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Voting Rights
July 2, 2019
Adam Eichen
Restoring Democracy Is Not Open to Debate
If Democrats vying for the presidency want to enact any of their proposals, countering recent assaults on voting rights has to be a top priority.
June 27, 2019
Matt Ford
A Partisan Supreme Court Upholds Partisan Power
In Rucho v. Common Cause, the conservative majority gave its approval to gerrymandering electoral districts to favor entrenched political interests.
June 27, 2019
Adam Eichen
Advocates Want Everyone Counted, No Matter the Fate of the Citizenship Question
The Supreme Court ruled Trump officials needed a better reason to tinker with the census; Democracy watchdogs aren't waiting for them to find one.
June 3, 2019
Alex Shephard
Republicans Plan to Rig Elections for a Decade
New evidence confirms the Trump administration wants a citizenship question on the census for one reason: To suppress Latinx votes.
May 30, 2019
Adam Eichen
Democracy Fights Back
Republican attempts at voter suppression have inspired a movement to restore and expand access to the polls.
March 6, 2019
Bob Moser
Making Georgia’s Bad Elections Even Worse
How newly elected Governor Brian Kemp is undermining the vote—all while potentially enriching a company with close ties to his administration.
December 4, 2018
Matt Ford
The GOP’s Laboratories of Oligarchy
Republicans in multiple states are using lame-duck sessions to disempower the Democrats who won in last month's blue wave.
November 16, 2018
Matt Ford
How Good Is Your Electronic Trackpad Signature?
Whether your vote is counted could depend on it—and so could the recount in Florida.
November 13, 2018
Magazine
Janell Ross
It’s Time for a New Voting Rights Act
Republicans have made voter suppression a key tactic for winning elections. What can Democrats do about it?
November 9, 2018
Matt Ford
The 2020 Election Could Come Down to Voter Suppression
What if Trump wins re-election by razor-thin margins in states where Republicans have made it harder to cast a ballot?
November 7, 2018
Matt Ford
American democracy is just a little bit healthier after Tuesday’s midterms.
November 7, 2018
Matt Ford
Republicans’ racist campaigns in Florida and Georgia paid off.
November 7, 2018
Matt Ford
1.5 million Floridians with prior felony convictions can now vote in 2020.
October 24, 2018
Lawrence Goldstone
America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters
Republican attempts to exclude African Americans from the polls echoes efforts by Southern whites that enabled the Jim Crow era.
September 13, 2018
Sarah Jones
Why does New York make it so hard to vote?
July 24, 2018
Sophie Kasakove
More voters are being purged from the rolls than at any time in the past decade.
June 14, 2018
Matt Ford
Supreme Court paves the way for “Make America Great Again” gear in the voting booth.
June 11, 2018
Matt Ford
Losing the Right
Not
to Vote
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's aggressive effort to purge voters from its electoral rolls.
January 10, 2018
Suzanne Monyak
A federal court has delivered a big blow to partisan gerrymandering.
September 6, 2017
Brian Beutler
Republicans Won’t Play Fair Unless Democrats Make Them
The GOP's inconsistency on disaster relief is just the latest evidence of the party's procedural hypocrisy.
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