Justin Levitt for the HLR Blog. … Continue reading
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
News & Observer: Boards of elections would provide registration cards with photos, and students at North Carolina’s public universities would be able to use their school IDs to vote under a draft voter ID bill that Republican legislators released Tuesday. … Continue reading
Adam Serwer in The Atlantic. … Continue reading
Jennifer Rubin WaPo column. … Continue reading
A different perspective from Charles Pierce. … Continue reading
NYT: The acrimony in Florida followed a contentious, weekslong fight over voter suppression in Georgia, where the Republican secretary of state was overseeing a governor’s race in which he was also a participant. Those battles may foreshadow what 2020 will … Continue reading
Dave Weigel for WaPo. … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Many Democrats are understandably angry about efforts to suppress the vote in Georgia and elsewhere in the 2018 midterm elections. In the Peach State, there is no question that Gov.-elect Brian Kemp, while secretary … Continue reading
Not so sure I agree with this one. … Continue reading
Ari Berman: On Friday afternoon, Abrams acknowledged that Kemp—the secretary of state who implemented many of these restrictions and was in charge of ensuring a fair voting process—would be certified as the winner of the election. He leads by 55,000 … Continue reading
LAT: In the new political landscape, recount battles are being waged with unprecedented fervor, as political parties and activists look beyond the race at hand and see opportunities to reform voting laws, resculpt the political map and motivate and focus … Continue reading
NYT deep dive. … Continue reading
HuffPost reports. … Continue reading
Listen. … Continue reading
Interesting opinion. … Continue reading
WaPo column: As the general counsel of Al Gore’s 2000 recount effort in Florida, I’m often asked this question about the Senate and gubernatorial recounts now going on there: Why does “this” keep happening in Florida? Part of what we … Continue reading
Eliza Newlin Carney for TAP. … Continue reading
Listen to NPR: The Florida recounts have demonstrated that many voters are unaware of election governing rules, which makes them more vulnerable to political rhetoric casting doubt on the legitimacy of the results. … Continue reading
I get it. Rick Scott is ahead in the Florida Senate race and so he wants the counting to end while he is ahead. He’s not only sued to try to get the counting done; he’s raised bogus claims of … Continue reading
WaPo: One week after Election Day, high-stakes contests in Florida and Georgia remained mired in uncertainty amid expanding legal fights and political wrangling that could further prolong the counting of ballots. In Florida, where elections officials are conducting machine recounts in … Continue reading
BuzzFeed: Republican Gov. Rick Scott has filed at least five lawsuits since Thursday against county election officials and instructed state police to investigate them for “fraud.” But on Monday, a group of Florida voters and organizations filed their own lawsuit that alleges … Continue reading
Take a listen. … Continue reading
NPR: The bill would establish automatic voter registration and reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act, crippled by a Supreme Court decision in 2013. It would take away redistricting power from state legislatures and give it to independent commissions. Other provisions would … Continue reading
Tampa Bay Times: A Broward judge on Monday turned down Gov. Rick Scott’s request to “impound and secure” all voting machines in Broward’s elections headquarters when they’re not being used to recount ballots. But Circuit Judge Jack Tuter offered a … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: With Florida set this week to undertake a massive and massively politicized recount in the critical races for governor and senator, the way that election fight has played out so far has … Continue reading
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Ernest Canning: On Thursday, Florida Democrats filed a federal lawsuit in which they alleged that the Sunshine State’s, county-by-county, subjective signature match procedures for rejecting vote-by-mail (VBM) and provisional ballots are arbitrary, lacking in standards, and, over several election cycles, inconsistently applied … Continue reading
My 2012 Book, The Voting Wars, has a subtitle: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. That meltdown has now arrived. I’ve been traveling and need to get up to speed on everything and collect my thoughts before writing … Continue reading
Tampa Bay Times: A Broward judge ordered the county’s elections chief to turn over to Rick Scott’s campaign for the U.S. Senate an accounting of total ballots cast and a breakdown of votes by category — all due by 7 … Continue reading
Arizona Republic: President Donald Trump andRepublicans in Arizona and nationally are stoking claims of deliberate election fraud in the state’s U.S. Senate race as Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema await results of a vote that could swing in either’s favor. … Continue reading
Steve Huefner at Moritz: It has been less than 72 hours since polls closed on the 2018 congressional midterm elections, and for candidates and their supporters who do not yet know the outcome of close contests, patience – not unsubstantiated … Continue reading
Release: The 6 November mid-term elections in the United States were highly competitive and contestants could campaign freely, with media presenting a wide array of information and views, enabling voters to make an informed choice. However, campaign rhetoric was often … Continue reading
Axios reports. Kemp should have recused himself from any issues connected to this election, given his obvious conflict of interest. This comes after numerous complaints about how he conducted this election and election administration in Georgia generally. Protect Democracy, which … Continue reading
HuffPost: Voting rights were on the ballot in the midterm elections on Tuesday, and voters sent a resoundingly clear message in favor of making elections more accessible and fairer. After Tuesday’s election, approximately 1.4 million people with felony convictions in … Continue reading
Blog post: In the end, democracy won on Tuesday night. Voters overcame suppression attempts, long lines, broken machines and nasty weather to turn out in massive numbers in key states. Extreme gerrymandering wasn’t enough to thwart the will of voters … Continue reading
We don’t know. Remember, the main effect of the NC Voter ID amendment will likely be to withdraw from the 5-2 Democratic State Supreme Court the power to rule on voter ID on state constitutional grounds. But the NCGA won’t … Continue reading
Release via email: Today, a group of Georgia voters filed a federal lawsuit asking the United States District Court in Atlanta to enjoin Secretary of State Brian Kemp from exercising any further powers of the Secretary of State’s Office in … Continue reading
WhoWhatWhy: WhoWhatWhy asked the secretary of state’s office if it planned to conduct an audit to ascertain that unauthorized changes had not been made to voter registrations. Broce responded, “There is no such vulnerability in the system as alleged by your … Continue reading
WaPo: President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday issued strong warnings about the threat of voter fraud in Tuesday’s elections, echoing the president’s baseless claims that massive voter fraud marred his 2016 election and prompting accusations that his … Continue reading
Ned Foley and Steve Huefner at Slate: This year, in particular, the temptation may be especially strong to distort the vote-counting process to achieve a victory for one side or the other. Given the refrain that the current elections are … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
AJC: Secretary of State Brian Kemp has had two roles this year: Running Georgia’s elections and running for governor of the state. Democrats, including former President Jimmy Carter, have called on him to step aside, warning repeatedly of potential conflicts of interest. … Continue reading
Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: In perhaps the most outrageous example of election administration partisanship in the modern era, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is running for governor while simultaneously in charge of the … Continue reading
NYT: Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor and elections scholar, said what was going on reflected a shift from a belief in shared rules of democracy toward one that sees elections as struggles for power “in which you need … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. it begins: In separate rulings on Thursday, two federal courts had the same message for minority voters making credible claims of potential disenfranchisement: Your arguments may be good on the merits, but it’s … Continue reading
NYT: The judge, Daniel L. Hovland of the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, wrote in a brief, two-page order that it was simply too close to Election Day to do so. He noted that “federal courts are … Continue reading
The Fix: On Monday, the Pew Research Center released a survey looking at how Americans see these dueling problems. To do so, though, it used an interesting strategy, asking respondents how big fraud or suppression would be depending on how many incidents … Continue reading
Josh Douglas oped. … Continue reading