“Vote Suppressors At It Again: A Response to Hans van Spakovsky”
Gerry Hebert and Josh Bone blog.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“40,000 Voter Registrations Have Gone Missing in Georgia, and They’re Probably Lost Forever”
TNR reports.
If this turns out to be correct it is a BFD. Not because I suspect a nefarious scheme to ditch these registrations, but rather because once again election administration incompetence will effectively disenfranchise people.
“Colorado Mail-In Voting Gets Early Test; New Statewide System Will Be Used on Closely Watched Races”
Dan Frosch for WSJ:
A new election system using only mail-in ballots faces an immediate test in Colorado, with tight Senate, House and gubernatorial races that are being closely watched nationally.
Hoping to boost turnout, the Democrat-led legislature here passed… Continue reading
Must-Read of the Day
Joey Fishkin on voting rights and Texas’s voter id law.
Is the Interstate “Cross Check” Program Wrongly Disenfranchising Thousands of Voters?
That’s the claim made by Greg Palast in this extensive Al Jazeera report. I have hesitated to link to this report, because in my experience dealing with Palast’s work on Florida 2000 for my book, The Voting Wars, I… Continue reading
Richard Epstein Podcast on Voting Rights and 2014 Elections
“What’s Ahead in Texas Voter ID Battle”
Tim Eaton for the Austin-American Statesman:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott won the most recent round in the fight to require voters to show valid photo identification to cast ballots, but a potentially much bigger fight looms beyond Tuesday.
Abbott’s… Continue reading
“5 myths about voter fraud, early voting”
“Amicus: Ballot-Box Special; Dahlia Lithwick unpacks some of the voting problems we’ll hear about in the final days of election season.”
This week on Amicus: a pre-election special. Dahlia sits down with University of California–Irvine law professor Rick Hasen, founder of the Election Law Blog, to survey the landscape of state voter ID laws. They consider the effect of… Continue reading
Voter Suppression Backlash: “Activists Against Voter Restrictions May Be Hindering Their Legal Case”
More Pam Fessler on backlash:
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Here’s an irony of this fall’s election. New voter ID laws and other restrictions are in effect.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Critics say the laws are meant to suppress voter turnout among minorities… Continue reading
“Voting rules, from photo ID to provisional ballots”
“Record-breaking ‘Souls to Polls’ turnouts Sunday in South Florida”
“Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections? A reply to our critics.”
Jesse Richman and Dave Earnest:
Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections? Our blog post and article on non-citizen voting have reached a wide audience, and have motivated several efforts to dispute our methods and conclusions. Although the criticisms of… Continue reading
Senator Rand Paul: Shhh About Voter ID!
Think Progress; “I’m not really opposed to [voter ID laws]. I am opposed to it as a campaign theme,” Paul told CBS’ Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer. “Republicans, if you want to get African American votes, they think… Continue reading