Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“GOP laws aimed at very rare noncitizen voting could hit eligible voters”

February 10, 2025, 7:15 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, voter registrationRick Hasen

WaPo: In the months before last year’s election, Alabama removed valid voters from the rolls after wrongly tagging them as noncitizens. Tennessee’s secretary of state told 14,000 voters they had to prove their citizenship. And officials debatedwhetherhundreds of thousands of… Continue reading

“Johnson County Sheriff’s Office finds no evidence of voter fraud in 2020”

February 6, 2025, 7:12 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Fox4: After about 880 hours of investigating and $88,000 spent, the Johnson County, Kansas Sheriff’s Office said it has turned up no evidence of voter fraud in 2020. The sheriff’s office said in September 2021, three people reported 100 allegations… Continue reading

Will Mitch McConnell Save America from the SAVE Act?

February 3, 2025, 7:49 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

Votebeat: Lane, one of four congressional staff members on the panel, said the SAVE Act will be a priority for the House this time. He acknowledged a push to consider what a voter identification requirement would look like and… Continue reading

“Key Trump Cabinet members refuse to acknowledge Trump lost in 2020”

February 3, 2025, 7:42 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Two of President Donald Trump’s top law enforcement nominees have been taking a new tack when talking about the 2020 presidential election: They’re not claiming Trump won that year, but they’re not saying he lost either. Joe Biden was… Continue reading

California Appeals Court Publishes Opinion Rejecting Argument That the Elections Code Allows Election Observers to “Breath[e] Down the Necks of the Election Workers”

January 30, 2025, 4:44 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

A California Court of Appeal issued this opinion a few weeks back, but did not deem it suitable for publication. I filed a request for publication, as did the defendant Ventura County election officials and the California State Association of… Continue reading

Trump Floats Disgusting Idea of Tying Disaster Aid for Los Angeles Wild Fires to California Adopting a Strict Form of Voter Identification

January 24, 2025, 10:47 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

This one really hits home. I have friends and family who have lost their homes or otherwise been displaced by the awful recent wildfires. The tradition has been to give disaster aid where it is needed —whether that is Florida,… Continue reading

“O.C. Registrar of Voters debunks viral election fraud claim”

January 23, 2025, 7:39 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

LA Times: A recent Orange County Grand Jury report that found no evidence of voter fraud did little to dissuade a false claim of election tampering from exploding on social media soon after. On Jan. 16, Joe Hoff, a far-right… Continue reading

“Rudy Giuliani held in contempt for second time this week”

January 10, 2025, 2:02 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: A federal judge has held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for continuing to falsely accuse two Georgia women of election fraud in 2020, breaching a court order against further attacking them after the pair won a $148 million defamation suit… Continue reading

“Kansas once required voters to prove citizenship. That didn’t work out so well”

December 30, 2024, 7:32 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in the new Congress requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Yet there’s one place with a GOP… Continue reading

“Trump has pressed for new voting requirements. Republicans in Congress will try to make that happen”

December 26, 2024, 10:49 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: Republicans plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress to push through long-sought changes that include voter ID and proof-of-citizenship… Continue reading

“A North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate’s Bid to Overturn His Loss Is Based on Theory Election Deniers Deemed Extreme”

December 23, 2024, 9:11 pmfraudulent fraud squad, judicial elections, recountsRick Hasen

ProPublica: Months before voters went to the polls in November, a group of election skeptics based in North Carolina gathered on a call and discussed what actions to take if they doubted any of the results. One of the ideas… Continue reading

“The Top Cybersecurity Agency in the US Is Bracing for Donald Trump”

December 16, 2024, 11:13 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

Eric Geller for Wired: Donald Trump helped create the US government’s cybersecurity agency during his first term as president. Six years later, employees of that agency are afraid of what he’ll do with it once he retakes office. Trump’s alliances… Continue reading

“How Pam Bondi boosted Trump’s election fraud claims in a key swing state”

December 16, 2024, 7:58 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: On the morning of Nov. 4, 2020, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi drove northeast from Washington to Philadelphia on an urgent mission:to monitor the tally of hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots as President Donald Trump’s reelection hung… Continue reading

“The GOP stoked fears of noncitizens voting. Cases in Ohio show how rhetoric and reality diverge”

December 16, 2024, 7:50 amchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Before the November presidential election, Ohio’s secretary of state and attorney general announced investigations into potential voter fraud that included people suspected of casting ballots even though they were not U.S. citizens. It coincided with a national Republican messaging … Continue reading