Justice Department Backs Challenges to Voting Laws in Ohio and Wisconsin (Posted 2014-07-31 11:58:56) ; Obama Administration Intervenes in Cases in Two States Where It Says Laws Restricted Voting RightsHorwitz, Sari
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s elections chief on Thursday championed a lameduck push to require a supermajority of voters in order to pass certain constitutional amendments, a move that came the same day further voter restrictions were added to a significant rewrite of Ohio’s election la...
Although some states had chosen to prohibit convicted criminals from voting in elections, Massachusetts had not.The court began the analysis in its opinion by discussing the case law of Massachusetts on the subject of voting. Without exception, the precedents held that voting laws should be ...
Motor Voter Laws A state has the right to require bona fide residency as a prerequisite to the exercise of the right to vote in its elections. The courts have also upheld durational residency requirements (how long a person must have resided in the state) for voting. Beginning in the mid...
SeegenerallyTussman and ten Broeck,The Equal Protection of the Laws, 37 CAL. L. REV. 341 (1949). Google Scholar SeegenerallyGunther,In Search of Evolving Doctrine of a Changing Court: A Model for a Newer Equal Protection, 86 HARV. L. REV. 1 (1972). The court has recognized only three...
Across the U.S., including in some swing states, new or altered state laws changing how Americans vote, tally ballots and certify the election.
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Election Day is when the votes are counted, but ballots start to be mailed this Friday in one state. While the concept of a “voting season” instead of a single voting day isn’t new, it hasn’t fully taken root in the American mindset. However, a patchwork of changing state laws ov...
This provision would counter new laws in states such as Florida, which now requires voters to request mail ballots every general election cycle or roughly every two years. Allow people to register to vote and cast ballots at the same time. Twenty states and Washington, DC, already do so, ...
Following theShelbydecision, the Justice Department and civil rights groups filed suit against restrictive voting laws in North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin under Section 2. These cases came before the Supreme Court on emergency appeal in the weeks before the 2014 election and in three of ...