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I have written this oped for CNN. It begins: By repeating false and misleading statements about the potential for voter fraud and post-election violence, Attorney General William Barr has stepped out of his role as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and marred the … Continue reading
From the opinion: Even under this standard, Defendants’ evidence is woefully inadequate. First, they offer not a scintilla of evidence of fraud associated with voting by mail in Louisiana. Strikingly absent is even a hint of fraud in the July … Continue reading
Dangerous: It is with a heavy heart that I must announce Bill Barr is at it again. https://t.co/A9Nefcwuq8 pic.twitter.com/U0JsHVipvX— Matt Ford (@fordm) September 15, 2020 … Continue reading
ProPublica: Starting in early spring, as the coronavirus took hold, a conservative lawyer at the forefront of raising alarms about voting by mail held multiple private briefings exclusively for Republican state election officials, according to previously unreported public records.The lawyer, … Continue reading
Greg Sargent: Appearing on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning, President Trump again told his supporters to believe that if the election doesn’t deliver the result they want, the outcome is inherently illegitimate — that there are no democratically legitimate circumstances under which he … Continue reading
This seems worthy of a deeper dive, particularly what Christy McCormick and Don Palmer should be saying about this topic: Lawyers Democracy Fund (calling itself “LDF”–hmm) seems to have a lot of overlap with RNLA and Honest Elections Project. … Continue reading
Politico: For a few weeks, Donald Trump’s advisers had seemingly gotten through to him — the president was finally encouraging his supporters to vote by mail, at least some of the time.On-message Trump didn’t last long. He recently appeared to suggest people … Continue reading
CNN: Attorney General William Barr has become one of the staunchest supporters of the President’s campaign against mail-in voting. Speaking in Phoenix on Thursday, Barr continued to push false and negative narratives about mail-in voting.“There’s no more secret vote, there’s … Continue reading
Video: Trump urges his supporters to be "poll watchers" on Election Day."Watch all the stealing and robbing they do. This is important." pic.twitter.com/xmI5w9xUYX— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 8, 2020 … Continue reading
Reuters does a deep dive into the small cadre of vote suppressors such as von Spakovsky, Christian Adams and Cleta Mitchell: This year, the Trump campaign and the Republican Party have cited concerns about voter fraud in a nationwide legal … Continue reading
When I linked to news last week that super lawyer Ben Ginsberg was retiring from Jones Day I wrote: Superstar election lawyer Ben, who served as national counsel for the Romney 2012 campaign, has been an important voice in recent … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: As states across the country scramble to make voting safer in a pandemic, Texas is in the small minority of those requiring voters who want to cast their ballots by mail to present an excuse beyond the risk … Continue reading
That’s in an article entitled “Scoop: Kevin McCarthy Warns Trump’s War on Mail Could Screw GOP.” The idea that Trump is attacking mail-in voting to give himself an excuse if he loses to Biden in November is the most benign … Continue reading
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WaPo: Barr stated on CNN: “Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion. For example, we indicted someone in Texas — 1,700 ballots collected from people who could vote, he made them out and voted … Continue reading
WaPo: In his latest warning about the dangers of mass mail-in voting, Attorney General William P. Barr pointed to a case in Texas that he said highlighted the risk of fraud.“Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial … Continue reading
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President Trump made some worrisome comments today that seemed to encourage double voting in the state of North Carolina. You can watch the short interview here. Here’s the transcript (my emphasis): (Q) 600,000 people could vote by absentee in this … Continue reading
Not clear why this supposed Bernie Sanders supporter would be going to the right-leaning tabloid with this story, and no corroboration that any of the alleged fraud happened. The Post offers only that they corroborated the person’s identity, rap sheet, … Continue reading
Politico: Donald Trump Jr. is urging voters to cast absentee ballots in robocalls detected across the nation Wednesday — even as his father continues to rail against widespread mail-in voting.The robocalls, which reference this week’s Republican National Convention have been deployed in … Continue reading
CNN: US officials charged with protecting the 2020 election said Wednesday they have “no information or intelligence” that foreign countries, including Russia, are attempting to undermine any part of the mail-in voting process, contradicting President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly pushed false … Continue reading
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The Guardian: Donald Trump’s campaign failed to produce any evidence of vote-by-mail fraud in Pennsylvania after a federal judge ordered it do so, according to a 524-page court filing obtained by the Guardian.The order came from US district judge Nicholas Ranjan, a Trump appointee, … Continue reading
