“Donald Trump touts voter ID laws as an issue in the 2020 election. Here’s why.”
USA Today reports.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
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.
“New Normal: Bloodlust on the Left in Census and Election Fights”
Wherein
J. Christian Adams rails against “personal destruction” and “demonization,” and
compares Kris Kobach (or, possibly, himself) to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
“House votes to hold Barr and Ross in criminal contempt of Congress”
Microsoft and election security
NBC
reports on two Microsoft announcements, summarized in this
blog post.
The headline is that Microsoft is giving away free, open
source ElectionGuard software to election machine suppliers. According to the site, it apparently “enables”
voting using a touchscreen… Continue reading
Trial begins in party ballot position case
Trial
has started up in Florida over the law automatically placing candidates of
the governor’s party in the first position of the ballot. I’ve been watching this case pretty closely;
it’s a really interesting test of the prevailing constitutional doctrine… Continue reading
Citizenship and the Census: representation is not the same as voting
As Michael Li explains, on All
Things Considered.