In a terrifying bit of news, the AP reports that a wealthy MAGA elite has bought Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion is a major supplier of voting machines. If the company becomes MAGA-corrupted, it will spell the end of free and fair elections in America. In the 2020 elections, Dominion was the focus of ferocious MAGA attacks and slanders. One of those slanders by MAGA's Fox News led to a massive settlement. On April 18, 2023, Fox agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million to settle Dominion's defamation lawsuit, just as the trial was about to begin with opening statements.
MAGA elites were infuriated by the outcome of the lawsuit. Trump expressed anger with Fox News's settlement, calling it an "insult" to his election claims. He criticized Rupert Murdoch for not defending the election fraud conspiracy theories in court, saying "The election was rigged, and Rupert Murdoch should have talked about it" and "Rupert Murdoch is wrong".
MAGA's virulent but completely unfounded opposition to free and fair elections is made clear in Project 2025 (P25) at pages 562-563, which includes this:
Reassigning Responsibility for Prosecuting Election-Related Offenses
from the Civil Rights Division to the Criminal Division. The Attorney General in the next conservative Administration should reassign responsibility for prosecuting violations of 18 U.S. Code § 241 from the Civil Rights Division to the Criminal Division where it belongs. Otherwise, voter registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction will remain federal election offenses that are never appropriately investigated and prosecuted.Voter fraud includes unlawful practices concerning voter registration and ballot correction. When state legislatures are silent as to procedures for absentee ballot curing or provide specific rules governing that curing, neither counties nor courts may create a cure right where one does not exist, may not modify the law on curing, and certainly cannot engage in creating consent orders with the force of law that are inconsistent with the orders of other similarly situated counties.
As one would expect from an authoritarian MAGA manifesto, P25 is flat out lying about the election integrity situation. Its statements falsely claim that "voter registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction...are never appropriately investigated and prosecuted" under Civil Rights Division oversight. But in fact, the Civil Rights Division has a clear history of prosecuting election-related crimes. The DOJ's Election Crimes Branch, which works closely with the Civil Rights Division, has successfully prosecuted numerous cases involving voter registration fraud, ballot tampering, and other election crimes. Federal courts have consistently upheld Section 241 prosecutions for election interference, including cases involving ballot stuffing, vote buying, and registration fraud.
Also, P25 is intentionally misleading. It characterizes ballot curing as potentially fraudulent "unlawful ballot correction." In reality, ballot curing is a legitimate legal process used in about 20 states to allow voters to fix technical errors, typically signature mismatches or missing signatures, on their mail-in ballots. This process does not allow voters to change their votes—it only addresses verification issues to ensure eligible votes are counted. Studies show that ballot curing reduces ballot rejection rates and improves election accuracy rather than enabling fraud.
Q: In view of the evidence summarized here, which is not all of the relevant evidence in the public record, it is reasonable to believe that MAGA will subvert the 2026 elections as claimed in this blog post?
Q: In view of all the publicly available evidence of MAGA's authoritarianism and shameless mendacity, is there good evidence to believe that this move is not part of a major attack on the integrity and validity of the 2026 midterm elections? If so, exactly what is that evidence?
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