Voting Rights

A Win For Low Income Voters' Rights In Missouri

Demos | Posted 07.16.2008 | Home

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A U.S. District Judge has directed the Missouri Dept. of Social Services to begin providing voter registration applications and assistance to their clients. The law to do so has been ignored since it passed 15 years ago.

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Three Ways You Can Help Keep the Election from Being Stolen (Again) in 2008

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Election Fraud, Voter Fraud, Voter Registration, 2008 Election, Voting Rights, Voting, Florida 2000 Election, Politics News

Helping people register to vote, working as a polling monitor, volunteering to be a vote count observer after the polls close are three ways to prevent the presidency from being stolen again.

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Putting All of Your Eggs in One Basket

Tim Giago | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primary, Indian Voting, Voting Rights, Superdelegates, Native Americans, Mccain Indian Vote, Hillary Clinton, Government and Native Americans, South Dakota, Voting, Politics News

Tribal leaders need all of the friends they can muster in the House and the Senate, and in endorsing presidential candidates, they risk alienating important senators.

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Politicization of Voting Rights (Part I of III)

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

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Today, as the nation prepares to rid itself of the presidential yoke imposed seven years ago by the Supreme Court, the Court continues to engage in partisan judicial activism.

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Can a Civil Rights/Feminist Presidential Union Put John Edwards on the Supreme Court?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Civil Rights Movement, Democratic Nomination, Ku Klux Klan, Voting Rights, Antonin Scalia, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, Civil Rights, Politics News

The word is consensus. It is hard to achieve. But then it's even harder to beat.

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Missourians: Take Action Now or Lose Voting Rights, Dem Victory

Art Levine | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home

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Missouri, the battleground state that has accurately picked the presidential winner in every election since the 1950s, now faces an unprecedented peril this week.

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After Indiana ID Ruling: Missouri Rushes to Pass Worst Voting Law

Art Levine | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Missouri, Voter Disenfranchisement, Disenfranchized Voters, Voting Rights, Voting, Politics News

Protecting voters from fraud isn't the real goal of this measure -- it's just helping GOP officials hold on to political power by blocking Democratic-leaning voters.

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Elections Can't Really be Fair, Free and Accurate if Eligible Voters Can't Vote

Robin Carnahan | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Voter Suppression, Missouri, Voter ID, Voting Rights, Voting, Supreme Court, Politics News

For those citizens who don't have a drivers license or other government-issued ID, but nevertheless are legitimate, registered voters, ID laws can be a great burden.

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John Paul Stevens vs. Barack Obama On Voter Fraud

John Fund | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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We have the irony of two liberal icons in sharp disagreement over yesterday's Supreme Court decision. Justice Stevens, the real reformer, and Barack Obama, the faux reformer.

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Election Systems Upgrade: Money's Gone To Iraq

James Freedman | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home

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Our election machinery is flawed and vulnerable. It's a telling comparison-- the amount of money we spend on fair elections versus the amounts we spend on campaigns or on bringing democracy to Iraq.

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Video Chat With Diebold Expert Threatened By Voting Machine Company

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

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I video chatted yesterday with Princeton professor Edward Felten. After he was alerted to strange vote tallies by Sequoia voting machines on Super Tuesday, Sequoia wrote to tell Felton that if he investigated the malfunction, even at the request of county clerks, it may be grounds for a lawsuit against him.

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The Alternative to Wooing Wealthy Candidates

The Brennan Center for Justice | Posted 12.07.2007 | Home

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You're way behind in fundraising for congressional races. The tide of public opinion is against you. What's a party to do? Recruit super-wealthy candidates, of course.

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Civic Literacy Tests: Poll Taxes Redux

The Brennan Center for Justice | Posted 11.21.2007 | Home

Read More: Democracy, 2008 Election, Voting Rights, Offthebus, Voter Disenfranchisment, HuffPost's OffTheBus, Civic Literacy Exams, Huffington Post's Off the Bus, Home News

Voter disenfranchisement occurs in many forms, but Jonah Goldberg's proposal for civic literacy exam scheme takes the cake for its temerity and sheer nakedness.

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Duncan Hunter's Imaginary 'Herded Voting Aliens' and the GOP's Top Strategy to 'Win' in 2008

Brad Friedman | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Voter Picture ID, Disenfranchized Voters, Voter Fraud, Duncan Hunter, Voting Rights, Voting Process, Politics News

Attempts to disenfranchise Democratic-leaning voters seems to be Strategy #1 (once again, but more so than ever) for the desperate GOP in 2008.

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Senate Republicans Kill DC Voting Rights Bill

AP | Posted 09.18.2007 | Politics

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A bill that would have given District of Columbia residents their first-ever member of Congress died in the Senate on Tuesday, dashing hopes of finall...

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