Sentences with phrase «voter registration laws»

In a time when states are actively working to mandate strict voter registration laws to disenfranchise voters under the guise of minimizing voter fraud, it is essential that Arizona elect a secretary of state who understands Arizona from the ground up.

California has recently enacted new voter registration laws that involve the DMV.

«You overlay that with the lousy system of running elections in general — which is, voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»

After voters complained of being purged from registration rolls in New York City and others knocked the rules that prevented them from registering in party in order to participate in the Tuesday presidential primary, a new push could be made in the post-budget session for changing the state's voter registration laws.

Oregon and California have adopted automatic voter registration laws this year.

Meanwhile, good government advocates say the confusion during yesterday's primary voting suggested the state's voter registration laws should be expanded to make it easier to register to vote.

At 10:30 a.m., state lawmakers call for changes to the state's voter registration laws to make it easier to register, outside Erie County Board of Elections, 134 West Eagle St., Buffalo.

The U.S. Justice Department announced it filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, alleging that the board's Brooklyn office violated federal voter registration law by erasing more than 117,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls before the primary election simply because they had not voted in previous elections.

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The tool's biggest drawback at launch is its reach; HelloVote is severely limited by state election laws surrounding electronic voter registration.

Each state maintains its own election laws, and many still require that voters mail in paper registration forms.

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

They've tried passing restrictive voter ID laws, cutting back early - voting hours, and eliminating same - day voter registration.

Liberals often claim that while there may be other forms of voter fraud in the United States, like voter registration fraud, the only kind of voter fraud that a voter ID law can possibly prevent is in - person voter fraud (where someone shows up at a polling station and votes when they're not legally permitted), and that there have been almost no documented cases of someone committing intentional in - person voter fraud in the United States.

- Sean Morales - Doyle, Counsel of the Democracy Program at Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law: Automatic voter registration

Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie and Election Law Committee Chair Michael J. Cusick announced the Assembly's end - of - session passage of reform legislation to overhaul the state's election process in order to increase voter participation, ensure greater access to the polls, protect voting rights, and promote efficient, voter - friendly registration and elections.

And he said laws that have resulted in New York's third - worst voter participation in the nation and fifth - worst voter registration numbers need to be changed.

Thelegislation is part of a broader package of laws designed to improve enforcement of election laws, ease voter registration, strengthen anti-bribery laws, and provide district attorneys with greater power to prosecute public corruption cases.

One would be the state law concerning voter registration, and the other, federal immigration law (a non-citizen claiming to be a citizen).

In California Democratic Party v. Jones, 530 U.S. 567 (2000), the Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring parties to open their primaries to voters regardless of their party registration.

Under current law, voters who move within New York but move out of their current county or New York City must update their registration before the established deadline in order to vote.

The advocacy efforts of the Vote Better NY coalition focus on reforming these laws in three critical areas, through bills I've introduced: fully modernizing and transforming voter registration through the Voter Empowerment Act, instituting early voting, and ensuring ballots are clear and usable through the Voter Friendly Ballot Act.

New York's current laws require voter registration weeks or months before an election.

By Meg O'Connor The office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued an opinion on Tuesday concluding that online voter registration is permitted by state law.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, 10 states and the District of Columbia have approved automatic voter registration, and 32 states have introduced legislation to create automatic registration.

«Laws that would allow for automatic voter registration, early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, and consolidation of primary elections will empower voters and give greater access to the ballot,» she said.

Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday signed into law a bill making voter registration automatic for New Jersey residents who interact with the state's Motor Vehicle Commission.

Based on voter registration as of January 1, the new law would put that figure at about 15,000.

Now supporters of the rules change have ammo to support their cause, as a panel set up by the Democratic National Committee — the Unity Reform Commission, which included Sanders and Clinton campaign representatives — issued a report calling for all state parties to pass laws, change party rules or file lawsuits if necessary, to make it easier for voters to switch their registration to vote in Democratic primaries.

