All posts tagged "Voter Fraud"

A former GOP congressman is calling out a failed Trump administration investigation into voter fraud.

Adam Kinzinger described how Trump set out to prove "stolen elections," specifically by looking at voting machines. Ultimately, the investigation failed to dig up any instances of fraud, Kinzinger said.

He was referring to a probe that stemmed from a Trump executive order from last year, according to Reuters, which broke the exclusive. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence produced the report, but Reuters reported that it found no evidence that machines that will be used in the midterms caused votes to flip....

President Donald Trump argued Friday that he would push to change voter ID laws ahead of the midterm elections — regardless of congressional approval.

Trump has long threatened that elections should have stricter voter ID laws. He has said that such measures are necessary to prevent voter fraud and ensure election integrity, despite widespread evidence showing that voter fraud is extremely rare in U.S. elections.

His push for voter ID requirements and other voting restrictions has become a central issue in midterm campaigns, with Republicans generally supporting such measures while Democrats argue they disproportionately suppress voter turnout among minority communities and other key Democratic constituencies....

When President Donald Trump issued pardons to numerous Republican Party officials, lawyers and activists who tried to help him overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, he also may have inadvertently included one man who committed voter fraud on his behalf. Now, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board is questioning the implications of that defendant's accepting of the pardon.

On Tuesday, the paper said Trump's pardons suggest he has "thrown legal caution to the wind," and warned him that those winds "can blow in unexpected directions." The WSJ compared Trump to former President Joe Biden in labeling his his pardons as "capacious and unconditional."

The conservative editorial board noted that Trump had "no power" to dismiss most of those cases, which are being handled by various state officials, making the pardons "symbolic." And while the pardons were largely for members of his legal team like former New York City Mayor Rudi Giuliani and attorneys like John Eastman and Sidney Powell, one of the people who indirectly received a pardon in an ongoing federal case is Matthew Laiss....

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To understand the forces tearing apart California’s Shasta County, consider what has happened to Cathy Darling Allen.

In five consecutive elections, voters in the rural county have selected her as their chief election official. That means that since 2004, she’s been responsible for voter registration, the administration of elections, and a host of related tasks. She’s consistently been the only Democrat in countywide office in the conservative county, where Donald Trump won more than 60% of the vote in 2020. In 2022, her most recent appearance on the ballot, she took in nearly 70% of the vote. By those indicators, she seems pretty popular. ...

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. ...

Donald Trump's bid to find voter fraud in order to cling to power in 2020 was not an organized one, according to a man who was hired to find examples of fraud but failed to do so.

Ken Block, whose company Simpatico Software Systems was contracted by Trump in November 2020 to investigate assorted voter fraud claims, has a new book in which he recounts his story, according to The Washington Post.

"The December 2020 claim of voter fraud was explosive, if true: More than 700,000 people had voted twice in Wisconsin, the tip alleged," the Post writes. "But when a highly paid expert for Donald Trump’s campaign began to study the claim at the behest of a Trump lawyer, he quickly realized that not only was it false, it had also traveled a surprisingly twisted path before landing in his inbox."...