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Voter Fraud
early and often
Dec. 11, 2023
Trump Team Accuses DeSantis of Plotting to ‘Rig’ Iowa Caucus Casey DeSantis issued a confusing call for non-Iowans to “descend” on the state. Now Team Trump is crying “voter fraud.”
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Long Campaign to Steal the Presidency: A Timeline The insurrection wasn’t a one-day event. It was the culmination of a multifaceted, yearslong plot — and it isn’t over.
By Ed Kilgore
voter fraud
Apr. 16, 2022
What Is a ‘Rigged’ Election Anyway? Republicans claim Democrats are breaking election and voter laws. But deep down the complaint may be that perfectly legal votes are bad for the GOP.
By Ed Kilgore
voter fraud
Apr. 13, 2022
You’re Not Supposed to Register to Vote in Two States, Mark Meadows The former Trump chief of staff, who takes a hard line on election fraud, played pretty fast and loose with his own voting behavior.
By Ed Kilgore
Can Republicans Commit Voter Fraud? The revealing case of Mark Meadows.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
California Republicans’ Demonization of Voting by Mail May Backfire The state has made universal voting by mail permanent. Now Republicans must deal with the effect of Trump’s disinformation on mail ballots.
By Ed Kilgore
arizona audit
Sept. 27, 2021
Arizona Audit Aftermath Shows Trump Conspiracy Theories Will Go On Forever Yes, the recount in Arizona showed Biden’s lead actually increasing, but there’s always another rabbit hole for MAGA folks to explore.
By Ed Kilgore
2021 california recall election
Sept. 13, 2021
By Ed Kilgore
california recall election
Sept. 9, 2021
A Defeat of the Newsom Recall Will Feed a New Round of MAGA Conspiracy Theories The recall has lost ground, or maybe never had any. But Newsom’s momentum will be treated by Trump and Republicans as signs of a rigged election.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
June 29, 2021
Bipartisan Voting-Rights Legislation May Simply Be Impossible The pious hopes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema notwithstanding, we are in a historic moment, like Reconstruction, when one party is incorrigible.
By Ed Kilgore
Maricopa County Will Replace Voting Machines ‘Audited’ by Cyber Ninjas Arizona’s most populous county won’t be reusing the machines, citing concerns they could have been tampered with during the partisan audit.
By Nia Prater
2022 midterms
Apr. 29, 2021
Kris Kobach Won’t Go Away The Republican Party’s gift that keeps on giving to Kansas Democrats is running for attorney general.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 9, 2021
What Is the Republican Party’s Position on Voting Rights? The implicit GOP position is to defer to states and localities — so far as their decisions help Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
republican party
Apr. 7, 2021
Why Republicans Think They Can Regain Power Without Repudiating Trumpism From the midterm precedents to the belief that Trump expanded the GOP’s reach, Republicans have a host of reasons to be complacent.
By Ed Kilgore
Dominion Voting Sues Fox News Over Election Fraud Claims Dominion, which is seeking $1.6 billion in damages, is the second voting company to sue Fox for promoting baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
By Nia Prater
voting rights
Feb. 25, 2021
Republicans Return to Old Voter-Suppression Playbook Trump shifted the focus to phony vote-by-mail fraud claims, but Republicans tried to limit all kinds of voting pre-2020 — and they’re at it again.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Repeatedly Pressured Justice Department to Help Overturn Election After DOJ leaders refused to file a Supreme Court lawsuit, Trump nearly fired the acting attorney general just days before the attack on Congress.
By Chas Danner
White House Forced Out U.S. Attorney Amid Effort to Overturn Election in Georgia The top federal prosecutor in Atlanta, Byung Pak, was reportedly told to resign because Trump was upset he didn’t help find voter fraud in Georgia.
By Chas Danner
conservatism
Jan. 4, 2021
House GOP Admits It Opposes Democracy, Not Voter Fraud House Republicans claimed that they object to affirming Biden’s victory out of concern for voter fraud. A colleague just called their bluff.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Jan. 3, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
Barr Pans Trump’s Coup Schemes in Final Press Conference The outgoing attorney general reiterated that he is not onboard with some of the extreme measures the president has reportedly been seeking.
By Chas Danner
chaos agents
Dec. 8, 2020
Giuliani’s Star Witness Says She Has No Plans to Quarantine Mellissa Carone sat right next to the attorney, days before his coronavirus hospitalization.
By Claire Lampen
troublemaker
Dec. 3, 2020
Will Trump’s Antics Suppress Republican Turnout in the Georgia Senate Runoffs? By falsely claiming the GOP-run election was stolen, he could damage his party in two very close Senate races it can’t afford to lose.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 30, 2020
Trump Spent His Holiday Weekend Bolstering His Loser Routine A roundup of Trump’s latest preposterous election claims and flailing attempts to convince America that he’s definitely not a loser.
By Chas Danner
contested election
Nov. 19, 2020
Rudy Melts Down Over Trump and ‘Voter Fraud’ During Insane Press Conference The president’s legal team alleged a vast conspiracy to install Joe Biden, bankrolled by “communist money.”
