voter

19Aug

By THEIRL1ADMIN01No Comments

Journalism, POLITICS

Young Voters Are Fighting Back Against Voter Suppression

Politics In November 2020, young voters exercised their electoral power by turning out in record numbers to help Democrats win the White House and other key races. In 2021, however, an onslaught of voter suppression measures being enacted in statehouses could have an outsized impact on those young people, according to voting rights advocates. “We’ve seen some pretty concerted efforts to push back against that new engagement from young voters,” says attorney Sean Morales-Doyle, acting director for Voting Rights and Elections at the Brennan Center for Justice. The Brennan Center has reported that so far this year at least 18 states have enacted 30 laws to make it harder to vote, and more than 400 bills with provisions that restrict voting access have been introduced in state legislatures....

22Jun

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Journalism, POLITICS, SOCIAL JUSTICE

Pandemic-Induced Voter Suppression

Voting rights have always been inconsistently applied. Now the coronavirus pandemic is threatening those rights even more, and activists are pushing back. Georgia’s mid-June primary was the latest example of pandemic-induced voter suppression. Long lines at polling stations stretched for blocks and blocks as socially distanced voters waited for several hours to vote in person. In Fulton County, which includes Atlanta and is the state’s most populated county, some voters waited past midnight to cast their ballot. Scenes like the one in Georgia—and Wisconsin before that—have ignited a national conversation about voting by mail. In response, President Trump has claimed that voting by mail “will lead to massive fraud” and favor the Democratic Party. Notably, Twitter even placed a fact-checkin...

Voter Turnout May Reach New Heights In November

5Mar

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POLITICS

Voter Turnout May Reach New Heights In November

Political interest is high— from the number of small-donor contributions made to presidential candidates to cable news viewership—signaling voter turnout may reach new heights in November. By Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz is creative director of YES! Connect: LinkedIn Twitter https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

The 2020 Election And The Fight Against Voter Disenfranchisement

5Feb

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

The 2020 Election And The Fight Against Voter Disenfranchisement

As the 2020 election season gets under way, activists are beginning to push back against voter disenfranchisement across the country. Voting rights advocates are battling on multiple fronts this presidential election year to fend off a proliferation of voter suppression maneuvers that largely restrict people of color and younger Americans from casting their ballots. “Heading into the 2020 election, voters in half the states face more obstacles to the ballot box and will find it harder to vote than they did a decade ago,” says Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. These new obstacles have energized a counter-campaign to restore and expand voting rights. Often the newer restrictions focus on bureaucratic details, but their intent and impact tar...

2Apr

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POLITICS, VIDEO REELS

US midterm polls: Minorities in Georgia face ‘voter suppression’

Civil rights groups say 340,000 voters in Georgia are 'wrongfully purged' - most of them minorities. Civil rights groups fear millions of Americans are being denied their right to vote in the midterm elections. They say the states under the Republican control are unfairly purging voter rolls, affecting minorities. The trend is apparent in Georgia, where the white Republican candidate faces strong competition from a black Democrat. by John Hendren Al Jazeera's John Hendren reports from Atlanta.

16Oct

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POLITICS

Voter Registration Is Inherently Racist

And several other reasons that the midterm elections are testing how far some states can go in disenfranchising certain voters. What if we had an election and everyone came? That’s not a hypothetical question, because we’re right now in the middle of the midterm election season where one of the two political parties is trying to make sure fewer people are going to vote. Midterms are said to be a referendum on the incumbent president, but probably nothing is more at stake than elections for state legislatures. Whoever controls the state houses in 2018 will be in charge of redistricting after the 2020 Census—and that happens before the 2020 presidential election, when President Trump actually will be on the ballot. The fact that, according to Cook Political Report, as of Oct. 12, 32...