Category Archives: voter id
“This Is How Hard It Is To Get A Voter ID In Wisconsin”
Important Alice Ollstein for Think Progress.
“Voting is already hard for people with disabilities. Voter ID laws make it even harder.”
Justice Thomas Asks Texas to Respond to Voter ID Emergency #SCOTUS Application
Docket. Response due April 11.
“Arizona’s voting rights fire bell”
Group of Plaintiffs in Texas Voter ID Case Seeks Emergency Relief at #SCOTUS
Campaign Legal Center:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the U.S. Supreme Court to take immediate action in the Texas voter ID case so that voters will not be harmed by the law in the 2016 presidential election.… Continue reading
5th Circuit Won’t Consider Emergency Injunction in TX Voter ID Case Until Oral Argument
So reports Raffi Melkonian.
“Voter ID Laws: A Closer Look”
Seth Meyers video. (corrected link)
Plaintiffs in Texas Voter ID Case Want En Banc 5th Circuit to Stop Use of ID Law Pending Final Decision in Case
Press release:
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) today called on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate its stay of a lower court’s ruling so that Texas’s harmful voter ID law will not prevent voters from casting… Continue reading
“The Hard Power of ‘Soft’ Voter-ID Laws”
I have written this new piece for The Atlantic. it begins:
A recent lawsuit accuses the state of Wisconsin of disenfranchising an eligible voter who had lost the use of her hands, because she could not sign a government document… Continue reading
“Voter ID law hinders some college students”
News and Observer:
Ruby McClellan, a UNC-Chapel Hill freshman, registered to vote in November. She has a New York license, so she cast a provisional ballot last Saturday. At the same time, other students with out-of-state licenses were able… Continue reading
“North Carolina Exemplifies National Battles Over Voting Laws”
Must-read NYT Richard Fausset:
The purest distillation of the nation’s wars over voting rules and legislative gerrymandering is playing out in North Carolina.
A high-profile lawsuit is taking on a voter identification law and other voting changes. There are four… Continue reading
“Will a Conservative Court Uphold Texas’ Discriminatory Voter ID Law?”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.