Category Archives: The Voting Wars

NASS Stinks

July 15, 2015, 9:29 amelection administration, Election Assistance Commission, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Boo! The National Association of Secretaries of States has renewed its deplorable and indefensible call to stop funding the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The EAC is no panacea but it can do some very helpful work on issues of voting… Continue reading

“Witnesses: Changes in N.C.’s election law caused voting hardships”

July 15, 2015, 8:22 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Winston-Salem Journal report.

“Democrats Pick An Attack Against Scott Walker: Voter ID”

July 15, 2015, 8:20 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

BuzzFeed reports.

“North Carolina’s Voting Law Goes on Trial”

July 15, 2015, 7:38 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT editorial: The trial over North Carolina’s law may be the biggest test yet of the remaining strength of the Voting Rights Act. Already, the court has heard from citizens who voted for years without difficulty, but whose votes were… Continue reading

“Emails: NC board member involved in disputed voting plan”

July 14, 2015, 4:46 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Big AP story showing partisan intent by election officials in shutting down student voting in North Carolina: A Republican member of the North Carolina elections board worked closely with local officials in their effort to eliminate a heavily Democratic voting… Continue reading

FactChecker Rejects NC GOP Claim that Unions Paid Moral Monday Voter ID Protesters

July 14, 2015, 11:45 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

WRAL investigates.

“Why North Carolina Is the New Selma”

July 14, 2015, 11:22 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman dispatch for The Nation on the North Carolina voting trial [corrected].

“Sides Dispute Basis of North Carolina Voting Laws as Trial Contesting Them Opens”

July 13, 2015, 8:19 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Erik Eckholm reports for the NYT.

“Federal trial set to start over NC’s election law”

July 13, 2015, 9:24 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The News & Observer reports.

“Race or Party?: How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere”

July 13, 2015, 7:50 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Re-upping my Harvard Law Review Forum piece as the North Carolina voting right trial starts today.

“Applying Section 2 to the New Vote Denial”

July 13, 2015, 7:34 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

With the North Carolina voting trial opening today, here’s your must-read from Dan Tokaji (forthcoming, Harvard Civil-Rights Civil-Liberties Law Review): Over the past decade, many states have enacted laws that make it more difficult for eligible citizens to vote. In… Continue reading

“Effects of changes on minorities at crux of NC voting trial”

July 12, 2015, 9:42 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

AP trial curtain-raiser.

“Voting Rights Legacy of the ’60s Heads to Court as North Carolina Law Is Tested”

July 12, 2015, 9:39 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Erik Eckholm NYT A-1 curtain-raiser on North Carolina voting trial, starting Monday.

“Key state lawmakers renew calls to overhaul elections board”

July 10, 2015, 10:56 amcampaign finance, election administration, tax law and election law, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Key Assembly Republicans renewed their call Friday for overhauling the state’s elections and ethics board after The Wall Street Journal reported the agency had been in touch with the Internal Revenue Service as it investigated conservative groups.… Continue reading