Category Archives: The Voting Wars
AP Gets Newby-Kobach Correspondence
AP:
A Kansas county elections official used close ties to one of the nation’s leading advocates of voting restrictions to help secure the top job at a government agency entrusted with making voting more accessible, and then used the… Continue reading
“Arizona’s primary was an utter disaster. But was it just a big mistake, or something more nefarious?”
Amber Phillips for The Fix.
Texas Gets an Extra Week to File Its 5th Circuit En Banc Brief in Voter ID Case
Here is a link to the order.
“What if eight justices must decide election?”
Josh Douglas:
Nov. 9, the day after the election, and we do not yet know the winner of the presidential race. Worse still, the outcome will turn on a ballot-counting dispute in one state. A lawsuit is filed, and… Continue reading
Justice Thomas Asks Texas to Respond to Voter ID Emergency #SCOTUS Application
Docket. Response due April 11.
“West Virginia May Become 3rd Automatic Voter Signup State”
Very interesting in West Va:
A push to automatically sign up voters that began with new laws in Oregon and California will soon likely hit a third, notably less liberal state — West Virginia.
The proposed change has taken a… Continue reading
“Arizona’s Voting Problems Are More Complicated Than They Look”
Smart Tierney Sneed report for TPM.
“Arizona’s voting rights fire bell”
“Justice Department Voting Rights Unit Adapts After Supreme Court Ruling”
Carrie Johnson of NPR talks to Justin Levitt and others about voting issues at DOJ.
Group of Plaintiffs in Texas Voter ID Case Seeks Emergency Relief at #SCOTUS
Campaign Legal Center:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the U.S. Supreme Court to take immediate action in the Texas voter ID case so that voters will not be harmed by the law in the 2016 presidential election.… Continue reading
“Angry Arizona Voters Demand: Why Such Long Lines at Polling Sites?”
Fernanda Santos reports for the NYT:
All day, lines meandered along church courtyards, zigzagged along school parking lots and snaked around shadeless blocks as tens of thousands of voters waited to cast their ballots, including many independents who did not… Continue reading
“Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State Hasn’t Funded”
Yup, all those promises about how the state would reach to those voters lacking the right form of ID….
From the law establishing voter ID in Wisconsin
2011 Wis Act 23
Section 144 . Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) Public informational… Continue reading
My Thoughts on AZ Long Lines: Incompetence, Not Vote Suppression, and Blame #SCOTUS First
The other day, while voting was taking place in AZ, I had a post entitled Would Long Lines at AZ Polling Places Have Happened if #SCOTUS Hadn’t Killed Voting Rights Act Provision? My point was that Maricopa County’s decision to… Continue reading