All posts tagged "Voting Machines"

The Trump administration plotted ways to bypass an election agency before firing its leaders, according to reporting by Reuters.

According to four anonymous sources who spoke to Reuters, the White House "spent months" mulling ways around Election Assistance Commission guidelines for state voting machines. Earlier this week, Trump fired two Democratic members of the commission and allowed its lone Republican commissioner to resign just months before the midterms.

Some Trump White House officials wanted the EAC to add a proof-of-citizenship requirement for the national mail voter registration form. Others, as far back as last fall, considered whether to declare a national emergency, according to Reuters....

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....

The Department of Justice under Attorney General Pam Bondi is looking into potentially filing criminal charges against election officials pegged by the Trump administration for allegedly failing to keep a close eye on their electronic voting systems, according to The New York Times.

The report comes as Donald Trump continues to claim the 2020 presidential election was "a total fraud" that was rigged against him. The president wrote on social media last month, "The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin!"

However, the Times reported that far from "overwhelming," the evidence of alleged electronic voter fraud being considered by the DOJ isn't new or groundbreaking....

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Fresh off being ordered to pony up $5 million over peddling election conspiracies, pillow maker Mike Lindell is pushing election conspiracies at this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Lindell — contrary to all evidence — continues pushing election conspiracies, even as many Republicans gathered at this convention center just outside of the nation’s capital have rejected former President Donald Trump’s losing 2020 strategy and are now encouraging early voting, including by mail.

The MyPillow guy dismisses members of his party — from local officials to those at the Republican National Committee (RNC) — encouraging vote-by-mail in 2024....

Prosecutors in Michigan have obtained evidence from a "secret" source about a plot by Donald Trump supporters to seize voting machines in the state, reported MLive on Thursday.

According to Jordyn Hermani, new circuit court filings in Oakland County — a populous area that includes the northern suburbs of Detroit — reveal that the unidentified source gave prosecutors information on how a set of five tabulators were acquired “for the purposes of plea discussions, consideration of immunity, and in offer of compromise.”

This comes after a number of other criminal cases surrounding the breaching of election equipment by Trump supporters were brought....