Category Archives: The Voting Wars

Iowa State Court Temporarily Enjoins Voting Restrictions and Rules as Violation of the State Constitution

July 25, 2018, 10:26 amabsentee ballots, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Read the order granting a preliminary injunction and a related order. The orders relate to signature matching requirements for absentee ballots, the time to cast such ballots, and voter id requirements.

New Brennan Center Report/Myrna Perez NYT Oped on Discriminatory Voter Purges

July 20, 2018, 2:15 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Myrna Perez NYT oped: In the past decade, attacks on the vote have been treacherous: discriminatory voter ID laws, cutbacks in early voting and other complications that emerged from bad laws or policies formulated weeks, months or even years before… Continue reading

Atlantic Poll Finds that Voters of Color Face Greater Barriers to Voting Than Whites

July 17, 2018, 8:06 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Atlantic: A new poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic has uncovered evidence of deep structural barriers to the ballot for black and Latino voters, specifically in the 2016 election. More than that, the survey… Continue reading

“How Justice Kennedy’s Successor Will Wreak Havoc on Voting Rights and American Democracy”

July 2, 2018, 11:34 amcampaign finance, Scalia, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement from the Supreme Court last week, was certainly the “swing justice” in key cases on major issues from abortion to gay rights. But when… Continue reading

“Texas won its redistricting fight at the Supreme Court. Now it hopes to use that win to wrap up its voter ID suit.”

June 27, 2018, 8:07 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas lawmakers did not intentionally discriminate when they signed off on congressional and state House maps in 2013, the state is looking to use that victory to wrap up… Continue reading

“Kobach Lost. What’s That Mean For Voting In Kansas?”

June 26, 2018, 10:13 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Celia Llopis-Jepsen reports for Kansas News Service.

How Appealing Roundup of Stories on Texas Redistricting Decision

June 25, 2018, 8:42 pmredistricting, residency, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find it here. You can also read my Slate piece on the decision, “Suppression of Minority Voting Rights Is About to Get Way Worse; The Supreme Court has put its thumb on the scales in favor of discriminatory … Continue reading

“Top Tech Companies Met With Intelligence Officials to Discuss Midterms”

June 25, 2018, 7:55 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: Eight of the tech industry’s most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials last month to discuss preparations for this year’s… Continue reading

“Suppression of Minority Voting Rights Is About to Get Way Worse; The Supreme Court has put its thumb on the scales in favor of discriminatory states.”

June 25, 2018, 11:23 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: On Monday, five years to the day that the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v. Holder, a case in which the court struck down a key provision of the Voting… Continue reading

“Is the right to vote a use-it-or-lose-it proposition?”

June 24, 2018, 4:15 pmNVRA (motor voter), Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Patt Morrison talks to Dan Tokaji about the Husted voter purge case.

Five Years After John Roberts Says Federal Supervision of Voting Rules No Longer Necessary in South, and 2 Years After 4th Circuit Said North Carolina Targeted African Americans “with Almost Surgical Precision”, NC Suppression is Back

June 23, 2018, 9:50 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Thwarted before, N.C. GOP wants photo ID mandate: North Carolina legislative Republicans on Thursday advanced their goal of permanently requiring voters to show photo identification — a proposal previously thwarted this decade by veto and federal judges who declared a… Continue reading

“Seven Ways Alabama Has Made It Harder to Vote: Five years ago, the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Since then, Alabama has enacted a slew of restrictive voting laws and policies.”

June 23, 2018, 9:40 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Ex-Trump Voter Fraud Commissioner Defends Misleading Reports In Court”

June 22, 2018, 3:11 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Tierney Sneed for TPM: Former Trump voter fraud commissioner J. Christian Adams was in a federal court in Virginia Friday to defend reports his group released in 2016 and 2017 alleging that thousands of non-citizens were illegally registered to vote… Continue reading

“If voter ID comes to NC, Apple and Amazon shouldn’t”

June 21, 2018, 3:31 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Rev. Barber and Rashad Robinson oped in The News & Observer: Apple and Amazon have a clear choice: they can stand by their stated values or they can stay the course of enabling the N.C. General Assembly as they re-enact… Continue reading