Weekly Voting Rights News Roundup
Voting rights victories abound this week! On a national level, the cornerstone Voting Rights Act of 1965 was upheld by... Read more
Project Vote Testifies Against Call for Potentially Illegal Voter Purge
A “conservative legal watchdog group” has targeted Maryland’s largest county in its latest effort to force election officials to purge... Read more
Matt Masterson is 50 Percent Correct
The EAC chair is right: There is very little voter fraud in America, but he’s far off base in claiming that evidence of voter suppression is “virtually non-existent.” Read more
The Responsible Way to Increase Voter Access: Same Day Registration
Same day registration is known to boost voter turnout and keep voter rolls clean. Why aren't more states passing and implementing SDR laws? Read more
Voting rights victories abound this week! On a national level, the cornerstone Voting Rights Act of 1965 was upheld by... Read more
A two-month long voter fraud investigation in Maine concludes with no evidence of illegal voting by the 206 students that... Read more
It takes moxie for a lowly election official to stand up to the secretary of state, but that’s just what... Read more
Cook County, Ill. clerk, David Orr warns against the fine line between protecting and preventing democracy when it comes to... Read more
The Republican effort to make it harder for certain people to vote–particularly the new voters that turned out in 2008–was... Read more
The recent effort to make it harder for Americans to vote in 2012 hits the youth populations in Wisconsin and... Read more
Photo ID laws have been scrutinized on the state and federal levels for disenfranchising certain voters in an effort to... Read more
Election season is already underway with the nation talking about the state of voting rights. The War on Voting that... Read more
Members of Congress are holding a hearing today, asking whether the slew of new, partisan-pushed voting laws were creating “barriers... Read more
The “War on Voting”–the partisan-fueled campaign to enact laws to restrict access to the ballot–has received significant attention in the... Read more