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voter suppression
November 7, 2018
Matt Ford
Republicans’ racist campaigns in Florida and Georgia paid off.
November 5, 2018
Matt Ford
How the Roberts Court Caused Georgia’s Election Mess
Thanks to a 2013 ruling, Southern states are free to pass restrictive laws without government scrutiny.
October 24, 2018
Lawrence Goldstone
America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters
Republican attempts to exclude African Americans from the polls echoes efforts by Southern whites that enabled the Jim Crow era.
October 18, 2018
Matt Ford
The Blue Wave Might Wipe Out Voter Suppression, Too
Republicans are fighting to hold on to secretary of state offices that have become vehicles for purging voter rolls and restricting ballot access.
July 24, 2018
Sophie Kasakove
More voters are being purged from the rolls than at any time in the past decade.
January 5, 2018
Eliza Newlin Carney
Trump’s Voter Fraud Crusade Is Just Beginning
The president's "election integrity" commission has died, but the threat of large-scale voter purges is growing.
October 19, 2017
Rachelle Hampton
The most underplayed story of the 2016 election is voter suppression.
August 10, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump could convince Republicans to suspend American democracy.
June 30, 2017
Graham Vyse
Republicans governors are joining the Trump resistance.
May 11, 2017
Moira Donegan
Trump’s “voter fraud” commission is being led by the GOP’s self-deportation architect.
Kris Kobach of Kansas is set to lead the new "Election Integrity" commission. That should terrify everyone.
January 25, 2017
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump’s voter fraud investigation isn’t about uncovering voter fraud. It’s about gaslighting.
December 19, 2016
Clio Chang
There is basically no such thing as voter fraud, part one million.
November 22, 2016
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump’s Government for White People
Liberals are underestimating just how aggressively Trump's White House will shape the electorate in ways that make it whiter.
October 21, 2016
Sukjong Hong
The Trump campaign’s version of “exit polling” sounds pretty scary.
September 30, 2016
Spencer Woodman
The GOP’s Next Target: Get-Out-the Vote Operations?
Indiana Republicans are hassling a liberal voter registration group, in what appears to be a bid to make its work seem suspect.
August 5, 2016
Scott Lemieux
How Republican Efforts to Suppress the Vote Backfired Big Time
A string of judiciary defeats could result in a more devastating one: a Supreme Court hostile to voter ID laws.
August 4, 2016
Brian Beutler
Trump’s “Rigged Election” Argument Comes Straight From the GOP Playbook
He's maximizing the number of voters who'll reject the results of the election, with potentially calamitous consequences.
July 29, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
An appeals court ruled that North Carolina’s voter ID provisions “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
July 22, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
Republican-led voter suppression efforts just had a really bad week.
April 5, 2016
Spencer Woodman
How White Georgia Republicans Are Derailing an African-American Candidate
Without the protections of the Voting Rights Act, local elections are a free-for-all.
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