WaPo:
A group of Democratic senators — including key centrist Joe Manchin III of West Virginia — introduced a pared-down voting rights, campaign finance and government ethics bill Tuesday in hopes of building momentum for its passage through a closely… Continue reading
NBC News:
Senate Democrats are close to an agreement on updated voting rights legislation that can get the support of all 50 Democrats, three Democratic aides familiar with negotiations tell NBC.The forthcoming agreement comes after the For the People Act… Continue reading
Nicholas Warren has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, North Carolina Civil Rights Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The Voting Rights Act protects the ability of racial and language minority groups to elect candidates of choice by prohibiting states… Continue reading
AJC:
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is trying to use open records laws to find political motivations behind the DOJ’s lawsuit over Georgia’s voting law.lRaffensperger filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the U.S. Department of Justice Tuesday… Continue reading
NYT:
Georgia toughened identification requirements for absentee voting. Arizona authorized removing voters from the rolls if they do not cast a ballot at least once every two years. Florida and Georgia cut back sharply the use of drop boxes for… Continue reading
Gary Simson has posted this draft on SSRN (Emory Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
In the final weeks leading up to the 2020 national election, scarcely a day seemed to pass without news of a challenge to, or court… Continue reading
NYT:
The House voted on Tuesday to restore federal oversight of state election laws under the 1965 Voting Rights Act and expand its reach, as Democrats moved to strengthen a crowning legislative achievement of the civil rights era amid a… Continue reading
New draft paper from M. Keith Chen, Kareem Haggag, Devin G. Pope, and Ryne Rohla. Abstract:
Equal access to voting is a core feature of democratic government. Using data from hundreds of thousands of smartphone users, we quantify a racial… Continue reading
Brennan Center analysis:
While in 2012, just before the Shelby County decision, the white-Black turnout gap was shrinking in the states we analyzed, and in many instances even briefly closed, this trend has reversed in the years since. In… Continue reading
Travis Crum has posted this draft on SSRN (Vanderbilt L Rev Online). Here is the abstract:
In Presidential Control of Elections, Professor Lisa Marshall Manheim masterfully canvasses how “a president can affect the rules of elections that purport to hold… Continue reading