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…
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…
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…
Texas House Approves GOP-Backed Voting Restrictions Bill
From today’s NPR News Online: Texas legislators approved new, more restrictive state election rules aftera session that lasted from Thursday night into the early hours of Friday. The GOP-backed state…
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.…
Democrats Are Making Federal Election Standards a Top Priority Under Biden
From today’s Associated Press Online: Democrats plan to move quickly on one of the first bills of the new Congress, citing the need for federal election standards and other reforms…
Democrats Push Voting-Rights Expansion With Fresh Urgency
From today’s New York Magazine: When the House passed the For the People Act, a package of voting, redistricting, and campaign-finance reforms, in March of 2019, it was a symbolic…
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Sen. Ron Wyden: Capitol riots prove we must strengthen American democracy by protecting voting rights for all
From NBC News Online: On Jan. 6, at the behest of the outgoing president of the United States, domestic terrorists attacked the legislative branch of the government of the United…
Georgia’s GOP senators falsely claim election fraud just to stay in power
From today’s NBC News Online: We are a conservative and a centrist who — at various times in our careers — have served in significant federal government roles. From the…