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Tag: Voting rights

Life after the Voting Rights Act

May 4, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Courts, Government, States, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

The Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder—to overturn the “pre-clearance” requirement in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act—continues to have major

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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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Voting rights watch: Is the pendulum swinging back toward democracy?

September 1, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Democracy, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

It has been very disconcerting to watch voting rights erode in America over the past 30 years or so. For those of us naïve

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Voting rights watch: Texas makes voting harder for women

October 24, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Politics, Republicans, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

A classic country/western song says: “If you want to play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.”  Well, if you want

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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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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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Voting rights watch: Florida restarts its [previously squelched] voter purge

August 19, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Immigration, Politics, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The fallout continues. States that previously wouldn’t have dared to impose voting restrictions that disenfranchised minorities–and, of course, Democrats–are back in business. Florida is

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Voting rights watch: NC Repubs push harsh new voting restrictions

July 25, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Courts, Politics, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

North Carolina Republicans are not hiding the fact that newly proposed [2013] voting restrictions are aimed at making it harder for Democrats to vote.

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Supreme Court shreds Voting Rights Act: Political cartoonists respond

June 28, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Courts, History, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates: Less than a year since state legislatures, governors and secretaries of state in both the north and

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Positive signs for voting-rights laws—even in Pennsylvania

April 24, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Good government, Politics, Republicans, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The backlash against voter suppression may have begun. Following highly publicized efforts by Republican-led legislatures to make voting harder for citizens during the 2012

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