Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Analysis: Why Voting Rights Advocates Are Worried About a Trump Voter Fraud Probe”
Zack Roth for MSNBC.
Is President Trump Backing Away from False Claim of 3 Million Illegal Votes? VP Pence to Head Commission
WaPo on the fuller Bill O’Reilly interview:
“It has to do with the registration,” he continued. “And when you look at the registration, and you see dead people that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two… Continue reading
“McConnell: No federal money should be spent on Trump’s voter fraud investigation”
CNN:
McConnell told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” he wants to leave the task of wiping voters who have died or moved away off their rolls to state governments.
“This sort of thing is handled at the… Continue reading
Bill O’Reilly (!) Goes After Pres. Trump on Lack of Any Evidence of 3 Million Illegal Voters
See this preview. Sad!
“Trump executive order on voter fraud quietly stalled”
AP:
An executive action commissioning the probe is still planned but could be several weeks away, two senior administration officials said Friday. Although Trump instructed staff to jump on the project last week, he has not discussed the issue in… Continue reading
“As White House backs down on voter fraud, debate far from over”
Ohio Seeks Supreme Court Review of 6th Circuit Ruling on Voter Purge Procedures Under Motor-Voter
This could be an important case.
“Electoral Vulnerabilities in the United States: Past, Present, and Future”
Charles Stewart has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to put the issues of election integrity that arose in 2016 in context, and to suggest along the way how it is… Continue reading
“Voter ID bill easily passes North Dakota House”
Is President Trump Giving Up on Voter “Fraud” “Investigation”?
CNN:
A full week has passed since President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order opening a Justice Department investigation into his unsubstantiated claim that millions of people voted illegally in November.
The Oval Office signing was abruptly… Continue reading
“Cooper not tipping hand on whether he’ll withdraw NC voter ID appeal”
WRAL:
In a blog post and a Slate Magazine column Thursday, election law expert Richard Hasen suggests Gov. Roy Cooper could score a victory for opponents of North Carolina’s voter ID law by scuttling the state’s appeal of a 4th … Continue reading
“There’s a Simple Step North Carolina’s New Governor Could Take to Strengthen Voting Rights; But he’d better move fast.”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
The future of voting rights in the medium to long term is not rosy. President Donald Trump is making false claims that millions of voters fraudulently cast ballots in the 2016… Continue reading
“Trump’s voter fraud claims rooted in Alabama man’s work”
Al.com:
Instead, he said he doesn’t want to approach Sessions with incomplete work.
“We are working diligently on a massive quality check on what we are saying,” said Phillips, referencing the 3 million illegal voting claims. “We don’t want to… Continue reading