Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“Trump’s ‘Elite Strike Force Team’ Falls on Hard Times”

July 26, 2023, 9:37 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

Politico Magazine on the consequences that Trump’s lawyers and advisers have faced for their attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. It begins: The scene was instantly infamous. There was Rudy Giuliani — once “America’s Mayor,” now a man ridiculed … Continue reading

“Giuliani Concedes He Made False Statements About Georgia Election Workers”

July 26, 2023, 7:52 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Rudolph W. Giuliani has conceded that while acting as a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, he made false statements by asserting that two Georgia election workers had mishandled ballots while counting votes in Atlanta during the 2020… Continue reading

“Election law at the heart of Michigan voting machine investigation”

July 10, 2023, 5:31 amfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyDan Tokaji

The Detroit Free Press has a deep dive into the state’s law on access to voting machines: At the heart of the investigation into an alleged conspiracy to seize voting machines in the wake of the 2020 presidential election lies… Continue reading

“Prosecutors Face Conspiracy Theories in Jan. 6 Trial”

July 6, 2023, 7:29 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Almost from the moment that a pro-Trump mob stormed into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, conspiracy theories have ricocheted from the fringes of the internet to the corridors of Congress. Republican officials and others on the right have… Continue reading

“How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud”

July 4, 2023, 9:25 amfraudulent fraud squad, voter registration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR.

“Justice Dept. asking about 2020 fraud claims as well as fake electors”: “The campaign’s own legal team and data experts cannot verify the bullshit being beamed down from the mothership”

June 26, 2023, 6:20 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The Justice Department’s investigation of efforts by Donald Trump and his advisers to overturn the 2020 election results is barreling forward on multiple tracks, according to people familiar with the matter, with prosecutors focused on ads andfundraising pitches claiming… Continue reading

“He devised a fringe legal theory to try to keep Trump in power. Now he’s on the verge of being disbarred.”

June 11, 2023, 11:03 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election on Jan. 6, is about to go on trial — but not in a criminal court. Rather, the attorney is fighting to save his California… Continue reading

“Shasta supervisor renews unproven claims of voter fraud as he sets town hall on hand counts”

May 19, 2023, 2:29 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadDerek Muller

Rarely do you see an elected official claim his own election was tainted by fraud. You can see the elected official concede he did not win a free and fair election around 3:14:15, here. Perhaps a quo warranto action… Continue reading

“False claims of a stolen election thrive unchecked on Twitter even as Musk promises otherwise”

May 19, 2023, 7:11 amcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP reports.

Johnson County, Kansas sheriff’s election probe results so far? 1 case, no criminal charges

May 18, 2023, 9:22 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadDerek Muller

Records request from the Shawnee Mission Post: Earlier this spring, Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden painted a distressing picture of the county’s elections during a hearing before a Kansas Senate committee. According to his testimony, there had been more… Continue reading

“Former Giuliani employee alleges sexual assault and harassment in $10 million lawsuit” (and includes details about 2020 election litigation)

May 17, 2023, 5:09 amfraudulent fraud squadDerek Muller

Politico has the background on the sexual harassment lawsuit. But the complaint also includes a couple of specific allegations about the 2020 election and litigation strategies around it. 124. On February 7, 2019, Giuliani told Ms. Dunphy to take a… Continue reading

Cleta Mitchell’s Fear of Democracy

May 16, 2023, 7:11 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

The New York Times reported last week on an under-the-radar effort pushed by a bunch of Republican-backed dark money groups to enact new voting restrictions in time for the 2024 elections. As the group Documented has shown, in the center… Continue reading

Elon Musk Buys into Far-Right Smears of Those Pursuing Election Integrity on a Bipartisan Basis

May 9, 2023, 8:32 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Pam Fessler: What’s strange @elonmusk is that you continue to allow blatant lies on Twitter. This conference is bi/nonpartisan and available for anyone to see online. You might want to watch and learn about all the work R and… Continue reading

Two election-related state budget stories

May 5, 2023, 9:45 amcampaign finance, fraudulent fraud squadJustin Levitt

In New York, the new public financing system (with a 6-1 match for small local contributions) gets some cash. And in Florida, DeSantis’s election investigations office gets a 20% increase (though not the 280% increase DeSantis requested).