President Donald Trump’s administration is full of election deniers and conspiracy theorists who are already working to rig future elections. Also in this week’s Eye On The Right: the Trump administration formally asked for custody of Tina Peters, Michigan GOPers want the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to take over the state’s elections, and more.

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Trump’s administration is full of election deniers — they’re already working to rig the vote

• Since Trump’s return to the White House, the president has made it clear that voter suppression is a top priority. To help fulfill that goal, Trump has stacked his administration with election deniers and conspiracy theorists in key posts who are already working to rig future elections.
  
  
• My latest enterprise piece digs into the anti-voting history of some of the most prominent election deniers in the Trump administration — and how these once-fringe figures are now emboldened to continue peddling election conspiracies and, even more troublingly, to take steps to undermine the fairness of future contests.
  
  
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Trump administration formally asks for custody of convicted election denier Tina Peters

• An update in the ongoing saga of election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero Tina Peters, who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence in Colorado for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach: The Trump administration formally asked the Colorado Department of Corrections last week for Peters to be transferred from a state prison to federal custody.
  
  
• Peter Ticktin, Peters’ lawyer and a fringe anti-voting figure himself, said that he believes the Trump administration wants Peters to be more easily involved in 2020 election investigations.
  
  
• “Tina Peters is in state prison because she committed crimes that put the safety of our elections at risk,” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) said in an emailed statement to Democracy Docket. “There is no basis for the Bureau of Prisons to request a transfer of her custody. Any scheme to prevent her from being held accountable under Colorado law is outrageous.”
  
  
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Michigan Republicans want DOJ to take over state’s elections

• Trouble a-brewing in the Great Lakes State over the upcoming midterm election: A coalition of 22 GOP Michigan lawmakers want the DOJ to take over the state’s 2026 primary and general elections.
  
  
• In a letter to DOJ, the lawmakers wrote that Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson (D) will be overseeing an election in which she is also running for governor. “Such a situation risks compromising the impartiality required for fair election oversight and demands external federal scrutiny to maintain public trust,” they wrote. 
  
  
• Past Michigan secretaries of state, including one who signed the letter, have been candidates in elections they’ve overseen, with the GOP raising no objections.
  
  
• The letter is the latest development in Michigan GOPers conspiracy-fueled partisan effort to discredit Benson, relitigate the 2020 election, and sow more election denialism for the 2026 midterms. And it comes amid fears that the Trump administration will use any pretext to exert control over next year’s midterms.
  
  
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The DOJ appears to be probing debunked 2020 election conspiracy theories

• According to a recent report from The Guardian, DOJ is probing debunked claims of voter fraud in Georgia in the 2020 election. Mark Davis, a prominent anti-voting activist, said he received a call from a DOJ investigator following up on Davis’ claims that hundreds of voters illegally voted in previous jurisdictions in the 2020 election, despite moving.
  
  
• Other anti-voting activists are egging on DOJ to probe additional counties in the Peach State over other 2020 election conspiracies: The right-wing outlet Rasmussen Reports said on social media that DOJ should “break down the doors” to obtain Fulton County’s 2020 ballots, insinuating mass voter fraud in the pivotal swing county.
  
  
• The DOJ hasn’t publicly said if they’re investigating voter fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia, but Trump has recently escalated his demands for investigations and prosecutions.