Category Archives: The Voting Wars

“Elections: State Progress, Federal Train Wreck”

March 4, 2017, 10:02 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Miles Rapoport for TAP: Two issues, however, were too fraught with partisan conflict to achieve any consensus on the part of the assembled secretaries of state: Russian hacking and calculated interference in the election, and the president’s claim of massive… Continue reading

“Homeless coalitions petition U.S. Supreme Court to protect voters from disenfranchisement over trivial errors”

March 3, 2017, 6:42 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Release: Today, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless and the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless, joined by the Ohio Democratic Party, filed a petition for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge against Ohio … Continue reading

Iowa: “Controversial voter ID bill would hurt out-of-state students”

March 2, 2017, 8:02 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

KCCI reports.

“Dartmouth researchers find no evidence of bused-in voters”

March 1, 2017, 9:27 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Concord Monitor: If crowds of Massachusetts residents came into New Hampshire on Election Day as part of widespread voter fraud – a claim made by President Donald Trump’s administration and others – they managed to do so without creating any… Continue reading

Marc Joseph Stern Dispatch from Texas Voter ID Hearing Said It Went Well for Plaintiffs, Despite DOJ Flip

February 28, 2017, 4:44 pmDepartment of Justice, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Read at Slate.

“Rescheduled:” #SCOTUS Takes North Carolina Voting Case Off March 3 Calendar

February 28, 2017, 2:42 pmSupreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The dispute between the Governor/AG and Legislature as to who speaks for North Carolina and whether its cert. petition can be withdrawn has gotten the Supreme Court’s attention. There is now a docket notation that the consideration of the case’s… Continue reading

I Talked to Texas Standard About DOJ’s About-Face on Texas’s Voter ID Law

February 28, 2017, 2:17 pmDepartment of Justice, The Voting Wars, voter initiatives, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Listen.

Goldfeder and Perez on the Current State of Voting Rights

February 28, 2017, 2:08 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

In the NYLJ.

“A Closer Look at Husted’s Allegations of Non-Citizen Voting”

February 28, 2017, 2:00 pmelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Michael Slater for Project Vote: Secretary Husted very likely exaggerates the number of non-citizen registrants and voters. He misleads his constituents about the availability of a reliable and accurate federal database of non-citizens. He fails to explain that the few… Continue reading

“Justice Department asks court to dismiss claim of discrimination in Texas voter ID case”

February 28, 2017, 7:15 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Ariane de Vogue for CNN.

Today’s Must-Read: Emily Bazelon on the New DOJ: “Department of Justification”

February 28, 2017, 6:47 amDepartment of Justice, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

With a nice section on voting rights, in the new NYT Magazine.

“Justice Dept. Drops a Key Objection to a Texas Voter ID Law”

February 27, 2017, 6:12 pmDepartment of Justice, election administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Manny Fernandez and Eric Licthblau in the NYT: The Justice Department remains a party in the case. But it is pulling back at a crucial phase. If a judge finds the state acted with discriminatory intent, as the Justice Department… Continue reading

“Justice Department changes its position in high-profile Texas voter-ID case”

February 27, 2017, 6:10 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Sari Horwitz for WaPo: The practical effect of the Justice Department’s decision is that civil rights groups will continue, without the backing of the federal government, to contest the purpose of the Texas law. “DOJ’s reversal in position defies rationality… Continue reading

Breaking: NC General Assembly Will Object to Dismissing #SCOTUS Suit over Strict NC Voting Law, Moves to Add as Petitioner

February 27, 2017, 12:48 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Well, we’ve been expecting this. Here’s a motion to be filed at the Supreme Court objecting to NC AG’s motion to dismiss the cert. petition in the controversial NC voting case. And here’s a motion to add the Legislature and… Continue reading