“Secretary of State Mark Ritchie offers Voter ID alternative: electronic poll books”
MinnPost reports.
Category Archives: voter id
“Will Voter ID Laws Disenfranchise Democratic Voters?
David Firestone has written this post on the NYT “Loyal Opposition” blog about the sneak preview of my forthcoming book, The Voting Wars.
ICYMI: Dems May Exaggerate Voter ID Effects, But Laws Should Still Be Opposed
Last week, Yale University Press released a sneak preview from my forthcoming book, The Voting Wars. The preview is The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: Understanding the Battle Over Voter ID.
In connection with the release, I wrote two blog… Continue reading
“Voter ID coming to North Carolina?”
The latest from Facing South.
“Racism alleged in voter ID campaign”
MPR reports.
Why Tough State Voter ID Laws Should Be Opposed—Even If Effects of Law on Turnout May Be Small and Claims Exaggerated
In this recent post (drawing from a just-released preview of my forthcoming book, The Voting Wars), I argued that many Democratic claims against voter identification laws and other Republican-backed laws (part of what Democrats term the “GOP Var on… Continue reading
“Document fees for ID to vote in Kansas raise concerns”
Important story: “A coalition is considering a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new voter photo identification law, but Secretary of State Kris Kobach is confident the law will hold up in court. The need to pay for… Continue reading
“For and Against Voter ID—Exaggeration All Around”
Jonathan Adler blogs about The Voting Wars.
Voter ID Bill May Be Dead in Virginia, at Least for Now
A longtime blog reader writes: “After the Commonwealth Institute in Virginia produced a briefing paper on the true costs of HB 569, which would take millions of dollars to implement and ensnare the state costly litigation, the eye-popping numbers… Continue reading
Bad Judge Draw for South Carolina in Voter ID Preclearance Case
Via Texas Redistricting comes the news that the panel is district court judges Collen Kollar-Kotelly, and John Bates and D.C. Circuit judge Brett Kavanaugh. This panel will decide whether the Department of Justice erred in not approving South Carolina’s voter… Continue reading
Will North Carolina Republican Legislature Override Veto of Voter ID Law?
The Voting Wars hit Raleigh.
“Churches get the word out on new voter ID rules”
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
“Who’s for (and against) voter photo ID, and why?”
Eric Black writes for MinnPost about voter id and my newly-released work, The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: Understanding the Battle Over Voter ID: A Sneak Preview from “The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown.
Now Available: eChapter of “The Voting Wars” About the Battle over Voter ID
I am very excited to announce that Yale University Press has ePublished “The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: Understanding the Battle Over Voter ID,” a sneak preview of The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. The… Continue reading