CNN: While President Donald Trump has continuously railed against voting by mail, a Republican National Committee robocall in April voiced by his daughter-in-law Lara Trump said voting by mail could be done “safely and securely.”The call was sent in support … Continue reading
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WaPo: President Trump’s relentless attacks on the security of mail voting are driving suspicion among GOP voters toward absentee ballots — a dynamic alarming Republican strategists, who say it could undercut their own candidates, including Trump himself.In several primaries this … Continue reading
So irresponsible: … Continue reading
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NYT: resident Trump is stepping up his attacks on the integrity of the election system, sowing doubts about the November vote at a time when the pandemic has upended normal balloting and as polls show former Vice President Joseph R. Biden … Continue reading
NYT: He ratcheted up his usual predictions of fraud in the November election, made without any supporting evidence, by suggesting that mail-in ballots — which will be in more widespread use as Americans face limits on their movements because of … Continue reading
Business Insider: Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence voted by mail for this month’s Indiana Republican primary using a home address that they haven’t lived at for nearly four years, Insider has learned.The Pences cast their mail-in … Continue reading
CNN: Reeling after a weekend campaign rally with lower-than-expected turnout, President Donald Trump changed the subject Monday morning with a series of widely debunked lies about alleged voter fraud in US elections, stoking fears of a “rigged election” this November.Trump tweeted … Continue reading
It’s not just what Barr has now done to SDNY’s Berman, or how he spun the media with a misleading reading of the Mueller report. Barr is now doubling down on President Trump’s wholly unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud … Continue reading
Alex Kotch: In late May, two Republican members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission used a podcast produced by True the Vote, a right-wing voter suppression group, to cast doubt on the security of mail-in voting for the upcoming November 2020 elections.The Election … Continue reading
David Graham in The Atlantic: It’s too early to say who will win the 2020 presidential election, but there’s a good chance that one loser will be faith in the electoral system. President Donald Trump is alleging—as he did four … Continue reading
Daniel Bice for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. … Continue reading
Brookings: Heritage makes their full database available, so we were able to look into the cases of voter fraud that they claim represent rampant illegal activity. We began with the five states that have already used universal vote-by-mail systems and … Continue reading
Wichita Eagle: Kansas will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a state law championed by former secretary of state Kris Kobach — struck down by lower courts— that requires residents to prove their citizenship when registering to vote.The … Continue reading
From their latest email: … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump has relentlessly attacked mail voting, calling it a free-for-all for cheating and a Democratic scheme to rig elections.None of the charges are true.But as eight states and the District of Columbia vote on Tuesday in the biggest Election Day since … Continue reading
WaPo: Current and former election administrators said it would be virtually impossible for a foreign country to produce and mail in phony absentee ballots without detection, an issue Attorney General William P. Barr raised as a serious possibility in an … Continue reading
WaPo deep dive: President Trump’s persistent attacks on mail-in voting have fueled an unprecedented effort by conservatives to limit expansion of the practice before the November election, with tens of millions of dollars planned for lawsuits and advertising aimed at … Continue reading
Michael Li thread starts here: Bless Bill Barr’s heart – this just couldn’t happen. For starters, the return envelopes have unique bar codes that are scanned when the ballots are received. 1/ https://t.co/ATn8cHppgz— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) June 1, 2020 … Continue reading
Pro-Publica and the AJC report: It was a stunning accusation: Two days before the 2018 election for Georgia governor, Republican Brian Kemp used his power as secretary of state to open an investigation into what he called a “failed hacking … Continue reading
Analysis from Factcheck.org. … Continue reading
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I have written this piece at Slate with Dahlia Lithwick. It begins: The right-wing legal network spawned by the Federalist Society has finally gone full Trumpian. It has morphed from a group of apparently principled conservatives debating high-minded theories of … Continue reading
The Tampa Bay Times reports. … Continue reading
So much for principled conservatism. New reporting from The Guardian and Open Secrets: A powerful new conservative organization fighting to restrict voting in the 2020 presidential election is really just a rebranded group that is part of a dark money … Continue reading
