Category Archives: voting
5th Circuit, Over Dissent, Rejects Challenge to Texas Voter Registration Rules
You can find the opinion reversing the granting of a preliminary injunction in Voting for America v. Steen at this link.
Judge Edith Jones wrote the majority opinion. Judge Jones has been involved in controversy over alleged racist remarks… Continue reading
Quote of the Day via Political Wire and Ralson Reports
Goddard, quoting Ralston quoting Hickey:
Quote of the Day
“A lot of minorities, a lot of younger people will not turn out in an non-presidential year. It’s a great year for Republicans!”
— Nevada Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey (R),… Continue reading
“California Gives Expanded Rights to Noncitizens”
NYT:
California is challenging the historic status of American citizenship with measures to permit noncitizens to sit on juries and monitor polls for elections in which they cannot vote and to open the practice of law even to those here… Continue reading
“A call for a right-to-vote amendment on Constitution Day”
Janai Nelson Reuters oped.
“Brazen Voting Fraud Alleged Among Ultra-Orthodox In Williamsburg”
including allegations of impersonation fraud. The investigation will be worth watching.
“District Attorney Bruce Brown: Non-citizen voter fraud suspicions unfounded”
Summit Daily (Summit, CO):
Suspicions of voter fraud in the 5th Judicial District of Colorado are unfounded, according to a news release issued last week by the district attorney’s office.
In July, at the request of Colorado Secretary of State… Continue reading
“NC Elections Board to hear cases that touch on student voting rights; State elections board says Elizabeth City college student can seek local office”
News Observer:
The state Board of Elections on Tuesday unanimously agreed that an Elizabeth City State University student can run for local office, reversing a decision by the Pasquotank County elections board.
Montravias King registered to run for the… Continue reading
“Obama Invokes King in Fight to Protect Voting Rights”
“The Fight for Voting Rights: 50 Years Later”
NYT Editorial, at its mirror site during the DOS attack.
“State of Women’s Representation 2013 Report”
FairVote: “The report is the first in what will be an annual report heading toward 2020, the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment. The State of Women’s Representation 2013 summarizes and analyzes women’s representation in all fifty states, and develops… Continue reading
“New Law Could Discourage Participation by Young Voters”
The Voter Update: “Gov. Pat McCrory signed a sweeping elections overhaul bill on Aug. 12, and on Sept. 1 one of the first provisions of that new law will go into effect. Beginning on that day, 16- and 17-year-olds… Continue reading
U.S. Nationals But Not Citizens—Interesting Right to Vote Case Coming to DC Circuit
From an email from plaintiffs I received:
Tuaua v. United States considers the rights of people born in the U.S. territory of American Samoa, which has been a part of the United States since 1900. Federal law labels the Tuaua… Continue reading
Pasquotank County, NC Appeal
In my recent Slate article, I wrote:
Forty of North Carolina’s counties were covered by the preclearance requirement before Shelby County, and a draconian law like this would never have made it past the Justice Department. Nor would a… Continue reading