Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Midterm Voters Significantly Expanded The Right To Vote”

November 7, 2018, 7:58 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

HuffPost: Voting rights were on the ballot in the midterm elections on Tuesday, and voters sent a resoundingly clear message in favor of making elections more accessible and fairer. After Tuesday’s election, approximately 1.4 million people with felony convictions in… Continue reading

Zack Roth and Michael Waldman: “Democracy Wins”

November 6, 2018, 8:47 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Blog post: In the end, democracy won on Tuesday night. Voters overcame suppression attempts, long lines, broken machines and nasty weather to turn out in massive numbers in key states. Extreme gerrymandering wasn’t enough to thwart the will of voters… Continue reading

North Carolina Voter ID Amendment Poised to Win; Watch North Carolina General Assembly Try to Ram Through New Voter ID Law Before They May Lose Supermajority

November 6, 2018, 8:09 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

We don’t know. Remember, the main effect of the NC Voter ID amendment will likely be to withdraw from the 5-2 Democratic State Supreme Court the power to rule on voter ID on state constitutional grounds. But the NCGA won’t… Continue reading

“Georgia Voters File Emergency Lawsuit Seeking to Have Secretary of State Kemp Barred From Presiding Over His Own Election”

November 6, 2018, 2:38 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release via email: Today, a group of Georgia voters filed a federal lawsuit asking the United States District Court in Atlanta to enjoin Secretary of State Brian Kemp from exercising any further powers of the Secretary of State’s Office in… Continue reading

“Brian Kemp and His Staff Caught in a String of Falsehoods”

November 6, 2018, 9:50 amchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WhoWhatWhy: WhoWhatWhy asked the secretary of state’s office if it planned to conduct an audit to ascertain that unauthorized changes had not been made to voter registrations. Broce responded, “There is no such vulnerability in the system as alleged by… Continue reading

“Without evidence, Trump and Sessions warn of voter fraud in Tuesday’s elections”

November 5, 2018, 5:39 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WaPo: President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday issued strong warnings about the threat of voter fraud in Tuesday’s elections, echoing the president’s baseless claims that massive voter fraud marred his 2016 election and prompting accusations that his… Continue reading

“There Are No Actual Set Rules for Counting Disputed Ballots; Here are some good ones.”

November 5, 2018, 1:52 pmelection administration, recounts, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Ned Foley and Steve Huefner at Slate: This year, in particular, the temptation may be especially strong to distort the vote-counting process to achieve a victory for one side or the other. Given the refrain that the current elections are… Continue reading

“Concerns about voter access dominate final stretch before Election Day”

November 5, 2018, 7:36 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

WaPo reports.

“Brian Kemp under scrutiny after announcing probe of Democrats”

November 5, 2018, 7:17 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

AJC: Secretary of State Brian Kemp has had two roles this year: Running Georgia’s elections and running for governor of the state. Democrats, including former President Jimmy Carter, have called on him to step aside, warning repeatedly of potential conflicts… Continue reading

“Hackers are using malware to find vulnerabilities in U.S. swing states. Expect cyberattacks.”

November 5, 2018, 7:05 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Monkey Cage.

“Brian Kemp Just Engaged in a Last-Minute Act of Banana-Republic Level Voter Manipulation in Georgia”

November 4, 2018, 12:50 pmchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: In perhaps the most outrageous example of election administration partisanship in the modern era, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is running for governor while simultaneously in charge of the… Continue reading

“In Midterms, the Right to Vote Is Still at Issue, Too”

November 3, 2018, 3:24 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor and elections scholar, said what was going on reflected a shift from a belief in shared rules of democracy toward one that sees elections as struggles for power “in which you need… Continue reading

“Four Fights Over Voting Rights”

November 3, 2018, 3:21 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Judges Are Telling Minority Voters They’re Probably Being Disenfranchised, but It’s Too Late to Do Anything About It”

November 2, 2018, 1:04 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. it begins: In separate rulings on Thursday, two federal courts had the same message for minority voters making credible claims of potential disenfranchisement: Your arguments may be good on the merits, but it’s… Continue reading