Category Archives: The Voting Wars

#NCGov: “2004 NC race may have set precedent for governor’s outcome”

November 23, 2016, 4:12 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Important piece in News & Observer on how the state legislature could try to decide a McCrory election contest (quoting my point about how if it did so it could raise serious federal constitutional concerns heard in a federal… Continue reading

New Claims of Electronic Vote Rigging Used to Steal Election from Clinton: What to Think?

November 22, 2016, 4:13 pmchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Quite a report from Gabriel Sherman: Hillary Clinton is being urged by a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers to call for a recount in three swing states won by Donald Trump, New York has learned. The group,… Continue reading

McCrory Calls for Recount in NCGov Race, NC Board of Elections Meeting Allows Counties to Continue Counting, But More Protests Coming

November 22, 2016, 10:57 amelection administration, recounts, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Press release from McCrory team, which is behind Cooper right now by about 6,000 votes. (A candidate can request a recount if the number < 10,000. It will be very hard to make up a 6,000 vote deficit, and… Continue reading

NC: “Civitas Sues to Block Counting of Same-Day Votes”

November 22, 2016, 8:34 amchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WTVD reports. Given that the Fourth Circuit ordered this provision restored, hard to me to see that this complaint is about anything other than trying to stir up more doubts about the election.

“No, NC Republicans can’t just declare Pat McCrory a winner without courts having a say”

November 21, 2016, 8:29 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Peter St. Onge for Charlotte Observer: So what’s the misinformation? The New York Times wrote Saturday, and Slate repeated Monday, that N.C. law not only allows the General Assembly to declare a winner in the governor’s race, but… Continue reading

926-Page Record in Tomorrow’s NC Gov McCrory Challenge Hearing

November 21, 2016, 8:08 pmrecounts, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Here.

Does Kris Kobach Have Plans to Amend National Voter Registration Act, Presumably to Make Registration Tougher?

November 21, 2016, 1:15 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Via Ryan Reilly Kobach memo: "Draft Amendments to National Voter…." https://t.co/pmB28YeHF1 (CC: @rickhasen) — Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 21, 2016

“In latest voter ID filing, feds argue Texas discriminated on purpose”

November 20, 2016, 3:24 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: Months after a federal appeals court ruled that Texas lawmakers discriminated against African-American and Latino voters in passing a strict voter identification law, the Obama administration and civil rights groups are asking a judge to go a step… Continue reading

“Voting Rights in the Age of Trump”

November 19, 2016, 9:51 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman NYT oped: Mr. Trump’s Justice Department will also present a severe threat to voting rights. It could choose not to vigorously enforce the Voting Rights Act, instead pressing states to take more aggressive action to combat alleged… Continue reading

“North Carolina Republicans Battle to Save Governor, Trailing by Whisker”

November 18, 2016, 5:52 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT: Democrats and Republicans in this fiercely contested political battleground have regularly resorted to creative legal maneuvers and election-law changes in their efforts to wring every last vote from the state’s nearly seven million voters. But even by that standard,… Continue reading

“NC voting complications expected to delay outcome of races”

November 18, 2016, 7:39 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

News and Observer: Uncertainty over how many as-yet uncounted votes will be added to the results of last week’s election is not likely to be resolved by Friday’s deadline, delaying the outcome of close races for governor and other offices.… Continue reading

“Both in court and under Trump, Texas Voter ID law faces uncertain future”

November 18, 2016, 7:29 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Texas Tribune reports.

“Issa seeks to challenge ballots in close race”

November 16, 2016, 4:19 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

San Diego Union-Tribune: Rep. Darrell Issa said in a fundraising appeal Wednesday that he is mounting an effort to challenge the legality of some ballots still being counted in his tight re-election race . Issa said that he leads Democrat… Continue reading

“Bladen County votes scrutinized”; Implications for NCGOV?

November 16, 2016, 7:53 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

News and Observer: A protest has been filed in Bladen County alleging that a handful of people may have improperly submitted hundreds of absentee ballots, while also getting paid for get-out-the-vote efforts by a community group funded by the N.C.… Continue reading