Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“Trump Wants Mail Votes to Arrive By Election Day. Red States Are Rushing to Toe the Line.”

April 9, 2025, 7:12 amabsentee ballots, election administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Bolts: Frustrated by slowing mail delivery, particularly in rural areas, the Kansas legislature in 2017 passed a law to let elections officials count mail ballots that arrived after Election Day, for up to three extra days, so long as the… Continue reading

“Former Wisconsin justice to give up law license over 2020 election review”

April 8, 2025, 7:08 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice agreed Monday to give up his law license for three years after facing a string of ethics allegations stemming from his error-riddled review of the 2020 election for Republican state lawmakers. In… Continue reading

“Now Musk Is Boosting Claims Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Was ‘Stolen’

April 3, 2025, 6:46 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Daily Beast: Here we go again. After initially trying to downplay his candidate’s loss in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race, Elon Musk has now boosted a post on his social media platform X claiming there was “overwhelming” evidence the… Continue reading

My New One at MSNBC Opinion: “Trump’s executive order on elections is a blatant power grab; It seems especially dangerous to take power away from the states when there are many threats to our democracy.”

March 26, 2025, 2:51 pmauthoritarian threats in US, election administration, Election Assistance Commission, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

I have written this piece for MSNBC Opinion. It begins: By design, presidents have no power over the conduct of federal elections. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on election administration aims to flip that, trying to take power… Continue reading

“Catalysts of Insurrection: How White Racial Antipathy Influenced Beliefs of Voter Fraud and Support for the January 6th Insurrection”

March 1, 2025, 4:19 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Tye Rush, Chelsea Jones, Michael Herndon, and Matt Barreto have written this article for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Here is the abstract: On January 6, 2021, the belief that voter fraud was to blame for Trump’s 2020… Continue reading

Department of Insanity (and Inanity): “Warner, Who Said CIA Stole Election, Now Leads DOJ Civil Rights”

February 24, 2025, 9:53 amchicanery, Department of Justice, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Bloomberg Law: The Justice Department has inserted Mac Warner, who last year espoused false claims that the CIA stole Trump’s 2020 presidential victory with the FBI’s help, to run the civil rights division, replacing an ousted career official who’s started… Continue reading

“NC elections officials seek to fast-track state Supreme Court race battle”

February 18, 2025, 6:46 amfraudulent fraud squad, judicial electionsRick Hasen

WRAL: The North Carolina Board of Elections asked the state Supreme Court to use its power to bypass the state Court of Appeals and take up Republican Jefferson Griffin’s election challenge — a case that could determine whether Griffin wins… Continue reading

“Musk-linked group offered $5m for proof of voter fraud – and came up with nothing”

February 14, 2025, 10:54 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Brendan Fischer and Emma Steiner in The Guardian: In May 2024, a flashy ad went viral on social media warning that “across the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our… Continue reading

“Former Sheriff Hayden investigated Johnson County’s top election official, records show”

February 11, 2025, 5:05 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

KC Star: Former Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden investigated Johnson County Election Commissioner Fred Sherman over allegations of voter intimidation, according to records obtained by The Star. The case was the only one Hayden, a Republican, ever sent to Johnson… Continue reading

“GOP laws aimed at very rare noncitizen voting could hit eligible voters”

February 10, 2025, 7:15 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, voter registrationRick Hasen

WaPo: In the months before last year’s election, Alabama removed valid voters from the rolls after wrongly tagging them as noncitizens. Tennessee’s secretary of state told 14,000 voters they had to prove their citizenship. And officials debatedwhetherhundreds of thousands of… Continue reading

“Johnson County Sheriff’s Office finds no evidence of voter fraud in 2020”

February 6, 2025, 7:12 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Fox4: After about 880 hours of investigating and $88,000 spent, the Johnson County, Kansas Sheriff’s Office said it has turned up no evidence of voter fraud in 2020. The sheriff’s office said in September 2021, three people reported 100 allegations… Continue reading

Will Mitch McConnell Save America from the SAVE Act?

February 3, 2025, 7:49 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

Votebeat: Lane, one of four congressional staff members on the panel, said the SAVE Act will be a priority for the House this time. He acknowledged a push to consider what a voter identification requirement would look like and… Continue reading

“Key Trump Cabinet members refuse to acknowledge Trump lost in 2020”

February 3, 2025, 7:42 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Two of President Donald Trump’s top law enforcement nominees have been taking a new tack when talking about the 2020 presidential election: They’re not claiming Trump won that year, but they’re not saying he lost either. Joe Biden was… Continue reading

California Appeals Court Publishes Opinion Rejecting Argument That the Elections Code Allows Election Observers to “Breath[e] Down the Necks of the Election Workers”

January 30, 2025, 4:44 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

A California Court of Appeal issued this opinion a few weeks back, but did not deem it suitable for publication. I filed a request for publication, as did the defendant Ventura County election officials and the California State Association of… Continue reading