Trump and MAGA use FBI’s voting probes in push for SAVE America Act
In an interview, Kari Lake said that what’s uncovered in the Maricopa County probe “will make passing the SAVE America Act even more urgent.”
Matt Cohen
Matt is a senior reporter covering elections, voting rights and threats to democracy. He’s covered far-right extremism, dark money and state and local elections as an investigative reporter at The American Independent and Mother Jones. Prior to reporting on politics, Matt cut his teeth as a local reporter in D.C. at the Washington City Paper and DCist.
Trump DOJ’s voter rolls grab has unearthed a tiny number of illegitimate votes
Dozens of illegitimate votes may seem significant. But 50 illegitimate votes would amount to just 0.000007 percent of the roughly 680 million votes cast in the last five national elections.
Behind the FBI’s Maricopa County probe: A debunked ‘audit’ funded by election deniers
The FBI’s probe into Arizona’s Maricopa County 2020 election opened a new avenue for Trump to attack free and fair elections. But the far-right claims of voter fraud in Arizona motivating the FBI probe are based on old, debunked allegations that never stood up to scrutiny, despite repeated investigations and reviews.
Even red states are defiantly rejecting DOJ’s demands for private voter data
At least eight states led by GOP election chiefs have so far refused the DOJ’s demands to hand over its unredacted voter rolls.
Key Trump ally behind emergency elections order reveals loony conspiracy theory motivating his effort
“My time is short here, so I can’t get into the details, but let me tell you that these machines are capable of changing the vote,” election denier Peter Ticktin said.
Colorado governor signals he may free election denier Tina Peters
“Justice in Colorado and America needs to be applied evenly, you never know when you might need to depend on the rule of law,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said.
Federal election panel lawyer said to brief Cleta Mitchell’s group as it pushed proof of citizenship
It’s not the first time a member of the EAC has courted controversy for partisan activities.
Right-wing bid to turn NVRA into a tool for voter purges dealt major setback by SCOTUS
The Public Interest Legal Foundation has a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges.
Dems demand records from anti-voting groups on DOGE ‘voter data agreement’
Democratic lawmakers sent letters to 15 anti-voting groups, demanding any records that could determine which one signed a ‘voter data agreement’ with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to share private voter data.
Read a draft of the emergency executive order for Trump to take control of elections
Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.
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