Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

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

“The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump’s campaign of disinformation”

December 15, 2021, 10:32 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Reuters: During the Afghan and Iraq wars, the careers of two military officers often intersected. Army General Michael Flynn and an Army Reserve colonel named Phil Waldron worked together on secret projects in both countries, Waldron said. When Flynn was… Continue reading

Must-Read: “Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds”

December 14, 2021, 1:11 pmchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020… Continue reading

“The Jolt: 2020 controversy dominates Georgia’s 2022 GOP governor’s race”

December 13, 2021, 11:11 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AJC: It was only one week ago that former U.S. Sen. David Perdue jolted Georgia by formally declaring he would challenge Gov. Brian Kemp in the GOP primary.And though he insisted in an interview with the AJC that he’s “trying… Continue reading

“Eastman takes the Fifth with Jan. 6 committee”

December 3, 2021, 10:28 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: John Eastman, the attorney who helped former President Donald Trump pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election, has asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to a letter he delivered to the Jan. 6 committee… Continue reading

Former White House Physician Ronny Jackson “MAGA Congressman Falsely Claims Omicron Variant Is Part of Plot to Rig 2022 Election”

November 28, 2021, 3:56 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Mother Jones: The new coronavirus variant, Omicron—which was first detected by virologists in South Africa—has sparked concerns among public health experts. The United States quickly imposed travel restrictions on certain African countries. Scientists say that much about the… Continue reading

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