All posts by Justin Levitt
“Rules for Provisional Ballots All Over the Map”
Pam Fessler tries to make sense of the provisional ballot landscape for NPR.
Right Questions, Wrong Answers in Voter ID Decision
Prof. Chris Elmendorf, over at the Election Law @ Moritz site, dives deep on the 7th Circuit’s WI voter ID decision. It begins:
Earlier this week Rick Hasen blasted Judge Easterbook’s opinion upholding Wisconsin’s voter ID requirement as… Continue reading
Roundup on the GAO Report on Voter ID
Politico, Natl Journal, the Wall St. Journal, and the Washington Times discuss the GAO report; Sec. Kobach responds.
Redistricting Made Simple
Change IL has a great new animated digital tool explaining how redistricting works. Even those who don’t like redistricting commissions have 18 slides to love.
“Dark Money Still a Bit Player”
CCP in The Hill: What would you call an election in which over 95 percent of campaign spending is funded by groups that publicly disclose the names and addresses of their donors to the Federal Election Commission, along with… Continue reading
“How Campaign Finance Laws Make Florida Governor’s Race Unique”
On Miami public radio. According to the Campaign for Public Integrity, the campaigns of Charlie Crist and Rick Scott are responsible for about 3 percent of the spending in the race.
Breaking News: SCOTUS issues NC order, restrictions back in effect
Sure, just after Rick leaves. Late Wednesday, the Supreme Court stayed the 4th Circuit’s earlier opinion blocking North Carolina’s rollback of same-day registration and its decision to no longer count ballots cast out-of-precinct. Free of the double negatives: the full… Continue reading
The Virginia redistricting decision
Rick mentioned the Virginia congressional redistricting decision earlier today.
I’ve already seen some confusion about this: the decision doesn’t depend on Shelby County. Indeed, as I read it, the decision would have been exactly the the same if Shelby County… Continue reading
The 7th Circuit denominator
No time like the present to start “easing in,” I guess.
Others have already said quite a bit about yesterday’s 7th Circuit voter ID decision. I’ve written many times about the ID-on-a-plane fallacy (it’s both irrelevant and wrong), about… Continue reading
Voter registration, domicile, and the location of your pillow
As we get into the “silly season” of election administration frenzy, it’s worth connecting two stories hours apart — the piece on Romney’s mistaken registration address to the story about GOP scouring of voter rolls in Illinois.
The Romney… Continue reading
The NVRA and the Arkansas AG candidate
Rick posted yesterday on an Arkansas registrar’s decision to cancel the registration of Leslie Rutledge, a candidate for state AG, after it was brought to the registrar’s attention that Ms. Rutledge had been registered in another state. One of the… Continue reading
“Ada County wrongly strips more than 750 voter registrations”
Late last week, Rick linked to a story about potential double voters in Maryland and Virginia. Two groups (Election Integrity Maryland and the Virginia Voters Alliance) claimed to have discovered “tens of thousands” of electors on the rolls in both… Continue reading
Factfinding and “Fact”finding
Yesterday, in his discussion of the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s voter ID cases, Rick mentioned that the one example of voter fraud cited by the court was not only inapposite, but also not in evidence before the lower court. He then… Continue reading