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By the end of Election Day, approximately 21,000 total interviews will be conducted. Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP, filed a similar complaint Friday against state election officials. The app and portal had been down for part of the morning and the state's election hotline also briefly experienced issues. In Columbus County, election officials allegedly were harassed by an “observer following one-stop workers” and photographing or filming the workers, it said. Share this -Link copiedSunny weather in most battleground states on Election Day It’s a bright and sunny Election Day in many battleground states!

How the midterm election outcome could impact Biden's agenda Nov. 8, 2022 02:02 Read the full story here. Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP, filed a similar complaint Friday against state election officials. The app and portal had been down for part of the morning and the state's election hotline also briefly experienced issues. In Columbus County, election officials allegedly were harassed by an “observer following one-stop workers” and photographing or filming the workers, it said. Share this -Link copiedSunny weather in most battleground states on Election Day It’s a bright and sunny Election Day in many battleground states!

☆ Special Report: Voting-system firms battle right-wing rage against the machines
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Helen Coster | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +19 min

Across the country, election officials have received hundreds of threats or menacing messages that cite debunked conspiracies involving the machines. Some have alleged without evidence that Dominion machines were rigged in plots involving Chinese communists, Venezuelan socialists or Antifa, the loosely organized U.S. anti-fascist movement. Among those calling for Louisiana to ditch Dominion machines is the state’s Republican National Committeewoman, Lenar Whitney. Authorities in the heavily Republican state acknowledge that their aging Dominion machines, most of them bought in 2005, are outdated. Dominion machines remain in use in 14 of Nevada’s 17 counties.

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☆ Barack Obama says the GOP is the only party that 'actively tries to discourage citizens from voting'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Barack Obama said the Republican party "actively tries" to keep citizens from voting at a campaign rally. Now Republicans know this, and that's why they're doing everything they can to prevent you from voting," Obama said. "This is one of the only major parties worldwide that actively tries to discourage citizens from voting." Since the 2020 election, Republican legislators have pushed to restrict voting, claiming it will combat widespread voter fraud. A lot of times, many of the elected officials or the people who are running to run elections right now are suggesting that maybe they would not count votes, nullify votes, overturn votes," Obama said.

☆ Fact Check-No evidence of intentional widespread effort to miscalibrate voting machines in Texas, experts tell Reuters
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Following the viral tweet, other anecdotal accounts and claims circulated online that voting machines were switching votes to favor Abbott (here), (here), (here). The Republican Party of Texas has no part in the calibration of voting machines, James Wesolek, Communications Director at the Republican Party of Texas told Reuters. If that process was done incorrectly, a voting machine’s touch screen might be consistently wrong. Touch screen machines can also suffer from an issue termed ‘parallax’ (here). There is no evidence of a widespread attempt to miscalibrate voting machines to switch votes in support of Beto O’Rourke to Greg Abbott in the governorship race, experts told Reuters.

☆ 'Complex threat environment' ahead of midterm elections, top cybersecurity official says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Tyler Clifford | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 30 (Reuters) - Election officials in the United States have been alerted to safe-proof their voting systems and be vigilant about political violence amid a "very complex threat environment," top U.S. cybersecurity official Jen Easterly said on Sunday in the wake of an attack on the husband of a leading Democratic lawmaker last week. The attack has ignited fears about political violence at a time when crime has become a leading issue this election season. Last week the NYPD called for "elevated vigilance" ahead of the midterm elections in an internal bulletin. The department warned that extremists could target political events and polling sites, putting poll workers and political candidates at risk. Reporting by Tyler Clifford; Additional reporting by Ted Hesson; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he was late to a conservative event because a door on his private jet fell off
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lindell told Insider he was traveling from Texas to Missouri when a luggage storage door fell off. "I was supposed to be here earlier, but actually, uh, the plane door fell off of my plane on the ground," Lindell said to laughter from the audience. Then we got it back on, and it took another day when we got back to the shop to complete the intensive check," Lindell told Insider. "I gave her a ride — on the cyber symposium, I give rides from people all over the country," Lindell told 9News. The seizure was linked to the investigation into Peters, Lindell told Insider.

☆ Trump raged against '60 Minutes' after it featured Dominion's CEO calmly dismissing his election-fraud theories
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Trump responded angrily to Sunday's edition of '60 Minutes.' wrote Trump, and went on to push a series of conspiracy theories and baseless claims about election fraud and plots against him by the FBI. On "60 Minutes", Dominion boss John Poulos described to host Anderson Cooper the damage the disinformation pushed by Trump and his allies had caused. He went on to systematically dismiss conspiracy theories about the company. Dominion has launched major lawsuits against a number of businesses and right-wing media organisations which pushed conspiracy theories about the company, including a $1.9 billion lawsuit against Fox News.

