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Brennan Center for Justice Press release 11/13/07
NEW YORK - Citing new evidence that Indiana’s voter identification law is disenfranchising thousands of Indiana voters, lawyers at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and a coalition of voting rights organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to scuttle the […]

The New York Times published an editorial this morning calling for Congress to pass crucial electoral reform before their August recess, specifically HR 811 which would mandate a voter-verified permanent paper record or hard copy of a voter’s ballot that would serve as the official ballot of record. I couldn’t agree […]

Gov. Rick Perry recently appointed a new Secretary of State to replace former SOS Roger Williams, who had resigned to “pursue other opportunities.” Phil Wilson, a former deputy chief of staff to the governor, took office at the beginning of this month, after assuring Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) that, as the state’s top elections […]

We heard Friday (May 18) morning that Senator Mario Gallegos had to return to Houston because of his health (he underwent a liver transplant earlier this year). His intention was to remain at the capitol until the end of the session and in fact he stayed in Austin much longer than he probably should […]

Yesterday, the Texas Senate almost voted out the voter roadblock bill, HB218. The Texas Senate has very few rules, and the most important of them is the two thirds rule. The point of that rule is to make sure that there is wide consensus for any piece of legislation. Essentially the […]

*quote from Rep. Dunnam on the House floor over the debate on voter ID
The underlying motivation behind the Voter ID Bills, HB 218 and HB 626, is to intimidate minority and elderly voters who typically vote differently from the way the sponsors of these bills want them to. If you have been following our website […]

House Bill 626, part 2 of what we unfondly call the Voter Roadblock legislation, passed the House on second reading this evening after the bill’s author, Rep. Phil King, offered a couple of amendments that made it a little more palatable to undecided legislators under pressure from House leadership.
The amendments did not, however, solve […]

We may have lost the battle in the House on HB 218 (voter ID), but we seem to be winning on the media front — which means we have a better chance of defeating HB 626 (proof of citizenship to register to vote) and of defeating any such measure in the Senate. Here are […]

The skies over Austin are overcast with dreary clouds today but not as dark as those that have hung over the Texas House on Monday and Tuesday. The Texas House of Representatives has voted (nearly along partisan lines) to reinstitute voting processes that have been banished from Texas for nearly 40 years.
Today the House […]

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