Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“How a Tiny Elections Company Became a Conspiracy Theory Target”

October 3, 2022, 10:20 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squad, UncategorizedFranita Tolson

Interesting New York Times story on how a small election software company, Konnech, became the focus of a right wing conspiracy theory surrounding the 2020 election. According to the Times, Konnech’s employees have faced increasing threats of violence despite the… Continue reading

“The Most Dominant Toxic Election Narratives Online”

September 23, 2022, 7:16 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Ballot mules. Poll watch parties. Groomers.These topics are now among the most dominant divisive and misleading narratives online about November’s midterm elections, according to researchers and data analytics companies. On Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Truth Social and other social… Continue reading

Arizona Secretary of State Candidate Mark Finchem: Biden Winning Arizona (in 2020 or 2024) is a “Fantasy”

September 20, 2022, 8:52 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Charlotte Alter: https://twitter.com/CharlotteAlter/status/1572219894468419587

“Republicans in key battleground races refuse to say they will accept results”

September 18, 2022, 12:39 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: A dozen Republican candidates in competitive races for governor and Senate have declined to say whether they would accept the results of their contests, raising the prospect of fresh post-election chaos two years after Donald Trump refused to… Continue reading

“Echoing Trump, These Republicans Won’t Promise to Accept 2022 Results”

September 18, 2022, 5:30 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Nearly two years after President Donald J. Trump refused to accept his defeat in the 2020 election, some of his most loyal Republican acolytes might follow in his footsteps.When asked, six Trump-backed Republican nominees for governor and the… Continue reading

“Virginia’s Election Integrity Unit: Safeguard or ‘stunt’?”

September 16, 2022, 6:22 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WTOP: After Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares’ announcement Friday of the formation of an Election Integrity Unit in his office, the attorney general spoke with reporters Tuesday about the structure of the new unit. Meanwhile, two commonwealth’s attorneys and… Continue reading

“Lawsuit alleges True the Vote hacked data and targeted small election vendor with racist, defamatory campaign”

September 14, 2022, 5:45 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Votebeat: A defamation and computer fraud lawsuit filed this week against Texas-based True the Vote asks a judge to essentially determine whether the election-integrity group’s campaign against a small election vendor constitutes slanderous lies or a participation in criminal… Continue reading

“How a Spreader of Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories Became a Star; For more than a decade, Catherine Engelbrecht, a Texas mom turned election-fraud crusader, has sown doubts about ballots and voting. Her patience has paid off.”

September 14, 2022, 11:14 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT profile by Cecilia Kang: Her journey into the limelight illustrates how deeply embedded the idea of voter fraud has become, aided by a highly partisan climate and social media. Even though such fraud is rare, Mr. Trump and his… Continue reading

“The Big Grift Behind the Big Lie; The group True the Vote has collected millions off spreading ‘the big lie’ that the 2020 election was stolen by voter fraud.”

September 11, 2022, 12:02 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Reveal reports.

“A publisher abruptly recalled the ‘2,000 Mules’ election denial book. NPR got a copy.”

September 8, 2022, 2:40 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Tom Driesbach for NPR: For months, the conservative provocateur Dinesh D’Souza teased that the book version of his widely debunked film “2,000 Mules” would provide compelling new evidence that the 2020 election was “stolen.” The film has been repeatedly promoted… Continue reading

Kansas: “‘We’ve got to find somebody’: JoCo sheriff appears to lack probable cause in election inquiry”

September 8, 2022, 6:46 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

KC Star: Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden, who has spent months promoting a criminal investigation into elections, told a gathering of residents last week that “we’ve got to find somebody” who knows election rigging is happening. But the Republican… Continue reading

Must Read Michael Wines NYT: “In Voter Fraud, Penalties Often Depend on Who’s Voting”

September 7, 2022, 10:00 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT: After 15 years of scrapes with the police, the last thing that 33-year-old Therris L. Conney needed was another run-in with the law. He got one anyway two years ago, after election officials held a… Continue reading