Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Commentary: Dunlap badly mistaken in agreeing to serve on Trump voter fraud panel”

May 24, 2017, 8:34 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

I have written this oped for the Portland Press Herald. It begins: Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is making a serious mistake by agreeing to participate in a sham “voter integrity” commission established by President Trump to validate his… Continue reading

“Texas House backs voter ID overhaul, with changes”

May 24, 2017, 8:20 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: The Texas House on Tuesday tentatively approved legislation to overhaul the state’s embattled voter identification law, moving it one step closer to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. Senate Bill 5 would in several ways relax what some had… Continue reading

“ACLU seeks sanctions against Kobach and public disclosure of Trump documents”

May 23, 2017, 5:51 pmchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bryan Lowry: The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal court to enable documents from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s November meeting with President Donald Trump to be made public. Kobach earlier this month handed over the documents,… Continue reading

“Real Voter Fraud: Suppression, Intimidation and Denying the Right to Vote “

May 23, 2017, 12:14 pmchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Jim Condos, Vt. Secretary of State writes: I am deeply troubled by the announcement that the President signed an executive order establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud in our elections. Since the 2016 election, President Trump has… Continue reading

Scheduled to Be Interviewed by Senator Bernie Sanders About Trump and “Voter Fraud”

May 23, 2017, 6:02 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Tune in to “The Bernie Sanders Show” today at 11 eastern. Update: The Internet went out at the Senate in the middle of this broadcast. They will broadcast the entire thing later in the week, and then I will link.

“The Supreme Court may just have given voting rights activists a powerful new tool”

May 22, 2017, 6:49 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this oped for the Washington Post. It begins: Sometimes the most important stuff in Supreme Court opinions is hidden in the footnotes. In Monday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down two North Carolina congressional districts as unconstitutionally influenced… Continue reading

“Effort to overhaul Texas voter ID rules survives — for now”

May 22, 2017, 5:41 amThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jim Malewitz for the Texas Tribune: A flurry of legislative activity Sunday night gave life to efforts to overhaul Texas’ voter identification rules — legislation Republicans call crucial to the state’s arguments in a high-profile legal battle over whether the… Continue reading

“Despite high court’s decision on N.C. voting law, activists worry about chief justice”

May 21, 2017, 7:41 pmSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Bob Barnes for WaPo: The big win for voting rights activists at the Supreme Court last week came with an equally big asterisk, and provided new reason for jittery liberals and civil rights groups to continue to fret about Chief… Continue reading

“‘Kris Kobach Came After Me for an Honest Mistake’; Trump’s pick to investigate his theories about voter fraud has a record of targeting older conservatives.”

May 21, 2017, 9:12 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politico: When Kris Kobach, Kansas’ aggressive secretary of state, convinced the state legislature to give him prosecutorial power to pursue voter fraud, he said it was necessary to root out tens of thousands of undocumented aliens who were voting as… Continue reading

“The GOP is running its anti-abortion playbook against voting rights — and it’s working”

May 19, 2017, 9:05 pmSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ian Millhiser for Think Progress.

“A Test of American Democracy; In attempts to undermine democracy, state lawmakers have set their sights on the courts.”

May 19, 2017, 3:26 pmcampaigns, judicial elections, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Alicia Bannon and Nathaniel Sobel at TAP.

Politifact: “No, thousands of dead people are not registered to vote in North Carolina”

May 19, 2017, 10:57 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politifact North Carolina: A chain email has begun circulating in North Carolina that claims widespread irregularities in the state’s voter rolls. The email caught our attention with its subject line, “PROOF !! North Carolina has the world’s oldest voters !”… Continue reading

More Details on How Kobach is Assembling Fraudulent Fraud Squad Voting Commission

May 19, 2017, 10:45 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Anniston Star: Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill says he will have some say in who gets selected to serve on a federal election fraud panel led by Vice President Mike Pence…. Merrill said he knew about the plan… Continue reading

Devastating 2 Minute ACLU Video on Trump/Kobach Claims of Massive Voter Fraud in 2016 Elections

May 19, 2017, 9:50 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Watch.

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