Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Voter suppression’s last stand: North Carolina’s new Jim Crow counties”

October 4, 2016, 4:11 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Insightus: In the wake of a federal court decision overturning North Carolina’s “monster voter suppression law,” the NC-GOP’s executive director issued a call for “party-line changes to early voting” by the state’s Republican-controlled county boards of elections. Our review of… Continue reading

“DMV retraining workers on voter ID”

October 4, 2016, 4:05 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Patrick Marley: The Division of Motor Vehicles began retraining hundreds of workers Tuesday in response to reports they had given incomplete or inaccurate information at stations around the state. “We still have plenty of time to right any wrongs… Continue reading

“Trump and Election Protection in 2016”

October 4, 2016, 3:42 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bauer: Donald Trump has urged his supporters to check closely for fraud and irregularities at the polling places. He wants them to make sure the voting is on the “up and up,” and he implies that there is a reason… Continue reading

Just 31, Not 1000+, Non-Citizen Voters Shown to Have Voted in Virginia over Last Ten Years

October 4, 2016, 3:37 pmchicanery, election administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Over the weekend, Drudge had a headline stating: “Report: 1,000+ Illegal Voters in Virginia.” And Dan Sciavino, Jr. tweeted: “Terrible. We know who the 1,000+ illegal aliens ARE NOT VOTING FOR! A fixed presidential election in the making….will we… Continue reading

“Election board: Article alleging voter fraud is fake”

October 4, 2016, 3:23 pmchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Columbus Disptach: An article posted on the Christian Times website stated that a Columbus electrical worker found a dozen sealed ballot boxes filled with thousands of ballots for the Nov. 8 election. The ballots contained votes for Hillary Clinton and… Continue reading

“How Hostile Poll-Watchers Could Hand Pennsylvania to Trump”

October 2, 2016, 3:41 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Erick Trickey for Politico Magazine.

Doonesbury Tackles Voter Identification Fraud/Jim Crow

October 2, 2016, 12:52 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

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Don’t Point to Voter Registration Fraud, or Absentee Ballot Fraud, to Defend Trump’s Irresponsible Vote-Rigging Claims

October 2, 2016, 12:14 pmchicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Yesterday I posted Trump’s Irresponsible Vote-Rigging Statements Literally Putting Our Democracy at Risk, in which I argued that Trump is undermining our faith in democracy itself by making irresponsible claims the election could be rigged through voter impersonation fraud… Continue reading

“What’s the Matter with Kansas: The Voting Edition”

October 2, 2016, 12:04 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for Jurist.

Trump’s Irresponsible Vote-Rigging Statements Literally Putting Our Democracy at Risk

October 1, 2016, 3:13 pmchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

One of the things we take for granted is that even in tumultuous times when elections are hard fought, the losers concede the election and embrace the process, even if things did not go well. That’s what Al Gore did… Continue reading

New Lawsuit over North Carolina Early Voting

October 1, 2016, 2:56 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Marc Elias: BREAKING: Filed an emergency motion to force NC to modify early vote plans for Nash, New Hanover, Mecklenburg, Guilford, & Forsyth Counties. More info when available. UPDATE: You can read the motion here. On August 17, bombshell… Continue reading

“Protecting the Right to Vote in the 2016 Elections”

October 1, 2016, 2:48 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Liz Kennedy and Hannah Parnes write.

Kobach Loses Again—This Time in Tenth Circuit

September 30, 2016, 8:04 pmelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Order: Exercising jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292, we hold that the district court did not abuse its discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction. Under the facts of this case, section 5 of the NVRA preempts Kansas’s DPOC … Continue reading