Category Archives: voter id

“Voter Suppression’s New Pretext”

November 15, 2013, 8:27 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this oped for the NY Times. It begins: “IT’S the latest fad among state officials looking to make voting harder: We’re not racist, we’re just partisan.” Another snippet: Shifting the debate away from the “race versus party” … Continue reading

“U.S. Government Opposes Motion By Right Wing ‘True the Vote’ to Intervene in TX Photo ID Case”

November 15, 2013, 4:59 pmelection administration, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

This item appears at The Brad Blog.

“Trial of two challenges to Wisconsin’s voter ID law concludes; Federal judge is expected to decide case early next year”

November 15, 2013, 4:55 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: An attorney challenging Wisconsin’s voter ID law, the strictest in the nation, called it a voter suppression law, a “troubling blend of race and politics.” John Ulin noted that the law passed in 2011 over the objection… Continue reading

“Assembly approves changes to voting hours, ID law”

November 14, 2013, 8:40 pmelection administration, recall elections, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “In a late-night session Thursday, Republicans in the state Assembly approved measures to reinstate Wisconsin’s voter ID law, tighten early voting hours and limit the ability to recall some elected officials. They also took a first step… Continue reading

“In Voter ID Trial, State Witness Says Similar Georgia Law Depressed White Turnout Most”

November 14, 2013, 9:43 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

Wisconsin Republicans Try to Ease Voter ID Restrictions as Federal Court Considers Whether Current Law Violates the Voting Rights Act

November 14, 2013, 8:01 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Interesting.

“Elefino (cont.): Did Voter ID Cause Low Texas Turnout?”

November 14, 2013, 7:46 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

A ChapinBlog.

“Race or Party?: How Courts Should Think About Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere”

November 11, 2013, 9:36 pmelection administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have posted this draft on SSRN (127 Harvard Law Review Forum (forthcoming Dec. 2013)). Here is the abstract: North Carolina, Texas, and other states with Republican legislatures have passed a series of laws making it harder for voters to… Continue reading

“Three Strategies (So Far) to Strike Down Strict Voter ID Laws Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act”

November 11, 2013, 11:40 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jon Sherman lays out the strategies.

Yoshino on Judge Posner on Voter ID

November 10, 2013, 1:45 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

From NYT Sunday Book Review: Of course, such a pragmatic approach can engender controversy, as one line of this book has already done. Posner writes, “I plead guilty to having written the majority opinion (affirmed by the Supreme Court)… Continue reading

“Voter ID laws challenged in state, federal court as discriminatory”

November 10, 2013, 1:43 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

UPI reports.

New Lawsut Filed by Mexican-Americans Against Texas Voter ID

November 10, 2013, 1:21 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter id, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Law360.

“Could Virginia’s Voter ID Law Swing an Election?”

November 10, 2013, 1:20 pmelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

This item appears at the AARP blog.

“New Voter ID Law Requires Voters Be Born Inside Polling Station”

November 10, 2013, 1:18 pmelection law "humor", The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

Recoil: As part of a continued effort to exclude as many voters as possible from participation in federal elections, South Carolina’s state legislators voted Monday to restrict the right to vote to include only those U.S. citizens whose birth… Continue reading