Monthly Archives: January 2020

“North Carolina Republicans make last-minute plea to keep voter ID photo requirement”

January 12, 2020, 7:10 amvoter idDan Tokaji

AP: North Carolina Republican lawmakers made a last-minute plea on Friday to a federal judge as they seek to save a photo identification requirement to vote that had been set to begin with the March primary.The GOP legislative leaders… Continue reading

“Why are felons in Minnesota stripped of their voting rights?”

January 11, 2020, 10:12 amfelon votingDan Tokaji

Star Tribune: Minnesota is one of 18 states where felons may not vote until they complete post-incarceration supervision, such as probation or parole. Others, like Michigan and Indiana, automatically restore those rights upon release from prison….Last fall, the American… Continue reading

“‘Online and vulnerable’: Experts find nearly three dozen U.S. voting systems connected to internet”

January 11, 2020, 6:05 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

NBC: [A] team of election security experts say that last summer, they discovered some systems are, in fact, online.“We found over 35 [voting systems] had been left online and we’re still continuing to find more,” Kevin Skoglund, a senior… Continue reading

“Fact check: Are California Republicans having voter registration changed without consent?”

January 11, 2020, 5:59 amvoter registrationDan Tokaji

SacBee: ” Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, is echoing inaccurate sentiments spread within conservative circles across the state that California elected officials are purposefully disenfranchising Republican voters by switching them to no party preference without consent.”

Breaking: SCOTUS Grants Cert in Political Robocall Case

January 10, 2020, 5:05 pmcampaignsDan Tokaji

Here is the order list showing the grant in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants. The question presented in the cert petition (minus citations): The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), Pub. L. No. 102-243, 105 Stat.… Continue reading

“‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020”

January 10, 2020, 9:25 amchicaneryDan Tokaji

Must-read report in today’s NYT: The National Security Agency and its British counterpart issued an unusual warning in October: The Russians were back and growing stealthier.Groups linked to Russia’s intelligence agencies, they noted, had recently been uncovered boring into… Continue reading

“U.S. Probes If Russia Is Targeting Biden in 2020 Election Meddling”

January 10, 2020, 9:20 amchicaneryDan Tokaji

Bloomberg Politics: ” U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are assessing whether Russia is trying to undermine Joe Biden in its ongoing disinformation efforts with the former vice president still the front-runner in the race to challenge President Donald… Continue reading

Muller Op-Ed: “California’s election rules make it hard to hold politicians accountable”

January 10, 2020, 9:13 amprimariesDan Tokaji

In today’s LA Times: [A]ll [California] primary elections, including for members of Congress, will take place in March. California is now an outlier — all but eight states hold congressional primaries much closer to the general election, often in… Continue reading

“Citing errors, Iowa removes list of felon voters amid review”

January 10, 2020, 4:31 amfelon votingDan Tokaji

AP: Iowa election officials have stopped using a long-flawed database of felons who are ineligible to vote as they rebuild it from scratch. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s office removed the database, which contained more than 100,000 entries,… Continue reading

“The Problem with a Year of Celebrating the 19th Amendment”

January 10, 2020, 4:17 am19th AmendmentDan Tokaji

WaPo op-ed by Andrew Joseph Pegoda: “The centennial of the 19th Amendment has arrived, and people are preparing to celebrate this milestone granting women the right to vote. But we should also reflect on how our entire conception of women’s… Continue reading

Yesterday’s Voting Equipment Hearing: Vendors Ask for More Regulation

January 10, 2020, 4:10 amvoting technologyDan Tokaji

Bloomberg Law: The infiltration by foreign countries like China into election voting equipment is emerging as a growing concern among vendors, who are actually asking for more federal regulation as they grapple with a lack of domestic suppliers producing… Continue reading

Yesterday’s Census Hearing: Lingering Effects of the Citizenship Question

January 10, 2020, 3:57 amcensus litigationDan Tokaji

Roll Call: Although the Trump administration dropped a citizenship question from this year’s census, minority groups told the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday that the question’s specter has haunted preparations for a national count that could miss… Continue reading

“Our Presidential Primary System Is An Accident”

January 9, 2020, 7:05 pmpolitical parties, primariesDan Tokaji

538 podcast, the first in its Primaries Project series. Great drive-time listening!

DSCC and DCCC Spending on Voting Litigation

January 9, 2020, 6:53 pmUncategorizedDan Tokaji

From their press release and memo: ” The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have made an eight-figure investment in a legal strategy across key battleground states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and… Continue reading