Category Archives: voting
“The Value of the Right to Vote”
Stephan Tontrup and Rebecca Morton have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
We conducted a mixed lab and field experiment during a naturally occurring election. We offered subjects the opportunity to relinquish their voting rights for money.… Continue reading
“Unlikely Advocates Push To Give 16-Year-Olds A Vote — And A Voice”
Breaking: #SCOTUS Denies Contempt in Hawaii Election Case, Turns Down Obamacare Origination Clause Challenge
While attention rightly will be focused on the Supreme Court’s decision today to hear the challenge to the Obama immigration orders, two election law points of note in today’s order list.
First, the Court refused to hold in… Continue reading
“Hawaiians defend against contempt plea”
Lyle Denniston:
A group of Hawaiians seeking to create a new tribal nation inside the state moved on Monday to head off a contempt order in the Supreme Court. They have done nothing to violate a Supreme Court order … Continue reading
“These California lawmakers don’t live in the districts they represent”
LAT.
Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Voter Residency Challenge
“Voting only by mail can decrease turnout. Or increase it. Wait, what?”
Elizabeth Bergman at The Monkey Cage.
Native Hawaiian Voting Case to Live On?
Lyle Denniston:
Lawyers for a group of Hawaiian residents challenging a move to create a new nation of native Hawaiians within the state have told a lower court that they may make a return trip to the Supreme Court… Continue reading
Quote of the Day: Native Hawaiian Election Edition
“”I don’t know how anybody is supposed to take any of this seriously at this point….I mean, it has the integrity of a Costco membership.”
—Native Hawaiian community advocate Trisha Keahaulani Watson-Sproat, quoted by AP, who has been a… Continue reading
“The ‘Oprah Theory Of Elections’ – Everyone Wins! Hawaiians-Only Election ‘Terminated,’ All Candidates Invited To Participate”
Robert Thomas blogs. [corrected link]
Hawaii Election Subject to #SCOTUS Stay Cancelled
Not only that: everyone who ran gets to be a delegate. (It’s the Oprah rule: You get elected! You get elected! Every-body-gets-elected!)
I assume this moots the Ninth Circuit case and ends the chances for SCOTUS review.