The latest from Ohio. … Continue reading
Category Archives: voter id
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
This item appears at The Brad Blog. … Continue reading
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 of … Continue reading
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
Wisconsin Public Radio reports. … Continue reading
Interesting. … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
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
Jon Sherman lays out the strategies. … Continue reading
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) upholding … Continue reading
UPI reports. … Continue reading
Law360. … Continue reading
This item appears at the AARP blog. … Continue reading
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 has … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial: Don’t change voter ID law; get rid of it Wisconsin Republican Legislators Michael Schraa and Mark Born: “Wait and see” is not an option for voter ID … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: A professor who studied voter fraud in Wisconsin and around the country testified Thursday that it is “exceedingly rare,” and that requiring voters to show a photo ID might have prevented just one of the few dozen … Continue reading
Voter tweets collected by Mother Jones. … Continue reading
Ari Berman writes. … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
The latest from Wisconsin. … Continue reading
NYT: On Tuesday, Texas unveiled its tough new voter ID law, the only state to do so this year, and the rollout was sometimes rocky. But interviews with opponents and supporters of the new law, which required voters for the … Continue reading
Zack Roth: Tuesday’s off-year election was a dry run for Texas’ controversial voter ID law. On the surface things went pretty smoothly, with few voters forced to cast provisional ballots. That was enough for the law’s Republican supporters to claim … Continue reading
WaPo editorial. … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The trial began with a string of people describing the problems they had in trying to secure IDs for themselves or family members. Some of them have yet to be successful. “I cannot express the amount of time, … Continue reading
Texas Redistricting reports. … Continue reading
Jonathan Bernstein (or is that Jonathan H. Bernstein?): The real point, of course, is to make it harder for people to vote so that they won’t vote. Longer lines are a feature of voter ID measures and the exact-name-match requirement, … Continue reading
Ari Berman writes for The Nation. … Continue reading
Politico: Voter ID advocates and opponents alike will be watching Wisconsin on Monday as a new federal trial on the state’s photo ID law begins. The case is the first federal trial under the Voting Rights Act since the Supreme … Continue reading
See here. … Continue reading
This seems to me to be the key point—why Republicans like ID and Democrats fear it: While Wright will be able to vote, Ritchson worried that others of his age may find the obstacles and inconvenience she and Wright encountered … Continue reading
Justin Levitt blogs. … Continue reading
USA Today reports. NPR: Texas Voter ID Law Creates a Problem for Some Women … Continue reading
Dallas Morning News. … Continue reading
Eric Segall blogs. … Continue reading
Ruth Greenwood on Judge Posner. … Continue reading
Bob Bauer blogs. Interesting list contained therein of what Bob says are predictions about McCain-Feingold which have not proven true. … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
Ari Melber video interview with Judge Posner. Around the 6-minute mark, Judge Posner talks about the voter id controversy. “Since [my opinion in 2007],…there’s been a lot of writing about these [voter id] laws, and there seems to be a … Continue reading
Will Baude: “Posner’s ‘About Face’ on Crawford Continues Turning About” Not sure either Ed Whelan or I are using this as a “hook” for blogging—whatever that means. … Continue reading
He tells the WSJ: In context, with particular reference to what I said after “yes, absolutely,” my point was that we judges in the Crawford case did not have sufficient information about the consequences of an Indiana-type photo ID voter … Continue reading
WSJ Law Blog: The line didn’t get much attention until HuffPost Live’s Mike Sacks asked Judge Posner about it in an interview that aired Oct. 11. The reporter read the passage to the judge and asked him if he and … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
Texas Redistricting sums it up. (motion) … Continue reading
MSNBC reports. … Continue reading
Adam Serwer reports for MSNBC. If you have to preface your remarks with a mention of your “black best friend,” you’ll probably regret saying what comes next. Don Yelton, a former North Carolina Republican official, was compelled to resign Thursday after tossing … Continue reading
Hey, that’s me. … Continue reading
The Business Insider reports. … Continue reading
Texas SOS press release. I would be watching to see if the “substantially similar” name test which the SOS states will be fairly and uniformly applied throughout the state. … Continue reading
Rep. Cohen: “Earlier this month, the federal judge who wrote the majority opinion in a ruling that is widely credited with allowing restrictive state voter ID laws to go forward stated that the decision was wrong and the law it … Continue reading