Ned Barnett column in the News and Observer. … Continue reading
Category Archives: voter id
The latest from North Carolina. … Continue reading
Winston Salem-Journal: After four days of testimony, the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP and the U.S. Department of Justice rested their case Thursday in a federal trial challenging North Carolina’s photo ID requirement for voting. Their last witness was … Continue reading
The latest from the NC voter id trial. … Continue reading
Zack Roth for MSNBC. … Continue reading
David Graham for the Atlantic. … Continue reading
Charlotte Observer: Burden, on the stand for about two hours on the first day of a trial expected to last through the week, said he thought the elections law overhaul in 2013 and amended in 2015 would place a greater … Continue reading
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NYT: The bitter dispute about North Carolina’s elections laws returned to a federal courtroom here on Monday as the state’s voter identification requirement went on trial. The week’s proceedings will affect election practices in North Carolina, a state that has … Continue reading
WaPo: The photo-ID trial is expected to last about a week. North Carolina’s snowy and icy conditions affected the first day of trial. Several witnesses were unable to travel to Winston-Salem, including plaintiffs Rosanell Eaton, 94, and her daughter. Instead, … Continue reading
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New and Observer: Many in North Carolina may begin their Monday morning assessing what, if any, obstacles were left behind by the winter storm that covered the state with snow and ice. In a federal courtroom in Winston-Salem, U.S. District … Continue reading
WaPo: Rosanell Eaton still remembers the day 70 years ago when she traveled two hours with her mother in a mule-drawn wagon to register to vote at the county courthouse. Before she could, she was forced to take a literacy … Continue reading
Michael Hewlett curtain-raiser for the Winston-Salem Journal. … Continue reading
KC Star: The Missouri House on Wednesday gave initial approval to a pair of bills that would require Missourians to present a photo ID to vote in public elections. Both bills are expected to pass the House and be sent … Continue reading
Winston Salem-Journal: A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction against North Carolina’s photo ID requirement Friday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder means that voters will have to show a photo ID during the March 15 primary. … Continue reading
AP: A Missouri House committee approved a pair of measures Tuesday aimed at requiring government-issued photo identification to vote. A similar ID law was struck down in 2006, with the Missouri Supreme Court saying it violated state residents’ constitutional right … Continue reading
Winston-Salem Journal: The N.C. NAACP wants to postpone a trial on the state’s photo ID requirement until after the March 15 primary, according to court papers filed Tuesday…. Attorneys for the state NAACP have argued that state elections officials have … Continue reading
Don Palmer has posted this Backgrounder at Heritage. I hope he will do a similar backgrounder on the incidence of voter impersonation fraud. … Continue reading
Michael Hewlett for the Winston-Salem Journal: Attorneys for the N.C. NAACP have raised questions about how much effort state elections officials have put into publicizing the change and training county election officials. State attorneys argue that state election officials have … Continue reading
The News and Observer reports. Looking more and more likely we’ll get a single opinion from Judge Bates about the full challenge to the North Carolina voting law. … Continue reading
New Hampshire Public Radio reports. … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A pair of Republican lawmakers are circulating a proposal that would prohibit county and town governments from issuing — or spending money on — photo identification cards. The legislation would also bar photo ID cards issued by cities … Continue reading
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FELN: Late yesterday, U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger granted the State of Tennessee’s motion to dismiss the federal case challenging Tennessee’s voter ID law. The Court relied on the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, … Continue reading
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AP: Wisconsin’s requirement that voters show photo identification at the polls has survived another legal challenge after a federal judge Thursday dismissed portions of a wide-ranging lawsuit alleging the mandate burdens the right to vote. I have posted the judge’s … Continue reading
Herman Schwartz for Reuters Opinion: Defenders of photo ID laws regularly cite public opinion polls that show widespread support for their arguments. Yet these polls reveal no such support, and they prove nothing about this new restrictive legislation because the … Continue reading
Al.com: The top federal prosecutor in North Alabama says she is reviewing a lawsuit filed Wednesday by groups challenging Alabama’s law requiring people to present photo identification before they can vote. “We received a copy of the lawsuit … We … Continue reading
Release: oday, one day after celebrating the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama — an act that ignited the Civil Rights Movement — lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense … Continue reading
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Winston Salem-Journal: The North Carolina NAACP wants a federal judge to stop the photo-ID requirement from taking effect during the March 2016 primary elections. Attorneys for the civil-rights organization filed court papers on Friday indicating that they planned to seek … Continue reading
Wisconsin State Journal oped: Today is Veterans Day, and Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin will no doubt be thanking us for our service and telling us how important we are and how much they honor us. But their words ring hollow … Continue reading
Motion to dismiss denied. … Continue reading
Robert Driscoll: So the good news is that the VRA is alive and well, covers the entire country, and protects everyone — regardless of race — from actual discriminatory voting procedures and practices. The bad news is that the Democratic Party pretends … Continue reading
Lyle Denniston writes at Constitution Daily. … Continue reading
ACLU: A federal district court today rejected a request to increase access to the ballot for Wisconsin voters. The American Civil Liberties Union sought to expand the list of acceptable identification to include IDs for veterans and students attending technical … Continue reading
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Bryan Lowry, Kobach’s voter prosecutions draw scrutiny to proof-of-citzenship requirement: Kansas’ proof-of-citizenship law would have done nothing to prevent the type of voter fraud Secretary of State Kris Kobach alleges three people committed in recent elections. Kobach’s office announced three prosecutions … Continue reading
WaPo: The governor of Alabama has partially reversed a decision to close more than 30 government offices that issue driver licenses and photo IDs, following weeks of criticism by civil rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers who say the action would make it harder for … Continue reading
Today’s must-read: Campbell Robertson in the NYT with a look at the nuances surrounding the controversy. … Continue reading
NPR: YEAGER: At a press conference in Birmingham, the Reverend Jesse Jackson isn’t shy about what he thinks of the state’s move. JESSE JACKSON: Of course it’s a new Jim Crow. YEAGER: Jim Crow – he’s referring to the system … Continue reading
NYT editorial. … Continue reading
Winston-Salem Journal: State attorneys want a federal judge to dismiss the legal challenge to North Carolina’s voter-identification law before the March 2016 presidential primary, according to court documents filed Wednesday. And though the plaintiffs, including the North Carolina chapter of … Continue reading
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Think Progress: Wisconsin once again has to defend its voter ID law in federal court, this time responding to a challenge to the law’s exclusion of veterans’ IDs, technical college IDs, and out-of-state drivers’ licenses. Staff attorney Sean Young with … Continue reading
Letter: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”)1, on behalf of Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, writes to raise our grave concerns regarding the … Continue reading
TPM: What happens when a state with a tough voter ID law suddenly makes it much harder for minorities to get driver’s licenses? We are about to find out in Alabama. Facing a budget crisis, Alabama has shuttered 31 driver’s … Continue reading
Kyle Whitmore: The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s website says their office at the Clarke County Courthouse is still open, but soon a lot of others nearby won’t be. On Wednesday, the agency announced that it would close 31 offices throughout … Continue reading