Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“‘Blurring of lines’: Private lawyer plays starring role in taxpayer-funded Wisconsin election probe”

April 25, 2022, 7:00 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Wisconsin Watch: A two-story office building in a Milwaukee suburb houses three entities that have led a months-long campaign sowing doubt about Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election.The gray, indistinct building in Brookfield lists about a dozen occupants, including a… Continue reading

“Exclusive: Local election chief threatened by Republican leader seeking illegal access to voting equipment”

April 24, 2022, 8:35 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Reuters: A local Republican Party leader in North Carolina threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal access to voting equipment, the state elections board told Reuters.The party… Continue reading

“OAN network agrees to settle defamation claims brought by election workers”

April 23, 2022, 9:46 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Oregon Live: Two Georgia election workers agreed to settle defamation claims against a right-wing cable news channel, which they said falsely claimed they engaged in ballot fraud during the 2020 election, according to a court document filed Thursday.Fulton County… Continue reading

“Republicans Have Picked An Election Denier To Run Michigan’s Elections”

April 23, 2022, 9:40 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

BuzzFeed: Michigan Republicans endorsed Kristina Karamo, a first-time candidate who has spread lies about the 2020 election, to run all the state’s elections as the party’s candidate for secretary of state.Karamo is one of at least 17 election deniers running… Continue reading

“Michigan appeals court rules against DePerno effort to revive debunked election fraud case”

April 21, 2022, 2:41 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Detroit Free Press: A Michigan appeals court made quick work of efforts to review an election conspiracy case from Antrim County, unanimously dismissing most of the arguments made by lawyer and Republican attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno. It’s… Continue reading

In Georgia Poll of Republican Primary Voters, Trump “Big Lie” Endorser Jody Hice Has Nearly 2:1 Lead Over Georgia SOS Brad Raffesperger, Who Stood Up to Trump’s Attempt to Overturn 2020 Election Results; Dangers of Election Subversion Ahead

April 21, 2022, 11:26 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Landmark poll: Victories for Big Lie proponents would be very dangerous for democracy, for reasons I describe in my recent article in the Harvard Law Review Forum: Elections are already administered in many places by partisan actors who… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Michael Gableman deleting records he deems ‘irrelevant or useless’ to his taxpayer-funded election review”

April 21, 2022, 6:38 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Emails, text messages and other documents gathered and produced by a $676,000 taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election are routinely being deleted by the former state Supreme Court justice at the probe’s helm, new court documents show. … Continue reading

Texas: “Steven Hotze charged for funding voter fraud investigation where repairman was held at gunpoint”

April 20, 2022, 3:34 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Houston Chronicle: Steven Hotze, the conservative activist who funded a private investigation into voter fraud that ended with the investigator pointing a gun at an innocent air conditioning repairman, has been indicted for his role in the episode.A Harris… Continue reading

“Libs of TikTok” Account and Bogus Claims of Voter Fraud and About Jan. 6

April 19, 2022, 7:42 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

From Taylor Lorenz’s must-read reporting on the person behind the influential “Libs of TikTok” account: Libs of TikTok reposts a steady stream of TikTok videos and social media posts, primarily from LGBTQ+ people, often including incendiary framing designed to generate… Continue reading

“Trump’s Focus on 2020 Election Splits Michigan Republicans”

April 17, 2022, 4:06 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The shouting in the banquet hall erupted just minutes after the Macomb County Republican Party convention was called to order.In a room packed with about 500 people, Mark Forton, the county party chairman and a fierce ally of… Continue reading

“CNN Exclusive: ‘We need ammo. We need fraud examples. We need it this weekend.’ What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election.”

April 15, 2022, 6:47 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: In the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, almost 100 text messages from two staunch GOP allies of then-President Donald Trump reveal an aggressive attempt to lobby, encourage… Continue reading

“New Brennan Center analyses: Sponsors of anti-voter bills and their election denialism; failed Trump campaign lawsuits and related anti-voter bills”

April 13, 2022, 6:56 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Release: Today the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law published a pair of analyses tracing post-2020 paths of the misinformation and conspiracy theories spread by the former president and his allies about voting and the 2020 election.One analysis looks… Continue reading

“In Conference Call Before Riot, a Plea to ‘Descend on the Capitol’

April 12, 2022, 1:32 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: One week before an angry mob stormed the Capitol, a communications expert named Jason Sullivan, a onetime aide to Roger J. Stone Jr., joined a conference call with a group of President Donald J. Trump’s… Continue reading

“How a Trump ally got his unfounded voting-machine audit push in front of federal cyber agency”

April 12, 2022, 6:56 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: Donald Trump’s top pick to administer Arizona elections in 2024 is more than a garden-variety backer — he played a little-known but notable role in bolstering the former president’s push to subvert the 2020 ballot.It was the waning… Continue reading

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