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Nov. 17, 2020
Lindsey Graham Pressured Georgia Secretary of State to Toss Legal Ballots Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says he’s alarmed by the efforts of Graham and other Trump allies to challenge Biden’s victory in Georgia.
By Chas Danner
contested election
Nov. 11, 2020
How Long Can Trump Keep Contesting the Election? Republicans could bring the president’s madness to an end, but there are a series of deadlines that may force the issue.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Only Credible Legal Strategy Won’t Be Enough It’s possible the Supreme Court will accept Republican efforts to disallow late mail ballots in Pennsylvania. But there aren’t enough votes to matter.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 30, 2020
The Democratic Advantage in Voting by Mail Is a Mixed Blessing Democrats will be able to “bank” a lot of early votes, but then they may have to fight all the way to the Supreme Court to get them counted.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 29, 2020
Trump Keeps Repeating These Ludicrous Attacks on Voting by Mail Some Trump claims are made up, others are exaggerations, and still others mistake safeguards against fraud for fraud.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Sept. 16, 2020
The System for Resolving a Contested Presidential Election Is Also a Mess The two-week period in Congress in January is convoluted, depends on the good faith of the party in power, and requires lawmakers to act briskly.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 9, 2020
Top Republican Election Lawyer Trashes Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Lies Ben Ginsberg tried to find widespread “voter fraud” for decades. Now he’s calling out Trump’s claims as fraudulent.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 3, 2020
Democrats Scramble to Prevent Premature Trump Victory Declaration In battlegrounds with little experience voting by mail, a faster count may keep Trump from calling the race before all the votes are counted.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Aug. 27, 2020
If Trump Was Really Worried About Mail-Ballot Security, He’d Try to Fund It Trump complains about overwhelmed and insecure election systems. Why won’t he accept Democratic proposals to spend some money to address them?
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Aug. 21, 2020
Trump’s Election-Day Gambit Another escalation of a well-worn strategy for the president.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
vision 2020
Aug. 13, 2020
How Trump Is Trying to Ensure an Early Election Night Lead Trump’s demonization of voting by mail has convinced his fans to vote in person, which could skew the early returns and lead to a contested election.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
June 16, 2020
Why Do Trump Supporters Act Like His Reelection Is Certain? For reasons varying from a Trumpian infatuation with “winning” to thoughts of contesting a loss, many Republicans act as though it’s a done deal.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
June 14, 2020
What We Can Do to Stop Voting Chaos in November Time is running out and options are limited, but there are still steps we can take to protect voting rights.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Voter Registration Mistake Is What He’d Call Fraud He had to correct his Florida voter registration after initially listing the White House, which is not in Florida, as his “legal residence.”
By Adam K. Raymond
Thanks to Trump, Republicans May Skip Voting by Mail Some Trump supporters in the swing state of Pennsylvania think voting by mail is bad — and they are handing Democrats an advantage.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Contest Any Election Loss By deeming voting-by-mail systems a way a majority of states use to rig elections, POTUS has laid a foundation to declare a close election fraudulent.
By Ed Kilgore
45 States Already Allow the Kind of Voting by Mail Trump Considers Fraudulent Trump is fighting a rearguard action against a common form of voting at the worst possible time.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Threatens to Cut Off Funds for States That Expand Voting by Mail There’s no legal theory supporting presidential intervention in state election decisions, so Trump may just be preparing to challenge adverse results.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
May 12, 2020
Heads We Win, Tails You Lose: For Trump, All Democratic Wins Are ‘Rigged’ In a bad omen for November, Trump is making contradictory claims of fraud in a special congressional election in California that his party may win.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 16, 2020
Fear of the Coronavirus Is Not Enough to Get a Texas Mail Ballot New Hampshire Republicans say a reasonable fear of death is a “disability” which justifies use of an absentee ballot. Texas scoffs at that.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
Apr. 10, 2020
In New Hampshire, COVID Ruled a ‘Disability’ Justifying Voting by Mail In a restrictive state when it comes to voting, Republicans will make a onetime exception for the pandemic.
By Ed Kilgore
Here Are the Red States That Limit Voting by Mail to Trump–Approved Groups It’s becoming the GOP party line that the procedure should be limited to seniors and military folk. Some places already follow that rule.
By Ed Kilgore
What Democrats Might Need to Sacrifice to Get Voting by Mail Although Republicans aren’t going to support sending a mail ballot to every voter, there could be some version of the practice the GOP accepts.
By Ed Kilgore
Get Ready for Guerrilla Warfare on Voting Rules The Trump campaign will fight state by state against reforms that allow voters frightened by the coronavirus to cast ballots in the November election.
By Ed Kilgore
Mike Pompeo Isn’t Riding to the Rescue in Kansas Trump’s other Kansas buddy, Kris Kobach, could well blow another statewide election for Republicans, one that could even lose them Senate control.
By Ed Kilgore
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