Voter ID Dry Run Hits Speed Bumps (News Clips) 9/13/2012 “Cynthia Houston, 84, had a flash of grumpiness when she went to vote yesterday in Boscawen: Her husband reminded her that she was supposed to bring a photo ID after they'd already gotten in…
Lewisburg [PA] League Helping Elderly, Others Prepare to Vote (News Clips) 9/11/2012 “The November elections are less than two months away, and Pennsylvania has a new voter identification law... That worries the League of Women Voters of the Lewisburg Area. ... “I have a concern…
Justice Department Clears New Hampshire Voter ID Law (News Clips) 9/5/2012 “The Justice Department has cleared New Hampshire's voter ID law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Unlike voter ID laws DOJ has challenged, voters who lack an acceptable form of photo…
Opponents of [WI] Voter ID Law Want Courts to Delay Ruling... (News Clips) 9/5/2012 “Three groups that convinced judges to throw out Wisconsin's voter ID requirement have asked the Supreme Court not to take over the cases and act on them before the November elections. The…
South Carolina voter ID Trial Phase Closes with Questions... (News Clips) 9/4/2012 “How South Carolina election officials accommodate voters unable to get required photo identification before going to the polls is playing a key role in the legal fight over whether the state’s…
Routine Quest to Get ID Becomes an Ordeal (News Clips) 9/4/2012 "Eugene Sim is living a Catch 22. More than one month ago Sim, 62, applied to renew his Indiana identification card."
Justice for Voters in Texas and Florida (News Clips) 8/31/2012 “Fortunately, federal courts are seeing these efforts for what they are: a variation on the racist laws that disenfranchised millions before those tactics were outlawed by the Voting Rights Act. ……
Editorial: [MN] Court Ignores Amendment Flaws (News Clips) 8/29/2012 "Two dissenting justices, Alan Page and Paul Anderson, said the full text of amendments -- not summary descriptions written by lawmakers -- should be on the ballot. ... In his lengthy dissent,…
A Solution in Search of a Problem (News Clips) 8/28/2012 “If Wisconsin had a problem with voter fraud, the action taken by state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen last week would be more understandable. ...But the state doesn't have a problem... Van…
[MN] Supreme Court Rules Both Suits in Legislature’s Favor (News Clips) 8/28/2012 “The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Legislature’s voter ID ballot question will stay on the ballot as originally written after voter ID opponents [including the League] filed a lawsuit…