Category Archives: Voting Rights Act

“Messing With Texas Again: Putting It Back Under Federal Supervision”

October 30, 2014, 12:40 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this piece for TPM Cafe. It begins: Readers of the entire 147-page opinion issued earlier this month by a federal district court striking down Texas’s strict voter identification law as unconstitutional and a violation of the Voting… Continue reading

“Ginsburg Was Right: Texas’ Extreme Voter ID Law Is Stopping People From Voting”

October 30, 2014, 12:24 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

HuffPo reports.

“Danger Zone: A Supreme Court Misstep On Voting Rights”

October 30, 2014, 7:19 amSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Linda Greenhouse NYT column.

“Uncounted Votes The Racially Discriminatory Effects of Provisional Ballots”

October 29, 2014, 1:05 pmelection administration, provisional ballots, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

New report from the Center for American Progress. From the emailed press release: RELEASE: The Racially Discriminatory Effects of Provisional Ballots Washington, D.C. — One week ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, much has been made of the new, more… Continue reading

“As Texas votes early, voter ID sparks frustration and motivation”

October 29, 2014, 11:05 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Melber writes.

“Souls to the Polls” is Real

October 29, 2014, 7:31 amvoting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT’s “The Upshot:” The Big Role of Black Churches in Two Senate Races.

“Shelby and Section 3: Pulling the Voting Rights Act’s Pocket Trigger to Protect Voting Rights After Shelby County v. Holder”

October 29, 2014, 7:19 amSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Paul Wiley has written this very (and timely, given Texas) important student note for the Washington and Lee Law Review. From the Introduction: One of those portions of the Voting Rights Act that remained untouched by Shelby County is §… Continue reading

“FairVote Joins Voting Rights Case in Washington to Promote Fair Representation”

October 28, 2014, 10:10 amalternative voting systems, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

FairVote wants to use “fair representation voting at-large”—which I think must be cumulative voting with a fancy name—to remedy a Voting Rights Act violation. UPDATE: In this context, Fairvote is supporting Yakima’s efforts to use “limited voting.” FairVote uses the… Continue reading

“Justifying a Revised Voting Rights Act: The Guarantee Clause and the Problem of Minority Rule”

October 24, 2014, 7:44 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jack Chin has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Boston University Law Review). Here is the abstract: In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required certain jurisdictions with… Continue reading

“On Race and Voter ID, John Roberts Wants It Both Ways”

October 24, 2014, 7:25 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Garrett Epps writes for The Atlantic.

“Ginsburg Wasn’t So Wrong About Texas and Veteran’s I.D.s”

October 23, 2014, 3:05 pmSupreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Texas Election Law Blog: Media sources and veterans groups castigated the law for what what veterans groups saw as a betrayal of their constituency. The outrage caught Governor Perry and the bill drafters by surprise, and came at an awkward… Continue reading

“The Poll Tax That Wasn’t”

October 23, 2014, 11:34 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Rich Lowry in Politico magazine defends voter id laws.

“Shame on Texas and the U.S. Supreme Court”

October 22, 2014, 8:16 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Andrew Cohen LAT oped.

Meanwhile, Under Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law, Veterans Cards are Not Okay

October 22, 2014, 5:38 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

With the Justice Ginsburg correction in the Texas voter id case today, a number of readers have pointed me to Wisconsin’s voter id law, which apparently rejects a veterans card as proof of valid identification. (The Supreme Court has put… Continue reading