Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote
From today’s New Yorker Magazine: mong the many issues currently polarizing American politics—abortion, climate change, health care, immigration, gun control—one of the most consequential tends to be one of the…
League Of Women Voters Mark Voting Rights Laws With Vigilance
From today’s Charleston Chronicle: The day of August 6 marked the 54th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. For many the monumental civil rights event…
Battle over Georgia voting rights escalates in federal court
From today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution: A lawsuit alleging widespread voting problems in Georgia is pursuing an ambitious solution: restoration of the Voting Rights Act and federal oversight of elections. After…
Deceased G.O.P. Strategist’s Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question
From today’s New York Times: Thomas B. Hofeller achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering, the architect of partisan political maps that cemented the party’s…
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…
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…
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Georgia Set To Remain A Battleground For Voting Rights Ahead Of 2020
From today’s NPR News: When Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her bid last week to become governor of Georgia and the first black woman ever elected governor of any state, she…
Native Americans fighting back against North Dakota voter ID law
From today’s NBC News: For more than a year, Tiffany Hunts Along has lived in a cherrywood mobile home high on a ridge in western North Dakota, where she knows…
GA election fight shows that southern tradition of voter suppression flourishes
From today’s PBS Newshour: Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued for suppressing minority votes after an Associated Press investigation revealed a month before November’s midterm election…
In Georgia, claims of voter suppression as GOP candidate abuses Voter ID law
From today’s Washington Post: Stacey Abrams, the Democrat vying for the governorship of Georgia, is ratcheting up her assertion that Republican rival Brian Kemp is effectively suppressing minority and women…