“Voter ID laws could swing states”
Politico reports.
Category Archives: voter id
“Killing a Fly with a Bazooka”
Don’t miss Tom Edsall’s latest column at the NY Times “Campaign Stops” blog on voter id laws.
Important Oped by Rep. Sensenbrenner Goes After Eric Holder’s Application of Voting Rights Act to Voter ID Law
Sensenbrenner has been a key Republican leader on the Voting Rights Act renewal. He writes: “In fact, Holder’s contention that the Voting Rights Act prohibits efforts to preserve the integrity of the voting process is antithetical to its core… Continue reading
“Notion of ID-for-access not new, backers of voting law say”
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports.
“A Throwback to Poll Taxes”
WaPo editorial on voter id.
Must Read Article on Judge Who Will Decide PA Voter ID Case, and the Possibility of a State Supreme Court Tie
This is important.
“Legal Center Joins Voting Rights Litigation in South Carolina & Florida”
See this press release from the Campaign Legal Center.
The Problem of Pollworker Discretion in Implementing PA’s Voter ID Law
One of the themes of The Voting Wars is that it is dangerous when we give people charged with running our election lots of discretion for interpreting rules for who can vote, etc., because inevitably subconscious biases and ideas can… Continue reading
“‘The Debate is Over’: FL’s ‘Non-Citizen’ Voter Purge Has Been a Spectacular, Disenfranchising Failure”
If you can get past the hyperbole and breathlessness, this Brad Blog post offers some important factual correctives (many from sunshine act requests) about the Florida voter purge. Bottom line: very few non-citizens removed from rolls and very little proof… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania Governor Can’t Recall Requirements Of Voter ID Law He Signed”
TPM reports.
“Phantom Menace: The hunt for proof of voting fraud”
Isaiah Thompson has written this piece for the Philadelphia Citypaper.
Question of the Night: Pa Voter ID
We don’t know what will happen in the state voter id challenge, going against the new law on state constitutional grounds. If it is true that the Pennsylvania voter identification law will disenfranchise so many people who do not have… Continue reading
“The GOP’s Self-Inflicted Wounds? Could Republican-sponsored voter ID laws actually disenfranchise Republicans?”
Emily Bazelon: “But there is data floating around that suggests that both the 759,000 and the 185,000 numbers may be significantly inflated. I got access to it only by promising not to say where it comes from, but the… Continue reading
Vote Buying in Eastern Kentucky
Pretty brazen activities, and unusual from what I’ve seen in that the vote buyers were paying for in person, rather than absentee votes:
“When it comes to vote buying, it’s an everyday thing. … It’s pretty much like jaywalking,” admits… Continue reading