Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Courts should halt Kobach’s bid to abuse voters’ rights in Kansas”
GAB RIP
Patrick Marley:
Assembly Republicans on Monday sent Gov. Scott Walker a bill rewriting campaign finance laws and were poised to approve one replacing the state’s ethics and elections board with two new commissions.
The measure eliminating the Government Accountability… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Assembly to vote on GAB, campaign finance bills Monday”
“Peter Cannon: Let veterans vote with VA card”
Wisconsin State Journal oped:
Today is Veterans Day, and Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin will no doubt be thanking us for our service and telling us how important we are and how much they honor us.
But their words ring… Continue reading
“Kris Kobach’s office registers two suspended voters, files motion to dismiss lawsuit”
Wichita Eagle:
Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office has registered two suspended voters suing him in federal court and now argues that the case should now be thrown out.
Kobach faces a lawsuit from a pair of Douglas County residents,… Continue reading
“Judge criticizes proposed changes to GAB; Bill opens politics to corruption, he says”
Leader-Telegram:
After serving on Wisconsin’s nonpartisan elections board for 6½ years, retired judge Thomas Barland of Eau Claire was succinct and direct in summing up his disappointment with the state Senate’s vote early Saturday morning to abolish the panel.… Continue reading
“Christie Vetoes Measure to Expand Early Voting in New Jersey”
Bloomberg:
Republican Governor Chris Christie vetoed an overhaul of New Jersey’s voting procedures that Democrats and the League of Women Voters said would have increased turnout, according to Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto.
The measure, dubbed the “The Democracy Act,” would… Continue reading
“Democratic Group Called iVote Pushes Automatic Voter Registration”
NYT:
As Republicans across the country mount an aggressive effort to tighten voting laws, a group of former aides to President Obama and President Bill Clinton is pledging to counter by spending up to $10 million on a push to… Continue reading
“Will State Courts Fill a Void on Voting Rights?”
Josh Douglas writes for The Atlantic.
Quote of the Day: WI Shame Edition
“In my 20 years at Common Cause … it is the most abusive and disrespectful process I’ve ever witnessed…It’s almost like: ‘Too bad, public. Too bad, media. We’ve got the votes.'”‘
–Jay Heck, director of the group Common Cause in… Continue reading
“Republican leader says he has votes for elections board bill”
AP with the latest from Wisconsin.
WI: “Senate GOP reaches deal on campaign finance, elections oversight”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Making an apparent breakthrough, Republicans in the state Senate plan to modify legislation Friday that would overhaul campaign finance laws and the agency that runs elections.
That sets the stage for the measures to get to GOP… Continue reading