Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Harassed and Harangued, Poll Workers Now Have a New Form of Defense”

September 19, 2021, 1:06 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT: It is perhaps a metaphor for the times that even the volunteer who checked you into the polls in November now has a legal defense committee.The Election Official Legal Defense Network, which made… Continue reading

State Court in North Carolina, on 2-1 Vote, Strikes Down State Voter Identification Law as Intentionally Racially Discrminatory

September 17, 2021, 10:56 amThe Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

You can find 211 pages of the opinion and dissent at this link.

“Democrats propose a compromise bill on voting rights.”

September 15, 2021, 7:17 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Carl Hulse for the NYT: In introducing a scaled-back version, Democrats hoped to demonstrate to Mr. Manchin — now deeply invested in the measure as one of the chief authors — that Republicans would never sign on to a… Continue reading

“LDF Releases Report Detailing Voter Suppression in 2020 Election Season”

September 15, 2021, 7:11 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Release: Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released its highly anticipated Democracy Defended report, which documents and analyzes election-related activities undertaken by LDF during the 2020 election season, provides documentation of barriers faced by Black… Continue reading

“Election Officials on Radar of Rich Donors, Thanks to Trump”

September 15, 2021, 7:07 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Bloomberg: The once-obscure state-level job of overseeing elections has emerged as a prime target for wealthy donors and national organizers from both parties seeking an edge in the 2022 midterms that could shift control of Congress away from Democrats.Republicans are… Continue reading

More Disputes Over Fulton County, GA Election Administration and a Possible State Takeover

September 15, 2021, 7:01 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AJC’s The Jolt: The Fulton County Commission could tap former Atlanta City Council president Cathy Woolard as the next chairwoman of the troubled elections board. And Republicans are up in arms. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued some of the… Continue reading

“Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting Restrictions”

September 10, 2021, 7:11 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

538: The Texas law is likely the culmination of the large-scale Republican push to restrict voting access this spring and summer — the policy byproduct of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent. At this… Continue reading

“Gov. Greg Abbott signs Texas voting bill into law, overcoming Democratic quorum breaks”

September 8, 2021, 8:08 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: Though delayed by Democratic quorum breaks, Texas has officially joined the slate of Republican states that have enacted new voting restrictions following the 2020 election.Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law Senate Bill 1, sweeping… Continue reading

“Civil Rights Organizations and an Election Official File Challenge to Texas Anti-Voter Legislation”

September 3, 2021, 10:27 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: A voting bill that will make it harder for Texans, particularly voters of color, to cast their ballots is unconstitutional and violates federal voting rights law because it diminishes access to the ballot box, according to a lawsuit… Continue reading

“Republican bill tightening Texas election laws is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk”

August 31, 2021, 4:56 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: A wave of changes to Texas elections, including new voting restrictions, is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.Three months after House Democrats first broke quorum to stymie a previous iteration of the legislation, Republicans in the House… Continue reading

“Democrats counter Republican-led voter restrictions with early, aggressive outreach”

August 31, 2021, 7:30 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Reuters reports.

“The Obvious Voting-Rights Solution That No Democrat Will Propose”

August 30, 2021, 7:11 amThe Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Russell Berman in the Alantic: Democrats in Congress are considering a policy that was long unthinkable: a federal requirement that every American show identification before casting a ballot. But as the party tries to pass voting-rights legislation before the next… Continue reading

Must-Read Michael Wines: “As Washington Stews, State Legislatures Increasingly Shape American Politics; From voting rights to the culture wars, state legislatures controlled by Republicans are playing a role well beyond their own state borders”

August 29, 2021, 1:57 pmlegislation and legislatures, redistricting, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: With the release of the 2020 census last month, the drawing of legislative districts that could in large part determine control of Congress for the next decade heads to the nation’s state legislatures, the heart of Republican political power.Increasingly,… Continue reading

“House Passes a Voting Rights Bill, but a G.O.P. Blockade Awaits in the Senate”

August 24, 2021, 5:08 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT: The House voted on Tuesday to restore federal oversight of state election laws under the 1965 Voting Rights Act and expand its reach, as Democrats moved to strengthen a crowning legislative achievement of the civil rights era amid a… Continue reading

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