“Faulty Data Fuel Challenges to Voter ID Laws”
Don Palmer has posted this Backgrounder at Heritage.
I hope he will do a similar backgrounder on the incidence of voter impersonation fraud.
Category Archives: voter id
“Voter ID case will go to trial in January”
Michael Hewlett for the Winston-Salem Journal:
Attorneys for the N.C. NAACP have raised questions about how much effort state elections officials have put into publicizing the change and training county election officials. State attorneys argue that state election officials have… Continue reading
“NC voter ID trial set for Jan. 25”
The News and Observer reports.
Looking more and more likely we’ll get a single opinion from Judge Bates about the full challenge to the North Carolina voting law.
“N.H.’s Voter ID Law Remains Big Unknown for Presidential Primary Day”
“Republican bill seeks to limit local photo ID cards”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
A pair of Republican lawmakers are circulating a proposal that would prohibit county and town governments from issuing — or spending money on — photo identification cards.
The legislation would also bar photo ID cards issued by cities… Continue reading
“Judge’s ruling a mixed bag for those challenging voter ID law”
“RELEASE: Federal Judge Dismisses Tennessee Student Voting Rights Case”
FELN:
Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger granted the State of Tennessee’s motion to dismiss the federal case challenging Tennessee’s voter ID law. The Court relied on the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election… Continue reading
“Judge rules Virginia voter ID challenge can proceed”
WI: “Federal judge dismisses voter ID challenge but allows other parts of lawsuit to continue”
AP:
Wisconsin’s requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls has survived another legal challenge after a federal judge Thursday dismissed portions of a wide-ranging lawsuit alleging the mandate burdens the right to vote.
I have posted the… Continue reading
“The public doesn’t support restrictive voter ID laws, but many new ones will be in force in 2016”
Herman Schwartz for Reuters Opinion:
Defenders of photo ID laws regularly cite public opinion polls that show widespread support for their arguments. Yet these polls reveal no such support, and they prove nothing about this new restrictive legislation because the… Continue reading
“U.S. Attorney reviewing voting rights lawsuit filed against Alabama”
Al.com:
The top federal prosecutor in North Alabama says she is reviewing a lawsuit filed Wednesday by groups challenging Alabama’s law requiring people to present photo identification before they can vote.
“We received a copy of the lawsuit … We… Continue reading
“LDF Files Lawsuit to Challenge Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Photo ID Law”
Release:
oday, one day after celebrating the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — an act that ignited the Civil Rights Movement — lawyers from the NAACP Legal… Continue reading
“NAACP seeks to halt implementation of North Carolina voter ID law”
“NC voting law opponents plan to file preliminary injunction against photo ID”
Winston Salem-Journal:
The North Carolina NAACP wants a federal judge to stop the photo-ID requirement from taking effect during the March 2016 primary elections.
Attorneys for the civil-rights organization filed court papers on Friday indicating that they planned to seek… Continue reading