“Federal judge hits Wisconsin for voter ID problems”
Ariane de Vogue for CNN.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Who Gets to Vote?”
Beautifully done NYT Sunday Review piece by Alex Keyssar.
There is a also a related video, Supreme Court vs. American Voter. (Starts with a provocative Ed Blum quote)
Federal Court on Its Own Motion in WI Voter ID Case Orders WI to Say How It is Helping Voters Get IDs
Following a report by Ari Berman in the Nation and then Patrick Marley in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the federal district court judge ordered by the 7th Circuit to make sure that Wisconsin is making it easy for voters who… Continue reading
ACLU Files 7th Circuit Merits Brief in WI Voter ID Case, Pointing to DMV Incompetence to Help Voters Get IDs
“What Clinton and Trump Should Do After the Election”
Amy Davidson for the New Yorker:
As with so much of the ugliness during this election season, that line of thinking did not originate with Trump but with the Republican establishment, which has spent years pushing the myth of voter… Continue reading
Kobach, Living in FantasyLand, Calls ACLU’s Voting Rights Claims Against Him “Weak at Best”
I guess that’s why he’s lost 3-0 in this round of his attempt to make it harder to register and vote in Kansas. he’s lost 3-0 to them so far in this round of his trying to make it harder… Continue reading
“Did a federal judge accuse his colleagues of letting their ‘racist attitude’ control the outcome of a case?”
Jonathan Adler:
In an interview with Mark Joseph Stern of Slate, Senior Circuit Judge Damon Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit appears to accuse two of his colleagues of having “racist attitude[s].” Specifically, Keith… Continue reading
“Voting Rights and Voting Wrongs” Panel Audio from Texas Tribune Festival Now Available
Brian Rosenthal, Austin bureau reporter for the Houston Chronicle, moderated the “Voting Rights and Wrongs” panel featuring Richard Hasen, Todd Hunter, Celia Israel and Poncho Nevárez at The Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 24, 2016.
Listen.
True the Vote Fundraises Off Potential Illegal Voting by “Turkish Murderer”
“Wisconsin Is Systematically Failing to Provide the Photo IDs Required to Vote in November”
Ari Berman:
Nine percent of registered voters in Wisconsin don’t have a valid voter-ID and many are still struggling to get the documents they need to vote in November. It appears that Wisconsin is violating multiple court orders by not… Continue reading
“If Trump Disputes the Election, We Have No Good Way Out”
Ned Foley for Politico:
But this is not to say that American democracy is immune to allegations of ill-willed vote rigging. Even if Trump said in Monday’s debate that he would support Hillary Clinton “if she wins,” he and his… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
Would it be unseemly to suggest that only Justice Scalia’s death has preserved democracy in North Carolina?
There, I just did.
Linda Greenhouse, NYT, Pondering the Supreme Court’s Future
“If Your Vote Doesn’t Really Count, Is There Anything You Can Do?”
I did a Q & A with Toni Monkovic of NYT’s The UpShot on questions about vote buying, vote trading, student voting, and choosing to vote in a battleground state.
“Homeless coalitions appeal to entire federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in challenge to Ohio’s perfect-form requirements for absentee and provisional ballots”
Release:
Today, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, joined by the Ohio Democratic Party, plaintiffs in a voting-°©‐‑rights lawsuit Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and Ohio Attorney General Michael DeWine, sought to… Continue reading