Arizona near top of states for bills aimed at limiting voting rights
From today’s ABC 15 News Arizona: Arizona lawmakers, who began the year with one of the highest number of voting restriction bills in the nation, are winding down a legislative…
Why Michigan Republicans’ Attack on Voting Rights is Grossly Anti-democratic
From today’s The Guardian: On the surface, the Republican effort to roll back voting rights in Michigan looks similar to what’s happening in states around the country: after Donald Trump…
Target, Google and others are under pressure to dump the Chamber of Commerce over voting rights
From today’s CNN Online: Progressive activists are calling on Ford, Target, Google, Bank of America and other major companies that have pledged to support voting rights to cut ties with…
Michigan’s big employers speak out against moves to restrict voting rights
From today’s Detroit Free Press: Michigan’s corporate leaders spoke out strongly Tuesday against GOP-sponsored legislation in the state Legislature that would place new restrictions on voting. The leaders of three-dozen…
Emergency meeting draws corporate leaders to discuss state voting laws
From today’s CBS News Online: More than 100 of the nation’s top corporate leaders met virtually on Saturday to discuss ways for companies to continue responding to the passage of…
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MLB Pulls All-Star Game from Atlanta in Protest of Restrictive New Voting Law
From today’s NBC News Online: Major League Baseball on Friday pulled this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest of Georgia’s new restrictive voting law. The “Midsummer Classic” was…
Georgia’s shameful new voting laws are a product of GOP desperation
From today’s Washington Post: The tableau of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signing a new elections law said it all: six White legislators flanking the Republican governor, his pen poised above…
The Republican Party’s Irrational War on the Voting Rights of Americans
From today’s The Atlantic: In February, Arizona state senators tried to have the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors thrown in jail. The legislators had demanded that the county officials hand…
Progressive groups launch $30 million effort to push voting rights legislation
From CNN Online: Two left-leaning groups are teaming up to pour $30 million into an effort to persuade US senators to pass a sweeping voting rights bill that would counter…
SCOTUS questions need for restrictive voting laws in Voting Rights Act case
From NBC News Online: Supreme Court justices asked skeptical questions Tuesday about Arizona election laws in a case that has emerged as an important test of the Voting Rights Act.…