“The Voting Wars Come to Campus; Students face a growing maze of voting restrictions. Can they find their way through in time for 2020?”
Daniel Block for Washington Monthly.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Democrats, citing GOP-imposed voting restrictions, aim to flip secretary of state offices in five states”
WaPo:
The Democratic Association of Secretaries of State is launching an initiative to try to wrest control of those offices from Republicans, who the group claims have used their power to make it harder for certain demographics to vote.Buoyed… Continue reading
“Georgia voters challenge legality of new election system”
AP:
Georgia voters who want hand-marked paper ballots are challenging the new election system state officials are rushing to implement in time for next year’s presidential primaries, saying the new touchscreen machines remain vulnerable and their results unverifiable, even though… Continue reading
Texas: “Gov. Greg Abbott names new secretary of state months after botched voter roll review”
Texas Tribune:
After losing his last chief election officer over a botched review of the state’s voter rolls, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday appointed a new secretary of state: Ruth Ruggero Hughs.Ruggero Hughs is moving from the Texas Workforce… Continue reading
“Civil Rights Groups Sue Tennessee Over New Law That Puts Voter Registration Drives At Risk”
HuffPost:
Civil rights groups sued Tennessee on Thursday over a controversial new law that will subject voter registration groups to potential fines and criminal penalties, saying the measure is unconstitutional, vague and will intimidate people from helping others sign up… Continue reading
“Donald Trump touts voter ID laws as an issue in the 2020 election. Here’s why.”
USA Today reports.
Georgia Secretary of State’s Spokesperson Calls Judge Totenberg’s Conclusions About the Unconstitutionality of Georgia’s Voting Systems “Silly and Unfounded”
AP:
Totenberg cited a “mountain of voter testimony showing that these vulnerabilities have a tangible impact” on voters’ attempts to cast a ballot and have their vote counted.The plaintiffs provided statements from 137 Georgia voters, two county poll workers… Continue reading
“Stacey Abrams Will Not Run for President in 2020, Focusing Instead on Fighting Voter Suppression”
EAC Commissioner Christy McCormick Gives Presentation Arguing Against Automatic Voter Registration, Suggesting It Violates the 1st Amendment and Raises “Security Concerns” About People Registering to Vote
I understand that this presentation (backup version here) at NCSL raised some eyebrows.
In my view, there is no good First Amendment argument against automatic voter registration, because any voter can choose not to register if they desire. This… Continue reading
“Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote”
Jelani Cobb in the New Yorker.
Now Available: Revised Draft of My Paper, Deep Fakes, Bots, and Siloed Justices: American Election Law in a Post-Truth World
This new draft has a much more extensive discussion of First Amendment issues related to the regulation of deep fakes:
Deep Fakes, Bots, and Siloed Justices: American Election Law in a Post-Truth World
This Essay forms the basis for the… Continue reading
8th Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Holds District Court Erred in Granting Preliminary Injunction Barring Parts of North Dakota Voter ID Law That Affected Native American Voters; Leaves Open Room for As-Applied Challenge on Remand
Here is the appellate opinion in Brakebill v. Jaeger.
“2020 election: Dems man up for recount; GOP looks to boost voter ranks”
Parking as pretext?
ThinkProgress
on the challenged Florida law requiring sufficient parking for early voting
sites, and its impact on college voters.