“Is the right to vote a use-it-or-lose-it proposition?”
Patt Morrison talks to Dan Tokaji about the Husted voter purge case.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
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
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.”
“Ex-Trump Voter Fraud Commissioner Defends Misleading Reports In Court”
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”
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
“Voter fraud much greater threat than election hacking, Missouri’s Jay Ashcroft says”
KC Star:
“While these are serious allegations, it is vitally important to understand that after two years of investigation there is no credible — and I can strike credible and just put evidence — there is no evidence that these… Continue reading
Kansas SOS Kobach Apparently Disobeying Court Order, At Least for Now
KSNT:
In the aftermath of a federal judge’s ruling yesterday voters may be confused about voter registration. The judge ruled it is unconstitutional for Secretary of State Kobach to make voters show proof of citizenship to register. However Secretary Kobach… Continue reading
Today’s Must-Read: “Native Americans’ right to vote is under attack”
Kira Lerner for Think Progress:
But with more voters casting ballots from their homes, Arizona is offering fewer opportunities for people to cast ballots in person. That’s a problem for Native Americans, who say they enjoy the communal aspects of… Continue reading
A Sign of the Changed 5th Circuit: Texas Voter ID Case Ends with No Petition for Rehearing En Banc from Voting Rights Plaintiffs
With no fanfare, the mandate issued from the 5th Circuit in the Texas voter ID case yesterday, ending the appeal. As I wrote back in April, the panel issued a “fundamentally disingenuous opinion” by Judge Edith Jones, which was… Continue reading
Today’s Must-Read: Jessica Huseman of ProPublica: “How the Case for Voter Fraud Was Tested — and Utterly Failed”
This is a very well done look at the first real court case testing the claims of the Fraudulent Fraud Squad, including von Spakovsky and Kobach.
Enjoy.
Breaking: Federal District Court Sides with ACLU over SOS Kris Kobach in Proof of Citizenship Voting Case
Given how things went at trial (Kobach got held in contempt at one point—though had the fine paid off with a government credit card), this is no surprise. In addition to injunctive and declaratory relief, “the Court imposes sanctions responsive… Continue reading
“You have the right to vote. Use it or lose it, the Supreme Court says.”
Chiraag Bains oped for WaPo.
Priorities USA Files State Lawsuit Challenging Missouri Voter ID Law
This is a really interesting state lawsuit. To simplify a bit: Missouri had a voter id law, which the state supreme court struck down as unconstitutional under the state constitution. So Missouri legislators put a voter id requirement into the… Continue reading
“The Ohio Purge and the Future of Voting”
Dale Ho NYT oped:
States should also be encouraged to adopt Election Day registration programs allowing eligible voters — including those who have been knocked off the rolls — to register at the polls. Fifteen states and the District of… Continue reading