Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Election Officials, Homeland Security Begin to Formalize Cybersecurity Efforts”

July 30, 2017, 12:07 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WSJ: Officials from a dozen states and the federal government took preliminary steps this week toward more formal cooperation regarding election-security efforts at a two-day meeting near Albany, N.Y. Attendees at the meeting Tuesday and Wednesday discussed coordinating information-sharing about… Continue reading

“Leader Of Voter Fraud Probe Really Doesn’t Want To Release Trump Meeting Documents”

July 30, 2017, 12:05 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

HuffPost: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) continued to fight releasing documents from a meeting with President Donald Trump in November, saying that the public did not need to see them and that disclosing them would impede his ability… Continue reading

“Hackers descend on Las Vegas to expose voting machine flaws”

July 30, 2017, 12:02 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politico: Verified Voting, Simons said, plans to partner with Braun and several other groups that have not yet been named to aggressively campaign for increasing DHS grants that would pay for states to make specific upgrades to their election security… Continue reading

“Kris Kobach says Trump’s voter fraud panel will keep voter data secure. Some states aren’t buying it”

July 28, 2017, 8:16 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

LAT reports.

“Don’t Let Our Democracy Collapse: A Q&A with Richard Hasen”

July 27, 2017, 10:07 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Interview over at FairVote.

“Pence’s voter fraud commission will almost certainly ‘find’ thousands of duplicate registrations that aren’t duplicates. Here’s why”

July 27, 2017, 7:16 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Stephen Pettigrew and Mayya Komisarchik for the Monkey Cage: Presumably, the commission will use the names and birthdays in these lists to identify potential duplicate registration records between states. That’s the method used by the Interstate Crosscheck Program pioneered… Continue reading

New Texas Bill Aimed at Absentee Ballot Fraud Could Violate First Amendment By Criminalizing Some Discussions of Candidates

July 26, 2017, 7:17 pmabsentee ballots, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

I’ve said for years that if Republicans were serious about combatting voter fraud, at the top of the list would be measures to stop absentee ballot fraud. Voter fraud is rare, but when it does happen, it more often involves… Continue reading

Kobach Promises Pence-Kobach Commission Will Deliver “Statistical Conclusions” from Voter Data He Won’t Let the Public Check

July 26, 2017, 6:33 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Seems fair. (Earlier post on Kobach’s pattern of misleading court in voting litigation)

“Worried about election hacking, L.A. County officials are turning to hackers for help”

July 26, 2017, 3:23 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voting technologyRick Hasen

LAT: Local election officials are looking for some good hackers. As part of an effort to create a new voting system, Los Angeles County computer specialists are headed this week to Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacking conventions, where… Continue reading

Maine SOS Dunlap Responds to Calls for His Resignation from Pence-Kobach Commission

July 26, 2017, 8:10 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

From an interview in The Atlantic: Dunlap: Some of the people who are opposed rather vehemently to the very existence of this commission say that I should resign, because being a respected elections official and a Democrat only lends… Continue reading

Federal Court Affirms $1000 Fine Against Kris Kobach for Misleading Court on Voting Documents Presented to Trump

July 25, 2017, 2:33 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

So reports Jonathan Shorman. Update: The district court’s opinion reviewing an earlier magistrate judge’s sanctions order against Kobach is here. Particularly noteworthy is the district court’s comment that SOS Kobach’s conduct “demonstrate a pattern” of misleading statements to the… Continue reading

“What does the US election integrity commission need to be credible? Some actual experts”

July 25, 2017, 1:03 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Michael Halpern and Michael Latner in The Guardian: But by far the most glaring omission in membership concerns people who can most effectively evaluate data on elections and voter fraud: election scientists. The last commission, headed by Obama… Continue reading

“After legal victory, Kobach says states will be sent new letter for voter information”

July 25, 2017, 8:57 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The KC Star reports.

“Voter fraud is rare, Ohio secretary of state tells Trump’s election integrity commission”

July 25, 2017, 7:34 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Cleveland.com reports.

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