Miles Rapoport for TAP. … Continue reading
Category Archives: election administration
Here is a guest post from Duncan Buell, NCR Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina: If you were to ask computing and election security experts for the two things they would most strongly oppose when it … Continue reading
You can listen to the oral argument here. With the caveat that one never knows how to read oral argument, and judges can change their minds before issuing an opinion, here are some thoughts: The judges seemed to believe that … Continue reading
AP: A federal appeals court will hear arguments Monday over the constitutionality of a struck-down Kansas law that required people to provide documents proving their U.S. citizenship before they could register to vote.In a case with national implications for voting … Continue reading
WRAL: Student IDs from a dozen University of North Carolina schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill, didn’t get the signoff they needed Friday for students to use them at the polls during the 2020 elections.With a deadline in state law passing, it’s … Continue reading
AJC: The Georgia House gave final legislative approval Thursday to buying a new $150 million touchscreen-and-paper ballot statewide voting system, sending the bill to Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature.The House voted 101-69 on the proposal for Georgia voters to … Continue reading
ABA event coming March 18. … Continue reading
Des Moines Register: Students at Iowa’s public universities would not be allowed to vote early on campus under a wide-ranging election bill that advanced in the Iowa Senate this week.The expansive measure would also make changes to other state election laws. … Continue reading
Wisconsin State Journal: The Wisconsin Elections Commission found two dozen cases of suspected voter fraud or other voting irregularities in the past year’s elections after a statewide review.The commission documented 24 cases of suspected fraud, such as voters reportedly voting … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: The list of missteps in the Texas secretary of state’s review of the voter rolls for supposed noncitizens grew again Monday, when the office inadvertently added additional people to its already flawed list of voters flagged for citizenship … Continue reading
ProPublica: n 2018, Facebook and Twitter decided to play a role in helping people register to vote in what promised to be a momentous midterm election. To do so, the social media platforms directed users almost exclusively to a website … Continue reading
Thread: 1/I have Dominion's response to Friday's letter from NY Board of Elections. A rare glimpse into anti-security mindset of voting machine vendors. Hacking concerns may delay Westchester's $6.1M plan to buy new voting machines https://t.co/zmoTv93PJu via @lohudREAD THIS THREAD— … Continue reading
Politico: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is no longer the state’s chief election official — but his combative style in defending its insecure voting technology lives on.Fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, Kemp’s successor as secretary of state, has been pursuing the same … Continue reading
Sam Levine for HuffPo: Most of the cases receiving sentencing hearings, it appears, were misunderstandings and mistakes made by voters and poll workers. But in February, during a sentencing hearing for Juan Francisco Landeros-Mireles, a Mexican immigrant who has been … Continue reading
The NY Times Editorial Board calls HR 1 the “Merrick Garland of reform legislation.” … Continue reading
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Final vote: 234-193. UPDATE: The text of the whole thing [will be] here. (As of 7:30pm ET on 3/8/19, the only text appears to be from an earlier version: the version actually considered is a combination of this, this, and … Continue reading
McConnell picks on one thing missing from H.R. 1. More on third parties collecting and returning absentee ballots, in California, here. … Continue reading
He picks his favorite parts of H.R. 1. … Continue reading
The New York Times runs down a brief summary of H.R. 1. … Continue reading
WaPo’s FactChecker reviews some of Hillary Clinton’s claims about the 2016 election at the Selma Bloody Sunday commemorative service for this past weekend. … Continue reading
TIME on the efforts of many election officials to protect the voting process against interference. And the Brennan Center on the work still to be done with respect to voting systems. … Continue reading
The reporting continues with respect to employees in the Kentucky Secretary of State’s office, looking up names in the voter registration rolls, potentially to assess political affiliation. The SOS’s office claims that “all searches were performed at the request of … Continue reading
Roll Call: The House Rules Committee will take up the package [HR 1] Tuesday, setting the parameters for consideration on the floor. Lawmakers then will debate the measure on the House floor over the following days, with an expected vote … Continue reading
From Florida, of course. … Continue reading
Deep dive by David Smiley in the Miami Herald. … Continue reading
