Important Kira Lerner at Think Progress; At the annual gathering of secretaries of state in Washington, D.C. this week, Republican elections chiefs blocked an attempt to official denounceTrump’s lie. Instead, they cited the president’s claims, telling ThinkProgress they support measures … Continue reading
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
John Nichols for the Nation: Robert Kengle, the deputy chief of the Voting Section, said he left his position because of the extreme politicization of the department during the time of Acosta’s leadership. Kengle said the controversial letter brief in … Continue reading
North Carolina has filed its reply brief in the North Carolina voting case, and the Supreme Court is set to review it at its March 3 conference. (If the Court does grant review, it typically takes at least two conferences … Continue reading
Here we go again. … Continue reading
Sherillyn Ifill oped for WaPo. … Continue reading
Zoltan L. Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson for The Monkey Cage: When we compare overall turnout in states with strict ID laws to turnout in states without these laws, we find no significant difference. That pattern matches with most … Continue reading
Important Bauer on how election administration experts should respond to the Pence Commission: This leaves members of this community with a couple of choices. One is declining to participate: no testimony, no written submissions. The Commission will want to say … Continue reading
Release: Today, voting rights groups Demos and Project Vote urged a federal appeals court to uphold a decision dismissing an attempt by the so-called “American Civil Rights Union” (ACRU) to force the City of Philadelphia to conduct an unnecessary purge … Continue reading
NYT editorial: “It is a fact and you will not deny it.” That unnerving remark — made on Sunday by Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser to President Trump — sums up the new administration’s attitude toward the truth: We … Continue reading
Real Clear Politics. See also Mediaite, After CNN Interview, Kris Kobach Slams Network for ‘False Claims of Voter Fraud’ Chyron … Continue reading
WMUR: “Gov. Chris Sununu said Monday he is unaware of widespread voter fraud in the Granite State, but he said he wants to work with President Donald Trump’s administration to ‘learn of any evidence they may have.’” … Continue reading
Important EJ Dionne WaPo column. … Continue reading
Think Progress: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who voted against the legislation, told ThinkProgress it’s likely that the full House will follow through with eliminating the agency, as protecting elections has become a partisan issue in Washington. But elsewhere in the … Continue reading
Glenn Kessler Fact Checker column in WaPo: Stephanopoulos is right. The White House continues to provide zero evidence to back up its claims of voter fraud. Officials instead retreat to the same bogus talking points that have been repeatedly shown … Continue reading
Astonishing video full of lies and unsubstantiated (and unproven) statements. (A bit from Politifact.) More evidence the “Pence Commission” on voter fraud will be a sham (here‘s what a fair commission would look like). And most chilling is Miller referring … Continue reading
Michael Wines for the NYT: Despite repeated statements by Republican political leaders that American elections are rife with illegal voting, credible reports of fraud have been hard to find and convictions rarer still. That may help explain the unusually heavy … Continue reading
AP: North Carolina’s new Democratic governor and the entrenched Republican-led legislature battled in court on two fronts Friday over efforts to restrict the chief executive’s ability to alter the state’s recent conservative direction. A panel of three state trial court … Continue reading
Vice News reports. … Continue reading
Politico: On Thursday, during a meeting with 10 senators that was billed as a listening session about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, the president went off on a familiar tangent, suggesting again that he was a victim of widespread voter … Continue reading
Letter. … Continue reading
S.V. Date for HuffPo: Justin Levitt, a Loyola Law School professor and voting rights expert, said the order’s disappearance is not terribly unexpected. “I wouldn’t be surprised if this falls by the wayside for a whole lot longer,” he said. … Continue reading
Not so much. … Continue reading
As predictable as is it disheartening and demoralizing: As President Donald Trump hurls unfounded allegations of colossal fraud in last fall’s election, lawmakers in at least 20 mostly Republican-led states are pushing to make it harder to register or to … Continue reading
Pam Fessler for NPR. … Continue reading
News & Observer: Four voters in Guilford County have filed a defamation suit against a man who accused them of voter fraud after the November 2016 elections. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Guilford County Superior Court, accuses William Clark Porter … Continue reading
Topeka Capital Journal: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Tuesday faced impassioned opposition from civic groups and lawyers as he urged a panel of lawmakers to authorize a two-ballot system for state and federal voting….. “We have discovered a … Continue reading
Extensive report from KMUW, Witchita’s NPR station: Housing half of all U.S. voter registrations, Crosscheck gained national attention this year after Kobach advised President Donald Trump in connection with the president’s false claims of pervasive voter fraud in the 2016 … Continue reading
Bauer: President Trump’s arrangement for an inquiry into election voting fraud is fatally compromised by political self-interest. Before the November election, he insisted that voter fraud might cost him the victory. After he had won, he decided that it robbed … Continue reading
Carolina Public Press reports. … Continue reading
Ari Berman: This move is particularly worrisome given reports that suspected Russian hackers attempted to access voter-registration systems in more than 20 states during the 2016 election. Moreover, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration set up by President Obama in … Continue reading
Watch. … Continue reading
Release: Jason Kander today launched Let America Vote, an organization dedicated to winning the public debate over voter suppression in the United States. For several years, challenges to voter suppression efforts have taken place almost exclusively in courts of law. … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
Zack Roth for MSNBC. … Continue reading
WaPo on the fuller Bill O’Reilly interview: “It has to do with the registration,” he continued. “And when you look at the registration, and you see dead people that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two … Continue reading
CNN: McConnell told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” he wants to leave the task of wiping voters who have died or moved away off their rolls to state governments. “This sort of thing is handled at the … Continue reading
See this preview. Sad! … Continue reading
AP: An executive action commissioning the probe is still planned but could be several weeks away, two senior administration officials said Friday. Although Trump instructed staff to jump on the project last week, he has not discussed the issue in … Continue reading
The Christian Science Monitor reports. … Continue reading
This could be an important case. … Continue reading
Charles Stewart has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The purpose of this paper is to put the issues of election integrity that arose in 2016 in context, and to suggest along the way how it is … Continue reading
The Bismarck Tribune reports. … Continue reading
CNN: A full week has passed since President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order opening a Justice Department investigation into his unsubstantiated claim that millions of people voted illegally in November. The Oval Office signing was abruptly … Continue reading
WRAL: In a blog post and a Slate Magazine column Thursday, election law expert Richard Hasen suggests Gov. Roy Cooper could score a victory for opponents of North Carolina’s voter ID law by scuttling the state’s appeal of a 4th … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: The future of voting rights in the medium to long term is not rosy. President Donald Trump is making false claims that millions of voters fraudulently cast ballots in the 2016 … Continue reading
Al.com: Instead, he said he doesn’t want to approach Sessions with incomplete work. “We are working diligently on a massive quality check on what we are saying,” said Phillips, referencing the 3 million illegal voting claims. “We don’t want to … Continue reading
Four Pinnochios. … Continue reading
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. … Continue reading
CNN’s K-Files: Gregg Phillips, the source for Donald Trump’s claim that 3 million fraudulent votes were cast, has made several misleading statements about the groups he runs, VotersTrust and American Solutions. Phillips has publicly described VotersTrust as a non-profit, specifically … Continue reading