Showing posts with label Rick Hasen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Hasen. Show all posts

July 17, 2026

"What Trump did NOT do was even purport to show a single ineligible voter voted in the 2020 election, or..."

"... that any voting machines were actually compromised, voting machines or voter registration databases breached, or election results inaccurately reported. Overall, this was an underwhelming announcement delivered with low energy that changes nothing about how state and local election administrators should run elections. If his government had actual evidence of noncitizen voting, there would be indictments; Trump has been hounding US attorneys to bring such cases, and the fact that he hasn’t shows that these claims likely have no legs.... He also did not offer anything new by way of policy proposals...."

Writes Rick Hasen, in "Trump’s Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show That Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He Also Made a Pitch to Pass the SAVE America Act But Offered No New Federal Mandates" (Election Law Blog).

See for yourself: 


He started off as if he really wanted to give a State of the Union speech:

March 25, 2025

"Trump orders states to require proof of citizenship in federal elections" — can he do that?

 The WaPo article quotes "election experts" who, unsurprisingly, say he can't.

Trump’s order directs the Election Assistance Commission to change the federal voter registration form to require voters to provide government-issued documentary proof of citizenship. Under his order, voters could use passports or REAL IDs to prove citizenship but not birth certificates....

“The aim here is voter suppression pure and simple,” UCLA law professor Rick Hasen wrote on his blog. ... Hasen questioned the legality of the measure because the president does not oversee the Election Assistance Commission.