Category Archives: chicanery

“ACLU seeks sanctions against Kobach and public disclosure of Trump documents”

May 23, 2017, 5:51 pmchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bryan Lowry: The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal court to enable documents from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s November meeting with President Donald Trump to be made public. Kobach earlier this month handed over the documents,… Continue reading

“Real Voter Fraud: Suppression, Intimidation and Denying the Right to Vote “

May 23, 2017, 12:14 pmchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Jim Condos, Vt. Secretary of State writes: I am deeply troubled by the announcement that the President signed an executive order establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud in our elections. Since the 2016 election, President Trump has… Continue reading

“Two poll workers plead guilty to illegal voting”

May 22, 2017, 6:19 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Houston Chronicle: Two people who worked as election clerks during the May 2016 primary runoff have pleaded guilty to unlawfully casting a ballot for another person, Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart announced Monday. Jeanene Johnson, 63, and Latunia Thomas, 46,… Continue reading

Same Ultra-Right Campaign Mega-Donors Bankroll Fomenting Campus Unrest

May 21, 2017, 9:20 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: The speeches are a part of the group’s mission of grooming future conservative leaders — Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller, a White House adviser, are among its alumni — and its long list of donors has included… Continue reading

“‘Kris Kobach Came After Me for an Honest Mistake’; Trump’s pick to investigate his theories about voter fraud has a record of targeting older conservatives.”

May 21, 2017, 9:12 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politico: When Kris Kobach, Kansas’ aggressive secretary of state, convinced the state legislature to give him prosecutorial power to pursue voter fraud, he said it was necessary to root out tens of thousands of undocumented aliens who were voting as… Continue reading

More Details on How Kobach is Assembling Fraudulent Fraud Squad Voting Commission

May 19, 2017, 10:45 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Anniston Star: Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill says he will have some say in who gets selected to serve on a federal election fraud panel led by Vice President Mike Pence…. Merrill said he knew about the plan… Continue reading

“Donald Trump voter fraud commission ignores real problem”

May 18, 2017, 7:46 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Josh Douglas in USA Today: Improving the voting process is a goal worthy of a presidential commission on voting. Trying to bolster the credibility of already-debunked theories of voter fraud is not.

“North Carolina Republicans Are Already Working on a New Voter Suppression Bill”

May 18, 2017, 7:43 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Mark Joseph Stern for Slate: On Monday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to North Carolina’s notorious voter suppression law, refusing to review a lower court’s decision to block the measure for “target[ing] African Americans with almost surgical… Continue reading

“5 Points On What Trump’s Bogus Elections Commission Is Really About”

May 17, 2017, 9:08 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Tierney Sneed for TPM.

“Trump’s Fraudulent Voter-Fraud Commission”

May 16, 2017, 7:20 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT editorial: To state the obvious, this isn’t a commission. It’s a self-driving vehicle preprogrammed to arrive at only one destination: that strange, fact-free land in which, according to Mr. Trump and many conservatives, hordes of foreigners and people without… Continue reading

“A Seeker of Kansas Voter Fraud Gets a National Soapbox”

May 14, 2017, 9:33 pmchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: Kris W. Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, oversees an office whose clerical and regulatory work costs the state’s taxpayers barely $5.5 million a year. But he has parlayed that modest post into a national platform for tough restrictions… Continue reading