“The Justice Department’s Voter Fraud Scandal: Lessons”
Adam Gitlin and Wendy Weiser with a new Brennan Center report in advance of the Sen. Sessions confirmation hearings for AG.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Iowa’s top election official announces voter ID bill”
AP:
Iowa will require voters to show identification at the polls under a bill announced Thursday by the state’s top election official, and Republicans in the new GOP-controlled Legislature have indicated a willingness to pass it.
The legislation mirrors… Continue reading
AZ SOS Reagan May Try to Grab Power from Local AZ Election Administrators
The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting reports.
“Judges block NC elections board overhaul as Roy Cooper’s lawsuit pends”
News & Observer:
A three-judge panel ruled on Thursday to uphold Gov. Roy Cooper’s request to block a revamp of the state elections board while his lawsuit makes its way through the courts.
In the first hearing before the panel … Continue reading
“Voter ID Laws Are So Last (Election) Season”
Bloomberg BNA:
Elections have consequences, and frequently they’re changes in election law.
New state legislatures often “rethink” election laws once in office, Edward B. Foley, director of Election Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Columbus,… Continue reading
Strict Voter ID, Voting Rollbacks May Be Coming to Iowa
And that means a lawsuit too, no doubt.
NC: “Judge puts NC GOP elections board makeover on hold after Roy Cooper sues”
News and Observer:
Governor-elect Roy Cooper filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the General Assembly’s special session law that revamps the state elections board.
Cooper’s attorneys asked a Wake County Superior Court judge to block the law from taking… Continue reading
“Virtually no fraud in U.S. vote”
News and Observer editorial:
Despite their considerable victories in November’s elections, Republicans have lost badly on one issue – voter fraud.
Republican-led states, most notably North Carolina, have passed laws preventing people from voting in the name of another or… Continue reading
“I Was Accused of Voter Fraud in North Carolina”
Brooks Sterritt for TNR.
“Fact check: No proof in story of mass voter fraud in Michigan”
AP:
A widely shared story that claimed in headlines that Michigan had mass Democratic voter fraud and that more than half of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s Detroit vote faces disqualification is false. State election officials say there is no proof… Continue reading
“Voter Fraud Myths and Realities: Q&A”
I did this Q & A with Frank Wilkinson at Bloomberg View.
“Election officials focus on whether voter ID laws contributed to Hillary Clinton’s defeat”
LAT:
Now, voting rights advocates, elections officials and political experts have zeroed in on the city as a case study of whether controversial new rules requiring ID for voting — the kind used in several states in November for the … Continue reading
“All This Talk of Voter Fraud? Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None”
Must-read Michael Wines NYT:
After all the allegations of rampant voter fraud and claims that millions had voted illegally, the people who supervised the general election last month in states around the nation have been adding up how many credible… Continue reading
“North Carolina Governor Signs Law Limiting Successor’s Power”
Richard Fausset for the NYT:
But some here said that Republicans’ effort to hobble the incoming governor had few parallels in recent North Carolina history.
“Sure, the Democrats don’t have clean hands, but this is beyond anything I’ve seen them… Continue reading