Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“The Amazing Disappearing Voter; Voter purges have become the right’s new voter suppression tool of choice.”
Eliza Newlin Carney deep dive for TPM.
“How Democrats Can Reverse Years of Voter Suppression. It doesn’t require packing the Supreme Court.”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Faced with the latest flurry of hardball Republican tactics on voting issues this election cycle, Democrats are grappling with the reality of an opposition that now seems determined to cement long-term … Continue reading
“Ahead Of The 2018 Election, Texas AG Ramps Up Voter Fraud Prosecutions”
NPR:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been charging a record number of people with committing voter fraud, an effort his critics decry as an intimidation campaign designed to discourage minority voters from casting ballots.
In 2018 alone, Paxton’s… Continue reading
I Talked with Dahlia Lithwick for Slate’s Amicus Podcast About the State of Voting Rights in the US
Listen:
Dahlia Lithwick talks with Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern about what to look out for this term, and with Rick Hasen, professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, about how free and fair… Continue reading
Kansas Voting Official Responds “LOL” to ACLU Request to Publicize Voter Help Line for Dodge City Voters
Wichita Eagle:
After the ACLU objected to Dodge City’s single, out-of-town polling place, the local official in charge of elections forwarded to the state an ACLU letter asking her to publicize a voter help line.
“LOL,” she wrote in an… Continue reading
“Is the Assault on Voting Rights Getting Worse, or Are We Just Noticing It More?”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump threatened prosecutions against nonexistent voter fraud, a message likely aimed at intimidating voters and stopping some from voting. With Trump’s heightened rhetoric and a seemingly… Continue reading
Is Texas Doing Enough to Promote Voter ID As It Promised to Do?
This looks like something good for a journalist to follow up on. A reader writes: “Texas apparently no longer interested in making voter ID available.I’ve been looking at Texas’s voter ID page (http://www.votetexas.gov/mobile/eic/index.htm) and noticed that, as of… Continue reading
“The Public Supports Election Officials, But Wants Them To Be Non-Partisan”
Paul Gronke:
We’ve been studying voter attitudes about the partisanship of election officials since 2008, and at least as far as the public is concerned, there’s really not much of an issue. Less than 1/5th of the public endorses… Continue reading
“Voter Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump”
Jelani Cobb for the New Yorker.
Kansas: “Iconic Dodge City moves its only polling place outside town”
AP:
Access to the ballot box in November will be more difficult for some people in Dodge City, where Hispanics now make up 60 percent of its population and have remade an iconic Wild West town that once was the… Continue reading
“A Look at Where North Dakota’s Voter ID Controversy Stands”
NYT:
Advocacy groups have been meeting with tribal leaders on all of North Dakota’s far-flung reservations, trying to figure out how to help voters get the addresses and identification they need through the process the state described. It’s a tall… Continue reading
“Georgia Voting Begins Amid Accusations of Voter Suppression”
NYT:
Wim Laven arrived to his polling location in Atlanta’s northern suburbs this week unsure what to make of recent allegations of voter difficulties at the ballot box. Then he waited two hours in the Georgia sun; saw one person… Continue reading
“Coalition of Civil Rights Groups Ask for Emergency Relief for Newly Naturalized Voters Suspended by Georgia’s Exact Match Process”
Release:
Today, a coalition of civil rights organizations filed an emergency motion in Georgia federal district court to make sure that persons inaccurately flagged as non-citizens under Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s flawed “exact match” system can vote. Kemp’s “exact… Continue reading