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“Editorial: Voter fraud gets another spin”

Posted on December 2, 2012 9:47 pm by Rick Hasen

Will Va.’s voter i.d. law be narrowed? … Continue reading →

“Texas Voter ID Suit May Await Related High Court Ruling”

Posted on November 30, 2012 7:19 am by Rick Hasen

Bloomberg: “The U.S. Justice Department agreed to defer further proceedings in a lawsuit filed by Texas over the state’s voter identification law until the Supreme Court rules whether part of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional.” … Continue reading →

“Ohio voter IDs won’t see change”

Posted on November 27, 2012 9:39 pm by Rick Hasen

AP reports. … Continue reading →

Democratic Nevada Secretary of State Comes Out in Support of Photo Voter ID

Posted on November 27, 2012 12:03 pm by Rick Hasen

Under Ross Miller’s proposal, “the photos on residents’ drivers licenses would be placed with their voter registration records and in poll books at election locations. People without any DMV-approved identification but who are registered would be required to have their … Continue reading →

“What Effect, if Any, Did Voter ID Laws Have on the Election?”

Posted on November 15, 2012 7:56 pm by Rick Hasen

ProPublica reports. … Continue reading →

“Black Vote in Ohio Fueled by Voter-ID Bills”

Posted on November 14, 2012 10:59 am by Rick Hasen

National Journal reports. This is quite consistent with Chapter 3 of The Voting Wars. Efforts to suppress the vote often backfire these days and may actually increase turnout. … Continue reading →

“Romney Co-Chair: Voter ID Would Have Won Us Wisconsin”

Posted on November 13, 2012 8:07 pm by Rick Hasen

TPM reports. … Continue reading →

What Will DC Court Do in Texas Voter ID Case?

Posted on November 11, 2012 7:26 pm by Rick Hasen

Texas has now filed its reply brief in the DC Court, reaching the question whether section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional as exceeding congressional power. The issue is now before the Supreme Court in the Shelby County … Continue reading →

“Minnesota’s ‘NO’ Vote on Voter ID: What It Means”

Posted on November 8, 2012 7:16 am by Rick Hasen

A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading →

“Voter ID Laws Renew ‘Right to Vote’ Appeal”

Posted on November 8, 2012 7:01 am by Rick Hasen

Josh Douglas oped in Politico. … Continue reading →

Huge News: Voter ID Amendment Poised to Lose in Minnesota

Posted on November 6, 2012 10:14 pm by Rick Hasen

MPR reports the near concession. This is a huge deal. Before this year, voter id had been supported in public by both Democratic and Republican voters (though opposed by Democratic elites). This is the year that voter id and … Continue reading →

“Photo ID ballot question awaits answer”

Posted on November 6, 2012 4:19 pm by Rick Hasen

Important Minnesota vote. … Continue reading →

“Should We Be Concerned That This Voting Machine Selects “Romney” When You Press “Obama?””

Posted on November 6, 2012 1:01 pm by Rick Hasen

Slate reports. … Continue reading →

“Election Results Could Come Late Due to Va. Voter ID Law”

Posted on November 3, 2012 8:28 am by Rick Hasen

See here. … Continue reading →

“Insight: Scant evidence of voter suppression, fraud in states with ID laws”

Posted on November 2, 2012 8:49 am by Rick Hasen

Reuters reports. … Continue reading →

“With unchanging arguments, debaters spar over value of voter ID amendment”

Posted on October 31, 2012 11:41 am by Rick Hasen

Minnesota Public Radio reports. … Continue reading →

“City Sends Cease and Desist Letter in Voter ID Case”

Posted on October 31, 2012 9:10 am by Rick Hasen

Fight in TN: “Less than 2,000 Memphians have the photo library cards issued by the city of Memphis starting in July. But whether they are valid ID in order to vote in the Nov. 6 elections is causing some confusion in … Continue reading →

“Will new voter ID laws swing the U.S. election?”

Posted on October 30, 2012 8:39 am by Rick Hasen

CBC News reports. … Continue reading →

“Voter fraud: Stuffing ballot boxes or the stuff of myth?”

