Depending on what state you live in and who you are, your voting rights may be either expanding or contracting this year. At the
Tag: Voting rights
Voting rights watch: Is the pendulum swinging back toward democracy?
It has been very disconcerting to watch voting rights erode in America over the past 30 years or so. For those of us naïve
Voting rights watch: Texas makes voting harder for women
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
Voting rights watch: Suppressing the vote by targeting voter registration
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
Voting rights watch: KS and AZ want to move voter suppression upstream
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
Voting rights watch: Florida restarts its [previously squelched] voter purge
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
Voting rights watch: NC Repubs push harsh new voting restrictions
North Carolina Republicans are not hiding the fact that newly proposed [2013] voting restrictions are aimed at making it harder for Democrats to vote.
Life after the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder—to overturn the “pre-clearance” requirement in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act—is going to have
Supreme Court shreds Voting Rights Act: Political cartoonists respond
The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates: Less than a year since state legislatures, governors and secretaries of state in both the north and
Positive signs for voting-rights laws—even in Pennsylvania
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