Tag: Election Integrity

Absentee Voting From Abroad Presents Myriad of Fraud Vulnerabilities in US Elections

Preliminary election results announced right after an election often include the caveat that officials still need to count the overseas military ballots before finalizing results. The general voting population in the United States promptly ignores that caveat and runs with the preliminary results. To them, overseas votes are an afterthought. But policy changes, and a…


IN-DEPTH: Absentee Voting From Abroad Presents Myriad of Fraud Vulnerabilities in US Elections

Preliminary election results announced right after an election often include the caveat that officials still need to count the overseas military ballots before finalizing results. The general voting population in the United States promptly ignores that caveat and runs with the preliminary results. To them, overseas votes are an afterthought. But policy changes, and a…


Problems in Maricopa County Election Linked to Changes in Ballot Paper

Problems with ballot printers that caused lines to back up at some Phoenix-area polling places last year were due to changes to the paper, a retired Arizona Supreme Court justice concluded in a report released Monday. However, GOP candidate Kari Lake dismissed that report. County officials used longer ballots on thicker paper than had been…


Rubio Urges Federal Election Commission to Investigate Allegedly Fraudulent ActBlue Donations

A U.S. senator is urging the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to investigate after journalists found people listed as having donated tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats saying they did not donate nearly as much. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told FEC officials that the “alarming reports” indicate that there were “fraudulent donations being reported…


Federal Agencies Lag in Implementing Biden Executive Order on Improving Voter Access

Federal agencies are lagging behind in implementing President Joe Biden’s executive order (EO) aimed at boosting voter access, a report has found, as worries remain about politicizing federal agencies. On March 7, 2021, President Joe Biden signed executive order 14019 that sought to “leverage the resources of the federal government to increase access to voter…


Wisconsin Conservatives Cry Foul in State Supreme Court Election Defeat

Out-spent and out-hustled, Wisconsin conservatives suffered a crushing loss this month when a liberal won a seat on the state Supreme Court. The defeat has some Republicans calling the results “tainted.” About a month before the April 4 election, conservative activists became aware of an online left-wing get-out-the-vote project that was drumming up votes for…


How AI Can Track, Manipulate Voters

How well do artificial intelligence (AI) programs know us humans? In most cases, it turns out quite well and, in some ways better than we know ourselves. A study by AI experts at Brigham Young University, titled “Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples,” found that predictive AI programs exhibited a…


Senate Committee Finds Nation Losing Election Workers

Harassment of election officials, misinformation, excessive public information requests, and frivolous lawsuits are driving many experienced poll workers into retirement and making it hard to recruit new ones. Those were some of the election administration problems that the Senate Rules Committee heard about on March 28. Committee Chairperson Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) opened the two-hour hearing…


Pro-Trump Influencer Found Guilty of Using Memes to Interfere With 2016 Election

A man who posted memes about the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 presidential election was found guilty of one charge of conspiring against the right to vote on Friday. “Douglass Mackey, also known as ‘Ricky Vaughn,’ was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights stemming from his…


Man Who Posted Hillary Clinton Meme Found Guilty of Interfering in 2016 Election

A man who posted memes about the Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 presidential election was found guilty of one charge of conspiring against the right to vote on Friday. “Douglass Mackey, also known as ‘Ricky Vaughn,’ was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of the charge of Conspiracy Against Rights stemming from his…