VOTING RIGHTS

UNITED STATES - JUNE 27: Gov. Bruce Rauner, R-Ill., stands outside of the U.S. Supreme Court after the decision in the Janus v. AFSCME case was handed down in llinois state employee Mark Janus' favor on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Janus argued the fees public-sector unions collect from nonmembers to cover the cost of actions that help all employees are coerced speech that violated his First Amendment rights. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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POLITICS
Illinois Governor Blocks Bill To Tell People With Criminal Histories About Their Voting Rights
By Sam Levine
The veto requires "an honest conversation about why you wouldn’t want to empower people to participate in the political process," an advocate said.
Instructions in both English and Spanish on how to vote are affixed to a booth inside a polling station in Christmas, Florida prior to the arrival of voters on election day, on November 8, 2016. After an exhausting, wild, bitter, and sometimes sordid campaign, Americans finally began voting Tuesday for a new president: either the billionaire populist Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, seeking to become the first woman to win the White House. / AFP PHOTO / Gregg Newton (Photo credit should read GREGG NEWTON/AFP/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Florida Officials Are Breaking The Law By Not Offering Spanish Ballots, Suit Claims
By Sam Levine
The suit targets 32 counties the plaintiffs say are violating the Voting Rights Act.
TOPSHOT - A man walks out of a booth with his ballot for the first US presidential primary at the town hall in Canterbury, New Hampshire, on February 9, 2016. New Hampshire began voting on February 9 in the first US presidential primary with Republican Donald Trump calling on supporters to propel him to victory and Democrat Bernie Sanders primed to upstage Hillary Clinton. The northeastern state, home to just 1.3 million people, sets the tone for the primaries and could shake out a crowded Republican field of candidates pitting Trump and arch-conservative Senator Ted Cruz against more establishment candidates led by Senator Marco Rubio. / AFP / Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
New Hampshire System Of Tossing Votes Over Bad Signatures Ruled Unconstitutional
By Sam Levine
The law allowed ordinary citizens with no expertise in handwriting analysis to decide not to count absentee ballots.
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 19: President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, right, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, center left, speaks at the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, DC on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Inside The Trump Voter Fraud Commission's Weird, Wild Attempt To Prove The Untrue
By Sam Levine
How Kris Kobach and his fellow Republican commissioners tried to create a false narrative about elections in America.
NEW ORLEANS, LA - JUNE 22: Former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama waves after discussing her forthcoming memoir titled, 'Becoming', during the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference on June 22, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Michelle Obama Will Hit The Road For Voter Registration Drive This Fall
By Marina Fang
The former first lady announced a "week of action" from Sept. 22 to 29 to help people vote in the midterm elections.
U.S. President Donald Trump smiles while speaking during a National Space Council meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 18, 2018. Trump signed a space policy directive to better track and monitor space debris as commercial and civil space traffic increases. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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COMEDY
Tweeters Troll Trump By Renaming Grocery Stores After Him
By Ed Mazza
He's probably not going to like these #TrumpGroceryStores...
U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledges supporters after after the ceremonial signing of H.R. 2353, the “Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act” at Tampa Bay Technical High School in Tampa, Florida, U.S., July 31, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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POLITICS
Donald Trump Says You Need A Picture ID To Buy Groceries In America
By Doha Madani
The president made the comment while pushing for voter ID laws at a Florida rally.
MOON TOWNSHIP, PA - MARCH 10: President Donald J. Trump with Rick Saccone speaks to supporters at the Atlantic Aviation Hanger on March 10, 2018 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The president made a visit in a bid to gain support for Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone who is running for 18th Congressional District in a seat vacated by Tim Murphy. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
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OPINION
A Democratic Wave In The Midterms Is Looking More And More Likely
By Robert Kuttner, Columnist
Donald Trump going out on the campaign trail will only help.
TALLAHASSEE, FL - NOVEMBER 08: Florida State University student line up to vote at the Oglesby Union on November 8, 2016 in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. Americans across the nation are picking their choice for the next president of the United States. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
In Searing Ruling, Judge Says Florida Can’t Block Campus Early Voting
By Sam Levine
The opinion blasted state officials for creating an unconstitutional "secondary class" of voters.
TOPSHOT - A protestor marches along the shutdown Dan Ryan Expressway during an anti-violence demonstration in Chicago, July 7, 2018. - Thousands of protesters against Chicago's pervasive gun violence partially shut down a major expressway in the third-largest US city, which leads the country in murders. The demonstrators, led by a local pastor known for decades of anti-violence advocacy in Chicago's hard-scrabble South Side, completely closed off one side of the Dan Ryan Expressway for about an hour. (Photo by JIM YOUNG / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM YOUNG/AFP/Getty Images)
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OPINION
We Know Protests Work. So Why Aren't We Protesting?
By Anthea Butler, Guest Writer
Resistance works, but only if we work at resistance.
Andrew Oldham President Donald Trumps nominee to a seat on the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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POLITICS
Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick With Record Of Attacking Voting Rights
By Jennifer Bendery
More than 200 civil rights groups opposed Andrew Oldham, but every Republican voted to make him a lifetime federal judge.
