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…
North Dakota voter ID law upheld by Supreme Court could affect Senate race
From CBS News Online: The Supreme Court ruled this week to uphold a North Dakota voter identification law which requires that voters present an ID which includes a residential address…
Inside the Unlikely Movement to Restore Voting Rights to 1.4 Million Floridians
From today’s Mother Jones Magazine: On a muggy August day in 2005, Desmond Meade stood in front of the railroad tracks north of downtown Miami and prepared to take his…
Framers fail: Voting is a basic right but it’s not guaranteed in Constitution
From today’s USA Today: The Founders unwisely gave states control of the vote. The upshot is we’re headed for separate democracies: restrictive red ones, expansive blue ones. In 1835, William…
Clear and troubling picture of voter suppression: ‘One Person, No Vote’
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Near the end of “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy,” Carol Anderson reminds us that “voting is neither an obstacle…