All posts tagged "Election Deniers"

News that Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) fired legal experts who opposed his freeing of an election denier has attracted online ire.

Polis' decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk jailed for tampering with voting machines, led to backlash last month, but a New York Times article on Wednesday revealed he also fired two members of Colorado's clemency board who publicly spoke out against the move.

Military veteran and political commentator John Jackson wrote to the governor on X, posting, "Hey @GovofCO a real garbage move on your part, punishing the clemency board and freeing the unrepentant criminal Trump is using to try and steal the midterm elections."...

A Republican election expert slammed one of the top MAGA demands as impossible and "asinine in the extreme."

In a recent interview, Stephen Richer, the former Maricopa County recorder and a fellow at the Cato Institute, tore apart the idea of hand counting ballots.

Legal reporter Adam Klasfeld asked Richer if the "loudly demanded" idea from election denialists would "do anything to make elections operate faster or more accurately?"...

A frightening analysis revealed how "MAGA has already won its war" as the Trump administration hires hardcore election deniers to key roles.

"They need to sow doubt; they need to undermine public trust," Joanna Lydgate, who heads the nonpartisan States United Democracy Center, told The Atlantic for a recent report. "Whether it's an executive order or death by 5,000 cuts, it's chipping away at our election system."

The Trump administration is embedded with election deniers like Clay Parikh, The Atlantic reported. Parikh "gained a following by circulating conspiracy theories about President Trump's 2020 defeat, including that poll workers gave Trump supporters — but not other voters — felt-tip markers to fill out their ballots, rendering them invalid." ...

Three years ago, Jonathan Cagle was a MAGA loyalist, part of a messaging machine that sowed doubts about the outcome of elections and helped build an air of inevitability around Donald Trump’s return to power.

Last week in Alabama, a federal magistrate judge ordered Cagle held without bond, for allegedly cyberstalking U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the top civil rights official in Trump’s Department of Justice.

As Trump enters the second year of his tempestuous second term, Cagle’s story offers a signpost to growing disillusionment and division on the U.S. far right. ...

As President Donald Trump exerts pressure to release into federal custody a disgraced Colorado elections official convicted of felonies for a data breach scheme related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election, county clerks in the western state are imploring their governor to keep the convicted felon imprisoned.

Seven Colorado elections officials held a press conference Tuesday to ask Jared Polis, the Democratic governor, to keep former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters in state custody for the duration of her nine-year sentence, for charges related to a data breach that allowed Trump ally Mike Lindell to access voter information in an attempt to prove false claims of election fraud.

Polis has not yet commented on calls for Peters to be released, from rightwing figures including Trump....

The mayor of Glendale complained that two of Wisconsin’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists were disruptive while observing voting in the Milwaukee suburb of Glendale during Tuesday’s primary in the special election for the 4th Senate District.

First reported by Fox 6, Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy said he thought the actions of the two election deniers, Peter Bernegger and Harry Wait, were “despicable.”

“You have every right to observe the process, but our poll workers are incredibly well trained,” Kennedy told the TV station. ...