“Alabama Budget Cuts Raise Concern Over Voting Rights”
Today’s must-read: Campbell Robertson in the NYT with a look at the nuances surrounding the controversy.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Justice Department Called On To Investigate Alabama Voter ID Issue”
NPR:
YEAGER: At a press conference in Birmingham, the Reverend Jesse Jackson isn’t shy about what he thinks of the state’s move.
JESSE JACKSON: Of course it’s a new Jim Crow.
YEAGER: Jim Crow – he’s referring to the… Continue reading
“Alabama Puts Up More Hurdles for Voters”
“State wants federal judge to rule on Voter ID before March primaries”
Winston-Salem Journal:
State attorneys want a federal judge to dismiss the legal challenge to North Carolina’s voter-identification law before the March 2016 presidential primary, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
And though the plaintiffs, including the North Carolina chapter of… Continue reading
“Hoyer: Alabama DMV Closures Prove That Voting Rights Act Must Be Restored”
Christopher Coates Heavily Criticizes Ari Berman Voting Rights Book
Former DOJ voting section chief, who has now become associated with conservative legal attacks on the DOJ’s voting rights position, minces no words.
“This Is What Voter ID Laws Looks Like When They Hit Real People”
Think Progress:
Wisconsin once again has to defend its voter ID law in federal court, this time responding to a challenge to the law’s exclusion of veterans’ IDs, technical college IDs, and out-of-state drivers’ licenses.
Staff attorney Sean Young… Continue reading
“It’s Still a Struggle; The fight for voting rights hasn’t been the straightforward battle we once might have expected to win and be done with.”
Sam Issacharoff has an important new review of Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot in the latest issue of The American Prospect. Unfortunately it is not posted freely online. It concludes:
Using the instrumentalities of power to keep enemies… Continue reading
NAACP LDF Expresses Voting Rights Act Concerns in Alabama Voter ID DMV Closure Case
Letter:
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”)1, on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, writes to raise our grave concerns regarding… Continue reading
“The sneaky new voter suppression tool in North Carolina, uncovered by one of our own”
Daily Kos:
North Carolina Republicans have been actively moving the goalposts—they’ve been moving polling places around like a crazed monkey on crack. They have been cutting numbers of polling places in some counties, increasing numbers in other counties. There… Continue reading
“Alabama, Birthplace of the Voting Rights Act, Is Once Again Gutting Voting Rights”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
“Voter ID: What Oregon gets right and Alabama gets wrong”
Kyle Whitmire at Al.com.
“Alabama Demands Voter ID–Then Closes Driver’s License Offices In Black Counties”
TPM:
What happens when a state with a tough voter ID law suddenly makes it much harder for minorities to get driver’s licenses? We are about to find out in Alabama.
Facing a budget crisis, Alabama has shuttered 31 driver’s… Continue reading