Category Archives: voter id
“Critics of NC’s voter ID law to present their case in court Friday”
This is a state court case. The federal case goes to trial in July.
“How Fair Rules Can Be Designed for Photo Identification at the Ballot Box”
Theodore Arrington writes at SSN.
“Thumbs Up? New Mexico to Study Biometrics to ID Voters”
Thumbprint As an Alternative to Voter ID for Voting?
I suggest it in The Voting Wars as a way to get around people losing their ids—as part of a bigger package including universal voter registration conducted by the federal government.
Here’s a more limited proposal in that direction, and… Continue reading
“The Truth About Voter ID Laws”
Interesting Chicago Tribune editorial.
“Supreme Court could rule on Wisconsin voter ID law”
Zack Roth reports for MSNBC.
Breaking: Challengers to Wisconsin Voter ID Law Seek Supreme Court Review
You can find the just-filed cert. petition at this link. The petition raises both a constitutional equal protection challenge and a challenge under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
I think there is a pretty good chance the… Continue reading
“Reining in the Purcell Principle”
I have posted this draft on SSRN (for a March symposium on voting rights for the Florida State University Law Review). Here is the abstract:
About a month before the 2014 election, the United States Supreme Court issued a series… Continue reading
“Obama Gives Voter ID Laws a Boost”
Francis Barry for Bloomberg View: “President Barack Obama’s decision to grant temporary legal status to five million immigrants could end up haunting Democrats’ voter registration efforts, by fueling the Republican push for voter registration laws requiring proof of citizenship.”
Brad Blog v. Bloomberg View on Voter ID Laws’ Effects on Turnout
Here.
Voters in Hobbs, NM Approve Photo ID Law
“Assessing the Impact of Voter Suppression Laws in the 2014 Midterms”
Ben Jealous and Ryan Haygood have this op-ed in the Root regarding this report from the Center for American Progress, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc., and the Southern Elections Foundation. See also this story discussing the report’s… Continue reading
Voting Stories from Kansas and Ohio
The Brennan Center has short pieces on how Kansas’ ID and citizenship rules and Ohio’s registration and early voting cuts affected individual voters, part of its series Voting 2014: Stories from the States.