https://demandjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Coalition-Letter-on-Alito-and-Ethics-Reform.pdf
Eight of the organizations have signed on due to the efforts of For the People -- Maryland.
Charlie Cooper
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Monday, November 28, 2022
Saturday, November 26, 2022
AP finds that individual voter fraud is very rare
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-rights-florida-georgia-4db14ddccf37e4597cb9b7f20ec499b4?user_email=96eb705c0db50c27ac3d234439d4e34535193f1d552af2727344ed6896c6e3aa&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Nov26_MorningWire&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers
New investigative agencies and processes set up in several States by Republicans alleging election integrity problems have yielded little to no results.
Charlie Cooper
Friday, November 25, 2022
Arizona election deniers demand a new 2022 election
Kari Lake who lost the race for Governor to Katie Hobbs and Abe Hamadeh who lost for Attorney General to Kris Mayes are suing to demand that their elections be declared invalid and that the elections be conducted anew. The AG race differential is only 510 votes, and an automatic recount will be conducted, but Hamadeh is not satisfied. [There were some problems in Maricopa County at polling places, but no evidence has yet been presented that it could have changed the outcome.]
Charlie Cooper
Right-wing view of voter fraud and voter suppression
Heritage Society generally denies that race-, age-, or ethnicity-based voter suppression exists in Republican-dominated states and decries Democratic Party attempts to allow what he considers to be voter fraud. He says there have been 1,300 proven cases of voter fraud in the past 40 years. That's quite a low number given the scale of fraud alleged by election denialists.
Charlie Cooper
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Brennan Center analysis of campaign money in 2022 midterms
Billionaires spent wildly, and SuperPAC funding was $1.3 billion. Trends since Citizens United v. FEC in 2010 are just what we predicted.
Charlie Cooper
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
There are still problems with Maricopa county election procedures
https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2022/11/21/brnovich-demands-answers-from-maricopa-county-about-what-he-suspects-are-election-law-violations/
Despite a continuing investigation, it does not seem that the outcome of the election will be changed.
Charlie Cooper
Monday, November 21, 2022
Friday, November 18, 2022
Friday, November 11, 2022
U.S. is the only democracy in the world that elects election officials
Consideration should be given to deisgnating secretary of state elections as non-partisan.
Charlie Cooper
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Sunday, November 6, 2022
GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw says election deniers know they are lying
Anti-immigrant, pro-oil Rep. Dan Crenshaw outs the election deniers via his podcast, saying "It was a lie. It was always a lie." He then goes a little further into how some in Congress and some of the media personalities rationalize lying to to the public.
Bonus video: Cenk Uygur of the The Young Turks and colleagues discuss Crenshaw's statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yOMjDzya7eE
Charlie Cooper
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Group will challenge Trump using 14th Amendment
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has written to Trump advising him that they will challenge his run for the presidency in 2024 using section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That section provides that a person who has taken an oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution and who then supports insurrection is disqualified from holding any office. A New Mexico judge disqualified an officeholder recently -- the first use of the provision since 1869.
Charlie Cooper
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Finchem received $10K from extremist Oath Keepers members
"The Oath Keepers are an anti-government extremist group whose members were deeply tied to the violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The leader of the organization, Stewart Rhodes, has been charged with seditious conspiracy and he spoke of "Civil War" prior to the day's events. Another 10 Oath Keepers, including one from Arizona, are also facing charges for seditious conspiracy and other crimes.
"Finchem declared his membership in the Oath Keepers in a 2014 candidate questionnaire, writing that he was an 'Oath Keeper committed to the exercise of limited, constitutional governance.'"
Charlie Cooper
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
The company under investigation for storing poll worker data in China has sued Big Lie proponents
Konnechs has sued conspiracy theorists True the Vote, a right-wing purveyor of the Big Lie. Leaders of that group are now facing contempt charges.
Charlie Cooper
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