Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Democrats accuse rogue elections official of compromising voter privacy”
WaPo news from Va:
Elections officials in Prince William County this week asked the Commonwealth’s attorney to investigate one of their own.
They say Guy Anthony Guiffré, a member of the county electoral board, might have broken state and federal… Continue reading
Ned Foley Stocking Stuffer
What do you give the election law nerd who has everything?
I’d suggest Ned Foley’s new book, Ballot Battles. I’ve read this in draft and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know how we’ve handled close… Continue reading
“NAACP seeks to halt implementation of North Carolina voter ID law”
“North Carolina’s Shell Game of Electoral Apartheid: How the Board of Elections Shoved Black Voters Away From the Ballot Box in 2014”
Insightus:
Between the 2012 and 2014 elections the total number of Early Voting sites operated by North Carolina county boards of elections, statewide, increased modestly: from 363 to 366. But that same period witnessed substantial changes in those sites’… Continue reading
“Goodbye, Speech Police”
WSJ editorial dances on the grave of the GAB.
“Lawyers in voter registration lawsuit against Kobach ask for class-action status”
“NC voting law opponents plan to file preliminary injunction against photo ID”
Winston Salem-Journal:
The North Carolina NAACP wants a federal judge to stop the photo-ID requirement from taking effect during the March 2016 primary elections.
Attorneys for the civil-rights organization filed court papers on Friday indicating that they planned to seek… Continue reading
“Coalition pushes for voting reforms to get more to the polls in Pennsylvania”
“Courts should halt Kobach’s bid to abuse voters’ rights in Kansas”
GAB RIP
Patrick Marley:
Assembly Republicans on Monday sent Gov. Scott Walker a bill rewriting campaign finance laws and were poised to approve one replacing the state’s ethics and elections board with two new commissions.
The measure eliminating the Government Accountability… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Assembly to vote on GAB, campaign finance bills Monday”
“Peter Cannon: Let veterans vote with VA card”
Wisconsin State Journal oped:
Today is Veterans Day, and Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin will no doubt be thanking us for our service and telling us how important we are and how much they honor us.
But their words ring… Continue reading
“Kris Kobach’s office registers two suspended voters, files motion to dismiss lawsuit”
Wichita Eagle:
Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office has registered two suspended voters suing him in federal court and now argues that the case should now be thrown out.
Kobach faces a lawsuit from a pair of Douglas County residents,… Continue reading