Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Will Texas Get Away With Discriminating Against Voters?”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
“Sky-high stakes in Texas voter ID trial”
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC.
True The Vote Suffers Major Loss in #MSSEN Case
Lost in the beginning of the Labor Day weekend and the ruling against Sen. McDaniel’s election challenge against Thad Cochran was a 90-page ruling issued in True the Vote v. Hosemann. TTV lost just about every issue it raised, although… Continue reading
“Raising bars to legitimate voters is election irregularity”
Roger Chesley column:
Fairfax County election officials have asked local, state and federal authorities to investigate whether 17 people may have voted twice in the 2012 general election – once in the county, and again in Maryland.
Such allegations… Continue reading
“Getting Ferguson Majority to Show Its Clout at Polls”
Monica Davey writes this must-read NYT report on African-American voter turnout in Ferguson and the larger voting wars in Missouri.
NAACP, Others Appealing Denial of North Carolina Preliminary Injunction to 4th Circuit
I missed this news from last week.
“Texas Voter ID Law Goes to Trial”
Pam Fessler reports for NPR.
“Fairfax officials say some people may have crossed Va.-Md. line to vote twice in 2012”
WaPo: “Tens of thousands of voters were registered to cast ballots in both Virginia and Maryland during the 2012 presidential election — and more than 150 appear to have voted twice, an advocacy group claims…Some Democrats were more skeptical,… Continue reading
“Why internet voting is a very dangerous idea”
Marc Ambinder is so right.
“Protecting Political Participation Through the Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I”
Franita Tolson has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Boston College Law Review). Here is the abtract:
The Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution makes federal voting rights dependent upon participation in state elections.… Continue reading
“Constitution Check: Who decides who gets to vote?”
Lyle Denniston on Kobach v. EAC.
More on Texas’s Argument DOJ Too Partisan to Enforce Voting Rights Act
In an earlier post, I noted this filing of the state of Texas in the voter id case (particularly pages 13-23), raising an affirmative defense to DOJ’s claims that Texas’s voter id law violates section 2 of the Voting Rights… Continue reading
“Bloomberg Law: Suit Over Voter ID Law Expedited (Audio)”
Podcast:
Professor Daniel Tokaji, an elections law expert at the University of Ohio Moritz College of Law, discusses a lawsuit filed by Kansas and Arizona seeking to force federal election officials to impose proof-of-citizenship requirements on national voter registration… Continue reading