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Top 10 Voter Suppression Moments of 2012

Judith Browne Dianis | Posted 02.25.2013 | Politics
Read More: Voter Registration, Voter ID Laws, Low-Income-Voters, Latino Politics, Voter Suppression, Voter Fraud Early Voting, Black Voters, Elections 2012, Election Reform, Voter ID, Voter Intimidation, Photo Id Laws, Charlie Crist, Voting Rights, Voter Protection, Election 2012, Republican Party, Politics News
Judith Browne Dianis

Largely driven by a spate of new laws and policies, including new restrictions on the type of ID that voters can use and flawed voter purges, conservative legislatures stopped at nothing to make it harder to register to vote, harder to cast a ballot, and harder to have a vote counted.

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Shocking Number Of Low-Income Voters Support Romney

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 09.18.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- When Mitt Romney told donors he'd never win the support of Americans who don't pay income tax, he may have been ceding more than a few o...

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Want to Solve the Problem of Money in Politics? Vote!

Terry Newell | Posted 03.24.2012 | Politics
Read More: Money in Politics, Youth Vote, Campaign Finance Reform, Low-Income-Voters, Voting, Stephen Colbert 2012, Citizens United, Super Pac, Vote, Stephen Colbert Super Pac, Super PACs, Voters, Campaign Finance, Get Money Out, Politics News
Terry Newell

To the extent that money is heavily influencing campaigns, democracy takes a hit. We need a solution that does not depend on new laws or the Supreme Court. Fortunately, such a solution is available: voting.

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Democracy Under Attack

Judith Browne Dianis | Posted 11.28.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Voter Intimidation, Gop Voter Suppression, Voting Rights, Black Voters, Voter ID Laws, Low-Income-Voters, Voter Suppression, Voter ID, Black Voices News
Judith Browne Dianis

Today, we are witnessing the greatest assault on democracy in over a century. Not since the days of poll taxes and literacy tests has our country seen such blatant attempts to suppress the vote.

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