[EL] mooting Kinston case?/noncitizen voting/charlie white

[Michael McDonald]

Or it could be just as the letter states, that the 2010 census revealed that African-Americans have become a larger share of the population and that they have enjoyed greater electoral success in the November 2011 elections as a result, obviating the need to impose an objection based on lack of information supplied by the jurisdiction.

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Subject: Re: [EL] mooting Kinston case?/noncitizen voting/charlie white

Or, it could be that the case in Kinston is so intellectually indefeasible, so offensive in the suggestion that minorities need partisan cues on how to vote and other races do not, and such a mind boggling overreach of federal power, that even Eric Holder understood that this dog would not hunt.
 
Matt Manweller

 
 
Central Washington University
Assoc. Professor of Political Science 
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509-963-2396 >>> Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> 2/3/2012 9:24 AM >>>
Breaking: DOJ Poised to Moot Kinston Case Challenging Constitutionality of Voting Rights Act 
Posted on February 3, 2012 9:20 am by Rick Hasen 
Check out this document.  I would guess that the thinking is that DOJ would rather go up to the Supreme Court on the Shelby County case record than the record in the Kinston case.  I think that’s probably a wise calculation.  Kinston involves a DOJ denial of preclearance of a move from partisan to nonpartisan elections, with DOJ’s objection in part that minority voters would have a harder time identifying Democratic candidates.

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Credible NBC Report of Non-Citizen Voting in Florida 
Posted on February 3, 2012 9:07 am by Rick Hasen 
Very interesting report which requires further investigation.

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Jury May Reach Verdict Today in Charlie White Voter Fraud Case 
Posted on February 3, 2012 8:45 am by Rick Hasen 
See here. From White’s perspective, a good day for it to happen.

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