Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“The Determinants of State Legislator Support for Restrictive Voter ID Laws”

August 28, 2017, 12:29 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

William Hicks, Seth McKee, and Dan Smith have written this article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Here is the abstract: We examine state legislator behavior on restrictive voter identification (ID) bills from 2005 to 2013. Partisan polarization of state… Continue reading

Texas Attorney General Asks 5th Circuit to Keep Using Its Struck Down Voter ID Law Pending Appeal

August 27, 2017, 3:56 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Stay motion. If Texas loses this stay motion, I expect they will try to get the Supreme Court to issue the stay,

“A judge ruled Texas’s second try at voter ID laws is illegal. She’s right.”

August 27, 2017, 3:48 pmThe Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo editorial.

“Texas’ Discrimination Against Minority Voters May Finally Come Back To Haunt It”

August 24, 2017, 5:28 pmThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

HuffPost on whether Texas will be bailed back into Voting Rights Act preclearance.

“Courts Have Blocked Three Discriminatory Texas Voting Laws in Eight Days”

August 24, 2017, 7:35 amThe Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ari Berman for Mother Jones.

Federal Court, Reaffirming Racially Discriminatory Purpose of Texas Voter ID Law, Blocks Its Use Entirely in Future Elections

August 23, 2017, 3:38 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

This 27-page opinion and order explains the basis for the trial court’s decision to hold that Texas’s voter identification law may not be enforced at all. It is an important ruling, but a more important one is yet to come… Continue reading

“Uncounted Kansas ballots fuel fears about Kobach’s proposals”

August 23, 2017, 7:26 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AP: A conservative firebrand promoting President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud oversees a Kansas election system that threw out at least three times as many ballots as any similarly sized state did, fueling concerns about massive voter… Continue reading

“Democrats on Trump’s voting commission iced out since first meeting”

August 23, 2017, 7:08 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Kira Lerner for Think Progress: Since the initial July 19th meeting, Kobach himself has been busy as commission co-chair. On July 26, he followed up his controversial letter requesting a massive amount of voter data from all 50 states —… Continue reading

“Brennan Center and Protect Democracy File Suit to Make ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission Records Public”

August 21, 2017, 2:54 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and Protect Democracy filed a lawsuit today in federal court in New York to compel the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of Management… Continue reading

“Voter suppression is the civil rights issue of this era”

August 20, 2017, 10:42 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Important WaPo editorial: Yet even if all 1,500 Confederate symbols across the country were removed overnight by some sudden supernatural force, the pernicious crusade to roll back voting rights would continue apace, with voters of color suffering its effects disproportionately.… Continue reading

“Trump Election Commissioners Are Resisting Efforts to Protect Elections From Hacking”

August 19, 2017, 12:35 pmelection administration, Election Assistance Commission, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Pema Levy for Mother Jones: Christy McCormick, a Republican commission member, said in a statement the next day that Russian interference was a hoax used by the federal government to gain access to state-run election systems. “This declassified report was… Continue reading

“Husted, Arizona Inter Tribal, and Lessons from the Constitutional Structure”

August 18, 2017, 10:23 amelection administration, NVRA (motor voter), Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Franita Tolson: Husted is, therefore, more than just a case about statutory interpretation. It also implicates the Constitution’s allocation of power to the states and the federal government under the Elections Clause. As both the Arizona and Ohio laws illustrate,… Continue reading

Pippa Norris’s “Strengthening Electoral Integrity” Out In August

August 18, 2017, 7:27 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Looking forward to reading this last one of the trilogy. Book descriiption: Today a general mood of pessimism surrounds Western efforts to strengthen elections and democracy abroad. If elections are often deeply flawed or even broken in many countries around… Continue reading