Fort Lauderdale, Fla.—Richard Gabbay says he wasn’t trying to suppress anyone’s vote. He simply wanted to organize fellow Republicans for the upcoming 2016 presidential election in Florida’s Broward County.Source: Securing the vote: How efforts to prevent fraud, and voting rights, collide...
Previewing the hearing, Chairman Harper said: “Our hearing addresses an important subject of good governance: the accuracy of our voter registration lists.Source: Hearing: State Voter Registration List Maintenance...
The U.S. Supreme Court considered whether to hear Minnesota Voters Alliance v Mansky at its October 6 conference, but when the results of that conference were revealed on October 10, the Court had not acted on that case. It will be considered again at a future conference.Source: U.S. Supreme Court Still Undecided on Whether to Hear Case on Political Clothing...
Cosmopolitan Magazine has this article by Mindy Finn, the vice-presidential nominee who ran in 2016 as an independent with Evan McMullin. The article doesn’t say much about her vice-presidential run, but instead focuses on the need for more woman candidates for important elected office.Source: Mindy Finn, Evan McMullin’s Running Mate, Has an Article in Cosmopolitan...
Source: Watch Video of Ann Ravel, Brad Smith, and Rick Hasen Talking Election Law at Ninth Circuit Conference (in July)...
Douglas Goodman and Nevadans for Election Reform is hoping to qualify a Nevada ballot initiative for the 2020 election. It will abolish primaries, and use Ranked Choice Voting for the general election. Here is the web page.Source: Nevadans for Electoral Reform Hopes to Qualify Initiative for 2020 to Eliminate Primaries and Use Ranked Choice for the General Election...
It’s a sign of popular disillusionment with the current course of American democracy that the past couple of years have produced a flurry of reform ideas aimed at changing the way elections are conducted.Source: What’s ‘Proportional Voting,’ and Why Is It Making a Comeback?...
This order makes sense given the Purcell Principle. Still pending are requests in the district court and 5th Circuit to allow Texas to continue to enforce its voter id law pending appeal (which could well take a year or more).Source: Federal Court Which Struck Down Texas Voter ID Law Allows Its Use in Sept. 9 Local Elections...
Law360, New York (August 29, 2017, 9:07 PM EDT) -- Allowing voters to take selfies with their marked ballots could allow groups to put pressure on members to reveal their votes, a political science professor testified Tuesday in the New York federal bench trial of a suit by voters who claim the seSource: Ballot Selfies Could Lead To Voter Pressure,...
As a federal commission searches for evidence of voter fraud and many states try to impose new voting restrictions, a city in Maryland may move in the opposite direction: allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections.Source: Maryland City May Let Noncitizens Vote, a Proposal With Precedent...
