Michael Thielen asks if Jimmy Carter is a racist because he too supports (or supported) voter identification requirements. Nowhere in my released chapter or upcoming book do I make a claim that all supporters of voter i.d. laws are racist. … Continue reading
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Warren Olney’s excellent “To the Point” show featured this segment. I had hoped to be on, but I had a teaching conflict. But a great line-up, and online resources. See below: Main Topic Republicans, Democrats and Voter ID (12:07PM) In … Continue reading
So according to the post-Breitbart Big Government site, I attack Hans von Spakovsky’s tactics in drumming up voter fraud allegations in my Fraudulent Fraud Squad preview of my forthcoming book because von Spakovsky has a “name that sounds like the … Continue reading
I have been getting a lot of pushback from Democrats and those on the left recently about some recent posts, my book chapter, and a recent oped of mine on the subject of voter identification laws. The essence of the … Continue reading
The Fraudulent Fraud Squad is getting a new member: Sharron Angle. … Continue reading
See here. So let’s get the pattern straight, as this hits Pennsylvania, and soon Virginia. 1. Republican legislature passes voter identification law making spurious claims about how such a law is necessary to prevent voter fraud. 2. Democrats and good … Continue reading
My new oped in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram begins: On Monday, the Justice Department blocked implementation of Texas’ new voter identification law. Texas said the law is a necessary measure to prevent voter fraud. Justice responded that the law is … Continue reading
More paranoia. … Continue reading
State senate just passed the bill. Details to come. UPDATE: Details here and here. … Continue reading
I think this example misses the point. There are document cases of impersonation fraud occurring with absentee ballots. Absentee ballots are stolen, misdirected, etc. What Minnesota Majority found is nothing new. What is very hard to find, in contrast, and … Continue reading
Yale Press Log: :With Super Tuesday coming up on March 6th, election-related emotions are already running high, and as November slowly approaches, we can only expect them to rise further. Voters are concerned about everything from foreign policy to healthcare … Continue reading
TPM: “The husband of a campaign staffer for a Republican candidate for Senate in New Mexico is under investigation for allegedly committing a felony by registering the couple’s dog to vote as part of a stunt to show how easy … Continue reading
Must read expose of Fraudulent Fraud Squad, South Carolina edition. … Continue reading
Pam Fessler reports for NPR: “The South Carolina State Election Commission has just released its initial review of allegations from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles that more than 950 deceased voters appeared to have ballots cast in their names … Continue reading
Laura Murphy of the ACLU debates Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation at the National Press Club tomorrow. [No webcast.] I tell some amusing stories about Hans von Spakovsky’s research and scholarship in this area in the “Fraudulent Fraud … Continue reading
David Firestone has written this post on the NYT “Loyal Opposition” blog about the sneak preview of my forthcoming book, The Voting Wars. … Continue reading
Last week, Yale University Press released a sneak preview from my forthcoming book, The Voting Wars. The preview is The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: Understanding the Battle Over Voter ID. In connection with the release, I wrote two blog posts: How … Continue reading
Jonathan Adler blogs about The Voting Wars. … Continue reading
I have been getting a number of emails asking me if it is possible to read the “Fraudulent Fraud Squad Understanding the Battle over Voter ID” sneak preview of my book (The Voting Wars) without owning a Kindle. The answer … Continue reading
Eric Black writes for MinnPost about voter id and my newly-released work, The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: Understanding the Battle Over Voter ID: A Sneak Preview from “The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. … Continue reading
I am very excited to announce that Yale University Press has ePublished “The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: Understanding the Battle Over Voter ID,” a sneak preview of The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. The book itself … Continue reading
Lee Rowland: “When you scratch beneath the surface, you see that O’Keefe and others who make a living crying “fraud!” resort to manufacturing evidence of voter fraud that doesn’t otherwise exist — and potentially commit fraud in the process. If … Continue reading
Facing South has this post. … Continue reading
The Des Moines Register reports. … Continue reading
Media Matters reports. … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
“I think it’s nonsense, nobody voted, and if they voted, they’re facing a five year jail sentence, and I think very few people would be willing to risk that…I think the whole thing is bullshit, frankly. It’s another one of … Continue reading
Think Progress Justice explains the state law issue. The Boston Herald reports Would-be dead man voter stopped at polls. More from the WSJ Law Blog. … Continue reading
TPM reports on the latest stunt by James O’Keefe. I hope that New Hampshire prosecutors investigate. Seriously. … Continue reading
Absolutely not. But without voter id, how could members of the Fraudulent Fraud Squad be sure? Or is voter i.d. needed only in states with large, minority Democratic urban populations? … Continue reading
This National Review piece makes a common argument that there could be lots of voter impersonation fraud but it is just too hard to detect. I take this argument on directly in my forthcoming book, The Voting Wars. Briefly, the … Continue reading
Here. … Continue reading
Here: Democrats want felons to vote, because an overwhelming majority of them will vote Democratic. They want illegal aliens to vote for the same reason. And they want loyal Democrats to vote more than once where they are able to … Continue reading
TPM interviews Davis: “If you think I made it up, you’re entitled to do that, and if you think there’s no credibility and I just made it up because I had nothing to do some day, that’s your prerogative,” Davis … Continue reading
He tells the Daily Caller: “What I have seen in my state, in my region, is the the most aggressive practitioners of voter-fraud are local machines who are tied lock, stock and barrel to the special interests in their communities … Continue reading
“This is pathological, to go to people who have no stake in this society and to use tax dollars to encourage them to vote themselves more benefits,” —Vadum at the King Street Patriots event. The comments followed earlier criticism on … Continue reading
Facing South reports on the activities of Catherine Engelbrecht of the King Street Patriots and “True the Vote.” I discuss True the Vote a bit in my forthcoming book, The Voting Wars. … Continue reading
King Street Patriots lunch with Matthew Vadum. My earlier posts on Vadum are here. … Continue reading
SOS Kobach hit with fines for campaign finance reporting violations and lack of candor with Kansas ethics commission. Kobach has been an outspoken supporter of voter identification laws to prevent a virtually non-existent type of voter fraud. … Continue reading
The NY Times offers this editorial. Hey, that would be the great name for a book. Oh wait. … Continue reading
This post appears at Media Matters for America. … Continue reading
Here. … Continue reading
Below is a must-read guest post from Lorraine Minnite of Rutgers. Thanks to Lori for taking up my invitation to delve into the recently discovered 1984 grand jury report from Brooklyn; as I’ve mentioned, her book, The Myth of Voter … Continue reading
News from Maine: “Secretary of State finds no student voter fraud but maintains system is vulnerable.” I’ll be waiting for the retractions from those yelling voter fraud in Maine. (For lessons 1 and 2, see here). … Continue reading
“It’s a lie. It’s not true. It does not exist,” Royal Masset, former Political Director of the Republican Party of Texas, on in-person voter fraud in Texas. … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
If the Republican wins the race, forget allegations of voter fraud made before the election. (Lesson # 1 is to scream voter fraud if it looks like the Democrat may win.) I give some examples of this phenomenon in The … Continue reading
During yesterday’s “To the Point” show, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and I went over the question whether voter identification laws actually can prevent fraud. I pointed out that impersonation fraud rarely if ever happens, and Kobach confirmed he’s … Continue reading
There he goes again. For more on his misuse of the report, see here. … Continue reading
You can now read the testimony of Judith Browne Dianis, Justin Levitt, and Hans von Spakovsky. Watch the archived webcast here. TPM also reports on a lively exchange between Sen. Franken and von Spakovsky. No Republican Senator showed up to … Continue reading