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Expert urges clearer legal definitions for 'uniform' and 'nondiscriminatory' in NVRA and HAVA
Summary
Professor Morley told the House Administration Committee that courts have reached different outcomes because the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act leave 'uniform' and 'nondiscriminatory' undefined; he recommended statutory definitions tied to similarly situated treatment and constitutional nondiscrimination principles.
Professor Morley told the House Administration Committee that two central phrases in the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) — "uniform" and "nondiscriminatory" — remain undefined in the statutes and that has produced inconsistent judicial interpretation.
"NVRA and HAVA ... require uniform and nondiscriminatory treatment of voters, but have left those two key terms, 'uniform' and 'nondiscriminatory,' undefined," Morley said. He described cases in which election…
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