Mark Elias:   "But if I’m being honest, I’m not only furious at Trump and his sycophants. I am equally — if not more — furious at how little is being done in response to his destruction.

"Every day, I am furious at the people and institutions that loudly claimed to stand for democracy when President Joe Biden was in office but have now gone silent in their complicity and collaboration. I am furious at those who have so much yet are willing to risk nothing.

"I now understand Martin Luther King Jr.’s warning that the greatest tragedy is “not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” Except I don’t see them as good people — and instead of offering Christian forgiveness, I am filled with the fury of Ezekiel.

 "As the head of a law firm fighting for free and fair elections, I know the risks of standing up to Trump and his election-denying supporters in court….."

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A comprehensive assessment of the post-election audits in seven swing states in 2024 found that most don’t meet baseline conditions to provide evidence-based election results, nor are they sufficient to act as safeguard against possible errors or tampering.

Appellate Division accepts arguments from Common Cause/NY et al to continue its lawsuit deciding if the State's Board of Elections decision to approve ExpressVote XL was legal; The plaintiffs argue that there is a real threat to voters because local BOEs have plans to use these machinesNEW YORK, NY (08/14/2025) (readMedia)-- Today, Common Cause/NY, The Black Institute and 5 individuals won a decision by the Third Appellate Division that their lawsuit against ExpressVote XL can continue. 

Guardian: "Trump also claimed states are “merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government” and must follow presidential orders on elections. That’s wrong: the constitution gives states control over how they conduct elections.”

In 2020, 2022, and 2024, our nation held federal elections. Despite the pandemic, threats of violence, denial of results, and extraordinary pressure, these were secure and accurate. Election officials worked together across party lines. The system held.

This year, however, a new threat to free and fair elections has emerged: the federal government itself.

Snopes Snopes’ fact-checking and original investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. 

JUL 31, 2025

“In December 2024, I was personally involved in an NSA‑authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won—by a wide margin. Trump lost dramatically. There are multiple layers of complexity to this cover‑up, including transnational organized crime syndicates that extend far beyond the United States and our elections. To that point, I work in the human trafficking sector, which intersects with the stolen election(s) and has ties to Trump and Epstein—not to President Biden, Vice President Harris, or Governor Walz, but to the Democrats and other allied interests responsible for burying the audit.” — Adam Zarnowski, ex-CIA agent and author of Jörmungandr

With a combination of executive orders, legal maneuvers and staffing decisions, President Donald Trump has already put in motion his next effort to subvert upcoming federal elections in 2026 and 2028.

Since taking office, Trump has installed loyalists who follow his orders into key positions at the Department of Justice, issued executive orders centralizing decision-making within the White House, attempted to unilaterally change state and local election laws, demanded unprecedented access to voter data, dismantled election security protections, threatened elections officials and workers, law firms and others who have historically stood up to protect elections and defended, hired or pardoned those involved in previous efforts to subvert elections.

A seminal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 Presidential and Senate election results in Rockland County, New York, is moving forward. In open court last Thurs- day, Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court, ruled that discovery must proceed, pushing the lawsuit brought by SMART Legislation into the evidence- gathering stage. The lawsuit seeks a full hand recount of the Presidential and U.S. Senate races in Rockland County.

The Brennan Center: “...major cuts to the federal support and partnership that local election offices have long depended on to fund and protect elections have raised alarms….Local election officials are working to protect elections, the cornerstone of a healthy democracy, in an increasingly politicized and turbulent environment. The loss of federal support for elections further strains these local offices that are often understaffed. States and civil society need to act to fill the gaps left by the federal government. With the midterm elections coming up in 2026, this work must begin now."

The United States remains one of the few major democracies in the world that continue to allow computerized vote counting—not observable by the public—to determine the results of its elections [1]. Countries such as Germany [2] Norway [3], Netherlands [4], France [5, 6],  Canada [7] , Denmark [8, 9], Italy [10], United Kingdom [11], Ireland [11], Spain [11], Portugal [11], Sweden [11], Finland [11], and most other countries [11], protect the integrity and trust of their elections with publicly observable hand-counting of paper ballots.

This analysis  lays out why the three counts in Georgia  did not confirm the vote count. The entire report is posted here.

The BMDs used there have similar security flaws to the ESS Expressvote XL that we are trying (so far unsuccessfully) to keep out of New York.  Stark reports “Moreover, most voters used demonstrably untrustworthy ballot-marking devices; as a result, even a perfect hand count or audit would not necessarily reveal who really won.”

Last week we submitted our initial request for documents, and our interrogatories (questions) to the Rockland County Board of Elections, as part of the lawsuit challenging the 2024 Presidential and U.S. Senate election. We put out a press release which was carried on the AP wires and picked up by local affiliates of ABC, CBS, Fox and published in an exclusive on Newsweek.

The missing votes uncovered in Smart Elections’ legal case in Rockland County, New York, are just the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg that extends across the swing states and into Texas.

On Monday, an investigator’s story finally hit the news cycle: Pro V&V, one of only two federally accredited testing labs, approved sweeping last-minute updates to ES&S voting machines in the months leading up to the 2024 election—without independent testing, public disclosure, or full certification review.

A legal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 election is moving forward.

The lawsuit, brought by SMART Legislation, the action arm of SMART Elections, a nonpartisan watchdog group, filed the lawsuit over voting discrepancies in Rockland County, New York.

Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court ruled in open court in May that the allegations were serious enough for discovery to proceed.

In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, a private lab quietly performed sweeping changes to voting machines used in more than 40% of U.S. counties. No one told the public. No one reviewed the updates. No one verified the results. But the machines were altered —and now, serious questions are being raised about whether those changes may have affected the outcome of the election. Some are even asking whether Kamala Harris was the one who actually won.

In the words of watchdog group SMART Elections: “This wasn’t just a glitch in some sleepy county. It was a stress test of our entire system.”

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A seminal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 Presidential and Senate election results in Rockland County, New York, is moving forward. In open court last Thursday, Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court, ruled that discovery must proceed, pushing the lawsuit brought by SMART Legislation into the evidence-gathering stage. The lawsuit seeks a full hand recount of the Presidential and U.S. Senate races in Rockland County.

Project 2025 Executive Action Tracker

The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact are monitoring the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies.