TPM: A set of potentially juicy emails from President Trump’s disbanded voter fraud commission will likely never see the light of day, due to an appeals court decision issued Friday.The Trump administration is not required to turn over certain emails … Continue reading
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AP: One of President Donald Trump’s top re-election advisers told influential Republicans in swing state Wisconsin that the party has “traditionally” relied on voter suppression to compete in battleground states but will be able to “start playing offense” in 2020 … Continue reading
Alexa Ura: Since Texas ended its botched voter rolls review in April, I've been asking for its flawed list of "possible non-U.S. citizens."In response to latest open records request, @TXAG says the criminal case is *still* open 8 months later. … Continue reading
Detroit Free Press: A public interest group has sued the city of Detroit in federal court, claiming it has thousands of dead people on its voter lists and even more duplicate names of registered voters — problems the group fears could lead to … Continue reading
AP: A much-criticized database that checks whether voters are registered in multiple states has been suspended “for the foreseeable future” until security safeguards are put in place as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit, a civil rights group … Continue reading
WFPL: During a series of interviews on talk radio shows Wednesday morning, outgoing Republican Gov. Matt Bevin said that he lost his race for reelection because the Democratic Party “harvested votes in urban communities.”… “They were able to go into … Continue reading
News & Observer: McCrory is not one of the people being sued for libel.The case is against some of his 2016 supporters. They falsely accused several dozen North Carolinians of voting illegally, although only a handful of those voters are … Continue reading
Doozy from Jessica Huseman: The personality, whose real name is Terpsichore Lindeman, alleged that somehow she and her husband had wound up as registered Democrats in Kentucky, which she saw as a sure sign that Andy Beshear, the Democratic attorney … Continue reading
Tierney Sneed for TPM: The apparent memory problems of a former Trump Justice Department appointee have continued to haunt the department since the official left the administration.Last week, in two separate cases, the Justice Department had to tell courts that … Continue reading
He’s really got nothing. Watch. … Continue reading
Those claiming massive fraud or irregularities in the Kentucky governor's race had their chance to make their case to the media and public.It did not go well. At all. https://t.co/k1iW4WED53— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) November 13, 2019 … Continue reading
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NYT: A few hours after polls closed in Kentucky last Tuesday, a Twitter user writing under the handle @Overlordkraken1 posted a message to his 19 followers saying he had “just shredded a box of Republican mail-in ballots.”It was clear that … Continue reading
Miles Parks for NPR: Bevin isn’t the first politician to question the results of a race after the fact, and occasionally, if infrequently, those concerns have been founded in reality.After the 2018 midterms, then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott alluded to “rampant … Continue reading
Courier Journal: Conservative political activist Frank Simon, a longtime supporter of Gov. Matt Bevin, is sending robocalls asking Kentuckians to report suspicious activity or voter fraud to the State Board of Elections before Nov. 14 — the day of Bevin’s requested recanvass.Bevin finished … Continue reading
Yesterday at Slate I wrote about how Kentucky governor Matt Bevin has so far made unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud and other irregularities cost him the election against his Democratic opponent Andy Beshear, and that the Kentucky Senate President made … Continue reading
KCUR: One of the hallmarks of Kris Kobach’s time as Kansas Secretary of State was his power to investigate and prosecute voter fraud. Kobach, who is now running for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate, was the only secretary … Continue reading
Tierney Sneed for TPM (behind paywall): We already know from various court filings that President Trump’s voter fraud commission — and Kris Kobach’s claims, after its dissolution, that the Department of Homeland of Security was continuing its work — caused the administration a … Continue reading
Pam Fessler: The most blatant example of illegal voting in recent years was in NC 9, absentee ballot fraud by GOP candidate. Other than that, there's no evidence of any widespread fraud. https://t.co/gtVPDI2Yia— pam fessler (@pamelafessler) September 10, 2019 These … Continue reading
The Independent: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed in a bid to allow cameras at polling stations during national elections, a move critics suggested was aimed at lowering Arab turnout. The legislation, put forward by Netanyahu’s Likud party just over a week before election day, … Continue reading
WaPo: It was one of the first claims President-elect Donald Trump made about voter fraud in the wake of his 2016 victory: that his whisker-thin loss in New Hampshire was propelled by thousands of illegal ballots cast by out-of-state voters.Trump’s … Continue reading
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The Hill: Kansas GOP Senate candidate Kris Kobach blamed his gubernatorial loss last year on “propaganda” and is vowing to take a new approach to his Senate bid.“I’d failed to anticipate just how powerful the propaganda would be,” the former Kansas secretary … Continue reading
NYT: The president also used his time at the conference to paint a dark picture of immigrants and the election system, falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants can vote, and then accusing the election system in states like California of being … Continue reading
WaPo: “And when they’re saying all of this stuff, and then those illegals get out and vote, because they vote anyway. Don’t kid yourself,” he said. “Those numbers in California and numerous other states, they’re rigged. They’ve got people voting … Continue reading
TPM: A former Trump voter fraud commissioner will apologize to citizens he wrongly described as noncitizens in reports claiming mass voter fraud in Virginia, according to a tentative settlement agreement reached this week in a lawsuit brought against the commissioner.J. Christian … Continue reading
HuffPost follows up on yesterday’s announced settlement. … Continue reading
Well, one lawsuit, really, over publishing identifying information of individuals incorrectly accused of committing voter fraud. But you’d never know it was the same suit from reading the press releases. Plaintiffs here, defendants here. (Disclosure: I helped one of the … Continue reading
Politico: Trump spoke to reporters briefly before he and Putin were scheduled to talk for an hour to discuss a series of national security issues, including Iran’s recent aggression, the civil war in Syria, where the United States and Russia are … Continue reading
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Axios: Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to “Axios on HBO” identify a host of “red flags” about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government. Why it matters: The massive trove, … Continue reading
From the Meet the Press transcript: CHUCK TODD:You didn’t like the fact that you lost the popular vote. That bothered you, didn’t it?PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:Well, I think it was a — I mean, I’ll say something that, again, is controversial. … Continue reading
TPM: A federal judge is letting the Trump administration continue to withhold certain emails related to the Trump voter fraud commission while the government appeals her order that the emails be produced for a Democrat who was on the commission.The … Continue reading
TPM: Before they were formally named to President Trump’s now disbanded voter fraud commission, two conservative activists emailed the commission’s vice chair Kris Kobach about “potential Democratic commissioners,” a federal judge revealed Thursday.The revelation came in a legal dispute over … Continue reading
Campaign Legal Center: After nearly two years of seeking to hide the names of individuals involved in an inflammatory email to Attorney General Sessions regarding the Pence-Kobach Commission, the Department of Justice has relented in light of a district court … Continue reading
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TPM: President Trump’s voter fraud commission has been dead for nearly a year and a half.But the litigation spurred by its lack of transparency continues, with a judge on Tuesday suggesting that the administration misled the court about the appointment of certain … Continue reading
Alexa Ura for the Texas Tribune: When former Secretary of State David Whitley launched a review of the Texas voter rolls for supposed noncitizens, his office marked almost 100,000 voters for two reviews — one by county officials to question … Continue reading
San Antonio Express News: In an August 2018 email from John Crawford, a top official of the driver’s license division at the Texas Department of Public Safety, to an employee, Crawford said DPS had run data of licensed drivers to … Continue reading
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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
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