First State Times

Brady: Court ruling on universal mail ballot law, same-day registrations is a 'win for the rule of law'

By W.J. Kennedy | Oct 7, 2022

A universal mail ballot law signed by Gov. John Carney in July is dead following an expedited Delaware Supreme Court ruling that the law violated a state constitutional provision that all voting must be in-person, unless the voter has one of six specified excuses.

Court overturns law allowing universal mail voting in 'a great victory'

By W.J. Kennedy | Sep 19, 2022

A Delaware court ruled Wednesday that state law allowing universal mail-in voting is in direct violation of the state’s Constitution, which requires in-person voting on Election Day absent one of six specified excuses.

New Delaware election laws 'directly conflict with and violate' the state Constitution, PILF alleges

By W.J. Kennedy | Aug 3, 2022

Recently approved changes in the state’s election laws that allow for same-day voter registration and universal mail-in voting are in direct “conflict” with the Delaware Constitution, the Virginia firm the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleges in a suit filed in July.

PILF: Delaware election law allowing early voting, permanent absentee voting violates state Constitution

By W.J. Kennedy | Mar 3, 2022

Delaware election laws allowing early voting and permanent status for absentee voting are in direct violation of the state’s constitution, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleges in a recent lawsuit filed against the state’s Department of Elections.

Delaware GOP chairwoman calls voting in the state 'a jumbled mess'

By W.J. Kennedy | May 4, 2021

President Biden inadvertently made Delaware’s voting laws national news when he called Georgia’s recent voter legislation, “Jim Crow on steroids,” suggesting that changes in the law were intended to suppress the black vote even more so than the decades-old laws in the South that enforced racial segregation.