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
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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
Listen to NPR: The Florida recounts have demonstrated that many voters are unaware of election governing rules, which makes them more vulnerable to political rhetoric casting doubt on the legitimacy of the results. … Continue reading
“When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody … Continue reading
Factcheck.org: With votes continuing to be counted in very close elections in Florida, Georgia and Arizona, President Donald Trump and some other Republicans have been crying foul, making false and misleading claims of supposed election fraud perpetrated by Democrats in … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: With Florida set this week to undertake a massive and massively politicized recount in the critical races for governor and senator, the way that election fight has played out so far has … Continue reading
AP: A Florida judge said he’s seen no evidence of wrongdoing in the vote-counting in Broward County and urged all sides to “ramp down the rhetoric.” Circuit Chief Judge Jack Tuter said during an emergency hearing Monday that there is … Continue reading
Arizona Republic: A top national Republican on Sunday sidestepped his group’s assertion that the top Maricopa County election official is “cooking the books” for Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona’s still-unresolved U.S. Senate race. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, … Continue reading
Politico: Gov. Rick Scott asked state law enforcement to investigate Broward County election officials because of potential “rampant [voter] fraud,” even though monitors from his own administration say they have seen none in that county. “Our staff has seen no … Continue reading
Politico: Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Sunday that he’s won his closely contested Senate race against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and that his opponent is “committing fraud” in an effort to steal the race from him and is a “sore … Continue reading
Banana republic stuff spreads. Marc Caputo and Matt Dixon for Politico: Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday night that he was calling for a state investigation into Broward County’s handling of tens of thousands of ballots that have led to statewide … Continue reading
Kansas.com reports. … Continue reading
WaPo: President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday issued strong warnings about the threat of voter fraud in Tuesday’s elections, echoing the president’s baseless claims that massive voter fraud marred his 2016 election and prompting accusations that his … Continue reading
Tribune News Service: Researchers have identified what they called a coordinated network of Twitter accounts that’s pushing false and misleading stories about election integrity with hashtags like #VoterFraud. They found a core of 200 accounts that posted on Twitter or … Continue reading
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They say that Dodge City voters can't vote in their usual polling location because it is inaccessible due to construction. So we went there to see for ourselves. Wanna guess what we found? pic.twitter.com/dO5BVUOtkP — Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) November 1, … Continue reading
NBC News: When Naim Tyler tweeted a video on Nov. 8, 2016, that showed an alleged voting machine malfunction in favor of Hillary Clinton, he expected some attention. But he didn’t realize what was about to happen. The video he … Continue reading
WaPo: He’s brushed aside the state’s woeful financial straits. He’s dismissed concerns that driving in parades with a machine-gun replica mounted on his Jeep might come off as offensive. Instead, in an audacious performance that mimics President Trump more than … Continue reading
AP: Amid a push to pass a photo ID requirement for North Carolina elections, the state’s lieutenant governor appears in a video that offers instructions on how to commit voter fraud in the state. The video , posted on Facebook, … Continue reading
Here’s the complaint from the newest members of the Fraudulent Fraud Squad. As Adam Smith flags from page 16: Hmm! https://t.co/gYTkyUISiW pic.twitter.com/643MZlkllS — Adam Smith (@asmith83) October 19, 2018 The 11 California counties claim came from Judicial Watch. More … Continue reading
TPM reports. [Corrected link.] … Continue reading
Can’t make this up (from a True the Vote fundraising letter): Maybe if Texas adopted online voter registration like many other Republican and Democratic states, it wouldn’t have this problem. … Continue reading
TPM: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross admitted Thursday in ongoing litigation that then-White House adviser Steve Bannon called him in the spring of 2017 to put him in touch with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to discuss adding a citizenship … Continue reading
Via email: Dear Supporter, With little more than a month until the general election, the battle for election integrity is raging from coast to coast – and as the Wall Street Journal rightly reported, the Senate Fight Unfolds on Deep … Continue reading
The Guardian: Luis was also disturbed on behalf of hundreds of other people who also had their personal details – names, addresses and in some cases even home phone numbers – posted in the appendices of the Pilf reports. “I … Continue reading
Carol Anderson NYT oped. … Continue reading
KC Star: As uncertainty loomed about the outcome of the GOP primary for governor in the days after the Aug. 7 primary, Kris Kobach said it was unclear how many non-citizens voted in the election. Back then, the race was … Continue reading
Rick Perlstein and Livia Gershon deep dive for TPM. … Continue reading
Mark Joseph Stern for Slate: It has never been clear whether Kris Kobach understands what his job is. As Kansas’ secretary of state, a position he’s held for nearly eight years, Kobach’s main responsibility is to serve as the state’s … Continue reading
Here is the order denying the motion to dismiss. Next step will be discovery, which should be interesting. (Press release.) … Continue reading
Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View: At any point in the past decade, Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer could’ve said something. When Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was engineering ways to suppress votes, and repeating false claims about voter fraud, Colyer could’ve piped … Continue reading
Oh my: The hotline announcement coincided with the discovery of 100 votes for Colyer in Thomas County near the Colorado border. Thomas County Clerk Shelly Harms confirmed that Colyer received 522 votes on election day rather than the total of … Continue reading
Amazing (not that Commissioner McCormick would think that, but that she would put that in writing). … Continue reading
CNN: Kris Kobach, the former vice-chair of President Donald Trump’s now-disbanded commission on election integrity, and Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap have engaged in a public back and forth over the issue of voter fraud, with Kobach accusing Dunlap, a … Continue reading
WaPo: One of the foremost proponents of stricter voter identification laws, Kobach, who is running in the primary Tuesday for the Republican nomination for the state’s governorship, has been undeterred since a federal judge struck down a restrictive voting law … Continue reading
Steven Rosenfeld: That overall tally means that 17 out of the 28 states that were in Crosscheck as of early 2017 have backed away, at least for now. That list of states, that, under a legal memo, agree to share … Continue reading
ProPublica: Today, thousands of commission documents were released that show aspects of the body’s inner workings. As critics have suggested, the records — a mix of memos, internal emails and reports — make clear the commission’s work was driven by … Continue reading
Dig in, folks. Update: Here is the letter Secretary Dunlap released in connection with the posting of the documents. … Continue reading
Great ProPublica/KC Star joint venture: Kobach used his work in Valley Park to attract other clients, with sometimes disastrous effects on the municipalities. The towns — some with budgets in the single-digit-millions — ran up hefty legal costs after hiring … Continue reading
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Interesting contrast: The candidates largely agreed that voter fraud is not a systemic issue but committed themselves to enforcing the state’s election laws. They also said they want to focus on improving the less-talked-about administrative side of the office, such … Continue reading