Category Archives: voting

“The Value of the Right to Vote”

January 27, 2016, 10:26 amtheory, votingRick Hasen

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”

January 19, 2016, 8:47 pmvotingRick Hasen

NPR reports.

Breaking: #SCOTUS Denies Contempt in Hawaii Election Case, Turns Down Obamacare Origination Clause Challenge

January 19, 2016, 7:25 amlegislation and legislatures, Supreme Court, votingRick Hasen

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”

January 5, 2016, 7:07 amSupreme Court, votingRick Hasen

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”

December 22, 2015, 10:41 amresidency, votingRick Hasen

LAT.

Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Voter Residency Challenge

December 22, 2015, 10:34 amvotingRick Hasen

See here.

“Voting only by mail can decrease turnout. Or increase it. Wait, what?”

December 21, 2015, 8:17 amabsentee ballots, election administration, votingRick Hasen

Elizabeth Bergman at The Monkey Cage.

Native Hawaiian Voting Case to Live On?

December 18, 2015, 11:24 amSupreme Court, votingRick Hasen

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

December 16, 2015, 6:58 amvotingRick Hasen

“”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”

December 15, 2015, 3:51 pmSupreme Court, votingRick Hasen

Robert Thomas blogs. [corrected link]

Hawaii Election Subject to #SCOTUS Stay Cancelled

December 15, 2015, 1:24 pmvotingRick Hasen

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.