“INVESTIGATION: Is Ohio the Next Home Of Hanging Chads?”
Nicholas Kusnetz of the Center for Public Integrity has written this extensive Politico magazine piece.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Georgia County Admits To Illegally Disenfranchising Voters”
Think Progress:
Fulton County, Georgia admitted to illegally disenfranchising and misleading voters in the 2008 and 2012 elections in a settlement this month. For more than two dozen violations of state law — including improperly rejecting eligible ballots and… Continue reading
Jeffrey Rosen NYT Book Review of Berman Voting Rights Book
It concludes with a note on race and party:
In 2014, the first election since 1965 without the preclearance protections of the Voting Rights Act, voters in 14 states faced new voting restrictions adopted by mostly Republican legislatures, including a… Continue reading
“What is Abridgment?: A Critique of Two Section Twos”
Franita Tolson has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Alabama Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to reduce a state’s delegation in the House of Representatives if the state abridges the… Continue reading
“DOJ to 5th Circuit: Texas voter ID law needs to be fixed ASAP”
San Antonio Express News:
The Obama administration and several civil rights groups are urging a federal appeals court to fast track the process of temporarily fixing Texas’ voter ID law in time for the upcoming Nov. 3 elections.
In court… Continue reading
“The battle for voting rights continues”
E.J. Dionne:
This month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that Texas’s voter ID law “has a discriminatory effect” and amounted to a poll tax. But it also sent the case back to a lower-court… Continue reading
Polifact Rates “True” Cory Booker’s Statement that Lightning Strike More Prevalent than Vote Fraud in TX
“Legal challenge to N.C. voter ID law could be settled, documents say”
Woah:
But there may be room for compromise, according to a joint status report that plaintiffs filed Monday. In the report, they said “Plaintiffs’ pending photo ID claims may be able to be resolved through discussion and negotiations with… Continue reading
Jim Rutenberg Interviews Ari Berman on the Voting Rights Act at 50
“Election Law Federalism”
Justin Weinstein-Tull has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Michigan Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This Article provides the first comprehensive account of non-Voting Rights Act federal voting laws. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act — long the… Continue reading
“Editorial: Voter ID laws, already bogus, ruled racist and discriminatory.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial, which after correction still gets Justin Levitt‘s affiliation wrong.
“Obama praises lead plaintiff in NC voting-rights lawsuit”
News & Observer:
Rosanell Eaton, a 94-year-old Franklin County resident who had to recite the preamble to the U.S. Constitution to three county registrars in the 1940s to be eligible to vote, got a special mention this week from the… Continue reading
Responses to NYT Magazine Piece on Voting Rights, Including Mine from Slate
To be published in this week’s magazine.