“Using only ‘a phone book,’ can you commit voter fraud in NC?”
Politifact on the dubious claim of a North Carolina gubernatorial candidate.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“The New Voter Suppression”
New Brennan Center report:
On Election Day in 1960, four unanswerable questions awaited Clarence Gaskins, a Black voter in Georgia looking to cast his ballot for president. Upon arrival at his designated polling place, he was ushered into a room… Continue reading
Wisconsin: “After rejection, conservatives try again to get voter purge case to Supreme Court”
“In Texas and Other States, Voters Face a Variety of Barriers”
“National Democrats jump into new lawsuit over Texas voter registration requirements”
The latest from the Marc Elias litigation machine is a challenge in Texas to the rejection of voter registration forms with digital pictures of signatures.
The complaint notes that, among other things, when voters register to vote along with… Continue reading
Implementing a waiver program for fines and fees in Florida
WUSF reports on the implementation of programs in the courts to reduce the fines and fees of formerly incarcerated individuals, in the continuing fight over the aftermath of Amendment 4 and SB 7066.
The report indicates that the only four… Continue reading
“Democracy itself is literally on the ballot”
Marc Elias in WaPo about his lawsuits on the ballot-order statutes giving unilateral pole position to candidates of one party.
Election-related options still to come at AALS
Rick already
mentioned a few of the exceptional election-related events at AALS so far.
There are still several to come, including my stint tomorrow
at 8:30 as least valuable player on a 2020
census panel with Dale Ho, Christina Mora,… Continue reading
Here come the latest purge demands
Looks like Judicial
Watch released another tranch of NVRA demand letters.
Also looks like they’re still identifying allegedly non-compliant jurisdictions at least in part by comparing point-estimate registration data on legal domicile to trend-estimate ACS data on physical CVAP presence.… Continue reading
Scheduling of special elections
There’s always a fair amount of controversy around the
scheduling of special elections to fill vacancies, particularly when the date
seems to create particularly advantageous or disadvantageous terrain.
The latest takes shape in
New York, for the special election… Continue reading
“Top DFLers, state party defend law that permits Trump-only GOP primary ballots”
The real story isn’t that state party officials are defending state party associational rights under the First Amendmetn (even if they also benefit opposing parties). The real story is the practical recognition that litigation now begins to creep up on… Continue reading
“Conservatives seek immediate purge of voters in Wisconsin”
The latest on this saga is a motion seeking to hold the members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission in contempt for failing to remove 200,000 voter registrations pending an appeal of a state trial court’s order. More here.
Quantitative election administration studies: early voting and polling place location
Two studies newly published in the latest issue of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
series:
Ethan Kaplan and Haishan Yuan, Early Voting
Laws, Voter Turnout, and Partisan Vote Composition: Evidence from Ohio
We estimate effects of early voting on… Continue reading
“On Va. Democrats’ 2020 to-do list, voting rights seem to top campaign finance reform”
The Virginia Mercury looks at the legislative session ahead.