Category Archives: The Voting Wars

Texas: “Deal to end lawsuits over voter purge program almost done”

April 2, 2019, 7:09 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

San Antonio Express News: The state of Texas is set to end a program to purge voters it claimed were noncitizens in order to settle lawsuits brought by civil rights groups over the botched plan.A deal was about “99… Continue reading

“How Trump Could Lose the Election and Remain President”

April 1, 2019, 8:05 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Daniel Block in Washington Monthly.

“Why This Voting Expert Is Really Optimistic About The Future Of Voting Rights”

March 29, 2019, 1:28 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

HuffPost: At a moment when the national conversation about voting rights is wrapped up in brutal partisan warfare, Josh Douglas, a law professor at the University of Kentucky who focuses on election law, sees hope. For Douglas, that optimism… Continue reading

“U.S. House committee investigating Texas voter roll review”

March 28, 2019, 12:13 pmThe Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: The U.S. House’s main investigative committee has opened an inquiry into the Texas secretary of state’s review of the voter rolls for supposed noncitizens.In letters sent to top Texas officials on Thursday, U.S. Reps. Elijah Cummings, the… Continue reading

“Judge Suggests Partial Way Out Of Lawsuit Over ‘Flawed’ Texas Voter Fraud List”

March 27, 2019, 8:50 pmThe Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

Tierney Sneed reports for TPM.

Proportionality and the Oral Arguments — Part II

March 27, 2019, 9:10 ampolitical parties, redistricting, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsJustin Levitt

Yesterday, Nick offered some thoughts on the arguments in the Rucho and Benisek partisan gerrymandering cases, and several Justices’ fixation on whether all of this litigation is just a Trojan horse for achieving proportional representation. Nick’s post highlights the fact… Continue reading

“Civil Rights Groups Call ‘Election Integrity’ Bill a ‘Dangerous New Assault on Voting Rights in Texas’”

March 21, 2019, 1:01 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Texas Observer: A coalition of civil rights groups is warning that a new GOP bill winding its way through the Texas Legislature imposes substantial and unnecessary burdens on voters.Among other provisions, Senate Bill 9, an omnibus “election integrity” bill… Continue reading

Video of Symposium: “Barriers at the Ballot Box: Protecting or Limiting the Core of the American Identity?”

March 21, 2019, 8:11 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Video of this recent symposium at the University of Memphis is now available. UPDATE: You can find the breakdown of the symposium videos by panel here.

Tenth Circuit Panel in Oral Argument in Fish v. Schwab (was: Fish v. Kobach) Seems Skeptical of Kansas’s Attempt to Reverse District Court’s Block of Kansas’s Documentary Proof of Citizenship Law

March 18, 2019, 5:12 pmelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

You can listen to the oral argument here. With the caveat that one never knows how to read oral argument, and judges can change their minds before issuing an opinion, here are some thoughts: The judges seemed to believe… Continue reading

“Kansas hopes to resurrect proof-of-citizenship voting law championed by Kobach”

March 18, 2019, 8:21 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

AP: A federal appeals court will hear arguments Monday over the constitutionality of a struck-down Kansas law that required people to provide documents proving their U.S. citizenship before they could register to vote.In a case with national implications for… Continue reading

About Those Supposed 58,000 Noncitizen Voters in Texas? So Far 14 Registrations Were Cancelled, and Some of Those May Be Citizens

March 18, 2019, 7:46 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: Fourteen Texas voters caught up in the secretary of state’s botched review of the voter rolls for supposed noncitizens had their registrations canceled but have since been reinstated, state officials told a federal judge Friday.The Texas Attorney… Continue reading

New Documentary on Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering, “Rigged,” Now Available for Preorder on iTunes (Available April 2)

March 17, 2019, 6:01 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

This is worth watching, and is well done, even though I don’t agree with everything in it. They’ve got some interviews with the major players. I’ve talked to the producers about this project over the last few years (and… Continue reading

North Carolina: “No voter ID approval for 12 UNC campuses, including Chapel Hill”

March 16, 2019, 10:56 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

WRAL: Student IDs from a dozen University of North Carolina schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill, didn’t get the signoff they needed Friday for students to use them at the polls during the 2020 elections.With a deadline in state law passing,… Continue reading

“Election Law and White Identity Politics”

March 14, 2019, 7:36 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Joshua Sellers has posted this draft on SSRN (Fordham Law Review). Here is the abstract: The role of race in American politics looms large in several election law doctrines. Regretfully, though, these doctrines’ analyses of race, racial identity, and… Continue reading