David Becker

States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.

““This is at its core a federalism issue,” said David Becker, the executive director and founder of CEIR. He warned that if Republican states don’t also defend their roles in that system, a future Democratic administration might want all this data and power, too.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

While this administration justifies ICE wearing masks to conceal their identities, purportedly to protect from harassment, federal law enforcement has been shockingly quiet about the threats endured by judges and others (lawyers, elected leaders, election officials) for the past 6 months.

Big picture: This has significant implications for US government attorneys who risk their bar licenses by engaging in clearly illegal and unethical conduct.

D.C. Bar Board of Professional Responsibility recommends DISBARMENT for Jeffrey Clark

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Seems important that the VP seems to be advocating for nationwide gerrymandering reform (and it might be relevant to note that the TX delegation is currently less than 33% Democratic, while the Democrats regularly receive ~43+% of the vote in the state).

Opinion | Brennan and Clapper: Let’s Set the Record Straight on Russia and 2016

“Every serious review has substantiated the intelligence community’s fundamental conclusion that the Russians conducted an influence campaign intended to help Mr. Trump win the 2016 election.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

I told @npr.org: "Most people who make claims that noncitizen voting is a big problem are doing so for political purposes. It's a way of demonizing immigrants . . . of trying to claim that Democrats cheat. And no amount of evidence is going to stop people from making politically expedient claims."

In this story: The full extent of Recorder Heap’s private comms about the elections agreement is unknown. He has so far not provided his texts, despite repeated requests from a lawyer representing Votebeat.

Two supervisors provided their texts with him on their personal phones

Despite grand claims, a new report shows noncitizen voting hasn't materialized New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens but in minuscule numbers, and not in any coordinated way.

"Even states that are trying to amplify the numbers of noncitizens … when they actually look, they find a surprisingly, shockingly small number... as they get past the political season — as the candidate that they supported gets elected — the numbers go down."

www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...

Justice department asked California to give details of non-citizens on voter rolls Exclusive: Unusual request comes as Trump administration asks about a dozen states to provide information on voters

“There is literally nothing in fed'l law anywhere that requires states to continually search for non-citizens on their voter lists. States can do this if they choose. But the fed'l gov't plays absolutely no role in that unless a state affirmatively asks them to.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just your regular reminder that the gov’t does not leak or tweet that they’ve found crimes - they indict and prosecute when they have the evidence. If you see any gov’t off’l, incl the AG, DNI, or POTUS, do that, it’s an admission they have absolutely nothing.

Opinion | Trump Learns the Political Price of Conspiracy Theories From Epstein to Jan. 6, MAGA is getting tired of waiting for the president to make good on his wilder promises.

"Trump could reveal just how the 2020 election was stolen and identify the agents and bring them to justice.

But in truth there is no “there” [there]. Years have passed, yet there has been no evidence or case proving the vast conspiracies around the 2020 election."

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The recent rash of DOJ voter file “requests” #ELB Recent reports have disclosed that DOJ has now “asked” at least nine states for copies of their voter rolls, and I know that there are at least a handful of counties that have separately also received...

Important from @justinlevitt.bsky.social on the problems and consequences of the DOJ and feds seeking to acquire vast amounts of sensitive data on voters. As he notes "there are legal repercussions not only for the [feds], but for any other entity sending them data."

electionlawblog.org?p=151010

DOJ hits states with broad requests for voter rolls, election data Election clerks in both parties, who have been subject to harassment and lawsuits over Trump’s 2020 false election claims, worry about efforts to examine their voting machines.

As I said in this piece, “This is an extraordinary imposition of federal power over states’ election processes that, if it is accepted by the states in this context, will be absolutely used by Democrats in another context.”

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Investigation reveals two cases of voter fraud in Laramie County CHEYENNE — Out of 24 individuals flagged by the Laramie County Clerk’s Office for potential voting violations, two were found to have voted illegally last year, according to the Laramie

One thing that's misunderstood is that voter lists are known, so it is easy to investigate claims of non-citizen voting. Laramie County in Wyoming just did that, and found 0 cases of non-citizen voting and 2 cases of people with felonies voting, out of 35,000.

www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_n...

Trump continues to want to punish our public servants for running the most verified election in history, under incredible pressure, during a global pandemic. And as he's done in past elections, he's sowing seeds of doubt to challenge future elections and incite doubt and potentially violence. /END

Defamation defendants like Rudy Giuliani, Kari Lake, Fox News, and Mike Lindell all had the opportunity to present evidence of election fraud as proof their claims were true, and all, collectively, presented ZERO evidence. All were found liable (or in Fox's case, settled) for millions of 💰💰💰. /10

The 2020 election was the most scrutinized election -- judicially and otherwise -- in WORLD history. To date, in over 4.5 years, there is still not a shred of evidence presented to any court anywhere in the country of widespread fraud or problems, or any question about the outcome. /9

There is no law that exists that entitles the feds to micromanage election security in the states. The Constitution delegates responsibility to the states to run elections. And those states have performed admirably, under tremendous pressure. /8

Trump is pushing the DOJ to prosecute despite the absence of any law allegedly broken, or facts that would support a claim, and DOJ lawyers know it. And yet he's continuing the pressure to intimidate our public servants. This is not the rule of law, nor is it how the DOJ has ever worked. /7

The key paragraph from the NYT story: "Inside the Justice Department, a number of lawyers have struggled to find a criminal statute to match the Trump administration’s demands, according to the people familiar with the matter." This says it all... /6

Republican election denier Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years in prison for voting data scheme A judge ripped into a former 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...

In fact, while pushing these ginned up charges against our public servants, Trump is weaponizing the fed'l DOJ against the CO state conviction under state law in state court, where a jury found his ally to have breached election systems to support his claims. /5

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In those rare cases (like Coffee County, GA and Mesa County, CO) where election officials have breached the security of voting systems, they've done so at the behest of Trump and his allies, and been charged under state law (and in the Mesa County case, convicted by a jury of their peers). /4

Further, the Trump administration is solely responsible for singlehandedly dismantling the fed'l gov't's own cybersecurity capacity over the last several months, eliminating all support for election offices and canceling all information sharing to help states secure systems. /3

Our elections are as secure as they've ever been. In both 2020 and 2024, over 95% of all ballots were cast ON PAPER (incl every battleground), and those paper ballots are audited to ensure accuracy. That's the highest percentage of auditable, verifiable paper ballots since the 19th century. /2

Justice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials

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@nytimes.com reported yesterday that Trump was urging the DOJ to investigate election officials for alleged crimes in failing to secure election systems. This doomed and twisted effort seems part of a larger scheme to sow distrust in upcoming elections. /1

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

These words will stay with me (and us, as a nation) for a very long time:

I just published this discussion of Rockland County, NY's 2024 election results on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/playing...

Ah, now I understand what you were saying. I think disinformation about this lawsuit likely did contribute to the uptick in conspiracy theories, as they coincided in time. And split votes are so common, historically and currently, that I'm not even sure they qualify as "anomalies".

So whenever you hear these claims, from either the far left (Starlink!) or the far right (License Plates!), know that we've got extensive checks and balances (ID to register, paper ballots, audits), that prevent the kind of election theft they're trying to fundraise around. /END

A fake ID would not suffice to create a "fake voter," since there'd be no record in the database. A card doesn't get you a ballot in the US -- you first have to establish identity with ID matched to government records and databases. /4