Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Who’s driving North Carolina’s latest voter fraud hysteria?”
This item appears at Facing South. #Kobach
“The Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act. What Happened Next in These 8 States Will Not Shock You.”
Great headline on this Mother Jones piece.
“Mississippi Has the Worst Elections”
WonkWire on the Pew Report.
So now we’ll get a chance to see if those at the bottom try to improve on the measures set by Pew, as Heather Gerken postulated in her book, The Democracy Index.
I explained… Continue reading
Breaking: Democratic Nominees to EAC Clear Senate Rules Committee
Does this mean that Dems have lined up the votes on their side (no filibuster for these votes, remember) to get these nominations through?
Press release:
SCHUMER ANNOUNCES ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION NOMINEES THOMAS HICKS AND MYRNA PÉREZ CLEAR SENATE RULES… Continue reading
“Deja Vu: Ohio Fighting About Absentee Ballots – Again”
“Miss. preparing to use new voter ID law”
“Blacks and Early Voting, in Ohio and Wisconsin”
NYT letter to the editor from NAACP Ohio and Wisconsin leaders.
How Low Will Dick Morris Go?
This low.
Didn’t realize he was a member of the fraudulent fraud squad.
“Stay issued on subpoenas in NC election law case “
“How to reverse a supreme court attack on democracy: fight for voting rights; John Roberts’ wrecking ball got you mad as hell? Don’t take his court’s electoral destruction for granted anymore”
I have written this piece for The Guardian. It begins:
Many Americans, especially on the left, are up in arms about the US supreme court’s decision last week in McCutcheon v FEC, which further deregulates campaign financing. Now the… Continue reading
A Loss for O’Keefe
AP:
A state district judge has thrown out a complaint filed against the Democratic outreach group Battleground Texas that was based on a conservative filmmaker’s video, a special prosecutor said Monday.
Special prosecutor John Economidy, a Republican, told The… Continue reading
“Texas Legislators Forced To Turn Over Emails In Voter ID Lawsuit”
Ryan Reilly reports for HuffPo.