It’s time now for our final voter update of this election cycle. As we have reported, most of the strict voter ID laws have been put on hold by the courts through the great efforts of civil rights groups like the NAACP and others. But those victories don’t mean that efforts to suppress the vote [...]
By D.L. Chandler With the presidential election happening in just four days, the battleground state of Ohio is once again a major piece of the election puzzle. Already a hotbed for controversial moves and measures concerning the voting rights of its citizens, the “Buckeye State” finds itself on the map again after Republican Secretary of State, Jon Husted, acknowledged that [...]
It’s time now for our voter suppression update, and we have some good news. In Pennsylvania, a state judge has ruled that the provision of the state’s voter I.D. law that requires a photo I.D. for voting will not be enforced – at least for this year’s election. However, voting officials at polling places may [...]
Roland Martin talks with Judith Browne Dianis of the Advancement Project about the Pennsylvania court’s decision to deny a change in the states voter identification law. For more information visit http://www.nielsen.com/africanamerican
In this week’s voter suppression update we focus on Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. For more information about voter registration and what you need to register for the 2012 election visit 888ourvote.org/state or call 1-866-MY Vote 1
Source: Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Haven’t registered to vote? Do it now. Haven’t gotten around to updating your voter registration? Do it now. Aren’t absolutely sure you’re registered correctly? Reregister now. Tell everyone else to do it, too. And consider today your deadline. Those are the core messages behind National Voter Registration Day, a broad-based, [...]
Getting the right to vote was a hundred-year-long struggle that saw beatings, violence and even deaths; and that fight for the right to vote isn’t over. Half a century ago, Blacks were prevented from voting by a variety of intimidating tactics, including literacy tests; poll taxes; dogs; police batons; and violence from angry, White citizens. [...]
Source: The Huffington Post In a potentially significant victory for Democrats, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated a lower court’s decision to uphold the states’s restrictive new voter ID law on Tuesday, and asked the judge to consider enjoining it instead. The law, passed by a Republican legislature and governor, requires voters to have specific, state-issued [...]
Source: Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post The legal team fighting Pennsylvania’s restrictive new voter identification law asked the state’s Supreme Court on Thursday to at least postpone until after November the measure that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters, many of them minorities. “There’s too little time, there’s too many people affected and [...]
Source: AP / CBS News The Florida Department of State announced Wednesday that it used a federal immigration database to verify 207 voters are not citizens. Earlier this year, state officials under Republican Gov. Rock Scott had said they suspected more than 2,600 voters were ineligible and had asked election supervisors to purge those on [...]
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