UNITED STATES - AUGUST 26: Councilor Chris Sununu listens during State of New Hampshire Executive Council meeting with Gov. Margaret 'Maggie' Hassan, D-N.H., at the Children's Museum of New Hampshire in Dover, N.H., on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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POLITICS
New Hampshire Governor Signs Law That Voting Groups Call De-Facto Poll Tax
By Sam Levine
Voting rights advocates say the change will discourage college students and others from voting in New Hampshire.
US President Donald Trump (L) listens while Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaks during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House April 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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OPINION
Justice Kennedy Cut Voting Rights. His Replacement Could Destroy Them.
By Kristine Lucius, Guest Writer
Anthony Kennedy was no champion of voting rights, but his replacement could make things even worse.
A pile of government pamphlets explaining North Carolina's controversial "Voter ID" law sits on table at a polling station as the law goes into effect for the state's presidential primary in Charlotte, North Carolina March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Keane
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POLITICS
North Carolina GOP Puts Voter ID Amendment On November Ballot
By Sam Levine
Two years after the state's voter ID law was struck down, Republicans want voters to enshrine a requirement in the state constitution.
Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
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POLITICS
Federal Court Calls BS On Virginia GOP's Explanation For Racial Gerrymandering
By Sam Levine
The court struck down 11 districts in the Virginia House of Delegates. Lawmakers have until Oct. 30 to redraw them.
HIALEAH, FL - JUNE 14: Florida Governor Rick Scott greets people as he makes a campaign stop at Chico's Cuban Restaurant where he received an endorsement from the Florida Police Chiefs Association on June 14, 2018 in Hialeah, Florida. Gov. Scott, a Republican, is running for a Florida Senate seat against current Democratic Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL). (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
24 Years Ago She Lost Her Voting Rights For Pushing A Cop. She Just Got Them Back.
By Sam Levine
Felons who have done their time are still forced to wait and wait under Florida’s sluggish rights restoration process.
RALEIGH, NC - MARCH 15: North Carolina State University students wait in line to vote in the primaries at Pullen Community Center on March 15, 2016 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The North Carolina primaries is the state's first use of the voter ID law, which excludes student ID cards. Wake County was among the highest use of provisional ballots, where those voters had home addresses on or near campuses. The Board of Elections will review voter's reasonable impediment form submitted with their provisional ballots to determine if their vote counts. The state's voter ID law is still being argued in federal court. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images )
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POLITICS
North Carolina Republicans Renew Push For Voter ID Requirement
By Sam Levine
A federal appeals court blocked the state's voter ID requirement in 2016, saying it targeted African-Americans "with almost surgical precision."
Blue Vote Here sign with American flags in the background.
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OPINION
Disability Is No Reason To Strip A Person's Voting Rights
By Michelle Bishop, Guest Writer
Tens of thousands of Americans with disabilities have already lost their right to vote.
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POLITICS
How The ACORN Scandal Seeded Today's Nightmare Politics
By Zach Carter and Arthur Delaney
Breitbart led the charge, but Democrats delivered the killing blow. Has anyone really learned?
Asa Hutchinson, governor of Arkansas, smiles during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. Hutchinson discussed how the tax overhaul is being felt in Arkansas. Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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POLITICS
Arkansas Gets Permission To Enforce Voter ID Law In Primaries
By Sam Levine
The state's Supreme Court gave election authorities the green light after a lower court had blocked the law.
AUSTIN, TX - APRIL 21: Texas Governor Greg Abbott attends the Orange-White Spring Game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on April 21, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Federal Appeals Court Gives Thumbs-Up To Revised Texas Voter ID Law
By Sam Levine
A lower court said the law was still discriminatory.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott visits Interstate Beverage Corp. in Hialeah, Fla. as part of his campaign rollout for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. (C.M. Guerrero/Miami Herald/TNS via Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Federal Court Says Florida Can Hold Off On New System For Restoring Voting Rights
By Sam Levine
Florida is just one of four states that permanently disenfranchises people who commit a felony.
American politician Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as he speaks during a fundraiser for his gubernatorial campaign at an unidentified senior citizens center, Emporia, Kansas, October 28, 2017. (Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Kris Kobach Tells A Misleading Tale About Why He Was Held In Contempt
By Sam Levine
The Kansas secretary of state claimed the contempt finding by a federal judge was "ridiculous."
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.), speaks to guests during the National Action Network (NAN) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Public Policy Forum in the Harlem borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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POLITICS
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Is Restoring Voting Rights To Felons On Parole
By Sam Levine
“I’m unwilling to take no for an answer, I’m gonna make it law by executive order."
WASHINGTON, USA - APRIL 11: Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the second day of testimony before Congress by Zuckerberg, 33, after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm linked to the Trump campaign. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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OPINION
Cambridge Analytica’s Abuse Shows Why Diversity In Tech Matters
By Leah Wright Rigueur and Bärí A. Williams, Columnists
Technology changes, but the deliberate marginalization of racial minorities stays the same.
The Maryland State House is located in Annapolis and is the oldest state capitol in continuous legislative use, dating to 1772.
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POLITICS
Eleventh State Adopts A Simple Reform To Get More People Registered To Vote
By Sam Levine
“It’s a rare win-win-win.”
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