WI Disenfranchisement Laws Deny Voting Rights After Convicts Serve Time
From today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Under the buzz of hair clippers, men sitting in Much Better barbershop didn’t ponder New Year’s Eve plans or talk shop on the Bucks or…
Senate Dems may punt spending bill in favor of voting rights legislation
From today’s Business Insider: Senate Democrats’ chances to pass President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better economic agenda by Christmas were in renewed jeopardy on Wednesday, reflecting a brewing dispute between…
Georgia election workers sue far-right website over false fraud claims
From today’s Reuters Online: Two Georgia election workers targeted by former U.S. President Donald Trump in a vote-rigging conspiracy theory have sued a far-right website that trumpeted the false story,…
Senate Republicans Block John Lewis Voting Rights Bill in Key Vote
From today’s CNN Online: Senate Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Act from advancing on Wednesday when the Senate took a procedural vote on whether to open debate on…
How Voting Rights Activists Navigate New Restrictions For 2022 elections
From today’s CNN Online: When activist Tammye Pettyjohn Jones knocks on voters’ doors in her rural corner of Georgia this month, she’ll have a new tool in hand: a portable…
Ohio is Part of a Shameful Trend to Erect Barriers to Voting in America
From today’s Columbus Dispatch: At the heart of our country’s political debates are questions about our values and perspectives on legislating our deeper beliefs about right and wrong, relationships and…
On National Voter Registration Day, We Must Fight Restrictions on Voting Rights
From today’s Scientific American: This week marks the 10th time that Americans have commemorated National Voter Registration Day, an occasion designed to encourage the one in four adult citizens who…
North Carolina voting rights ruling offers model of anti-racist jurisprudence
From today’s The Hill Online: Last Friday a divided, three-judge panel of the North Carolina Superior Court handed a small victory to groups determined to protect voting rights. These rights…
How Democrats could actually pass “For the People” voting rights bill
From today’s The Guardian Online: The bill, the Freedom to Vote Act, has been described as a “compromise”, hashed out over the summer by a group of Senate Democrats after…
California steps into national fight over ballot restrictions, voting rights
From today’s San Diego Union-Tribune: Earlier this year, state Sen. Tom Umberg pointed to an often-overlooked confluence of events amid discussion about California’s efforts to make it easier to vote…