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Category Archives: voter id
Bloomberg reports. … Continue reading
AP: “The Arkansas Supreme Court tossed out a judge’s ruling striking down the state’s voter ID law on Wednesday, but stopped short of ruling on the constitutionality of the measure.,,,Justices said Fox didn’t have the authority to strike down the … Continue reading
KSN reports. … Continue reading
This WaPo piece includes a “statement clarifying the comments” of Sen. Rand Paul. … Continue reading
Brad Friedman writes for Salon. … Continue reading
Read. And both could well be reversed on appeal. … Continue reading
“Everybody’s gone completely crazy on this voter ID thing.” –Senator Rand Paul, quoted in NYT’s Paul Says G.O.P. Push on Voting Laws Is Alienating Blacks. … Continue reading
Think Progress: Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz (R), one of the nation’s most enthusiastic voter suppressors, released a report on Thursday outlining the results a two-year investigation into possible voter fraud, conducted by the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s … Continue reading
AP has the news. As I’ve said, one cannot consider the constitutionality or permissibility of “voter id” in a vacuum. Each state’s law must be evaluated separately in terms of the types of i.d.’s required, the means by which i.d’s … Continue reading
LVRJ: “A state judge Wednesday rewrote a description that details the effect of a voter photo identification initiative backed by conservative activist Sharron Angle.” … Continue reading
I just went to look for a Westlaw citation for this 4/29/2014 case but it is not yet on Westlaw. In the meantime, you can find the opinion posted here: http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/frankvwalker.pdf. … Continue reading
Pam Fessler reports for NPR. … Continue reading
The LA Times reports. … Continue reading
Here is a guest post from Karyn Rotker, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU of Wisconsin (lead counsel in Frank v Walker). It responds to an RNLA post on voter fraud in Wisconsin, and more broadly on my response to the RNLA … Continue reading
Analysis at the Brad Blog. … Continue reading
Al Hunt for Bloomberg View/International NYT. … Continue reading
Jessica Levinson oped on Politix. … Continue reading
Gannett editorial. … Continue reading
The latest from Wisconsin. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
Josh Douglas at HuffPo. … Continue reading
Blog post here. Where to begin? 1. I’ve explained why attacks on the News21 methodology have missed the forest for the trees. No doubt the News21 methodology undercounts some prosecutions for voter fraud, but what matters is what it shows … Continue reading
Dick Polman blogs, continuing the ghost metaphor in my Reuters piece on voter impersonation fraud yesterday. Since I wrote my piece I learned that ACLU lawyer Karyn Rotker closed her argument in the Wisconsin voter id case I wrote about … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial. … Continue reading
Michael Hiltzik writes for the LA Times: To be sure, it’s not certain that any of these rulings will stand. the Arkansas ruling has already been stayed by a higher court. UCI’s Hasen observes that some of the Wisconsin judge’s … Continue reading
WI AG van Hollen on yesterday’s voter id decision. … Continue reading
The latest from Wisconsin. … Continue reading
Avi Green writes for TPM Cafe. … Continue reading
Andrew Cohen: The 7th Circuit may overturn this ruling. And if not, John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, may do so. These jurists are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Adelman has … Continue reading
I have written this oped for Reuters Opinion. It begins: When it comes to the fight about voter fraud and voter suppression, how do you prove a negative? One key question in the battle over the legality of voter identification laws … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
The Hill: “Critics of tough voter ID laws are running out of time and options in their efforts to knock down those barriers ahead of this year’s midterm elections.” … Continue reading
Brendan Fischer blogs. … Continue reading
NYT editorial. … Continue reading
New York Times: “A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Wisconsin’s law requiring voters to produce state-approved photo identification cards at polling places, advancing a new legal basis — the Voting Rights Act — for similar challenges playing out around … Continue reading
Here, at The Nation. … Continue reading
On the appeal. On Judge Posner’s comments on voter id decision from Indiana. (I leave to judicial ethicists the question whether the judge needs to recuse. But I expect that there will be some people who like voter id laws … Continue reading
Ryan Reilly reports for HuffPo. … Continue reading
MSNBC reports. … Continue reading
Arkansas Times: “he Arkansas Supreme Court today issued a split ruling on staying Circuit Judge Tim Fox’s ruling last week invalidating the state’s new Voter ID law. The effect seems to mean that, barring an uncommonly fast ruling, early voting could begin next … Continue reading
Here are my initial thoughts on Frank v. Walker, in which a federal district court held that Wisconsin’s voter id law both violates the Constitution and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: 1. This is about the best possible opinion … Continue reading
News from Pa: A Commonwealth Court judge on Monday denied the Corbett administration’s motion to reconsider his ruling overturning the state’s two-year-old voter identification law. In his 29-page decision, Judge Bernard L. McGinley said the law requiring voters to produce … Continue reading
Kate Nocera reports for BuzzFeed. … Continue reading
So reports AP. … Continue reading
Bob Nicholson column at AL.com. … Continue reading
Read the 8-page decision. … Continue reading
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
AP: “Secretary of State Ross Miller says a woman has been arrested on two felony charges for allegedly using a false identity to register to vote and casting ballots in two elections. Jon Ralston: .@rossjmiller: “This was… identity theft. The suspect … Continue reading