Tag: voter suppression

Tribes – with celebrity help – are mobilizing members ahead of midterms.

Georgia secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp has overseen the removal of more than 340,000 current Georgia residents from voting rolls.

Clarke argued that the president's tweet is clearly part of an ongoing right-wing effort to "promote fear and incite law enforcement to action in ways that could chill voter participation this midterm election cycle."

"This is voter suppression, Southern style."

The combined effect is to put voters – especially racial minorities – at risk of disenfranchisement as the state’s hotly contested governor’s race approaches.

And several other reasons that the midterm elections are testing how far some states can go in disenfranchising certain voters.

If party leaders don’t understand what they need to do to win elections, maybe it’s time to choose some new party leaders.

As the nation faces demographic shifts, the push to suppress voting intensifies.

Is it time for a new Voting Rights movement, before voter suppression takes root nationwide?

With a Republican majority currently held in all three branches, there will most likely be a lot more barriers and restrictions in the times ahead.