Category Archives: The Voting Wars

Red Alert for Election Administration: Matthew Masterson May Be Out at EAC

February 22, 2018, 12:08 pmelection administration, Election Assistance Commission, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Reuters Exclusive: The head of a federal agency who has helped U.S. states protect election systems from possible cyber attacks by Russia or others is being removed from his post by Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and the… Continue reading

NAACP LDF Files Brief in Eleventh Circuit on Legality of Alabama Voter ID Law.

February 21, 2018, 6:07 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Read the brief and press release.

“The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine”

February 21, 2018, 4:47 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Kim Zetter for NYT Magazine: But for as long as experts have warned about security problems, voting machine makers and election officials have denied that the machines can be remotely hacked. The reason, they say, is that the systems are… Continue reading

“Attacking the ‘Woke’ Black Vote”

February 19, 2018, 4:04 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Charles Blow NYT column: One thing that is clear to me following the special counsel’s indictment of 13 Russians and three companies for interfering with our election is that the black vote was specifically under attack, from sources foreign and… Continue reading

Did My Predictions at Slate About What President Trump Would Mean for Voting Rights Come True?

February 19, 2018, 11:02 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Last year the staff at Slate asked me to predict what would happen with voting rights in the Trump era, as part of a broader set of predictions about Trump’s effects on politics, law, and culture. Well they’ve now gone … Continue reading

“Fights over voting rights a prelude to November midterm election”

February 13, 2018, 5:56 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

McClatchy with a voting wars curtain raiser. You are not going to want to miss some of the quotes in this article.

“Election Security in All 50 States”–New CAP Report and Big Monday Event

February 11, 2018, 9:08 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Center for American Progress: By Danielle Root, Liz Kennedy, Michael Sozan, and Jerry Parshall In 2016, America’s elections were targeted by a foreign nation-state intent on infiltrating and manipulating our electoral system. On September 22, 2017, it… Continue reading

“Lawsuit Filed Over Arkansas’ Revamped Voter ID Law”

February 7, 2018, 7:30 pmThe Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

VOA: An Arkansas resident asked a judge Wednesday to strike down a new state law requiring voters show photo identification before casting a ballot, arguing the measure causes the same problems as a nearly identical state voter ID law struck… Continue reading

North Carolina Republicans May Not Be Done Trying to Mess with Composition of State Election Boards

January 31, 2018, 9:02 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: Gov. Roy Cooper wants the legal wheels to spin faster after the North Carolina Supreme Court tossed out laws governing the makeup of a combined state elections and ethics board, hoping that will let him seat a new elections… Continue reading

Crosscheck Watch: “Eighth State Quietly Quit Free Anti-Voter-Fraud Program Over Security Concerns and ‘Unreliable’ Results”

January 29, 2018, 12:28 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Gizmodo: The State of Kentucky has pulled out of the Interstate Crosscheck System, Gizmodo has learned, making it the eighth state to quit the program so far—even though it cost nothing to participate. A source with direct knowledge of the… Continue reading

House Democrats Want Trey Gowdy to Issue Subpoena to DHS to Reveal Data on Attempted Russian Cyberhacking of 2016 Election Systems

January 29, 2018, 10:09 amchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Letter.

“North Carolina Mismanaged Itself Into Electoral Chaos”

January 29, 2018, 10:06 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bloomberg Businessweek: What sets North Carolina apart, though, is the breadth of institutions that have been thrown against a wall. As the state prepares for 2018 campaign filing deadlines in February, congressional and Statehouse maps and even the district boundaries… Continue reading

“Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Files New Lawsuit Against Trump Administration For Concealing Its Actions to Engage DOJ and DHS in Work of Commission on Election Integrity”

January 28, 2018, 9:54 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) for blocking the public release of information related to their efforts to investigate unfounded claims of… Continue reading

NC: “In power struggle with GOP lawmakers, Cooper wins election board revamp lawsuit”

January 28, 2018, 9:47 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

News & Observer: For the second time since Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper took office, the state Supreme Court issued a ruling striking down an attempt by the Republican-led General Assembly to revamp the state elections board. In a 4-3 ruling… Continue reading