Tag: voter suppression

"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.

These poll watchers will be sent to places more likely to be affected by racial discrimination, intimidation or other means of depriving voters.

Voting isn’t a privilege. It’s a right. And that right is too important to be left to partisan politics. We must not allow anyone’s votes to be taken away.

How many voters will be turned away? How long will the voting lines extend? Which candidate will have her or his voters suppressed the most?