Showing posts with label illegal voters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illegal voters. Show all posts
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Why Ted Cruz’s ugly speech at the Republican convention matters
"Cruz claimed not only that Democrats were encouraging immigration to gain power, but that they were callously sacrificing children to do so. What can you say about that? You can say it's false. You can say it's toxic. You can say it's opportunistic or cynical or a degradation. But none of this really captures it. It doesn't capture Cruz, standing on a stage at the convention, speaking on a night in which his party was purportedly demonstrating its commitment to safety, accusing his political opponents of letting boys and girls be murdered so that they can get a few more votes in some House races..."
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Why the far right targeted ERIC, a tool to catch voter fraud : NPR
It was the first of many times to come in which Republican officials would turn their back on this tool they once praised, in an effort to score political points with their base.
This NPR investigation, which found video of the Houma event posted to Facebook, is the first to report that Ardoin announced his ERIC decision to conservative activists.
And a deeper look at the red-state exodus that followed — eight states and counting have now pulled out of ERIC — shows a policy blueprint for an election denial movement, spearheaded by a key Trump ally, eager to change virtually every aspect of how Americans vote.
Even if it means making voter fraud easier to get away with.
"It's this crazy zeal to get out of ERIC," said J. Christian Adams, a conservative elections attorney, "that is going to cause voter fraud to flourish."…
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
The Ballot Boogeymen (Reveal podcast)
Extreme new laws built on Trump’s Big Lie crack down on a phantom problem: widespread voter fraud.
- In August 2020, Guillermina Fuentes was trying to get out the vote in her small Arizona community. Outside a polling place, she handed a few absentee ballots to another volunteer to drop off. A conservative activist secretly filmed her and reported her to local authorities. In the eyes of the law, she’d just committed a felony.
- Dropping off someone else’s mail-in ballot, known as ballot collecting, became a crime in Arizona in 2016, and Fuentes would become the first person prosecuted for it. Reveal reporter Ese Olumhense travels to San Luis to report on Fuentes’ case and finds she has gone from being a well-known local politician in her community to the face of right-wing campaigns against voter fraud.
- Fuentes’ arrest and prosecution show the beginnings of an alarming trend shaping the future of how elections are surveilled and policed. Olumhense and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis built a database to track all election-crimes-related bills introduced in the country since the 2020 election. They found a national push to punish what is considered in many states to be typical voting practices. Fueled in part by politicians who falsely claim voter fraud stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump, bills are being introduced that create new election crime investigation agencies, establish criminal penalties for election offenses or empower law enforcement officials to investigate such crimes.
- While there was no proof of anything resembling widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, there is one way in which elections are shaped: gerrymandering. Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman delves into how Republicans redrew voting maps in Wisconsin, helping them cement control of the state Legislature. Republicans’ strong hold on power has allowed them to keep in place deeply unpopular laws like an abortion ban that dates back to 1849. But this isn’t about just state politics: It’s also about the next election for president in 2024.
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Here’s what happened when a Georgia lawmaker scrutinized the Trump campaign’s list of allegedly illegal votes - The Washington Post
...For days, Nguyen pored over public records, spoke with voters by phone and even knocked on doors in person to vet the Trump list. She found that it included dozens of voters who were eligible to vote in Georgia — along with their full names and home addresses...
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