Judicial Watch Brings Out Big Guns in North Carolina Voting Challenge
Former DOJ voting section lawyers Robert Popper and Chris Coates are leading a team trying to intervene against DOJ in the North Carolina Voting Rights Act lawsuit.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
Justin Levitt: Don’t Ignore Bush v. Gore Bar Mitzvah
Here, at Pacific Standard.
“Jim Crow 2.0? Why States Consider and Adopt Restrictive Voter Access Policies”
Keith G. Bentele and Erin E. O’Brien have written this draft [corrected link]for Perspectives on Politics. Here is the abstract:
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in state legislation likely to reduce access for some voters, including photo identification… Continue reading
#VAAG: “Report of the Fairfax County Electoral Board on Issues Surrounding the Counting of Absentee and Provisional Ballots in the November 5, 2013 General Election”
“Challengers of new NC voting regulations want 2014 trial; state officials push for delay”
News & Observer:
Parties who are a gulf apart over what laws should be in place to ensure fair and open elections are just as widely divided about how quickly a lawsuit challenging new voter laws should be heard… Continue reading
“Bill targets voting discrepancies”
Cincinnati Enquirer:
Ohio would cross-reference voter addresses with other state databases to try to clean up discrepancies under a voting bill that’s likely to pass the General Assembly on Wednesday.The legislation is part of a collection of Republican-sponsored bills that… Continue reading
Chapin on Issacharoff and Overton on Voting Rights Disclosure
“The Year in Preview: Post-Preclearance Voter Protection”
Abby Rapoport writes for TAP.
“In Arkansas, Face Off Over New Voter ID Law”
This item appears at State of Elections (h/t Doug Chapin).
Jeffrey Toobin Sees Voting Rights as 1 of Top 7 Legal Stories in 2014
See here. I am writing something a bit more expanded along similar lines.
Voting Rights Disclosure
In my Harvard Law Review Forum piece Voting Rights Disclosure, I articulate my differences with NYU Professor Sam Issacharoff’s “non-civil rights” approach to voting rights (abstract below), and I propose detailed disclosure of voting changes for federal, state, and… Continue reading
#VAAG: “Obenshain lawyer raises possible contest in General Assembly”
Times Dispatch: “The lawyer representing Republican Mark D. Obenshain in the pending statewide recount in the attorney general race on Monday for the first time openly raised the issue of contesting the election in the General Assembly if the… Continue reading