Tag: voter suppression

Voter suppression has gotten more sophisticated in recent elections.

It’s easy to get angry or worried and throw your hands up, but there is something you can do right now.

Amidst a global health crisis, the cruel weaponization of vote-by-mail restrictions has turned the constitutional right to vote into a choice between life and death.

I don’t for a minute believe that the Pew Trust is out to wipe away African-American voting rights; just the opposite, they are the quintessential do-gooders. They just don’t do any good.

Is this possible: 3,700 polling places before, today only 170?

“For many people, and particularly for voters of color, older voters, rural voters, and voters with disabilities, these burdens make it harder — and sometimes impossible — to vote.”

As the 2020 election season gets under way, activists are beginning to push back against voter disenfranchisement across the country.

Judge Loretta Biggs said the law's provision preventing voters from showing public assistance ID cards to vote was “particularly suspect.”

The effort followed a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that allowed state voter identification requirements to go into effect for the general election.

"The suppression of American voters is something we thought our country had moved past, and yet here we are in the 21st century still engaged in this battle over fundamental rights."