Category Archives: voter registration

“Ohio restarts voter purge process with changes to help prevent unnecessary cancellations”

July 9, 2018, 10:50 amvoter registrationDan Tokaji

Cleveland.com reports on directives (2018-19, 2018-20, 2018-21 and 2018-22) that Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted issued today. They restart Ohio’s supplemental process for removing voters from the rolls, upheld by the Supreme Court in Husted… Continue reading

Trey Grayson on Automatic Voter Registration

July 9, 2018, 8:07 amvoter registrationDan Tokaji

The former Kentucky Secretary of State (2004-11) and NASS president (2009-10), a Republican, offers his thoughts: “We can all agree that outdated voter rolls are a problem that must be addressed to safeguard the integrity of our elections. Automated… Continue reading

“Mass. 20-Day Voter Registration Deadline Is Constitutional, SJC Rules”

July 2, 2018, 3:18 pmvoter registrationRick Hasen

WBUR: The requirement that Massachusetts voters register at least 20 days before the election in which they hope to cast a ballot does not violate the state’s constitution, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday. Supporters of voting reforms, including Election… Continue reading

“What Starts in Texas Doesn’t Always Stay in Texas: Why Texas’s Systematic Elimination of Grassroots Voter Registration Drives Could Spread”

May 30, 2018, 1:17 pmvoter registrationRick Hasen

ACS Issue Brief by Mimi Marziani and Robert Landicho.

“Federal judge: Texas is violating national voter registration law”

April 3, 2018, 3:03 pmNVRA (motor voter), voter registrationRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: Handing the state another voting rights loss, a federal judge has sided with a civil rights groups that claimed the state violated federal law by failing to register Texans to vote when they updated their drivers’ license information… Continue reading

Court rejects challenge to Broward list maintenance

March 30, 2018, 2:09 pmvoter registrationJustin Levitt

An update out of south Florida: a federal court just rejected a claim by the ACRU that Broward County has a legal responsibility to purge voters more aggressively. There’s plenty of detail in the opinion about what Broward does and… Continue reading

“Letting people vote at home increases voter turnout. Here’s proof.”

January 28, 2018, 9:48 amelection administration, voter registrationRick Hasen

Gilad Edelman and Paul Glastris WaPo oped.

“How cities are bypassing states to explore registering hundreds of thousands to vote”

January 5, 2018, 12:55 pmvoter registrationRick Hasen

Mic: National groups, in search of voting rights laws that could be pursued in Republican-controlled states, have taken notice of the potential for city-by-city reforms. The Center for Popular Democracy, a national progressive group connected to advocacy organizations in 38… Continue reading

“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.

The partisan political impact of automatic voter registration

October 5, 2017, 7:13 pmvoter registrationJustin Levitt

Governing explores how the impact may be surprising.

Brill: “OC High Schools: Nowhere To Go But Up On Voter Registration”

September 26, 2017, 4:59 pmvoter registrationRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Laura Brill: Orange County set a participation record in the last presidential election, with more than 80% of registered voters casting ballots, the highest percentage in 40 years. High schools in the OC,… Continue reading

“They sued for Clinton’s emails. Now they want information on California voters”

August 9, 2017, 7:43 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

LAT: California’s top elections officer and 11 county registrars have been asked to hand over detailed voter registration records or face a federal lawsuit, a request that centers on new accusations that the records are inaccurate. The effort by the… Continue reading

“Seventh Circuit Reverses Injunction On Illinois Same-Day Registration”

August 7, 2017, 7:40 amvoter registrationRick Hasen

Doug Chapin: Last year, I wrote about a federal court challenge to Illinois’ same-day registration law that resulted in an injunction because of concerns it would result in voters in larger counties having more opportunities to vote than those in… Continue reading

“States with Election Day registration see bonus for democracy”

August 2, 2017, 6:47 amvoter registrationRick Hasen

Boston Globe: Voting on Election Day usually entails some pre-planning, with registration required several days, if not weeks, ahead of time in most places. But now, following a court decision last week, Massachusetts is under pressure to join more than… Continue reading