Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Top GOP lawyer decries ease of campus voting in private pitch to RNC”

April 20, 2023, 8:59 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WaPo: A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors over the weekend that conservatives must band together to limit voting on college campuses, same-day voter registration and automatic mailing of ballots to registered voters, according to a… Continue reading

“‘Can I vote?’ Florida’s new elections bill leaves voters in the dark — by design”

April 9, 2023, 3:00 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsJustin Levitt

The Miami Herald Editorial Board on the new bill moving through the Florida legislature.

“Gator Caucus disputes legitimacy of Senate presidential election”

April 6, 2023, 4:24 pmThe Voting WarsJustin Levitt

The students may be learning too many real-life lessons about elections in the Sunshine State. This story about the election to the presidency of the University of Florida Student Senate runneth over the cup: disputed results, quorum runs, disputes about… Continue reading

“Florida Republicans poised to make more changes to election laws”

April 5, 2023, 7:50 amelection administration, The Voting WarsJustin Levitt

Looks like, among other items on the menu, more tussling over Amendment 4 and voters with convictions, and more tussling over restrictions on independent voter registration groups.

“Republicans push for stricter election laws, despite scant proof of fraud”

April 2, 2023, 11:48 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WaPo: More than two years after the 2020 presidential election, Republicans in GOP-controlled legislatures are continuing to push totighten voting laws and the rules for election administration,despite the lack of evidence for Donald Trump’s claim that widespread fraud tainted his… Continue reading

“Why Republicans Are So Intent on Destroying ERIC”

March 28, 2023, 5:06 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Michael Morse for Slate: Now right-wing groups are plotting to weaken ERIC and revive Crosscheck’s faulty approach. J. Christian Adams has peddled the false claim that ERIC is a “smokescreen” for Democratic efforts to turn out the vote, which… Continue reading

Are Some Republican States Leaving “ERIC,” the Interstate Voter Registration Group that Helps Prevent Voter Fraud, Because of Requirements to Engage in Voter Registration Activities?

March 7, 2023, 6:57 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Important observation in Politico: Florida, West Virginia and Missouri’s departure, however, publicly reveals the broader fight about the organization’s governance and bylaws. Some Republican secretaries of state have been pushing for changes to ERIC, which have been the source of… Continue reading

“Top GA official says ‘coordinated effort’ between DOJ and ‘liberal activists’ to ‘scapegoat’ voting law”

February 27, 2023, 7:33 amDepartment of Justice, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Fox News: A top Georgia official said Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents should show a “coordinated effort” between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and “liberal activists” to use the state’s voting law as a “scapegoat for political losses.” On… Continue reading

“Election Integrity Unit’s latest pivot has both sides in Arizona questioning whether it should exist at all”

February 22, 2023, 11:00 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Votebeat: Every year since 2019, Arizona lawmakers have instructed the state’s attorney general to spend a half-million dollars to staff an “election fraud unit,” with no further instructions. Democrats accused former Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, of using the… Continue reading

“Did Kansas criminalize voter registration drives? Supreme Court weighs election law case”

February 3, 2023, 7:09 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Topeka Capital-Journal: Voter advocacy organizations are asking the Kansas Supreme Court to block a new state law that they argue criminalizes voter registration drives, despite lower courts rejecting the argument. The justices of the state’s high court indicated in Wednesday’s… Continue reading

“Election deniers set sights on next target”

January 23, 2023, 7:58 amelection subversion risk, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: Swing state voters broadly rejected candidates in last year’s midterms who questioned the results of the 2020 elections. But unfounded accusations of fraud and other malfeasance continue to tear at the machinery of U.S. elections. The… Continue reading

“States Push for New Voting Laws With an Eye Toward 2024”

January 20, 2023, 6:26 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: The tug of war over voting rights and rules is playing out with fresh urgency at the state level, as Republicans and Democrats fight to get new laws on the books before the 2024 presidential election. Republicans have pushed… Continue reading

“Republicans have relied on volunteer election lawyers acting as a ragtag army of free, seasonal law militia”

January 19, 2023, 8:00 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Election lawyer (and candidate for RNC Chair) Harmeet Dhillon: On the watershed day of January 8, 2021, Ronna McDaniel was elected at an RNC meeting to a third term as RNC chairman. At the time, she promised it would… Continue reading

“New year expected to bring more changes to state voting laws”

December 29, 2022, 8:31 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: States routinely make adjustments in their voting laws — some subtle, some dramatic. But experts have never seen an explosion of legislation like that which followed the 2020 presidential election, when more than 3,600 election bills were introduced, according… Continue reading