Category Archives: The Voting Wars

Josh Douglas Takes on Mitch McConnell Again over Whether Democrats’ H.R. 1 Reform Bill is Good or Bad for American Democracy

February 13, 2019, 7:03 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Tweet thread starts here: .@senatemajldr has doubled down on his falsehoods and inaccuracies about H.R. 1, the "For the People Act" (which he derisively calls the Democrat Politician Protection Act), this time in response to a @heraldleader Op-Ed. Senator,… Continue reading

“The Myths of Voter ID”

February 12, 2019, 8:55 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Ross Douhat NYT column.

North Carolina Cites ELB Blog Post by Nick Stephanopoulos to Argue Court Intervention in Partisan Gerrymandering Cases is Unnecessary

February 8, 2019, 1:13 pmredistricting, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

From the opening brief:

“Texas’ election chief defends sharing flawed noncitizen list”

February 7, 2019, 8:14 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: Texas’ election chief on Thursday defended giving prosecutors a list of 95,000 potential noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls before vetting the information, which turned out to wrongly include scores of people who were naturalized before casting legal… Continue reading

“Inaccurate claims of noncitizen voting in Texas reflect a growing trend in Republican states”

February 6, 2019, 9:22 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Amy Gardner reports for WaPo.

“What Is Voter Suppression?”

February 6, 2019, 9:00 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Laura Brill blogs.

“With Kris Kobach Out Of Office, His Voting Policies Could Wither In Kansas”

February 6, 2019, 7:27 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

KCUR: Former Republican Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach rewrote the rules for voting in Kansas. Laws he pushed for required voters to show citizenship papers to register and ID at the polls. He secured prosecutorial powers for his… Continue reading

Stacey Abrams: “We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted is a ‘power grab.'”

February 5, 2019, 9:15 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Very clear Democrats will make voter suppression arguments a key theme of 2020. From Stacey Abrams response to the SOTU: Let’s be clear. Voter suppression is real. From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving… Continue reading

“Where the hunt for voter fraud is worse than the crime itself”

February 5, 2019, 9:09 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Karen Tumulty WaPo column.

Elections Matter Dep’t: Michigan Withdraws Support for Kansas in Documentary Proof of Citizenship Case

February 5, 2019, 6:46 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Michigan withdrew its support of amicus brief in Fish v. Schwab (formerly, Fish v. Kobach) supporting Kansas’s position that the risk of noncitizen voting justifies a documentary proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration. The withdrawal cites the change in… Continue reading

Federal District Court Will Hear Motion for Preliminary Injunction on Feb. 19 from CLC and LULAC in Texas Voter Purge Case

February 4, 2019, 3:00 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Motion here. See also this declaration of Bruce J. Elfant, the elections administrator of Travis County. Elfant says that Travis County is in the midst of a review of voter registration records on Friday and determined that approximately 29%… Continue reading

“Specious claims dog Pennsylvania’s noncitizen voter search”

February 3, 2019, 7:25 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: Two Pennsylvania state lawmakers are making a disputed claim in a long-running, and possibly futile, effort by elections officials to determine how many non-U.S. citizens had registered to vote over the years.On Tuesday, the lawmakers, Republican state Reps.… Continue reading

“Voting Rights and Wrongs:” Watch Kathay Feng, Justin Levitt Michael Morley, Franita Tolson Discuss Voting and Gerrymandering Issues with Me at the Hammer Museum

February 3, 2019, 12:31 pmelection administration, redistricting, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can watch this great conversation here. Voting Rights and Wrongs: Hammer Museum, Jan. 31, 2019

“Civil rights group sues Texas over order to investigate potential noncitizen voters with flawed data”

February 2, 2019, 9:24 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Dallas Morning News: A civil rights group has sued the state of Texas for advising counties to review the citizenship of tens of thousands of eligible voters in the state with flawed data, claiming it violates the voting rights of… Continue reading