TPM: J. Christian Adams — a former member of President Trump’s voter fraud commission who has been sued for defamation for his reports claiming mass fraud — will have to sit for another deposition in the case, after a last-minute discovery dump … Continue reading
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Amy Gardner for WaPo: What played out in Tennessee illustrates the messiness that has accompanied some large-scale efforts to draw new Democratic voters into the electorate, providing an opening for critics to push for stricter rules. The fallout is part … Continue reading
Tierney Sneed from TPM: Before he was named by President Trump to the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, Donald Palmer, a former GOP-appointed secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections, assisted in the creation of sensational voter fraud reports that prompted … Continue reading
NYT scoop: Access to a government jet 24 hours a day. An office in the West Wing, plus guaranteed weekends off for family time. And an assurance of being made secretary of homeland security by November.Those were among a list … Continue reading
Houston Chronicle: Sweeping voter reforms that Democrats and voting advocacy groups called nothing more than a tool for voter suppression appear to have died in the Texas Legislature.The Texas House on Sunday night refused to schedule the controversial bill for … Continue reading
Scoop from Tierney Sneed at Talking Points Memo (you’ve got to read the whole thing): Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wanted to “target” the “most questionable” precincts in Virginia with an anti-voter … Continue reading
Texas Observer: A bill raising criminal penalties for certain election-related offenses and imposing new voting restrictions cleared a major hurdle Friday, setting the stage for yet another floor debate over voter suppression at the Texas Legislature.On a party line vote, … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: Texas’ botched search for noncitizens on the voter rolls, which ended in a legal settlement after state officials jeopardized the voting rights of thousands of legitimate voters, was paid for in part with dollars earmarked for bolstering election … Continue reading
The Houston Chronicle reports. … Continue reading
Huffpost: Paxton has emphasized prosecuting election fraud in a political climate in which President Donald Trump has made unsubstantiated claims about noncitizens voting, and as the Hispanic electorate is growing. Despite Paxton’s intense focus on this issue, his office does not … Continue reading
Brennan Center FOIA lawsuit (via Sam Levine). … Continue reading
NYT: The Texas secretary of state agreed Friday to rescind an advisory issued by his office in January that questioned the citizenship status of almost 100,000 registered voters. The agreement will formally end a review of the voter rolls that a federal … Continue reading
NYT: Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill through the state House on Monday that would fine community groups that submit incomplete voter-registration applications, an unusual move that the bill’s opponents have denounced as voter suppression.Protesters swarmed the State Capitol to speak out … Continue reading
HuffPost: The letter, which came as House Democrats investigate allegations of voter suppression in Texas, trumpeted one of Paxton’s favorite statistics. All told, the letter said, the Election Fraud Unit had “prosecuted 33 defendants for a total of 97 election fraud … Continue reading
The Houston Chronicle reports. … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: Facing an investigation over the state’s botched efforts to screen its voter rolls for noncitizens, the Texas Attorney General’s Office is declining congressional leaders’ request for information about the review.In a Thursday letter to top officials with the House’s main … Continue reading
Josh Marshall: In recent years we’ve witnessed the increasing ideological marriage of the Israeli Likud and the American GOP. Nor is it just ideological and cultural. There is increasingly transnational cooperation, with longtime Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu frequently intervening … Continue reading
Eliza Newlin Carney: The latest overblown Republican claims of voter fraud have been thoroughly debunked, now that a federal judge has blocked a massive voter purge in Texas, and accused GOP election officials there of creating a “mess” that intimidated vulnerable voters.But instead of … Continue reading
So worrying: Trump told the NRCC: “We have to be a little bit careful, because I don't like the way the votes are being tallied… You don't like it either, you just don't want to say it because you're afraid … Continue reading
The court’s order and opinion is here. I expect two of the three names released on this email will be Christian Adams and Donald Palmer (now on the EAC). We’ll see soon enough if that’s correct. … Continue reading
San Antonio Express-News: Senate Democrats still pledge to block the confirmation of embattled Secretary of State David Whitley, even asa top Texas law enforcement official is taking blame for major errors in a list of suspected non-citizen voters.“I take full … Continue reading
Lawrence Journal-World: A citizen-initiated grand jury that was impaneled in January to investigate alleged election-related crimes by former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office has adjourned without bringing an indictment, according to a court document in the case.After reviewing … Continue reading
I look forward to the expose. … Continue reading
Next, maybe EAC Comm'r McCormick, who agreed to serve on the bogus Pence-Kobach Commission, can avoid false statements like election administration is an "area that … constitutionally rests solely with the states." Elections Clause gives Congress power to set fed … Continue reading
