“Attacks on Dominion Voting Persist Despite High-Profile Lawsuits”
It may take an enforced monetary judgment to actually stop the nonsense.
Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad
“Trump-fueled election deniers still ‘spread lies,’ experts warn. What does that mean for 2024?”
USA Today discusses the half-life of information disorder.
“Republicans push for stricter election laws, despite scant proof of fraud”
WaPo:
More than two years after the 2020 presidential election, Republicans in GOP-controlled legislatures are continuing to push totighten voting laws and the rules for election administration,despite the lack of evidence for Donald Trump’s claim that widespread fraud tainted his… Continue reading
“Fiction vs Reality: My Texts with Michael Shellenberger”
Renee DiResta:
For several months earlier this year, I’d been chatting with Michael Shellenberger about the Twitter Files. He’d reached out to me in a Twitter DM on December 30th, telling me he wanted to better understand social media content… Continue reading
In Dominion Defamation Suit Against Fox News, Trial Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment on Falsity of Fox Statements About Election, Leaving Open Issues of Actual Malice, Corporate Responsibility, and Damages
This is quite a loss for Fox, depriving them of the chance to raise all kinds of legal and factual issues. See the 130-page opinion:
Through its extensive proof, Dominion has met its burden of showing there is no… Continue reading
“Here’s how protected election system blueprints are making their way into far-right circles”
LA Times:
On the third day of the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month, two men delivered on experts’ biggest concerns about attempts to access election machines after the 2020 election.
Using copies of election software — improperly… Continue reading
“Trump-commissioned report undercut his claims of dead and double voters”
WaPo:
When Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in a now-infamous bid to overturn the 2020 election, he alleged that thousands of dead people had voted in the state.
“So dead people… Continue reading
The Continued Disappointing Path of Frank LaRose: “Ohio becomes latest Republican state to leave a key voting data partnership”
NPR:
Ohio on Friday announced it was the latest Republican-led state to pull out of a key election partnership that has become the focal point of conspiracies on the far-right.
The Ohio secretary of state, Frank LaRose — a Republican… Continue reading
“At center of Fox News lawsuit, Sidney Powell and a ‘wackadoodle’ email”
WaPo:
It was the first of a dozen appearances Powell would make on Fox programs over the next month in which she helped inject far-fetched and debunked claims of widespread fraud into the mainstream — and which are now at… Continue reading
“FBI says it has no records related to Trump’s claim he ‘sent’ agents to stop voter fraud in Florida during 2018 election”
NBC News:
The FBI has said it can find no records related to former President Donald Trump’s assertions in November that he “sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys” to stop “ballot theft” in Florida during the 2018 election.… Continue reading
“GOP election deniers increasingly admit they’re just going off vibes”
Aaron Blake for WaPo:
Sidney Powell has tacitly conceded that she didn’t have the proof of a stolen election that she claimed. Former Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis has now explicitly acknowledged that.
And it turns out the… Continue reading
“Colorado GOP selects combative, election-denying new leader”
AP:
The Colorado Republican Party on Saturday selected a combative former state representative who promised to be a “wartime” leader as its new chairman, joining several other state GOPs this year that have elected far-right figures and election conspiracy theorists… Continue reading
“Meet the ‘Ghost’ Woman Fox Relied on for Voter Fraud Claims”
Daily Beast:
A voting machine company’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News has rocked the conservative media giant, exposing rifts between its journalists and the star hosts and executives more concerned with mollifying pro-Trump viewers than accurately reporting that the… Continue reading
“Document obtained by Issue One reveals new financial information about nonprofit peddling election conspiracies”
Michael Beckel:
A nonprofit launched by several prominent election deniers just a few months after the January 6th attack on our democracy raised $7.7 million in 2021, with much of the money coming from anonymous wealthy donors, according to a … Continue reading