Keith G. Bentele and Erin E. O’Brien have written this draft for Perspectives on Politics. Here is the abstract: Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in state legislation likely to reduce access for some voters, including photo identification and proof of … Continue reading
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News & Observer: Parties who are a gulf apart over what laws should be in place to ensure fair and open elections are just as widely divided about how quickly a lawsuit challenging new voter laws should be heard in … Continue reading
Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio would cross-reference voter addresses with other state databases to try to clean up discrepancies under a voting bill that’s likely to pass the General Assembly on Wednesday.The legislation is part of a collection of Republican-sponsored bills that … Continue reading
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Abby Rapoport writes for TAP. … Continue reading
This item appears at State of Elections (h/t Doug Chapin). … Continue reading
See here. I am writing something a bit more expanded along similar lines. … Continue reading
In my Harvard Law Review Forum piece Voting Rights Disclosure, I articulate my differences with NYU Professor Sam Issacharoff’s “non-civil rights” approach to voting rights (abstract below), and I propose detailed disclosure of voting changes for federal, state, and local … Continue reading
Times Dispatch: “The lawyer representing Republican Mark D. Obenshain in the pending statewide recount in the attorney general race on Monday for the first time openly raised the issue of contesting the election in the General Assembly if the tally … Continue reading
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The latest from North Carolina. … Continue reading
TX Redistricting: “The State of Texas filed a reply brief today defending Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s position that the voter ID suits filed by the Justice Department and by African-American and Hispanic voters should be dismissed without need for … Continue reading
Because they are dumb. No wonder almost all serious efforts at fraud involve either election officials committing fraud or absentee ballot fraud, which takes place outside the supervision of poll workers and election workers. It’s why we can’t find a … Continue reading
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Zack writes here. Most interesting is the President’s comment suggesting the Democrats’ claims of voter suppression are overblown: The one point I want to make though is that even with all the efforts that were made, let’s say in the … Continue reading
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David Firestone (NYT Ed): If You Liked ‘Stand Your Ground,’ You’ll Love the Jeffersonian Project Common Cause: ALEC Taking Cover from Federal, State Tax Laws PR Watch: New Guardian Docs Show ALEC Misled Press, Public … Continue reading
Via SSRN, you can now download a revised draft of my paper, Race or Party? How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere. The final version should post on the … Continue reading
Ari Berman writes for The Nation. … Continue reading
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Ryan Reilly for HuffPo: Nearly half of Americans live in precincts where long lines at the voting booth were a problem in the 2012 election cycle, according to a survey conducted by President Barack Obama’s Presidential Commission on Election Administration. … Continue reading
Wash. Times: “he House’s chief investigator says the FBI is stonewalling his inquiry into whether the agency and the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative group True the Vote for special scrutiny, and Rep. Darrell E. Issa is now threatening subpoenas … Continue reading
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. … Continue reading
Here are the details about the final public meeting of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. … Continue reading
COMMITTEE NOTICE There will be a meeting of the Committee on Rules and Administration on Wednesday, December 11, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in SR-301, Russell Senate Office Building, to receive testimony on the nomination of Thomas Hicks and Myrna Pérez … Continue reading
See this Think Progress piece. … Continue reading
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ThinkProgress: Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) chief election official issued new rules Monday night that could hamper absentee voting, just months before Floridians in the state’s 13th Congressional district take part in a special election to replace the late Rep. … Continue reading
Cincinnati Enquirer: Did Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters, whose office prosecuted voter fraud cases stemming from the 2012 election, improperly vote in the same election?That’s an issue that should be discussed by the Hamilton County Board of Elections, board chairman … Continue reading
The lawyers at Perkins Coie have filed this complaint in intervention and motion on behalf of young North Carolina voters, raising the kinds of issues wrote about in my recent NYT oped. … Continue reading
Dallas News: Delays at the polls this month due to glitches with voters’ identifications could signal a bigger problem to come next year, when many more turn out for state and county elections. Thousands of voters had to sign affidavits … Continue reading
Zack Roth writes for MSNBC. … Continue reading
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AP: Two noncitizens suspected of voting have been charged in Arapahoe County after a months-long investigation. The charges stem from a request by Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler. He referred 155 suspected noncitizens to Colorado prosecutors in July. The … Continue reading
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Michael Li has the details and the scheduling order. … Continue reading
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC. … Continue reading
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Press release: “The League of Women Voters of the United States and the organization’s Kansas and Arizona affiliates today joined a lawsuit arguing the new laws requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in these states violate federal law.” … Continue reading
Think Progress reports. Two points to note: (1) some of those people who were excluded for lacking id may have id but for one reason or another have not gone back to provide the information. (2) People who lack the … Continue reading
Figured this would be coming, but interesting choice of state court: The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit challenging Kansas’ two-tiered voter registration system. The petition charges that eligible voters are being divided into separate and unequal classes, … Continue reading
The November issue includes three items discussing Shelby, Inter-Tribal, or both: FOREWORD Equality Divided Reva B. Siegel COMMENTS Beyond the Discrimination Model On Voting Samuel Issacharoff LEADING CASES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Elections Clause — Federal Preemption of State Law — Federal … Continue reading
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Woah: The Wisconsin Supreme Court took over one voter ID case Wednesday and said it would hear an appeal of another. The move by the high court cancels oral arguments that were to be held next month before the District … Continue reading
Barry Burden, David Canon, Stephane Lavertu, Ken Mayer and Donald Moynihan have written this article for American Politics Research. Here is the abstract: The methods used to select public officials affect the preferences they bring to office, the incentives they … Continue reading
In my forthcoming essay (and related oped from this past weekend), I suggest a claim under the Equal Protection Clause against those states which have made voting harder for no good reason. It is not a racially based claim, nor … Continue reading
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As goes Arizona, so goes Colorado: After years of critics demanding that Gessler forward names of suspected non-citizens whom he said were on the voter rolls, his office referred a list of 155 suspected non- citizen voters in July to 15 … Continue reading