Category Archives: The Voting Wars

Important NYT editorial on the 2012 voting wars.

Press Release on Another Ohio voting battle

November 3, 2012, 8:17 pmabsentee ballots, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Via email: MEDIA ALERT 8 p.m. Nov. 3, 2012 Contact: Norman Robbins, Research Director, Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates e-mail: [email protected]; telephone 216-767-1525 or (2nd choice) 216-632-9556 THOUSANDS OF OHIO VOTERS LIKELY TO BE DISENFRANCHISED BECAUSE SECRETARY OF STATE HUSTED… Continue reading

“Ohio provisional ballot voting order criticized”

November 3, 2012, 8:10 pmelection administration, provisional ballots, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: “Voter advocates on Saturday criticized an order by Ohio’s elections chief dealing with the casting of provisional ballots, saying it increases the likelihood that votes could be wrongly rejected…They want the matter clarified by federal judge Algenon Marbley,… Continue reading

“Active-duty service members disenfranchised by Fla. voter purge”

November 3, 2012, 12:02 pmelection administration, military voting, The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

CBS News: “Tampa-area resident and Navy captain Peter Kehring has spent more than 30 years in the U.S. military. But due to Florida GOP Gov. Rick Scott’s recent purge of voter rolls, Kehring will not be able to cast… Continue reading

“Lawyers descend on Ohio–Just in Case”

November 3, 2012, 11:27 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

See here.

Florida as the Next Florida

November 3, 2012, 9:22 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

The polls seem to show President Obama with a small but persistent lead in Ohio, lowering the chances that we’ll be waiting a couple of weeks for the result of the election thanks to the state’s scheduled delay in counting… Continue reading

“Dirty tricks sully US presidential election”

November 3, 2012, 8:45 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

AFP reports.

“Virginia voter fraud case expands to focus on GOP firm”

November 2, 2012, 9:00 pmchicanery, The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

The Washington Post reports.

“List of purportedly dead N.C. voters includes some live ones”

November 2, 2012, 6:10 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Same as it ever was.

“No, Romney’s Son Is Not Gunning To Steal Ohio Vote By Rigging Voting Machines”

November 2, 2012, 4:26 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voting technologyRick Hasen

NPR reports. I expect Tamara Keith, the reporter on this story, is going to get the same tin-foiled hate mail that I’ve been getting for rejecting the left-wing election truthers who are convinced that the voting machines are rigged… Continue reading

“Election 2012 Recounts”

November 2, 2012, 4:17 pmrecounts, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Brennan Center: PUBLICATIONS By Lawrence Norden – 11/02/12 With the polls deadlocked just a few days before Election Day, state recount laws once again take on national significance. It is no exaggeration to say that these laws could determine who… Continue reading