Voting in Ohio: Federal Laws

Provides for the election of Congress members

Provides for the election of the President

Presidential and Vice-Presidential electors

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Updates how Senators are chosen

Voting for federal offices in District of Columbia

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

No poll taxes are allowed.

Right to vote at 18.

US Supreme Court decided South Carolina's legislative district maps are not unconstitutionally gerrymandered.

Alabama's plan to eliminate the only black dominated voting district violated the Voting Rights Act.

8th Cir. Court of Appeals said that the Voting Rights Act is not privately enforceable.

Federal District Court rejects Alabama's one minority, majority district, after US Supreme Court ordered two districts

Democracy Docket 6/8/23

The Hill 9/26/23

Caster v. Allen

Cert is dismissed, so that 5th Cir Ct of Appeals decisions can go forward in order to possibly have a second majority-minority district in Lousiana.

The case can now go forward.

The US Supreme Court held that the Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elections, because state supreme courts retain judicial review, just like in any other case.

Cleveland.com, 9/7/23

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES

Conspiracy against rights, including the right to vote

Department of Justice

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) specifies that four commissioners are nominated by the President on recommendations from the majority and minority leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

US Dept of Justice 11/26/24

March 7, 2021

Federal Elections

Ohio Capital Journal 9/26/24

8/27/24Trump indicted for conspiracy to violate the right to vote because of January 6.

Ohio Capital Journal 4/17/23

Josh Blackman & Seth Barrett Tillman, 15(1) N.Y.U. J.L. & LIBERTY 1 (2021)

William Baude & Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 172, Forthcoming (2023)