Category Archives: Voting Rights Act
“How California Is Solving Its Voting Rights Problem”
Spencer Woodman for VICE:
Similar battles over voting rights and election fairness have been taking place around California, where rapidly shifting demographics have threatened to upend traditional centers of power in recent decades. As growing minority populations fight for a… Continue reading
“The fire next time; Today’s voting-rights disputes are less clear-cut than those of the civil-rights era, but they are inflammatory all the same”
“State Witness: Voter ID Law Is ‘Fairly Restrictive'”
Listen to the Recording of the En Banc 5th Circuit Hearing in Texas Voter ID Case
“Federal court questions whether Texas voter ID law can offer accommodations”
WaPo:
With the U.S. Supreme Court watching, judges on a federal appeals court here Tuesday questioned whether accommodations could be made to protect minority voters and still save Texas’s strictest-in-the-nation voter ID law in time for the presidential contest… Continue reading
Breaking: In Major Decision, Federal Court Blocks Cutback in Ohio Registration/Early Voting “Golden Week”
In a 120-page opinion, [new working link] a federal district court has held that the Ohio legislature’s elimination of “Golden Week,” a week in which Ohio voters could both register to vote and cast an early ballot at the same… Continue reading
Sounds Like Texas Voter ID En Banc 5th Circuit Argument Too Close To Call
According to Jason Steed, who attended the argument.
“Why the Fifth Circuit’s Decision This Week Could Decide the Fate of Texas’ Voter ID Law”
KUT:
On Tuesday a federal appeals court will take a second look at Texas’ controversial voter ID law. It’s one of the biggest voting rights battles ahead of this year’s presidential election, and a ruling from this court could… Continue reading
“Getting a photo ID so you can vote is easy. Unless you’re poor, black, Latino or elderly”
Sari Horwitz for WaPo:
In November, 17 states will have voting restrictions in place for the first time in a presidential election. Eleven of those states will require their residents to show a photo ID. They include swing states… Continue reading
“Symposium 2015: 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.”
Alabama Law Review, Vol. 67, Issue 2:
Symposium 2015: 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
Richard L. Hasen, Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable Revival, 67 Ala. L. Rev. 365 (2016).
Samuel Issacharoff, Voting Rights at 50, 67 Ala. L.… Continue reading
“Testimony: Minorities bear brunt of voter ID law”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Minority voters represent a big share of those seeking free photo IDs under the state’s new voter ID law and may also make up the great majority of those who experience the most problems getting one, under… Continue reading
“In federal court, Wisconsin DMV administrator outlines challenges in issuing free voter IDs”
The Cap Times:
People who die waiting for a state-issued voter ID are recorded as a “customer-initiated cancellation” by the state Department of Motor Vehicles, a DMV official testified Thursday.
On the fourth day of a trial challenging a series … Continue reading
“Voter ID Meets the Voting Rights Act: The Next Big Voting Rights Battle”
David Gans:
Two huge cases challenging new voting restrictions will soon be heard by the federal courts of appeal. On May 24, the entire Fifth Circuit—the most conservative federal appeals court in the nation—will hear Veasey v. Abbott, Texas’s… Continue reading