“Iowa House GOP passes voter ID bill, sends to Senate”
AP:
The Republican-controlled House has approved a contested voter identification bill along party lines after forcing debate to end.
Category Archives: voter id
Pam Fessler: “More States Propose Voter ID Laws”
“Voting But for the Law: Evidence from Virginia on Photo Identification Requirements”
Daniel J. Hopkins, Marc Merdith, Michael Morse, Sarah Smith, and Jesse Yoder have written this article for the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Here is the abstract:
One contentious question in contemporary election administration is the impact of voter identification… Continue reading
Marc Joseph Stern Dispatch from Texas Voter ID Hearing Said It Went Well for Plaintiffs, Despite DOJ Flip
“Justice Department asks court to dismiss claim of discrimination in Texas voter ID case”
Ariane de Vogue for CNN.
“Justice Dept. Drops a Key Objection to a Texas Voter ID Law”
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”
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
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
Some Clarification on What DOJ Is and Isn’t Doing in the Texas Voter ID Case
Before tomorrow’s hearing, the United States Department of Justice will ask a federal district court to voluntarily dismiss its claim that in enacting its strict voter identification law, Texas acted with a racially discriminatory purpose. There is nothing in the… Continue reading
Breaking: Federal Court Denies Motion to Postpone Texas Voter ID Trial, Putting DOJ in Position to Change Sides in Litigation
A federal district court, following a remand from the Fifth Circuit, is considering whether Texas acted with racially discriminatory intent when it passed its controversial voter identification law. The district court had already made a finding that Texas had such… Continue reading
“Plaintiffs Oppose Texas & Justice Department Effort to Delay Hearing on Photo ID Law”
Release:
Groups and individuals suing Texas over its strict photo ID law filed a brief in U.S. District Court today in opposition to a joint request by the state and the United States Department of Justice, who asked to delay… Continue reading
“Texas, Trump administration seek to delay voter ID hearing”
AP:
The U.S. Justice Department joined Texas’ attorney general Wednesday in asking a federal court to delay a hearing on the state’s voter ID law, the latest signal that the federal government might drop its opposition to the law now… Continue reading
“Voter ID bills try to solve problems that don’t exist”
Douglas Hess oped for the Des Moines Register:
Iowans should take pride in knowing that our state, like many Midwestern states, has a reputation for relatively even-handed public administration. Unfortunately, some officials are bruising that reputation with proposals to add… Continue reading
“Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. We did the research”
Zoltan L. Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson for The Monkey Cage:
When we compare overall turnout in states with strict ID laws to turnout in states without these laws, we find no significant difference. That pattern matches with… Continue reading