Category Archives: NVRA (motor voter)

“Civil Rights Groups Launch National Effort to Combat Alarming Voter Purge Attempt”

November 26, 2017, 3:30 pmNVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: Today, leading national civil rights organizations are urging state and county election officials in jurisdictions across the country to reject the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s (PILF) coordinated attempt to launch a wide-scale voter purge effort across the country. Using… Continue reading

Supreme Court to Hear Rescheduled Argument in Ohio Voter Purge Case January 10

November 20, 2017, 7:07 amNVRA (motor voter), Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Details.

“Investigation Reveals Widespread Violations of Federal Voting Rights Law in Arizona”

November 14, 2017, 11:04 amNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Release: An investigation by voting rights groups revealed Arizona agencies are persistently violating the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which Congress enacted to increase opportunities to register to vote and simplify the registration process. The groups detailed their findings and… Continue reading

“Lawsuit Challenges Arizona’s Overly Burdensome Dual Voter Registration System”

November 7, 2017, 3:54 pmNVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and private co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit challenging Arizona’s overly burdensome and confusing voter registration process that has disenfranchised 26,000 voters in Maricopa County alone. Maricopa… Continue reading

“Suit: Indiana Secretary of State’s office broke election law”

October 30, 2017, 9:18 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: A government watchdog group is suing Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, accusing her office of allowing voters to be illegally purged from the state’s voting roles. Common Cause Indiana is asking a federal judge to put a stop… Continue reading

“David Gans: Don’t purge voters for choosing not to vote”

October 30, 2017, 8:59 amNVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Akron Beacon-Journal oped.

“He Didn’t Vote in a Few Elections. In the Next One, Ohio Said He Couldn’t.”

October 23, 2017, 7:28 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Adam Liptak’s Sidebar column on the upcoming Husted oral argument at the Supreme Cour.t

“Florida’s population grows but list of active voters shrinks. Here’s why.”

October 7, 2017, 2:15 pmelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), voter registrationJustin Levitt

A tour through regular list maintenance in Florida.

Kris Kobach’s effort to amend the NVRA

October 6, 2017, 3:46 pmchicanery, NVRA (motor voter)Justin Levitt

In this post, I mentioned that we now had a (redacted) look at the “first 365 days” agenda Kris Kobach was photographed holding after his meeting with President-Elect Trump back in November. A number of outlets have picked up… Continue reading

Comparing registered voters and CVAP

October 5, 2017, 7:09 pmNVRA (motor voter)Justin Levitt

There have been a number of stories recently about litigation (there are a few pending cases), or threats of litigation, premised on the notion that fraud or mismanagement must account for discrepancies between the number of entries on registration… Continue reading

Remember the picture of Kris Kobach and his plans for the year ahead?

October 5, 2017, 7:04 pmchicanery, NVRA (motor voter), UncategorizedJustin Levitt

Specifically, remember this document? This one? Well, here it is. (Sort of.) And here are the non-redacted NVRA amendments Kobach was apparently proposing. The AP has more context.

Is Justice Gorsuch in Play in Ohio Voter Purge Case?

September 29, 2017, 11:53 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Sam Bagenstos, in a fine amicus brief for former DOJ officials, makes a very strong textualist argument (along with other arguments) that Ohio’s voter purge process violates the plain meaning of the NVRA and HAVA. (Sam makes other persuasive arguments… Continue reading

“Former Justice Department Lawyers Fire Back on Voting-Rights Reversal They Say Betrays Two Decades of Enforcement”

September 25, 2017, 8:30 pmelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Dan Froomkin: The Justice Department’s recent about-face on a voting rights case was such a betrayal of long-standing DOJ policy that a group of former political appointees and career lawyers filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on Friday,… Continue reading

3d Circuit Rejects ACRU’s Voter Purge Suit in Philadelphia, Saying Suit Threatens Goals of NVRA and Integrity of the Vote

September 25, 2017, 10:16 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Unanimous opinion: The American Civil Rights Union (“ACRU”) challenges the Philadelphia City Commissioners’ failure to purge the city’s voter rolls of registered voters who are currently incarcerated due to a felony conviction. Because state law prohibits felons from voting… Continue reading