How Donald Trump got involved as key swing state counties certified the 2020 US presidential election results, and what it means for next week's 2024 vote
4 months, 3 weeks ago

How Donald Trump got involved as key swing state counties certified the 2020 US presidential election results, and what it means for next week's 2024 vote

ABC  

It's two weeks after the 2020 US presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and the Wayne County Board of Canvassers is meeting to certify their county's result. The meeting of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers to certify the 2020 presidential election results was held on Zoom. Dan Schultz had been talking about his "precinct committee strategy" for years, but the 2020 election led to its amplification on Steve Bannon's podcast War Room. Schultz's "Precinct Committee Strategy" was pushed by Bannon and others in the Trump-adjacent media as a way to stop an election from being stolen in the future.

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Michigan elections board smoothly certifies results of 2024 election
4 months ago

Michigan elections board smoothly certifies results of 2024 election

Associated Press  

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s elections board voted unanimously Friday to certify the results of the 2024 election, a stark difference from 2020 when Republican allies of Donald Trump sought to delay certification in an effort to cast doubt on the election. The panel consisting of two Democratic and two Republican members also voted to thank and commend the state Bureau …

Georgia appeals court cancels hearing on Trump case — with no public explanation
4 months ago

Georgia appeals court cancels hearing on Trump case — with no public explanation

Raw Story  

A Georgia appeals court has canceled a hearing scheduled for Dec. 5 on the state's election subversion case involving Donald Trump and several of his allies. The future of the case is cloudy, with Trump set to resume the office of the presidency; state prosecutors are not bound by the Justice Department's policy that precludes federal charges against a sitting …

Controversial Trump-backed Georgia election board considers re-launching mass voter purge
4 months ago

Controversial Trump-backed Georgia election board considers re-launching mass voter purge

Raw Story  

The Georgia State Election Board will hold its first post-election meeting on Monday, where it is set to consider resuming its recent push to change Georgia’s election rules and stir the debate anew about counties review controversial mass voter challenges. The State Election Board meeting is scheduled to begin Monday morning with a public comment period where people can discuss …

Certifying this year’s presidential results begins quietly, in contrast to the 2020 election
4 months, 1 week ago

Certifying this year’s presidential results begins quietly, in contrast to the 2020 election

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year’s presidential election in a process that, so far, has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trump’s loss. As counties certified their results without controversy, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger hailed Georgia’s election as …

New GA rules still in play with Harris-Trump election showdown now fast and furious
5 months ago

New GA rules still in play with Harris-Trump election showdown now fast and furious

Raw Story  

The ongoing fight over the recent attempted makeover of how counties run elections by the Georgia State Election Board could be left up to the state’s highest court to decide whether the panel overstepped its authority. The GOP’s lawyers aim to overturn a Fulton County judge’s ruling Wednesday that blocks the State Election Board from enacting several new rules for …

Judge Rules Georgia Voters Can’t Be Silenced By Pro-Trump Election Officials
5 months, 1 week ago

Judge Rules Georgia Voters Can’t Be Silenced By Pro-Trump Election Officials

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A judge in Georgia’s Fulton County ruled Monday that election board officials cannot “play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge” by refusing to certify election results based on their unilateral suspicions of fraud and more. She was the sole member of the board to refuse; afterward, she sued, arguing that county election officials wouldn’t allow her to do …

'Huge defeat for Trump': Georgia judge's ruling spurs cheers and relief
5 months, 1 week ago

'Huge defeat for Trump': Georgia judge's ruling spurs cheers and relief

Raw Story  

A Georgia judge's ruling Tuesday that state boards must certify results, regardless of any election fraud suspicions, spurred sighs of relief from those who feared former President Donald Trump could unjustly claim the state on Nov. 5. Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney was championed Tuesday after he nixed a new rule from pro-Trump election board members that he argued would …

'Big defeat for election deniers': Judge shoots down challenge to Georgia election rules
5 months, 1 week ago

'Big defeat for election deniers': Judge shoots down challenge to Georgia election rules

Raw Story  

A Georgia court struck down a challenge to Georgia election law that critics warned could cause chaos. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that certification of election results is mandatory under Georgia law, finding that no election board “may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstances," reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “If election superintendents …

Georgia judge says county election officials cannot delay or decline certification of election results
5 months, 1 week ago

Georgia judge says county election officials cannot delay or decline certification of election results

