Monthly Archives: October 2016

“Election Systems Class Action Says Voting Machines Can Be Manipulated”

October 4, 2016, 5:02 pmelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Top Class Actions: A company that sells vote counting machines is facing a class action lawsuit that alleges its voting systems are subject to unnecessary monitoring and vulnerable to manipulation. Plaintiff Anthony I. Provitola filed the election class action lawsuit… Continue reading

“See The Amazing Campaign Contortionists Twist The Finance Rules”

October 4, 2016, 4:58 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo describes the deregulatory spiral.

“The Texas Voter ID Fight Keeps Getting Weirder”

October 4, 2016, 4:54 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Bloomberg Businessweek: On Sept. 20, the federal district judge who oversaw the August agreement denied a pleafrom the NAACP, the League of United Latin American Citizens, and Dallas and Hidalgo counties claiming Harris County clerk Stan Stanart and Texas… Continue reading

“Progress Report on the Presidential Commission on Election Administration”

October 4, 2016, 4:49 pmelection administration, PCEA (Bauer-Ginsberg Commission)Rick Hasen

Democracy Fund: The United States’ electoral system has always been imperfect — a work in progress. And yet the health of our democracy depends on the quality of our elections. All over the country, we entrust local officials to run… Continue reading

“Want to be a ‘foreign agent’? Serve in US Congress first”

October 4, 2016, 4:43 pmlobbyingRick Hasen

Politico reports.

Are You One of the Millions Suffering from Electoral Dysfunction?

October 4, 2016, 4:33 pmelection law "humor"Rick Hasen

Watch.

“New Year, Same Story: 2016 CPA-Zicklin Index Chills Speech”

October 4, 2016, 4:27 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

CCP statement.

WI Prosecutors’ Statement on #JohnDoe Cert Denial

October 4, 2016, 4:26 pmcampaign finance, judicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Here. What a shame.

“Appeals Court Overrules Proof-Of-Citizenship Voting Requirement in Three States”

October 4, 2016, 4:20 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Kendrick Burns blogs for CSG.

“Misunderstanding of Statistics Confounds Analyses of Criminal Justice Issues in Baltimore and Voter ID Issues in Texas and North Carolina”

October 4, 2016, 4:19 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

James Scanlan at Fed Soc blog: I have written here before, most recently in “Things the President Doesn’t Know About Racial Disparities” (Aug. 5, 2016), about the way the federal government, including the President, base many civil rights… Continue reading

“Behind Donald Trump’s calls for his supporters to monitor the polls in November”

October 4, 2016, 4:15 pmchicanery, election administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The Fix reports.

“Voter suppression’s last stand: North Carolina’s new Jim Crow counties”

October 4, 2016, 4:11 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Insightus: In the wake of a federal court decision overturning North Carolina’s “monster voter suppression law,” the NC-GOP’s executive director issued a call for “party-line changes to early voting” by the state’s Republican-controlled county boards of elections. Our review of… Continue reading

“DMV retraining workers on voter ID”

October 4, 2016, 4:05 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Patrick Marley: The Division of Motor Vehicles began retraining hundreds of workers Tuesday in response to reports they had given incomplete or inaccurate information at stations around the state. “We still have plenty of time to right any wrongs… Continue reading

“US Supreme Court rejects John Doe appeal”

October 4, 2016, 3:56 pmcampaign finance, judicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Wisconsin State Journal: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by three Democratic district attorneys seeking to revive a criminal investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign — effectively ending the legal wrangling over the four-year-old probe. The… Continue reading