How to Actually Guarantee the Right to Vote
From today’s The Atlantic: As election season begins and Americans head to the polls, many would be shocked to learn that the United States Constitution does not guarantee them the…
Tennessee, the Worst State in the Country for Voting Rights, Just Got Even Worse
From today’s Slate Magazine: In Tennessee, Jim Crow is alive and well. The state’s felony disenfranchisement voter-suppression regime is living proof. Felony disenfranchisement has long been a stain on our…
New York Passes Landmark Voting Rights Legislation
From today’s ABC News Online: New York’s governor signed a law Monday intended to prevent local officials from enacting rules that might suppress people’s voting rights because of their race.…
One Million Primary Ballots Were Mailed Late, Postal Service Watchdog Says
From today’s New York Times: More than one million mail-in ballots were sent late to voters during the 2020 primary elections, an internal Postal Service audit found, underscoring deep concerns…
Democrats must make voting reform nonnegotiable for the next stimulus bill
From today’s Vox News Online: The political climate in the US is tumultuous. The Covid-19 pandemic hangs over everything even as a dozen other issues — an oil crisis, a…
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…
New York legislature passes major overhaul of outdated voting laws
From today’s edition of The Hill: New York’s state legislature on Monday passed a package of election and voting reform measures aimed at overhauling one of the most restrictive regimes…
The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far
From today’s New York Times: ON AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION, a huge banner was unfurled from the Manhattan Bridge in New York City: Vladimir V. Putin against…
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Appeals court rules North Carolina’s electoral map unconstitutional, map may have to be redrawn before midterms
From today’s Washington Post: A panel of three federal judges held Monday that North Carolina’s congressional districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to favor Republicans over Democrats and said it may require…
How will federal appeals court rule on Florida felon voting rights case?
From today’s Miami Herald: Yraida Guanipa, a Miami consultant, stood outside the federal appeals court Wednesday morning in downtown Atlanta dressed in a bright orange scarf draped over a smart…