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155.
John Mark Hansen & Michael A. Neblo, Report of the Task Force on the Federal Election System: Voter Registration, in
Nat’l Comm. on Fed. Election Reform, To Assure Pride and Confidence in the Electoral Process 119, 131
(2002), available at http://tcf.org/publications/pdfs/pb246/99_full_report.pdfhttp://books.google.com/books?id=QLHh
CtmIZCUC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false.
156.
See Ansolabehere, supra note 154, at 19.
157.
42 U.S.C. §§ 1973gg to 1973gg-10.
158.
See generally Christopher Ponoroff, Brennan Center for Justice, Voter Registration in a Digital Age, (Wendy
Weiser, Ed., 2010), available at http://brennan.3cdn.net/806ab5ea23fde7c261_n1m6b1s4z.pdf.
159.
See Jennifer Rosenberg & Margaret Chen, Expanding Democracy: Voter Registration Around the World,
Brennan Center for Justice 3 (2009), available at http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/expanding_democracy_voter_registration_around_the_world/.
160.
42 U.S.C. §§ 1973gg to 1973gg-10.
161.
42 U.S.C. § 1973gg-4(b).
162.
League of Women Voters v. Cobb, 447 F. Supp. 2d. 1314 (D. Fla. 2006).
163.
In 2004, while 7.8% of non-Hispanic whites registered with private drives, 12.7% of blacks and 12.9% of Hispanics did
the same. Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004 – Detailed Tables, U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.
census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2004/tables.html (download Table 14) (last visited Aug. 2,
2011). In 2008, African Americans and Hispanics nationally remained almost twice as likely to register through a voter
registration drive as whites. While 5.4% of non-Hispanic whites registered at private drives, 11.1% of African-Americans
and 9.6% of Hispanics did the same. Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2008 – Detailed Tables, U.S.
Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2008/tables.html (download
Table 14) (last visited Aug. 2, 2011).
164.
During the 2008-2010 voter registration cycle, 14.4 million applications nationwide were from new registrants who were
not previously registered in a local jurisdiction or had not previously registered in any jurisdiction. This is a 16.8% drop
from the last voter registration cycle that coincided with a national midterm election: during the 2004-2006 period, there
were 17.3 million new registrants. U.S. Election Assistance Comm’n, The Impact of the National Voter Registration
Act of 1993 on the Administration of Elections for Federal Office 2009-2010: A Report to the 112th
Congress 1 (2011), available at http://www.eac.gov/assets/1/Documents/2010%20NVRA%20FINAL%20REPORT.pdf.
165.
See, e.g., Reince Priebus, Anti Voter Fraud Reforms are Practical, not Partisan, U.S. News & World Rep., June 6, 2011,
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/06/06/anti-voter-fraud-reforms-are-practical-not-partisan.
166.
Brad Friedman, John McCain: “One of the Greatest Frauds in Voter History”, Huffington Post, Oct. 16, 2008,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/john-mccain-one-of-the-gr_b_135460.html.
167.
See infra notes 182-183 and accompanying text.
168.
Ryan J. Reilly, Columnist: Registering Poor to Vote “Like Handing Out Burglary Tools to Criminals”, TPM Muckraker,
Sept. 2, 2011, http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/columnist_registering_poor_to_vote_like_handing_out_burglary_tools_to_criminals.php.
169.
The one exception is California’s bill.
170.
CS/CS/HB 1355: Elections, Fla. Senate, http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/1355 (last visited Aug. 2, 2011).
171.
History: HB 1570, Tex. Leg. Online, http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.
aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=HB1570 (last visited Aug. 2, 2011); History: HB 2194, Tex. Leg. Online, http://www.capitol.
state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=HB2194 (last visited Aug. 2, 2011).
172.
H.B. 1570, 82d Leg., Reg. Sess. (Tex. 2011), available at http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/
HB01570F.pdf#navpanes=0.
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