You can find the 83-page opinion at this link. Near the end of the opinion, the court rejects treating race as party proxy argument: Based on the totality of the circumstances, Plaintiffs have not shown that the legislature enacted H.B. … Continue reading
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
NYT: Russia was preparing to undermine confidence in the United States’ voting process when its hackers surveilled around 20 state election systems in the run-up to the 2016 elections, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a brief report released on Tuesday. … Continue reading
News and Observer: Four North Carolina voters can pursue their libel lawsuit against allies of former Gov. Pat McCrory and a Virginia law firm that tried to help the Republican politician’s unsuccessful effort to disqualify votes and win re-election in … Continue reading
Howard has it. And see my earlier post on the case, which begins: In what I consider to be a fundamentally disingenuous analysis by 5th Circuit Judge Edith Jones, a divided 5th Circuit panel has not only held that Texas’s … Continue reading
Manny Fernandez reports for the NY Times. … Continue reading
You can find a majority opinion by Judge Jones, concurring opinion by Judge Higginbotham, and dissenting opinion by Judge Graves in Veasey v. Abbott at this link. In what I consider to be a fundamentally disingenuous analysis by 5th Circuit … Continue reading
Washington Times: Michael J. Truncale, one of President Trump’s judicial nominees, said Wednesday he’s personally witnessed incidents of voter fraud while serving as an election judge in Texas. He made the revelation under questioning by Sen. Mazie Hirono, Hawaii Democrat, who … Continue reading
The Root: Right now, there is a black woman sitting in prison, reading about a Texas judge who was found guilty of the same crime she committed. She probably noticed that the judge was sentenced to five years’ probation in … Continue reading
Arizona Republic: Roughly 140,000 Maricopa County voters have not received ID cards, potentially leaving eligible voters in Tuesday’s special congressional election unaware that they can cast a ballot. County election officials said they haven’t sent cards out since December, blaming a … Continue reading
Journal-Sentinel: Attorney General Brad Schimel this week suggested Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 because the state had its voter ID law in place. His comments drew a rebuke from liberals, who said they saw it as an admission by … Continue reading
Pema Levy for Mother Jones. … Continue reading
WMUR: Secretary of State Bill Gardner has been saying for several weeks now that he intends to release new information about potential voter fraud later this spring, when his comprehensive review of registration and voting lists, using the Interstate Voter … Continue reading
Read it here. It considers the kind of post-hoc arguments that can be made to justify a law affecting voting rights. … Continue reading
NYT: A Census Bureau panel of expert advisers on Friday rebuked the Trump administration’s decision to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, saying the move relied on “flawed logic” and posed a host of potential threats to the accuracy … Continue reading
NHPR: Not long after Gardner made those statements, I asked him if I could see the cases he was talking about. With all of the talk about people’s perceptions of voting fraud in New Hampshire, I wanted to know more … Continue reading
Podcast from Take Care: On a new episode of Versus Trump, Jason talks to Rick Hasen, a leading election law scholar and purveyor of the Election Law Blog, about what’s going on at the voting booth, possible campaign finance law violations by both Trump … Continue reading
Dan Wallach oped in the Star-Telegram: Election winners are always happy to take the win, but the losers — and often the voters — require evidence, and that evidence needs strong backing. Modern voting systems must engender confidence that the … Continue reading
NPR’s All Things Considered reports. … Continue reading
News and Observer: The four Democrats and four Republicans on the new state elections board went ’round and ’round Wednesday, casting tie vote after tie vote, as they looked for the board’s ninth member. But then they fell into an … Continue reading
NYT: A day after urging elections officials to shore up their systems ahead of the midterm voting, the Senate Intelligence Committee planned to call top federal and state elections security officials to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to explain how they are trying … Continue reading
Ellsworth-American: The whole affair began when he received a call from Kobach asking if he’d join the commission. At first, he said, he had no intention to help. But friends and colleagues advised him that he could play a regulating … Continue reading
Daniel Nachanian oped for NBC Think. … Continue reading
