[EL] Uh oh, Rick...

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Oct 24 14:20:58 PDT 2014


Not sure I understand your snark.  When I looked into the question of 
non-citizen voting for my book, the rates of proven non-citizen voting 
appeared very low.  Now along comes a study which has a higher number. I 
don't have an opinion yet on how strong the study is because (1) I 
haven't yet read it and (2) those who have much greater methodological 
sophistication about these things than I do will surely weigh in on the 
question. I think that is a prudent response to this study.

In terms of outright dissembling, you can read chapter 2 of my book, 
which gives some examples.

I do not understand your final sentence.

Rick


On 10/24/14, 2:15 PM, Steve Hoersting wrote:
> So "new stud[ies] appear[] to find a much higher incidence of 
> non-citizen voting than you've previously seen" and you "look forward" 
> to hearing what others think of the methodology, and still you allege 
> "outright dissembling"?
>
> Okay. I see. Just trying to keep up.
>
> But if members of the Anti-Fraud Squad have dared dissemble, they had 
> better discover they are rapidly losing control of conventional wisdom 
> and the public debate.
>
> Good weekend. Best,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu 
> <mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I linked to the the story Drudge links to earlier today on my
>     blog. (See the end of this message).  I have always said (and say
>     in my book) that non-citizen voting is a real, though relatively
>     small, problem (unlike impersonation fraud, which is essentially a
>     blip).  For this reason I have supported efforts to remove
>     non-citizens from voting rolls, though not in the period right
>     before an election when errors are more likely to disenfranchise
>     voters.
>
>     The new study appears to find a much higher incidence of
>     non-citizen voting than I've previously seen, and I look forward
>     to hearing whether people think the methodology in this paper is
>     sound.  But even if it is sound, this would not justify the
>     hysteria and nonsense (and in some cases outright dissembling)
>     coming from some of the people you have listed below.
>
>     Rick
>
>
>
>
>             “Could non-citizens decide the November election?”
>             <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67408>
>
>         Posted onOctober 24, 2014 12:27 pm
>         <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67408>byRick Hasen
>         <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
>         Jesse Richman and David Earnes
>         <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election/>t
>         at the Monkey Cage with some provocative findings on the
>         extent of non-citizen voting. I will be very interested to
>         hear what others think of the methodology in thisforthcoming
>         article
>         <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379414000973>in
>         Electoral Studies.
>
>         Share
>         <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D67408&title=%E2%80%9CCould%20non-citizens%20decide%20the%20November%20election%3F%E2%80%9D&description=>
>         Posted inelection administration
>         <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
>         <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
>
>
>     On 10/24/14, 1:51 PM, Steve Hoersting wrote:
>>     It's getting tougher and tougher to dismiss and discredit John
>>     Fund, Hans van Spakovsky, James O'Keefe, J. Christian Adams,
>>     Catherine Engelbrecht and Rush Limbaugh:
>>
>>     http://drudgereport.com/
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Stephen M. Hoersting
>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Stephen M. Hoersting

-- 
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