Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“This Week’s Episode: Voting Wars and Justice Scalia, with Rick Hasen”

March 29, 2018, 10:14 amScalia, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Podcast from Take Care: On a new episode of Versus Trump, Jason talks to Rick Hasen, a leading election law scholar and purveyor of the Election Law Blog, about what’s going on at the voting booth, possible campaign finance… Continue reading

Texas: “We need to protect against vote tampering”

March 27, 2018, 7:51 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Dan Wallach oped in the Star-Telegram: Election winners are always happy to take the win, but the losers — and often the voters — require evidence, and that evidence needs strong backing. Modern voting systems must engender confidence that the… Continue reading

“Federal Judge Expected To Rule In Kansas Voter Registration Lawsuit This Fall”

March 22, 2018, 7:34 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NPR’s All Things Considered reports.

“NC Gov. Cooper appoints an elections board member Republicans fought”

March 21, 2018, 3:49 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

News and Observer: The four Democrats and four Republicans on the new state elections board went ’round and ’round Wednesday, casting tie vote after tie vote, as they looked for the board’s ninth member. But then they fell into an… Continue reading

“Elections Security Officials Head to Capitol Hill Amid Warnings of Russian Meddling”

March 21, 2018, 8:39 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: A day after urging elections officials to shore up their systems ahead of the midterm voting, the Senate Intelligence Committee planned to call top federal and state elections security officials to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to explain how they… Continue reading

“Dunlap offers unflattering account of Trump’s voter fraud commission”

March 21, 2018, 8:31 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Ellsworth-American: The whole affair began when he received a call from Kobach asking if he’d join the commission. At first, he said, he had no intention to help. But friends and colleagues advised him that he could play a regulating… Continue reading

“Trump’s claims of voter fraud are on trial in Kansas and Kris Kobach is losing”

March 21, 2018, 8:28 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Daniel Nachanian oped for NBC Think.

“Kris Kobach’s Voting Sham Gets Exposed in Court”

March 18, 2018, 5:24 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Lead Sunday NYT editorial.

“Drawing lines and positions on the ‘Voting Wars’”

March 18, 2018, 5:19 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Frank Askin oped.

“Georgia Republicans are trying to eliminate Sunday voting to suppress black turnout”

March 16, 2018, 12:34 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Kira Lerner: Georgia Republicans are advancing a bill through the state legislature that would suppress African-American turnout by eliminating Sunday voting and cutting the hours that polls are open in Atlanta. The bill, SB 363, would force polls in the… Continue reading

In Strange, Unanimous Unpublished Opinion, 11th Circuit Revives Common Cause’s Voter Purge Case Against Georgia

March 14, 2018, 6:14 pmelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The district court had dismissed Common Cause’s claim that Georgia’s voter purge law violated the NVRA and the First Amendment. Today, the Eleventh Circuit, in a brief, unpublished opinion, sent the case back and told the trial court to… Continue reading

Released Emails Show Coordination Between DOJ and Pence-Kobach Fraud Commission over Voter Fraud Allegations, with Communications Between John Gore and EAC’s Christy McCormick

March 14, 2018, 9:13 amelection administration, Election Assistance Commission, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

TPM: The chair of the Republican Party in Chicago last year passed on allegations of voter fraud to a member of President Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission, using a top Justice Department official as intermediary, newly released emails reveal. The… Continue reading

“Bill to shorten Atlanta voting hours advances in Ga. House”

March 12, 2018, 1:01 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Atlanta-Journal Constitution: Voters in Atlanta would have one less hour to cast their ballots under a bill that cleared a subcommittee Thursday. The legislation, Senate Bill 363, would force the city of Atlanta to close its polls at 7… Continue reading

“Trump wants new authority over polling places. Top election officials say no”

March 11, 2018, 1:33 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Boston Globe: President Trump would be able to dispatch Secret Service agents to polling places nationwide during a federal election, a vast expansion of executive authority, if a provision in a Homeland Security reauthorization bill remains intact. The rider has… Continue reading