North Carolina Election Officials Propose Voter ID Guidelines
In The States
North Carolina Election Officials Propose Voter ID Guidelines
2023-06-02 20:39:29
by Dan McCue

RALEIGH, N.C. - North Carolina’s top elections officials proposed new guidelines Friday for implementing the state’s new voter ID requirement, which will go into effect later this year in time for the 2023 municipal elections. The first of the two... Read More

NC Supreme Court Strikes Down State Senate Map, Voter ID Law
In The States
NC Supreme Court Strikes Down State Senate Map, Voter ID Law
2022-12-16 22:18:57
by Dan McCue

RALEIGH, N.C. — It was a busy Friday at the North Carolina Supreme Court, which within a matter of hours struck down a state Senate district map as an impermissible political gerrymander and tossed a controversial voter ID law. In... Read More

Justices Rule GOP Lawmakers Can Defend North Carolina Voter ID Law
Supreme Court
Justices Rule GOP Lawmakers Can Defend North Carolina Voter ID Law
2022-06-23 20:10:02
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday held that Republican lawmakers in North Carolina can intervene to defend the state’s controversial voter-ID law, despite the fact the state’s Democratic attorney general is already defending it. The 8-1 ruling in Berger... Read More

Lawmaker Arrested After Georgia GOP Passes Controversial Elections Bill
In The States
Lawmaker Arrested After Georgia GOP Passes Controversial Elections Bill
2021-03-26 14:12:56
by Dan McCue

A Georgia lawmaker was arrested and forcibly removed from the state Capitol Thursday night as Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a sweeping overhaul of state election laws, including adding new restrictions on voting by mail. Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon,... Read More

Supreme Court Rejects Kansas Effort to Revive Voter Registration Law
Voting
Supreme Court Rejects Kansas Effort to Revive Voter Registration Law
2020-12-15 16:19:40
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Kansas that sought to revive a law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared the law unconstitutional in April, prompting... Read More

Pa. Appellate Court Sides With Trump in Fight Over ID Deadlines for Voters
2020 Elections
Pa. Appellate Court Sides With Trump in Fight Over ID Deadlines for Voters

PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania appellate court handed President Donald Trump's campaign a minor victory Thursday, barring counties from including in their final vote tallies a small pool of mail ballots from people who had failed to provide required ID by a Monday deadline. In a... Read More

NC Law Responding to Coronavirus Could Help Republicans in a Voter ID Lawsuit
State News
NC Law Responding to Coronavirus Could Help Republicans in a Voter ID Lawsuit

RALEIGH, N.C. — This spring when North Carolina state lawmakers were debating a bill making it easier for people to vote by mail in November because of coronavirus, they also added in an unrelated provision about photo IDs. Now, Republican... Read More

Virginia Repeals Voter ID Law, Makes Election Day a State Holiday
State News
Virginia Repeals Voter ID Law, Makes Election Day a State Holiday
2020-04-14 13:14:49
by Dan McCue

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed a series of bills this past weekend that dramatically expand voting rights in the state, by eliminating its voter ID requirement, increasing access to early voting and making Election Day a state holiday. “Voting is... Read More

North Carolina Lawmakers Open Door to Qualifying More Voter IDs for 2020
Voting
North Carolina Lawmakers Open Door to Qualifying More Voter IDs for 2020
2019-04-15 21:52:13
by Dan McCue

A bill filed in the North Carolina House of Representatives last week would ease some standards that identification cards issued by state colleges, universities and other institutions have to meet before they can be used as photo Voter ID in... Read More

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