[EL] In the spirit of the old listserv

[Richard Winger]

That can't be the full answer, because the white-only primary was formally only in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina.  But North Carolina and Louisiana have long published voter registration data by race.  They still do, I think.  But they have been doing that for decades.  I already privately e-mailed Heather that Louisiana had to sort voters by race because Louisiana once had a law saying the race of each candidate should be printed on the ballot.  That law was struck down by the US Supreme Court in 1964 in Anderson v Martin.

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--- On Mon, 8/27/12, Gaddie, Ronald K. <rkgaddie at ou.edu> wrote:

From: Gaddie, Ronald K. <rkgaddie at ou.edu>
Subject: Re: [EL] In the spirit of the old listserv
To: "mmcdon at gmu.edu" <mmcdon at gmu.edu>, "law-election at uci.edu" <law-election at uci.edu>
Date: Monday, August 27, 2012, 11:21 AM

It is due to the whites' only primary. 


Ronald Keith Gaddie, Ph.D.
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Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 12:53 PM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] In the spirit of the old listserv

Could they be related to the White-only primary? One would imagine that poll
watchers would have been more effective to produce the desired outcome, but
perhaps with absentee voting in-person voter registration was the best point
to police the primaries.

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Dr. Michael P. McDonald
Associate Professor, George Mason University
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Gerken,
Heather
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 1:31 PM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] In the spirit of the old listserv

All,

In the spirit of the old listserv, I'm writing to ask a non-rhetorical
question.  A political scientist at Yale, Eitan Hersh, is doing research on
the racial identifiers that are public record on the voter files in eight
southern states.  He's trying to identify the origin of these racial
identifiers.  Some people think that they are tied to VRA data collection
requirements, but Hersh hasn't found any evidence of that suggestion.
 Moreover, the collection of the data in some of the states predates the
VRA, and  some covered jurisdictions don't collect reach information on the
voter files, while others do.  It's an interesting question, and I was
hoping that the many lawyers and academics on the list who were involved in
the early cases might have an answer for Professor Hersh. The paper can be
found
her, http://www.eitanhersh.com/uploads/7/9/7/5/7975685/racialized_electionee
ring.pdf.  If you happen to have a lead, I'd appreciate off-list answers
that I could forward to Professor Hersh.

Many thanks,

Heather Gerken



Heather Gerken
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
New Haven CT  06511
ph (203) 432-8022
fax (203) 432-8095

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