Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

“How Trump’s Election Lies Left the Michigan G.O.P. Broken and Battered”

August 29, 2023, 6:59 amfraudulent fraud squad, political partiesRick Hasen

NYT: The Michigan Republican Party is starving for cash. A group of prominent activists — including a former statewide candidate — was hit this month with felony charges connected to a bizarre plot to hijack election machines. And in the… Continue reading

“RNC launches ‘Bank your Vote’ ad blitz ahead of debate to push Republicans to vote early in 2024 elections”

August 23, 2023, 10:22 amabsentee ballots, election administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Quite notable from Fox News: The Republican National Committee says it’s going “all in” ahead of Wednesday’s first GOP presidential nomination debate to encourage voters to turn in ballots early. The recently-launched “Bank Your Vote” campaign seeks to motivate pre-Election… Continue reading

“Trump and his allies double down on election lies after indictments for trying to undo 2020 results”

August 21, 2023, 10:05 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden’s win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his… Continue reading

“The ‘Johnny Appleseed of election fraud’ wants to upend voting in America. Why he’s focused on California”

July 31, 2023, 7:48 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

LA Times: Frank is convinced that American elections need saving and believes that to do so, people must take back the ballot box one county at a time. And though his allegations have been disproved and dismissed by election experts… Continue reading

“Giuliani declines to defend the indefensible. And he’s got company.”

July 27, 2023, 4:25 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

WaPo rounds up the reversals, including the latest from Giuliani on two Georgia election workers: In effect, Trump-aligned lawyers have now conceded as false: Their most-hyped, supposedly direct evidence of mass voter fraud (Freeman and Moss) The idea that… Continue reading

“Trump’s ‘Elite Strike Force Team’ Falls on Hard Times”

July 26, 2023, 9:37 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

Politico Magazine on the consequences that Trump’s lawyers and advisers have faced for their attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. It begins: The scene was instantly infamous. There was Rudy Giuliani — once “America’s Mayor,” now a man ridiculed … Continue reading

“Giuliani Concedes He Made False Statements About Georgia Election Workers”

July 26, 2023, 7:52 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Rudolph W. Giuliani has conceded that while acting as a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, he made false statements by asserting that two Georgia election workers had mishandled ballots while counting votes in Atlanta during the 2020… Continue reading

“Election law at the heart of Michigan voting machine investigation”

July 10, 2023, 5:31 amfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyDan Tokaji

The Detroit Free Press has a deep dive into the state’s law on access to voting machines: At the heart of the investigation into an alleged conspiracy to seize voting machines in the wake of the 2020 presidential election lies… Continue reading

“Prosecutors Face Conspiracy Theories in Jan. 6 Trial”

July 6, 2023, 7:29 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Almost from the moment that a pro-Trump mob stormed into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, conspiracy theories have ricocheted from the fringes of the internet to the corridors of Congress. Republican officials and others on the right have… Continue reading

“How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud”

July 4, 2023, 9:25 amfraudulent fraud squad, voter registration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR.

“Justice Dept. asking about 2020 fraud claims as well as fake electors”: “The campaign’s own legal team and data experts cannot verify the bullshit being beamed down from the mothership”

June 26, 2023, 6:20 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The Justice Department’s investigation of efforts by Donald Trump and his advisers to overturn the 2020 election results is barreling forward on multiple tracks, according to people familiar with the matter, with prosecutors focused on ads andfundraising pitches claiming… Continue reading

“He devised a fringe legal theory to try to keep Trump in power. Now he’s on the verge of being disbarred.”

June 11, 2023, 11:03 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election on Jan. 6, is about to go on trial — but not in a criminal court. Rather, the attorney is fighting to save his California… Continue reading

“Shasta supervisor renews unproven claims of voter fraud as he sets town hall on hand counts”

May 19, 2023, 2:29 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadDerek Muller

Rarely do you see an elected official claim his own election was tainted by fraud. You can see the elected official concede he did not win a free and fair election around 3:14:15, here. Perhaps a quo warranto action… Continue reading