Local Republican officials across the country are taking aggressive steps to probe prior elections — from seizing ballots to making sweeping claims of noncitizens on the voter rolls — that mimic actions from the Trump administration’s hunt for 2020 voter fraud.
In Arizona’s Maricopa County, the official responsible for voter registration referred for prosecution more than 200 people suspected of being registered to vote as noncitizens, based on a database that’s turned up false positives elsewhere. The clerk in Macomb County, Michigan, touted noncitizen voters he claimed to have uncovered using jury records as he runs for secretary of state. And in California, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — a Republican candidate for governor — last month seized 650,000 ballots from the state’s 2025 special election to investigate a processing discrepancy alleged by conservative…
This type of fraud targets the supply chain and accounts payable departments of businesses.
- Invoice Manipulation: Criminals intercept a legitimate invoice between a supplier and a client and change the banking details to their own. The client pays the bill thinking they are paying their trusted vendor.
- Kickbacks and Bribery: A vendor secretly pays an employee of the purchasing company to ensure their bid is successful or to overlook inflated pricing.