Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“What’s Ahead in Texas Voter ID Battle”
Tim Eaton for the Austin-American Statesman:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott won the most recent round in the fight to require voters to show valid photo identification to cast ballots, but a potentially much bigger fight looms beyond Tuesday.
Abbott’s… Continue reading
“5 myths about voter fraud, early voting”
“Amicus: Ballot-Box Special; Dahlia Lithwick unpacks some of the voting problems we’ll hear about in the final days of election season.”
This week on Amicus: a pre-election special. Dahlia sits down with University of California–Irvine law professor Rick Hasen, founder of the Election Law Blog, to survey the landscape of state voter ID laws. They consider the effect of… Continue reading
Voter Suppression Backlash: “Activists Against Voter Restrictions May Be Hindering Their Legal Case”
More Pam Fessler on backlash:
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Here’s an irony of this fall’s election. New voter ID laws and other restrictions are in effect.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Critics say the laws are meant to suppress voter turnout among minorities… Continue reading
“Voting rules, from photo ID to provisional ballots”
“Record-breaking ‘Souls to Polls’ turnouts Sunday in South Florida”
“Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections? A reply to our critics.”
Jesse Richman and Dave Earnest:
Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections? Our blog post and article on non-citizen voting have reached a wide audience, and have motivated several efforts to dispute our methods and conclusions. Although the criticisms of… Continue reading
Senator Rand Paul: Shhh About Voter ID!
Think Progress; “I’m not really opposed to [voter ID laws]. I am opposed to it as a campaign theme,” Paul told CBS’ Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer. “Republicans, if you want to get African American votes, they think… Continue reading
North Carolina Voter Suppression Backfire?
Back in July 2013, I wrote at The Daily Beast: “There is good reason to think, however, that there will be a strong reaction from Democrats, minority voters, and voting-rights activists if this law passes. Litigation to bar paid voter-registration… Continue reading
Election conspiracy theories, an American staple”
LAT oped by Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent.
Ed Fitzpatrick Column on Rhode Island Voter ID Etc.
Good Example of Why Large Scale Impersonation Voter Fraud is So Hard to Pull Off
Even this single case easily caught.
UPDATE: A few readers have pushed back on my statement that the case was “caught.” By this I mean that the issue came to attention of election officials, not that they stopped the casting… Continue reading
Quote of the Day-Kobach Disenfranchisement Edition
“I served for a week on a jury trial, which basically told me I was a registered voter. I’m a disabled veteran, so it’s particularly frustrating. Why should I have to prove my citizenship when I served in the military?”… Continue reading