Category Archives: voting

Florida Senate Strips Controversial Language Assistance Provision from Election Bill

April 24, 2013, 9:16 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, votingRick Hasen

State may also expand early voting, but Democrats say it is not enough. NBC Miami: The Senate did strip a provision that would have created restrictions on people who assist voters who can’t read English, are blind or have other… Continue reading

“Immigration reform could be bonanza for Democrats”

April 22, 2013, 9:02 pmcampaigns, electoral college, votingRick Hasen

Politico: “The immigration proposal pending in Congress would transform the nation’s political landscape for a generation or more — pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic voters into the electorate a decade from now in ways that, if… Continue reading

“Florida Senate Republicans crack down on foreign-language interpreters for voting”

April 16, 2013, 8:36 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Marc Caputo: Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old North Miami voter who became a symbol of Florida’s elections woes, could again find it tough to cast a ballot now that the Republican-controlled state Senate voted Tuesday to keep a crack down… Continue reading

“Reassessing Colorado’s Turnout”

April 14, 2013, 1:10 pmvotingRick Hasen

Michael McDonald: Colorado legislators are contemplating changes to their election laws this week that may result in higher turnout. A report issued by Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler figures prominently in the deliberations, which triumphantly touts “the most successful… Continue reading

“In Oregon, the Right to Vote Should be Automatic”

April 8, 2013, 1:56 pmelection administration, votingRick Hasen

The Oregonian editorializes.

“Do Nonpartisan Ballots Racialize Candidates Evaluations in Low-Information Elections?”

April 8, 2013, 7:53 ampolitical parties, votingRick Hasen

Craig Burnett and Vlad Kogan have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: At last count, U.S. voters were responsible for choosing more than 510,000 distinct elected officials. Few of these contests feature lively campaigns or attract substantial… Continue reading

“Supreme Court rejects call to change voting district head counts”

April 2, 2013, 7:36 amSupreme Court, votingRick Hasen

LA Times on Lepak.

Supreme Court, Without Noted Dissent, Denies Cert. in Lepak “One Person, One Vote” Case

April 1, 2013, 7:54 amSupreme Court, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The order list is here. The petition garnered a lot of attention, including in a Sidebar column from Adam Liptak, no doubt it because it was backed by Edward Blum, who successfully brought the Fisher affirmative action case… Continue reading

“Lost in Space? Shortcuts and Spatial Voting in Low-Information Elections”

March 28, 2013, 1:03 pmvotingRick Hasen

Chris Elmendorf, Cheryl Boudreau, and Scott MacKenzie have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Voters face difficult choices in low-information local elections. Despite the concerns this raises for voter competence, there are virtually no studies of whether… Continue reading

“A Structural Theory of Elections”

March 23, 2013, 9:21 pmSupreme Court, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Franita Tolson has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Scholars and courts have hotly debated whether section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional under the Reconstruction Amendments. In these debates, attention has focused almost exclusively… Continue reading

Ilya Shapiro on Cert Petition in Lepak

March 22, 2013, 8:52 amSupreme Court, votingRick Hasen

Here. UPDATE: See also this HuffPo Live segment on the case.

“News Analysis: States tackle early voting”

March 21, 2013, 1:12 pmelection administration, votingRick Hasen

That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.

Litpak on Lepak

March 19, 2013, 7:24 amvotingRick Hasen

Adam’s latest Sidebar column is: One Person One Vote (or Was That One Voter One Vote?). I don’t expect the Court to take the Lepak case.

“The Right to Vote Under State Constitutions”

March 18, 2013, 8:19 amvotingRick Hasen

Josh Douglas has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Vanderbilt Law Review). Here is the abstract: This Article provides the first comprehensive look at state constitutional provisions explicitly granting the right to vote. We hear that the right to vote… Continue reading