CNN  

CNN — County election officials in Georgia cannot delay or decline to certify election results, a state judge ruled Monday, dealing a blow to an effort by conservatives in the critical battleground state to gain the legal right to reject results based on a suspicion of fraud or abuse. “Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify …

Georgia judge rules county election officials must certify vote results
5 months, 1 week ago

Georgia judge rules county election officials must certify vote results

LA Times  

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that “no election superintendent may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.” A Georgia judge has ruled county election officials must certify election results by the deadline set in law and cannot exclude any group of votes from certification even if they suspect error or fraud. Fulton …

Georgia judges rebuke GOP-led state election board on certification and hand counts
5 months, 1 week ago

Georgia judges rebuke GOP-led state election board on certification and hand counts

NPR  

Georgia judges rebuke GOP-led state election board on certification and hand counts toggle caption Mike Stewart/AP ATLANTA — Local election board members in Georgia can't refuse to certify results, and a controversial new rule on the hand-counting of Election Day ballots is barred, according to a series of decisions from two state judges. In the first ruling, on Tuesday, Fulton …

Election 'gadfly' is singlehandedly injecting chaos into Georgia vote: experts
5 months, 1 week ago

Election 'gadfly' is singlehandedly injecting chaos into Georgia vote: experts

Raw Story  

A longtime conspiracy theorist who filed unsuccessful legal challenges to Donald Trump's election loss has grabbed the ear of Georgia officials who will oversee this November's vote, according to a report. Garland Favorito, who published a book in the early 2000s filled with debunked theories on the Sept. 11 attacks and John F. Kennedy's assassination, pushed for new rules later …

After months of rewriting rules, Georgia election board meets once more before November
5 months, 2 weeks ago

After months of rewriting rules, Georgia election board meets once more before November

Raw Story  

An investigation into allegations that several county election boards are failing to properly investigate challenges disputing voter eligibility is on the agenda of the controversial Georgia State Election Board on Tuesday. The State Election Board will hold its final scheduled meeting Tuesday ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, where rules adopted by three members loyal to former President Donald …

A handful of rural Georgia counties could exclude enough votes to affect the 2024 race
5 months, 2 weeks ago

A handful of rural Georgia counties could exclude enough votes to affect the 2024 race

Raw Story  

An examination of a new election rule in Georgia passed by the state’s Republican-controlled election board suggests that local officials in just a handful of rural counties could exclude enough votes to affect the outcome of the presidential race. A lawyer for the Democratic National Committee, Daniel Volchok, warned that board members making “individual determinations about if a ballot is …

Many of the tactics Jack Smith accused Trump of using to overturn the 2020 election are still in play for 2024
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Many of the tactics Jack Smith accused Trump of using to overturn the 2020 election are still in play for 2024

CNN  

CNN — The roadmap laid out by the Justice Department in court this week for how former President Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election feels eerily familiar to many election officials and voting rights advocates who are gearing up for November. “These are about laying groundwork for challenging results.” A Trump campaign spokesperson pointed to the campaign’s released …

How Trump Is Already Setting The Groundwork To Challenge The 2024 Election Results If He Loses
5 months, 3 weeks ago

How Trump Is Already Setting The Groundwork To Challenge The 2024 Election Results If He Loses

Huff Post  

With a month and change to go before the election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his allies are already laying the groundwork to contest the results of the 2024 election if he loses by engaging in a false campaign around the threat of noncitizen voting. Melissa Sue Gerrits via Getty Images In the absence of any actual evidence of …

A ‘Recipe for Chaos’ in Georgia: Judge Weighs DNC's Push To Stop New Election Rules
5 months, 3 weeks ago

A ‘Recipe for Chaos’ in Georgia: Judge Weighs DNC's Push To Stop New Election Rules

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A Georgia judge overseeing Democrats’ challenges to new election rules created by the state’s Republican-majority election board seemed less than enthused about the idea of tossing out those rules on Tuesday, even as Democratic lawyers argue they could cause chaos in November. The rules, implemented in August, gave county election officials in Georgia permission to launch vaguely-defined …

Democrats aim to show a judge how pro-Trump Georgia election board could spark certification ‘chaos’
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Democrats aim to show a judge how pro-Trump Georgia election board could spark certification ‘chaos’

CNN  

CNN — Four years after certification of the presidential election led to rioting at the US Capitol, fights over the once pro forma process are becoming more frequent and widespread as Republicans in battleground states that could be decided by only thousands of votes try to challenge the process. In Georgia, for instance, Trump-backed members of the state election board …

What will happen if America’s election result is contested?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

What will happen if America’s election result is contested?

