Category Archives: voter registration
“2 States Plan 2-Tier System for Balloting”
NYT:
Barred by the Supreme Court from requiring proof of citizenship for federal elections, Arizona is complying — but setting up a separate registration system for local and state elections that will demand such proof.
The state this week… Continue reading
“Arizona to segregate federal and state election ballots”
“Fork In The Road: Kansas To Implement Two-Track Voter List?”
5th Circuit, Over Dissent, Rejects Challenge to Texas Voter Registration Rules
You can find the opinion reversing the granting of a preliminary injunction in Voting for America v. Steen at this link.
Judge Edith Jones wrote the majority opinion. Judge Jones has been involved in controversy over alleged racist remarks… Continue reading
“Federal lawsuit questions East St. Louis voter rolls, asks judge to intervene”
Consent Decree in Mississippi Voter Registration Case
Sunshine State News and Breitbart report that a consent decree was signed by a federal district judge in Mississippi, ordering Walthall County to clean up its voter registration rolls. The consent decree is in a lawsuit reportedly brought by the… Continue reading
ACLU and LULAC Suit to Stop Iowa’s Matching of Registration and Immigration Records
AP has this report on litigation challenging Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz’s plan to compare voter registration records against a federal immigration database, and send people who aren’t listed a letter challenging their registration and telling them that registering… Continue reading
VRA Preclearance (A Response to Pildes/Tokaji, pt. 2)
(At Rick Hasen’s request, I’ve posted (with permission) two listserv responses to this post by Rick Pildes and Dan Tokaji. The first was from Mike Pitts. For this one, you can blame me. The version below is modified a… Continue reading
“Modernizing Ohio’s election system includes online voter registration”
Ohio SOS Jon Husted has written this oped.
“Kay Hagan Seeks Federal Review Of North Carolina Voting Law”
“ACLU Threatens Legal Action if Kansas Fails to Comply With Federal Voting Law”
Elections? There’s an App for That
The NYT reports here on the NYC Votes app from the City’s Campaign Finance Board, designed “to make it easier to register to vote, give money and communicate with campaigns, all from the palm of your hand.”
“The Daily Show Sees a Sharknado’s Worth of Voter Suppression”
Atlantic Wire reports on John Oliver’s take on post-Shelby voting bills, including one in North Carolina, summarized here by Democracy North Carolina.