“Romney is Stumped, Too”
Why Tuesday? asks Mitt Romney “Why Tuesday?”
Category Archives: voting
“Informing Consent: Voter Ignorance, Political Parties, and Election Law”
Chris Elmendorf and David Scheicher has written this draft posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This paper examines what law can do to enable an electorate comprised of mostly ignorant voters to obtain meaningful representation and to hold elected… Continue reading
“Project Seeks to Help Students Overcome Barriers to Voting”
Chronicle of Higher Education: “A national advocacy organization that focuses on increasing voter registration for underrepresented groups announced on Wednesday a campaign to spur student participation in elections and to help students overcome voting barriers. The Fair Elections Legal… Continue reading
“Troy ballot fraud witness says he was offered job by Democratic Party operative”
WNYT: “More dramatic testimony occurred in the Troy ballot fraud trial. A major witness for the prosecution says he was approached by a Democratic Party operative just before he testified before the grand jury and offered a job in Vermont… Continue reading
“News Coverage of South Dakota Indians’ Voting Rights Suit”
Check it out (including link to complaint).
Service Members, and Not Just the Religious, Should Get Accommodations in Caucus Voting
I strongly agree with these sentiments.
“Religious Condition Stirs Protest at a Caucus Site”
NYT: “LAS VEGAS — A special Saturday night Republican caucus here intended to accommodate Orthodox Jews who could not vote before sundown became the scene of controversy and confrontation after caucusgoers were told that to be admitted they had… Continue reading
Credible NBC Report of Non-Citizen Voting in Florida
Very interesting report which requires further investigation.
“Segregation Curtailed in U.S. Cities, Study Finds”
NYT: “More than 40 years after the federal government enacted fair-housing legislation and the Great Migration of blacks from the South began to ebb, residential segregation in metropolitan America has been significantly curtailed, according to a study released Monday… Continue reading
“Virgin Islands Lawyer Sues U.S. Government Over Right to Vote”
Links to complaint, etc. here. More from the Virgin Islands Daily News.
“UF professor to testify on Fla. election law, voting rights before U.S. Senate subcommittee”
See this press release. Complete witness list at Dan Smith’s blog.
Quote of the Day
So, putting a voter identification law into effect to deter voter fraud is akin to posting an FBI agent in all bank lobbies in order to deter bank fraud.
Just as bank fraud isn’t usually committed in the bank lobby,… Continue reading
“Navajo Nation sues to protect voting rights in county in Utah”
Why Tuesday? GAO Investigates Weekend Voting
New GAO Report: “Weekend elections have not been studied, but studies of other voting alternatives determined that voter turnout is not strongly affected by them. Since nationwide federal elections have never been held on a weekend, it is difficult… Continue reading