Hindustan Times  

GABRIEL STERLING is preparing for trouble: “Do we have concerns? At a rally in Las Vegas in June he insisted, “The only way they can beat us is to cheat.” At the Republican convention in July Chris LaCivita, an adviser to Mr Trump’s campaign, declared, “It’s not over on Election Day, it’s over on Inauguration Day.” Republican officials have helped …

Georgia’s Election Is Headed for Potential Disaster. Thank the Supreme Court.
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia’s Election Is Headed for Potential Disaster. Thank the Supreme Court.

Slate  

Since late July, a partisan majority on the Georgia State Board of Elections has enacted a series of last-minute changes to the state’s election procedures, including changes that could threaten the ability of people of color in Georgia to vote and have their votes counted equally. While we expect the courts to block the Georgia board’s most egregious attacks on …

A Last-Minute Effort to Mess With the 2024 Vote Is Underway. It’s Scarier Than Expected.
55 years, 2 months ago

A Last-Minute Effort to Mess With the 2024 Vote Is Underway. It’s Scarier Than Expected.

Slate  

With early voting already underway, one might think that the rules of the game for November’s election are set, and that it will all just come down to turnout, as the cliché goes. There, the state election board, which is dominated by Trumpian election-deniers, has enacted a series of last-minute rule changes that could muck up the timing of ballot …

'Off the deep end': MAGA-controlled election board ruling stuns lawmakers and experts
6 months ago

'Off the deep end': MAGA-controlled election board ruling stuns lawmakers and experts

Raw Story  

A MAGA-controlled board's new mandate that Georgia ballots be hand-counted stunned journalists, lawmakers, legal experts and Americans who fear "chaos" and a "legal coup" just 46 days before the presidential election. While MSNBC host Chris Hayes condemned the decision as "crazy on the merits" and "transparently an attempt at sabotage," Former Fox News producer and conservative influencer Kyle Becker called …

Pro-Trump Georgia Election Board Makes Last-Minute Change
6 months ago

Pro-Trump Georgia Election Board Makes Last-Minute Change

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A 3-2 Republican majority on Georgia’s State Election Board voted Friday to require local election offices to hand count the state’s millions of ballots, inviting chaos as experts warned the task would prove impossible in the state’s largest counties, which lean Democratic. The rule passed Friday in Georgia states that “the process must be completed within the …

Republicans are using ruse of "election integrity" to pull off another round of Big Lie chicanery
6 months ago

Republicans are using ruse of "election integrity" to pull off another round of Big Lie chicanery

Salon  

All of the American media was atwitter on Thursday afternoon from rumors that CNN was going to release a bombshell report about North Carolina Lt. Gov. And while this possible help for Trump landed in the Trump campaign's lap at the last moment, in other states they are working overtime to subvert the vote and contest the election results if …

Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows fails in bid to get election interference case moved
6 months ago

Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows fails in bid to get election interference case moved

The Independent  

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US judge dismisses three counts in Trump election case in Georgia
6 months, 1 week ago

US judge dismisses three counts in Trump election case in Georgia

Firstpost  

Two of the three charges thrown out by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee involved Trump, and he now faces a total of eight felony counts in Georgia A Georgia judge on Thursday dismissed three of the counts in the indictment accusing former US president Donald Trump and co-defendants of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election …

Local Republican official in Michigan promises to certify election results after being sued
6 months, 1 week ago

Local Republican official in Michigan promises to certify election results after being sued

Associated Press  

LANSING, Mich. — A local Republican election official in Michigan has promised to certify the results of the November presidential election after being sued for stating that he wouldn’t sign off on the results if he disagreed with how the election was run. The lawsuit, filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, came after a Detroit …

New rules from GOP-majority election board could cause disarray in battleground Georgia
6 months, 2 weeks ago

New rules from GOP-majority election board could cause disarray in battleground Georgia

CNN  

Atlanta CNN — The once-wonky Georgia State Election Board has burst into the limelight this year as a new Republican majority – made up of a retired obstetrician, a former state senator who put out feelers for a Trump administration job and a right-wing media personality – push ahead with new rules that could create chaos in November. But she …

Georgia Election Official Who Defied Donald Trump Echoes His Voter Fraud Fearmongering
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Georgia Election Official Who Defied Donald Trump Echoes His Voter Fraud Fearmongering

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the Republican election official who defied Donald Trump in 2021 echoed Trump’s fearmongering about noncitizen voting. “I believe that no matter where you’re elected – for president, school board, county commissioner – that we should require only Americans vote in our elections,” Raffensperger said Wednesday at the National Press Club. Raffensperger’s D.C. press …

