Category Archives: The Voting Wars
What’s Up With the Texas Voter ID Case?
Back on September 22, when the federal district court in Corpus Christi heard closing arguments in the case arguing that Texas’s strict voter id law violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause and the Voting Rights Act’s section 2, I wrote… Continue reading
Breaking: WI Voter ID Challengers File New Stay Request at #SCOTUS
This new request from the challengers to Wisconsin’s voter id law seeks a stay of the judgment on the merits issued by the 7th Circuit while the first stay request was pending before the Supreme Court. (Here is my analysis… Continue reading
GAO Report on Voter ID Laws Finds Laws Can Decrease Voter Turnout, Finds Measuring In Person Voter Fraud Difficult
From the summary of the report, Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws:
What GAO Found
The studies GAO reviewed on voter ownership of certain forms of identification
(ID) documents show that most registered voters in the states that… Continue reading
Texas Appeals Court Sides with Texas Democrats Over King Street Patriots in Campaign Finance Case
You can read the 30 page opinion at this link.
King Street Patriots engages in “poll watching” and other activities and has leadership overlapping with True the Vote.
“NC says it’s making plans to comply with voter law”
WRAL:
North Carolina is moving ahead with plans to comply with an appeals court ruling that restores same-day registration and counting out-of-precinct ballots for the fall election, a state attorney told a federal judge Tuesday.
But members of civil… Continue reading
NC Files Follow Up #SCOTUS Letter on Today’s Voting Hearing in District Court
Following up on this post, North Carolina has filed this letter with the Supreme Court. As anticipated, it has a much different take on what happened today in the trial court over the question of how onerous it would… Continue reading
The 7th Circuit denominator
No time like the present to start “easing in,” I guess.
Others have already said quite a bit about yesterday’s 7th Circuit voter ID decision. I’ve written many times about the ID-on-a-plane fallacy (it’s both irrelevant and wrong), about… Continue reading
No North Carolina Ruling from #SCOTUS Yet: What Does It Mean?
It is the end of the work day on the East Coast, and the day has come and gone with no order from the Supreme Court on North Carolina’s request to stop the 4th Circuit’s order requiring the restoration of… Continue reading
Read Wisconsin’s #SCOTUS Argument to Use Its New Voter ID Law This Election
Here (via Josh Gerstein). The brief is pretty much in line with what Wisconsin filed in the 7th Circuit (although of course now it has the benefit of the Easterbrook opinion on the merits). It continues to lead with its… Continue reading
“Courts Weigh in on Either Side of Voting Restrictions”
Important Trip Gabriel piece for the NYT on the latest flareup of the voting wars.
“Court upholds Wisconsin voter ID law as SCOTUS mulls case”
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC.
Voting Cases on Today’s #SCOTUS Agenda
I expect an order from the Chief Justice (or more likely, the entire Supreme Court) today in North Carolina’s attempt to reverse a 4th Circuit ruling restoring same day voter registration and out-of-state voting in the state for this… Continue reading