Though Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is just days old, Russia has been working for years to influence and undermine the independence of its smaller neighbor - as it happens, two prominent Americans have played a role in that effort.... Read more»
Phil Waldron, the suddenly famous election denier behind the circulation of a PowerPoint filled with plans to overturn the 2020 election and one of the proponents of the "audit" in Maricopa County, has a long history of election subversion attempts in multiple states.... Read more»
Donald Trump continued his election grievance campaign Friday with a new claim that the 2020 election in Pima County was "rigged and stolen" from him, emailing supporters about supposed "staggering anomalies and fictitious votes."... Read more»2
Shiva Ayyadurai appeared to have absolutely no knowledge of Maricopa County policies and procedures - a shortcoming that would be a consistent theme as he presented his findings as part of the so-called 'audit' of the election in Maricopa County.... Read more»
3 Arizona GOP lawmakers spread long-debunked claims about the 2020 election at a “Cyber Symposium” organized by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, where one of the cybersecurity experts Lindell hired said that Lindell failed to provide the data he had promised to deliver. ... Read more»
Dominion Voting Systems, the company that provides Maricopa County’s ballot tabulation machines, filed several new defamation lawsuits against people and organizations that have promoted false claims of election fraud, including leading fundraisers of Arizona’s election review. ... Read more»
The leader of the Arizona Senate’s election review released a list of financial contributors, showing the 'audit' has been funded by organizations that have aggressively promoted baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election — and in some cases sought to overturn results.... Read more»2
On the six-month anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, hundreds of rioters who attempted to stop lawmakers from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory still need to be found - and officials are ramping up security measures.
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A New York court suspended former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s law license in that state for making “demonstrably false and misleading statements” about the 2020 presidential election results to the courts and the public at large, while serving as former President Donald Trump’s lawyer.... Read more»
A series of baseless claims Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani made falsely alleging that tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants voted in the 2020 general election in Arizona were among the claims that led a New York disciplinary panel to suspend hiss license to practice law.... Read more»
The company that is conducting a hand recount of nearly 2.1 million Maricopa County ballots conducted an election audit in rural Pennsylvania county at the request of a state senator who has been a prominent advocate of the “Stop the Steal” movement that has spread baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump.... Read more»
A document that conspiracy theorist attorney Sidney Powell posted on her website with various allegations against Dominion Voting Systems lists its author as Doug Logan, the man hired by Senate Republicans to lead the team that will audit the 2020 election in Maricopa County, including a thorough examination of that same company’s ballot tabulation machines.... Read more»
The Campaign for Accountability is asking AZ Secretary of State Katie Hobbs to investigate whether Oro Valley Republican legislator Mark Finchem violated Arizona law by not disclosing the existence of a business entity that received more than $6,000 from President Donald Trump for his efforts to help overturn Arizona’s election results. Arizona law dictates that an elected official disclose any source of income greater than $1,000 and all business entities the official is involved with.... Read more»
Oro Valley Republican Mark Finchem is asking his followers to give him money so he can pay off the $15,500 he spent to host an unofficial election integrity hearing in November that was attended by Donald Trump’s lead attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and served as a forum for unfounded conspiracy theories and baseless allegations that Joe Biden didn’t really win Arizona’s election.... Read more»
The lead organizer of the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that turned into a deadly coup attempt said Arizona’s #StopTheSteal movement started with one man. “Arizona started with one man, State Representative Mark Finchem,” Alexander said to an interviewer posted by Church Militant on Jan. 10. “I’m very confident that the Stop The Steal movement has taken over Arizona.”
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Senate President Karen Fann has chosen Allied Security Operations Group, a Trump campaign associate with a well-documented history of spreading false and baseless claims about the 2020 election, to conduct an audit of the election in Maricopa County. The Senate has issued subpoenas to Maricopa County so they can conduct an audit of the general election. The county is challenging those subpoenas in court.... Read more»
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