The civil rights icon issues a call—"All of us should be up on our feet"—to protest partisan voting restrictions this election season. -By Andrew Cohen August 26, 2012- And the…
-By Andrew Harris August 25, 2012- Ohio’s Republican secretary of state was sued by his Democratic predecessor over a directive that makes early-voting hours uniform in all 88 of the…
-By Ethan Magoc August 21, 2012- A growing number of conservative Republican state legislators worked fervently during the past two years to enact laws requiring voters to show photo identification…
-by Ari Berman August 20, 2012- Earlier this month I reported how Ohio Republicans were limiting early voting hours in Democratic counties, while expanding them on nights and weekends in…
Voter ID isn't conservatives' only strategy to thwart minority voters. Just as bad? Laws disenfranchising ex-felons -By Erik Nielson August 17, 2012- Earlier this week, Pennsylvania Judge Robert Simpson, a…
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August 13, 2012- George R.R. Martin, author of "A Game of Thrones", has slammed "Republicans and their Teabagger allies" in so-called swing states for what he calls "voter suppression." In…
-By Natasha Khan and Corbin Carson August 11, 2012- new nationwide analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and…
Florida's disgraced former GOP chairman says the party had meetings about "keeping blacks from voting" -by Alex Seitz-Wald July 27, 2012- In the debate over new laws meant to curb…