In March of 2020, Pooja Shivaprasad and Amanda Miller, law students at the University of California at Berkeley, produced a legal memorandum examining voter protection rights in Ohio in light of rising voter suppression concerns in this state. The memo includes an introduction to federal voter protections as well as a brief summary of state […]
Read MoreVPP Developing New Field Testing Methods to Investigate Voter Purges and Drops
Excerpt – Wade Rathke, Chief Organizer Blog – February 15, 2020 As the Voter Purge Project moves forward, we are now analyzing the voter files on more than a dozen states on our way to double that number in coming weeks. Many of them include the hotly contested “battleground” states like Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, and […]
Read MoreGeorgia is adding more Democratic-leaning voters faster than Republicans can purge them
Daily Kos – February 11, 2020 Georgia Republicans have been working hard to get voters off the rolls, and indeed, they reduced their numbers by 7% in last year’s purge. The bad news for those Republicans, however, is that nearly as fast as they throw voters off the lists, new ones—in large part younger and more racially diverse—are […]
Read MoreFederal district judge deals blow to Gov. Kemp on voter roll purge
A 2018 federal lawsuit against Kemp, then in his role as secretary of state, challanged his removal of 700,000 voters from the state’s voter rolls.
Read MoreIn Closely Divided Wisconsin, the Battle for Votes Is Already Underway
A legal challenge over who can vote in Wisconsin has set off a furious fight, a reflection of political tension in a pivotal state for the presidential race. Jan. 14, 2020By Mitch Smith and Michael Wines MADISON, Wis. — It began with what seemed like a simple question: If a computer says voters have moved and are no […]
Read MoreJudge orders state to purge more than 200,000 Wisconsin voters from the rolls
PORT WASHINGTON – An Ozaukee County judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin’s voter rolls because they may have moved. The case is being closely watched because of the state’s critical role in next year’s presidential race. Circuit Judge Paul Malloy also denied the League of Women Voters […]
Read MoreGeorgia Plans to Purge 300,000 Names From Its Voter Rolls
Voting rights advocates described the removals as troubling, saying it was just the beginning of efforts to suppress the vote in battleground states. By Nicholas CaseyOct. 30, 2019A coming purge of Georgia’s voter rolls has raised alarms among advocacy groups in the state and nationwide, many of whom see the issue of who gets to […]
Read MoreOhio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%.
When Ohio released a list of people it planned to strike from its voting rolls, around 40,000 people shouldn’t have been on it. The state only found out because of volunteer sleuthing. By Nicholas CaseyOct. 14, 2019COLUMBUS, Ohio — The clock was ticking for Jen Miller. The state of Ohio had released names of 235,000 […]
Read MoreWhen should voters be removed from Louisiana’s rolls? Secretary of state hopefuls weigh in
Julia O’Donoghue, NOLA.com | The Times-PicayuneOCT 26, 2018 – 12:33 PM This is the third article in a three-part series examining how Louisiana’s secretary of state candidates feel about recent trends in election laws, namely those that have become popular in other conservative states. You can read the first story and second story in the series. As states have updated their […]
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