Outside of New York City the Democrats» registration advantage is 480,556 voters with 1,738,892 independent (unaffiliated or blank voters under New York law) voters.

However, the tally that will be used for the calculation, should this bill be signed into law, will be in the spring of 2012, so the number by then would probably be slightly higher, as voter registration continues to increase.

Illinois» attempt to institute automatic voter registration failed after Rauner vetoed Senate Bill 250 over concerns it could violate federal election law and open the door to voter fraud.

Phil Murphy Signs Automatic Voter Registration Bill Into Law Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law on Tuesday that could add hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans to the voter registration rolLaw Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law on Tuesday that could add hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans to the voter registration rollaw on Tuesday that could add hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans to the voter registration rolls.

Ethics reform and changes to election laws including easier voter registration and early voting didn't make the cut.

New Jersey would join 10 other states with automatic voter registration if the bill becomes law.

We think that the elaborate scheme provided [in] the law is sufficient to address the presence on the register of voters of names of persons who might have died since the last registration exercise.

«We appreciate the assistance of the county clerks and the Office of the Indiana Secretary of State for bringing voter registration concerns to the attention of law enforcement and for their cooperation during this complex investigation,» Prosecutor Curry commented.

The office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued an opinion on Tuesday concluding that online voter registration is permitted by state law.

The Commission also warned against double or multiple registrations as these constitute serious offences punishable under the law; adding that the exercise is not a fresh voter registration, therefore persons who registered need not to register again

State law requires the two systems to provide voter registration forms to students at the beginning of each new school year, as well as in January in presidential years.

Some Democratic strategists have taken note of apparent GOP advancements in voter registration, coming after Republican - led efforts in several statehouses to pass voting laws that Democrats say discourage core voters such as minorities and students.

Certain state legislatures got around the provisions with Jim Crow laws, allowing jurisdictions to refuse voter registration to black citizens for a myriad of ridiculous reasons — without any «official» discrimination, of course.

(Calif.) One of a handful of states working to increase voter registration in the 18 to 24 - year old age group, California passed a new law expanding regulations for student - led voter registration drives on high school campuses.

But the law also contains detailed provisions that encourage the states to maintain «accurate and current» registration rolls and remove the names of ineligible voters — such as those who have died, those who've moved or those convicted of a crime.

Arkansas became the latest state to «fix» the non-existent problem of voter fraud by requiring a picture I.D. to vote, while Virginia legislators apparently approved such chicanery by passing a law permitting online registration.

The court's order (released today) regards the South Carolina law as «not [having] a discriminatory retrogressive effect,» and that the Act «allows citizens with non-photo voter registration cards to still vote without a photo ID so long as they state the reason for not having obtained one.»

There are various federal anti-discrimination laws pertaining to housing, employment, public accommodation, education, and voter registration, but it is not clear how health - research funding would be subsumed under existing discrimination law.

Legal Issues Related to the Elections If you're more interested in election law than how the candidates would apply the law, check out these two posts: Discussion of how the outcome of voter registration lawsuits, now ongoing, may change the outcome of the election, from The Indiana Law Blog, and an analysis of laws addressing campaign activity within the vicinity of voting booths, from Timothy Zwick at Concurring Opiniolaw than how the candidates would apply the law, check out these two posts: Discussion of how the outcome of voter registration lawsuits, now ongoing, may change the outcome of the election, from The Indiana Law Blog, and an analysis of laws addressing campaign activity within the vicinity of voting booths, from Timothy Zwick at Concurring Opiniolaw, check out these two posts: Discussion of how the outcome of voter registration lawsuits, now ongoing, may change the outcome of the election, from The Indiana Law Blog, and an analysis of laws addressing campaign activity within the vicinity of voting booths, from Timothy Zwick at Concurring OpinioLaw Blog, and an analysis of laws addressing campaign activity within the vicinity of voting booths, from Timothy Zwick at Concurring Opinions.