What is considered by many to be the pinnacle of American democracy may be facing its greatest threat since the rampant discrimination of the 20th century that led to the creation of the protective legislation now questioned by the conservative majority that controls the highest court in the nation. Forged in the darkest days of [...]
New state-based voting restrictions have been joined by a more dangerous player in the game of voter suppression. There is growing concern that an army of tens of thousands of poll watchers ready to be stationed at voting sites across the country on Election Day could potentially disenfranchise poor and minority voters and swing the [...]
Voting rights and partisan politics collide in Ohio, where a spat between the two major presidential candidates over that state’s new restrictions on voting could be a preview of more chaos to come before Election Day. With states governments rushing to make “voter fraud” a priority in the wake of massive conservative gains in the [...]
Another lawsuit has been filed in an attempt by minority groups and voting rights organizations to stop Florida’s legally questionable purge of names from state voting rolls as the controversy begins to take a political toll on Gov. Rick Scott. A total of four lawsuits have been brought forward regarding the state of Florida’s last-second effort to [...]
Nearly 200,000 Florida residents may be disenfranchised by their state government, with officials in Gov. Rick Scott’s administration seeking to “scrub” names from the voter rolls in time for the November election. A broad coalition of voting rights groups are pleading with Gov. Scott and the Florida secretary of state — in charge of the [...]
` OBAMA AND HIS FRIENDS LAUNCH NEW ERA OF FRANCO-AMERICAN RELATIONS WITH A LESS-THAN CONCILIATORY TAKE ON THE NEW FRENCH SOCIALIST PRESIDENT. (Buzz Feed) ` The overwhelming defeat on Sunday of incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy has already sent “ripples” across the pond to America, where Sarkozy’s successor, Socialist Francois Hollande, has received a decidedly chilly reception [...]
The federal government has put the brakes on one of the nation’s most controversial voter ID laws, agreeing with critics that legislation passed in Texas would unfairly target minority voters and possibly lead to mass disenfranchisement starting with this November’s election. At least 18 states have laws on the books that have had what could [...]
Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses marked the first real and substantive votes in this year’s hotly contested presidential contest, the kickoff to what will be a year of wall-to-wall campaigning for the White House as well as thousands of other important positions across the country. Tens of millions of voters will flock to the polls to make their pick [...]
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