A voter casts their ballot in the Pennsylvania primary elections at Congregation Beth Or in Ambler, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 17, 2022. The alleged security breach came to light last month when Fulton County sued election equipment maker Dominion Voting Systems, citing purported security flaws discovered in Speckin's analysis of six hard drives from the machines. In a Pennsylvania Supreme Court filing on Tuesday, lawyers for the Secretary of the Commonwealth had asked the court to hold Fulton County officials, including Republican Commissioners Stuart Ulsh and Randy Bunch, in civil contempt for the breach. The lawyers said county officials "openly thumbed their noses at a clear and direct order of this Court" by allowing Speckin, a Michigan-based company, access to the machines. Stefanie Lambert, a Detroit-based attorney representing the county, did not immediately respond to a query about the special master appointment.

A voter casts their ballot in the Pennsylvania primary elections at Congregation Beth Or in Ambler, Pennsylvania, U.S. May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/File PhotoOct 21 (Reuters) - A rural Pennsylvania county violated a court order when it allowed a forensics company to examine voting equipment in July, marking the county's second security breach of the machines, the state's top election official alleged in a court filing. The latest alleged breach came to light last month when Fulton County filed a lawsuit against election equipment maker Dominion Voting Systems, citing purported issues discovered in an examination of the equipment by Speckin Forensics LLC. She pointed to alleged security flaws highlighted in Speckin's report, and noted that the county has sued Dominion and no longer uses its machines. Petitioners have now twice breached the security of this voting system by turning its components over to unauthorized third parties," lawyers for the state wrote in the filing.

☆ Billionaire Ronald Lauder gives $1 million to GOP group supporting state candidates who questioned 2020 election results
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

A representative for the Republican State Leadership Committee did not return a request for comment. The Concord Fund, which previously spent millions of dollars on ads backing Trump's judicial nominees, gave $1.5 million to the Republican State Leadership Committee in September. The Republican State Leadership Committee is considered a tax exempt politically active group under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Republican State Leadership Committee is supporting dozens of candidates running to become secretaries of state, lieutenant governors, state legislators and judges on state courts. In this year's state legislative races, the Republican State Leadership Committee has bolstered some candidates who raised doubts about the 2020 election results.

☆ Fox News CEO had strong doubts about Trump's election-fraud claims, NYT report says. The network pushed them anyway.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Fox News' CEO privately doubted Donald Trump's election fraud claims, The NYT reported. The network pushed Trump's baseless claims the 2020 was stolen from him through fraud. Scott's claims about the election are likely to figure prominently in Dominion's case, with the company arguing that the network broadcast the fraud claims despite knowing them to be false. Afterwards, Fox News hosts and Trump allies pushed election-fraud claims on the network, often unchallenged. In a statement to The Times, Fox News defended Scott's record at the network and said that the discussion of the election fraud claims on the network was protected under the First Amendment.

☆ Explainer: U.S. midterm elections: How America casts and counts its votes
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Matt Zdun | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

For the next decade, about a third of all votes were cast on direct recording electronic machines. These electronic voting machines store the votes in their memory. This shift reflected election officials’ growing concerns about foreign interference in elections and the need to have some way to audit tallies. To be sure, machines are still integral to the election process even when votes are cast on paper ballots. Because there were paper ballots, however, election officials in Georgia were able to hand-count the votes and confirm Biden had indeed won the state.

☆ Trump ally Mike Lindell is predicting a surge in Republican votes at the midterms, saying liberals in California have expressed interest in his baseless voter fraud claims
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has predicted a surge in Republican votes at the coming midterms. Lindell told RSBN in Arizona that he saw great support for his voter fraud cause in California. Lindell told Insider that at least 30 people he met in California wanted to discuss the economy. It is unclear if there is significant support in California for Lindell's voter fraud conspiracy theories. In September last year, former President Donald Trump claimed without substantiation that the recall election in California — which Gov.

☆ Jesse Watters' rise at Fox, from Bill O'Reilly's ambush man to Tucker Carlson wannabe
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Noah Hurowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

At the time, Watters was best known for pulling off elaborately planned ambush interviews on "The O'Reilly Factor," then Fox News' top-rated show. When Grim picked his phone up and trained it again on Watters, the smile was gone from Watters' face. Watters on the set of his show "Jesse Watters Primetime." In early 2022, "Jesse Watters Primetime" debuted, airing right before "Hannity." Watters, whose entire career has been at Fox News, might be a safer bet, according to Muto, the former O'Reilly producer.

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☆ CNN reporter details Meadows' texts from pro-Trump operative
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Text messages obtained by CNN reveal that a key figure in the effort to overturn the election in 2020 briefed then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about his attempts to gain access to voting systems in battleground states. CNN's Zachary Cohen has the details.

☆ Trump ally Mike Lindell being investigated in connection with alleged Colorado election security breach
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — Mike Lindell, the My Pillow Inc chief executive and ally to former President Donald Trump, is under U.S. federal investigation for identity theft and for conspiring to damage a protected computer connected to a suspected voting equipment security breach in Colorado. Investigations into election claimsThe FBI in August 2021 confirmed it had opened a criminal investigation into a suspected security breach of voting equipment in the western Colorado county of Mesa. The equipment at issue in the election security breach investigation were furnished by Dominion Voting Systems, which has sued Trump allies and conservative television networks over baseless claims the company’s products were used to rig the election against Trump. Peters, her deputy Belinda Knisley and former elections manager Sandra Brown were indicted on state criminal charges this year in connection with the election security breach. Peters, Knisley and Brown are all named as subjects in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation, according to the warrant, along with several others.

