Voter Disenfranchisement

Pennsylvanians Mobilize in Response to New Voter ID Law

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Community Service, Philadelphia, President Barack Obama, Women Voters, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, Elections 2012, Aclu Lawsuit, Pennsylvania, Students, Seniors, Philadelphis Suburbs, Voter Disenfranchisement, American American Voters, Electoral Votes, Latino Voters, Voting Rights, Voter ID Laws, Politics News

When the voting rights of our most vulnerable citizens are threatened, everyone's rights are threatened. Democracy is not a fait accompli, it requires attention and constant care or else it might be lost.

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Republicans Are Using the Democratic Process to Curtail Democracy

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Voting Requirements, Jim Crow, Voter Fraud, Voter Disenfranchisement, Voting Legislation, Brennan Center for Justice, Voting Rights, Voter Qualifications, Poll Tax, Voter ID, Politics News

The fraud that actually exists is not in voter identification but rather in the alleged justification for legislation that requires it. There is no epidemic of voters misrepresenting their identity at the polls.

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Election Regulations and Voter Disengagement

Sundeep Iyer | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Voter ID Laws, Voter Participation, Voter Disenfranchisement, Super PACs, Voting, Campaign Finance, Elections, Elections 2012, Election Regulations, Politics News

Congress alone cannot completely counteract the harmful effects of the new rules governing our elections. But in an election cycle where these rules threaten to undermine voter participation, Congress must act now to soften the blow.

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High Super Tuesday Turnout May Not Prove That Voter ID Laws Are Harmless

HuffingtonPost.com | Gene Demby | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Voter Disenfranchisement, 2012 Election, Voter Turnout, Elections 2012, Super Tuesday, Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud, Super Tuesday 2012, Video, Black Voices News

Some election officials are pointing to high turnout in Super Tuesday states as proof that controversial voter identification laws, which require citi...

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The Hollow Democracy

Robert Koehler | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Photo ID, Democracy, American Legislative Exchange Council, Voter Disenfranchisement, Occupy Movement, Politics News

American democracy is being hollowed out by the slow, steady usurpation of power by unelected special interests and the privatization of the commons. This process continues no matter who gets elected, because elected power is subordinate to it.

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The Next Blagojevich...

Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Corruption, Mississippi, Voter Disenfranchisement, Rod Blagojevich, Chicago, Cook County Board President, Cook County, Phil Bryant, Voter Apathy, Gubernatorial Elections, Governor, Johnny DuPree, Chicago News

Why does corruption seem to thrive in our wonderful state (and my native Chicago!), and what can citizens do to stop it?

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Restrictive Voting Laws Threaten to Disenfranchise Millions

Voto Latino | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Elections, Voters of Color, Voter Disenfranchisement, Voter ID Laws, Voter Suppression Laws, Voting, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News

Voter ID laws will make voting more difficult for the millions who currently don't have acceptable government-issued IDs.

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States Attack Voting Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Texas, Student Voting, Video, Wisconsin, Voter Disenfranchisement, Tennessee, Voting Rights, Concealed Carry, Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud, State Legislatures, Voter ID, Voting, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- More than one million students attend colleges, universities and technical schools in Texas. But because of the state's new voter identi...

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New Photo ID, Citizenship, Registration Laws Could Impact 5 Million Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Brennan Center for Justice, State Election Law, Elections 2012, Brennan Center Voting Laws, Rick Perry, Voting Rights Laws, Brennan Center, Brennan Center Voting Study, Rick Scott, Video, Election Laws, Voter Disenfranchisement, 2012 Election, Voter Registration, Local Voting Laws, Kris Kobach, John Kasich, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- According to a new report, over five million voters could be denied the right to vote under new laws adopted in a dozen states. The s...

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80 Million Disenfranchised and Disinterested Americans Didn't Vote In '08. What Portends for 2012?

Pearl Korn | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Congress, Yemen, Acorn, Afghanistan, Iran, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Libya, 2000 Election, Voter Disenfranchisement, Middle East, Egypt, Al Gore, Iraq, Tea Party, Syria, Voting, Dnc, Civil Rights, Constitution, Politics News

As the 2012 Presidential campaign heads into high gear, we must engage eligible non-voters who are young, uneducated and economically deprived.

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Should the Poor Be Allowed to Vote?

Chris Kromm | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Elections 2012, Voter Disenfranchisement, Poverty, Voter Suppression, Republicans, Voting, Politics News

The idea that citizens of lesser means -- even during a lingering economic downturn -- should be denied the vote is a theme that appears to be gaining currency among some leading conservatives.

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Voter ID Laws Disenfranchise Women 91 Years After Suffrage

Debbie Hines | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Women's Equality Day, Women's Rights, Women, Voter Disenfranchisement, 2012 Election, Voters, Women Voters, Voter ID Laws, Politics News

Requiring voters to present some form of identification as a requirement to vote will place unreasonable burdens on many women who may be unaware of the difficulty they could face when casting their vote in the 2012 election.

