While legal skirmishes over voting rights continue to play out publicly, another battle is brewing behind the scenes — one that will be fought by private citizens rather than political parties or politicians.
Purge plans in Florida and Colorado will cause confusion and chaos for voters and local election officials, and wrongly deny some eligible citizens their right to cast a vote that counts.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach claims the state's voter ID law only disenfranchised 84 voters in recent elections — but even 84 is 84 too many. Potentially hundreds of thousands more could find it harder to vote this November.
Since 2010, 10 states passed voter ID laws. There is a great deal of chaos and confusion regarding what is happening with what laws and what it will mean in November. Here is a breakdown.
The quiet heroes in the Florida purge story are those fastidious local supervisors of elections who have committed themselves to protecting voters, following federal law, and publicly stating their opposition to sloppy purge practices.
