Voter Fraud & Suppression

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Arizona Supreme Court rejects most of Kari Lake's election challenge

Arizona's top court has declined to hear Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's challenge to her election loss, but kept the case alive by sending one of Lake's claims back to a county judge to review.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/03/22/kari-lake-governor-election-challenge-mostly-rejected-by-arizona-supreme-court/70034889007/?

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Bipartisan former members of Congress call for boost in funding to secure elections

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of former U.S. lawmakers on the National Council on Election Integrity have called on Congress to spend $400 million on election integrity to insulate the system from foreign interference.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/03/25/bipartisan-former-members-of-congress-call-for-boost-in-funding-to-secure-elections/?

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Hounded by baseless voter fraud allegations, an entire county's election staff quits in Virginia

In Buckingham County, four people quit their jobs after a feud between local Republicans and the general registrar consumed the small community.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/buckingham-county-virginia-election-staff-quits-baseless-voter-fraud-rcna76435?

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Giuliani admits using ‘dirty trick’ to suppress Hispanic vote in mayoral race

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has admitted to a “dirty trick” that his campaign used to suppress the Hispanic vote during the city’s 1993 mayoral race.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/29/rudy-giuliani-hispanic-vote-suppression-new-york-election?

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A GOP claim that Michigan purposely tried to encourage voter fraud doesn’t fit with facts

Republicans at a recent congressional hearing accused Michigan’s chief election official of deliberately leaving tens of thousands of dead voters on the rolls in order to encourage illegal voting.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/05/06/a-gop-claim-that-michigan-purposely-tried-to-encourage-voter-fraud-doesnt-fit-with-facts/?

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A few hours in and Kari Lake's trial is already over (or it should be)

Kari Lake on Wednesday opened her (second) trial challenging the 2022 election ... with a complete and total fizzle.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2023/05/17/kari-lakes-trial-isnt-going-so-well/70229275007/

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DeSantis Conveniently Missed This Case in His Voter Fraud Crusade

EXCLUSIVE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made much of his crusade to lock up felons who unwittingly voted in 2020, but one registered Republican allegedly voted illegally for nearly a decade before the feds stepped in last week.

https://headtopics.com/us/desantis-conveniently-missed-this-case-in-his-voter-fraud-crusade-39418406

Florida's effort to charge 20 people with voter fraud has hit some roadblocks

Back in August, Florida officials announced they were charging 20 people with alleged voter fraud. It was the first big set of cases investigated by the state's new election crimes unit, which was created at the urging of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/21/1144265521/florida-voter-fraud-cases-prosecution-update

Miami judge dismisses voter fraud case trumpeted by DeSantis

A Miami judge on Friday dismissed one of the 19 voter fraud prosecutions loudly trumpeted by Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, a significant development that comes as the cases draw scrutiny.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/21/florida-voter-fraud-case-dismissed-judge-ron-desantis

ps:He probably wont be the only one!! The other 19 will also have there cases dismissed!! This was just a bunch of Bull Manure!!!!!

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Alabama lawmaker arrested on voter fraud charge

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama legislator was arrested Tuesday on felony voter fraud charges accusing him of voting in a district where he did not live.

https://apnews.com/article/alabama-legislature-voter-fraud-4cbdac7e397e81f694d2e9a2ab162325?

Republican Alabama legislator arrested for voter fraud. His party doesn't blink

Republican Alabama state Rep. David Cole was arrested Tuesday and charged with fraudulently voting at an unauthorized location. Seeing as the people most likely to be charged for actually committing voter fraud often belong to the political party constantly screeching about voter fraud, Cole’s arrest is not much of a surprise. However, after all of the Republican Party’s talk about election integrity, it was not the Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature that brought Cole’s infraction to court—it was a Libertarian candidate who ran against him.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/30/2190477/-Republican-Alabama-legislator-arrested-for-voter-fraud-His-party-doesn-t-blink?

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Florida’s voter suppression crucial to GOP edge in 2024

Republicans will never again win elections if democratic reforms make voting easier

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/11/27/floridas-voter-suppression-crucial-to-gop-edge-in-2024/?

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More voter fraud in The Villages. What else is new? A lot. | Commentary

If you ever find yourself bored and looking for interesting reading material, may I humbly suggest checking out Villages-News.com, a news site for America’s largest retirement community.  Because, man, it’s a wild ride.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/12/12/villages-florida-voter-fraud-scott-maxwell/?

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Trump leans into voter fraud playbook, preparing to cry foul if he loses expected Biden rematch

NEW YORK (AP) — After he won the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump complained about his main GOP rival, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, about immigration, inflation, and his likely opponent in November, President Joe Biden.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-election-lies-voter-fraud-biden-f3f3691c2ea0667ad694e3bee577d802?

ps:Here we go again!! Claiming fraud which he couldn't prove in a court of law, actually something like 63 courts of law, and with not one sherd of evidence!!!!!

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Texas appeals court overturns voter fraud conviction for woman on probation

A Texas appeals court has overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-voter-fraud-conviction-overturned-f6265c98b5a134388c229d3886e39410?

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Pennsylvania man accused of voting in 2 states faces federal charges

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man faces federal charges that he voted in both Florida and in Pennsylvania for the 2020 presidential election, and twice in Pennsylvania during the November 2022 election.

https://apnews.com/article/voting-fraud-elections-federal-pennsylvania-florida-22b9fd55414e8440fbea76373d607962?

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Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting data scheme

A judge ripped into a Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

https://apnews.com/article/tina-peters-colorado-clerk-election-vote-fraud-b456ce4f80dc97f4b967eb6297311a51?

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States won’t finalize vote totals until days or weeks after Election Day | Fact check

The claim: Delayed election results in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania are evidence of voter fraud

“BREAKING: The Cheat Has Begun,” reads the post. The States of Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania have officially announced that they will not have election results available on Election Night.”

Our rating: False

While election officials in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania have said vote counting won’t be finished on Election Day, experts say that isn’t evidence of fraud. It has always taken states days or weeks to finalize election results because of various requirements to ensure the count's accuracy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/10/31/election-day-results-cheating-voter-fraud-fact-check/75966161007/?

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FBI links video falsely depicting voter fraud in Georgia to ‘Russian influence actors’

WASHINGTON (AP) — A video purporting to depict voter fraud in Georgia is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors,” U.S. intelligence officials said Friday as they warned that foreign efforts to undermine faith in the integrity of next week’s elections may persist long after votes have been cast.

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-russia-georgia-fraud-disinformation-eebea4ab200682ccd3e97fb9f164e6ca?

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Election denialism has staying power even after Trump’s win

President-elect Donald Trump may have quieted his lies about widespread voter fraud after his win earlier this month, but the impact of his effort to cast doubt on the integrity of American elections lingers on.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/12/01/election-denialism-has-staying-power-even-after-trumps-win/?