“Courts Have Blocked Three Discriminatory Texas Voting Laws in Eight Days”
Ari Berman for Mother Jones.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
Federal Court, Reaffirming Racially Discriminatory Purpose of Texas Voter ID Law, Blocks Its Use Entirely in Future Elections
This 27-page opinion and order explains the basis for the trial court’s decision to hold that Texas’s voter identification law may not be enforced at all. It is an important ruling, but a more important one is yet to come… Continue reading
“Uncounted Kansas ballots fuel fears about Kobach’s proposals”
AP:
A conservative firebrand promoting President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud oversees a Kansas election system that threw out at least three times as many ballots as any similarly sized state did, fueling concerns about massive voter… Continue reading
“Democrats on Trump’s voting commission iced out since first meeting”
Kira Lerner for Think Progress:
Since the initial July 19th meeting, Kobach himself has been busy as commission co-chair. On July 26, he followed up his controversial letter requesting a massive amount of voter data from all 50 states —… Continue reading
“Brennan Center and Protect Democracy File Suit to Make ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission Records Public”
Release:
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and Protect Democracy filed a lawsuit today in federal court in New York to compel the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of Management… Continue reading
“Voter suppression is the civil rights issue of this era”
Important WaPo editorial:
Yet even if all 1,500 Confederate symbols across the country were removed overnight by some sudden supernatural force, the pernicious crusade to roll back voting rights would continue apace, with voters of color suffering its effects disproportionately.… Continue reading
“Trump Election Commissioners Are Resisting Efforts to Protect Elections From Hacking”
Pema Levy for Mother Jones:
Christy McCormick, a Republican commission member, said in a statement the next day that Russian interference was a hoax used by the federal government to gain access to state-run election systems. “This declassified report was… Continue reading
“Husted, Arizona Inter Tribal, and Lessons from the Constitutional Structure”
Franita Tolson:
Husted is, therefore, more than just a case about statutory interpretation. It also implicates the Constitution’s allocation of power to the states and the federal government under the Elections Clause. As both the Arizona and Ohio laws illustrate,… Continue reading
“Speech in America is fast, cheap and out of control”
I have written this oped for Sunday’s Los Angeles Times Opinion section. It begins:
The Internet and social media did not create white supremacist movements in the United States, such as the hate groups that rallied in Charlottesville, Va.,… Continue reading
Pippa Norris’s “Strengthening Electoral Integrity” Out In August
Looking forward to reading this last one of the trilogy. Book descriiption:
Today a general mood of pessimism surrounds Western efforts to strengthen elections and democracy abroad. If elections are often deeply flawed or even broken in many countries around… Continue reading
Marc Elias Interviewed on “Take Care” Podcast
“Charlottesville and the Problem of Donald Trump’s Constitution”
Bob Bauer, with a note on Pence-Kobach:
Trump has not limited himself to waging this war of exclusion on a merely rhetorical front. His Vice President is managing the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, a major initiative to root… Continue reading
If Pence-Kobach Voter Fraud Commission is Doing Any Substantive Work, It Would Be News to At Least One Democratic Commissioner
From this Think Progress piece on whether any commission members might leave the Commission given President Trump’s abhorrent comments calling some of the white supremacists marching in Charlottesville “very fine people,” is this discussion from Democratic commissioner David Dunn:
“I’ve… Continue reading