Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“Trump-allied election groups burned through millions with no evidence of widespread fraud”

March 5, 2024, 1:32 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNBC: Several groups founded by allies of former President Donald Trump to combat alleged “voter fraud” now have little money or results to show for their efforts. Trump’s false claims that he lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden… Continue reading

“20 years of data shows no link between mailed ballots and illegal voting”

March 4, 2024, 12:56 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Steven Rosenfeld for The Fulcrum: It is an article of faith among those who do not believe Donald Trump lost in 2020 that mailing ballots to voters increases illegal voting — often called voter fraud. “Before the machines were introduced,… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Assembly leaders concede Michael Gableman violated records laws during fruitless 2020 election review”

February 24, 2024, 7:16 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:’ Assembly officials have admitted former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman violated public records laws while taxpayers paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars to probe the 2020 election — an investigation that did not turn … Continue reading

“My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell must pay $5 million to election data debunker, federal judge confirms”

February 22, 2024, 7:02 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN reports. My Pillow owner and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell will have to pay $5 million because of a contest he initiated at one of his “cyber symposium” events after the 2020 election, a federal judge confirmed Wednesday. Robert… Continue reading

“True the Vote fails to reveal evidence of Georgia voting fraud claims”

February 14, 2024, 7:54 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AJC: Bombastic claims of voting fraud in the right-wing conspiracy movie “2000 Mules” sounded alarming, and Georgia election officials wanted to get to the bottom of it. If there really was a massive plot to stuff ballot drop boxes and… Continue reading

“This Pa. activist is the source of false and flawed election claims gaining traction across the country”

February 12, 2024, 7:26 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

VoteBeat: On Jan. 6, 2021, as former President Donald Trump rallied his supporters, he used a statistic that, though false, was making the rounds: “In Pennsylvania, you had 205,000 more votes than you had voters,” he screamed, throwing his arms… Continue reading

“James O’Keefe and Project Veritas settle suit over bogus voter fraud claims cited by the Trump campaign”

February 6, 2024, 7:45 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Ryan Reilly: Conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and his former organization Project Veritas have settled a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania postmaster after the group spread a Postal Service worker’s false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. A… Continue reading

The Faux Election Integrity Group Backed by Leonard Leo, “Honest Elections Project,” Lists “Ban Rank Choice Voting” and “Block ZuckBucks 2.0” as Its Top Reforms to “Safeguard” American Elections

February 4, 2024, 4:19 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

What a joke this fake election integrity group is: Via the Dominion-indebted Fox News, which calls HEP a “nonpartisan watchdog.”

“‘Serious consequences’: Company warns Johnson County sheriff over election investigation”

January 30, 2024, 7:36 amfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

KC Star: The election software company at the center of Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden’s long-running elections investigation hit back on Monday, warning the sheriff that a baseless investigation results in “serious consequences.” “I fully recognize that Sheriff Hayden… Continue reading

“Scholars unmask Trump election lawyers’ use of falsified evidence”

January 25, 2024, 1:24 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Steven Rosenfeld: Beadles’ reward wasn’t real. Nor was his purported evidence. But this stunt, and especially its use of irrelevant statistics to appear authoritative and smear elections, is common in Trump circles. A working paper by two Stanford University scholars,… Continue reading

“Trump leans into voter fraud playbook, preparing to cry foul if he loses expected Biden rematch”

January 25, 2024, 7:23 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: For months, Trump has been alleging that he could be the victim of fraud in November, making the same sort of explosive, groundless allegations that fueled the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and have continued to… Continue reading

“Trump suggests unauthorized migrants will vote. The idea stirs his base, but ignores reality”

January 10, 2024, 7:02 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Donald Trump is seizing on his party’s frustration with the recent surge of illegal crossings at the southern U.S. border to churn up fears around another top GOP concern — voter fraud. In the final stretch before Iowa’s … Continue reading

“The Danger of Trump’s Bogus ‘Summary of Election Fraud'”

January 9, 2024, 11:30 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Bill Lueders at The Bulwark: IN A RAMBLING VIDEO POSTED LATE LAST NIGHT, Donald Trump said that he found “tremendous amounts of voter fraud in the 2020 election. We have volumes of information. It’s all there.” Hardly “volumes” and hardly… Continue reading

House Speaker Says It’s “Nonsense” to Call Him a 2020 Election Denier, Cites Discredited Version of Independent State Legislature Theory

January 7, 2024, 4:29 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Watch the “Face the Nation video.

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