vote suppression

Trump’s Election Commission Goes Off The Rails Looking At Mandatory Background Checks For Voters

Trump’s Election Commission Goes Off The Rails Looking At Mandatory Background Checks For Voters

Donald Trump’s election integrity commission held its second meeting on Tuesday, this time in New Hampshire. This was days after…

7 years ago

Desperate Kris Kobach Relies On Logical Leaps To Justify NH Voter Fraud Claim

The Trump Administration’s Election Integrity Commission pounced on a report to falsely accuse New Hampshire voters of “mass voter fraud”.

7 years ago

Under Kobach’s Watch Kansas Tossed 3 Times the Ballots As Other Like-Sized States

Under Trump election commission appointee Kris Kobach’s watch, Kansas through out 3 times as many ballots as other similarly sized…

7 years ago

Sessions Turns Previously Independent DOJ Into White House Surrogate

Several events, ranging from the House passage of several anti-immigration laws and Jeff Sessions' partnership with Kris Kobach to suppressing…

7 years ago

Americans See Voting Rights As Essential To Their Personal Sense of Freedom

When asked by Pew which freedoms they consider essential, 92% of respondents said freedom of speech and 91 identified the…

7 years ago

Why Americans Who Believe in Free and Fair Elections Should Worry About Kris Kobach

When it comes to vote suppression, Donald Trump and Kris Kobach belong to the same delusional cult. Both have a…

7 years ago

Opinion: That Moment When a Federal District Court Rules Texas Election Law Is Racist

"Republican lawmakers rushed the voter ID law without the usual committee analysis and debate... to provide an Anglo partisan advantage."

7 years ago

Trump’s Illegal Voting Lie Is Part of Larger Republican Attack On Democracy

There was a good reason Trump admitted being 3-million votes less “popular” than Hillary Clinton; it fostered his other dangerous…

7 years ago

Trump Team Goes Full Racist in Defense of AG Nominee Jeff Sessions

To taint Cory Booker's testimony, Trump’s team presented the committee with a story accusing “black Democrats” of voter fraud.

7 years ago

Standing Up to Donald Trump’s Vote Suppressing Thugs

Vote suppression is synonymous with a Republican Party that has put more energy into that effort than in developing policy…

7 years ago

Republican Election Officials Fight Trump’s “Dangerous” Rigged Election Rhetoric

“It’s going to create a disturbance and, played out in polling places across the country, it has the potential to…

8 years ago

Targeted By Police For Being Black Registered Voters In a GOP State

"People just do not understand why a sheriff is coming to their house to bring them a subpoena if they…

8 years ago

Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Vote Suppression Law

"North Carolina’s provisions deliberately target African Americans with...surgical precision...to depress Black turnout at the polls."

8 years ago

Kansas Republicans Waste Taxpayer Money To Fly For Pleasure, Religion and Destroy Democracy

While Republicans slash education, transportation, and social services, Republicans use a taxpayer-funded aircraft for personal pleasure.

8 years ago

Supreme Court Allows Texas To Enforce The Most Draconian Voter ID Law in The U.S.A.

By a vote of 6-3 The Supreme Court is allowing Texas' draconian voter ID law to be enforced for this…

10 years ago

Victory for Democracy as Wisconsin and Texas Voter ID Laws Come Tumbling Down

Democracy called checkmate against Scott Walker's attempt to rig Wisconsin's vote, while a Federal Court slapped down Greg Abbott's attempt…

10 years ago

Republican Candidate for A-G of Arkansas Kicked Off Voter Rolls For Registering in Multiple States

As of Tuesday, the Republican candidate for Attorney-General in Arkansas is no longer a registered Arkansas voter. It turns out that…

10 years ago

Fourth Circuit Restores Early Voting and Out of Precinct Voting in North Carolina

In a 2-1 decision, the Federal Appeals Court for the Fourth Circuit granted a temporary injunction to restore same day…

10 years ago

NC Republicans Fight Subpoena of Voter ID Emails Saying Accountability is a “Burden”

Republicans in North Carolina are trying to quash a subpoena for emails regarding the "rationale, purpose and implementation" of House…

10 years ago

Texas Voter ID Law Prevents Women from Voting while Married

If you're a woman in Texas, getting married or divorced could cost you your vote, especially if you drive too.

10 years ago

Judge Denounces His Own Ruling on the Constitutionality of Voter ID Laws

Judge Richard Posner says he got it Voter ID ruling wrong, acknowledges that the result of it is vote suppression.

11 years ago

The Obama DOJ Challenges Texas’ Voter Suppression and Redistricting Law

The DOJ announced has announced that it will challenge Texas' voter ID law because the law violates the Voting Rights…

11 years ago

Kiss Your Vote Goodbye: NC Senate Rubber Stamps Extreme Voter Suppression Law

North Carolina Republicans have rubber stamped a voter suppression law that some might say is more consistent with fascism than…

11 years ago

North Carolina Senate Passes the Most Draconian Voter Suppression Bill Ever

Today, the North Carolina state senate passed the most extreme vote suppression bill ever after a very generous 2-hour debate.

11 years ago

Ignoring Facts SCOTUS Strikes Down Key Provisions in the VRA

This ruling gives us a lesson in political reality.  Republican governors and Republican controlled state legislatures will suppress the vote.…

11 years ago

The Future of the Voting Rights Act Depends on One Supreme Court Justice

In reality the future of the Voting Rights Act depends on whether Justice Kennedy places a higher priority on states'…

11 years ago

The Republican Hail Mary Pass: Racist Mailers and More Vote Suppression

With only days to go before the election, Republicans are resorting to racist mailers and voter suppression in a desperate…

11 years ago

Romney’s Little Liars Set to Wreak Havoc as Misinformed Poll Watchers

Republicans in Wisconsin are busily arming their 'poll watchers' with tricks and lies to suppress the vote.

11 years ago

Republican Ohio Sec of State Believes Early Voting (By Democrats) is Un-American

According to Jon Husted, making the vote accessible to all eligible voters is un-American, but a look who he is…

12 years ago

PA Officials Water Down Voter ID Law in Effort to Save It

There was a small victory for representative democracy in Pennsylvania as State Officials announced some changes to the current Voter…

12 years ago

Republicans Secretly Continue To Purge Voters In Florida

In Florida, while agreeing to a settlement with voter advocacy groups that had sued over the voter purge, behind the…

12 years ago

Ohio’s Former SOS obliterates Husted’s Uniformity and Fairness Claim

Perhaps Jon Husted doesn't understand that uniformity and fairness are not interchangeable when it comes voting rights.

12 years ago

Wi AG Appeals to State Supreme Court to Reinstate the Unconstitutional Voter ID Law

Just when you thought voting rights were safe in Wisconsin, Attorney-General, J.B. Van Hollen decided to appeal to the Supreme…

12 years ago

Ohio Sec. of State Husted Suspends Democrats For Defending Voting Rights

Last Friday, Ohio's Secretary of State Jon Husted took the unprecedented step to preserve his block the black vote directive.

12 years ago

Small Government Republicans Have Created a Bureaucratic Voter Suppression Nightmare

It seems ironic that the advocates of small government have established a nightmarish and confusing bureaucratic process that will deny…

12 years ago