Jack Posobiec, notorious MAGA influencer and anti-voting activist, has reportedly lived in Maryland while voting in Pennsylvania.

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Jack Posobiec, notorious MAGA influencer and anti-voting activist, has reportedly lived in Maryland while voting in Pennsylvania. Also in this week’s Eye On The Right: A Cleta Mitchell-backed lawsuit heads to SCOTUS, The Federalist calls for the Trump administration to go after voter registration groups, and more.

 

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Conservative anti-voting activist Jack Posobiec reportedly votes in a swing state he doesn’t live in

  • For years, Jack Posobiec — a notorious MAGA influencer, conservative activist, and election conspiracy theorist — has made it his mission to track down evidence of mass voter fraud. In Pennsylvania, he has frequently accused Democratic officials of election crimes and spread conspiracy theories about voter fraud.

  • Turns out Posobiec himself might actually be committing voter fraud in the Commonwealth: According to Slate, there’s a paper trail that suggests Posobiec lives in Maryland but votes in Pennsylvania, which experts say could violate state voting laws.

  • It’s unclear if Posobiec is breaking the law or under investigation, but a spokesperson for the Montgomery County DA’s office told Slate they don’t comment on active investigations.

GOP-backed SCOTUS case could open the floodgates for more post-election chaos

  • My colleague Jim Saksa has a great deep dive into a pivotal case before the U.S. Supreme Court that some of the leading anti-voting activists are watching closely.

  • SCOTUS is hearing oral argument in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections this week, a lawsuit that challenged Illinois’ law that permits mail-in ballots to be counted if received up to two weeks after Election Day. The court isn’t considering Illinois' law, but rather whether or not federal candidates have standing to challenge it. And leading anti-voting groups are urging the court to make it easier for candidates, and even other officials, to bring such challenges, which could let them deluge the courts in election litigation.

  • One person backing the lawsuit is Eye On The Right favorite Cleta Mitchell, who played a key role in the effort to use the courts and other means to create chaos and confusion in the post-election period in 2020 and early 2021.

  • “This case presents an opportunity for a badly needed course correction, and [I am] very hopeful the Supreme Court will accept the case and resolve the issue favorably in support of candidate standing to bring election cases to a court — be they Democrats, Republicans, or unaffiliated,” Mitchell said last year.

The Federalist calls on Trump administration to go after “nonpartisan voter registration” organizations

  • In the frenzied aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assasination, MAGA is thirsting for the Trump administration to dismantle left-leaning organizations, despite the fact that they had absolutely nothing to do with Kirk’s killing. The Federalist’s Parker Thayer recently called for the administration to dismantle the “‘charitable’ voter registration industry.”

  • Thayer accuses groups like the Everybody Votes Campaign and Voter Participation Center — two nonpartisan nonprofit voter registration organizations — of being secret Democratic Party operations, taking advantage of their tax-exempt nonprofit status to net “additional Democratic votes.”

  • He argues that these groups should, at a minimum, have their tax-exempt status revoked but adds that “[c]harges related to tax fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States could also be on the table.”

  • It’s an absolutely farcical suggestion for a number of reasons — primarily that these groups aren’t secret arms of the Democratic party and that their voter registration efforts are in compliance with nonprofit laws. But what I find utterly rich about the suggestion is that Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA, operated in part as a voter registration nonprofit for young conservatives, and was at times accused of violating tax laws with its get-out-the-vote events.
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Tina Peters’ lawyers submit election conspiracy-laden testimony in latest effort to free her

  • Attorneys for Tina Peters — the Colorado election clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a voting system data breach — submitted new evidence in their bid to win her release: sworn testimony from a “Venezuelan election executive from Smartmatic,” which they claim provides the smoking gun to prove her innocence.

  • According to the sworn testimony, which was published by election denier and Gateway Pundit co-founder Joe Hoft — so you know it’s coming from a trusted news source — Dominion Voting Systems equipment was "built with Chinese components in a voting system designed by former Smartmatic engineers, [and] are not secure or auditable in U.S. elections." In the words of Hoft: “This is huge.”

  • Jokes aside: No matter how much Trump and MAGA demand the release of Peters — nor how much more “evidence” like this her lawyers submit, Peters was convicted on state charges. That means the only person who can pardon her is Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), who’s been coy on the issue.
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