Archive for April 2014

Voter ID is back in the headlines – and is likely to stay there for a while – as judges in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania hand down rulings blocking enforcement of ID laws in both states.

Minnesota appears poised to enact bipartisan OVR legislation, even as a local judge invalidated the existing system as an improper exercise of authority by the Secretary of State. Still, it’s hard not to wonder if the two aren’t somehow causally related.

There will be a free webinar tomorrow (Tuesday April 29) hosted by ELECTricity on a new line optimization tool developed by Mark Pelczarski and endorsed by the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.

An Arkansas judge, citing the state Constitution, blocked enforcement of the state’s new voter ID law – in large part because of extra requirements imposed on absentee voters.

The State of Mississippi has provided IDs to nearly 700 voters statewide as part of its aggressive outreach effort – built in part through consultation with the federal government and community groups.

Virginia’s new Democratic Governor is continuing the work of his GOP predecessor to ease the process of voting rights restoration for ex-offenders in the Commonwealth.

The Republican National Lawyers Association has released a response to the PCEA that is broadly supportive of many proposed reforms like online voter registration – but draws a bright red line at the expansion of early voting.

A Kansas paper takes a closer look at the growing interstate voter crosscheck program launched by the state in 2007 and in use in more than half the nation today.

The blog will take a break this week (unless news breaks) and will return with a regular post on Monday, April 21.

Maricopa County’s response to a high number of provisional ballots in 2012 is to implement a combination of hi-tech (e-pollbooks) and low-tech (day-glo vote by mail ballots) to ensure that voters cast the right ballot in the right place.