Overview
- Peter Ticktin, an 80-year-old lawyer and Trump’s former schoolmate, told Vanity Fair he advised the president to issue an executive order to run the November vote.
- He alleges foreign actors skewed past elections and claims a Belgrade, Serbia data center was disabled in 2024, which he says enabled Trump’s victory.
- Ticktin calls for banning voting machines and requiring public hand counts of paper ballots as his proposed remedy.
- Raw Story reports that Michael Flynn and Jerome Corsi have pressed similar steps, and that White House lawyer Kurt Olsen and Homeland Security official Heath Honey joined meetings on the topic.
- Ticktin acknowledges the Constitution assigns states authority over elections and says he drafted an outline as justification, while a 17-page memo circulating in conservative circles is denied by him and Corsi as their work.