Lead Sunday NYT editorial. … Continue reading
Frank Askin oped. … Continue reading
Kira Lerner: Georgia Republicans are advancing a bill through the state legislature that would suppress African-American turnout by eliminating Sunday voting and cutting the hours that polls are open in Atlanta. The bill, SB 363, would force polls in the majority African American … Continue reading
The district court had dismissed Common Cause’s claim that Georgia’s voter purge law violated the NVRA and the First Amendment. Today, the Eleventh Circuit, in a brief, unpublished opinion, sent the case back and told the trial court to reconsider … Continue reading
TPM: The chair of the Republican Party in Chicago last year passed on allegations of voter fraud to a member of President Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission, using a top Justice Department official as intermediary, newly released emails reveal. The emails, … Continue reading
Atlanta-Journal Constitution: Voters in Atlanta would have one less hour to cast their ballots under a bill that cleared a subcommittee Thursday. The legislation, Senate Bill 363, would force the city of Atlanta to close its polls at 7 p.m. like … Continue reading
Boston Globe: President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact. The rider has … Continue reading
Powerful NYT editorial. … Continue reading
Via Mike Allen. Mike, Rep. Terri Sewell, and I had a great panel at SXSW. When the video posts, I’ll post a link. … Continue reading
Hope to see folks there! … Continue reading
Brennan Center: By a number of key metrics, the country has failed to make significant progress securing voting machines, despite increasing warnings about system vulnerabilities from election officials and national security experts. An analysis released today by the Brennan Center for Justice … Continue reading
Kansas.com: Kobach suggested another witness was also biased. He read aloud tweets from Michael McDonald, a professor at the University of Florida, that disparaged Kobach. One tweet referenced reports that a staffer for Vice President Mike Pence had called Kobach … Continue reading
Byran Lowry for the KC Star. … Continue reading
Sam Levine for HuffPo. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
SOS Dunlap says he’s no hero. … Continue reading
NYT: Faced with unrelenting interference in its election systems, the United States has not forced Russia to pay enough of a price to persuade President Vladimir V. Putin to stop meddling, a senior American intelligence official said on Tuesday. Adm. … Continue reading
Strong opposition (livestream of Wednesday press conference). … Continue reading
Eric Geller for Politico: At the heart of this election security standoff is an acrimonious relationship between the researchers who analyze voting systems for digital flaws and the vendors trying to preserve their profits and reputations in a small, difficult … Continue reading
Reuters Exclusive: The head of a federal agency who has helped U.S. states protect election systems from possible cyber attacks by Russia or others is being removed from his post by Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and the … Continue reading
Read the brief and press release. … Continue reading
Kim Zetter for NYT Magazine: But for as long as experts have warned about security problems, voting machine makers and election officials have denied that the machines can be remotely hacked. The reason, they say, is that the systems are … Continue reading
Charles Blow NYT column: One thing that is clear to me following the special counsel’s indictment of 13 Russians and three companies for interfering with our election is that the black vote was specifically under attack, from sources foreign and domestic. And … Continue reading
Last year the staff at Slate asked me to predict what would happen with voting rights in the Trump era, as part of a broader set of predictions about Trump’s effects on politics, law, and culture. Well they’ve now gone … Continue reading
McClatchy with a voting wars curtain raiser. You are not going to want to miss some of the quotes in this article. … Continue reading
Center for American Progress: By Danielle Root, Liz Kennedy, Michael Sozan, and Jerry Parshall In 2016, America’s elections were targeted by a foreign nation-state intent on infiltrating and manipulating our electoral system. On September 22, 2017, it was reported that the U.S. Department of … Continue reading
VOA: An Arkansas resident asked a judge Wednesday to strike down a new state law requiring voters show photo identification before casting a ballot, arguing the measure causes the same problems as a nearly identical state voter ID law struck … Continue reading
AP: Gov. Roy Cooper wants the legal wheels to spin faster after the North Carolina Supreme Court tossed out laws governing the makeup of a combined state elections and ethics board, hoping that will let him seat a new elections … Continue reading