New voter ID restrictions in Florida and Georgia raise risk of fraud and ballot rejection
‘This is voter suppression at its core.’
By Associated Press - May 24, 2021‘This is voter suppression at its core.’
By Associated Press - May 24, 2021Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is rumored to be considering a presidential run in 2024.
By Oliver Willis - May 13, 2021They’re putting measures that hurt trans people into unrelated bills on things like education and health care.
By Casey Quinlan - May 10, 2021‘Many of the restrictions being proposed by Republicans are effectively a product of their ignorance of the voting habits of their own constituents,’ said a former Arizona elections official.
By Associated Press - May 09, 2021A group of civil rights and voting rights advocates filed a lawsuit against Florida’s new law minutes after it was signed by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
By Emily Singer - May 06, 2021Republicans acknowledged there were no serious signs of voting irregularities in the last election.
By Associated Press - May 06, 2021Florida’s GOP governor will hold open an overwhelmingly Democratic U.S. House seat for eight months, depriving Democrats of a seat while they hold a narrow majority.
By Emily Singer - May 05, 2021‘Can you imagine if each city had been led by Ron DeSantis? How many lives would have been lost?’ said the mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, about the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Associated Press - May 03, 2021Florida Republicans added a last-minute amendment exempting the media giant from legislation that would fine tech companies for banning public officials who violate their rules.
By Oliver Willis - April 30, 2021Florida is about to enact its first anti-LGBTQ law since its Defense of Marriage Act in 1997.
By Casey Quinlan - April 30, 2021Lawmakers have used the repeated lie that the 2020 election was rife with fraud as justification for their voter suppression bills.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2021The GOP governor set his sights on punishing ‘Big Tech’ after Donald Trump was banned from Twitter.
By Oliver Willis - April 26, 2021Arkansas Republicans are on the brink of passing a new law that would make it a crime to go within 100 feet of a polling place for any purpose other than voting.
By Emily Singer - April 13, 2021The incident is part of a broader trend of scams targeting vulnerable populations.
By Amy Lieu - April 13, 2021YouTube said that a video posted by Gov. Ron DeSantis violated its ban on the posting of medical disinformation.
By Associated Press - April 12, 2021Experts in higher education say a bill Florida Republicans claim will protect free speech will achieve exactly the opposite effect.
By Donna Provencher - April 09, 2021Former Attorney General Eric Holder said voter roll purges are a tactic of ‘movements to try to keep people away from the polls.’
By Emily Singer - April 09, 2021Republican lawmakers in Florida removed a provision from an election bill similar to one that caused uproar in Georgia.
By Emily Singer - April 09, 2021The Florida GOP governor really wants things to go back to the good old days under Donald Trump.
By Amy Lieu - April 02, 2021Rep. Matt Gaetz has gotten no laws passed but has posted over 1,200 YouTube videos since he was elected in 2016.
By Oliver Willis - March 30, 2021This looks to be a new trend in voter suppression tactics coming from the GOP.
By Emily Singer - March 29, 2021Women for America First organized the ‘Save America’ rally near the White House.
By Oliver Willis - March 26, 2021Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the latest Republican to back voter suppression tactics without any proof that voter fraud took place.
By Emily Singer - March 16, 2021‘We are in the fields getting the work done to feed all the families.’
By Associated Press - March 13, 2021The Florida Republican called it a ‘simple and common sense request.’
By Josh Israel - March 11, 2021Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis stands accused of favoring wealthy constituents over ordinary Floridians.
By Associated Press - March 04, 2021Florida’s Republican governor ordered flags in the state to fly at half-staff in honor of bigoted radio show host Rush Limbaugh.
By Emily Singer - February 23, 2021Nixing Sunday early voting targets ‘Souls to the Polls’ events organized by Black churches, which take parishioners to vote after services.
By Emily Singer - February 19, 2021These right-wing organizations have long records of crafting anti-LGBTQ legislation.
By Casey Quinlan - February 17, 2021Efforts to suppress the vote after Donald Trump’s loss are racing through GOP-run state legislatures.
By Emily Singer - February 17, 2021