Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

Kansas: “‘We’ve got to find somebody’: JoCo sheriff appears to lack probable cause in election inquiry”

September 8, 2022, 6:46 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

KC Star: Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden, who has spent months promoting a criminal investigation into elections, told a gathering of residents last week that “we’ve got to find somebody” who knows election rigging is happening. But the Republican… Continue reading

Must Read Michael Wines NYT: “In Voter Fraud, Penalties Often Depend on Who’s Voting”

September 7, 2022, 10:00 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT: After 15 years of scrapes with the police, the last thing that 33-year-old Therris L. Conney needed was another run-in with the law. He got one anyway two years ago, after election officials held a… Continue reading

“Claims of voter fraud, old as the republic, still work as weapons for Trump

September 5, 2022, 6:26 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Ron Elving for NPR.

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September 4, 2022, 2:50 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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True the Vote Provides No Data When Requested to Arizona to Back Up Their Phony “Ballot Mules” Claims

September 2, 2022, 10:02 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Axios: True the Vote refused multiple requests from the attorney general’s office to provide evidence or data supporting the ballot-harvesting allegations it made in its debunked “2000 Mules” movie.Context: The nonprofit organization and conservative filmmaker Dinesh… Continue reading

“Ron DeSantis’ voter fraud hunt backfires”

September 1, 2022, 7:31 amfelon voting, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Axios: Elections officials across Florida are poking holes in the DeSantis administration’s claims that they’re to blame after 20 people were arrested for voting illegally.Driving the news: Supervisors of elections in Hillsborough, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties say it’s the… Continue reading

“What to know about Ron DeSantis’s political ‘election fraud’ arrests”

August 19, 2022, 7:20 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Philip Bump for WaPo: It’s critically important to put this into context. Attendance at DeSantis’s announcement was restricted, with “a woman who identified herself as a volunteer with the Palm Beach County Republican Party” monitoring who was allowed to enter… Continue reading

True the Vote’s Gregg Phillips Continues the Election Fraud Grift

August 16, 2022, 11:01 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Daily Beast: Earlier this year, election-fraud conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips shot to fame on the right as one of the stars of 2,000 Mules, conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s quasi-documentary attempt to prove the 2020 election was stolen. Since the movie’s… Continue reading

“Trump Lawyer Proposed Challenging Georgia Senate Elections in Search of Fraud; On the day of President Biden’s inauguration, John Eastman suggested looking for voting irregularities in Georgia — and asked for help being paid the $270,000 he billed the Trump campaign.”

August 3, 2022, 5:32 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: John Eastman, the conservative lawyer whose plan to block congressional certification of the 2020 election failed in spectacular fashion on Jan. 6, 2021, sent an email two weeks later arguing that pro-Trump forces should sue to keep searching for… Continue reading

“Several election deniers backed by Trump prevail in hotly contested primaries”

August 3, 2022, 7:02 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Several election deniers backed by former president Donald Trump prevailed in closely-watched primaries held Tuesday, as a nationwide battle over the future of the GOP played out in state and federal races across five states.In Michigan, Rep. Peter… Continue reading

“Arizona official refutes review that counted 282 dead voters”

August 1, 2022, 8:27 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Monday his investigators found just one dead voter after thoroughly reviewing findings from a partisan review of the 2020 election that alleged 282 ballots were cast in the name of someone who had… Continue reading

“Trump-Backed Conspiracy Theorist Vies to Take Over Arizona Elections”

August 1, 2022, 7:28 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: This spring, Mark Finchem traveled to Mar-a-Lago for the premiere of a documentary advancing the specious notion that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from President Donald J. Trump by an army of leftists stuffing drop boxes with… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Tim Ramthun’s campaign for governor promoted election denial. Election law experts worry about the consequences”

August 1, 2022, 7:24 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Shawn Johnson for WPR.

“Conservative groups raise money for voter-fraud probes as states ban election grants; States banned private money for election expenses, but a new plan to raise money for voter fraud investigations poses similar concerns.”

August 1, 2022, 7:18 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Carrie Levine for VoteBeat: It turns out that the much-publicized spate of new state laws banning private grants for elections may have left a route open for private money after all. It flows through law enforcement.Conservative nonprofit True the Vote… Continue reading