirming Biden’s victory).
Category Archives: election subversion risk
Could you withstand the pressure?
Two articles, one in The Atlantic and the other in The New York Times, discuss how first-term Representative Nancy Mace–a Republican from South Carolina–initially condemned Trump for causing the January 6 insurrection, only to backtrack since then.… Continue reading
The Big Lie and January 6
The Washington Post has an overview of where things currently stand with the House’s select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. The Post says this committee’s investigation is supposed to be the “ultimate arbiter” of what happened that day. Maybe,… Continue reading
Electoral McCarthyism on display
Politico reports on Trump’s Arizona rally. The 1950s Red Scare lasted as long as it did, from my understanding of the history, because the public was willing to be duped by the mendacity of Joe McCarthy and there wasn’t sufficient… Continue reading
House hearing on election subversion
Scheduled for July 28, noon ET.
Trump’s efforts to “primary” Cheney
Politico goes deep into the details of former president Trump’s concerted plans to oust Rep. Liz Cheney as revenge for her commitment to honest vote-counting. Particularly interesting are the efforts to change the rules to make it more difficult for… Continue reading
The latest on battle for electoral reform
NY Times reports on the divide among Democrats. I continue to believe that the short-term strategy should be a stand-alone bill focused solely on combatting partisan gerrymandering, to test the possibility of getting 60 votes in the Senate. If there… Continue reading
We are not in Walter Cronkite’s world
CBS News has a new poll showing that 73% of the voters who (mistakenly) believe there was “widespread fraud” in the 2020 election say they heard this from “reports on the news”; by contrast, only 49% say they heard this… Continue reading
Will Pelosi add Kinzinger …
… to the January 6 select committee? Reports are that she might.
Trump on tape about Jefferson & 1800 election
It’s fascinating to hear Trump talk about the historical example that Bruce Ackerman and David Fontana wrote about in their article, Thomas Jefferson Counts Himself into the Presidency. One could rehash how that precedent should be characterized (a point… Continue reading
Collateral damage from ersatz audits
Another state is afflicted with Arizona’s problem: a county’s voting machines have been decertified, because they became ensnared in a pseudo-audit that “was not transparent or bipartisan” (as Pennsylvania’s acting Secretary of State determined). What’s the county going to… Continue reading
Bloomberg Investigates Voter Fraud
Bottom line from nationwide deep dive: “the findings illustrate a lack of evidence to back up claims of widespread cheating.”
You can’t have elections without election officials
CNN reports on the risk of “a mass exodus” among election administrators, threatening the ability to run elections in the future. A snippet:
“Everything I’ve heard from state officials and from locals is how unbelievably stressful it is, that they… Continue reading
“21st Century Jim Crow” or Electoral McCarthyism?
This op-ed in The Washington Post, by John C. Ackerman, an Illinois county clerk, argues that calling the new state laws that cut back on voting opportunities “21st century Jim Crow” is a “vilification campaign” aiming “to smear Republicans… Continue reading