Updates | The Week of June 5, 2017
Significant voting rights hinge on the outcome of the appeal in Ohio’s voter rolls purge procedure case, granted Supreme Court certiorari last week, explain Jessica Mason Pieklo and Ally Boguhn (Rewire).
It is time for Congress to protect American elections and voting rights, writes Lawrence Norden (Brennan Center for Justice).
The effort to institute automatic voter registration is picking up steam across the country (HuffPost).
- Meanwhile, some experts doubt whether voter suppression is a but-for cause of Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 presidential election (HuffPost).
Officials on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission are split on whether it was permissible to allow states to include documentary proof of citizenship requirements on federal voter registration forms, temporarily keeping the requirements off federal forms in the three states (Brennan Center for Justice).
Both Republicans and Democrats gerrymander districts, but only Republicans are good at it (WaPo).