Category Archives: NVRA (motor voter)

While in Wisconsin, a purge sits temporarily on hold…

December 30, 2019, 1:04 pmNVRA (motor voter), voter registrationJustin Levitt

The lede from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “The Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocked Monday over whether to remove the voter registrations of more than 200,000 people in response to a judge’s order. The commission’s inability to reach a consensus means the… Continue reading

“Are States Purging Or Cleaning Voter Registration Rolls?”

December 23, 2019, 9:30 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

NPR’s Pam Fessler.

PILF Sues Detroit Over Voter List Maintenance

December 11, 2019, 3:26 pmfraudulent fraud squad, NVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Detroit Free Press: A public interest group has sued the city of Detroit in federal court, claiming it has thousands of dead people on its voter lists and even more duplicate names of registered voters — problems the group fears … Continue reading

“Group seeks to remove thousands from Wisconsin’s voter rolls because they are believed to have moved”

October 16, 2019, 7:14 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A conservative group is seeking to quickly remove thousands of people from the voting rolls who election officials believe have moved.The question over how to treat as many as 234,000 voters comes as Wisconsin emerges as one… Continue reading

“Kentucky Democrats sue state for labeling 175,000 voters ‘inactive’ before election”

October 11, 2019, 8:21 pmNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Lexington Herald-Leader: The Kentucky Democratic Party sued the State Board of Elections Thursday, claiming it unlawfully placed 175,000 registered voters on an “inactive” list that might infringe on their right to vote.The lawsuit filed in Franklin Circuit Court followed unsuccessful … Continue reading

Unanimous 11th Circuit Panel Affirms District Court Ruling Upholding Broward County, FL’s List Maintenance Rules Against NVRA Challenge Brought by ACRU

August 23, 2019, 8:19 amNVRA (motor voter), voter registrationRick Hasen

Opinion in Bellitto v. American Civil Rights Union: The National Voter Registration Act requires state election officials to make a reasonable effort to remove certain ineligible registrants from the voter rolls. The American Civil Rights Union (“ACRU”) claims that… Continue reading

“Rensselaer County Board of Elections to give ICE voter registration information”

July 19, 2019, 10:36 amNVRA (motor voter), voter registrationJustin Levitt

Specifically, Rensselaer apparently indicates that they’re going to share the list of people registering through the DMV, ostensibly to combat illegal immigration (the only relevant list ICE would have, I believe, pertains to individuals overstaying visas). I’m not sure… Continue reading

“Happy Birthday to an Important Voting Rights Protection”

May 20, 2019, 11:47 amNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Demos on the 26th anniversary of the NVRA.

Tenth Circuit Panel in Oral Argument in Fish v. Schwab (was: Fish v. Kobach) Seems Skeptical of Kansas’s Attempt to Reverse District Court’s Block of Kansas’s Documentary Proof of Citizenship Law

March 18, 2019, 5:12 pmelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

You can listen to the oral argument here. With the caveat that one never knows how to read oral argument, and judges can change their minds before issuing an opinion, here are some thoughts: The judges seemed to believe… Continue reading

“Los Angeles County agrees to purge up to 1.5 million voters from its rolls in settlement”

January 9, 2019, 6:49 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Wash. Times: Los Angeles County has agreed to conduct a purge of its voting rolls, in a move that could strip perhaps 1.5 million inactive voters from the lists of those eligible to cast ballots. The county made the deal… Continue reading

“Civil Rights Groups Sue Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to Cease Discriminatory ‘No Match, No Vote’ Registration Protocol”

October 11, 2018, 4:20 pmNVRA (motor voter), Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release via email: Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and its partners filed a major lawsuit against Secretary of State Brian Kemp over the state of Georgia’s discriminatory and unlawful “exact match” voter suppression scheme. The suit… Continue reading

“League of Women Voters, Voting Rights Groups Sue Arizona Secretary of State for Violating Federal Law”

August 21, 2018, 6:53 amNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Press release via email: The League of Women Voters of Arizona joined voting rights organizations in a lawsuit filed against Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan Monday, nine months after notifying her office of significant federal voting rights violations. The… Continue reading

“Elections Have Consequences, on Future Elections”

August 16, 2018, 7:41 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Neil Makhija on Husted at the Regulatory Review.

“US judge voids part of North Carolina election law”

August 8, 2018, 5:44 pmNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

AP: A federal judge invalidated part of North Carolina elections law that allows one voter to challenge another’s residency, a provision that activist groups used to scrub thousands of names from rolls ahead of the 2016 elections. U.S. District Judge… Continue reading