“North Carolina GOP Out to Limit Crucial Early Voting Period”
Zack Roth for NBC News.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Supreme Court is About to Get a Good Look at How North Carolina Messes with Its Voting Rules”
Cristian Farias for HuffPo.
“Woodhouse’s gaffe exposes real aim of NC voting law”
News & Observer Editorial:
Well, you have to give him this: Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, didn’t try to be clever or subtle when he sent an email to GOP members of county boards of… Continue reading
“Early voting to start in September”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Voters in the state’s liberal strongholds will be able to start early voting a month before what would have been allowed under a law that was recently struck down.
Voters in Milwaukee and Madison may also be able… Continue reading
“Our view: McCrory should drop election-law appeal”
Winston Salem-Journal editorial:
Gov. Pat McCrory has every right to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision regarding the legislature’s discriminatory election law, as he did Monday, But he should drop his unwise… Continue reading
“Have North Carolina Republicans Found a Way to Reinstate Discriminatory Voting Rules?”
David Graham for the Atlantic. My alternate headline:
Have North Carolina Republicans Found a Way to Reinstate Federal Oversight of Their Voting Rules?
“How to Beat Extremism”
William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove in The Hill:
When the federal appeals court in the capital of the former Confederacy struck down America’s most discriminatory voter suppression law, the judges noted that the bill passed by North Carolina’s 2013… Continue reading
“The Courts Begin to Call Out Lawmakers”
Must-read Linda Greenhouse in NYT on courts reining in Republican legislature’s overreach:
But something has happened this summer that matters. Legislators, perhaps assuming they had friends in high judicial places, had taken bold, even flagrant steps to suppress the… Continue reading
“Voting Rights Success? Not So Fast”
Important Deuel Ross NYT oped:
In Texas, Michigan, North Carolina and elsewhere, federal courts in recent months have struck down one discriminatory voting law after another in a series of major victories for voting-rights advocates. Millions of… Continue reading
“Courts Still Sorting Out Voting Rules as Election Looms”
Bloomberg BNA:
North Carolina asked the U.S. Supreme Court Aug. 15 to reinstate its voter identification law, which was struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last month (North Carolina v. N.C. State Conf. … Continue reading
“Smoking Gun Memo Reveals GOP Voter Fraud Bamboozlement In North Carolina”
Tierney Sneed for TPM.
“NC Republican Party seeks ‘party line changes’ to limit early voting hours”
News and Observer:
Woodhouse outlines several priorities for developing new early voting schedules:
Fewer early voting opportunities: Woodhouse suggests limiting early voting hours because the sites allow voters to use same-day registration – a practice the voter ID law sought… Continue reading
6th Circuit Denies Stay in MI Straight-Ticket Voting Case; MI to Go En Banc
Josh Gerstein:
Procedures allowing Michigan voters to easily cast straight-ticket ballots look likely to remain in place for this fall’s election after a federal appeals court refused to restore a law that would have ended the practice.
A three-judge… Continue reading
Trump is Threatening to Rig the Election
My definition of election rigging in my LAT oped:
An election is rigged when eligible voters are prevented from voting, when some voters can vote multiple times, when ineligible voters are allowed to vote, or when vote totals are… Continue reading