voter id laws

J.D. Vance Attacks Kamala Harris After She Speaks About the Impact of Voter ID Laws on Rural Communities

J.D. Vance Attacks Kamala Harris After She Speaks About the Impact of Voter ID Laws on Rural Communities

J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy and a recent Republican Senate candidate, criticized Vice President Kamala Harris after she spoke out…

3 years ago

Analysis: Enforcing GOP-Supported Voter ID Laws Have Now Cost Taxpayers At Least $36 Million

An analysis of information obtained through open records requests from The Guardian found that enforcing Republican-supported voter identification laws is an…

4 years ago

Donald Trump Will Lose Because Of Donald Trump – Not Nonexistent Voter Fraud

Between 2000 and 2014, there were over 800 million votes cast in general elections in the United States. Of those…

8 years ago

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”…

8 years ago

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."

8 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 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.

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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.

9 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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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.

9 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…

9 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

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

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…

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.

10 years ago

A Lone, Sane Republican Vows to Address the Voting Rights Act by the End of the Year

Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is on the record saying he wants to fix the pre-clearance formula by the end of this…

11 years ago

Rick Scott Is Back With a New Scheme To Purge the Vote In Florida

In Florida, it's deja vu all over again. Rick Scott is back in the business of purging the vote. The…

11 years ago

We Shall Overcome Voter Suppression: More States Are Making It Easier to Vote

While Republicans in some states remain dedicated to the war on voting, many more states are working to make voting…

11 years ago

Republican Outreach: Xenophobia with a Smile

The adverse effect of the GOP's sexist, racist and homophobic attitudes and policies extend beyond the groups most directly affected.

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

Defeat of Republican Efforts to Steal Elections Hinges on SCOTUS Voting Right Act Case

The SCOTUS will hear arguments Shelby County Alabama v. Holder on Wednesday. The facts of 2012 alone should make this…

11 years ago

With Voter Fraud Myth Debunked, Montana GOP Attack Same Day Voter Registration

Republicans in Montana approved a House committee bill to end Election Day voter registration, claiming they want to make things…

11 years ago

Several Florida Republicans Admit Voter Fraud was Subterfuge for GOP Victory

Republicans say the Florida law that cut early voting was an intentional tactic to hand Florida to the GOP by…

11 years ago

When Democrats don’t show up, Republicans like Rick Scott get to hijack elections. VOTE.

In Florida, in 2008 8.4 million people voted; in 2010 only 5.3 million did. Margin of victory for Rick Scott?…

11 years ago

An Avalanche of GOP Voter Suppression and Fraud is Threatening the Election

In America, the prospect of free and fair elections is being threatened by an avalanche of reports of voter suppression…

11 years ago

Protect Your Vote: What You Need to Know About Voting in Virginia

Here is what you need to know in order to make sure that your vote counts on Election Day in…

11 years ago

Exposed: Republicans in NM Teach Poll Watchers to Break Election Law

Progress New Mexico has busted Republicans in the state teaching their poll challengers illegal tactics to challenge people at the…

11 years ago

Judge Blocks Pennsylvania Voter Suppression Law

A judge ruled that Pennsylvania's voter suppression law not be enforced this election, that those without photo IDs must be…

11 years ago

Protect Your Vote: What You Need to Know to Vote in Florida

If you are part of the sane America who believes in our constitution, including the right to vote, you may…

11 years ago

Protect Your Vote: What You Need to Know to Vote in Ohio

If you are part of the sane America who believes in our constitution, including the right to vote, you may…

12 years ago

A Tea Party Group is Trying to Purge Thousands of Ohio Voters

The Tea Party is trying to have 2,100 people stripped of their right to vote in Ohio.

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

Are the Koch Brothers Borrowing from the KGB?

Lipstick Liberal explains the possible source for the tactics Republicans are using in their war on the vote.

12 years ago

Fox News Fail: Fox Hosts Vote Fraud Expert Who Debunks Their Voter Fraud Claims

Fox News spends their days whipping up fear of voter fraud, but today they hosted a voter fraud expert who…

12 years ago

Bill Maher Says What the Media Won’t: Voter ID Laws Are Racist

Bill Maher has the guts to say what the mainstream media won't Voter ID laws are nothing more than a…

12 years ago

Dirty Little Red State Secret: ALEC is Behind the GOP’s Voter Purge

The recent voter purge in Florida and Texas are the result of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) fascist voter…

12 years ago

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Why Wisconsin Democrats Can’t Lose

We pay tribute to the reasons Wisconsinites fought so hard for this recall; the Scott Walker Memory Book of systemic…

12 years ago