Category Archives: NVRA (motor voter)

Weinstein-Tull on Federal Election Administration

May 21, 2023, 10:01 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter)Derek Muller

Justin Weinstein-Tull, Federal Election Administration Laws (forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of American Election Law): Although states and local governments administer elections in the United States, the federal government has also enacted laws that regulate election administration. Most prominent among these laws… Continue reading

“A GOP claim that Michigan purposely tried to encourage voter fraud doesn’t fit with facts”

May 5, 2023, 9:49 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), voter registrationJustin Levitt

News from the States: Republicans at a recent congressional hearing accused Michigan’s chief election official of deliberately leaving tens of thousands of dead voters on the rolls in order to encourage illegal voting. Even at a time of intense… Continue reading

11th Circuit finds Alabama’s felon disenfranchisement law passes constitutional scrutiny

April 26, 2023, 9:39 amConstitutional Right to Vote, election law and constitutional law, felon voting, NVRA (motor voter)Derek Muller

From an opinion by Judge Tjoflat, joined by Judge Moody (sitting by designation) in Thompson v. Secretary of State for the State of Alabama (lightly edited): Greater Birmingham Ministries, an Alabamian non-profit organization dedicated to aiding low-income individuals, and several… Continue reading

Mitchell on gov’t agencies at the RNC donor retreat

April 24, 2023, 7:38 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), redistricting, voter registrationJustin Levitt

As this blog noted, Cleta Mitchell was invited to give a “special legal presentation” to a recent RNC donor retreat — either because of or despite her role in proceedings attempting to overturn the 2020 election. There has already… Continue reading

Breaking–District Court preliminarily enjoins parts new Arizona voter law

September 26, 2022, 5:36 pmballot access, NVRA (motor voter)Tabatha Abu El-Haj

The U.S. District Court for Arizona has preliminarily enjoined two key provisions of Arizona’s recent effort to regulate voter registration. Importantly, it found the statute’s provision seeking to criminalize efforts to register out-of-state voters is likely unconstitutionally vague and further… Continue reading

“South Dakota is not following federal voter registration laws, judge rules”

May 27, 2022, 10:30 amNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Sioux Falls Argus Leader: A federal judge ruled Thursday that the South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office is not following federal laws requiring state agencies to make it easier to register to vote.Judge Lawrence Piersol, of the United States… Continue reading

How to guarantee the right to cast a ballot?

January 12, 2022, 4:05 pmelection subversion risk, NVRA (motor voter), provisional ballots, voter registration, votingNed Foley

I have seen a lot a skepticism lately about relying on courts to protect the equal right of eligible voters to participate in an election by casting a ballot and having it counted accurately. But unless Congress is going to… Continue reading

7th Circuit affirms LVW’s NVRA suit against Indiana

July 20, 2021, 6:12 amNVRA (motor voter), voter registrationNed Foley

Indiana’s voter purge law flunks its second test in the Seventh Circuit. Courthouse News reports on this decision.

“EXCLUSIVE: Georgia releases list of 102K voter registrations to be canceled”

June 19, 2021, 9:05 amNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

AJC: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Friday made public the names of nearly 102,000 people who are at risk of having their Georgia voter registrations canceled, a warning before they lose their ability to vote next month.The mass cancellations… Continue reading

“For second time, federal judge finds Texas is violating voter registration law”

August 28, 2020, 5:51 pmNVRA (motor voter), voter registrationRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: A persistent Texas voter, twice thwarted when he tried registering to vote while renewing his driver’s license online, has for the second time convinced a federal judge that the state is violating federal law.In a 68-page ruling Friday… Continue reading

“Federal Court Blocks Indiana Voter Purge Law”

August 24, 2020, 6:41 pmNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

WBIW: A federal court has blocked an Indiana law that would have allowed county elections officials to kick voters off the rolls immediately without notice.The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Indiana, Demos, and the firm Davis Wright Tremaine… Continue reading

“U.S. Supreme Court asked to rule on Kobach’s signature Kansas voter registration law”

June 3, 2020, 9:59 amfraudulent fraud squad, NVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Wichita Eagle: Kansas will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a state law championed by former secretary of state Kris Kobach — struck down by lower courts— that requires residents to prove their citizenship when registering to vote.The… Continue reading

“Voter Purges in an Increasingly Vote-by-Mail World”

May 22, 2020, 7:44 amNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

New Brennan Center resource.

Breaking: In Major Decision Rejecting Kris Kobach’s Claims of Massive Voter Fraud, Tenth Circuit Unanimously Holds Kansas’s Documentary Proof of Citizenship Requirement to Register to Vote Violates Constitution and Federal Law

April 29, 2020, 9:06 amfraudulent fraud squad, NVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

In a major ruling, a 10th Circuit panel (consisting of 2 judges, as a third judge on the panel had passed away), a Tenth Circuit panel has held that a Kansas anti-voting law championed by former Secretary of State Kris… Continue reading