Monthly Archives: October 2016

“Thousands of Wisconsin Absentee Ballots at Risk of Rejection”–New Lawsuit May Be Coming

October 11, 2016, 12:09 pmabsentee ballots, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Press release about another Wisconsin election issue to watch closely: Today, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin and the Fair Elections Legal Network submitted a letter to the Wisconsin Elections Commission requesting they take swift action so thousands of… Continue reading

“Scott Walker Says Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Is Working ‘Just Fine’—It’s Not”

October 11, 2016, 11:08 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman: Wisconsin shows how problems with voter-ID laws are a feature, not a bug.

Goldfeder’s Presidential Quiz

October 11, 2016, 11:05 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Knock yourself out.

“Kobach: Trump comments ‘pale in comparison’ to issues facing country”

October 11, 2016, 8:58 amcampaign finance, campaigns, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Bryan Lowry reports: Kobach, who made no public comments about the tape over the weekend, said he remains committed to supporting Trump. He cited issues such as border security and the national debt as the reason. “These issues are… Continue reading

“Maine Gov. Paul LePage: Maybe the country needs Trump to show ‘authoritarian power'”

October 11, 2016, 8:55 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Holy Cow.

“Trump Cites Bogus Story From Russian Propaganda Outlet At PA Rally”

October 11, 2016, 8:50 amcampaignsRick Hasen

TPM: Donald Trump read from an article ripped from Sputnik News, the Kremlin-backed news outfit, that misattributed quotes to a Hillary Clinton adviser to make the case at a Monday rally that her advisors thought she could have “done something”… Continue reading

“Early Voting Could Hand Election to Hillary Clinton Well Before Nov. 8”

October 11, 2016, 8:47 amcampaigns, election administrationRick Hasen

NYT: Democrats are requesting more absentee ballots in Florida than they were at this point in 2012, with increases of 50 percent in the heavily Hispanic areas around Miami and Orlando. In North Carolina, where Mitt Romney built enough of… Continue reading

How Big Money Sways Policy Even When It Isn’t Spent

October 11, 2016, 8:42 amcampaign finance, campaigns, lobbyingRick Hasen

I made this point in Plutocrats United, and here it is in relation to opposition to the American-US Air airline merger, via ProPublica: While labor was the friendly face of the merger, Tom Horne, the former Arizona attorney general,… Continue reading

“Donald Trump warns that ‘other communities’ are poised to steal the election”

October 11, 2016, 8:34 amchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WaPo: His comments about alleged wide-scale voter fraud on Monday — comments which, we cannot emphasize frequently enough, are not supported by any evidence — were direct in their implications. In the past, he’s said that “certain sections” of the … Continue reading

“Hurricanes and Voting Rights”

October 11, 2016, 8:26 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Ned Foley on the murky law surrounding the Florida decision.

“Lessons From Pa.’s Judicial Retirement Age Ballot Fiasco”

October 11, 2016, 8:11 amdirect democracy, judicial electionsRick Hasen

Howard Bashman: s polling expert Berwood Yost of Franklin & Marshall College persuasively demonstrated in an essay that The Philadelphia Inquirer published last week, the current phrasing of the ballot question is misleading insofar as it omits that Pennsylvania’s current… Continue reading

“When questioned, Bayh camp failed to reveal Apollo meetings”

October 11, 2016, 8:00 amconflict of interest lawsRick Hasen

IndyStar: Evan Bayh met several times with executives from a future employer during his final months in the U.S. Senate — a direct contradiction of what his campaign has said in recent weeks. Bayh landed a lucrative job with private… Continue reading

“The Supreme Court Is Being Hypocritical”

October 11, 2016, 7:49 amconflict of interest laws, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Gabe Roth NYT oped: So went another case in what I call the court’s self-referential docket. Each year, the justices hear a handful of suits that have parallels with how they act as stewards of their institution. But instead of… Continue reading

“Wikileaks Emails Purport to Reveal Ties Between Clinton Campaign, Super PAC”

October 11, 2016, 7:42 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

WSJ: WikiLeaks’ latest release of what the website says are emails taken from the Clinton campaign reveals the close ties between campaign and its allied super PAC, illustrating a growing trend this election cycle. The emails—whose authenticity the Clinton campaign… Continue reading