Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Grimes To Trump: I Won’t Send Kentucky Voter Data”
WFPL:
Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes says her office will not release state voter data to President Donald Trump’s election commission….
Grimes, a Democrat, issued a statement on Twitter saying she would not release state voters’ sensitive personal… Continue reading
Charles Stewart, Leading Expert on Election Administration, Cautions on Pence-Kobach Science Experiment
Smart and careful post from Charles:
I’ve had a chance now to read the letter that vice-chair Kris Kobach has sent to the states, requesting that they send the Pence Commission copies of their publicly available voter files. My initial… Continue reading
David Becker Ties DOJ Actions on Voter List Purging to Pence-Kobach Commission and Move to Disband EAC
Smart post:
The fact that all these things happened on the same day raises significant questions and concerns. Is the DOJ coordinating with the PACEI, and if so, what role is the DOJ playing in the PCEI’s efforts? How does… Continue reading
Three Dangers of the Pence-Kobach Faux Commission Call for State Voter Roll Information
This morning I blogged about the Pence-Kobach commission’s call for voter data, and how that raised privacy and other concerns. We we now have seen the letter (via Bryan Lowry), and it raises three immediateconcerns. The letter calls on… Continue reading
Pence-Kobach Commission Wants State Voter Data; Can It Protect Voter Privacy? Will State Election Officials Cooperate? Will House Kill EAC?
The sham Pence commission wants data from state voter rolls.
But it is not clear how this will go.
David Becker on the privacy issue and about concerns of securing the data..
It is also not clear whether Democratic… Continue reading
“Should It Be Easier To Vote? Americans Are Deeply Divided By Party”
Pam Fessler for NPR:
Most Americans – 59 percent — think everything possible should be done to make it easy for citizens to vote. Almost 80 percent say they oppose making voting mandatory. These are the results of a new… Continue reading
“The real voter fraud; Republicans are using fake voter fraud to crush voting rights”
News Analysis Cannot Replicate PILF “Alien Invasion” Study Finding “Massive” Noncitizen Voting in VA
Capital News Service:
Last fall, a pair of groups supported by conservatives released a report with the sensational title “Alien Invasion in Virginia: The discovery and coverup of noncitizen registration and voting.” It said illegal voting is a “massive problem”:…… Continue reading
Court Fines SOS Kobach $1000 for Misleading Court on NVRA Documents, Allows ACLU to Depose Kobach
The 24-page order and opinion of the magistrate judge could be appealed. The underlying document—Kobach’s advice to Trump as to how to make it harder for people to register to vote by changing the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)—remains… Continue reading
“Who? White House names unknowns to voting panel”
Zack Roth:
President Trump’s commission on voter fraud appears to be struggling to attract A-list talent, at least among Democrats.
The White House announced three new members of the panel late Wednesday: Mark Rhodes, the clerk for Wood County, West… Continue reading
Verified Voting/Common Cause Letter: Government Needs to Do More to Deal with Risk of Voting Machine Hacking
Letter:
This letter was sent to the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence following a hearing on June 21, 2017. (Download PDF)
Verified Voting vigorously applauds the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for its leadership and commitment to… Continue reading
Ga. SOS Brian Kemp Still Skeptical Russians Tried to Hack Voting Machines
This, from the SOS of a state whose voting security is most worrisome:
Brian Kemp, the Republican secretary of state of Georgia, used the call to denounce Johnson’s proposal as an assault on state rights. “I think it was… Continue reading
“Little movement on White House probe into voter fraud; No meetings yet; commissioners still being vetted”
CNN;
On Super Bowl Sunday this year, President Donald Trump told Fox News that Vice President Mike Pence would head a commission into voter fraud allegations — ones that he made, claiming that between three to five million people voted… Continue reading