Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

True the Vote Provides No Data When Requested to Arizona to Back Up Their Phony “Ballot Mules” Claims

September 2, 2022, 10:02 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Axios: True the Vote refused multiple requests from the attorney general’s office to provide evidence or data supporting the ballot-harvesting allegations it made in its debunked “2000 Mules” movie.Context: The nonprofit organization and conservative filmmaker Dinesh… Continue reading

“Ron DeSantis’ voter fraud hunt backfires”

September 1, 2022, 7:31 amfelon voting, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Axios: Elections officials across Florida are poking holes in the DeSantis administration’s claims that they’re to blame after 20 people were arrested for voting illegally.Driving the news: Supervisors of elections in Hillsborough, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties say it’s the… Continue reading

“What to know about Ron DeSantis’s political ‘election fraud’ arrests”

August 19, 2022, 7:20 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Philip Bump for WaPo: It’s critically important to put this into context. Attendance at DeSantis’s announcement was restricted, with “a woman who identified herself as a volunteer with the Palm Beach County Republican Party” monitoring who was allowed to enter… Continue reading

True the Vote’s Gregg Phillips Continues the Election Fraud Grift

August 16, 2022, 11:01 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Daily Beast: Earlier this year, election-fraud conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips shot to fame on the right as one of the stars of 2,000 Mules, conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s quasi-documentary attempt to prove the 2020 election was stolen. Since the movie’s… Continue reading

“Trump Lawyer Proposed Challenging Georgia Senate Elections in Search of Fraud; On the day of President Biden’s inauguration, John Eastman suggested looking for voting irregularities in Georgia — and asked for help being paid the $270,000 he billed the Trump campaign.”

August 3, 2022, 5:32 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: John Eastman, the conservative lawyer whose plan to block congressional certification of the 2020 election failed in spectacular fashion on Jan. 6, 2021, sent an email two weeks later arguing that pro-Trump forces should sue to keep searching for… Continue reading

“Several election deniers backed by Trump prevail in hotly contested primaries”

August 3, 2022, 7:02 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Several election deniers backed by former president Donald Trump prevailed in closely-watched primaries held Tuesday, as a nationwide battle over the future of the GOP played out in state and federal races across five states.In Michigan, Rep. Peter… Continue reading

“Arizona official refutes review that counted 282 dead voters”

August 1, 2022, 8:27 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Monday his investigators found just one dead voter after thoroughly reviewing findings from a partisan review of the 2020 election that alleged 282 ballots were cast in the name of someone who had… Continue reading

“Trump-Backed Conspiracy Theorist Vies to Take Over Arizona Elections”

August 1, 2022, 7:28 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: This spring, Mark Finchem traveled to Mar-a-Lago for the premiere of a documentary advancing the specious notion that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from President Donald J. Trump by an army of leftists stuffing drop boxes with… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Tim Ramthun’s campaign for governor promoted election denial. Election law experts worry about the consequences”

August 1, 2022, 7:24 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Shawn Johnson for WPR.

“Conservative groups raise money for voter-fraud probes as states ban election grants; States banned private money for election expenses, but a new plan to raise money for voter fraud investigations poses similar concerns.”

August 1, 2022, 7:18 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Carrie Levine for VoteBeat: It turns out that the much-publicized spate of new state laws banning private grants for elections may have left a route open for private money after all. It flows through law enforcement.Conservative nonprofit True the Vote… Continue reading

“Texas Charity That Backs Trump’s Stolen-Election Lie Has Deep Ties to Ken Paxton”

July 23, 2022, 11:39 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Reveal News: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is pretty familiar with Catherine Engelbrecht. He’s been a guest on her podcast, chatting about their shared passion: rooting out voter fraud. They both have gone to great lengths to try to… Continue reading

“No major problems with ballot drop boxes in 2020, AP finds”

July 17, 2022, 7:18 pmabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

AP: “The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems, according to an Associated Press survey of state election officials across the U.S. that revealed no cases of… Continue reading

“Parroting Trump, GOP primary losers cast doubt on elections”

July 16, 2022, 10:52 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

AP: “[T]his year’s Republican primaries … have revealed a new political strategy among numerous candidates: running on a platform that denies President Donald Trump’s defeat two years ago. As some of those candidates lose their own races, they are… Continue reading

Door-to-door “auditing” of 2020 election

July 15, 2022, 11:27 amfraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

NPR reports: “People who falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen are knocking on doors around the country to determine whether people actually voted. The effort is raising concerns about voter intimidation.”