Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Justice Department Voting Rights Unit Adapts After Supreme Court Ruling”
Carrie Johnson of NPR talks to Justin Levitt and others about voting issues at DOJ.
Group of Plaintiffs in Texas Voter ID Case Seeks Emergency Relief at #SCOTUS
Campaign Legal Center:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the U.S. Supreme Court to take immediate action in the Texas voter ID case so that voters will not be harmed by the law in the 2016 presidential election.… Continue reading
“Angry Arizona Voters Demand: Why Such Long Lines at Polling Sites?”
Fernanda Santos reports for the NYT:
All day, lines meandered along church courtyards, zigzagged along school parking lots and snaked around shadeless blocks as tens of thousands of voters waited to cast their ballots, including many independents who did not… Continue reading
“Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State Hasn’t Funded”
Yup, all those promises about how the state would reach to those voters lacking the right form of ID….
From the law establishing voter ID in Wisconsin
2011 Wis Act 23
Section 144 . Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) Public informational… Continue reading
My Thoughts on AZ Long Lines: Incompetence, Not Vote Suppression, and Blame #SCOTUS First
The other day, while voting was taking place in AZ, I had a post entitled Would Long Lines at AZ Polling Places Have Happened if #SCOTUS Hadn’t Killed Voting Rights Act Provision? My point was that Maricopa County’s decision to… Continue reading
“Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A Sharp Right Turn but with Speed Bumps and Surprising Twists”
I have posted a revised version of this paper (forthcoming, Stanford Law Review) to take into account the death of Justice Scalia. Here is the revised abstract:
This Essay describes the path of election law jurisprudence in the Roberts Court… Continue reading
WI Online Voter Registration Law Stops Community Voter Registration Drives
Project Vote:
As expected, last week Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed an election bill into law. Significantly, the bill provides for online voter registration. But it comes at a high cost.
That cost is not the money required to… Continue reading
“Did Casting a Ballot Just Get Harder? Gunther Peck on how the new NC voting law may affect the 2016 elections”
Listen at Duke Today.
5th Circuit Won’t Consider Emergency Injunction in TX Voter ID Case Until Oral Argument
So reports Raffi Melkonian.
“My brush with North Carolina voter ID law”
Rudy Ravindra in News & Observer:
Since my wife was out of town last week, I drove her to the designated polling place (not the same place I voted) on Election Day. This time poll worker NX subjected my wife… Continue reading
“Voter ID Laws: A Closer Look”
Seth Meyers video. (corrected link)
“Grassley Presses for Answers on Obama Administration Impeding Independent Voting Agency”
Release:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking questions about the Justice Department’s refusal to defend the actions of the Election Assistance Commission, an independent federal agency without litigation authority, despite the law requiring the department to represent the… Continue reading
Plaintiffs in Texas Voter ID Case Want En Banc 5th Circuit to Stop Use of ID Law Pending Final Decision in Case
Press release:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate its stay of a lower court’s ruling so that Texas’s harmful voter ID law will not prevent voters from casting… Continue reading