All Cost, No Benefit: States Aim to Raise Voting Barriers to Prevent Rare Crime
Cross-Posted at Project Vote's Voting Matter's Blog
Weekly Voting Rights News Update
Weekly Voting Rights News Update
by Erin Ferns
As we predicted last December, legislation designed to prevent so-called voter fraud has dominated election law debates in several states this year. Last week alone, Georgia's controversial voter ID law was upheld by a federal appeals panel, the Texas Senate "sparked deep partisan tensions" by eliminating the majority rule in order to aid the passage of a voter ID law, and nine more states introduced numerous voter ID bills.




