J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy and a recent Republican Senate candidate, criticized Vice President Kamala Harris after she spoke out against voter identification laws. Harris had said that voter identification laws would hurt people in rural areas. “I don’t think that we should underestimate what that could mean, because, in some people’s mind, that means,…
An analysis of information obtained through open records requests from The Guardian found that enforcing Republican-supported voter identification laws is an extraordinarily expensive endeavor, already costing taxpayers at least $36 million in several states. Expenses pile up because of “the partial costs of litigation, free identification cards, public education and other fees,” The Guardian observed. Kentucky is…
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.
DeMint is not the first conservative to admit voter ID laws hurt Democrats, Republicans claim they will “make the difference†against Clinton.
Sanders said “What the Republicans are doing is so un-American, it is so outrageous, that it is literally beyond belief.”
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.
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.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a Wisconsin photo identification law passed in 2011.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wendy Davis with help from groups that support her is leading the way in the people’s fight against vote suppression.
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.
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.
As Republicans reduce early voting hours, they make a seemingly logical argument.
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’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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Judge Richard Posner says he got it Voter ID ruling wrong, acknowledges that the result of it is vote suppression.
Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is on the record saying he wants to fix the pre-clearance formula by the end of this year.
In Florida, it’s deja vu all over again. Rick Scott is back in the business of purging the vote. The last time Scott tried this, 182,000 people were put on an initial list based on DMV records.
While Republicans in some states remain dedicated to the war on voting, many more states are working to make voting more accessible.
The adverse effect of the GOP’s sexist, racist and homophobic attitudes and policies extend beyond the groups most directly affected.
In reality the future of the Voting Rights Act depends on whether Justice Kennedy places a higher priority on states’ rights, or the rights of millions of Americans to vote.
The SCOTUS will hear arguments Shelby County Alabama v. Holder on Wednesday. The facts of 2012 alone should make this an easy ruling in favor of upholding the VRA including Article 5.
Republicans in Montana approved a House committee bill to end Election Day voter registration, claiming they want to make things more convenient for county election officials.
Republicans say the Florida law that cut early voting was an intentional tactic to hand Florida to the GOP by inhibiting Democratic turnout.
In Florida, in 2008 8.4 million people voted; in 2010 only 5.3 million did. Margin of victory for Rick Scott? 1.2%.
In America, the prospect of free and fair elections is being threatened by an avalanche of reports of voter suppression and fraud by the Republican Party.
Here is what you need to know in order to make sure that your vote counts on Election Day in Virginia.
Progress New Mexico has busted Republicans in the state teaching their poll challengers illegal tactics to challenge people at the polls.
A judge ruled that Pennsylvania’s voter suppression law not be enforced this election, that those without photo IDs must be allowed to vote
If you are part of the sane America who believes in our constitution, including the right to vote, you may want to vote in this election and be sure that it counts.
If you are part of the sane America who believes in our constitution, including the right to vote, you may want to vote in this election and be sure that it counts.
The Tea Party is trying to have 2,100 people stripped of their right to vote in Ohio.
There was a small victory for representative democracy in Pennsylvania as State Officials announced some changes to the current Voter ID requirements.
Lipstick Liberal explains the possible source for the tactics Republicans are using in their war on the vote.
Fox News spends their days whipping up fear of voter fraud, but today they hosted a voter fraud expert who destroyed all of their claims.
Bill Maher has the guts to say what the mainstream media won’t Voter ID laws are nothing more than a racist attempt to suppress the votes of African-Americans.
The recent voter purge in Florida and Texas are the result of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) fascist voter ID laws.
We pay tribute to the reasons Wisconsinites fought so hard for this recall; the Scott Walker Memory Book of systemic corruption.
