Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“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

“CNN’s Kate Bolduan vs. Kris Kobach: ‘Six Cases Does Not Rampant Voter Fraud Make'”

February 13, 2017, 2:34 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Real Clear Politics. See also Mediaite, After CNN Interview, Kris Kobach Slams Network for ‘False Claims of Voter Fraud’ Chyron

“Updated: Sununu says he’s unaware of widespread voter fraud in NH”

February 13, 2017, 2:31 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

WMUR: “Gov. Chris Sununu said Monday he is unaware of widespread voter fraud in the Granite State, but he said he wants to work with President Donald Trump’s administration to ‘learn of any evidence they may have.'”

“The next GOP assault on voting rights”

February 13, 2017, 7:20 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Important EJ Dionne WaPo column.

“State elections chiefs warn against eliminating agency that protects elections from hacking”

February 13, 2017, 7:18 amelection administration, Election Assistance Commission, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Think Progress: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who voted against the legislation, told ThinkProgress it’s likely that the full House will follow through with eliminating the agency, as protecting elections has become a partisan issue in Washington. But elsewhere in the… Continue reading

“Stephen Miller’s bushels of Pinocchios for false voter-fraud claims”

February 12, 2017, 4:08 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Glenn Kessler Fact Checker column in WaPo: Stephanopoulos is right. The White House continues to provide zero evidence to back up its claims of voter fraud. Officials instead retreat to the same bogus talking points that have been repeatedly shown… Continue reading

Watch Trump Administration’s Stephen Miller State Lie after Lie About Voter “Fraud,” and Reasons to Worry

February 12, 2017, 9:05 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Astonishing video full of lies and unsubstantiated (and unproven) statements. (A bit from Politifact.) More evidence the “Pence Commission” on voter fraud will be a sham (here‘s what a fair commission would look like). And… Continue reading

“Illegal Voting Gets Texas Woman 8 Years in Prison, and Certain Deportation”

February 11, 2017, 9:47 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT: Despite repeated statements by Republican political leaders that American elections are rife with illegal voting, credible reports of fraud have been hard to find and convictions rarer still. That may help explain the unusually heavy… Continue reading

“Judges hear arguments over restricting NC governor’s powers”

February 10, 2017, 9:03 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: North Carolina’s new Democratic governor and the entrenched Republican-led legislature battled in court on two fronts Friday over efforts to restrict the chief executive’s ability to alter the state’s recent conservative direction. A panel of three state trial court… Continue reading

“Trump’s voter fraud claims are absurd, another analysis shows”

February 10, 2017, 6:59 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Vice News reports.

President Trump Falsely Claims “Thousands” of Illegal Voters Bussed in from Mass. to NH, Costing Him and Ayotte the State

February 10, 2017, 11:55 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politico: On Thursday, during a meeting with 10 senators that was billed as a listening session about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, the president went off on a familiar tangent, suggesting again that he was a victim of widespread voter… Continue reading