Monthly Archives: June 2019
“PANTS ON FIRE: Trump’s latest California voter fraud claim as baseless as past allegations”
Plaintiffs in Census Case File Another Letter at Supreme Court, Litigating to the Very End
“GOP to launch new fundraising site as Dems crush the online money game”
“Manafort Campaign-Finance Charges Dismissed by Deadlocked FEC”
“Inside The Massive, Coordinated Push To Make Sure A Census Citizenship Question Does Not “Distort Democracy””
“Trump makes yet another false claim about California voter fraud”
Daniel Dale reports for CNN.
Federal District Court in Maryland Will Reopen Census Case If Permitted to Do So By Appeals Court Based on Hofeller Evidence Showing Government Intent to Discriminate Against Hispanics
From today’s order:
This Court previously concluded that the Secretary’s articulated reason for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census—to improve Voting Rights Act (VRA) enforcement— was a pretext. ECF No. 154 at 108. However, the Court held that… Continue reading
New Estimate from Census Department Researchers Forthcoming in Peer Reviewed Journal Finds Citizenship Question Could Depress Response Rate by 8 Percent in Households That May Have Noncitizens
This paper is forthcoming in Demography (h/t Hansi Lo Wang). Here is the abstract:
he addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census could affect the self-response rate, a key driver of the cost and quality of a… Continue reading
Axios: Trump Transition Team Vetting Documents for Kris Kobach Worried About White Supremacist Ties
Axios:
Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to “Axios on HBO” identify a host of “red flags” about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government. Why it matters: … Continue reading
View My Opening Statement to House Judiciary Committee Hearing About Foreign Interference in 2016 and 2020 Elections
“California political parties couldn’t use ‘independent’ in their names under proposal”
LAT:
With potentially hundreds of thousands of California voters under the mistaken belief that they are registered as independent from partisan affiliation, newly drafted state legislation could end the confusion by forcing one minor political party to change its… Continue reading
“Voting machine giant lobbies for paper ballots over election security concerns”
CNN:
The US’s largest election equipment manufacturer has begun quietly lobbying Congress to force all voting equipment to create a paper trail, a sharp departure after years of selling paperless digital machines that can’t be fully audited. The change… Continue reading
Trump Again Falsely Suggests 1 Million Fraudulent Votes in California, Citing Judicial Watch
From the Meet the Press transcript:
CHUCK TODD:You didn’t like the fact that you lost the popular vote. That bothered you, didn’t it?PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:Well, I think it was a — I mean, I’ll say something that, again, is… Continue reading