Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“New standards for Oklahoma high school students promote misinformation about the 2020 election”

May 19, 2025, 6:32 amauthoritarian threats in US, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Oklahoma high school students studying U.S. history learn about the Industrial Revolution, women’s suffrage and America’s expanding role in international affairs. Beginning next school year, they will add conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. Oklahoma’s new social… Continue reading

“Trump’s DOJ focuses in on voter fraud, with a murky assist from DOGE”

May 17, 2025, 12:26 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NPR: Last October, at a library in Boynton Beach, Fla., Yelyzaveta Demydenko went with her mom and stepdad to vote for the first time. Demydenko, who’s 22, told a federal investigator that she voted in the presidential election “because she… Continue reading

“Kansas ends mail-in ballot grace period. Why have other states followed?”

May 17, 2025, 12:21 pmabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

KC Star: Once a bipartisan safeguard against postal delays and slow mail processing times, Kansas’ three-day mail ballot grace period is now gone — axed by lawmakers, challenged in court, and mirrored in a growing number of Republican-led states. Following… Continue reading

“Justice Department will switch its focus on voting and prioritize Trump’s elections order, memo says”

May 6, 2025, 2:22 pmDepartment of Justice, fraudulent fraud squad, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Missed this Nick Riccardi AP story from the other day: The Justice Department unit that ensures compliance with voting rights laws will switch its focus to investigating voter fraud and ensuring elections are not marred by “suspicion,” according to an… Continue reading

“What to know about push in Shasta County to override voter ID, election laws in California”

May 2, 2025, 7:43 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Record Searchlight: A citizens group whose leaders have been at the forefront of unverified claims of local election fraud are leaning heavily on Shasta’s status as a charter county in their attempt to change its voting rules. “Save Shasta Elections”… Continue reading

“Elections expert says DOGE’s 57 potential voter registration fraud referrals are ‘a drop in the ocean'”

May 1, 2025, 1:23 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Ryan Reilly for NBC News: Election law expert Rick Hasen told NBC News on Thursday that the 57 referrals that DOGE reportedly made to the Justice Department involving resident aliens who were allegedly registered to vote are a “drop in… Continue reading

“Trump’s Elections Power Play and the Voting Machines”

April 23, 2025, 11:48 amchicanery, election administration, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadTravis Crum

Bob Bauer at Executive Functions: On March 25, President Trump issued a sprawling executive order on Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections. The order focuses on the “integrity” of federal elections. It repeats but does not substantiate… Continue reading

“How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives”

April 11, 2025, 7:28 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NPR: One of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency lieutenants working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing dubious claims about noncitizens voting, apparently using access to data that court records suggest DOGE isn’t supposed to have. The staffer,… Continue reading

“Trump Wants Mail Votes to Arrive By Election Day. Red States Are Rushing to Toe the Line.”

April 9, 2025, 7:12 amabsentee ballots, election administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Bolts: Frustrated by slowing mail delivery, particularly in rural areas, the Kansas legislature in 2017 passed a law to let elections officials count mail ballots that arrived after Election Day, for up to three extra days, so long as the… Continue reading

“Former Wisconsin justice to give up law license over 2020 election review”

April 8, 2025, 7:08 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice agreed Monday to give up his law license for three years after facing a string of ethics allegations stemming from his error-riddled review of the 2020 election for Republican state lawmakers. In… Continue reading

“Now Musk Is Boosting Claims Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Was ‘Stolen’

April 3, 2025, 6:46 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Daily Beast: Here we go again. After initially trying to downplay his candidate’s loss in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race, Elon Musk has now boosted a post on his social media platform X claiming there was “overwhelming” evidence the… Continue reading

My New One at MSNBC Opinion: “Trump’s executive order on elections is a blatant power grab; It seems especially dangerous to take power away from the states when there are many threats to our democracy.”

March 26, 2025, 2:51 pmauthoritarian threats in US, election administration, Election Assistance Commission, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

I have written this piece for MSNBC Opinion. It begins: By design, presidents have no power over the conduct of federal elections. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on election administration aims to flip that, trying to take power… Continue reading

“Catalysts of Insurrection: How White Racial Antipathy Influenced Beliefs of Voter Fraud and Support for the January 6th Insurrection”

March 1, 2025, 4:19 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Tye Rush, Chelsea Jones, Michael Herndon, and Matt Barreto have written this article for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Here is the abstract: On January 6, 2021, the belief that voter fraud was to blame for Trump’s 2020… Continue reading

Department of Insanity (and Inanity): “Warner, Who Said CIA Stole Election, Now Leads DOJ Civil Rights”

February 24, 2025, 9:53 amchicanery, Department of Justice, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Bloomberg Law: The Justice Department has inserted Mac Warner, who last year espoused false claims that the CIA stole Trump’s 2020 presidential victory with the FBI’s help, to run the civil rights division, replacing an ousted career official who’s started… Continue reading

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