Oh boy: I've also written: Trump Is Wrong About Dangers of Absentee Ballots: https://t.co/Q6oHbhXjMWand Trump’s bogus attacks on mail-in voting could hurt his supporters, toohttps://t.co/uCUcnRcbQu andHow Republicans are using the pandemic to suppress the votehttps://t.co/nY716rEmQE https://t.co/uOfarxvyFz— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) May … Continue reading
Ben Smith: New: Twitter has added a "get the facts" link to a false Trump tweet about mail-in voting, which links to a moment refuting his claim. (background here https://t.co/wCQQZtq6vs) https://t.co/P1YAgDzCom— Ben Smith (@benyt) May 26, 2020 … Continue reading
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Marc Caputo in Politico: A Trump election conspiracy theory fell apart Wednesday when Florida’s law enforcement agency said it had found no widespread voter fraud in the 2018 races for Senate and governor.President Donald Trump had complained repeatedly about election … Continue reading
WaPo: President Trump on Wednesday escalated his campaign to discredit the integrity of mail balloting, threatening to “hold up” federal funding to Michigan and Nevada in response to the states’ plans to increase voting by mail to reduce the public’s … Continue reading
I have written this piece for the Washington Post. It begins: On Wednesday morning, President Trump threatened to withhold aid from Michigan and Nevada because of purportedly illegal activity related to absentee ballots. In reality, the states are doing nothing illegal — they are … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump on Wednesday escalated his assault against mail voting, falsely claiming that Michigan and Nevada were engaged in voter fraud and had acted illegally, and threatening to withhold federal funds to those states if they proceed in expanding vote-by-mail … Continue reading
WTAF: How ridiculous had the anti-vote by mail push gotten? A reader sends along this from a South Carolina State Senate candidate saying he opposed vote by mail but wants you to vote absentee if you need to. pic.twitter.com/jhfBZmpTtU— Sam … Continue reading
NYT: Six months before a presidential election in which turnout could matter more than persuasion, the Republican Party, the Trump campaign and conservative activists are mounting an aggressive national effort to shape who gets to vote in November — and … Continue reading
Pam Fessler for NPR. … Continue reading
At one point they try to tie California activities to the illegal activities in North Carolina (which benefitted the Republican candidate). Really if this is the best you can do, why bother? (And I say this as someone who opposes … Continue reading
ProPublica has posted this article, which begins: On April 23, during the same week that Kentucky’s Republican secretary of state said he was contemplating a “significant expansion” of vote by mail, the Public Interest Legal Foundation emailed one of his … Continue reading
WaPo: President Trump spent a portion of his Saturday focused on a special election in the suburbs of northern Los Angeles County, attacking a decision to add an in-person voting center there in a series of misleading tweets.The race is between … Continue reading
ProPublica: In an April report that warns of the risks of fraud in mail-in voting, a conservative legal group significantly inflated a key statistic, a ProPublica analysis found. The Public Interest Legal Foundation reported that more than 1 million ballots … Continue reading
Order rejecting request for preliminary injunction. … Continue reading
In a major ruling, a 10th Circuit panel (consisting of 2 judges, as a third judge on the panel had passed away), a Tenth Circuit panel has held that a Kansas anti-voting law championed by former Secretary of State Kris … Continue reading
Steve Mulroy oped: Probably not, according to the Heritage Foundation’s data. The think tank compiles a database of reported instances of voter fraud or election fraud. It lists 1,277 “proven instances of voter fraud” in the 50 states over decades, dating back … Continue reading
Email also says Democrats are “trying to stuff the ballot box with FAKE and FRAUDULENT votes.” (No evidence of this, as I explain here). Here’s the screenshot (via Brendan Nyhan): … Continue reading
Just wow from The Intercept: ON ELECTION DAY in November, some polling places could be patrolled by off-duty police officers and veterans, according to a plan hatched by Republican operatives.The idea is a reprisal of once-illegal Election Day “ballot security” intimidation … Continue reading
John Lott’s WSJ piece is exactly what you’d expect from him: long on fear mongering and failure to grapple seriously with evidence. I wrote about the complexity of the question, the rarity of absentee ballot fraud, and the compelling need … Continue reading
David Blight NYT oped: America has a long history of attempts to restrict the right to vote to people with property, with sufficient formal education and, too often, those privileged by gender or race. Political minorities — today’s Republican Party, … Continue reading
FactCheck.Org: President Donald Trump continues to add false and exaggerated statements to his already lengthy list of bogus voter fraud claims.There is no evidence to back up Trump’s blanket claim that “mailed ballots are corrupt.” Voting experts say the president … Continue reading
And don’t miss Jim Bopp referring to “Democrat Politicians.” The distinction they are drawing reminds me of this from Petri Dishes: “An absentee ballot is cast by a Republican, whereas a mail-in vote is sent by a Democrat.” … Continue reading