“Audit of Georgia ballots proves that Dominion Voting Machine conspiracy theories are false”
USA Today out with a Monday report on Georgia’s audit of the 2024 elections, completed last week. The full ballot image audit report is here.
Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad
Dinesh D’Souza sort-of kind-of apologizes for 2000 Mules
Here’s the statement – which is undated but appears to be new – throwing True the Vote under the bus and also maintaining confidence in the “underlying premise” of the film … but in a nonspecific way far less susceptible… Continue reading
Very Disturbing WaPo Story: “Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election”
This does not bode well at all for the rule of law:
President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, including career attorneys… Continue reading
“Kari Lake settles election defamation case brought by Arizona official”
WaPo:
A year-long defamation case against Kari Lake, who falsely blamed a local Arizona election official for her 2022 defeat for governor and has sowed distrust in American election systems, has been settled.
The details of the settlement are confidential,… Continue reading
“These voter fraud claims circulated in Tarrant County. What happened to them?”
Cody Copeland for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
“Trump Allies Gain Power Over Elections in Arizona’s Largest County”
Bolts:
Justin Heap, an Arizona lawmaker who has pushed for severe voting restrictions and whose campaign was led by an indicted 2020 “fake elector” for Donald Trump, has won control of one of the country’s most important local elections offices. … Continue reading
“Meta’s Threads is ‘overrun’ with liberal election fraud conspiracies”
Taylor Lorenz:
Over the past several days, Meta’s Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies.
The conspiracies range from skepticism about vote tallies in key swing states, to allegations of a criminal coverup by Biden to force the… Continue reading
“Trump said lots of noncitizens would attempt to vote illegally, but it didn’t happen”
“Election Denial Conspiracy Theories Are Exploding on X. This Time They’re Coming From the Left”
Wired:
It took just minutes for the conspiracy theories about the 2024 US presidential election to flood Elon Musk’s X platform after Donald Trump was announced as the winner in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The number of posts… Continue reading
“Republican election denial claims take a hiatus with Trump’s victory”
WaPo:
A remarkable thing happened Tuesday night on an “election integrity” discussion page on the social media platform X, as it became clear that former president Donald Trump was headed to a decisive victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.… Continue reading
“Flaw in Right-Wing ‘Election Integrity’ App Exposes Voter-Suppression Plan and User Data; A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an illegal voter-suppression scheme.”
Wired:
An app developed by the right-wing nonprofit True the Vote to crowdsource claims of voter fraud contained a security flaw that exposed the email addresses of all users who posted or commented on the platform, along with other… Continue reading
“Elon Musk promotes video referencing QAnon in support of Trump”
WaPo:
Elon Musk shared a video in support of Donald Trump that appeared to includereferences to the extremistQAnon ideology and footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, elevating the radicalized movement on the eveningbefore millions… Continue reading
“A pro-Trump influencer says a Russian agent paid him $100 to post a fake voter fraud video. It wasn’t the first time”
CNN:
An American social media influencer said he was paid $100 by a pro-Kremlin propagandist to post a fake video of Haitian immigrants claiming to vote in the US presidential election. The payment was one of several the man said… Continue reading
“Trump Claims ‘Illegal Alien’ Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.”
Andy Kroll for ProPublica:
Unfounded claims about the threat of widespread voting by “illegal aliens” and noncitizens in the 2024 election.
Away from the spotlight, though, at least one Republican National Committee official is telling volunteer poll watchers a completely… Continue reading