Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Asking Better Questions About Voter Identification Laws”

December 17, 2017, 3:46 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Eli Poupko: Everyone agrees that voters must be identified before casting a ballot. The debate is over the particulars of the identification procedure. Specifically, we might ask: How much of the burden of this administrative process may a state… Continue reading

After DNC Takes Sean Spicer Deposition About Violation of Consent Decree in RNC v. DNC Case, DNC Wants More Discovery and RNC Wants Court to Acknowledge Consent Decree Over

December 15, 2017, 7:53 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Following he Spicer deposition, we see these two post-deposition letters from the RNC. In the second, the RNC writes: The RNC believes that a mere reading of the deposition transcript will refute the DNC’s assertions, which range from wholly speculative… Continue reading

“The Price Black Voters Paid to Defeat Roy Moore; Black voters endured waves of voter suppression to help elect Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate, and it didn’t have to be that way.”

December 14, 2017, 7:59 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Brentin Mock for CityLab.

“The Republican Overseeing the Alabama Election Doesn’t Think Voting Should Be Easy”

December 11, 2017, 8:29 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Pema Levy: This time last year, Alabama’s chief elections official landed in the national spotlight for delivering a screed against nonvoters that many people interpreted as an attack on African Americans in the state, who have long faced barriers to… Continue reading

“The Alabama Senate Race May Have Already Been Decided”

December 11, 2017, 8:11 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Scott Douglas NYT oped: The Senate election in Alabama on Tuesday is not just about the choice between Doug Jones and Roy Moore. It’s also about a voter suppression campaign that may well sway the result of a close race.… Continue reading

Detroit’s Election Administration Remains a National Embarrassment

December 10, 2017, 11:58 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

In this forthcoming piece on the 2016 voting wars in the U.S., I describe in some detail the debacle that was the Detroit recount, part of the (eventually abandoned) recall attempt by Jill Stein after the 2016 presidential election. The… Continue reading

“Disenfranchised because of voter ID bureaucracy? VoteRiders and Kathleen Unger can help”

December 7, 2017, 12:20 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Patt Morrison Interviews democracy champion Kathleen Unger about the indispensable work with voter ids that Kathleen and VoteRiders do for voters who need them.

“Federal appeals judges question challenge to revised Texas voter ID law”

December 5, 2017, 8:13 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: In Texas’ bid to keep its voter identification law intact, it was its legal foes — lawyers representing voting and civil rights groups and individual voters of color — who faced a tougher line of questioning Tuesday before… Continue reading

“Trump’s voter fraud commission plans to create a massive voter database. Former national security officials say it could be hacked.”

December 5, 2017, 7:40 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WaPo: More than a half-dozen technology experts and former national security officials filed an amicus brief Tuesday urging a federal court to halt the collection of voter information for a planned government database. Former national intelligence director James R. Clapper… Continue reading

“Texas back in court on ‘discriminatory’ voter ID law”; 5th Circuit Panel Draw is Higginbotham, Jones, and Graves

December 4, 2017, 8:01 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Oral argument before the 5th Circuit Tuesday in Veasey case on the intentional discrimination question. With Judges Edith Jones and James Graves on the panel, there is likely to be a dissent, given how each voted in the last … Continue reading

“I’m on Trump’s voter fraud commission. I’m suing it to find out what it’s doing.”

December 1, 2017, 7:49 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Maine SOS Matt Dunlap for WaPo Outlook.

“Sean Spicer may hold key to future of N.J. Trump voter intimidation case”

December 1, 2017, 7:45 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Jonathan Salant for NJ.com. Sean Spicer’s visit to Trump Tower on Election Night looms large as a federal judge decides whether to end Republican National Committee’s 35-year restriction on its voter activities in a case that began with a New… Continue reading

Update on DNC v. RNC Consent Decree: “Judge allows DNC to depose Spicer on election night activities”

November 29, 2017, 12:43 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politico: A federal judge said Wednesday that he’ll allow the Democratic National Committee to depose Sean Spicer, the former Republican National Committee communications director and White House spokesman, on whether he violated a 35-year-old consent decree barring the RNC… Continue reading