11th Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Explains Why It Rejected Stay of District Court Order Requiring Florida Voters Have a Chance to Cure Rejected Absentee Ballots with Mismatched Signatures
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Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“‘Point person’ for Texas secretary of state in controversial voter fraud inquiry quits”
Dallas Morning News:
Betsy Schonhoff, whom newly disclosed emails depict as the secretary of state’s office’s honcho of a nearly yearlong effort to match voter lists with databases at the Department of Public Safety, quit recently with no explanation,… Continue reading
“North Carolina elections officials will give U.S. attorney vastly fewer records than he sought in voter probe”
WaPo:
Six months after a grand jury demanded millions of North Carolina voting records, state officials have announced they will release fewer than 800 voter files — a potentially significant setback for a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who has targeted… Continue reading
“ACLU sues to block NH voter fraud law deriding it as a ‘poll tax'”
Union Leader:
The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the state on behalf of two college students who claim a new law that requires a New Hampshire driver’s license to vote violates their constitutional rights and represents a 21st-century… Continue reading
“Texas secretary of state apologizes for how he rolled out voter citizenship review. But he still supports the effort.”
Texas Tribune:
Facing an uncertain path to confirmation after ordering a deeply flawed voter citizenship review that seemingly focused on naturalized citizens, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley is now apologizing to state lawmakers for the way his office… Continue reading
Josh Douglas Takes on Mitch McConnell Again over Whether Democrats’ H.R. 1 Reform Bill is Good or Bad for American Democracy
Tweet thread starts here:
.@senatemajldr has doubled down on his falsehoods and inaccuracies about H.R. 1, the "For the People Act" (which he derisively calls the Democrat Politician Protection Act), this time in response to a @heraldleader Op-Ed. Senator,… Continue reading
“The Myths of Voter ID”
North Carolina Cites ELB Blog Post by Nick Stephanopoulos to Argue Court Intervention in Partisan Gerrymandering Cases is Unnecessary
From the opening brief:
“Texas’ election chief defends sharing flawed noncitizen list”
AP:
Texas’ election chief on Thursday defended giving prosecutors a list of 95,000 potential noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls before vetting the information, which turned out to wrongly include scores of people who were naturalized before casting legal… Continue reading
“Inaccurate claims of noncitizen voting in Texas reflect a growing trend in Republican states”
Amy Gardner reports for WaPo.
“What Is Voter Suppression?”
“With Kris Kobach Out Of Office, His Voting Policies Could Wither In Kansas”
KCUR:
Former Republican Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach rewrote the rules for voting in Kansas. Laws he pushed for required voters to show citizenship papers to register and ID at the polls. He secured prosecutorial powers for his… Continue reading
Stacey Abrams: “We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted is a ‘power grab.'”
Very clear Democrats will make voter suppression arguments a key theme of 2020. From Stacey Abrams response to the SOTU:
Let’s be clear. Voter suppression is real. From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving… Continue reading