The only journalist Thor Hearne is speaking to is St. Louis Post Dispatch Reporter Jo Mannies. She finally gets him on the record on the disappearance of ACVR. See here. Hearne’s response to all the controversy: Hearne replied Wednesday… Continue reading

AP offers this report.

The Washington Post offers Alito Calls Free-Speech Limits ‘Dangerous’ as Court Considers Cases.

You can download the revised draft here. This includes information on the EAC/U.S. Attorneys/Voter Fraud controversies, as well as updated statistics on the amount of election law litigation in 2005 and 2006. The final version of the article is… Continue reading

McClatchy offers this report on the Senate Rules Committee Hearing today on the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky and 3 other commissioners to the FEC. See also this AP report, this report in The Hill, this report in The… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this extensive report.

Here. More on ACVR, and its 990 tax status here. See also this interesting post on Fired Up Missouri.

I’ve just written this Chatterbox column for Slate. It asks: “What do those who believe voter fraud is a major national problem worthy of onerous voter identification laws have to hide?” The three “voter fraud” warriors in question are Thor… Continue reading

This is big news. The EAC is releasing internal documents, 40,000 pages in all (via a 4 cd set if you request it). What’s there? “[T]he information provided also includes EAC staff communications and draft documents created internally and… Continue reading

You can access here a live feed of the Senate hearing. I just saw Sen. Durbin question von Spakovsky about his anonymous law review article supporting voter id, written while he was at the DOJ dealing with voter id issues,… Continue reading

Here’s what he’s come up with in his latest column, that I linked to earlier this morning: One reason for such large public support is that the potential for fraud is real. Many people don’t trust electronic voting machines.… Continue reading

BNA Money and Politics Report offers this report. ($) Perhaps the Senate Rules Committee will use the opportunity to question Hillman about the Tova Wang gag order and the ongoing investigation at the EAC over its handling of the… Continue reading

Two days ago, in this post, I noted that someone had deleted information on Thor Hearne’s Wikipedia page noting Hearne’s affiliation with and controversy over the American Center for Voting Rights. I updated to post to note that someone… Continue reading

This report from the Memphis Commercial Appeal begins: “Delbert Hosemann, a Republican candidate for secretary of state, said Tuesday in Southaven that he supports a recent federal court decision requiring Mississippi residents to have voter registration cards in primary elections.”