“Trump’s Lies About Voter Fraud Are Already Leading to New GOP Voter-Suppression Efforts”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Why Does Donald Trump Lie About Voter Fraud?”
NYT editorial:
This is how voter suppression efforts start. First come the unverified tales of fraud; then come the urgent calls to tighten voter registration rules and increase “ballot security,” which translate into laws that disenfranchise tens or hundreds of… Continue reading
“John Roberts Gutted the Voting Rights Act. Jeff Sessions is Poised to Finish It Off”
AJ Vicens for Mother Jones.
NC: “Republicans claim 43 voters are ineligible felons. Many of them aren’t”
News and Observer:
Larry Smith got an odd phone call last week: Someone had filed to throw out his vote, claiming he was a felon serving an active sentence.
Smith, who lives in Stokes County, is no felon. But he… Continue reading
“Hillary Clinton Supporters Call for Vote Recount in Battleground States”
NYT:
Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote is growing. She is roughly 30,000 votes behind Donald J. Trump in the key swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin — a combined gap that is narrowing. Her impassioned supporters are… Continue reading
#NCGov: “2004 NC race may have set precedent for governor’s outcome”
Important piece in News & Observer on how the state legislature could try to decide a McCrory election contest (quoting my point about how if it did so it could raise serious federal constitutional concerns heard in a federal… Continue reading
New Claims of Electronic Vote Rigging Used to Steal Election from Clinton: What to Think?
Quite a report from Gabriel Sherman:
Hillary Clinton is being urged by a group of prominent computer scientists and election lawyers to call for a recount in three swing states won by Donald Trump, New York has learned. The group,… Continue reading
McCrory Calls for Recount in NCGov Race, NC Board of Elections Meeting Allows Counties to Continue Counting, But More Protests Coming
Press release from McCrory team, which is behind Cooper right now by about 6,000 votes. (A candidate can request a recount if the number < 10,000. It will be very hard to make up a 6,000 vote deficit, and… Continue reading
NC: “Civitas Sues to Block Counting of Same-Day Votes”
WTVD reports.
Given that the Fourth Circuit ordered this provision restored, hard to me to see that this complaint is about anything other than trying to stir up more doubts about the election.
“No, NC Republicans can’t just declare Pat McCrory a winner without courts having a say”
Peter St. Onge for Charlotte Observer:
So what’s the misinformation? The New York Times wrote Saturday, and Slate repeated Monday, that N.C. law not only allows the General Assembly to declare a winner in the governor’s race, but… Continue reading
926-Page Record in Tomorrow’s NC Gov McCrory Challenge Hearing
Does Kris Kobach Have Plans to Amend National Voter Registration Act, Presumably to Make Registration Tougher?
Via Ryan Reilly
Kobach memo: "Draft Amendments to National Voter…." https://t.co/pmB28YeHF1 (CC: @rickhasen)
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 21, 2016
“In latest voter ID filing, feds argue Texas discriminated on purpose”
Texas Tribune:
Months after a federal appeals court ruled that Texas lawmakers discriminated against African-American and Latino voters in passing a strict voter identification law, the Obama administration and civil rights groups are asking a judge to go a step… Continue reading
“Voting Rights in the Age of Trump”
Ari Berman NYT oped:
Mr. Trump’s Justice Department will also present a severe threat to voting rights. It could choose not to vigorously enforce the Voting Rights Act, instead pressing states to take more aggressive action to combat alleged… Continue reading