On October 29, the voting rights organizations that are suing Georgia over voter registration applications that don’t perfectly match information about the applicant that is already in certain state databases (like drivers license records) filed their reply brief. Georgia Coalition … Continue reading
On October 29, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Turzai v Brandt, 17-1700. This was the case in which Republican legislative leaders in Pennsylvania had tried to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to undo the State Supreme Court’s redrawing … Continue reading
In 2017, an independent resident of North Carolina, Michael Crowell, filed a federal lawsuit against the law that said only Democrats and Republicans could ever serve on the State Board of Elections, or a county board of elections. The case … Continue reading
On October 25, the New York Reform Party filed a lawsuit in state court over this year’s ballot format inside New York city. See this story, which has a photo of the ballot. The ballot outside New York city is … Continue reading
On October 22, the Virginia Board of Elections filed this brief in the Fourth Circuit in Fitzgerald v Alcorn, 18-1111. The issue is the Virginia law that says incumbent office-holders who are running for re-election may dictate to their party … Continue reading
Voters in Texas who use the straight-ticket device are sometimes finding that the device doesn’t work. This year, some voters who push the Republican straight-ticket button end up casting no vote for U.S. Senate. And some voters who push the … Continue reading