May 20, 2013
ARI BERMAN, THE NATION
Throughout American history, restrictions on voter registration were a major tool of disenfranchisement. Before the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, only a quarter of African-Americans in the South were registered to vote. Four years after the VRA outlawed literacy tests and other voter suppression devices, the number of black Southeners registered to vote had more than doubled.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
April 13, 2013
JESS MILLER, SCRIPPS HOWARD FOUNDATION WIRE
WASHINGTON – In 2012, 30 states introduced laws that restricted access to voting. But some states are using online registration – or thinking about it – as a way to at least make registering to vote easier.
A March 27 report by Project Vote found that last year more photo ID laws, voter purges and voter registration restrictions were either introduced or passed in state legislatures across the country than ever before.
“These laws cause much more harm than good,” Erin Lee, the report’s author, said in an interview. “The proposals don’t actually solve a problem. They just prevent more people from voting.”
|
|
Read more...
|
|
March 29, 2013
STEVE BENEN, THE MADDOW BLOG VIA MSNBC
In North Carolina this week, some Republican lawmakers unveiled some new ideas. Are they related to jobs, jobs, jobs? I'm afraid not -- GOP legislators in the state hope to cut the early-voting window in half, eliminate same-day voter registration, and end Sunday voting.
If this seems rather familiar, there's a good reason. In 2011 and 2012, Republican policymakers at the state level invested all kinds of time and energy into approving the most sweeping voting restrictions since the Jim Crow era, and as Ari Berman reported yesterday, in 2013, they're picking up where they left off.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>
|
|
Page 1 of 61 |
