John Fund’s latest in the National Review Online. Mr. Fund is a very careful writer. One paragraph (the brackets are mine) states: One of the examples [Secretary Gessler] cites [as reason to be afraid of same-day registration] is Wisconsin. In 2008, … Continue reading
Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad
Rick posted yesterday on an Arkansas registrar’s decision to cancel the registration of Leslie Rutledge, a candidate for state AG, after it was brought to the registrar’s attention that Ms. Rutledge had been registered in another state. One of the … Continue reading
Tobin has just written The Justice Department Voter ID Charade for Commentary. He’s playing the same tired song about voter fraud, I’m still waiting for him to respond to my open letter: An Open Letter to Jonathan Tobin on Voter Fraud Allegations … Continue reading
You can read the 8 page complaint at this link. The complaint essentially incorporates McDaniel’s 243-page complaint filed with the MS Republican Party into the complaint. He asks for votes from Hinds County and elsewhere to be thrown out, and … Continue reading
Jackson Jumbalaya: Here is some political porn for the junkies out there. This is the transcript for the True the Vote hearing held in federal court on July 24. Catherine Engelbrecht’s testimony begins on page 24. It’s worth reading. It … Continue reading
This item appears at Think Progress. … Continue reading
Sarah Mimms at National Journal writes of the possibility of “massive voter fraud” thanks to the fact that people register in the states: Nearly 12 percent of Americans pack up and move every year. Most of them assume that by registering … Continue reading
Oops. … Continue reading
Justin Levitt for WonkBlog: I’ve been tracking allegations of fraud for years now, including the fraud ID laws are designed to stop. In 2008, when the Supreme Court weighed in on voter ID, I looked at every single allegation put … Continue reading
Y’all Politics on McDaniel. … Continue reading
This, instead of “8300 questionable ballots.” … Continue reading
In both of today’s Wisconsin Supreme Court voter id cases (the NAACP case and the LWV case), the court majority includes an identical footnote to rebut the argument that there’s no good evidence of in person, impersonation voter fraud to … Continue reading
Clarion-Ledger editorial: “He continues to say he has evidence of voter fraud, but McDaniel is starting to sound more like Chicken Little yelling about the sky falling than the respected state lawmaker and GOP candidate who captured national attention when … Continue reading
Sam Hall on #MSSEN: If the campaign has enough evidence to file a challenge, then they should file a challenge. A more likely observation: if the campaign had enough evidence to file a challenge, they would have filed a challenge … Continue reading
According to Politico, McCutcheon is alleging that thousands of people voted in Democratic primary in #MSSEN then voted in Republican runoff a few weeks later. But we have seen no proof of that at all yet. Where’s the proof in … Continue reading
“”My initial reaction is I thought it was a headline from ‘The Onion.’ Now I see how this group has earned their awful reputation.” –Joe Nosef, Mississippi State Republican Party Chair, reacting to news that True the Vote had sought … Continue reading
WonkBlog. … Continue reading
The Fix reports. … Continue reading
AP: “The loud cry for voter identification and voter fraud investigations is fading to a whimper as Iowa’s top election official prepares to leave and those running to replace him downplay the politically charged issues. Iowa Secretary of State Matt … Continue reading
Clarion Ledger: “Hinds County Republican Party chairman Pete Perry said Friday morning that examples of voter fraud cited by the tea party and Chris McDaniel’s campaign are simple clerical errors that were fixed.” … Continue reading
NYT’s Taking Note editorial blog has this item. … Continue reading
So reports MSNBC. … Continue reading
Sounds like it could be, using records showing that people who historically voted Democratic voting in this Republican runoff. Maybe not. It is hard to tell what exactly he’s up to. We will have to see what the “election observers” … Continue reading
The NY Times reports: [Conservative] groups will deploy observers in areas where Mr. Cochran is recruiting Democrats, Mr. Cuccinelli said. J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department official and conservative commentator who said he was advising the effort, described the … Continue reading
Here. In my earlier coverage we saw Christian Adams saying it is illegal for Democrats to vote in primary unless they intended to support the nominee despite the fact that the state attorney general has basically said the law is … Continue reading
See here. I invite readers to judge for themselves the words of a lawyer who did not mention that his legal opinion was based on a trial court decision which had been vacated and that he ignored the interpretation of … Continue reading
More evidence of great exaggeration by SOS Gessler of the extent of voter fraud in Colorado. … Continue reading
CNN: To Jay DeLancy, North Carolina is fraught with voter fraud and the state is doing nothing about it. So the former Air Force veteran has taken matters into his own hands and vows, as he sees it, to save … Continue reading
Got you covered. … Continue reading
Editorial from NC. … Continue reading
Star-Ledger editorial. Musical accompaniment. … Continue reading
Dick Polman blogs, continuing the ghost metaphor in my Reuters piece on voter impersonation fraud yesterday. Since I wrote my piece I learned that ACLU lawyer Karyn Rotker closed her argument in the Wisconsin voter id case I wrote about … Continue reading
Robert Popper, a former DOJ voting rights lawyer who now works for Judicial Watch, has written this WSJ oped, which spends a good part of the time attacking the News21 methodology for determining voter fraud. I’ve got a lot of … Continue reading
Facing South continues to lead the way on this story. … Continue reading
Who wins? The suspense must be killing you. … Continue reading
This item appears at Facing South. #Kobach … Continue reading
This low. Didn’t realize he was a member of the fraudulent fraud squad. … Continue reading
Warning: this isn’t a McCutcheon reaction (though I’ve got one of those). The National Review Online has today’s latest entry into the litany of voter fraud reports in which the story doesn’t actually support the headline. The headline says: “N.C. … Continue reading
Radio Iowa reports. … Continue reading
ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
Des Moines Register: Since September, when DeCamp took over as the lead investigator, the effort has scrutinized 245 individual voters. Of those, more than 80 have been referred to county attorneys for possible prosecution. It will be up to prosecutors … Continue reading
Sigh. … Continue reading
Quad City Times editorial: “Now Schultz is running for Iowa’s Third Congressional District seat. He’ll be touting his record on this voter crackdown. We believe Iowa and Schultz’s candidacy would be better served if he could tout a massive increase … Continue reading
Fund: As for allegations that there is scant evidence that people commit voter fraud at polling places, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals addressed these when it upheld Indiana’s voter-ID law: There is voter fraud, specifically the form of voting fraud … Continue reading
Voter fraud warrior wants to go to Congress. … Continue reading
In this piece on Podesta’s “Jonestown” comments. … Continue reading
If Hans von Spakovsky were still on the Fairfax Elections Board, would Democrats’ heads literally have exploded by now? … Continue reading
Repeating allegation. So repeating debunking. I now think it is official: AG Abbott is a member of the Fraudulent Fraud Squad. (I was unable to speak at TribuneFest on VRA—that would have been fun but I had a personal conflict. … Continue reading
MMFA on the usual hucksters. … Continue reading
Oh my, indeed. On continuing unsupported allegations that Al Franken “stole” the 2008 U.S. Senate election in Minnesota, see this debunking by Steven Rosenfeld. … Continue reading