Category Archives: The Voting Wars

North Carolina: “No voter ID approval for 12 UNC campuses, including Chapel Hill”

March 16, 2019, 10:56 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

WRAL: Student IDs from a dozen University of North Carolina schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill, didn’t get the signoff they needed Friday for students to use them at the polls during the 2020 elections.With a deadline in state law passing,… Continue reading

“Election Law and White Identity Politics”

March 14, 2019, 7:36 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Joshua Sellers has posted this draft on SSRN (Fordham Law Review). Here is the abstract: The role of race in American politics looms large in several election law doctrines. Regretfully, though, these doctrines’ analyses of race, racial identity, and… Continue reading

“Bipartisan Support for Popular Political Reform Evaporates in Congress”

March 14, 2019, 7:33 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Kevin Johnson: Of course Democrats shouldn’t be criticized for their high profile embrace of reform, nor blamed for the fact that, as Rick Hasen states it, “fundamental changes” are needed “in the platform and electoral strategy of the Republican Party”… Continue reading

“A Donald Trump coup if he loses in 2020? With all the norms he’s busted, don’t rule it out”

March 14, 2019, 9:12 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

USA Today oped by Jerry Goldfeder and Lincoln Mitchell.

Andrew Cohen on Republicans’ Response to H.R. 1: “When a Bill to Revive Democracy Is Called an Ode to Socialism”

March 14, 2019, 8:12 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Read it here.

“Crenshaw falsely says HR1 would legalize the type of election fraud found in NC”

March 14, 2019, 8:00 amabsentee ballots, chicanery, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politifact North Carolina reports.

Iowa Looks to Make It Harder for Students and Others to Vote (for Apparently No Good Reason)

March 11, 2019, 4:56 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Des Moines Register: Students at Iowa’s public universities would not be allowed to vote early on campus under a wide-ranging election bill that advanced in the Iowa Senate this week.The expansive measure would also make changes to other state election… Continue reading

“How Tea Partiers Fueled Texas’ Latest ‘Voter Fraud’ Freakout”

March 10, 2019, 7:31 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Interesting Texas Observer piece.

“Exaggerating Voting Issues May Juice A Base — But It Also ‘Undermines Our Democracy”

March 10, 2019, 7:26 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Pam Fessler reports for NPR.

“Only One Roadblock on the Road to Reform: Mitch McConnell”

March 9, 2019, 11:20 amcampaign finance, election administration, Elections Clause, Fixing Election Administration, legislation and legislatures, redistricting, The Voting Wars, voter registrationJustin Levitt

The NY Times Editorial Board calls HR 1 the “Merrick Garland of reform legislation.”

“House votes in favor of illegal immigrant voting”

March 8, 2019, 11:13 amThe Voting WarsJustin Levitt

Well, that’s the Washington Times headline. But no, no they didn’t. They turned back an attempt to add a nonbinding (and likely unconstitutional) resolution (here’s a version of the text in last year’s Congress).

“Second Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Census Citizenship Question Plans”

March 6, 2019, 3:09 pmchicanery, redistricting, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsJustin Levitt

Big (and voluminous) news from California: in a 126-page opinion, Judge Seeborg has enjoined the inclusion of a question regarding citizenship on the 2020 census. The decision follows on Judge Furman’s opinion out of New York, but is more… Continue reading