Category Archives: NVRA (motor voter)
Ohio Mayor Confronts SOS Husted on Voter Purge on Steps of Supreme Court
Nina Totenberg’s report on yesterday’s oral argument begins with this:
JON HUSTED: We believe our state is one where we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. We make every effort possible to try to reach out to… Continue reading
Are Justice Breyer or Justice Gorsuch in Play in the Ohio Voter Purge Case, Will the Justices Divide Along Familiar Party Lines, or Is It All Kennedy Again?
Today the voting wars reached the Supreme Court, which heard oral argument in Husted v. A Philip Randolph Institute, a case which concerns an Ohio law which makes it relatively easy to remove voters from the rolls. While there… Continue reading
Read the Transcript in Today’s Ohio Voter Purge Case (Husted)
“Supreme Court Hears Challenge To Ohio’s ‘Use-It Or Lose-It’ Voter System”
Nina Totenberg curtain raiser on Husted.
“After Trump Commission Setback, Voter Fraud Alarmists May Get Boost From SCOTUS”
Tierney Sneed for TPM:
Now that President Trump has dissolved his shady voter fraud commission, a Supreme Court case being heard Wednesday represents fraud alarmists’ next best chance to boost their voter purge campaigns.
The case, Husted v. A. Philip… Continue reading
“The Right Not to Vote”
Slate Amicus:
Sometimes the technical stuff is how you get to the crucial stuff. Next week, the Supreme Court will hear a case about Ohio’s voter purge, and the case rests on some sticky statutory interpretation questions. Up to 1.2… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court has a chance to redeem itself on voting rights”
Karen Hobert Flynn WaPo oped:
Nearly 63 million Americans voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and nearly 66 million cast ballots for Hillary Clinton. But the votes for Trump and Clinton fell well short of the number cast for… Continue reading
“Ohio Voter Challenges Election Roll Purge in Supreme Court Clash”
Greg Stohr for Bloomberg.
“Should voters who don’t vote stay on voter rolls?”
Steven Mazie for the Economist on the upcoming Husted case, and the Sam Bagenstos brief I flagged here.
Federal Court Denies Summary Judgment in ACLU’s Proof of Citizenship Claim Against Kansas/Kobach, With Case Going to Trial in March
Opinion (via Jessica Huseman):
The scope of this Court’s summary judgment Order is narrower than the parties sought in their briefing. The Tenth Circuit provided the framework within which Plaintiffs’ Count 1 preemption claim under § 5 of the… Continue reading
“Voter purges: U.S. Supreme Court to decide if Ohio illegally purged voters”
AP:
The case has taken on added importance because the parties have squared off over ballot access across the country. Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to suppress votes from minorities and poorer people who tend to vote for Democrats.… Continue reading
“Did Alabama Just Violate Federal Voting Law? Assessing the state’s ‘inactive’ voter scheme.”
Slate:
Theoretically, voters who received the first postcard and did nothing (as instructed) remained active and received no further correspondence. Stuart Naifeh, a voting rights attorney at Demos, told me that, under the federal National Voter Registration Act, states… Continue reading
“Culling Voter Rolls: Battling Over Who Even Gets to Go to the Polls”
NYT:
Conservative groups and Republican election officials in some states say the poorly maintained rolls invite fraud and meddling by hackers, sap public confidence in elections and make election workers’ jobs harder. Voting rights advocates and most Democratic election officials,… Continue reading