Category Archives: The Voting Wars
Elections Matter Dep’t: Michigan Withdraws Support for Kansas in Documentary Proof of Citizenship Case
Michigan withdrew its support of amicus brief in Fish v. Schwab (formerly, Fish v. Kobach) supporting Kansas’s position that the risk of noncitizen voting justifies a documentary proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration. The withdrawal cites the change in… Continue reading
Federal District Court Will Hear Motion for Preliminary Injunction on Feb. 19 from CLC and LULAC in Texas Voter Purge Case
Motion here.
See also this declaration of Bruce J. Elfant, the elections administrator of Travis County. Elfant says that Travis County is in the midst of a review of voter registration records on Friday and determined that approximately 29%… Continue reading
“Specious claims dog Pennsylvania’s noncitizen voter search”
AP:
Two Pennsylvania state lawmakers are making a disputed claim in a long-running, and possibly futile, effort by elections officials to determine how many non-U.S. citizens had registered to vote over the years.On Tuesday, the lawmakers, Republican state Reps.… Continue reading
“Voting Rights and Wrongs:” Watch Kathay Feng, Justin Levitt Michael Morley, Franita Tolson Discuss Voting and Gerrymandering Issues with Me at the Hammer Museum
You can watch this great conversation here.
Voting Rights and Wrongs: Hammer Museum, Jan. 31, 2019
“Civil rights group sues Texas over order to investigate potential noncitizen voters with flawed data”
Dallas Morning News:
A civil rights group has sued the state of Texas for advising counties to review the citizenship of tens of thousands of eligible voters in the state with flawed data, claiming it violates the voting rights of… Continue reading
“To Fight Democrats’ First Bill, GOP Calls in Discredited Advocates of Voter Suppression”
Ari Berman reports for Mother Jones.
“Republicans Rewrote Voting Laws for 8 Years. Now Democrats Say It’s Their Turn.”
Michael Wines for the NYT.
Today’s Must-Read from Alexa Ura: “‘Someone did not do their due diligence.’ How an attempt to review Texas’ voter rolls turned into a debacle”
Texas should have (and likely did) know better. Great reporting from Alexa Ura of the Texas Tribune.
“Mitch McConnell Calls Push to Make Election Day a Holiday a Democratic ‘Power Grab’”
“What’s Mitch McConnell so afraid of?”
Josh Douglas for CNN Opinion:
As a professor of election law and voting rights at the University of Kentucky College of Law — your state’s flagship institution and your alma mater — I invite you to come sit in on… Continue reading
“Stacey Abrams to Take to Georgia Airwaves During Super Bowl”
AP reports.
Stacey Abrams is taking her voting rights campaign to the airwaves in her home state during the Super Bowl.
LULAC Sues Texas Under Voting Rights Act for Directive About SOS Letter on Supposed Non-Citizen “Voter Fraud;” More Lawsuits May Be Coming
You can find the complaint here. Here is an earlier Texas Tribune story, suggesting there may be more lawsuits coming.
“Judiciary Hearing on Democrats’ Election Bill Turns Into Partisan Brawl”
NYT reports.
It says something about the Republicans’ views of election administration reform and improvement that they put up von Spakovsky and Adams as witnesses rather than credible Republican voices who have been working hard for sensible election reform. These… Continue reading