All posts tagged "Election Denier"

A federal election official entertained a pitch from a group tied to President Donald Trump to discredit public comments on making voters prove citizenship.

According to a Wednesday article by Democracy Docket, emails showed that Christy McCormick, a former Republican vice chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, kept in regular contact with leaders of the Election Integrity Network during the agency's public comment period on the proof-of-citizenship proposal.

The Election Integrity Network is a conservative group founded by Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer and longtime Trump ally. The legal group Democracy Forward obtained the emails between McCormick and leaders of Mitchell's group....

A California county's move to hire a convicted election felon and MAGA ally as an elections consultant has stunned two prominent attorneys.

Shasta County registrar Clint Curtis announced this month that he intends to bring on Tina Peters, the former Colorado election official convicted in 2024 of breaching voting equipment, according to attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian. The two lawyers marveled at the arrangement during a Wednesday episode of Legal AF's Civil Action podcast.

"Convicted felons don't usually get rehired to work near the scene of the crime unless, I guess, the crime scene is an election office and the crime was election integrity," Karnikian said....

A prominent MAGA lawyer bankrolled an election denier now working inside the Trump administration, according to tax filings.

According to reporting by Democracy Docket, a dark money fund run by election denier and anti-voting attorney Cleta Mitchell granted just over $72,000 in the last fiscal year to Heather Honey. Democracy Docket described Honey as an "election conspiracy theorist" hired by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to oversee election integrity.

Mitchell granted the money through her Foundation for Accountability, Integrity and Research in Elections Fund. Honey accepted the money through her company, Verity Vote, for consulting and research services, according to tax filings reviewed by Democracy Docket....