By Ivan Pentchoukov Republican electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico cast alternative slates of votes for President Donald Trump on Dec. 14, as the certified Democrat electors in the same states cast votes for former Vice President Joe Biden. While there’s precedent for dueling sets of electors casting votes in a presidential […]
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How an International Election Observer Sees the US 2020 Election
By Bart Marcois Commentary My first experience as an international election observer was in Yemen, in the fall of 1992. I was the American Embassy liaison with the professional election observer community. To the shock of the international community, and to my personal surprise, those elections were mostly free and fair, which was how we certified them. Not […]
Crucial Logs Missing From Michigan County Dominion Voting Machines: Forensics Report
By Ivan Pentchoukov A court-sanctioned forensic audit of voting systems in Michigan’s Antrim County determined that crucial security and ballot-adjudication logs were missing from machines by Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the epicenter of the dispute over whether voter fraud occurred during the 2020 general election. The findings are part of a preliminary forensic report (pdf) […]
Trump Approves Filing Retooled Texas-Style Election Challenges: Giuliani
By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump’s legal team is planning on filing retooled lawsuits, his lawyer said Saturday. “We move immediately, seamlessly, to plan B, which is to bring lawsuits now in each one of the states. We had them ready. They’re just a version of the one that was brought in the Supreme Court. […]
YouTube Blocks Trump Campaign’s 2 New Election Fraud Ads
By Tom Ozimek YouTube has removed two new ads from the Trump campaign, which allege widespread corruption in the 2020 election and call on voters to contact state legislators “to demand a free and fair election.” In a Dec. 11 press release, the Trump campaign announced that it had released two new ads, which besides being posted […]
6 States Ask Supreme Court to Join Texas Election Lawsuit
By Ivan Pentchoukov The states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah on Dec. 10 asked the Supreme Court to let them intervene in an election lawsuit filed earlier in the week by the state of Texas. In a brief motion to intervene filed on Thursday, the six states outlined the reasons they […]
Case for President Trump Invoking Insurrection Act to Restore Election Integrity
By Stephen B. Meister Commentary During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the Tenth Congress enacted the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was then signed by Jefferson into law, to foil the plot of Revolutionary War hero Aaron Burr—following the destruction of his political career after he shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—to raise […]
Overwhelming Evidence of Outcome-Altering Voting Irregularities
By Patrick Basham Commentary Voter fraud has a long history in U.S. elections. Since the nation’s independence, there have been 1,302 proven cases, resulting in 1,125 criminal convictions. This year’s election is likely to add to those tallies. There’s overwhelming evidence that outcome-altering irregularities occurred on and around Election Day. The Trump legal team has already submitted […]
Michigan Judge Orders Forensic Review of 22 Dominion Voting Machines, Giuliani Says
By Ivan Pentchoukov A judge in Antrim County, Michigan, has authorized a forensic audit of 22 Dominion Voting Systems machines, according to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “BIG WIN FOR HONEST ELECTIONS,” the former New York City Mayor wrote on Twitter on Dec. 4. “This is where the untrustworthy Dominion machine flipped 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden. Spiking of votes by […]
Supreme Court Orders Review of California Restrictions on Churches
By Zachary Stieber The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a review of restrictions the state of California has imposed on churches amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In an unsigned order, justices said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should reconsider a lawsuit brought by Harvest Rock Church against California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, over his harsh restrictions. Justices said […]
Illegal Money-for-Votes Raffles Conducted in Several States in 2020 Election
By Ivan Pentchoukov The Nevada Native Vote Project posted photos on Facebook on Election Day of smiling voters holding $25 gift cards after handing over their ballots. The posts have since been deleted but not before they were archived. The removal may have had something to do with the U.S. criminal code, two distinct sections of which impose fines and prison sentences for […]
Trump: Leaders Called Him on Election Night to Congratulate, Then Votes Came in ‘Dumps’
By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump said that world leaders called to congratulate him on Election Night but then, according to him, votes came in “dumps,” while adding that his team will appeal recent court losses to the U.S. Supreme Court. “All of a sudden,” he said in a Fox Business interview Sunday, “I went from winning by […]