Tag: voting rights

"When you've got a government that works for the rich and it's not working nearly as well for anyone else, that's corruption, and we need to call it out plain and simple."

“HR 1 restores the people’s faith that government works for the public interest, the people’s interest, not the special interest.”

“We know that the earlier we can get people voting, the more likely we can keep them voting for the rest of their lives.”

Even as Kobach is met with loss after loss, his legacy will live on until the states that signed up for Crosscheck leave the program and reinstate voters to the voter rolls.

Facilitating such participation would not only encourage broader social responsibility among young people, it would enrich and strengthen democracy itself.

"Warning to our friends across the country: what happens in Wisconsin doesn't stay in Wisconsin. The GOP (and Kochs) use the state as a petri dish for terrible hard-right ideas. If this works, it'll spread elsewhere."

Activists among tribes want to rally the Native vote. Because when they show up to the polls, they’ve shown significant political power.

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.

Many would-be voters’ first attempts were foiled by problems at polling places. There isn’t good data on how many people ultimately don’t cast a ballot.

“We’re seeing a lot more people that typically sit out midterm elections going and showing up because they believe these races are so important.”