Category Archives: The Voting Wars

Marc Elias Comments on New VA Voter ID Suit

June 11, 2015, 4:13 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

WaPo: In addition, Elias is behind challenges to Virginia’s elections maps at the state and congressional levels, which could force the state to redraw district boundaries this fall. “I have a lot of clients. I have brought other lawsuits… Continue reading

“Virginia Is Latest Front in Democrats’ Voting Rights Battle”

June 11, 2015, 2:10 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Maggie Haberman reports for the NYT.

Ohio SOS Husted and Rep. Clyde Twitter War Over Voting Covered by MSNBC

June 11, 2015, 2:04 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Zack Roth: On Wednesday afternoon, State Rep. Kathleen Clyde, a Democrat, was notified on Twitter that she’d been blocked by an account in the name of Secretary of State Jon Husted. The move came after Husted, a Republican, responded… Continue reading

Breaking: Clinton Lawyer Elias Files New Voting Suit in Virginia

June 11, 2015, 12:14 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Via Maggie Haberman comes news of a new case filed by Marc Elias (the latest in a series of cases). The suit is Lee v. Virginia Board of Elections, and this time the Democratic Party is a party. You… Continue reading

“A Voter Fraud Witch Hunt in Kansas”

June 11, 2015, 10:06 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Berman on Kobach.

“Brace Yourself for Kobach”

June 11, 2015, 8:12 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Wichita Eagle editorial: Secretary of State Kris Kobach finally got the prosecutorial powers he wanted. Brace yourself, Kansas voters, as he’s unlikely to put them in a drawer. Kobach is such a zealot on the nonissue of voter fraud that… Continue reading

“Campaign Preview? Clinton and Christie Spar Over Early Voting in New Jersey”

June 11, 2015, 7:23 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Yael Bromberg blogs.

“New Voting Rights Litigation Summary from CLC Shows Growing Voter Dilution and Suppression Efforts Since Supreme Court’s Shelby County Decision”

June 10, 2015, 11:27 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: Over the past few years, efforts to dilute and suppress minority voting rights or to restrict the vote for partisan gain have spiked dramatically. Racially-discriminatory voting laws have been passed in states and municipalities across the country, particularly… Continue reading

“Don’t Be Silly – THE PCEA WORKED: A Rejoinder to Some Critics of Hasen’s Slate Piece”

June 10, 2015, 8:30 amelection administration, PCEA (Bauer-Ginsberg Commission), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Doug Chapin: My major disagreement with the two critiques is the apparent assumption that the outcome of next year’s presidential election will matter in the ongoing fights over election policy. First of all, the federal government has little if… Continue reading

“Clinton off-base on Ohio voting rule”

June 10, 2015, 8:13 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Columbus Dispatch editorial: All presidential politics aside, Gov. John Kasich is more than justified in calling Hillary Clinton’s complaints about Ohio voting laws “demagoguery” and “silliness.” Like many Democrats, Clinton continues to hammer Ohio for a modest scaling-back of early-absentee-voting… Continue reading

Kobach Given “Persecuting” Power over Elections in Kansas

June 9, 2015, 4:51 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Delicious typo: Usually, people say it’s a photo that’s worth a thousand words. But in Kansas politics, everything is upside down these days. So it was the accompanying flawed caption, not the photo of Gov. Sam Brownback signing a… Continue reading

GAB Responds to Think Progress on WI Voter ID Funding Question

June 9, 2015, 2:30 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Following up on my post, WI Has Inadequate Funding for Voter ID Education Campaign, GAB public information officer Reid Magney reached out to say that he had issues with the facts as reported in the Think Progress piece I… Continue reading

Pushback on Pushback and More Pushback on My Clinton Voting Wars Column

June 9, 2015, 12:51 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

So a number of people in the election reform community have written me in great support of my Slate column after I mentioned the general drubbing I was receiving from others. The argument from these folks is that on the… Continue reading

Pushback on My Hillary Voting Wars Piece

June 9, 2015, 8:50 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The good news is that Doug Chapin liked my Slate piece from yesterday on whether Hillary Clinton is making real election reform harder by framing the issue as a partisan fight. The bad news is that Doug seems to be… Continue reading