Back in 1981, the RNC agreed to a consent decree, which remained in place in various forms until 2017. It prevented the RNC from engaging in certain activities which intimidated minority voters. As I explained in this January 2019 Slate … Continue reading
The Intercept: In a motion last week, Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future and the Sierra Club called on the Trump campaign to provide evidence of the existence of voter fraud, arguing that the campaign’s lawsuit was “replete with salacious allegations and dire warnings” … Continue reading
I have written this oped for the New York Times. It begins: The threat to the 2020 election’s legitimacy finally broke through into everyday conversation last week. People who pay little attention to politics started talking about whether President Trump … Continue reading
Me at Twitter: This is a common, weak attempt to flip the burden of proof. Widespread voter fraud would be easy to detect. Kris Kobach told a federal court he had shown “tip of iceberg” of voter fraud. Court said … Continue reading
CNN: A federal judge in Pennsylvania told the Trump campaign and the Republican Party that they must produce evidence they have of vote-by-mail fraud in the state by Friday.The judge’s order, in a high-profile case about vote-by-mail in the battleground … Continue reading
More unsubstantiated rhetoric from the President (starting at the 10 minute mark). Christina Wilkie: Trump on the Post Office: "They don't have the money to do the mail in voting. Are they gonna do it even if they don't have … Continue reading
Trump appoints J. Christian Adams to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. … Continue reading
ProPublica: On April 3, Terrence K. Williams, a politically conservative actor and comedian who’s been praised by President Donald Trump, assured his nearly 3 million followers on Facebook that Democrats would light ballots on fire or throw them away. Wearing a red … Continue reading
NYT: In his latest assault on voting by mail, President Trump said on Monday that he thought the Democratic primary in New York’s 12th Congressional District should be rerun because of lengthy delays in counting mail-in ballots. Prompted by a … Continue reading
Incredible stats from Susan Glasser in the New Yorker: In fact, Trump’s attack on the legitimacy of the upcoming election has been intensifying for months, as his poll standing has sunk. Trump’s “Twitter Richter scale,” as the Democratic lawyer Norm … Continue reading
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Politico: President Donald Trump threatened legal action Monday after Nevada’s legislature passed a bill to mail ballots to all active voters, suggesting that the measure would make it impossible for Republicans to win there in November’s general election.“In an illegal … Continue reading
NPR: This past week, President Trump renewed his unsubstantiated claim that mail-in voting begets inaccurate or fraudulent results when he raised the prospect of delaying November’s election.“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the … Continue reading
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CNN: After President Donald Trump posted an unfounded claim to Facebook (FB) on Tuesday that mail-in voting could lead to a “corrupt election,” the social network slapped a label on it. But the label did not attempt to fact-check the post as true … Continue reading
As I explained on Twitter: This warning seems pretty useless—it might even seem that Facebook is endorsing what Trump is saying and providing a path for more information. https://t.co/yc5KVeq4f0— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) July 21, 2020 … Continue reading
Transcript of interview with Chris Wallace: WALLACE: Two–TRUMP: That’s going to happen here–WALLACE: Two final questions—TRUMP: If he wins–WALLACE: In general, not talking about November, are you a good loser?TRUMP: I’m not a good loser. I don’t like to lose. … Continue reading
KC Star: Kris Kobach charged 15 people with election crimes during his tenure as Kansas’ top election official. Many of the cases involved allegations similar to those now facing Kansas Republican Rep. Steve Watkins, who Kobach campaigned with 2018.But Kobach, … Continue reading
CNN: Republican officials throughout the country are reacting with growing alarm to President Donald Trump’s attacks on mail-in ballots, saying his unsubstantiated claims of mass voting fraud are already corroding the views of GOP voters, who may ultimately choose not to vote … Continue reading
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Politico: President Donald Trump’s harsh rhetoric against mail-in voting is causing a big problem for Florida Republicans, who once dominated the practice here.So the state GOP came up with a solution: They doctored one of Trump’s tweets on the issue … Continue reading
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Hartford Courant: “We have evidence of people who received absentee ballot applications who have been deceased for more than a decade,” Romano said, adding that the ballots are supposed to be sent only to active voters. “We found an example … Continue reading
TAP: This year, the Postal Service will also be essential to the national elections, as more Americans than ever opt to vote by mail because of the coronavirus. Weakening, privatizing, or eliminating the Postal Service at this critical time could … Continue reading