“What Will The Biggest Obstacles To The Ballot Box Be In 2020?”
Tierney Sneed for TPM.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Republicans Abandon Election Security”
Eliza Newlin Carney:
Russian attacks on the U.S. election infrastructure in 2016 were even more serious than reported at the time, recent disclosures show, and intelligence officials say they are bracing for more aggressive attacks from a wider array… Continue reading
“Kamala Harris says voter suppression kept Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum out of office. Really?”
Politifact:
In a speech to the NAACP, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris called for changing election laws to “fight back against those Republicans who suppress our constitutional right to vote.”Harris, a U.S. senator from California, pointed to the outcome… Continue reading
Connecticut: “Senate Republicans urged by conservative base to oppose early voting”
Hartford Courant:
A group of key conservatives is urging Senate Republicans to oppose an early voting measure, which the House overwhelmingly approved on a bipartisan basis earlier this year to bring Connecticut into line with most other states.Thirty-nine states… Continue reading
“Data Disprove the ‘Voter Suppression’ Myth; Democrats scapegoat photo-ID laws for losses in states where minority turnout rose in 2018.”
Lawsuit Filed Against New Strict Tennessee Voter Registration Restrictions
Release via email:
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP, pro bono firm Hogan Lovells US LLP, Memphis-based firm Burch, Porter, & Johnson PLLC, Bromberg Law LLC, and community practitioner Daniel Ayoade Yoon filed suit today challenging… Continue reading
“The great double standard of our election system”
Jon Sherman Hill oped.
“In pushing changes to the state’s election laws, is the Minnesota House rewriting one of the Capitol’s unwritten rules?”
“Federal judge weighs lawsuit over Georgia voting problems”
AJC:
A lawsuit asking a judge to correct problems with Georgia’s elections reached a packed federal courtroom Monday, where election officials argued that the case should be thrown out because a new state law could solve issues with voting… Continue reading
“Texas Ends Review That Questioned Citizenship of Almost 100,000 Voters”
NYT:
The Texas secretary of state agreed Friday to rescind an advisory issued by his office in January that questioned the citizenship status of almost 100,000 registered voters. The agreement will formally end a review of the voter rolls… Continue reading
“The Republican War on Democracy; If you can’t win playing by the rules, you change them.”
“Settlement Reached to End Texas Voter Purge and Protect Voting Rights”
Release:
A group of civil rights organizations reached an agreement today with Texas state officials to settle a lawsuit challenging the creation and rollout of a flawed voter purge list that discriminated against naturalized citizens. The American Civil Liberties Union… Continue reading
New Hampshire: “Bills that reverse GOP election law changes headed to House floor”
Union Leader:
The Democratically controlled state legislature advanced its efforts to repeal election-related laws passed by Republicans in 2017 and 2018 with several key votes by the House Election Law Committee on Thursday.In a party line, 12-8 vote, the… Continue reading
“After Democrats Surged In 2018, Republican-Run States Eye New Curbs On Voting”
NPR:
After high turnout in last year’s midterm elections propelled Democrats to a new House majority and big gains in the states, several Republican-controlled state legislatures are attempting to change voting-related rules in ways that might reduce future voter… Continue reading