The symposium includes contributions by Adam Thierer, Mikayla Novak, Max Borders, and myself. The relationship between exit and voice is as important an issue as ever.
Iowa was the last state in the U.S. with a lifetime voting ban for anyone with a felony record.
The Protect My Ballot campaign is out to stop ranked-choice voting.
The state has barred hundreds of thousands of residents with felony records from voting without first paying off their court fines and fees.
He has added strong anti-abortion and anti-vaccine views to his public profile, and said it was racist to think blacks needed to vote Democrat.
West Virginia and Delaware are letting citizens vote via their phones and tablets. Security experts warn the tech is still risky.
A law passed by Florida Republicans to limit a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to felony offenders violates the 14th and 24th Amendments, the judge ruled.
A president who can attach his own new conditions to federal grants to states could use that power to undermine state autonomy on many issues - especially now that federal spending has been massively expanded during the coronavirus crisis.
It is unconstitutional, the 11th Circuit holds, for Florida to deny voting rights to ex-felons solely because they have outstanding fines or fees. to vote And yes, "re-disenfranchise" is a real word.
"Equally guilty but wealthier felons are offered access to the ballot while these plaintiffs continue to be disenfranchised, perhaps forever."
You have this Democrat or this other Democrat. What other options do you need?
The Court argues that Amendment 4's language covers financial obligations, not just terms of imprisonment and supervised release.
Meanwhile, outgoing Gov. Matt Bevin made some controversial pardon choices as he headed for the door.
The ruling is a partial victory for civil liberties groups, who argue that lawmakers were subverting a constitutional amendment expected to restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians.
This is a giant step in advancing Prime Minister Nardendra Modi's vision of India as a Hindu nation.
Incarcerated people are already paying their debt to society. What good does it do the rest of the population to take away their right to have a say?
A Florida House committee advanced a bill that would require people with felony records to pay off their court debts before they could regain the right to vote.
More than 8 percent of the state's population is currently disenfranchised.
A Canadian Supreme Court decision striking down a law denying the right to vote to expats who have resided abroad for over five years raises broader questions about democratic theory.
Now the Party needs to register over 5,000 voters to get on the ballot in 2020, even though it already had that many before the state arbitrarily changed their registration.
Few will agree with Cambridge political scientist David Runciman's proposal to lower the voting age to 6. But standard reasons for rejecting the idea raise serious questions about many adult voters, too.
Watch the Oxford-style debate hosted by the Soho Forum.
Amendment 4 will reverse Florida's more than 100-year-old law disenfranchising felons, a vestige of the state's racist "Black Codes."
If Amendment 4 receives 60% of the vote in November, ex-felons would see the right to vote once again.
Economist Dambisa Moyo is right to worry about the dangers of political ignorance. But her proposed solution for the problem falls short.
He faces a reelection challenge from the left, with Cynthia Nixon running on criminal justice issues like pot legalization.
A higher non-response rate among illegal immigrants is a goal to be celebrated, not some minor potential side effect to be lamented, Kris Kobach, David Vitter, and other would-be gerrymanderers stress.
An obsession with election fraud leads to cruel punishments.
The Census Bureau's decision to ask about citizenship in its decennial survey for the first time since 1950 will lead to worse data, but better electoral results for Republicans.
The state uses a panel of partisan officials with absolute discretion to determine who gets to vote again
Florida voters are set to consider deleting a provision in the Florida Constitution depriving convicted felons of the right to vote. It's about time.
