Category Archives: The Voting Wars

Today’s Must Read: Kansas Ballot Counting Issues Echo Florida 2000

August 12, 2018, 2:45 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

KC Star: Local officials spread across Kansas’ 105 counties will exercise an incredible amount of power this week when they determine whether thousands of ballots should count in the closest primary race for governor in Kansas history. The roughly 9,000… Continue reading

Breaking: Documents from Presidential Voter “Fraud” Commission (Featuring Leading Members of Fraudulent Fraud Squad) Released by Maine SOS Dunlap, Who Sued for Them

August 3, 2018, 12:08 pmfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Dig in, folks. Update: Here is the letter Secretary Dunlap released in connection with the posting of the documents.

ELB Podcast, Season 2: Episode 1. Dale Ho: From the Trenches of the Voting Wars

August 2, 2018, 8:48 pmELB Podcast, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

After a long hiatus, the ELB Podcast is back in time for the midterm election season with a great first guest! What is the state of voting rights in America? What did the ACLU’s lawsuit against Kris Kobach over the… Continue reading

“Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Releases Advisory Memorandum on Voting Rights in Texas”

July 30, 2018, 8:10 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release via email: The Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has issued an Advisory Memorandum examining potential barriers to voting in Texas that may have a discriminatory impact on voters based on race, color, sex, disability… Continue reading

“Today’s Voter Suppression Tactics Have A 150 Year History”

July 26, 2018, 10:27 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Gregory Downs for TPM.

Iowa State Court Temporarily Enjoins Voting Restrictions and Rules as Violation of the State Constitution

July 25, 2018, 10:26 amabsentee ballots, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Read the order granting a preliminary injunction and a related order. The orders relate to signature matching requirements for absentee ballots, the time to cast such ballots, and voter id requirements.

New Brennan Center Report/Myrna Perez NYT Oped on Discriminatory Voter Purges

July 20, 2018, 2:15 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Myrna Perez NYT oped: In the past decade, attacks on the vote have been treacherous: discriminatory voter ID laws, cutbacks in early voting and other complications that emerged from bad laws or policies formulated weeks, months or even years before… Continue reading

Atlantic Poll Finds that Voters of Color Face Greater Barriers to Voting Than Whites

July 17, 2018, 8:06 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Atlantic: A new poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute and The Atlantic has uncovered evidence of deep structural barriers to the ballot for black and Latino voters, specifically in the 2016 election. More than that, the survey… Continue reading

“How Justice Kennedy’s Successor Will Wreak Havoc on Voting Rights and American Democracy”

July 2, 2018, 11:34 amcampaign finance, Scalia, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement from the Supreme Court last week, was certainly the “swing justice” in key cases on major issues from abortion to gay rights. But when… Continue reading

“Texas won its redistricting fight at the Supreme Court. Now it hopes to use that win to wrap up its voter ID suit.”

June 27, 2018, 8:07 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas lawmakers did not intentionally discriminate when they signed off on congressional and state House maps in 2013, the state is looking to use that victory to wrap up… Continue reading

“Kobach Lost. What’s That Mean For Voting In Kansas?”

June 26, 2018, 10:13 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Celia Llopis-Jepsen reports for Kansas News Service.

How Appealing Roundup of Stories on Texas Redistricting Decision

June 25, 2018, 8:42 pmredistricting, residency, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find it here. You can also read my Slate piece on the decision, “Suppression of Minority Voting Rights Is About to Get Way Worse; The Supreme Court has put its thumb on the scales in favor of discriminatory … Continue reading

“Top Tech Companies Met With Intelligence Officials to Discuss Midterms”

June 25, 2018, 7:55 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: Eight of the tech industry’s most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials last month to discuss preparations for this year’s… Continue reading

“Suppression of Minority Voting Rights Is About to Get Way Worse; The Supreme Court has put its thumb on the scales in favor of discriminatory states.”

June 25, 2018, 11:23 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: On Monday, five years to the day that the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v. Holder, a case in which the court struck down a key provision of the Voting… Continue reading