Via Tierney Sneed on the release of more Pence-Kobach documents, oh my: … Continue reading
On Senate floor, @senatemajldr McConnell shamelessly blames Dems for Mark Harris' election fraud in North Carolina, because Dems haven't supported voter ID laws. pic.twitter.com/PGZw23p4PU— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 26, 2019 … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: Facing an uncertain path to confirmation after ordering a deeply flawed voter citizenship review that seemingly focused on naturalized citizens, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley is now apologizing to state lawmakers for the way his office bungled its roll … Continue reading
KCUR: Former Republican Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach rewrote the rules for voting in Kansas. Laws he pushed for required voters to show citizenship papers to register and ID at the polls. He secured prosecutorial powers for his office. Kobach’s … Continue reading
Ari Berman reports for Mother Jones. … Continue reading
Texas should have (and likely did) know better. Great reporting from Alexa Ura of the Texas Tribune. … Continue reading
Texas Monthly: On a day that Governor Greg Abbott downplayed apparent inaccuracies in a voting list that his secretary of state compiled of potential non-citizens, a former secretary of state said the list should be rescinded.“I think they need to rescind … Continue reading
Waco Tribune: By the time local elections officials downloaded a list of 366 registered voters the Texas Secretary of State’s Office initially said may not be citizens, the office had called to tell them to disregard the list, Elections Administrator … Continue reading
NPR reports. … Continue reading
Factcheck.org: President Donald Trump wrongly claims that “58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote.” This latest voter fraud misinformation from the president is based on the state’s efforts to match driver’s license and state ID card … Continue reading
NYT reports. It says something about the Republicans’ views of election administration reform and improvement that they put up von Spakovsky and Adams as witnesses rather than credible Republican voices who have been working hard for sensible election reform. These … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: After flagging tens of thousands of registered voters for citizenship reviews, the Texas secretary of state’s office is now telling counties that some of those voters don’t belong on the lists it sent out.Officials in five large counties … Continue reading
Watch this: WATCH: @Sifill_LDF calls out misleading testimony and how "shading the reality of what it takes for lawyers and communities to challenge discriminatory voting practices…is the reason that we need #HR1." #ForThePeople #WomenLead pic.twitter.com/Vr4vLAsNjX— Legal Defense Fund (@NAACP_LDF) January … Continue reading
Breaking: Court orders President Trump’s disbanded “voter fraud” commission to turn over additional documents to Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap by February 27: https://t.co/9mGwjAaJEA pic.twitter.com/iwuzqHDTkh— American Oversight (@weareoversight) January 28, 2019 … Continue reading
So begins this tweet thread from the indispensable Texas Tribune, based upon this article. 1/ You might be seeing headlines or tweets tonight that claim Texas says 58,000 non-citizens have voted in Texas. That is not true. That is not … Continue reading
Via email: Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement in response to an announcement made by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton regarding alleged non-U.S. citizens on the state’s registration rolls: “Advancing exaggerated claims … Continue reading
The great Gerry Hebert writes: Frustrated supporters of voter suppression measures have decided that the way to advance their cause is by personally attacking those who have fought against voter suppression – including me.Past posts by Hans von Spakovsky and … Continue reading
Wichita Eagle: A big piece of Kris Kobach’s legacy appears to be on its way out as Kansas lawmakers move forward on parallel tracks to repeal the authority of the secretary of state to prosecute election crimes. The House Judiciary … Continue reading
NYT: At least one outside expert suggested that was disingenuous. Legislators crafted stringent identification requirements to combat voter impersonation, but “did very little with respect to what could have been done” to protect absentee ballots, said Paul Gronke, a political … Continue reading
Pema Levy for Mother Jones. … Continue reading
Sam Levine for HuffPost. … Continue reading
Politico: Secretary of State Bill Gardner has had a decades-long run as the legendary, hard-nosed guardian of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. But he may not make it through the Trump era. Gardner, a fixture in presidential politics after more than … Continue reading
WaPo: But then, in an interview with Fox News after Scott was declared the winner, Trump still claimed that the race had been affected by fraudulent votes. “Rick Scott won and he won by a lot,” Trump told “Fox News Sunday” host … Continue reading
Aaron Blake for The Fix: For more than two years, President Trump has baselessly alleged rampant electoral fraud. He pre-blamed voter fraud for his expected 2016 loss, and then he cited it again even after he shockingly won. (Something needed to explain … Continue reading
LAT: Two Orange County Republicans facing the prospect of defeat in the Nov. 6 congressional election as final ballots are counted have adopted President Trump’s tactic of making baseless allegations of vote fraud. Neither GOP Rep. Mimi Walters nor Republican … Continue reading