Showing posts with label voting rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voting rights. Show all posts
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote

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  The Republican-led House of Representatives passed on April 10, 2025, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act – or SAVE Act. The bi...
Monday, February 10, 2025

The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of citizens

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  The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation would re...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Beware the cry of fraud. That’s where American authoritarianism always starts.

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  The end of American democracy won’t be a man declaring himself dictator for life or crowning himself king.   It will come incrementally. T...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Voting rights at risk after Supreme Court makes it harder to challenge racial gerrymandering

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  Two recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional redistricting will have starkly different consequences for Black voters in the 2024 elec...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Supreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama and protects landmark Voting Rights Act

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  In a surprising ruling on June 8, 2023, the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court threw out Republican-drawn congressional districts in...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Grassroots activists educate voters in Alabama city, despite losing fight for inclusive district map

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  One by one, the impassioned residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, stood to challenge the majority-white city council.   The residents who spok...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Voting Rights Impaired: Alabama man fights voter suppression of people with disabilities

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  Eric Peebles can do so many things.     He runs his own successful consulting business with a nationwide reach. He held a university facul...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Making it easier to vote does not threaten election integrity

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  As state legislators consider hundreds of bills on election policies this spring, false claims of voter fraud are being repeated as just...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

The state of women’s suffrage – 100 years later

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  The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote, but systemic sexism and disenfranchisement of Black women still block equitable access to...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Voting rights advocates prep for perfect storm in 2020

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  Carla Duffy and Janet Savage waited nearly three hours in the hot sun outside the George Ford Center in Powder Springs, Georgia to cast ba...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Hank Sanders: Sketches #1725 - We must rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge “The Bridge To Freedom”

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  The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a powerful symbol all over the world. The bridge is a symbol of voting rights, a symbol of struggle, and a sym...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Stripping voting rights from felons is about politics, not punishment

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  In 2018, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment ending the disenfranchisement of ex-convicts. Though it excluded people convic...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Alabama law raised obstacles on his five-year journey to the ballot box but Richard Williams overcame them all

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  Richard Williams had an epiphany on his birthday in February 2013.   He was living in a house in Huntsville, Ala. with nearly a dozen me...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Closing polling places is the 21st century’s version of a poll tax

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  Delays and long lines at polling places during recent presidential primary elections – such as voters in Texas experienced – represent the...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Hank Sanders: Sketches #1707 - They said it could not be done, but we continue to do it

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  They said it could not be done, but we did it. It was 1964, and the Civil Rights Act had just been enacted by Congress and signed by Presi...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

The struggle for Native American voting rights

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  November is Native American Heritage Month – a fitting time to honor the resistance and resilience of Native peoples, including their fig...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Fighting an internal threat to our democracy

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  In his recent testimony before Congress, Special Counsel Robert Mueller pointedly warned the nation about Russia’s ongoing attempts to me...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Challenging the whitewashed history of women’s suffrage

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  Recently members of the U.S. House of Representatives wore yellow roses to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment in the lower cham...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Long lines, broken machines, voter ID laws: Welcome to the neo-Jim Crow

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  Felon disenfranchisement was designed to “preserve the purity of the ballot box,” or in other words, the whiteness of the electorate.   ...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Conservative lawmakers are suppressing voters—Here’s what you can do to fight back

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  Another election year, more voter suppression. Every election, eligible Americans—particularly people of color, young people, and American...