Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Election Security in All 50 States”–New CAP Report and Big Monday Event

February 11, 2018, 9:08 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Center for American Progress: By Danielle Root, Liz Kennedy, Michael Sozan, and Jerry Parshall In 2016, America’s elections were targeted by a foreign nation-state intent on infiltrating and manipulating our electoral system. On September 22, 2017, it… Continue reading

“Lawsuit Filed Over Arkansas’ Revamped Voter ID Law”

February 7, 2018, 7:30 pmThe Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

VOA: An Arkansas resident asked a judge Wednesday to strike down a new state law requiring voters show photo identification before casting a ballot, arguing the measure causes the same problems as a nearly identical state voter ID law struck… Continue reading

North Carolina Republicans May Not Be Done Trying to Mess with Composition of State Election Boards

January 31, 2018, 9:02 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: Gov. Roy Cooper wants the legal wheels to spin faster after the North Carolina Supreme Court tossed out laws governing the makeup of a combined state elections and ethics board, hoping that will let him seat a new elections… Continue reading

Crosscheck Watch: “Eighth State Quietly Quit Free Anti-Voter-Fraud Program Over Security Concerns and ‘Unreliable’ Results”

January 29, 2018, 12:28 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Gizmodo: The State of Kentucky has pulled out of the Interstate Crosscheck System, Gizmodo has learned, making it the eighth state to quit the program so far—even though it cost nothing to participate. A source with direct knowledge of the… Continue reading

House Democrats Want Trey Gowdy to Issue Subpoena to DHS to Reveal Data on Attempted Russian Cyberhacking of 2016 Election Systems

January 29, 2018, 10:09 amchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Letter.

“North Carolina Mismanaged Itself Into Electoral Chaos”

January 29, 2018, 10:06 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bloomberg Businessweek: What sets North Carolina apart, though, is the breadth of institutions that have been thrown against a wall. As the state prepares for 2018 campaign filing deadlines in February, congressional and Statehouse maps and even the district boundaries… Continue reading

“Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Files New Lawsuit Against Trump Administration For Concealing Its Actions to Engage DOJ and DHS in Work of Commission on Election Integrity”

January 28, 2018, 9:54 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) for blocking the public release of information related to their efforts to investigate unfounded claims of… Continue reading

NC: “In power struggle with GOP lawmakers, Cooper wins election board revamp lawsuit”

January 28, 2018, 9:47 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

News & Observer: For the second time since Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper took office, the state Supreme Court issued a ruling striking down an attempt by the Republican-led General Assembly to revamp the state elections board. In a 4-3 ruling… Continue reading

“5 Ways Election Interference Could (And Probably Will) Worsen In 2018 And Beyond”

January 28, 2018, 9:38 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NPR reports.

“Outrage in Wisconsin as Republicans Fire State’s Top Ethics and Election Officials”

January 25, 2018, 7:32 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Alan Greenblatt reports for Governing.

“Democratic group will spend $5 million to elect secretaries of state, the latest front in ‘voting wars’”

January 25, 2018, 7:27 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Dave Weigel for WaPo: The left-leaning ballot access group iVote will spend at least $5 million across swing states to elect Democratic secretaries of state — the latest front in the “voting wars” that Democrats worried they have been losing.… Continue reading

“How the GOP Rigs Elections; With a combination of gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and dark money, Republicans have tipped the political scales in their favor. Will it be enough to keep Democrats from claiming victory in 2018?”

January 25, 2018, 7:00 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Ari Berman for Rolling Stone.

Banana Republic Dept: Wisconsin Senate Republicans Aim to Remove Civil Servants Next at Government Ethics and Election Commissions

January 24, 2018, 9:09 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Patrick Marley: Republican state senators Tuesday denied the confirmations of the directors of Wisconsin’s ethics and elections commissions — and the leader of the state Senate said he hoped to remove two civil servants at those agencies next. Senate Majority… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Senate votes to force out state Ethics and Elections leaders”

January 23, 2018, 1:14 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bad news for fair and impartial elections, but entirely expected: State Senate Republicans have voted on party lines to reject confirmation of the state’s top ethics and elections officials — which Republicans said will effectively fire them, and Democrats decried… Continue reading

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