Fraudit

On heels of Arizona embarrassment, Texas announces 'full forensic audit' of 2020

The timing couldn’t have been better. Late Thursday, almost simultaneously, bombshell news broke that Arizona’s GOP fraudit had confirmed Joe Biden’s 2020 win while Texas officials …

Fri Sep 24, 2021

Republicans in Wisconsin, Michigan can't stop obsessing over the election fraud they never found

In the aftermath of the 2020 election, a dizzying array of pro-Trump election challenges in Michigan and Wisconsin got thrown out of court. Subsequently, the legal eagles who brought some of those …

Tue Aug 31, 2021

Buckle up Pennsylvania taxpayers! You've been nominated to foot bill for yet another sham GOP audit

Arizona’s sham audit has gone so stunningly well that Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers plan to launch one themselves. Apparently trashing election equipment and wasting millions in taxpayer dollars on …

Wed Aug 25, 2021

Arizona fraudit report delayed when Cyber Ninjas fail to evade COVID-19

So much for fraudit day! Last week, Arizona officials were bracing for the imminent release of the Cyber Ninjas big report on their recount of Maricopa County’s 2020 general election ballots. …

Tue Aug 24, 2021

GOP-led Maricopa board seeks $2.8 million from Arizona GOP Senate for equipment damaged in fraudit

The Republican-led Maricopa County Board of Supervisors filed a financial claim Wednesday seeking $2.8 million from the GOP-led Arizona State Senate for the cost of replacing elections equipment …

Wed Aug 18, 2021

Elections expert Rich Hasen: 'I'm scared shitless' about Republican plans to subvert elections

The ongoing farce of Arizona’s "fraudit" of 2020 ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, is largely treated as a joke because the people behind it are prone to spouting such …

Tue Aug 3, 2021

GOP-led Maricopa County Board tells Arizona senate Republicans what they can do with their subpoena

Following Donald Trump’s most recent unhinged election rant about “the routers” in Maricopa County computers, Arizona senate Republicans subpoenaed them last week in their unending …

Tue Aug 3, 2021

Arizona audit liaison threatens to resign as state fiasco slides towards eventual humiliating close

It’s unclear how many wheels might have been originally attached to Arizona Republicans’ ridiculous Maricopa County “election audit,” but at this point whichever were still …

Thu Jul 29, 2021

House Democrats want to know who paid for Arizona 'audit' and how deeply Team Trump was involved

The conspiracy theory-driven “audit” of ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, has raised a lot of questions. After all, it was only partially paid for by the Arizona state Senate, with the rest of the …

Thu Jul 15, 2021

'It's a failure. It's a joke,' Republican operative says of Arizona fraudit

Arizona state Senate Republicans launched their sham audit of votes in Maricopa County as red meat for the Trump base, but it may not work out as planned. Oh, the Republican voters who already believe …

Tue Jun 29, 2021

Most Americans reject authenticity of GOP's sham election 'audits'

As GOP lawmakers rush to recreate Arizona’s sham audit in their home states, most Americans still have enough of a foot in reality to see the “fraudits” for exactly what they are: purely …

Thu Jun 24, 2021

Trump's toxic presence in Republican state party politics is being entirely underestimated

When Donald Trump reentered the public spotlight last weekend at the North Carolina Republican Party Convention, the first thing he did was upend the GOP primary for the state’s open Senate …

Mon Jun 14, 2021

Trump's cult of personality is eating the Republican Party whole. Don't underestimate the danger

Donald Trump has spent five years turning the Republican Party into a cult of personality. During his time in office, that meant Republican lawmakers had to be ready to abandon any principle at a …

Tue Jun 8, 2021