Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

PILF Sues Detroit Over Voter List Maintenance

December 11, 2019, 3:26 pmfraudulent fraud squad, NVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Detroit Free Press: A public interest group has sued the city of Detroit in federal court, claiming it has thousands of dead people on its voter lists and even more duplicate names of registered voters — problems the group fears … Continue reading

Good Riddance: Kobach’s Crosscheck Program is Suspended, and Likely Dead

December 10, 2019, 5:54 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: A much-criticized database that checks whether voters are registered in multiple states has been suspended “for the foreseeable future” until security safeguards are put in place as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit, a civil rights group… Continue reading

Kentucky Governor Bevin Makes Unsupported Voter Fraud Charges Again, This Time with a Racist Dog Whistle

December 4, 2019, 9:45 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WFPL: During a series of interviews on talk radio shows Wednesday morning, outgoing Republican Gov. Matt Bevin said that he lost his race for reelection because the Democratic Party “harvested votes in urban communities.”… “They were able to go into… Continue reading

“McCrory allies wrongly accused voters of fraud, but does the law protect them?”

November 27, 2019, 4:26 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

News & Observer: McCrory is not one of the people being sued for libel.The case is against some of his 2016 supporters. They falsely accused several dozen North Carolinians of voting illegally, although only a handful of those voters are… Continue reading

“Misinformation Efforts Over Kentucky Vote Could Be Playbook for 2020”

November 26, 2019, 1:39 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Doozy from Jessica Huseman: The personality, whose real name is Terpsichore Lindeman, alleged that somehow she and her husband had wound up as registered Democrats in Kentucky, which she saw as a sure sign that Andy Beshear, the Democratic attorney… Continue reading

John Gore’s Ostensibly Faulty Memory Now at Issue in Litigation Over Pence-Kobach Commission (in Addition to Census Case)

November 26, 2019, 7:09 amchicanery, Department of Justice, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Tierney Sneed for TPM: The apparent memory problems of a former Trump Justice Department appointee have continued to haunt the department since the official left the administration.Last week, in two separate cases, the Justice Department had to tell courts that… Continue reading

Matt Bevin = Matt Bupkis

November 13, 2019, 6:15 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

He’s really got nothing. Watch.

All Bluster, and No Evidence So Far, of Irregularities in Kentucky Governor’s Race

November 13, 2019, 12:48 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Those claiming massive fraud or irregularities in the Kentucky governor's race had their chance to make their case to the media and public.It did not go well. At all. https://t.co/k1iW4WED53— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) November 13, 2019

Matt Bevin Still Has Not Conceded. Nor Has He Produced Any Evidence of “Irregularities” or Voter Fraud in Kentucky Election

November 12, 2019, 9:05 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Lex18 reports.

Today’s Must-Read; “Close Election in Kentucky Was Ripe for Twitter, and an Omen for 2020”

November 11, 2019, 9:50 amcampaigns, Election Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: A few hours after polls closed in Kentucky last Tuesday, a Twitter user writing under the handle @Overlordkraken1 posted a message to his 19 followers saying he had “just shredded a box of Republican mail-in ballots.”It was clear that… Continue reading

“Skeptics Urge Bevin To Show Proof Of Fraud Claims, Warning Of Corrosive Effects”

November 11, 2019, 9:43 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR: Bevin isn’t the first politician to question the results of a race after the fact, and occasionally, if infrequently, those concerns have been founded in reality.After the 2018 midterms, then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott alluded to “… Continue reading

Bevin Supporter Fishing for Voter Fraud Evidence They Don’t Have Through Robocalls That May Mislead Voters Into Thinking They Are Coming from Kentucky Board of Elections

November 8, 2019, 8:53 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Courier Journal: Conservative political activist Frank Simon, a longtime supporter of Gov. Matt Bevin, is sending robocalls asking Kentuckians to report suspicious activity or voter fraud to the State Board of Elections before Nov. 14 — the day of Bevin’s… Continue reading

Trump, Bevin, and the Voter Fraud Dog That Didn’t Bark

November 8, 2019, 8:28 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Yesterday at Slate I wrote about how Kentucky governor Matt Bevin has so far made unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud and other irregularities cost him the election against his Democratic opponent Andy Beshear, and that the Kentucky Senate President made… Continue reading

“FBI Documents: Kobach Hired A Criminal Investigator With No Law Enforcement Experience”

October 30, 2019, 7:49 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

KCUR: One of the hallmarks of Kris Kobach’s time as Kansas Secretary of State was his power to investigate and prosecute voter fraud. Kobach, who is now running for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate, was the… Continue reading

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