Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“Trump Rally Underscores G.O.P. Tension Over How to Win in 2022”

January 17, 2022, 1:28 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump returned on Saturday to Arizona, a cradle of his political movement, to headline a rally in the desert that was a striking testament to how he has elevated fringe beliefs and the… Continue reading

“Cyber Ninjas, firm that led Arizona ballot review, is closed, CEO confirms”

January 7, 2022, 1:55 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: The CEO of the Florida cybersecurity company that conducted a highly contested election review in Arizona confirmed Friday that his company has closed and laid off its employees.News of the closure had reached Arizona on Thursday… Continue reading

“GOP officials in Arizona’s largest county affirm 2020 election was secure in rebuttal to Trump claims”

January 5, 2022, 3:01 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The November 2020 election in Arizona’s largest county was administered properly and not marred by fraud, the Republican-led local government concluded in a lengthy report released Wednesday. The 93-page document debunks one-by-one vague allegations of potential problems previously… Continue reading

“Peter Navarro: Trump Distributed Bogus Election Fraud Research to ‘Every’ Congressional Republican”

January 5, 2022, 6:29 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Rolling Stone reports.

“Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find”

January 4, 2022, 2:27 pmcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for how Election Day would unfold: President Donald J. Trump would be winning that night, but his lead would erode as dubious mail-in ballots… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Gableman subpoenas election officials and city IT departments as GOP election review widens”

January 1, 2022, 1:22 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Republicans hit the state Elections Commission and municipal IT departments with subpoenas in recent days as part of their wide-ranging, months-long review of the 2020 election. The demand for records and testimony came days after a… Continue reading

“The Republican Superlawyer Leading The Charge To Take Over Election Offices”

December 31, 2021, 1:51 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

TPM profiles Cleta Mitchell.

“Committee investigating Jan. 6 attack plans to begin a more public phase of its work in the new year”

December 27, 2021, 5:40 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to begin holding public hearings in the new year to tell the story of the insurrection from start to finish while crafting an ample interim report… Continue reading

“Alleged ‘dead’ Georgia voters found alive and well after 2020 election”

December 27, 2021, 7:48 amabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AJC: False claims that there were thousands of ballots cast in the names of dead Georgia voters can now rest in peace.Election investigators found just four absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election from voters who had died, all… Continue reading

“Wisconsin Republicans pump new life into scrutinizing the 2020 election; The aim of the investigations has shifted to trying to subvert election boards and long-standing voting protocols”

December 27, 2021, 7:43 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Star Tribune: The cash bar was open for business, the Lilydale Dance Hall decked out in holiday garland, but Michael Gableman wasn’t here with good tidings.The attorney stood in front of Republican activists to share horror stories he’d heard… Continue reading

Must-read WaPo: “Inside the nonstop pressure campaign by Trump allies to get election officials to revisit the 2020 vote”

December 22, 2021, 7:22 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: More than a year after Donald Trump lost the presidency, election officials across the country are facing a growing barrage of claims that the vote was not secure and demands to investigate or decertify the outcome, efforts… Continue reading

“19 states enacted voting restrictions in 2021. What’s next?”

December 21, 2021, 8:52 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Jane Timm for NBC News: State Republicans spent 2021 hunting for the widespread voter fraud that former President Donald Trump told his supporters cost him the election.They never found it. Still, the year was characterized by a wave of… Continue reading

“Texas AG Paxton’s $2.2M voter fraud unit closed three cases in Texas in 2021. GOP lawmakers still boosted its budget.”

December 17, 2021, 11:27 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Houston Chronicle: Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has been one of former PresidentTexas PresidentDonald Trump’s most reliable allies in spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud,Donald particularly in the 2020 election, and frequently boasts that few states are… Continue reading

NYT Deep Dive: “Meadows and the Band of Loyalists: How They Fought to Keep Trump in Power”

December 15, 2021, 6:05 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Must-read with the subhead: “A small circle of Republican lawmakers, working closely with President Donald J. Trump’s chief of staff, took on an outsize role in pressuring the Justice Department, amplifying conspiracy theories and flooding the courts in an… Continue reading

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