Lawsuit Against Fox Is Shaping Up to Be a Major First Amendment Case

August 13, 2022 2020 election, mike lindell, sidney powell

Archived 4 years ago from The New York Times
Lawsuit Against Fox Is Shaping Up to Be a Major First Amendment Case

In the weeks after President Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, the Fox Business host Lou Dobbs claimed to have “tremendous evidence” that voter fraud was to blame. That evidence never emerged but a new culprit in a supposed scheme to rig the election did: Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of …

Wisconsin probe into 2020 election fraud in limbo after Robin Vos fires lead investigator

Elections

August 13, 2022 2020 election

Archived 4 years ago from Axios
Wisconsin probe into 2020 election fraud in limbo after Robin Vos fires lead investigator

Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos fired Wisconsin’s lead 2020 election investigator on Friday, potentially ending the investigation, the Associated Press reports. Why it matters: Vos’ decision comes days after former President Trump — who pressured Vos to overturn Wisconsin’s 2020 election …

Conspiracies complicate voting machine debate in Louisiana

Elections

August 13, 2022 2020 election, mike lindell

Archived 4 years ago from Associated Press
Conspiracies complicate voting machine debate in Louisiana

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute. They are badly outdated — deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck — and do not produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate. What to do about them …

Wisconsin GOP fires election investigator who pushed false fraud claims

Elections

August 12, 2022 2020 election, mike lindell

Archived 4 years ago from The Washington Post
Wisconsin GOP fires election investigator who pushed false fraud claims

Placeholder while article actions load MADISON, Wis. — The Republican-led review of Wisconsin’s 2020 election abruptly ended Friday when the GOP Assembly speaker who launched the inquiry last summer fired the former state Supreme Court justice he had hired to lead it. The firing came a week after …

Social media video doesn’t show evidence of voter fraud in Washington state

Elections

August 10, 2022 2020 election, big tech

Archived 4 years ago from PolitiFact
Social media video doesn’t show evidence of voter fraud in Washington state

PolitiFact | Social media video doesn’t show evidence of voter fraud in Washington state Video shows Clark County poll worker acting illegally by asking people to place their ballots into a bag outside of a drop box. Social media video doesn’t show evidence of voter fraud in Washington state If …

Hunting for Voter Fraud, Conspiracy Theorists Organize ‘Stakeouts’

Elections

August 10, 2022 2020 election

Archived 4 years ago from The New York Times
Hunting for Voter Fraud, Conspiracy Theorists Organize ‘Stakeouts’

One night last month, on the recommendation of a man known online as Captain K, a small group gathered in an Arizona parking lot and waited in folding chairs, hoping to catch the people they believed were trying to destroy American democracy by submitting fake early voting ballots. Captain K — …

Simmering threat of violence comes to fore with search of Trump property

Conspiracy

August 9, 2022 2020 election, marjorie taylor greene, trump

Archived 4 years ago from The Washington Post
Simmering threat of violence comes to fore with search of Trump property

Listen 8 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article For months, right-wing agitators with millions of followers have peddled the idea that a moment was coming soon when violence would become necessary — a patriotic duty — to save the republic. With the FBI search Monday of Donald Trump’s …

Michigan AG accuses rival of voting machine ‘conspiracy,’ seeks outside prosecutor

Elections

August 8, 2022 2020 election

Archived 4 years ago from ABC News
Michigan AG accuses rival of voting machine ‘conspiracy,’ seeks outside prosecutor

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is seeking an outside prosecutor to consider charges against a group of prominent individuals for having allegedly engaged in a “conspiracy” to unlawfully gain access to voting machines used in the 2020 presidential election. Among the accused is Nessel’s …

Election deniers bring Trump’s fraud claims to secretary of state races

Elections

August 8, 2022 2020 election, china, trump

Archived 4 years ago from Spectrum News NY1
Election deniers bring Trump’s fraud claims to secretary of state races

The 2022 midterm election season is in full swing, and many high-profile races will be on the ballot in November. One statewide office is getting new attention because of former President Donald Trump’s continued – and unfounded – claims that the 2020 election was stolen: secretary of state. What …

Alex Jones’s Text Messages Turned Over to House Jan. 6 Committee

Conspiracy

August 8, 2022 2020 election, alex jones, ukraine

Archived 4 years ago from The New York Times
Alex Jones’s Text Messages Turned Over to House Jan. 6 Committee

WASHINGTON — A lawyer for plaintiffs who are suing the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday turned over more than two years’ worth of text messages from Mr. Jones’s phone to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including messages that show Mr. Jones was in touch …

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