William Hicks, Seth McKee, and Dan Smith have written this article for State Politics & Policy Quarterly. Here is the abstract: We examine state legislator behavior on restrictive voter identification (ID) bills from 2005 to 2013. Partisan polarization of state lawmakers on voter ID laws is well known, but we know very little with respect to other determinants driving this political division. A major shortcoming of extant research evaluating the…
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…(Will Hicks, Appalachian State; Carl Klarner, University of Florida; Seth McKee, Texas Tech) have a paper that examines the likelihood of electing African Americans to state legislatures, comparing the threshold of black voting age population needed to elect a black lawmaker in Southern and Non-Southern states over time. We also look across states within the South. Suffice to say, there’s a considerable difference across regions, and even within…
Continue readingNew American Politics Research article by William Hicks, Seth McKee and Dan Smith. Here is the abstract: Online voter registration (OVR) is an election reform that has recently taken hold in more than half of the American states. Election administration observers have marveled at both the rapid diffusion and bipartisan support associated with legislative passage of OVR. We examine the likelihood a lawmaker voted in favor or against OVR in legisla…
Continue reading…New book on Florida redistricting by Seth McKee. Click on the link to get the book this month at half price….
Continue reading…oter ID Laws: A View from the Public Paul Gronke, William D Hicks, Seth C. McKee, Charles Stewart III and James Dunham Reed College, Appalachian State University, Texas Tech University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Department of Political Science and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Date posted to database: 15 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 12 May 2015 6 52 Death by a Thousand Cuts: How the Supreme Court Has Effectively Killed…
Continue readingGronke, Hicks, McKee, Stewart and Dunham have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The proliferation of voter identification laws in the American states has spawned a growing literature examining their effects on participation and the factors conditioning their enactment. In this study we move in a different direction, focusing on public opinion toward these laws. Superficially, it appears that voter ID is a valence issue. Public opin…
Continue reading…s and Stimson 1989) or rural and urban sub-regions (Gimple and Karns 2006; McKee 2008). To investigate the importance of geography to vote choice among racial and ethnic groups, we develop a new national dataset of 2008 presidential election results within 166,260 precincts merged with census demographic data. We apply methods of ecological inference to these data to estimate voting patterns among racial and ethnic groups nationally, within the So…
Continue readingI missed this new paper from William Hicks, Seth McKee, Mitchell Sellers, and Daniel Smith. The abstract: We undertake a comprehensive examination of restrictive voter ID legislation in the American states from 2001 through 2012. With a dataset containing approximately one thousand introduced and nearly one hundred adopted voter ID laws, we evaluate the likelihood that a state legislature introduces a restrictive voter ID bill, as well as the lik…
Continue reading…of an Issue: Voter ID Laws in the American States Daniel A. Smith, Seth C. McKee, Mitchell Sellers, William D Hicks, Unaffiliated Authors – Independent, University of Florida – Department of Political Science, University of Florida, University of Florida, Date posted to database: August 22, 2013 Last Revised: August 22, 2013 8 20 The Democratic Risk to Democratic Transitions Samuel Issacharoff, New York University School of Law, Date posted to dat…
Continue reading…“I think it’s preposterous that seven people can overturn the votes of over one million Arizona voters to say the honor system works [to verify a voter’s citizenship…] It’s a bunch of baloney. It’s nuts.” –“Kathy McKee, an activist who helped launch the effort for Proposition 200, criticiz[ing] the ‘idiot judges’ who ruled against Arizona.”…
Continue reading…. That was challenged in a petition, National Organization for Marriage v. McKee (11-599), after the state law was upheld by the First Circuit Court. The NOM is an organizations set up to promote the traditional view of marriage as being reserved solely for opposite-sex couples. It argued in challenging the PAC requirement that states do not have the constitutional authority to impose such obligations unless an organization has election campaign a…
Continue readingThe opinion in NOM v. McKee is here. More from Maine Public Broadcasting. From the opinion: After careful consideration of the parties’ arguments and key precedents, we conclude that Maine’s laws pass constitutional muster. Central to our holding is the nature of the laws NOM challenges here. These provisions neither erect a barrier to political speech nor limit its quantity. Rather, they promote the dissemination of information about those who d…
Continue reading…mes word of this order from the Court: 10A362 RESPECT MAINE PAC, ET AL. V. MCKEE, WALTER F., ET AL. The application for an injunction, presented to Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the Court, is denied. Applicants are correct to note that relief was granted in McComish v. Bennett, 560 U. S. ___ , (2010), which concerned a constitutional challenge to an Arizona law similar to the Maine law challenged by applicants here. The McComish applicant…
Continue reading…BNA offers this report on the Family PAC and McKee stay requests brought by Jim Bopp in the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, AP offers this report on the Ninth Circuit’s Washington state disclosure case brought by Bopp. My earlier coverage is here….
Continue reading…The First Circuit has issued this order in Respect Maine PAC v. McKee, denying an emergency motion to preliminarily enjoin the matching funds provision and contribution limits in Maine’s law….
Continue reading…The First Circuit will hear argument tomorrow in Respect Maine PAC v. McKee, which seeks a preliminary injunction against Maine’s public financing law. An amicus brief from the Brennan Center and Demos may be found here. (If anyone has a link to other briefs in the case, please let me know.) Update: Plaintiff’s filings, along with the district court’s orders, may be found here….
Continue reading…AP offers Anti-gay marriage group challenges reporting requirements. You can find the documents in NOM v. McKee here….
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