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FILTER RESULTS ►Five Voting Fights You’ll Care About Come Election Time
Remember last year when we all cared about voting policies? Back then, newspapers were filled with updates on different states’ legal battles over strict voter ID—the laws that require photo identification to cast a ballot. Republicans...Show More Summary
North Dakota Indians Suppressing Their Own Vote?
According to some, North Dakota passing a tougher voter ID law was all about suppressing the Native American vote. That’s an accusation made by Melissa Merrick, the Spirit Lake woman who accused Rep. Kevin Cramer of berating her during a closed door meeting (a claim Merrick herself admits hasn’t really been confirmed by anyone else). [...]Show More Summary
House Bill Would Effectively Abolish Voter ID In Federal Elections
Voter ID laws, which require voters to show photo ID in order to vote, are one of the most common forms of voter suppression laws favored by Republican state lawmakers. Although the laws’ supporters claim that they are necessary to combat in-person voter fraud, a voter is more likely to be struck by lightning than [...]
Iowa Secretary Of State: Pass Voter ID To Do Away With Abortion And Gay Marriage
Matt Schultz clearly believes voter ID laws are to keep Democrats away from the polls. SCHULTZ: There are a whole lot of issues that we care about, abortion, gay marriage, a whole lot of social issues that we care deeply about. But you have to start caring about voter ID and election integrity as well, [...]
South Carolina GOP Rep. Eviscerates Claims That Voter ID Laws Are Racist During Hearing
During a hearing into the constitutionality of voter identification laws enacted across the country, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) tore into claims by the Department of Justice that those laws were racially discriminatory. In the space of five...Show More Summary
After Courts Block GOP Laws, Wisconsin GOP Pushes Bill To Strip Most State Courts’ Power To Block Laws
Last November, Wisconsin was able to run a fair election unmarred by one of the Republican Party’s favorite voter suppression tactics because two lower courts struck down the state’s unconstitutional voter ID law, and the conservative state supreme court repeatedly refused requests to take up the case before it winds its way through the normal [...]
The Old Gold & Black: NC Voter ID Laws Will Affect Students at Polls
If voter ID legislation is passed, the 600,000 eligible voters that may be affected by these new laws may swing elections. The effects of these laws on the outcome in Forsyth County, which voted for Obama in 2012, could be even larger come 2016 because of the number of students who could be affected.
Voter ID law hearing: listen now online
House committee discusses voter ID The House Elections Committee hears from experts and debates a proposal to require voters to present photo identification at the polls. video here: http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/video/12326054/#/vid12326054
Here's Why Black People Have to Wait Twice as Long to Vote as Whites
Yes, minorities wait longer to vote -- but the widely disparaged voter ID laws in 2012 seem to have had fairly little to do with it.
AG Holder: ‘We Will Not Sit By’ While Republicans Rig The Electoral College
Attorney General Eric Holder has a solid record on voting rights, and he’s criticized Republican state lawmaker’s efforts to restrict the franchise in the past — at one point comparing voter ID laws to an unconstitutional poll tax. At a speech in New York yesterday, Holder added a new line to his previous attacks on [...]
A License to Vote? GOP Lawmakers Push Voter IDs
Residents of Virginia and Arkansas may be getting carded at places other than nightclubs come 2014. Both states have passed stricter election laws that require voters to show approved photo ID before they can cast their ballots. On Monday,...Show More Summary
North Dakota Senate Passes Tougher Voter ID Law
The North Dakota Senate today passed HB1332 on a 30-16 vote. The bill would toughen the state’s voter ID laws, requiring an ID to vote (or the ID of someone who is vouching for another voter). According to Democrats, this will disenfranchise legitimate elderly and minority voters to solve a non-existent problem. According to Republicans, [...]Show More Summary
Arkansas Lawmakers Pass Strict Voter ID Law, Overriding Governor’s Veto
Last week, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe (D) vetoed a bill to require all Arkansans to show photo ID before voting, calling it an “unnecessary measure that would negatively impact one of our most precious rights as citizens.” Nevertheless, the newly Republican-dominated House completed an override of Beebe’s veto on Monday, finally passing their coveted strict [...]
GOP-Led Arkansas Legislature Passes Voter ID Law
The legislature overrode Governor Mike Beebe’s veto to pass the voter ID law. The Republican-led state House voted 52-45, largely along party lines, to complete an override that started in the GOP-controlled Senate on a 21-12 vote last week. Only a simple majority was needed in each chamber. “We are trying to protect the integrity [...]
Arkansas’ GOP-led Legislature Passes Voter ID Law
(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — Arkansas legislators passed a law Monday requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, overriding Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe’s veto of the bill, which he called an expensive solution to a non-existent problem. Show More Summary
Supreme Court to Decide Arizona Voter ID Law
Judicial Watch attorney Jim Peterson and I recently visited the U.S. Supreme Court with former Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce to attend oral arguments concerning a critical issue – the right of the state of Arizona to ensure that every vote cast in the state is legitimate. Show More Summary
Totally Objective AP Story: Virginia GOP passes voter ID law after more modest law failed to prevent Obama from winning
Written by Doug Powers The Associated Press does have their moments“: Republican majorities in the Virginia House and Senate pushed the bill to passage one year after a more modest GOP-sponsored voter identification law failed to prevent President Barack Obama from winning Virginia for the second presidential election in a row and a Democratic U.S. [...]
AP Attributes Ill Intent to Republicans Passing New Va. Voter ID Law
We've come to expect this sort of thing from MSNBC, but the Associated Press should be ashamed of itself. In a story about Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signing into law a new voter ID law requiring a photo ID to vote-- which may be...Show More Summary
Associated Press: Republicans Pushing Voter ID Laws Because Obama, Democrats Won In 2012
This is an actual passage from an actual, and supposedly objective, Associated Press article: RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed legislation into law that will require voters to carry photo identification with them to the polls, starting next year in Virginia. Virginia joins four other states that have strict photo ID requirements [...]Show More Summary
Arkansas Governor Vetoes Voter ID Law
On March 25th, Democrat Governor Mike Beebe vetoed legislation that would have created a voter ID law for Arkansas, saying it would "negatively impact one of our most precious rights as citizens." Under current Arkansas law, "poll workers...Show More Summary
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