Posted on October 28, 2012 10:24 pm by Rick Hasen

Jim Ragsdale on the Minnesota voter id amendment and Coleman-Franken. … Continue reading →

“Tenn. to appeal voter ID ruling over library card”

Posted on October 26, 2012 2:01 pm by Rick Hasen

AP reports. More from Robbin Stewart. … Continue reading →

TN Appeals Court Upholds Voter ID Law, But Says Memphis Library Card OK for Voting

Posted on October 25, 2012 2:15 pm by Rick Hasen

See here. … Continue reading →

“Democracy in ‘Suspense’: Why Arizona’s Native Voters Are in Peril”

Posted on October 23, 2012 8:00 am by Rick Hasen

This item appears at The Nation. … Continue reading →

“Pennsylvania Newspaper Owned By Top Right-Wing Funder Falsely Claims ID Is Required To Vote”

Posted on October 22, 2012 3:32 pm by Rick Hasen

I wonder if they have/will post a correction. … Continue reading →

“Dan McGrath fears ninjas, hopes for HAL”

Posted on October 20, 2012 7:56 pm by Rick Hasen

Max Hailperin offers this perspective on the fight over Minnesota voter id. … Continue reading →

“Impact of States’ Voter Laws Can Be Difficult to Identify”

Posted on October 19, 2012 8:52 pm by Rick Hasen

WSJ’s “Number’s Guy” has written this column. … Continue reading →

“Pa. ads create confusion and fear on voter ID, voting rights advocates say”

Posted on October 19, 2012 5:01 pm by Rick Hasen

WaPo: “Despite an Oct. 2 ruling by a Pennsylvania judge putting the state’s new voter ID law on hold, a series of misleading ads and announcements is creating confusion and fear among residents two weeks before Election Day, civil rights and … Continue reading →

‘Republican election officials raise red flag over phony IDs”

Posted on October 17, 2012 7:33 am by Rick Hasen

News from Indiana. … Continue reading →

“Filling in blanks about voter ID; Both sides in Minnesota’s voter photo identification debate try to paint pictures about how life would look if the requirement passes November 6, but the real picture has yet to be painted. “

Posted on October 17, 2012 7:27 am by Rick Hasen

The Echo Press reports (h/t Doug Chapin). … Continue reading →

Relying in Part on Bush v. Gore, Obama Campaign Pushes for Ohio Early Voting in Supreme Court

Posted on October 12, 2012 5:43 pm by Rick Hasen

Via SCOTUSBlog, comes a link to the Obama opposition to the State of Ohio’s emergency application to Justice Kagan (and presumably the Supreme Court) to put on hold the Sixth Circuit’s recent order requiring Ohio county election officials to offer … Continue reading →

“As Election Day nears, voter ID laws still worry some, encourage others”

Posted on October 12, 2012 3:21 pm by Rick Hasen

CNN reports. … Continue reading →

“Judge hears senator’s photo ID complaint against Ritchie”

Posted on October 12, 2012 11:38 am by Rick Hasen

Star-Tribune: “A state senator who sponsored the proposed photo ID constitutional amendment took his beef against Secretary of State Mark Ritchie to a judge on Friday. Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, filed a complaint accusing Ritchie, a DFLer who opposes the amendment, … Continue reading →

“Confusion Sown in Pennsylvania by Lingering Voter-ID Ads”

Posted on October 12, 2012 9:14 am by Rick Hasen

Bloomberg reports. … Continue reading →

“Federal Court Blocks Voter ID Law in South Carolina, but Only for Now”

Posted on October 11, 2012 8:55 am by Rick Hasen

NYT reports. … Continue reading →

“Federal Court: In South Carolina We Trust”

Posted on October 11, 2012 8:50 am by Rick Hasen

Andrew Cohen blogs at The Atlantic. … Continue reading →

“Court approves South Carolina voter ID law for 2013”

Posted on October 10, 2012 2:02 pm by Rick Hasen

WaPo reports. … Continue reading →

Analysis: 3-Judge Court Unanimously Preclears South Carolina Voter ID Law, But Delays Implementation Until 2013

Posted on October 10, 2012 11:19 am by Rick Hasen

You can find the opinion at this link. Here’s Judge Kavanaugh’s summary paragraph: In short, Act R54 allows citizens with non-photo voter registration cards to still vote without a photo ID so long as they state the reason for not … Continue reading →