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The True Election Fraud

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Jim Crow, Rick Scott, Voter Disenfranchisement, Early Voting, Election Day Registration, Scott Walker, Voter ID Laws, Anthony Weiner Scandal, Voter Suppression, Rick Perry, Maine, Politics News

In an attempt to stifle our advancement and revert change, many conservative leaders are enacting new laws that make it just as difficult for the already disenfranchised to vote today as it was decades ago.

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Ten Years After Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court Can Recommit to Equal Protection

Donna Brazile | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: John Williams, Tracie Hunter, Voter Disenfranchisement, Bush v. Gore, Bush v Gore, Politics News

The reputation of the Supreme Court has suffered more in the aftermath of Bush v. Gore than at any time in our nation's recent history; but it may now have a chance to redeem itself on the issue of equal protection.

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"Will Arabs Be Able to Form Real Democracies?"

James Zogby | Posted 06.09.2011

Read More: Arab World, Elections, Democracy, Voter Disenfranchisement, American History, Middle East, Revolution, Protest, Voting, World News

The test of the vitality and validity of democracies that may emerge in Arab countries will be in their ability to self-correct, change, and expand.

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Supreme Court Waits in the Wings as Appeals Court Considers the Constitution, Voting Rights, Race and Criminal Justice

Elizabeth B. Wydra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Voter Disenfranchisement, Solicitor General, Voting Rights, Obama Administration, Criminal Justice, Democracy, Race, Ninth Circuit, Felons, Politics News

Serious questions about racial discrimination in our criminal justice system, laws that deny the vote to those who have been convicted in this system,...

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Why People Hate Politics

Gautam Dutta | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proposition 14 Lawsuit, Sb 6 Lawsuit, John McCain, Voter Disenfranchisement, Abel Maldonado, Write-in Voting, Voting Rights, SB 6, Top Two Primary, Proposition 14, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Los Angeles News

Rather than engage in discussion and debate, many politicians find it easier to demonize their opponents, rather than debate the issues.

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Taking our Democracy to the Next Level -- in Virginia

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia, Virginia Voters, Convicted Felon, Voter Disenfranchisement, Disenfranchized Voters, Disenfranchisement, Felon Vote, Politics News

Disenfranchisement laws that date back to our Jim Crow era currently prevent at least one in five African-American men from voting in Virginia.

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Hip-GOP

Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Steele, Michelle Bachmann, Voter Disenfranchisement, Hip Hop, T.I., Republican Party, Politics News

For the Republican Party to appeal to urban voters, and our culture, a "makeover" is not what they need. They need to tweak their policies.

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Identity Crisis: Voter Suppression Legislation Hits Texas

Rachel Farris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, Voter Disenfranchisement, Texas Politics, Voting Rights, Voter Turnout, Black Voters, Republican-Identity-Crisis, Voter Fraud, Legislation, Republican-Ideology, Democratic Voting Rights, Voter-Fraud, Voter Supression, Elderly Voters, Elderly-Voting, Voting, Voter-Supression, Politics News

Voter fraud in Texas is not any sort of epidemic. The voter-ID bill is designed to deter thousands of indigent, disabled and elderly voters, who might not have a form of photo identification, from voting.

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VA Lt. Gov. Candidate Mike Signer: 25% of Af-Am Men Are Disenfranchised

Baratunde Thurston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virginia, Voter Disenfranchisement, Election Protection, Mike Signer, Felon Vote, Lieutenant Governor, Election, Voting, Politics News

If you told me there was man seeking office who raised the disenfranchisement of African-Americans as an issue worth addressing, I would have called you crazy or a liar, but that's just what Mike Signer did.

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Is The Election About to be Stolen in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Elsewhere?

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

It would be a travesty if Obama won the national popular vote by a large margin, but lost the Electoral College narrowly because of electronic-voting manipulation in two or three states.

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Millions of Ex-Offenders Did Their Time, But Still Can't Vote

Tara Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Florida, Convicted Felon, Voter Disenfranchisement, Disenfranchised Voters, Voting, Ex Felon Voting Ban, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Florida Ex-Offenders, Black Men Disenfranchisement, Disenfranchisement 2008, Right to Vote, The Sentencing Project, Home News

America has a long history of depriving entire groups of people the right to vote. Before the Civil Rights Act, black citizens were ridiculed, threate...

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Know Your Rights on Election Night

Leslie Griffith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Machine, Voter Hotlines, Voter Disenfranchisement, County Election Boards, Voter Turnout, Stolen Elections, Straight Party Voting, Absentee Ballots, Voter Fraud, Provisional Ballots, Voter Suppression, Voter Protection, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

How to make sure your vote is counted. It is up to American citizens to do their own reporting and their own investigations. Here's how to insist on a democratic election by your own means.

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Voting Problems May Arise As Voters Swamp Untested System Tuesday

NY Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Voter Disenfranchisement, Polling Places, Voting Problems, Voter Turnout, Voting, Politics News

Millions of voters will encounter an unfamiliar low-tech landscape at the polls on Tuesday. About half of all voters will vote in a way that is differ...

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