“People have to understand that we are not opposed to photo identification in a vacuum,” he said, but it must not be used “to disenfranchise” people for racial or “partisan reasons.” While some GOP lawmakers may have a “good faith”… Continue reading
In an ongoing dispute between the federal government and the states of Arizona and Kansas over voter registration (which already earlier made it to the Supreme Court), the U.S. Election Assistance Commission issued a decision only minutes before a court-imposed… Continue reading
I have now had a chance to skim the 103-page Pa. trial court ruling striking down Pa’s voter id law—I will have to give a closer reading later in the day when I have the time. But here are a… Continue reading
MSNBC: “North Carolina is asking a federal judge to keep secret Republican state lawmakers’ communications as they pushed through the nation’s most restrictive voting law last summer.”
As I’ve explained in this recent essay, the attempt to bail… Continue reading