“Virginia Is Latest Front in Democrats’ Voting Rights Battle”
Maggie Haberman reports for the NYT.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
Ohio SOS Husted and Rep. Clyde Twitter War Over Voting Covered by MSNBC
Zack Roth:
On Wednesday afternoon, State Rep. Kathleen Clyde, a Democrat, was notified on Twitter that she’d been blocked by an account in the name of Secretary of State Jon Husted. The move came after Husted, a Republican, responded… Continue reading
Breaking: Clinton Lawyer Elias Files New Voting Suit in Virginia
Via Maggie Haberman comes news of a new case filed by Marc Elias (the latest in a series of cases).
The suit is Lee v. Virginia Board of Elections, and this time the Democratic Party is a party. You… Continue reading
“A Voter Fraud Witch Hunt in Kansas”
“Brace Yourself for Kobach”
Wichita Eagle editorial:
Secretary of State Kris Kobach finally got the prosecutorial powers he wanted. Brace yourself, Kansas voters, as he’s unlikely to put them in a drawer.
Kobach is such a zealot on the nonissue of voter fraud that… Continue reading
“Campaign Preview? Clinton and Christie Spar Over Early Voting in New Jersey”
“New Voting Rights Litigation Summary from CLC Shows Growing Voter Dilution and Suppression Efforts Since Supreme Court’s Shelby County Decision”
Release:
Over the past few years, efforts to dilute and suppress minority voting rights or to restrict the vote for partisan gain have spiked dramatically. Racially-discriminatory voting laws have been passed in states and municipalities across the country, particularly… Continue reading
“Don’t Be Silly – THE PCEA WORKED: A Rejoinder to Some Critics of Hasen’s Slate Piece”
Doug Chapin:
My major disagreement with the two critiques is the apparent assumption that the outcome of next year’s presidential election will matter in the ongoing fights over election policy.
First of all, the federal government has little if… Continue reading
“Clinton off-base on Ohio voting rule”
Columbus Dispatch editorial:
All presidential politics aside, Gov. John Kasich is more than justified in calling Hillary Clinton’s complaints about Ohio voting laws “demagoguery” and “silliness.”
Like many Democrats, Clinton continues to hammer Ohio for a modest scaling-back of early-absentee-voting… Continue reading
Kobach Given “Persecuting” Power over Elections in Kansas
Delicious typo:
Usually, people say it’s a photo that’s worth a thousand words.
But in Kansas politics, everything is upside down these days. So it was the accompanying flawed caption, not the photo of Gov. Sam Brownback signing a… Continue reading
GAB Responds to Think Progress on WI Voter ID Funding Question
Following up on my post, WI Has Inadequate Funding for Voter ID Education Campaign, GAB public information officer Reid Magney reached out to say that he had issues with the facts as reported in the Think Progress piece I… Continue reading
Pushback on Pushback and More Pushback on My Clinton Voting Wars Column
So a number of people in the election reform community have written me in great support of my Slate column after I mentioned the general drubbing I was receiving from others. The argument from these folks is that on the… Continue reading
Pushback on My Hillary Voting Wars Piece
The good news is that Doug Chapin liked my Slate piece from yesterday on whether Hillary Clinton is making real election reform harder by framing the issue as a partisan fight. The bad news is that Doug seems to be… Continue reading
“Republican Support For Automatic Voter Registration Is Way Lower Than It Used To Be”
Ariel Edwards-Levy for HuffPo:
Back in March, 53 percent of Republicans supported their state introducing a law like Oregon’s. Today, just 38 percent are in favor of automatically registering citizens who are eligible to vote.
The two polls aren’t exactly… Continue reading