Category Archives: The Voting Wars

NC: “Fact Check: Were ‘tens of thousands’ of 2016 voters not verified?”

February 20, 2017, 7:42 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WRAL: During a discussion of voter fraud during this week’s episode of WRAL News’ “On the Record,” Francis De Luca of the conservative Civitas Institute cited a statistic to highlight the potential that some number of people in North Carolina… Continue reading

“Voter Fraud, Redux et Redux”

February 20, 2017, 7:26 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Miles Rapoport blogs at the Ash Center’s Challenges to Democracy blog.

Irony Alert: Is Kansas SOS Kobach Foot-Dragging on Investigation of Alleged Voter Fraud by Republican Sheriff?

February 19, 2017, 3:14 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Lawrence Journal-World: Sheriff McGovern, a Republican who was re-elected in 2016, said he and his mother had no intention of wrongdoing when she registered to vote at an address that she no longer lived at. When asked why he thought… Continue reading

“Virginia voter registration records have loopholes but no evidence of widespread fraud”

February 18, 2017, 2:08 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Very useful piece from the Virginia Pilot.

Texas Prosecutors Could Target Voters Who Used Affidavits and Refused to Show Valid IDs

February 18, 2017, 2:00 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: The Texas law requires voters to show one of seven approved forms of identification to cast ballots. It was softened in August to allow people without a driver’s license or other photo ID to sign an affidavit declaring that… Continue reading

“Citing Trump’s voter fraud lie, states are working to make it harder to vote”

February 18, 2017, 10:07 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Important Kira Lerner at Think Progress; At the annual gathering of secretaries of state in Washington, D.C. this week, Republican elections chiefs blocked an attempt to official denounceTrump’s lie. Instead, they cited the president’s claims, telling ThinkProgress they support… Continue reading

“Trump’s Labor Pick Has a History of Attacking Voting Rights”

February 16, 2017, 7:30 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

John Nichols for the Nation: Robert Kengle, the deputy chief of the Voting Section, said he left his position because of the extreme politicization of the department during the time of Acosta’s leadership. Kengle said the controversial letter brief in… Continue reading

With Democratic Governor Silent, North Carolina Tees Up #SCOTUS Review of Its Strict Voting Law

February 16, 2017, 11:44 amSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

North Carolina has filed its reply brief in the North Carolina voting case, and the Supreme Court is set to review it at its March 3 conference. (If the Court does grant review, it typically takes at least two conferences… Continue reading

Washington Times Says 1-2 Million Hispanic Non-Citizens Illegally Registered to Vote in U.S.

February 15, 2017, 9:08 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Here we go again.

“The president lays the groundwork for a nationwide voter intimidation program”

February 15, 2017, 7:30 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Sherillyn Ifill oped for WaPo.

“Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. We did the research”

February 15, 2017, 7:25 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Zoltan L. Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson for The Monkey Cage: When we compare overall turnout in states with strict ID laws to turnout in states without these laws, we find no significant difference. That pattern matches with… Continue reading

“Responses to a Pence Commission on Voter Fraud”

February 15, 2017, 7:10 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Important Bauer on how election administration experts should respond to the Pence Commission: This leaves members of this community with a couple of choices. One is declining to participate: no testimony, no written submissions. The Commission will want to say… Continue reading

“Demos and Project Vote team with Hogan Lovells to Help Prevent Unlawful Voter Purge in Philadelphia”

February 14, 2017, 8:13 amNVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: Today, voting rights groups Demos and Project Vote urged a federal appeals court to uphold a decision dismissing an attempt by the so-called “American Civil Rights Union” (ACRU) to force the City of Philadelphia to conduct an unnecessary… Continue reading

“The Latest Voter-Fraud Lie”

February 14, 2017, 7:36 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT editorial: “It is a fact and you will not deny it.” That unnerving remark — made on Sunday by Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser to President Trump — sums up the new administration’s attitude toward the truth: We… Continue reading