Abrams: We Cannot Resign Ourselves to Dismay and Disenfranchisement
From today’s New York Times: In the mid-1960s, when my father was a teenager, he was arrested. His crime? Registering black voters in Mississippi. He and my mother had joined…
Felon voting bill goes to Florida governor’s desk amid outcry
From today’s Associated Press News Wire: Florida felons will have to pay court-ordered financial obligations if they want their voting rights restored under a bill sent to Republican Gov. Ron…
Federal court: Michigan political maps illegally rigged to ‘historical proportions’
From today’s Detroit News: Michigan must redraw legislative and congressional districts for the 2020 election because current maps drawn by Republicans represent a political gerrymander “of historical proportions,” a three-judge…
Amendment 4 restored voting rights to felons In FL–Now that’s back in doubt
From today’s NBC News Online: Desmond Meade thinks he may have talked to more Floridians about felon voting rights than anyone else. Since 2009, he has put thousands of miles…
Kavanaugh Seems Conflicted About Gerrymandering at SCOTUS Arguments
From today’s NPR News Online: The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on the question of whether there’s any limit on what the courts can impose on partisan redistricting, also known…
FBI analyzed NC political operative in May, took no action to stop fraud
From today’s Washington Post: The FBI participated in a May surveillance operation of a GOP political operative at the center of an election fraud investigation in North Carolina, newly released…
New election ordered in NC House district due to voter fraud in GOP candidate’s campaign
From today’s NBC News Online: The North Carolina Board of Elections on Thursday ordered a new election in the 9th Congressional District after allegations of illegal activity in the handling…
Texas is the Voter Suppression State
From today’s New York Times: For those of you keeping track of the “As Texas goes, so goes the nation” notion, I have either very good or very bad news.…
New York legislature passes major overhaul of outdated voting laws
From today’s edition of The Hill: New York’s state legislature on Monday passed a package of election and voting reform measures aimed at overhauling one of the most restrictive regimes…
First Wisconsin, now Michigan GOP moves to strip Democrats’ power
From today’s MSNBC News: Republicans who control Michigan’s Legislature voted Wednesday to advance a measure that strips campaign-finance oversight power from the Democratic secretary of state-elect, and they were poised…