[EL] DOJ Preclearance Denials under the Reauthorized VRA

[John Tanner]

Someone with a lot of time or interns can glean that information from the
Voting Section's Weekly Notice of Section 5 Activity.  These are archived
at http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/notices/votarch.php.    Anyone
interested can email section5.notice at usdoj.gov and get on the list to
receive a copy.  They come out more or less every week.

There also is a room where copies of outstanding requests for more
information and requests for submission of unprecleared chanegs (those to
which the jurisdiction has not replied) that many of you may have seen at
the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chandler Davidson <fcd at rice.edu> wrote:

> John,
>
> Does DOJ have the data on more info requests?  As you know, these, in
> their own way, are important, too--especially those requests that are not
> responded to by the jurisdictions.
>
> Chandler
>
> On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:53 PM, John Tanner wrote:
>
> there are many others  see
> http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/obj_activ..php<http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/obj_activ.php>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, nathaniel persily <nate at persily.com>wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to gather together the preclearance denials issued
>> from DOJ since the VRA has been reauthorized.  I have come up with the
>> following:
>>
>> 1.      Kinston, North Carolina, Move to Nonpartisan Elections (August
>> 17, 2009)
>> 2.      Lowndes, Georgia, Redistricting Plan (November 30, 2009)
>> 3.      Fairfield County, South Carolina, Addition of Appointed Positions
>> to Elected School Board of Trustees (August 16, 2010)
>> 4.      Galveston, Texas, Switch to Combined Districted and Partially
>> At-Large Elections (October 3, 2011)
>> 5.      East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Redistricting Plan (October 3,
>> 2011)
>> 6.      Amite County, Mississippi, Redistricting Plan (October 4, 2011)
>> 7.      South Carolina Voter Identification Law (December 23, 2011)
>> [8.     Texas Redistricting Plans (Brief Filed in D.D.C. on January 13,
>> 2012) -- not really a preclearance denial, I know]
>>
>> Of course, this does not include more information requests and other
>> actions the Department might be taking.  But am I missing any denials of
>> which listmembers are aware?  (I am not trying to invite a discussion of
>> the rightness or wrongness of DOJ behavior; I'm just trying to make sure
>> the list is accurate.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Nathaniel Persily
>> Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and
>>     Political Science
>> Columbia Law School
>> Jerome Greene Hall
>> 435 West 116th Street
>> New York, NY 10027
>> (917) 570-3223
>> nate at persily.com
>>
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