Tag: voter suppression

The Supreme Court is Poised to Gut What’s Left of Voting...

Republican state legislatures all over the country are aggressively trying to make voting harder. As the Brennan Center for Justice reports, currently 28 states have...

Voter Suppression Shows Its Ugly Face Amid Historic Voter Turnout

A global pandemic ripping through the United States is not deterring American voters. More than 91 million have cast their ballots, putting the country on...

Trump’s Call to ‘Delay the Election’ Isn’t About Delay–It’s About Chaos...

The moment many have been anticipating came Thursday morning when Donald Trump tweeted: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273 Every word of this is false. Not to mention, absentee voting is mail-in voting,...

Following Wisconsin’s Lead, Kentucky Overturns Voter Suppression Veto

Republicans talk a good game about "democracy" and "patriotism." When it comes down to it, though, waving a flag is meaningless when one’s actions belie...

Wisconsin Judges Vote Absentee Ballot After Blocking Mail-in Voting Order (Video)

Last week, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order postponing the state’s presidential primary to June 9, as his counterparts in other states...

Could Starving the Postal Service Be Another Voter Suppression Strategy? (Video)

The Republican party talks a lot about "freedom," "choice," and "independence." When we peel back the rhetoric and focus on policy, though, we understand in...

Republicans Are Using Wisconsin as a Testing Ground for November (Video)

To date, Georgia, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Kentucky, Puerto Rico, and New York have postponed their presidential primary elections. But something...

As Primaries Roll Along, GOP States Predictably Suppress Minority Votes

Super Tuesday is upon us, and the Republican party is wasting no time doing what it does best every election--disenfranchising minorities who consistently vote...

Trump Re-Election Adviser Admits The Obvious–Republicans Cheat (Video)

The Republican party has not legitimately won the White House since Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. Even though November 2018’s mid-term election results were historic, it does...

17 Million Voters Purged From Voting Rolls In The Past Two...

The Republican party has not legitimately won the White House since Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s. Even though November's mid-term election results were historic, it...

Republicans Ramp-up Dirty Tricks After Mid-Term Defeats

Fortunately, the violence Donald Trump threatened when faced with the possibility of losing control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections did...

GOP Voter Suppression Looms Large In Run-Up To Mid-Term Elections

2018 mid-term elections are weeks away. Are you registered to vote? Do you know where your polling place is? Why don't you take a moment to check. Ten...

Primary Day In New York Highlights A Problematic Electoral System (Video)

True or false: New York has one of the most progressive voting systems in the nation. Yes, New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, is a Democrat. Yes,...

Voter Suppression Throttles Up Just In Time For Mid-Term Elections (Video)

As primaries for November's mid-term elections happen all over the country, our attentions are again on election integrity. We are all aware by now Russia...

Voter Suppression–So Easy An 11 Year Old Can Do It (Video)

Last week, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, a member of the Armed Services subcommittee on cybersecurity, informed the Tampa Bay Times before a campaign event in Tampa that Russia has already successfully...

Kris Kobach Has His Week In Court To Argue For Voter...

November mid-term elections are just around the corner, and the voter-suppression machine has just been oiled, cleaned, and fired up. Ten years ago the Republican...

Trump Dissolves Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (Video)

Resistance is not futile. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an end to the controversial Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PACEI), convened in the spring to feed...
Kris Kobach signing an autograph for a fan in 2014 (image courtesy Democracy International, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)

States Tell Kobach To ‘Kick Rocks’ With Latest Request For Voter...

Earlier this spring, Donald Trump created a commission on "election integrity," ostensibly to review concerns about the manner in which elections are conducted. The...
South Carolina Republican Party chairman Drew McKissick (image courtesy McKissick's Twitter)

SC Repubs Put Voter Privacy At Risk, Hand Over Data To...

Last week, Donald Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity made a sweeping request of the nation's election officials. The commission, helmed by former Kansas...

29 States Defend Voters’ Rights By Refusing To Participate In Mass...

Vice-president Mike Pence and Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach's “Presidential Commission on Election Integrity” must be onto something pretty big if it's requesting voter data...