Category Archives: chicanery

President Trump Appoints Country’s Worst Vote Suppressor to His “Election Integrity” Commission

June 29, 2017, 9:23 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

[Bumped to top] I thought it could not get worse with the Pence-Kobach faux election integrity commission with the appointment of Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State of Kansas who has trumped up claims of voter fraud to advance… Continue reading

Three Dangers of the Pence-Kobach Faux Commission Call for State Voter Roll Information

June 29, 2017, 1:27 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

This morning I blogged about the Pence-Kobach commission’s call for voter data, and how that raised privacy and other concerns. We we now have seen the letter (via Bryan Lowry), and it raises three immediateconcerns. The letter calls on… Continue reading

Pence-Kobach Commission Wants State Voter Data; Can It Protect Voter Privacy? Will State Election Officials Cooperate? Will House Kill EAC?

June 29, 2017, 8:55 amchicanery, Election Assistance Commission, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The sham Pence commission wants data from state voter rolls. But it is not clear how this will go. David Becker on the privacy issue and about concerns of securing the data.. It is also not clear whether Democratic… Continue reading

“New Report: How to Protect Election Infrastructure from Hostile Foreign Powers”

June 29, 2017, 8:05 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Release of a very important Brennan Center report: Amid ongoing congressional investigations into Russia’s unprecedented cyberattacks around the 2016 election, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law released a report today outlining specific actions lawmakers can quickly… Continue reading

Washington Times Story Reveals Details About Kobach’s Plan for “Election Integrity” Commission

June 28, 2017, 8:06 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Among the nuggets in here: commission to meet first in July in DC delay in naming commissioners supposedly because of background checks Obama won’t be called to testify because he has “no information or expertise on voter fraud” Lawyers’ Committee… Continue reading

“Russian Intrusion and Partisan Pressures: Aspects of Election Administration Reform After 2016”

June 28, 2017, 7:43 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Key Bauer post: What can be done about this? At a minimum, the election administration community should perform an “after action” audit of the 2016 episode and examine how the federal and state government performed in emergency conditions and how… Continue reading

“Transparency is Solution to Shameful Lack of Security For U.S. Voting Systems Revealed by NSA Leak”

June 27, 2017, 7:24 amchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Lisa Rosenbloom for the ACLU.

“GOP wants new election maps for NC judges and prosecutors”

June 26, 2017, 5:01 pmchicanery, judicial elections, redistrictingRick Hasen

News & Observer: A proposal to redraw North Carolina’s court districts has emerged in the final days of the General Assembly’s session. A state House judiciary committee considered proposed maps for Superior Court and District Court judges and district attorneys… Continue reading

Court Fines SOS Kobach $1000 for Misleading Court on NVRA Documents, Allows ACLU to Depose Kobach

June 23, 2017, 2:02 pmchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The 24-page order and opinion of the magistrate judge could be appealed. The underlying document—Kobach’s advice to Trump as to how to make it harder for people to register to vote by changing the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)—remains… Continue reading

“Who? White House names unknowns to voting panel”

June 23, 2017, 11:18 amchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Zack Roth: President Trump’s commission on voter fraud appears to be struggling to attract A-list talent, at least among Democrats. The White House announced three new members of the panel late Wednesday: Mark Rhodes, the clerk for Wood County, West… Continue reading

Ga. SOS Brian Kemp Still Skeptical Russians Tried to Hack Voting Machines

June 23, 2017, 8:09 amcampaigns, chicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

This, from the SOS of a state whose voting security is most worrisome: Brian Kemp, the Republican secretary of state of Georgia, used the call to denounce Johnson’s proposal as an assault on state rights. “I think it was… Continue reading

Today’s Must-Read: “Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault”

June 23, 2017, 8:07 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

What a WaPo story: In political terms, Russia’s interference was the crime of the century, an unprecedented and largely successful destabilizing attack on American democracy. It was a case that took almost no time to solve, traced to the Kremlin… Continue reading

Quote of the Day—Trump Election Integrity Commission Edition

June 22, 2017, 2:08 pmchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

“I don’t know why this has fallen on my shoulders,…I’m just a very small old country boy from Arkansas in this bigger commission with Vice President Pence, and I’m just going to do the best I can, to be honest.”… Continue reading

Two Democratic Members of Trump “Election Integrity” Commission Want to Add Consideration of Russian Hacking of Election Systems

June 22, 2017, 7:48 amchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Boston Globe: Two members of a presidential commission charged with investigating alleged voter fraud want the panel to focus on what could be the biggest fraudulent scheme of all: attempted Russian hacking of numerous state election systems. The call, by… Continue reading

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