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Voting Rights
November 7, 2018
Republicans’ racist campaigns in Florida and Georgia paid off.
November 7, 2018
1.5 million Floridians with prior felony convictions can now vote in 2020.
October 24, 2018
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.
September 13, 2018
Why does New York make it so hard to vote?
July 24, 2018
More voters are being purged from the rolls than at any time in the past decade.
June 14, 2018
Supreme Court paves the way for “Make America Great Again” gear in the voting booth.
June 11, 2018
Losing the Right Not to Vote
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's aggressive effort to purge voters from its electoral rolls.
January 10, 2018
A federal court has delivered a big blow to partisan gerrymandering.
September 6, 2017
Republicans Won’t Play Fair Unless Democrats Make Them
The GOP's inconsistency on disaster relief is just the latest evidence of the party's procedural hypocrisy.
May 15, 2017
The Supreme Court just delivered a blow to Republicans’ racist voter ID strategy.
May 11, 2017
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.
December 2, 2016
The North Carolina GOP Has a New Suppression Tactic: Voter Defamation
As they challenge the results of a governor’s race, the state's Republicans lay the groundwork for a Trump-era assault on voting rights.
October 13, 2016
It’s Time to Fix the Voting Process
July 29, 2016
An appeals court ruled that North Carolina’s voter ID provisions “target African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
June 8, 2016
Question for Donald Trump.
April 22, 2016
Virginia is about to become the next battleground for felon voter rights.
March 15, 2016
North Carolina’s voter ID law is working just like it’s supposed to.
February 29, 2016
For many southern states, Super Tuesday will be a voter suppression test drive.
February 6, 2016
Why Bernie Sanders Needs to Talk About Voting Rights
As the first primary approaches, the Vermont senator has a chance to own an issue that is essential to his "revolution."
December 23, 2015
According to Republicans, the people trying to secure voting rights for minorities are the real racists.

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