Category Archives: voter registration
“Relocation, Relocation, Relocation: Online Voter Registration’s Impact on Existing Voters”
“As Elections Loom, Push is On to Get People Registered”
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.
“Many Texans Bereaved Over ‘Dead’ Voter Purge”
NPR:
Quite a few Texas voters are seeing dead people in the mirror these days when they go to brush their teeth in the morning.
In Houston, high school nurse Terry Collins got a letter informing her that after… Continue reading
“Groups race against time to get Florida voters registered”
Reuters reports.
UPDATE: Dan Smith: Reuters the latest casualty of flawed FL voter reg figures wrongly calculated by FL Times-Union. Correct figures here: http://ow.ly/dJ1nU
“The Jobless Could Swing the Election—if They’re Actually Registered to Vote”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy has written this piece for The Atlantic online.
“Project Vote Appeals Texas Voter Registration Case to U.S. Supreme Court”
The following press release arrived via email:
Project Vote Appeals Texas Voter Registration Case to U.S. Supreme Court
Voting rights group asks justices to rule on the freedom of voter registration efforts
Washington, DC – Today, with little over three… Continue reading
“Underfunding of voter registration: a guarantee that 25 percent or more of Americans won’t participate”
This item appears at Remapping Debate.
von Spakovsky’s Florida Non-Citizen Figures – A Correction
Earlier today I posted this item about how Florida has identified only “several” noncitizens from its latest voter purge attempts, and I linked to an earlier blog post of mine in which I questioned the origin and veracity of von… Continue reading
“Florida, Colorado Voter Purges Net Few Noncitizens, So Far” and a Note on von Spakovsky’s Numbers
Important NPR report: “States using a federal immigration database to purge noncitizens from voter lists are starting to get results, which so far include few illegal voters.’ In Florida, which was first to gain access to the database after fighting… Continue reading
“Voter registration drives adopting new methods”
AP reports.
“Court hearing held on Iowa new voter rules”
AP: ” Polk County judge heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by two civil rights organizations challenging new rules enacted by Iowa’s Republican secretary of state that would purge certain voters from Iowa’s voter registration list and make… Continue reading
“Texas AG wins round in battle over tougher voter signup rules”
“Report: Half of military bases lack voting facility”
The Washington Times reports. My earlier coverage (including a link to the IG report) is here.