Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Appeals court sympathetic to challenge over voter rules” (Kobach, EAC Case)
AP:
A federal appeals court on Thursday seemed likely to side with voting rights groups seeking to block Kansas, Georgia and Alabama from requiring residents to prove they are U.S. citizens when registering to vote using a national form.
Judges… Continue reading
Trump’s Wink-Wink on Vote Rigging
“Larry…you know exactly what I’m talking about.”
Yeah we do.
“Some election mailers still say voters will need ID at polls”
“The results on voter ID laws are in — and it’s bad news for ethnic and racial minorities”
Zoltan Hajnal LAT oped:
My colleagues Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson and I analyzed validated voting data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study in order to follow voter turnout from 2006 through 2014 among members of different groups — almost… Continue reading
“Voter Suppression in North Carolina”
“ProPublica and Coalition of News Organizations Launch “Electionland” to Cover Election Problems and Help America Vote”
Release via email:
ProPublica today announced Electionland, a national reporting initiative that will cover voting problems during the 2016 election. A coalition of organizations – including ProPublica, Google News Lab, the USA TODAY NETWORK, Univision News, First Draft, WNYC,… Continue reading
“Court Filing Accuses Texas of Misleading Voters Without IDs”
Michael Wines for the NYT:
The reason, the motion stated, is that the campaign omits the word “reasonably,” stating instead that voters can cast ballots only if they swear that they “cannot obtain” an identification card. That not only ignores… Continue reading
2 MI Republican Senators File SCOTUS Amicus Brief in Straight Ticket Voting Emergency Case
“NCGOP leader lobbied counties to offer just one early voting site in ‘confidential’ email”
Incorrigible:
While the N.C. Republican Party’s executive director pushed counties to reduce early voting opportunities, another GOP leader went a step further: Calling on Republican county election officials to offer only one early voting site for the minimum hours allowed… Continue reading
Lawsuit Threatened on NC Early Voting
Insightus:
If the State Board of Elections’ Republican majority hews to the same blatantly discriminatory ‘Woodhouse Rules’ that so many county Republicans “felt bound to follow,” we can expect from the state Board a few cosmetic changes to a few… Continue reading
“Editorial: Cynical partisan attack on NC voters”
WRAL editorial:
Enough is enough. First, North Carolina citizens are gerrymandered so extensively that the politicians picked their voters. Then, there’s an election law bill that slashes voting opportunities for African-Americans and young people. So, some politicians make it… Continue reading
“Black students may be targets of fake voter registration efforts at Kennesaw State”
Plaintiffs in Michigan Straight-Ticket Voting Case File #SCOTUS Response to MI Emergency Petition
Read it here (via Cristian Farias).
I offered a number of reasons I expect MI to lose, but the plaintiffs here offer yet another one: it looks like SCOTUS may not even have proper jurisdiction over the case.