Updates | The Week of October 23, 2017
Eve Levin // 10/31/17 //
The Congressional Accountability Office will investigate the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (Newsweek).
- The Commission is keeping its own members in the dark (The Guardian).
- Democratic members of the Commission have urged greater transparency as delays plague the initiative (LA Times).
- Illinois voter rights advocates and lawmakers are asking the state to leave the multistate voter database (Chicago Tribune).
- Experts say the Commission may not be able to secure voter data (ProPublica, Mother Jones).
Days after a lawsuit was filed regarding the security of election systems in Georgia, the university housing the election servers erased all of the data (The Hill; Ars Technica; AP).
Buzzfeed has filed suit against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the head of Trump’s voter commission, seeking a court order requiring Kobach to provide records pursuant to the Kansas Open Records Act (Topeka Capital-Journal).
Chief Justice John Roberts’s concerns about the politicization of the Supreme Court may affect his position in Gill v. Whitford and other looming cases, writes Linda Greenhouse at the New York Times.
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina has appointed a special master to help redraw North Carolina legislative districts.
- The order is available here.