“North Carolina elections take a risky turn”
Steve Ford discusses the NC legislature’s partisan transfer of the power to select the State Board of Elections from the governor to the state auditor.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Why stricter voting laws no longer help Republicans”
The Economist, making my point from yesterday.
“Why On-And-Off Voters Who Backed Trump May Be GOP’s Midterm Silver Bullet”
The Daily Caller calls out low-propensity Republican voters.
Given that restrictions on access to the ballot generally hit low-propensity voters harder, I’ve been wondering for a while whether the political incentives on election administration issues might be changing. (And that’s… Continue reading
“What the REAL ID delay tells us about implementing proof-of-citizenship laws”
That’s the subject line of this week’s Votebeat newsletter, covering a bunch of reporting from a bunch of states that it’s been less straightforward for people to get the right kind of ID than it might at first seem.
“The Disparate and Durable Effects of Mail Voting Restrictions: Evidence from Texas”
More from Texas. This is interesting research on 2021’s SB1, which (among other elements) required voters casting mail ballots to provide either their driver’s license or state ID number or their Social Security digits, both on mail ballot applications… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Elections Commission: Small communities don’t need permission to stop using voting machines”
From Wisconsin Public Radio:
The Wisconsin Elections Commission says small communities don’t need the state’s permission to stop using electronic voting machines, siding with a northwestern Wisconsin town that switched to hand-counted, paper ballots last year.
The WEC decision… Continue reading
“Trump administration begins cracking down on federal employees’ use of leave for voting”
From Government Executive:
With some key primary elections at the state level occurring in the coming weeks, the Trump administration has begun notifying employees they can no longer use paid administrative leave to vote.
The reminder, so far sent… Continue reading
“What Just Happened: The Trump Administration’s Dismissal of Voting Rights Lawsuits”
Hot off the presses at Just Security, Chiraag Bains — a former colleague at both DOJ and the White House — walks through in impressive detail the current Administration’s dismissal of “all salient pending cases” brought by the decimated… Continue reading
“Prove citizenship to vote? For some married women, it might not be so easy.”
WaPo:
Some Republican-led states are moving to require voters to prove their citizenship, as Texas advances a controversial measure that could make it harder for eligible voters to get on the rolls because of changed names, mislaid paperwork or database… Continue reading
“Democrats Won a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat. But They Lost Control Over the Board That Sets Election Rules.”
ProPublica:
Last week, North Carolina Democrats scored a victory when Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, who’d lost a tight race for the state’s Supreme Court, finally conceded defeat after a six-month legal battle to throw out ballots that he contended were… Continue reading
“What to know about push in Shasta County to override voter ID, election laws in California”
Record Searchlight:
A citizens group whose leaders have been at the forefront of unverified claims of local election fraud are leaning heavily on Shasta’s status as a charter county in their attempt to change its voting rules.
“Save Shasta Elections”… Continue reading
“The Endless Election Law War”
Jason Marisam has posted this draft on SSRN (Texas Law Review Online). Here is the abstract:
Since the 2000 presidential election, Republicans and Democrats have been locked in a seemingly endless war over our nation’s election laws, constantly proposing and… Continue reading
“Trump wants voters to prove citizenship. Arizona tried that and bungled it.”
WaPo:
For 30 years, no one questioned Danny Dobosz’s citizenship when the lifelong Republican cast his ballot.
So when a letter arrived from a local election official last month asking him to send back a copy of his birth… Continue reading
Historians Keyssar and Wilentz Put SAVE Act’s Proposed Disenfranchisement in Historical Perspective
Democracy Docket:
Voting-rights advocates and Democratic officials have already made clear the massive threat the SAVE Act poses to access to the ballot in the here and now, warning that it could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters. But in… Continue reading