Monthly Archives: December 2019

“Judiciary Committee Report Argues Trump ‘Betrayed the Nation'”

December 16, 2019, 9:00 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: The House Judiciary Committee formally presented its case for impeaching President Trump in a 658-page report published online early Monday morning, arguing just days before a final vote in the House that he “betrayed the nation by abusing his… Continue reading

“Voting-Machine Parts Made by Foreign Suppliers Stir Security Concerns”

December 16, 2019, 8:57 amelection administrationRick Hasen

WSJ: A voting machine that is widely used across the country contains some parts made by companies with ties to China and Russia, researchers found, fueling questions about the security of using overseas suppliers, which has also sparked scrutiny in… Continue reading

“In 2020 Census, Big Efforts in Some States. In Others, Not So Much.”

December 16, 2019, 8:54 amcensus litigationRick Hasen

NYT: Equally remarkable, however, are the 24 states like Texas that are not spending a penny. The political divide is stark: Seventeen of those 24 are led by Republican governors and legislatures, including population heavyweights like Texas, Florida and Ohio.… Continue reading

“Thousands of Ohio voters denied absentee ballots, Associated Press finds”

December 16, 2019, 8:38 amabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

AP: Thousands of Ohio voters were held up or stymied in their efforts to get absentee ballots for last year’s general election because of missing or mismatched signatures on their ballot applications, an Associated Press review has found.The signature requirement… Continue reading

Ned Foley on Billionaires, Ranked Choice Voting, and the Electoral College

December 16, 2019, 8:33 amalternative voting systems, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Ned at CNN: How can it be that our electoral system is so vulnerable to the personal fancies of individual plutocrats? I explore the answer in my new book, but the short of it is that our Electoral College… Continue reading

“When Madison Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue Merge: A Review of “Political Brands'”

December 16, 2019, 8:25 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Eric Segall: f you are worried about the state of our political system in the age of Facebook advertising, Russian interference in our elections, dark money in politics, and President Trump’s Twitter account, among many other disturbing trends, Professor Ciara… Continue reading

Federal Court Stays Litigation Over Mississippi Voting Requirement to Give State a Chance to Amend Its Constitution

December 14, 2019, 12:29 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Read the court order in McLemore v. Hosemann. See my earlier coverage.

“Judge orders state to purge more than 200,000 Wisconsin voters from the rolls”

December 13, 2019, 7:53 pmThe Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: An Ozaukee County judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin’s voter rolls because they may have moved. The case is being closely watched because of the state’s critical role in… Continue reading

“A Great Big Gift Not on Trump’s Disclosure Form: Giuliani’s Legal Advice”

December 13, 2019, 7:46 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: For the past 20 months, President Trump has received free personal legal services from one of America’s highest-paid lawyers, who has traveled around the country and across the ocean to defend him in the special counsel’s inquiry and press… Continue reading

New Lawsuit Against Voting Machines in Pennsylvania

December 13, 2019, 7:25 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

Free Speech for People: Free Speech For People has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court challenging the use of the insecure, unreliable ExpressVote XL voting machines. The lawsuit, filed against Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar with the pro… Continue reading

“Two experts quit election accountability group over claims it has been endorsing untrustworthy machines”

December 13, 2019, 7:22 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

Fast Company: Amid heightened concerns about the integrity of the voting process in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, two election security experts recently quit Verified Voting, a respected election accountability group, in protest. They claim that… Continue reading

“US should recognize American Samoans as citizens, judge says”

December 13, 2019, 7:15 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: People born in the territory of American Samoa should be recognized as U.S. citizens, a federal judge in Utah decided Thursday in a case filed amid more than a century of legal limbo but whose eventual impact remains to… Continue reading