The Gazette (Colo. Springs): As voters continued to cast ballots early in the recall election Saturday, questions swirled about voter fraud and ballot box stuffing. The fears are, so far, unfounded. MORE on the national interest in the Colorado recalls. … Continue reading
Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad
Kris Kobach’s onerous voter registration rules are a “pain in the tush.” … Continue reading
Mr Tobin, Is it possible for you to stop the bait and switch? No one I know who has studied this issue says there’s no voter fraud (hence, the misleading title of your piece: Are You Sure There’s No Voter … Continue reading
Juliet Lapidos at NYT’s “Taking Note” ed board blog: The latest false alarm comes to us from Colorado. Boulder’s Daily Camera reported earlier this week that “Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler gave Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett a … Continue reading
WNCN: McCrory went on the offensive on the “Here and Now” program, which aired Tuesday afternoon. He called some of the NAACP’s criticisms of the law “totally false” and said preregistering high school students to vote was costly. He also … Continue reading
Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote at Breitbart: “Why is this popular voter ID so ‘controversial’? It makes the jobs of political operatives that prey on a weak system more difficult. It also proves the privileged northeastern academics’ racial generalizations … Continue reading
He calls the voter id requirement “non-burdensome.” For most people that’s true, but not for all. And put the other parts of the law together, and there is a large burden on some voters and at least a small burden … Continue reading
For those expecting compromise and a bipartisan spirit to fix Voting Rights Act section 5 coming out of tomorrow’s hearing, fuhgeddaboutit! (Bob Kengle and Spencer Overton are the Democratic-called witnesses.) Ari Melber says don’t be a naysayer about a congressional … Continue reading
Steve Benen blogs. … Continue reading
Media Matters: Seventeen months after Fox News became briefly fixated on Republican claims that hundreds of dead voters had cast ballots in South Carolina, those allegations have been completely debunked by an investigation by law enforcement that found no evidence … Continue reading
Following up on this post, see this. … Continue reading
AP: No one intentionally cast a ballot in South Carolina using the names of dead people in recent elections, despite allegations to the contrary, according to a State Law Enforcement Division report obtained Friday by The Associated Press. Attorney General … Continue reading
It’s a lie ELB readers will recognize. … Continue reading
Some of those in the fraudulent fraud squad like to call those, like me, who (correctly) argue that impersonation voter fraud is virtually nonexistent “vote fraud deniers.” Here’s an example of the language in a new John Fund column. As … Continue reading
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Rob Richie traces the ever-evolving TTV report. It begins: Yesterday I helped my colleague Andrea Levien expose on the FairVote blog that True the Vote — an organization that purports to be dedicated to reducing voter fraud and has been … Continue reading
Listen. Also looking forward to Spencer being the keynote speaker at this UC Berkeley voting rights event on Monday. … Continue reading
Statement in response to this and this from FairVote: “We stand by True the Vote’s report. Everything we said about the major conclusions in the report are correct. In a supplementary section, there was a methological error and it has … Continue reading
NPR: “To those who closely follow the voter ID wars, Hans von Spakovsky is a household name, one of the nation’s leading crusaders against voter fraud, and also one of its more controversial. Days before the 2012 election, The New … Continue reading
See here. … Continue reading
So reports Not Larry Sabato (via Maddow). Apparently an unprecedented judicial rejection of a party’s choice for the board. Maybe the judges read Jane Mayer? UPDATE: The judges were directed by Democrats to the Jane Mayer article and more about … Continue reading
Read this: A Hamilton County Board of Elections hearing on Friday into possible vote fraud last November produced no Perry Mason moments but plenty of evidence of voter confusion – not over for whom to vote, but how to vote… … Continue reading
With news of possible fraud claims coming out of Hamilton County, Ohio, it is worth remembering that vast majority of the relatively small number of cases involve either election officials committing fraud, or voters, candidates, and others committing absentee ballot … Continue reading
Rush Limbaugh weighs in on Shelby County and voter registration modernization. … Continue reading
New York Times, Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues: Grass-roots leaders said this month that after losing any chance of repealing the national health care law, they would press states to “nullify” or ignore it. They also plan … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
Election truthers in Minnesota. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
Andrew Rosenthal: “Apparently, there are limits to what acolytes of voter fraud will say. Take Virginia’s attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, who was a major backer of the law passed by his state requiring voters to present ID before they cast … Continue reading
Turns out, there’s plenty of “that” to fix in Florida’s elections. One more item to add to the list: how results are reported. There’s been growing concern about results reported in St. Lucie County (one of the counties in the … Continue reading
Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s former campaign manager, told MSNBC: “I think that all of this stuff that has transpired over the last two years is in search of a solution to a problem, voting fraud, that doesn’t really exist when … Continue reading
WaPo reports. Yes this is the county where von Spakovksy is on the elections board. … Continue reading
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. … Continue reading
Pro-Gingrich Super PAC to release voter fraud app. Wonder if it’s this one. … Continue reading
Here, responding to the devastating New Yorker piece. There’s a brief mention in the response of the 1984 grand jury report (but not of von Spavovsky’s stonewalling about it). For the most comprehensive analysis of what that report showed and … Continue reading
“Mr. Obama is a goner, unless the Democrats can turn out the vote in select cemeteries around the country.” Read more: TYRRELL: Obama sings the ballot box blues – Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/24/obama-sings-the-ballot-box-blues/#ixzz2AHSPlTHm … Continue reading
Kevin Drum writes for Mother Jones. … Continue reading
I’ve been blogging about Jane Mayer’s terrific New Yorker piece on von Spakovsky, and I wanted to highlight one delicious part of it. Nearly all scholars of America’s system of locally run elections acknowledge chronic problems, including administrative incompetence, sloppy … Continue reading
“What am I—his research assistant?” —Hans von Spakovksy, explaining why he stonewalled me and would not provide data to back up his controversial claim about cases involving “extensive…impersonation fraud” at the polls. (When I independently obtained the data it contradicted … Continue reading
Jane Mayer has written The Voter-Fraud Myth: The Man Who Has Stoked Fears About Imposters at the Polls for The New Yorker. This piece covers similar terrain to The “Fraudulent Fraud Squad” chapter of The Voting Wars, but it is … Continue reading
The Houston Chronicle profiles True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht. … Continue reading
WaPo‘s Robert McCartney: “A political and legal tussle is gaining force in Northern Virginia over guaranteeing a fair vote on Election Day. Fairfax County Democrats are complaining that Republican-appointed county elections officials are breaking or twisting some rules to help … Continue reading
“I also suggest Hasen read Chuck Norris’ article at Townhall.” —Liberal Lawlessness Exposed In Opposition to Voter ID Laws … Continue reading
The latest from Colorado. … Continue reading
CBS News reports. … Continue reading
Front-page, must-read extensive NYT article on “True the Vote.” It begins: It might as well be Harry Potter’s invisible Knight Bus, because no one can prove it exists. The bus has been repeatedly cited by True the Vote, a national … Continue reading
Interactive Slate map. … Continue reading
Doug Chapin: Judging only by actions, it would appear that these officials consider voter fraud to be a serious threat along the lines of smallpox – a highly contagious, lethal disease – and thus are willing to tolerate a high … Continue reading
The Boston Globe posts the most important piece on voter impersonation fraud in a while: It’s the biggest voter ID scandal you never heard of. An election in the United States stolen right under the noses of election officials thanks … Continue reading