Category Archives: The Voting Wars

While NC Tells #SCOTUS Not Too Late to Implement Voter ID This Election, It Has Stopped Educating Voters About It

August 16, 2016, 7:31 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

News and Observer: State and county election officials are already adjusting their plans to comply with the 4th Circuit ruling. Several county election boards have adopted new schedules for early voting; the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections held a meeting… Continue reading

“Mecklenburg elections board cuts hours for early voting”

August 16, 2016, 7:29 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Why is North Carolina afraid of black people voting? Despite pleas not to curtail early voting, Mecklenburg County elections officials voted Monday to cut the overall number of hours from the 2012 election by 238, even while opening as many… Continue reading

“How this bit of nasty N.J. history may foil Trump’s vow to stop ‘rigged election'”

August 16, 2016, 7:26 amchicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Must-read Jonathan Salant on RNC consent decree: The Republican National Committee has been under court-imposed limits since New Jersey’s 1981 gubernatorial election. During the campaign, state GOP officials sent letters to residents of communities with large numbers of black or… Continue reading

“Voting-Rights Advocates Keep Scoring Major Victories, But the Fight Isn’t Over Yet”

August 16, 2016, 7:24 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Edwin Rios for Mother Jones.

“Is North Carolina Trying To Lose One Of The Biggest Voting Rights Cases In The Nation?”

August 15, 2016, 10:07 pmSupreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Ian Millhiser for Think Progress. Millhiser: “The whole brief is written to piss off liberals. Opening with Crawford & Shelby County? Why not Lochner & Korematsu!” Farias: This from North Carolina to #SCOTUS strikes me as rather … odd:… Continue reading

“North Carolina Took 17 Days to Ask Supreme Court to Rescue Its Voter ID Law”

August 15, 2016, 8:34 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Cristian Farias for HuffPo.

“North Carolina appeals voter ID ruling to the Supreme Court”

August 15, 2016, 7:59 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Ariane de Vogue reports for CNN.

Breaking: North Carolina Files Emergency #SCOTUS Stay Request in Voting Case

August 15, 2016, 2:50 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A full 17 days after the 4th Circuit held that challenged provisions of North Carolina’s voting law had to be blocked because they were passed with a racially discriminatory purpose, the state of North Carolina has filed this petition asking… Continue reading

“Bloomberg Law Brief: Wisconsin Voter ID Law “

August 15, 2016, 7:39 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Bloomberg Law program with June Grasso: Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia University Law School, and Rick Hasen, professor at University of California Irvine School of Law and founder of the Election Law Blog discuss an appeals court decision, which… Continue reading

Trump’s Lawyer Don McGahn, Republican Lawyers’ Group, Plotting “Election Observer” Strategy

August 15, 2016, 6:52 amcampaigns, chicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Weigel: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is asking supporters to become election monitors, warning voters Friday night that “cheating” might rob him of a win. At the same time, outside groups are readying to help the campaign watch the polls.… Continue reading

Revised Version of My Piece on Judicial Softening of Voter ID Laws in Theory and Practice Now Posted on SSRN

August 12, 2016, 3:21 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

This piece, forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review Forward, is now updated to discuss recent softening attempts in WI, NC, and TX. Here is the abstract: Headlines about voter identification laws often place court rulings in a simple win… Continue reading

“Redistricting, Voter ID Laws, Early Voting, And The Post-Shelby World”

August 12, 2016, 3:17 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Above the Law’s Joe Patrice has a new podcast episode: First, Ben Griffith of the Griffith Law Firm in Oxford, Mississippi and Robert Heath ofBickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta discussed election law in the context of the new book… Continue reading

Close of Business Friday, and No NC “Emergency” SCOTUS Petition in Voting Case: Why?

August 12, 2016, 2:58 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

And now the Purcell Principle works against the state of North Carolina, which has been living with, and preparing to implement, the 4th Circuit North Carolina ruling for two full weeks. A stay imposed by the Supreme Court at this… Continue reading

Breaking: WI Files Emergency Stay in Second Voting Case

August 12, 2016, 2:48 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Although WI tried to spin yesterday’s loss as a win, now they’ve gone to the 7th Circuit with this emergency motion. The state wants 7 election rollbacks the trial court found illegal to be reinstated before the election, and… Continue reading