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Voting rights 2018: One step forward, two steps back

August 20, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting One comment

Depending on what state you live in and who you are, your voting rights may be either expanding or contracting this year. At the

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50 ways to cheat your voters

March 30, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Democracy, Politics, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

If you want to prevent certain people from voting, you’ve got a lot of options. Some are legal; some are not. Most of us

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Voting rights watch: Florida’s bathroom blockade

April 15, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2014 Election, 2016 Election, Voting/Elections One comment

In their incessant quest to find ever more creative and nasty ways to suppress the vote, Florida Republicans have come up with a doozy.

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Voting rights watch: KS and AZ have scary plans for “two-tier” voting

October 11, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Courts, Federalism, Government, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Republican Secretaries of State in Kansas and Arizona are devising a whole new way to make voting harder. Thwarted by the U.S. Supreme Court

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Voting rights watch: Suppressing the vote by targeting voter registration

September 20, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Federalism, History, Politics, Republicans, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The assault on voting rights is moving upstream. A recently released report by Project Vote [September 2013] lists legislation introduced—and in some cases, passed—in

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Four ways Republicans are guilty of attempting to murder democracy

September 19, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Federalism, Government, History, Ideas, Politics, Republicans, States Leave a comment

American democracy—or, at least, the flawed, but better-than-the-alternative system that we call democracy—is under attack, and not from Muslim terrorists. Our democratic system, with

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Voting rights watch: KS and AZ want to move voter suppression upstream

September 6, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Good government, States, Voting/Elections One comment

For many years, the federal voter-registration form used in virtually all states has required that the person filling it out swear that he/she is

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How to fix long lines at polling places

February 14, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Good government, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

No one should have to stand in line for three hours to vote in a presidential election. But that’s just what 102-year-old Desiline Victor had

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Birther goes after 102-year-old voter honored at State of the Union speech

February 13, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Immigration, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The birthers just won’t go away, and now they’re transferred their wrath to Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old Miami voter–born in Haiti–whose  perseverance in the

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Extreme gerrymandering: Coming to a state near you?

November 19, 2012 Stacy Mergenthal 2012 Election, Congress, Republicans, Uncategorized, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Americans woke up on November 7 having elected a Democratic president, expanded the Democratic majority in the Senate, and preserved the Republican majority in

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