Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“Michigan Election Denial Activists Seize on Voter Report Glitch”

October 31, 2024, 7:28 amcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Election denial activists on Wednesday seized on errors in a routine Michigan voting report to claim that multiple people were casting ballots under a single voter’s name. The report was marred by a glitch that made it appear as… Continue reading

“Trump, GOP allies escalate election fraud conspiracies in Pennsylvania”

October 30, 2024, 5:11 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNBC: Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday baselessly claimed that Pennsylvania is “cheating” at “large scale levels,” escalating his spread of election fraud conspiracies in this all-important swing state. The Republican presidential nominee’s Truth Social post in the final… Continue reading

“Inside Trump’s Truth Social Conspiracy Theory Machine”

October 29, 2024, 11:59 amcheap speech, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump’s penchant for amplifying easily debunked conspiracy theories is well known. But an extensive analysis of his posts and reposts on Truth Social reveals a candidate who promotes these sinister theories at a scale and… Continue reading

This is What Insanity Looks Like

October 28, 2024, 9:44 amfraudulent fraud squad, UncategorizedRick Hasen

I can’t even… There are three recommendations that I have. Most depend on Elon Musk, who has the resources and megaphone to make these a reality. The first is a whistleblower program that offers a multi-million dollar reward for… Continue reading

“Before Election Day, Trump is increasingly sowing doubts about the results”

October 28, 2024, 7:10 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NBC News: As Election Day approaches, former President Donald Trump has increasingly been warning that if he loses, it will be because of cheating. “They’re going to cheat. They cheat. That’s all they want to do is cheat,” Trump… Continue reading

“Inside the Movement Behind Trump’s Election Lies” (NYT Has 400 Hours of Cleta Mitchell Zoom Calls)

October 28, 2024, 7:07 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: In the aftermath of Donald J. Trump’s defeat in 2020, one of his election lawyers set out to keep the lies about his loss alive. The lawyer, a well-connected conservative named Cleta Mitchell, knit together grass-roots activists, Republican lawyers,… Continue reading

“Far-Right Figures Escalate Talk of Retribution and Election Subversion”

October 27, 2024, 2:59 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: In the weeks after the 2020 election, retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Donald J. Trump’s former national security adviser, was a key figure in efforts to subvert the election outcome. In recent interviews and speeches, he and an associate… Continue reading

“GOP focus on rare noncitizen voting may continue long after Election Day”

October 27, 2024, 2:56 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Patrick Marley for WaPo: Noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare, research has shown, but Trump and his allies have found that focusing on the issue energizes their supporters by tying together topics that have long animated their base: illegal immigration… Continue reading

“Elon Musk’s X is boosting election conspiracy theories with AI-powered trending topics”

October 27, 2024, 8:39 amcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

David Ingram for NBC News: Elon Musk’s social media app X is supercharging the spread of voter-fraud conspiracy theories with the help of artificial intelligence, boosting unfounded claims including two personal smears against Vice President Kamala Harris. The dubious content… Continue reading

“Meet the Pennsylvania nuns falsely accused of voter fraud”

October 25, 2024, 8:24 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: For a Republican canvasser going door-to-door to get out the vote in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the address on East Lake Road in Erie must have seemed like Heaven-sent evidence of the sort of widespread voter fraud many… Continue reading

“In High-Stakes Pennsylvania, Local Officials Have a Big Hand in Voting Rules”

October 25, 2024, 7:45 amelection administration, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Compared with most other states, Pennsylvania gives county commissioners more discretion when it comes to the details of the voting process — how to deal with different methods of writing the date on mail-in ballot envelopes, whether to let… Continue reading

“‘Big lie’ 2.0: How Trump’s false claims about noncitizens voting lay the groundwork to undermine the election”

October 25, 2024, 7:43 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Brandy Zadrozny for NBC News: The “big lie” of the 2024 election is being workshopped on Webex. In tiny boxes, hundreds of people, most of them white, meet weekly in online video conferences to share specious evidence of a problem… Continue reading

“The Army of Election Officials Ready to Reject the Vote”

October 25, 2024, 7:38 amelection administration, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Deep dive by Jim Rutenberg for NYT Magazine: Much of that work would be done by Cleta Mitchell, a Republican lawyer who assisted Trump’s efforts in Georgia after the 2020 election and was on the phone call on Jan.… Continue reading

Tom Cotton Wrongly Claims DOJ Selectively Going after Musk, Wrongly Claiming that RuPaul Contest and Michele Obama Sweepstakes Violate the Same Federal Law Against Vote Buying (They Don’t)

October 24, 2024, 2:23 pmfraudulent fraud squad, vote buyingRick Hasen

Senator Tom Cotton claims DOJ is engaged in targeting those on the right by going after Elon Musk’s PAC for vote buying with his contest that requires voter registation. He argues that RuPaul and Michele Obama both are running contests… Continue reading