Category Archives: The Voting Wars

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“Want to Rock the Vote? Fill the Election Assistance Commission”

January 9, 2014, 8:43 amelection administration, Election Assistance Commission, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Abby Rapoport writes for TAP.

“Hamstrung federal panel leads to stalemate over voter fraud spending”

January 8, 2014, 2:01 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The Quad-City Times reports.

“Potential voter fraud cases from 2012 election often dropped as simple mistakes, elderly confusion”

January 7, 2014, 11:36 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

A necessary (and unfortunately rare) follow-up after sensationalized voter fraud allegations: “- Despite concerns by some Ohio lawmakers about voter fraud, most of the voting irregularities that elections officials reported during the 2012 general election did not result in criminal… Continue reading

“Voter ID in Britain? A Note of Caution from Academic Research”

January 7, 2014, 10:59 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Toby James writes.

“Race or Party?: How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere”

January 7, 2014, 7:36 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Today the Harvard Law Review Forum has posted my new essay.

The Voting Wars Come to Forsyth County, NC

January 5, 2014, 8:15 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

A reader sends along the following links about a partisan fight over firing the County’s election director, ad the involvement of the controversial Civitas Institute: Forsyth elections board files petition to fire Coffman http://m.journalnow.com/news/elections/local/article_8c42b4ce-62d9-11e3-8849-0019bb30f31a.html?mode=jqm The Petition http://civitasreview.com/files/2013/12/20131212140347248.pdf Coffman denies misconduct… Continue reading

“Voter Suppression Group’s Poll Finds Most Do Not Consider ‘Voter Fraud’ A Significant Problem”

January 3, 2014, 8:36 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Think Progress: A new poll by a pro-voter suppression group asked 1,000 American adults about the issue of voter fraud in the United States. And despite their arguably slanted question, just 36 percent of those polled agreed with the… Continue reading

“Ohio Republicans aren’t done changing voting laws yet”

January 3, 2014, 8:35 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Ohio Public Radio reports.

“AG’s office won’t charge activist over recall vote”

January 3, 2014, 8:34 amchicanery, recall elections, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: “The Colorado attorney general’s office won’t criminally charge a prominent conservative activist for changing his residency to vote in the recall election of Senate President John Morse.”