Monthly Archives: November 2019

Scott Walker Falsely Claims Democrats Won in Virginia Because of a Gerrymander

November 12, 2019, 8:53 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Walker: Tag team to counter @EricHolder is in the courts/data with @TheNRRT and in state elections with @RSLC Republicans need to wake up or Democrats will gerrymander themselves into power all across America – like they did in VA.… Continue reading

Democrats File Another Lawsuit, This One Challenging Michigan Voting Rules

November 12, 2019, 8:12 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1194398735868080130 Complaint.

“Emails Show Trump Officials Consulted With GOP Strategist On Citizenship Question”

November 12, 2019, 12:53 pmcensus litigation, redistrictingRick Hasen

NPR: A prominent GOP redistricting strategist had direct communication with an adviser to the Trump administration concerning the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, newly released emails show….The administration’s now-former adviser on census issues, Mark Neuman, however,… Continue reading

“Redistricting activists brace for wall of inaction as battle moves to states”

November 12, 2019, 7:17 amredistrictingRick Hasen

WaPo: In North Carolina, lawmakers have been forced back to the drawing board yet again after a state court ruled last month that the current congressional map was drawn illegally along partisan lines.It’s the latest judicial rebuke of gerrymandering in… Continue reading

“The Cybersecurity 202: Election vendors should be vetted for security risks, says watchdog group”

November 12, 2019, 7:14 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo: The federal government should start vetting companies that sell election systems as seriously as it does defense contractors and energy firms, a top election security group argues in a proposal out this morning.Under the proposal from New York… Continue reading

“Hillary Clinton Raps Boris Johnson Over His Suppression of a Russia Report”

November 11, 2019, 2:57 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Russia’s influence in British politics has resurfaced as a potentially explosive issue in the country’s general election, with Hillary Clinton joining a parade of critics castigating Prime Minister Boris Johnson for withholding a secret parliamentary report on Russia until… Continue reading

“Democrats challenge election laws in battleground states”

November 11, 2019, 2:56 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Reid Wilson in The Hill.

“Will the Class of 2020 Vote Next November? California’s Governor Just Vetoed Legislation That Would Have Made it More Likely.”

November 11, 2019, 11:59 amvoter registrationRick Hasen

Civics Center: Almost every member of the Class of 2020 in California high schools will be old enough to vote next November. But will they be registered? Governor Gavin Newsom just vetoed AB 773, which would have required public… Continue reading

“New York Law School Launches New York Census and Redistricting Institute Ahead of Critical 2020 Census and State and City Redistricting”

November 11, 2019, 11:57 amcensus litigation, redistrictingRick Hasen

Release.

Today’s Must-Read; “Close Election in Kentucky Was Ripe for Twitter, and an Omen for 2020”

November 11, 2019, 9:50 amcampaigns, Election Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: A few hours after polls closed in Kentucky last Tuesday, a Twitter user writing under the handle @Overlordkraken1 posted a message to his 19 followers saying he had “just shredded a box of Republican mail-in ballots.”It was clear that… Continue reading

“Skeptics Urge Bevin To Show Proof Of Fraud Claims, Warning Of Corrosive Effects”

November 11, 2019, 9:43 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR: Bevin isn’t the first politician to question the results of a race after the fact, and occasionally, if infrequently, those concerns have been founded in reality.After the 2018 midterms, then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott alluded to “… Continue reading

“I worked on political ads at Facebook. They profit by manipulating us.”

November 11, 2019, 9:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Yael Eisenstat WaPo oped: I joined Facebook in June 2018 as “head of Global Elections Integrity Ops” in the company’s business integrity organization, focused specifically on political advertising. I had spent much of my career working to strengthen and… Continue reading

“Expensive, Glitchy Voting Machines Expose 2020 Hacking Risks”

November 11, 2019, 9:40 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Bloomberg: Digital voting machines were promoted in the wake of a similarly chaotic scene 19 years ago: the infamous punch-card ballots and hanging chads of south Florida that tossed the presidential contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore into… Continue reading