Temporary Contract Election Worker Worked Only 3 Days Before Apparent Mistake in Discarding That Handful of Pa Military Ballots
Not fraud, incompetence.
(Keep this handy.)
Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad
“Barr briefed Trump on investigation into discarded Pennsylvania ballots”
ABC News:
A Justice Department official told ABC News Friday that Attorney General William Barr personally briefed President Donald Trump about the DOJ’s investigation into a small number of ballots in Pennsylvania that were found to be discarded, prior to… Continue reading
“White House Attacks FBI Director For Playing Down Mail Voting Fraud”
Forbes:
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows lambasted FBI Director Chris Wray on Friday for correctly playing down the extent of voting fraud and encouraged him to “get involved” with the Trump administration’s efforts to investigate a handful of… Continue reading
“Fact check: Trump Jr. touts baseless rigged-election claims to recruit ‘army’ for his dad”
CNN:
Donald Trump Jr. is touting baseless election-rigging claims in videos posted to Facebook and Twitter asking “able-bodied” people to join an election security “army” for his father.Facebook and Twitter affixed labels to the video pointing to accurate information… Continue reading
Greg Sargent: “Donald Trump Jr. is actively helping his father corrupt the election”
Greg Sargent sounding the alarm:
Trumpworld’s various claims of fraud in mail balloting have been debunked by fact checkers, Republican elections officials, and even Trump’s own intelligence officials. But the president’s son has now explicitly declared that… Continue reading
The President’s Son Baselessly Suggests That Election Officials Will “add millions of fraudulent ballots that can cancel your vote and overturn the election.”
This is deeply disturbing, and has been part of one of my very greatest concerns about the integrity of the election: that Trump will be ahead in preliminarly vote totals (not including millions of mail-in ballots) in a state… Continue reading
“Fact check: Echoing Trump, Barr misleads on voter fraud to attack expanded vote-by-mail”
Jane Timm for NBC News.
“Barr’s undermining of the election is downright dangerous”
I have written this oped for CNN. It begins:
By repeating false and misleading statements about the potential for voter fraud and post-election violence, Attorney General William Barr has stepped out of his role as the nation’s chief law enforcement… Continue reading
Federal District Court Rips Louisiana for Rolling Back Voting During Pandemic without a “Scintilla” of Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud
From the opinion:
Even under this standard, Defendants’ evidence is woefully inadequate. First, they offer not a scintilla of evidence of fraud associated with voting by mail in Louisiana. Strikingly absent is even a hint of fraud in the… Continue reading
There He Goes Again Dep’t: AG Barr Raising Wild and Unsubstantiated Claims of Voter Fraud
Dangerous:
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce Bill Barr is at it again. https://t.co/A9Nefcwuq8 pic.twitter.com/U0JsHVipvX— Matt Ford (@fordm) September 15, 2020
von Spakovsky Mischief: “No Democrats Allowed: A Conservative Lawyer Holds Secret Voter Fraud Meetings With State Election Officials”
ProPublica:
Starting in early spring, as the coronavirus took hold, a conservative lawyer at the forefront of raising alarms about voting by mail held multiple private briefings exclusively for Republican state election officials, according to previously unreported public records.The… Continue reading
“Trump just repeated his ugliest claim about the election. Why isn’t it bigger news?”
Greg Sargent:
Appearing on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning, President Trump again told his supporters to believe that if the election doesn’t deliver the result they want, the outcome is inherently illegitimate — that there are no democratically legitimate… Continue reading
Republican EAC Commissioners Speaking on Zoom Call Organized by “Lawyers Democracy Fund” “to Analyze Effects of Vote-By-Mail Litigation in PA, IA, WI, and Across US”
This seems worthy of a deeper dive, particularly what Christy McCormick and Don Palmer should be saying about this topic:
Lawyers Democracy Fund (calling itself “LDF”–hmm) seems to have a lot of overlap with RNLA and Honest Elections Project.
“‘A huge risk’: Trump’s allies can’t sway him on mail-in voting”
Politico:
For a few weeks, Donald Trump’s advisers had seemingly gotten through to him — the president was finally encouraging his supporters to vote by mail, at least some of the time.On-message Trump didn’t last long. He recently appeared… Continue reading