Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“At ‘Poll Watcher Training’ Class, Republicans Trade Rumors, Fears of Fraud”
WSJ:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been raising hackles for weeks about a “stolen” election, and on Wednesday morning, in a suburban public library in northern Virginia, more than two dozen Republicans heeded his call.
The group had signed… Continue reading
Trump Campaign Admits Its Strategy Depends on Suppressing Democratic Turnout, But Is It Illegal?
This must-read Bloomberg Business piece explains that with Trump behind, the campaign’s strategy depends upon lowering Democratic turnout:
To compensate for this, Trump’s campaign has devised another strategy, which, not surprisingly, is negative. Instead of expanding the electorate, Bannon and… Continue reading
“Appeals courts are dismantling stricter voter ID laws”
Mark Walsh has written this extensive article in the ABA Journal.
“Super-Suppressors: the 18 North Carolina counties that are strangling early voting to death”
Insightus:
In a fit of pique, 18 of the state’s 100 Republican-controlled county boards of elections noted that “at least one” can also mean “only one.” And so they devised 2016 EV plans that called for the shuttering of all… Continue reading
Breaking: DNC Asks for RNC to Be Held in Contempt, Voter Intimidation Consent Decree Extended 8 More Years
Back in August, I blogged about how Donald Trump could be violating a longstanding consent decree against the RNC engaging in “ballot security” measures which have been found to intimidate minority voters. I explained how the consent decree began in… Continue reading
“Some Machines Are Flipping Votes But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Rigged”
“Funny Stuff in Philadelphia? Zero Votes Does Not Equal Fraud”
NYT’s The Upshot:
Philadelphia attracts attention for its place in a swing state. It was where a 2008 news article about two New Black Panthers patrolling a polling place gained mythic proportions. And the city — once home to… Continue reading
“Indiana: a perfect storm for voter fraud debate”
Ariane de Vogue for CNN.
“Battleground states still fighting over voting laws, potential Election Day confusion”
Sari Horwitz for WaPo.
“Here’s what we know so far about voter fraud and the 2016 elections”
Ohio Homeless Advocates File Emergency #SCOTUS Petition on OH Absentee/Provisional Voting Rules
You can find the petition here. From the petition:
The Sixth Circuit’s decision left in place only the prohibition on requiring full and accurate completion of two fields (address and birthdate) on the absentee ID envelope. It disregarded the identical… Continue reading
“Trump Loyalists Planned Voter Intimidation Using Fake ID Badges, Fake Exit Polling — Until HuffPost Asked Them About It”
The bizarre Roger Stone “exit poll” story gets weirder, via HuffPo.
Justice Breyer Not Too Worried About 8-Justice Supreme Court Handling Presidential Election Dispute
Glad he can be so sanguine. I’m not (except for the fact that the election does not appear to be close right now).