Category Archives: voter registration
“Effects of Automatic Voter Registration in the United States”
New report by Eric McGhee and Mindy Romero. From the summary:
Automatic voter registration (AVR) laws take advantage of transactions at government agencies where applicant information can be captured and repurposed to register citizens to vote. Implementation varies, but the… Continue reading
“Tennessee Removes Anti-Voter Registration Provisions Following Federal Legal Challenge”
Vote-by-mail and voter-registration
In normal times, I think of absentee voting as an essential option, but I’ve not (yet?) bought into 100% vote-by-mail. The postal service is an astonishingly great institution, but there are some communities it serves less well than others, including… Continue reading
“Wisconsin court overturns ruling that ordered removal of up to 209,000 people from voter rolls”
AP:
A Wisconsin appeals court on Friday overturned a ruling that ordered the removal of up to 209,000 people from the state’s voter rolls, handing Democrats a victory in a case they said was intended to make it more difficult… Continue reading
Imperfect ERIC Data Leading to Potential Purge of Wisconsin Voters
Steve Chamraz of TMJ4:
ERIC is a service shared by 29 states and the District of Columbia to keep voter registration files up to date by comparing voter data with other public records like vehicle registrations.In October, the Wisconsin Elections… Continue reading
Wisconsin: “After rejection, conservatives try again to get voter purge case to Supreme Court”
“League of Women Voters of Texas Files Lawsuit Demanding Online Motor Voter Registration”
“Millions of Americans have been purged from voter rolls—and may not even realize it”
Fortune:
Millions of Americans have been purged from the voter rolls in recent years, as state governments seek to remove the names of individuals who have died, relocated, or have otherwise become ineligible to vote.But such purges have been… Continue reading
Wisconsin Appeals Court Puts Purge on Hold
Journal Sentinel:
An appeals court ordered the state to keep more than 200,000 people on its voter rolls Tuesday, a day after an Ozaukee County judge found election officials in contempt of court for not following his December decision… Continue reading
“Texas Democrats launch largest voter registration campaign to hobble GOP’s grip on the state”
ABC News, on the collaboration with Stacey Abrams’ group Fair Fight 2020: ” Texas Democrats, fueled by the party’s nearly quarter-century-held dream of turning Texas blue, are mounting an aggressive ground-game operation with the largest voter registration program in… Continue reading
“Ohio bill proposes automatic voter registration for voting-age high schoolers”
Cleveland.com:
A group of Democratic state lawmakers has proposed automatically registering all Ohio high-school students to vote once they reach voting age.The bill, introduced in the Ohio House on Monday, also requires the state BMV to offer Ohioans the… Continue reading
“Wisconsin judge orders up to 209K voter names be deleted”
From AP, the latest on the Wisconsin purge:
The state Justice Department asked [Ozaukee County Judge Paul] Malloy to stay his order of contempt pending an appeal of his ruling, but the judge denied the request. Malloy held… Continue reading
“Fact check: Are California Republicans having voter registration changed without consent?”
SacBee: ” Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, is echoing inaccurate sentiments spread within conservative circles across the state that California elected officials are purposefully disenfranchising Republican voters by switching them to no party preference without consent.”