“Commentary: Trump’s voter fraud ‘solution’ is rooted in the Jim Crow South”
Kathryn Cramer Brownwell for Reuters Opinion.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Democrats Play Up Donald Trump’s Hedge on Accepting Election Result”
“Wisconsin Election Officials Refute Trump’s Prediction of Massive Voter Fraud”
RNC, Desperate to Try to Avoid Extension of Voter Intimidation Consent Decree, Tries to Distance from Trump
Back on August 12, I wrote:
With Trump’s dangerous and irresponsible hyperventilating about voter fraud and cheating in Pennsylvania potentially costing him the election, it is probably no surprise, as reported by theWeekly Standard, that Trump is seeking “election … Continue reading
Indiana SOS, Who Yelled Voter Registration Fraud, Now Has to Walk It Back
IBJ:
A day after warning of potential widespread voting fraud, Indiana’s secretary of state acknowledged Wednesday that many of the thousands of altered registration forms she flagged might just be from residents rushing to correct their names or birth dates… Continue reading
Donald Trump’s Makes Chilling and Unprecedented Debate Comment About Not Accepting the Result of the Election
NYT:
Mr. Trump also insisted, as he has in recent days, that the general election has been rigged against him, and he twice refused to say that he would accept its result.
“I will look at it at the time,”… Continue reading
Federal Court in Ohio Issues Order to Allow Purged Voters to Cast Ballots Which Will Count
Back in September a 6th Circuit panel ruled 2-1 that Ohio’s voter purge procedures violated the NVRA.
Meanwhile, following the panel decision, the federal district court (which had earlier found the purge procedures did not violate the NVRA) has now… Continue reading
“Local TX GOP Recruits Poll Watchers With Claim Of ‘Voter Fraud’ In Dem Areas”
TPM:
The local Republican Party in Tarrant County, Texas – which includes Fort Worth and is state’s third most populous county – is being accused of egging on discriminatory voting practices with an email it sent calling for “poll watchers”… Continue reading
“Will The New era Of Limited Federal Monitoring Still Protect Voter Rights?”
Nina Totenberg reports for NPR.
Unanimous 10th Circuit Panel Rejects Kobach Arguments Regarding Proof of Citizenship, Calling His Claims of Major Non-Citizen Voting “Pure Speculation”
85-page opinon.
A perfect string of losses so far for Kobach. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer charlatan.
“This Election Is Being Rigged—but Not by Democrats”
Excellent Ari Berman article with a lousy title (I don’t like the “rigged” framing). We should really avoid using that term except to refer to things like election officials changing vote totals.
“Appeals court denies more early voting time in Forsyth and four other NC counties”
AP reports on a 4th Circuit denial of an emergency motion.
Trump’s Campaign Manager, Unlike Cowardly Mitch McConnell, Willing to Say No Widespread Voter Fraud on Election Day
“Kasich: Fear of election rigging ‘a big fat joke’”
Columbus Dispatch:
“To say that the elections are rigged and all these votes are stolen — that’s like saying we never landed on the moon,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, said on CBS “This Morning.” He added that such… Continue reading