“Expert: N.C.’s election law places burdens on black, Hispanic voters”
The latest from the NC voting trial.
Category Archives: The Voting Wars
NASS Stinks
Boo! The National Association of Secretaries of States has renewed its deplorable and indefensible call to stop funding the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The EAC is no panacea but it can do some very helpful work on issues of voting… Continue reading
“Witnesses: Changes in N.C.’s election law caused voting hardships”
“Democrats Pick An Attack Against Scott Walker: Voter ID”
“North Carolina’s Voting Law Goes on Trial”
NYT editorial:
The trial over North Carolina’s law may be the biggest test yet of the remaining strength of the Voting Rights Act. Already, the court has heard from citizens who voted for years without difficulty, but whose votes were… Continue reading
“Emails: NC board member involved in disputed voting plan”
Big AP story showing partisan intent by election officials in shutting down student voting in North Carolina:
A Republican member of the North Carolina elections board worked closely with local officials in their effort to eliminate a heavily Democratic voting… Continue reading
FactChecker Rejects NC GOP Claim that Unions Paid Moral Monday Voter ID Protesters
“Why North Carolina Is the New Selma”
Ari Berman dispatch for The Nation on the North Carolina voting trial [corrected].
“Sides Dispute Basis of North Carolina Voting Laws as Trial Contesting Them Opens”
“Federal trial set to start over NC’s election law”
“Race or Party?: How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere”
Re-upping my Harvard Law Review Forum piece as the North Carolina voting right trial starts today.
“Applying Section 2 to the New Vote Denial”
With the North Carolina voting trial opening today, here’s your must-read from Dan Tokaji (forthcoming, Harvard Civil-Rights Civil-Liberties Law Review):
Over the past decade, many states have enacted laws that make it more difficult for eligible citizens to vote. In… Continue reading
“Effects of changes on minorities at crux of NC voting trial”
AP trial curtain-raiser.
“Voting Rights Legacy of the ’60s Heads to Court as North Carolina Law Is Tested”
Erik Eckholm NYT A-1 curtain-raiser on North Carolina voting trial, starting Monday.