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Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Election Law
The Law Of Democracy At A Crossroads: Reflecting On Fifty Years Of Voting Rights And The Judicial Regulation Of The Political Thicket, Franita Tolson
The Law Of Democracy At A Crossroads: Reflecting On Fifty Years Of Voting Rights And The Judicial Regulation Of The Political Thicket, Franita Tolson
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Race, Shelby County, And The Voter Information Verification Act In North Carolina, Michael D. Herron, Daniel A. Smith
Race, Shelby County, And The Voter Information Verification Act In North Carolina, Michael D. Herron, Daniel A. Smith
Florida State University Law Review
Shortly after the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder struck down section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the State of North Carolina enacted an omnibus piece of election- reform legislation known as the Voter Information Verification Act (VIVA). Prior to Shelby, portions of North Carolina were covered jurisdictions per the VRA’s sections 4 and 5—meaning that they had to seek federal preclearance for changes to their election procedures— and this motivates our assessment of whether VIVA’s many alterations to North Carolina’s election procedures are race-neutral. We show that in presidential elections in North Carolina black early voters …
Rescuing Retrogression, Michael J. Pitts
Rescuing Retrogression, Michael J. Pitts
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Voting Is Association, Daniel P. Tokaji
Voting Is Association, Daniel P. Tokaji
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Quick And Dirty: The New Misreading Of The Voting Rights Act, Justin Levitt
Quick And Dirty: The New Misreading Of The Voting Rights Act, Justin Levitt
Florida State University Law Review
The role of race in the apportionment of political power is one of the thorniest problems at the heart of American democracy, and reappears with dogged consistency on the docket of the Supreme Court. Most recently, the Court resolved a case from Alabama involving the Voting Rights Act and the appropriate use of race in redistricting. But though the Court correctly decided the narrow issue before it, the litigation posture of the case hid the fact that Alabama is part of a disturbing pattern. Jurisdictions like Alabama have been applying not the Voting Rights Act, but a ham-handed cartoon of …
The Nineteenth Amendment Enforcement Power (But First, Which One Is The Nineteenth Amendment, Again?), Steve Kolbert
The Nineteenth Amendment Enforcement Power (But First, Which One Is The Nineteenth Amendment, Again?), Steve Kolbert
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Bench And The Ballot: Applying The Protections Of The Voting Rights Act To Judicial Elections, Brenda Wright
The Bench And The Ballot: Applying The Protections Of The Voting Rights Act To Judicial Elections, Brenda Wright
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Partisan Gerrymandering: A New Concept For Florida's 1992 Reapportionment, Bill L. Bryant, Katherine E. Giddings, Mark E. Kaplan
Partisan Gerrymandering: A New Concept For Florida's 1992 Reapportionment, Bill L. Bryant, Katherine E. Giddings, Mark E. Kaplan
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Discriminatory Effects Of At-Large Elections, Barbara L. Berry, Thomas R. Dye
The Discriminatory Effects Of At-Large Elections, Barbara L. Berry, Thomas R. Dye
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.