Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Five sentenced to days in jail for Supreme Court disruption over campaign finance”

July 24, 2017, 10:42 amcampaign finance, chicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WaPo: Five protesters who disrupted a session of the U.S. Supreme Court by shouting disapproval of its rulings on campaign finance law were sentenced to either one or two weekends in prison Monday after losing a bid to overturn a… Continue reading

“The Case for Courage; Fight for voting rights, not just for yourself but for your neighbor, too.”

July 24, 2017, 7:56 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Andrew Cohen for the Brennan Center for Justice.

“Kobach is a ‘useful idiot’ for Russia”

July 23, 2017, 9:05 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Jennifer Rubin for WaPo: And that in a nutshell is the problem: We have an administration that finds it more helpful to fan Russian propaganda than to speak simple truths about America’s democratic system and Russia’s corrupt thugocracy. Supporting Russian… Continue reading

“The Trump election commission exists solely to justify a Trump lie”

July 23, 2017, 8:40 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

E.J. Dionne column.

“The Bogus Voter-Fraud Commission”

July 23, 2017, 8:39 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Well done NYT editorial.

“Scaramucci: ‘Probably Some Level Of Truth’ To Claim Millions Voted Illegally”

July 21, 2017, 1:24 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

TPM: New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci refused on Friday to distance himself from the Trump administration’s baseless claim that 3 million illegal votes cast for Hillary Clinton lost Donald Trump the popular vote, quickly extinguishing hopes the investment-banker-turned-Trump-insider… Continue reading

“A word with Kris Kobach; The voter-fraud commission relies on some really dodgy studies”

July 21, 2017, 1:18 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

The Economist: Research reports collected for years by the Brennan Centre for Justice at the New York University School of Law show that voter fraud in general and by non-citizens in particular is extraordinarily rare. In his own state, Mr… Continue reading

“Hill investigators, Trump staff look to Facebook for critical answers in Russia probe”

July 20, 2017, 5:16 pmcampaigns, chicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

CNN: There are two questions. One is: Was there coordination or collusion between the campaigns and these technology tools, which overwhelmed the search engine tools so that certain stories popped up at the top of your newsfeed. The second is,… Continue reading

“This anti-voter fraud program gets it wrong over 99 percent of the time. The GOP wants to take it nationwide.”

July 20, 2017, 3:10 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

WonkBlog: At the inaugural meeting of President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission on Wednesday, commission Vice-Chairman Kris Kobach of Kansas praised a data collection program run by his state as a model for a national effort to root out voter fraud.… Continue reading

“Trump DOJ: Trust Texas to Fix Racist Voter ID Law Without Court Oversight”

July 20, 2017, 1:10 pmDepartment of Justice, election administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Texas Observer reports.

Maine SOS Dunlap and Az SOS Reagan Defend Pence-Kobach Commission on PBS News Hour

July 20, 2017, 10:07 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Interview: WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Matthew Dunlap, what about this larger concern that has been raised by some people that this commission and its mission is going to be used to justify further national crackdown on voting rights? What do you make… Continue reading

“Kelly: States ‘nuts’ if they don’t ask feds for election protection help”

July 20, 2017, 7:45 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politico reports.

Today’s Must Read: “Exclusive: Read the Previously Undisclosed Plan to Counter Russian Hacking on Election Day”

July 20, 2017, 7:44 amcampaigns, chicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Quite a wow from Time: President Obama’s White House quietly produced a plan in October to counter a possible Election Day cyber attack that included extraordinary measures like sending armed federal law enforcement agents to polling places, mobilizing components of… Continue reading