Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

Nevada Supreme Court Rejects Conservative Group’s Attempt to Block Expansion of Mail Balloting During Pandemic with Unsupported Voter Fraud Claims

October 8, 2020, 8:00 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Las Vegas Review Journal: The Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked a conservative group’s challenge to a new Nevada law that allows for mail-in ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic.The lawsuit was filed by the Election Integrity Project of Nevada, backed… Continue reading

“Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign”

October 7, 2020, 12:11 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

New working paper at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center.

Fox News: “Shift in Ohio vote tallies after election not a sign of ‘something nefarious,’ secretary of state says”; Fox Also Says: “Trump has argued, without evidence, that mail-in ballots are susceptible to fraud”

October 6, 2020, 12:10 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Notable that this story is at Fox News: More than two million Ohio residents requested mail-in ballot applications prior to the start of early voting on Tuesday, doubling the count at the same time in 2016 and 2012. Ballots in… Continue reading

“Voter fraud myth persists despite constant failure to prove claims”

October 6, 2020, 7:10 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Sherman Smith for the States Newsroom.

“Trump has put Philly on the front lines of his attack on voting”

October 5, 2020, 7:33 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: The first line of the Republican lawsuit makes clear its motivations: “Bad things are happening in Philadelphia.” That’s not a legal argument, and it’s unlikely to sway a judge in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas.But that’s not the… Continue reading

“Remember When Trump Claimed Fraud in Florida?; The findings of Florida’s 18-month inquiry into allegations of ballot fraud in 2018 received little attention when they were released this year. But they proved the president wrong.”

October 1, 2020, 11:17 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Federal judge refuses to stop mail-in voting in Montana, blasts Trump-backed ‘fiction’ of massive voter fraud”

October 1, 2020, 11:09 amabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: A federal judge in Montana rejected the Trump campaign’s effort to stop an expansion of mail-in voting in the state.The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee filed the lawsuit earlier this month after Democratic Montana Gov. Steve… Continue reading

I Spoke to CNN’s John King About Trump Claims of Election Fraud and Related Litigation

October 1, 2020, 10:32 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

You can watch here:

“Facebook tightens political ad bans as US election nears”

October 1, 2020, 10:23 amcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: With just over a month to go before Americans head en masse to the polls in an extraordinarily contentious election, Facebook is expanding restrictions on political advertising, including new bans on messages claiming widespread voter fraud.New prohibitions laid out… Continue reading

“Trump Renews Fears of Voter Intimidation as G.O.P. Poll Watchers Mobilize”

September 30, 2020, 5:33 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The group of Trump campaign officials came carrying cellphone cameras and a determination to help the president’s re-election efforts in Philadelphia. But they were asked to leave the city’s newly opened satellite election offices on Tuesday after being… Continue reading

“The Attack on Voting; How President Trump’s false claim of voter fraud is being used to disenfranchise Americans.”

September 30, 2020, 11:52 amElection Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Jim Rutenberg in the New York Times Magazine: The strategy was now in full view: Flood every state, every television news network, every newspaper and news feed with manufactured evidence of fraud to suppress Democratic votes before Election Day… Continue reading

“Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say”

September 29, 2020, 10:11 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: A deceptive video released on Sunday by the conservative activist James O’Keefe, which claimed through unidentified sources and with no verifiable evidence that Representative Ilhan Omar’s campaign had collected ballots illegally, was probably part of a coordinated disinformation… Continue reading

“Trump Repeatedly Attacked Mail-In Voting During the Debate. There’s No Evidence Behind His Claim”

September 29, 2020, 10:03 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Time: Trump’s rhetoric on the validity of the elections process was both lacking evidence and in stark contrast to how the issue is being judged in courtrooms across the country. The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have… Continue reading

“Trump says poll watchers are being blocked from observing early voting in Philly. He’s wrong.”

September 29, 2020, 3:11 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: President Donald Trump wrongly said Tuesday that poll watchers were being improperly blocked from observing the first day of in-person early voting in Philadelphia.He made the false claims on Twitter, first retweeting his son Eric… Continue reading

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