How Georgia’s pro-Trump election board could help him steal an election
6 months, 2 weeks ago

How Georgia’s pro-Trump election board could help him steal an election

The Independent  

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'Five-alarm fire for democracy': New GA rules could block election results in key states
6 months, 3 weeks ago

'Five-alarm fire for democracy': New GA rules could block election results in key states

Raw Story  

New voting rules in key battleground states could impact the 2024 election results. “It appears that Georgia Republicans are laying the groundwork not to certify the presidential election if Kamala Harris wins,” explains Ari Berman, who is the voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones magazine. The new rules, passed by the Georgia State Election Board, allow election officials to conduct …

Democrats sue to block Georgia rules that they warn will block finalization of election results
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Democrats sue to block Georgia rules that they warn will block finalization of election results

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The state and national Democratic parties sued Monday to block two recent rules adopted by Georgia’s State Election Board that could be used by county officials who want to refuse to certify an election, potentially causing delays in finalizing the state’s results. Pro-Trump Republicans argue the rules just reinforce a county election board’s existing duty to thoroughly examine …

GA board's pro-Trump wing gives local officials the power to delay election certification
7 months ago

GA board's pro-Trump wing gives local officials the power to delay election certification

Raw Story  

The Georgia State Election Board Monday finalized a rule Monday that gives local officials more power to dispute certifying election results by adopting a new ballot counting policy that critics contend could disrupt the presidential election in November. Critics claim that Republican state election board members are making it easier to contest Georgia’s election results if Trump once again fails …

A Crucial Swing State Just Made It Easier To Question Election Results
7 months ago

A Crucial Swing State Just Made It Easier To Question Election Results

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING As Election Day rapidly approaches, the Republican-controlled election board of Georgia, a crucial swing state, just increased the chances of a disputed outcome. Dexter Wimbish, a Democrat and member of the Spalding County election board, told HuffPost he believed Republicans would use the new rules to raise questions about the effectiveness and security of election machines “in …

Georgia election board approves new rules that critics fear could allow certification delays
7 months ago

Georgia election board approves new rules that critics fear could allow certification delays

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board voted Monday to approve a new rule that supporters say is necessary to ensure that votes are properly counted but that critics argue could be used to cause chaos as election officials are trying to finalize election results. But Democrats and some election integrity organizations fear Trump-aligned county election board members could use …

High-ranked swing state Republican delivers 'blow' to Trump-blessed election board: Report
7 months ago

High-ranked swing state Republican delivers 'blow' to Trump-blessed election board: Report

Raw Story  

A high-ranking Georgia Republican delivered a blow to the Trump-backed state election board in his state, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein reported Monday. Attorney General Chris Carr told Georgia election board officials in a new ruling that he will not be reopening an investigation into the recount of Fulton County ballots in 2020, Bluestein reported. "The State Election Board is …

Revealed: Election deniers secretly pushed rule to delay certification
7 months ago

Revealed: Election deniers secretly pushed rule to delay certification

Raw Story  

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. The State Election Board’s Monday meeting comes on the heels of a vote less than two weeks before that empowered county election board members to conduct “reasonable inquiry” into allegations of voting irregularities. “The whole rule is to safeguard everybody’s vote,” she said, and to make sure that “nobody’s vote gets watered down …

'Grave concerns': Georgia election officials accused of knowingly violating state law
7 months ago

'Grave concerns': Georgia election officials accused of knowingly violating state law

Raw Story  

A former chair of the Fulton County elections board filed an ethics complaint against three far-right members of the Georgia State Election Board over a series of rule changes that would allow MAGA county officials to block certification of results at their discretion, according to Anna Bower of Lawfare. "Since the appointment of Member King in May, these three members …

Trump's quietly installed Georgia election 'pit bulls' for 2024 'Big Lie': report
7 months, 1 week ago

Trump's quietly installed Georgia election 'pit bulls' for 2024 'Big Lie': report

Raw Story  

Former President Donald Trump's allies have been quietly engineering a takeover of the Georgia State Elections Board, staffing them with MAGA extremists whom Trump affectionately refers to as "pit bulls fighting for victory" to enshrine the "Big Lie" that the election was stolen into the law for 2024, reported Rolling Stone. The second change was "to reopen a case in …

Georgia election board’s right-wing faction revisits Fulton’s 2020 presidential election
7 months, 1 week ago

