Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Bloomberg Law Brief: Wisconsin Voter ID Law “

August 15, 2016, 7:39 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Bloomberg Law program with June Grasso: Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia University Law School, and Rick Hasen, professor at University of California Irvine School of Law and founder of the Election Law Blog discuss an appeals court decision, which… Continue reading

Trump’s Lawyer Don McGahn, Republican Lawyers’ Group, Plotting “Election Observer” Strategy

August 15, 2016, 6:52 amcampaigns, chicanery, election administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Weigel: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is asking supporters to become election monitors, warning voters Friday night that “cheating” might rob him of a win. At the same time, outside groups are readying to help the campaign watch the polls.… Continue reading

Revised Version of My Piece on Judicial Softening of Voter ID Laws in Theory and Practice Now Posted on SSRN

August 12, 2016, 3:21 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

This piece, forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review Forward, is now updated to discuss recent softening attempts in WI, NC, and TX. Here is the abstract: Headlines about voter identification laws often place court rulings in a simple win… Continue reading

“Redistricting, Voter ID Laws, Early Voting, And The Post-Shelby World”

August 12, 2016, 3:17 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Above the Law’s Joe Patrice has a new podcast episode: First, Ben Griffith of the Griffith Law Firm in Oxford, Mississippi and Robert Heath ofBickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta discussed election law in the context of the new book… Continue reading

Close of Business Friday, and No NC “Emergency” SCOTUS Petition in Voting Case: Why?

August 12, 2016, 2:58 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

And now the Purcell Principle works against the state of North Carolina, which has been living with, and preparing to implement, the 4th Circuit North Carolina ruling for two full weeks. A stay imposed by the Supreme Court at this… Continue reading

Breaking: WI Files Emergency Stay in Second Voting Case

August 12, 2016, 2:48 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Although WI tried to spin yesterday’s loss as a win, now they’ve gone to the 7th Circuit with this emergency motion. The state wants 7 election rollbacks the trial court found illegal to be reinstated before the election, and… Continue reading

“Donald Trump claims the election might be ‘rigged.’ Here’s how voting really works”

August 12, 2016, 11:44 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

LAT.

District Court in Other WI Case Mostly Denies WI Request for Stay of Ruling

August 11, 2016, 7:33 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Order does loosen up timeframe for softening of WI’s voter ID law through new DMV procedures: IT IS ORDERED that defendants’ motion to stay the court’s permanent injunction pending appeal, Dkt. 241, is DENIED in substantial part. As explained above,… Continue reading

“Judge Orders Texas to Spend at Least $2.5 Million to Not Enforce Its Voter ID Law”

August 11, 2016, 3:10 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Cristian Farias for HuffPo.

Breaking: WI Voter ID Plaintiffs File Emergency 7th Circuit En Banc Petition for ID Softening

August 11, 2016, 2:10 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Via Josh Gerstein comes this petition, filed very quickly by the Voting Rights plaintiffs in the Wisconsin voter id case. It asks the full 7th Circuit to reverse the stay of the affidavit softening order by the trial court… Continue reading

True the Vote Spokesperson Calls Blocking of NC Law, TX ID Softening “Very Minor Victories”

August 11, 2016, 10:54 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

And he doesn’t seem to understand that you can’t figure out how many people are deterred by voter id laws just by counting how many actually show up at the polls and cannot vote:

Where Do We Stand on the Voting Wars in NC, TX, WI and Elsewhere?

August 11, 2016, 7:46 amelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I try to bring it together at WaPo’s The Monkey Cage: After a notable string of voting rights decisions in the past few weeks — throwing out or weakening voter identification and other restrictive voting laws in Texas, North… Continue reading