Courts rule against two major GOP attempts to block people from voting
Courts reject Republican voter suppression efforts in Florida and South Carolina.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 26, 2020Courts reject Republican voter suppression efforts in Florida and South Carolina.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 26, 2020The White House claimed Donald Trump was ‘unable to cast his vote’ in Florida because he was stuck in Washington — but evidence shows otherwise.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2020White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany offered a creative explanation for why Trump threatened Michigan and Nevada on Twitter.
By Oliver Willis - May 20, 2020Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from Michigan and Nevada in retaliation for expanding access to voting.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 20, 2020Democrats and voting rights groups criticize legislation that requires all absentee ballots to be notarized.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 15, 2020‘We must make sure the pandemic does not impede full, unfettered access to the ballot box,’ said Rep. Marcia Fudge, a lead sponsor of the bill.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 12, 2020Louisiana Republican legislators rejected a bipartisan measure to ensure safer voting during a health crisis.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 16, 2020Republicans ‘want to stand in the way of a more open democratic system at a time of a pandemic.’
By Associated Press - April 10, 2020Trump voted by mail just last month, but he says other people who do it are cheaters.
By Emily Singer - April 08, 2020Both the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Democratic efforts to postpone Tuesday’s primary.
By Associated Press - April 07, 2020Holding the election on Tuesday would mean forcing voters to risk their health to cast in-person ballots.
By Emily Singer - April 06, 2020The COVID-19 outbreak already postponed one presidential primary until June. Experts say all-mail voting could prevent similar situations in the future.
By Emily Singer - March 13, 2020Democrats scored a ‘huge victory’ in a lawsuit over absentee ballots.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 09, 2020Texas has closed 750 polling locations since 2012 — many in counties with high numbers of African American and Latino voters.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 04, 2020Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) claimed ‘tens of thousands of people will vote illegally’ in Texas, and that ‘votes will be changed from Republican to Democrat’ — without any evidence.
By Emily Singer - February 27, 2020Democrats hold a voter registration advantage over Republicans in the key battleground state.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 25, 2020Also this week, New Mexico pledged to invest $300 million for early childhood education, and Kentucky announced a record number of registered voters.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 21, 2020A federal court ruled that Florida cannot force former felons to repay their court costs before getting their right to vote back.
By Emily Singer - February 19, 2020North Dakota will accept tribal IDs as identification at the voting booth moving forward.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 13, 2020A federal court struck down a Republican-backed law because it had ‘a discriminatory impact on American Indian, Hispanic, and African American voters in Arizona.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 27, 2020Voting and registration rules crafted by Republicans in recent years also could prove to be a big obstacle in 2020.
By Associated Press - January 20, 2020Virginia became the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment the same week New Jersey’s governor signed legislation to protect health care and three states saw voting rights victories.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 17, 2020Republicans want to kick hundreds of thousands of registered voters off the rolls, mainly in Democratic areas.
By Associated Press - January 14, 2020North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest condemned the NAACP’s opposition to the law as ‘ludicrous.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 13, 2020A conservative law firm wants the state election board to be held in contempt for not purging 200,000 voters from the rolls.
By Associated Press - January 02, 2020Republican attempts to require photo ID to vote in North Carolina are being thwarted again by judges hearing arguments that the mandate is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents.
By Associated Press - December 27, 2019The adviser insisted later that he was referring to past Democratic efforts to accuse Republicans of voter suppression.
By Oliver Willis - December 23, 2019Localities rejected thousands of requests for absentee ballots because of missing or dissimilar-looking signatures.
By Josh Israel - December 16, 2019The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas filed a lawsuit against the database, which partially exposed people’s Social Security numbers.
By Associated Press - December 14, 2019Democratic governors are partnering with Stacey Abrams to ensure voting rights are protected.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 09, 2019