Between 2000 and 2014, there were over 800 million votes cast in general elections in the United States. Of those ballots, there were only 35 credible cases of voter fraud.
Donald Trump Will Lose Because Of Donald Trump – Not Nonexistent Voter Fraud
As the GOP Suppresses Votes, Heritage President Admits It’s Helping Republicans
DeMint is not the first conservative to admit voter ID laws hurt Democrats, Republicans claim they will "make the difference” against Clinton.
Sanders Rightfully Called Republicans Un-American Cowards For Trying To Suppress The Vote
Sanders said "What the Republicans are doing is so un-American, it is so outrageous, that it is literally beyond belief."
Ohio Republicans Propose Poll Tax For 2016 Election
Now it appears that Ohio Republicans are on the verge of enacting an voter ID law that requires Ohio residents to pay a fee in order to cast a ballot.
Bernie Sanders Explained Why Voters Aren’t Voting Ten Years Ago
Before perusing the one-time "world's leading democracy" and its truly pathetic voter turnout record, it is worth looking back at comments from Senator Bernie Sanders that he recorded for posterity nearly ten years ago.
US Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Appeal, Upholds Wisconsin’s Strict Voter ID Law
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a Wisconsin photo identification law passed in 2011.
Two Years After SCOTUS Gutting, GOP Rep Insists Congress Is Ready To Amend Voting Rights Act
It should be no surprise by this time, but whenever present-day Republicans point a finger and cry "foul," you can be reasonably sure the crime is an inside job.
Minority Voter Intimidation Witnessed And Recorded In Miami-Dade County On Election Night
It appears it wasn't just long lines and machine 'malfunctions' that possibly helped get Rick Scott reelected. While voting late Tuesday afternoon, Izak Pratt of Broward County noticed a poll worker giving inaccurate information to a black man who was attempting to cast his vote.
Fighting Back: Democrats Leave No Stone Unturned In The Quest For Big Turnout
They said you all wouldn't turnout. They said only Republicans voted in midterms. But they had no idea how angry people were. And they had no idea that y'all carry a grudge when someone comes to steal your rights.
Democratic Senator Bob Casey Wants To Restore The Voting Rights Act
On Friday, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) held a news conference where he called on his colleagues to restore the gutted portions of the Voting Rights Act.
Texas Voter Turnout Was Higher On Its First Day of Early Voting Than It Was In 2010
Wendy Davis with help from groups that support her is leading the way in the people's fight against vote suppression.
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 to suppress votes in Texas.
Possible Voter Fraud Gets Arkansas AG Candidate Kicked Off Voter Rolls
It is a different story, though, when a white Republican is kicked of voter rolls in Arkansas that not only incited the state party's outrage against their own vote suppression law, it drove the candidate for state attorney general who lost the right to vote into a rage.
Republicans Battle Early Voting In the Next Phase of Their War on Fair Elections
As Republicans reduce early voting hours, they make a seemingly logical argument.
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 registration and out of precinct voting in North Carolina.
The Supreme Court Enjoins Republican War on Voting in Earnest
The Supreme Court's anti-democracy wing; Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy issued an announcement that their decision was not on the merits of the case because they had not yet heard any oral arguments defending voting restrictions. They just believed so strongly that since Ohio's Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted invested such an incredible amount of time and energy to disenfranchise minority and working-class voters, and labeled his "appeal" an emergency.
Illinois Republicans Stand Behind Candidate Who Confessed to Committing Voter Fraud in 2008 and 2012
Illinois Republicans are stooping particularly low with their support for a candidate who admitted she was registered to vote in two states and voted in both states during the 2008 and 2012 election cycles.
Republicans Continue To Revive the Jim Crow Rhetoric and Tactics They Say Don’t Exist Anymore
As we get closer to the mid-term election, we long for the times when preparing to vote was a matter of volunteering for a voter registration drive, working for a candidate's campaign, familiarizing ourselves with the issues.
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 Bill 589, aka the most egregious vote suppression law in the country.
Huge Victory For Voting Rights As Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Voter ID Law
On Friday morning, Judge Bernard McGinley ruled that Pennsylvania's restrictive voter ID law, that was passed in 2012, is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced in the state.