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Voting Rights

'Absolutely the Direction We Should Go': Sanders Becomes First 2020 Candidate to Support Felons Voting From Behind Bars

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

ACLU 'All In' on Push for Civil Liberties in 2020 Election

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"We don't want the default positions that are in the party platform. We're trying to advance civil liberties here."

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Merkley Senate Bill Would Abolish 'Undemocratic' Electoral College

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The idea of democracy is simple and obvious even to young kids on a playground...

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Despite McConnell Vow to Obstruct, Senate Democrats Introduce Democracy Reform Bill

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaking at the 2013 CPAC conference.

"With this act's fate now in their hands, Senate Republicans must prove they're...

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SCOTUS Protest

'Pay Attention to This': Right-Wing Supreme Court Hints at Troubling Decision on Partisan Gerrymandering

'A Poll Tax By Any Other Name': Florida GOP Undermines Newly-Restored Voting Rights For 1.4 Million People

Ocasio-Cortez Demands to Know Why Wilbur Ross is 'Violating the Law' to Include Citizenship Question on Census

D.C. statehood supporters march to the Lincoln Memorial for the rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013.

Momentum for DC Statehood Surges as HR 1 Passage 'Paves the Way' to End Disenfranchisement

'Message to Rest of the Country': Federal Judge Orders Texas to Stop Voter Purge

New Election Ordered in North Carolina Over Actual Real-Life "Voter Fraud" Allegedly Carried Out by GOP Campaign

'The National Popular Vote Movement Is Winning": Colorado Bill to Scrap Electoral College Advances

'This Needs to Happen Nationally': Ohio City Ditches Columbus Day to Make Election Day Paid Holiday

Voters line up outside the polling place at Fire Station Number 2 on Election Day November 06, 2018 in El Paso, Texas.

Rights Groups Sue Texas Officials Over 'Unlawful Purge of the Voting Rolls'

Calling Bill That Makes Voting Easier a "Power Grab," McConnell Exemplifies a GOP Terrified of Democracy

sign with photo of Trump reads 'the most dangerous in the world'

With Trump Seen as 'Symptom Not a Cause,' US Rank Plummets on Global Corruption Index

voting rights advocates

Once a 'Laughingstock' on Voting Rights, Reform Package Moves New York Toward More 'Inclusive Democracy'

Further

Surreal Juxtaposition of the Day: Rosa and Scalia

Even as Antonin Scalia led his right-wing cohorts in trying to gut the Voting Rights Act, labeling it a “perpetuation of racial entitlement,” Obama and Congressional leaders unveiled a statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks across town. The law was challenged by Alabama officials who argued "the problem to which the Voting Rights Act was addressed is solved.” Uh, right.

Newswire

Free Speech for People

“Friend of Court” Brief by Election Security Experts Highlights Major Flaws in South Carolina Election Systems

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Civil and Voting Rights Organizations Oppose Tennessee’s Proposed Restrictions to Voter Registration Drives

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Coalition of National and State Organizations Condemns Proposed Voter Suppression Measure in Tennessee

Campaign Legal Center

Plaintiffs and Litigators Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Gerrymanders

ACLU

ACLU of Florida Statement on House Bill Restricting Amendment 4

Common Cause

Common Cause to Host Media Briefing on Gerrymandering and the First Amendment Featuring a Top Election Law Professor and a Student Whose Vote was Diluted by Gerrymandering

Views

Caroline Fredrickson

Getting Serious About Power

Chandra Bozelko

Bernie Sanders Wants Incarcerated People to Vote. Here's Why He's Right.

Adam Eichen

The Case for Using Ranked Choice Voting in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries

Jesse Jackson, David Daley

Florida Officials Are Trying to Sabotage the Will of the People With a Modern Day Jim Crow Law

Jud Lounsbury

Scott Walker to Head ‘Slow Moving Coup’ to Repeal-and-Replace U.S. Constitution

Jesse Jackson

Imposing a Modern-day Version of a Poll Tax is a New Low

Andrew Cohen

When a Bill to Revive Democracy Is Called an Ode to Socialism

John Sarbanes, Michael Brune

To Clean Up the Planet, Clean Up Washington

Zachary Roth

Now Is the Time to Think Big on Voting

Terri Sewell

For a More Perfect Union, Restore the Voting Rights Act

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