Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“This Is What Voter ID Laws Looks Like When They Hit Real People”

October 5, 2015, 8:39 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Think Progress: Wisconsin once again has to defend its voter ID law in federal court, this time responding to a challenge to the law’s exclusion of veterans’ IDs, technical college IDs, and out-of-state drivers’ licenses. Staff attorney Sean Young… Continue reading

“It’s Still a Struggle; The fight for voting rights hasn’t been the straightforward battle we once might have expected to win and be done with.”

October 5, 2015, 8:36 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Sam Issacharoff has an important new review of Ari Berman’s Give Us the Ballot in the latest issue of The American Prospect. Unfortunately it is not posted freely online. It concludes: Using the instrumentalities of power to keep enemies… Continue reading

NAACP LDF Expresses Voting Rights Act Concerns in Alabama Voter ID DMV Closure Case

October 5, 2015, 8:28 amThe Voting Wars, voter id, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Letter: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”)1, on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, writes to raise our grave concerns regarding… Continue reading

“The sneaky new voter suppression tool in North Carolina, uncovered by one of our own”

October 2, 2015, 5:57 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Daily Kos: North Carolina Republicans have been actively moving the goalposts—they’ve been moving polling places around like a crazed monkey on crack. They have been cutting numbers of polling places in some counties, increasing numbers in other counties. There… Continue reading

“Alabama, Birthplace of the Voting Rights Act, Is Once Again Gutting Voting Rights”

October 2, 2015, 9:24 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman writes for The Nation.

“Voter ID: What Oregon gets right and Alabama gets wrong”

October 2, 2015, 7:45 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Kyle Whitmire at Al.com.

“Alabama Demands Voter ID–Then Closes Driver’s License Offices In Black Counties”

October 2, 2015, 7:36 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

TPM: What happens when a state with a tough voter ID law suddenly makes it much harder for minorities to get driver’s licenses? We are about to find out in Alabama. Facing a budget crisis, Alabama has shuttered 31 driver’s… Continue reading

“Kansas officials to begin culling incomplete voter forms”

October 2, 2015, 7:31 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP reports.

“Paul Davis files lawsuit against Kris Kobach over purging of suspended voters list”

September 30, 2015, 3:37 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The Wichita Eagle reports.

“Voter ID and driver’s license office closures black-out Alabama’s Black Belt”

September 30, 2015, 2:19 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Kyle Whitmore: The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s website says their office at the Clarke County Courthouse is still open, but soon a lot of others nearby won’t be. On Wednesday, the agency announced that it would close 31 offices… Continue reading

“Kris Kobach, his views spark intense reactions – from supporters, opponents (+videos)”

September 29, 2015, 7:53 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bryan Lowry for the Wichita Eagle: Kobach has had “a devastating impact on voting rights in the state of Kansas and, for that matter, across the country,” says Micah Kubic, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas.… Continue reading

The Roberts Court at 10: Election Law

September 29, 2015, 7:47 amcampaign finance, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

With today’s 10 year anniversary of John Roberts’ joining the Supreme Court as Chief Justice of the United States. here’s another link to my paper in progress, Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A Sharp Right Turn … Continue reading

“Remembering Bill Crawford”

September 28, 2015, 1:45 pmThe Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Here is a guest post from Josh Douglas: I was saddened to learn of Rep. Bill Crawford’s death last week. I had the opportunity — and pleasure — to interview Rep. Crawford this past summer for research for a new… Continue reading

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Voting Wars, Voting Rights, and Voting Reform

September 27, 2015, 7:12 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

From a speech today at the Edward Kennedy Institute: And what about voting rights? Two years ago, five conservative justices on the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, opening the floodgates ever wider for measures designed to suppress… Continue reading