Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

Jonah Goldberg: “The Voter-Fraud Commission Dies a Partisan Death” (and My Own Thoughts on Thielen’s Laughable Oped)

January 7, 2018, 11:43 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Jonah Goldberg: Michael Thielen, the executive director of the Republican National Lawyers Association, is upset that the White House disbanded the “voter-fraud commission.” He writes: … President Trump has shut down his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PACEI),… Continue reading

“Trump Administration To Fight Order To Give Documents To Democratic Voter Fraud Commissioner”

January 6, 2018, 2:36 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Sam Levine: The Trump administration says it will fight a court order telling its voter fraud commission to hand over communications and documents to a Democratic member who sued the panel and alleged he was being illegally excluded from its… Continue reading

“What the demise of Trump’s voter fraud commission teaches Kansans about Kris Kobach”

January 5, 2018, 4:11 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Strong KC Star editorial: The election integrity group had all the hallmarks of a classic Kobach operation — headline-grabbing allegations, poor legal review, finger-pointing followed by inaction, contradictory claims, and eventually, collapse. Kansans will need to decide if that’s how… Continue reading

“Kobach is prosecuting this confused Republican cattle rancher with four felony counts of voter fraud”

January 5, 2018, 11:22 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Great reporting by Kira Lerner, showing what Kobach’s illusion of a voter fraud epidemic looks like up close: For the past few years, Que J. Fullmer has split his time between Kansas and Colorado. He owns a cattle company and… Continue reading

von Spakovsky, of the Now Defunct Pence-Kobach Fraudulent Fraud Squad, Suddenly Calls for a Greater Federal Role in Elections

January 5, 2018, 7:33 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Interesting turnabout: One of the most common arguments made by state officials in refusing to turn over voter registration lists is that the federal government has no business barging in and demanding states provide the information. Von Spakovsky says that… Continue reading

VP Pence Distances Himself More via New York Times from Pence-Kobach Fraud Commission

January 5, 2018, 7:26 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

In this Wines/Haberman piece, Trump Closes Voter Fraud Panel That Bickered More Than It Revealed: Vice President Mike Pence, the nominal leader of the commission, was said to have never considered the inquiry a top priority, and Stephen K. Bannon,… Continue reading

“Trump’s Voter Fraud Crusade Is Just Beginning”

January 5, 2018, 7:17 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Eliza Newlin Carney with a less rosy view than my own of what can happen next at DHS.

“Trump’s failed fraud commission: Flawed from the start, dissolved in disgrace”

January 4, 2018, 3:52 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Stephen Spauling has written this oped for the Hill.

DHS Says Kobach Won’t Be Advising on Voter Integrity Issues; Kobach Says Otherwise

January 4, 2018, 2:22 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

New: DHS statement says Kris Kobach not advising agency on election work, vague on what it will do to study voter fraud. pic.twitter.com/5LMuMiAm0w — Sam Levine (@srl) January 4, 2018 Contradicting the @DHSgov statement, Kobach tells @npratc he will continue… Continue reading

Today’s Humor Section: Kobach Tells Breitbart Action by DHS to Continue Voter Fraud Witch Hunt Won’t Be Stalled Through Litigation

January 4, 2018, 12:15 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Breitbart exclusive interview with Kobach: “They have absolutely no interest in stopping voter fraud,” Kobach said. “It’s truly extraordinary that one party in our system has made clear that they don’t care.” “Some people on the Left were getting uncomfortable… Continue reading

“Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Is Gone, But Scrutiny Will Continue”

January 4, 2018, 11:53 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Jessica Huseman for ProPublica.

Trump Press Secretary Says Pence-Kobach Commission Will Forward “Preliminary Findings” to DHS; But There Were No Public Findings…and Now More Grounds for Continued Litigation

January 4, 2018, 11:44 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

If there were any findings they were not made public. Perhaps the Dunlap or @LawyersComm lawsuits can get the now-defunct Commission to produce the documentation and argue the Press Secretary's statement means the issue is NOT moot. https://t.co/9Uq5jADvZv — Rick… Continue reading

Dunlap on the President’s Claim of Why Pence-Kobach Ended: “Balderdash”

January 4, 2018, 11:19 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Think Progress: Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap (D) had strong words for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) on Thursday after Kobach tried to lay blame for the failure of President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission at the feet… Continue reading

“Trump’s controversial election integrity commission is gone. Here’s what comes next.”

January 4, 2018, 10:53 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Charles Stewart for The Monkey Cage.

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