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.
“I think Plan A has always been an executive order from President Trump based on the fact that the Chinese penetrated and influenced the 2020 election,” conspiracist Jerome Corsi said.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, two dozen House Republicans said that they would not vote for any Senate bills that come to the House floor unless the Senate passes the anti-voting bill.
Possible funding cuts to Colorado’s SNAP program came shortly after Trump issued a legally meaningless “pardon” to Peters, and amid a “barrage of threats and actions designed, by all appearances, to punish Colorado.”
After the original plans for the vote emerged, MAGA melted down, with Mitchell, President Donald Trump, and scores of anti-voting activists unleashing increasingly unhinged posts on social media accusing Senate Majority Leader John Thune of sabotaging the bill.
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.”
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.
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.
At least eight states led by GOP election chiefs have so far refused the DOJ’s demands to hand over its unredacted voter rolls.
“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.
“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.
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