The story has been floating around the past few days, but it's been confirmed with the release of a report yesterday from the US Census (specifically the Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement). African Americans voted at a higher rate than the (non-Latino) white...
the vote fraud fraud
What Linda Greenhouse says: Progressives who are frustrated by President Obama’s failure to close the prison at Guantánamo, or who are seething over the administration’s surrender to the religious right.
The Democratic Strategist has a piece entitled "GOP Voter Suppression Scams Spreading Fast". It's mostly a discussion (and reposting) of a Washington Post op-ed by Katrina vanden Heuval. My favorite bit:.
Peter Dreier and John Atlas break it down.In her own excellent article on the subject, Dahlia Lithwick has some good analysis of John Paul Stevens's unfortunate endorsement of the vote fraud fraud earlier this year:In the end, all roads lead back to John Paul Stevens....
Of course. But the point of the whole exercise was to get another apocryphal example of "voter fraud" out there for Republican vote suppressers to use as a pretext, so.
Excellent news:Earlier today, the Supreme Court effectively reversed a Sixth Circuit decision which required Ohio’s Secretary of State to implement new procedures which could purge thousands of voters from Ohio’s.
Yglesias says most of what needs to be said about the winger hysteria about the fact that large-scale voter vote drives inevitably lead to some errors. The rhetoric notwithstanding, registration "fraud" is very different from vote fraud, and in fact the former is extremely unlikely...
Some excellent reporting from Kate Klonick.
The Times:The Missouri legislature is, as Ian Urbina reported in The Times on Monday, on the verge of passing an amendment to the State Constitution that would require proof of.
Jack Balkin makes an excellent point here. Defenses of the Supreme Court upholding the Indiana voter ID law claim that the requirement will somehow be part of a political bargain to improve access to voting, which run into the obvious problem that there's no evidence...
More from Amanda Terkel.
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