☆ An appeals court decision against Donald Trump came back to bite MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a separate case
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A judge rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's request for DOJ to return his seized cellphone. The judge cited an appeals court decision against Trump in his lawsuit over the Mar-a-Lago search. Trump appointed Judge Eric Tostrud, who denied Lindell's bid to get his phone back. Ruling against Lindell, Tostrud did not have to look far to find legal precedent backing up his conclusion that the phone should remain in the Justice Department's hands. Rarely does an appeals court decision so rapidly grow legs that it is cited in a separate case within 24 hours.

read moreLindell is the latest person to be swept into federal criminal investigations surrounding Trump and his allies over their failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results based on false claims of voter fraud. INVESTIGATIONS INTO ELECTION CLAIMSThe FBI in August 2021 confirmed it had opened a criminal investigation into a suspected security breach of voting equipment in the western Colorado county of Mesa. The equipment at issue in the election security breach investigation were furnished by Dominion Voting Systems, which has sued Trump allies and conservative television networks over baseless claims the company's products were used to rig the election against Trump. Peters, her deputy Belinda Knisley and former elections manager Sandra Brown were indicted on state criminal charges this year in connection with the election security breach. Peters, Knisley and Brown are all named as subjects in the Justice Department's criminal investigation, according to the warrant, along with several others.

☆ Mike Lindell is suing the FBI, saying they violated his 'First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment' rights by seizing his phone
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is suing the FBI and DOJ for seizing his phone. Lindell says the FBI and DOJ violated his First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights. Represented by a legal team including conservative lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Lindell's suit claims the FBI violated his "First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment" rights. he told Insider. Lindell told Insider that had the FBI approached him at night, he would have "bashed" his way through their cars with his pickup truck.

☆ New video shows GOP operatives in Georgia elections office on day of voting system breach
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

Video reveals for the first time a Republican county official in Georgia and operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump spent hours inside a restricted area of the local elections office on the day voting systems there were breached. CNN's Drew Griffin has the latest.

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterFILE PHOTO - Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, speaks during general session at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, U.S., August 5, 2022. REUTERS/Go NakamuraSept 19 (Reuters) - MyPillow Inc Chief Executive Mike Lindell must face a defamation lawsuit brought by a voting machine company that the Trump ally falsely accused of rigging the 2020 U.S. election, a Minnesota federal judge ruled on Monday. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterLawyers for the defendants did not immediately respond to inquiries Monday. Smartmatic operated voting machines in Los Angeles County in 2020 and says there were no irregularities in its tallies. The London-based company alleged in its January complaint that Lindell knowingly made false election-rigging claims to boost MyPillow's sales and made Smartmatic "synonymous with election fraud."

☆ Liz Cheney is 'very worried' about election deniers seeking office in 2022: 'They must be defeated'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Grace Panetta | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Liz Cheney told CNN she's "very worried" about election deniers running for office in 2022. 43 election-denying candidates are seeking statewide office in 27 states, one report found. "I think those people have all got to be defeated," Cheney said. Arizona, Michigan, and Alabama have such candidates running for all three of those offices in November. "That's obviously, fundamentally, a threat to the survival of the republic, and I think those people have all got to be defeated," Cheney said.

☆ Special elections are confusing, chaotic messes that bleed taxpayers — and could often be avoided if politicians quit before leveling up, flaming out, or dropping dead
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Grace Panetta | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

Young's death triggered an unprecedented series of three statewide votes — a special primary, a special general election held along with a regular primary, and a regular general election — within five months. The Alaska special election is just one of the more than 120 congressional special elections conducted over the past two decades, an Insider analysis found. Special elections bombard votersSpecial elections routinely attract special attention. Rebecca Blackwell/APIn 2022, special elections are 'a perfect storm of confusion'Special congressional elections are, on balance, less democratic than regular elections. "We knew from the beginning that it would be harder to win a special election," McCready said of his September 2019 special election.

☆ Top Fox News personalities face questioning as Dominion Voting's defamation lawsuit moves forward
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-02 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty ImagesNext week, Maria Bartiromo will join the parade of Fox personalities who are being called to answer questions in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against the network. Dominion has argued that Fox Corp. 's Fox News and Fox Business made false claims that its voting machines rigged the results of the 2020 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. But in December, the Delaware judge overseeing the Dominion case denied Fox News' request to have the case dismissed. Fox has asked the court to keep all of the collected materials private, claiming that Dominion mischaracterized what the documents show as actual malice. FOX Business' "Mornings With Maria" anchor Maria Bartiromo at Fox Business Network Studios on April 6, 2018 in New York City.

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