John Oliver on Felony Disenfranchisement
Sunday’s main segment was on felony disenfranchisement and Florida’s Amendment 4. With, you know, a few asides.
Category Archives: voting
“Michigan College Students Sue Over Laws They Say Make It Harder For Them To Vote”
“A day after judge blasts state, counties act fast to hold early voting on campus”
Jenny Diamond Cheng: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment Lives! Federal District Court Strikes Down Florida Rule as Discriminatory against College Student Voters
The following is a guest post from Jenny Diamond Cheng of Vanderbilt Law:
As Rick noted, the Northern District of Florida in League of Women Voters v. Detzner recently found the State of Florida to have violated the… Continue reading
‘NH officials say college students don’t have standing to sue over election law”
Union Leader:
Six college students listed as plaintiffs in a lawsuit that challenges the Senate Bill 3 election reform bill are legally able to vote in New Hampshire and lack the standing necessary to challenge the law, New Hampshire officials… Continue reading
“Ground Zero in the War on Voting Rights; New Hampshire Republicans passed a bill to suppress the student vote. Democrats have one last chance to defeat it.”
Mark Joseph Stern for Slate.
“Reversing course, Sununu signs voter residency bill into law”
AP: “Republican Gov. Chris Sununu reversed course Friday and signed a bill imposing residency requirements on out-of-state college students who vote in New Hampshire. Current law allows students and others who consider the state their domicile to vote without… Continue reading
CAP Report on Increasing Voter Participation
Available here. From the introduction:
This report also outlines the following recommendations to drive voter participation and make the process of voting more convenient for eligible Americans:
1. Streamline voter registration with automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration (SDR), … Continue reading
Derek Muller’s “The Democracy Ratchet”
Available on SSRN. From the abstract:
Litigants seeking to lift burdens on the right to vote and judges adjudicating these claims have an unremarkable problem—what is the benchmark for measuring the nature of these burdens? Legal theories abound for… Continue reading
How Should Courts Evaluate Recent Changes to Voting Laws
An increasingly central and recurring issue in voting-rights litigation today is how courts should evaluate recent changes to various laws regulating the voting system. How much should the prior status quo matter in this assessment? This can present paradoxes for… Continue reading
“Should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?”
“Give a lower voting age a try”
WaPo editorial:
Upending decades of political tradition is clearly provocative, and the council should proceed carefully in deciding whether to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local and federal elections. A case could be made that 16-year-olds lack the… Continue reading
“The Administration is Lying About the Census”
Important Joey Fishkin at Balkinization:
The Commerce Department has announced that it is adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census, for the first time in seventy years. There has been a lot of speculation about possible political motivations… Continue reading
Wisconsin: “Judge orders Gov. Scott Walker to hold special elections for open legislative seats in Eric Holder suit”
Patrick Marley:
Dealing a setback to Gov. Scott Walker and other Republicans, a judge ruled Thursday the governor must call special elections to fill two vacant seats in the Legislature.
Walker declined to call those elections after two GOP lawmakers… Continue reading