Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“ProPublica and Coalition of News Organizations Launch “Electionland” to Cover Election Problems and Help America Vote”
Release via email:
ProPublica today announced Electionland, a national reporting initiative that will cover voting problems during the 2016 election. A coalition of organizations – including ProPublica, Google News Lab, the USA TODAY NETWORK, Univision News, First Draft, WNYC,… Continue reading
“Court Filing Accuses Texas of Misleading Voters Without IDs”
Michael Wines for the NYT:
The reason, the motion stated, is that the campaign omits the word “reasonably,” stating instead that voters can cast ballots only if they swear that they “cannot obtain” an identification card. That not only ignores… Continue reading
2 MI Republican Senators File SCOTUS Amicus Brief in Straight Ticket Voting Emergency Case
“NCGOP leader lobbied counties to offer just one early voting site in ‘confidential’ email”
Incorrigible:
While the N.C. Republican Party’s executive director pushed counties to reduce early voting opportunities, another GOP leader went a step further: Calling on Republican county election officials to offer only one early voting site for the minimum hours allowed… Continue reading
Lawsuit Threatened on NC Early Voting
Insightus:
If the State Board of Elections’ Republican majority hews to the same blatantly discriminatory ‘Woodhouse Rules’ that so many county Republicans “felt bound to follow,” we can expect from the state Board a few cosmetic changes to a few… Continue reading
“Editorial: Cynical partisan attack on NC voters”
WRAL editorial:
Enough is enough. First, North Carolina citizens are gerrymandered so extensively that the politicians picked their voters. Then, there’s an election law bill that slashes voting opportunities for African-Americans and young people. So, some politicians make it… Continue reading
“Black students may be targets of fake voter registration efforts at Kennesaw State”
Plaintiffs in Michigan Straight-Ticket Voting Case File #SCOTUS Response to MI Emergency Petition
Read it here (via Cristian Farias).
I offered a number of reasons I expect MI to lose, but the plaintiffs here offer yet another one: it looks like SCOTUS may not even have proper jurisdiction over the case.
U.S. Goes After Texas for Not Implementing Voter ID Softening as Promised
Motion:
Despite the Remedial Order’s clarity, Texas’s voter education and poll worker training documents depart from it. Rather than educating voters and poll officials about opportunities tocast a regular ballot for those who “do not possess SB 14 ID and… Continue reading
“Early voting reduced in 23 NC counties; 9 drop Sunday voting after NCGOP memo”
News & Observer:
While Republicans hold a majority on the local elections board in each of the state’s 100 counties, 70 boards voted to offer more early voting hours than they’d had in the 2012 presidential election, while 23 cut… Continue reading
“Same-day voter registration at issue in Illinois lawsuit”
AP:
A federal lawsuit has raised questions about whether Illinois’ new Election Day voter registration rules are constitutional, a situation that could complicate how polling sites are run this November.
Illinois tested same-day registration in the 2014 governor’s race, with… Continue reading
“Integrity or Intimidation?: Voter Challengers and Election Day Observers”
ACS has a great event in DC Sept 12. I’m sorry I couldn’t participate in it.