Georgia election board’s right-wing faction revisits Fulton’s 2020 presidential election

Raw Story  

A trio of conservative members of the Georgia State Election Board agreed Wednesday to further investigate Fulton County’s 2020 presidential election law violations despite warnings from fellow board members that their decision was illegal. In a 3-2 vote Wednesday, right-wing GOP Georgia election board members Rick Jeffares, Janice Johnston and Janelle King voted to report findings from the Fulton investigation …

GA board’s right-wing faction demands further investigation of Fulton’s 2020 election
7 months, 2 weeks ago

GA board’s right-wing faction demands further investigation of Fulton’s 2020 election

Raw Story  

A trio of conservative members of the Georgia State Election Board agreed Wednesday to further investigate Fulton County’s 2020 presidential election law violations despite warnings from fellow board members that their decision was illegal. In a 3-2 vote Wednesday, right-wing GOP Georgia election board members Rick Jeffares, Janice Johnston and Janelle King voted to report findings from the Fulton investigation …

A new rule in Georgia could allow local election boards to refuse to certify results
7 months, 2 weeks ago

A new rule in Georgia could allow local election boards to refuse to certify results

NPR  

A new rule in Georgia could allow local election boards to refuse to certify results toggle caption Matthew Pearson/WABE ATLANTA — A new rule in Georgia could allow some local election boards to refuse to certify results, raising concerns ahead of November's election in the crucial swing state. "If I'm going to ask a county election worker to sign their …

Georgia officials push through right-wing Republican election rules
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Georgia officials push through right-wing Republican election rules

Raw Story  

The Georgia State Election Board pushed through proposed right-wing Republican election rules Tuesday that have sparked fierce debates over giving county officials greater authority to refuse to certify voter tallies. That included the significant rule adopted Tuesday that allows local election boards members to exercise their discretion of “reasonable inquiry” to review documents and other election-related information prior to voting …

Georgia election board says counties can do more to investigate election results
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Georgia election board says counties can do more to investigate election results

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia’s State Election Board voted Tuesday to require county election officials to make a “reasonable inquiry” before certifying election results to the state, signaling that fights about approving election results could intensify this November in the South’s premier battleground state. “Why one would not want to assume there is some oversight?” asked State Election Board member Janice Johnston, …

"They're laying the foundation to do it again": Maddow details GOP plan to undermine 2024 election
7 months, 2 weeks ago

"They're laying the foundation to do it again": Maddow details GOP plan to undermine 2024 election

Salon  

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sat down with Democratic lawyer Marc Elias on Monday to discuss Donald Trump's past efforts at election subversion and how his supporters are preparing to again undermine the vote in November. "Republicans pioneered this in Michigan in 2020," Maddow said, speaking about Trump's pressuring of GOP officials to not sign a certification of the 2020 presidential election. …

Trump again tears into Georgia’s Republican governor as he campaigns in the state
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump again tears into Georgia’s Republican governor as he campaigns in the state

LA Times  

Former President Trump railed against Georgia Gov. Former President Trump picked a new fight with Georgia’s Republican governor as he campaigned in the key swing state, where he’s looking to avenge his 2020 loss — a defeat he continues to blame on GOP officials based on his false claims of election fraud. “And there are signs Donald Trump is feeling …

Georgia election board rolls back some actions after a lawsuit claimed its meeting was illegal
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia election board rolls back some actions after a lawsuit claimed its meeting was illegal

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board, which has become embroiled in conflict over how the state administers elections, voted Tuesday to redo some of its actions amid a lawsuit accusing it of meeting illegally. The board voted 5-0 on Tuesday to debate again on Aug. 6 a pair of proposed rules sought by Republicans that three members advanced on …

Investigation finds dozens of election deniers now hold positions overseeing 2024 vote
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Investigation finds dozens of election deniers now hold positions overseeing 2024 vote

Raw Story  

Dozens of election conspiracists are serving in positions around the country that could help determine the outcome of this year's presidential election, according to a new report. Rolling Stone and American Doom identified at least 70 individuals working as county election officials in swings states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania who questioned the validity of Donald …

Trump-friendly panel shapes Georgia’s election rules at long, often chaotic meetings
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump-friendly panel shapes Georgia’s election rules at long, often chaotic meetings

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board, which once toiled in relative obscurity, now hosts raucous meetings where public comment spans several hours and attendees regularly heckle its members. Months after Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended the 2020 election results, lawmakers from his own party removed him as chair of the State Election Board in a move …

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