So begins this opinion in the Texas voter purge case. (via Sam Levine) … Continue reading
Pam Fessler (back on the beat!) at NPR: ince 1995, federal law has required states to offer people a chance to register to vote when they visit a local motor vehicle office.But it turns out that Pennsylvania, like some other … Continue reading
CLC: A federal judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas said Monday that Texas counties involved in ongoing litigation may not purge registered voters or send letters demanding proof of citizenship until further order … Continue reading
Roll Call reports. … Continue reading
WaPo: Election security is already emerging as a key talking point on the campaign trail as Democrats offer up policies to secure votes from potential tampering and tout their own cybersecurity records — a sign they think this could be a strong … Continue reading
The latest from Goldfeder and Perez. … Continue reading
Steven Rosenfeld writes. … Continue reading
WaPo: Six months after a grand jury demanded millions of North Carolina voting records, state officials have announced they will release fewer than 800 voter files — a potentially significant setback for a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who has targeted noncitizen … Continue reading
Release via email: The Bipartisan Policy Center today launches three new task forces to develop recommendations that improve the voting experience in three key areas: voter registration, casting a vote, and counting the vote. “Having the people around the table who … Continue reading
Daily Beast: Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former Department of Homeland Security officials. And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately … Continue reading
AJC: A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a judge’s ruling that said Georgia’s electronic voting system poses a “concrete risk” to secure elections.The decision from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows the voting system lawsuit to move forward. The plaintiffs, … Continue reading
Doug Chapin: Yesterday, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) was formally restored to full membership for the first time in nearly ten years with the swearing in of two new recently confirmed Commissioners. … Full membership puts the EAC formally back … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: Although Republicans hold 19 seats in the 31-seat upper chamber and can largely consider legislation without the say of any Democrat, Whitley needs a two-thirds vote among the senators present when the full Senate votes on his nomination. … Continue reading
Amy Gardner reports for WaPo. … Continue reading
KCUR: Former Republican Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach rewrote the rules for voting in Kansas. Laws he pushed for required voters to show citizenship papers to register and ID at the polls. He secured prosecutorial powers for his office. Kobach’s … Continue reading
NBER: Effects of Photo ID Laws on Registration and Turnout: Evidence from Rhode IslandFrancesco Maria Esposito, Diego Focanti, Justine S. HastingsNBER Working Paper No. 25503Issued in January 2019NBER Program(s):Law and Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy We study the effect of photo ID laws on voting … Continue reading
Deep dive from WaPo: At about 4 a.m. on Aug. 23, federal agents rousted Jose Solano-Rodriguez from his bed in the suburbs of Raleigh. A couple of hours later, three agents knocked on Hyo Suk George’s door as she fed her rabbits … Continue reading
AP: Two Pennsylvania state lawmakers are making a disputed claim in a long-running, and possibly futile, effort by elections officials to determine how many non-U.S. citizens had registered to vote over the years.On Tuesday, the lawmakers, Republican state Reps. Daryl … Continue reading
From the court order (via Sam Levine): Before the court is defendants Kris Kobach and Scott Schwab’s Motion to Dismiss (Doc. 11). It presents two vexing questions of constitutional law: Does the Constitution recognize a right to informational privacy? And, … Continue reading
You can watch this great conversation here. Voting Rights and Wrongs: Hammer Museum, Jan. 31, 2019 … Continue reading
AJC: A judge on Friday ordered a rare second do-over election for a northeast Georgia House seat, finding that four voters didn’t live in the district, throwing its outcome into doubt.The new election means that voters will return to the polls for … Continue reading
AP: A judge has ruled that election officials in Kansas’ largest county violated open records law by refusing to provide names of hundreds of people whose provisional ballots were not counted in last August’s primary. Davis Hammet, president of Loud … Continue reading
The Curious Case of a Kentucky Cybersecurity Contract: In the months after the 2016 elections, state election administrators spent millions of dollars investigating and addressing the cyber intrusions that had penetrated voting systems in dozens of states. Kentucky Secretary of … Continue reading
Texas should have (and likely did) know better. Great reporting from Alexa Ura of the Texas Tribune. … Continue reading