“Seaman: The harmful myth of widespread voter fraud”
Chris Seaman has written this oped for the Roanoke Times.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
NC: “Fact Check: Were ‘tens of thousands’ of 2016 voters not verified?”
WRAL:
During a discussion of voter fraud during this week’s episode of WRAL News’ “On the Record,” Francis De Luca of the conservative Civitas Institute cited a statistic to highlight the potential that some number of people in North Carolina… Continue reading
“Voter Fraud, Redux et Redux”
Miles Rapoport blogs at the Ash Center’s Challenges to Democracy blog.
Irony Alert: Is Kansas SOS Kobach Foot-Dragging on Investigation of Alleged Voter Fraud by Republican Sheriff?
Lawrence Journal-World:
Sheriff McGovern, a Republican who was re-elected in 2016, said he and his mother had no intention of wrongdoing when she registered to vote at an address that she no longer lived at.
When asked why he thought… Continue reading
“Virginia voter registration records have loopholes but no evidence of widespread fraud”
Very useful piece from the Virginia Pilot.
Texas Prosecutors Could Target Voters Who Used Affidavits and Refused to Show Valid IDs
AP:
The Texas law requires voters to show one of seven approved forms of identification to cast ballots. It was softened in August to allow people without a driver’s license or other photo ID to sign an affidavit declaring that… Continue reading
“Citing Trump’s voter fraud lie, states are working to make it harder to vote”
Important Kira Lerner at Think Progress;
At the annual gathering of secretaries of state in Washington, D.C. this week, Republican elections chiefs blocked an attempt to official denounceTrump’s lie. Instead, they cited the president’s claims, telling ThinkProgress they support… Continue reading
“Trump’s Labor Pick Has a History of Attacking Voting Rights”
John Nichols for the Nation:
Robert Kengle, the deputy chief of the Voting Section, said he left his position because of the extreme politicization of the department during the time of Acosta’s leadership. Kengle said the controversial letter brief in… Continue reading
With Democratic Governor Silent, North Carolina Tees Up #SCOTUS Review of Its Strict Voting Law
North Carolina has filed its reply brief in the North Carolina voting case, and the Supreme Court is set to review it at its March 3 conference. (If the Court does grant review, it typically takes at least two conferences… Continue reading
Washington Times Says 1-2 Million Hispanic Non-Citizens Illegally Registered to Vote in U.S.
“The president lays the groundwork for a nationwide voter intimidation program”
Sherillyn Ifill oped for WaPo.
“Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. We did the research”
Zoltan L. Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson for The Monkey Cage:
When we compare overall turnout in states with strict ID laws to turnout in states without these laws, we find no significant difference. That pattern matches with… Continue reading
“Responses to a Pence Commission on Voter Fraud”
Important Bauer on how election administration experts should respond to the Pence Commission:
This leaves members of this community with a couple of choices.
One is declining to participate: no testimony, no written submissions. The Commission will want to say… Continue reading
“Demos and Project Vote team with Hogan Lovells to Help Prevent Unlawful Voter Purge in Philadelphia”
Release:
Today, voting rights groups Demos and Project Vote urged a federal appeals court to uphold a decision dismissing an attempt by the so-called “American Civil Rights Union” (ACRU) to force the City of Philadelphia to conduct an unnecessary… Continue reading