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Study: If you are Latino, you may not get help from election officials

Maria Eugenia Alcón wrote 3 weeks ago: Three graduate students from Harvard University have set out to study how election officials deal wi … more →

Tags: Politics, election, harvard, Latino, Voter ID, Voters, True the Vote, election officials, Latino aliases

Voter ID laws hang in balance as Supreme Court considers Voting Rights Act.

greatriversofhope wrote 3 months ago:   Voting signs are posted for the election in a firehouse Nov. 4, 2008 in Selma, Ala. (Mario Tama/Ge … more →

Tags: Human Rights News, John Roberts, Photo Identification, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the United States, Texas, United States Department of Justice, Voter ID laws (United States), Voting Rights Act

The Case for Voter Registration Modernization

gdacc wrote 4 months ago: The Case for Voter Registration Modernization. … more →

Tags: Voter Registration, voter registration, moderization, Brennan Center for Justice

Brennan Center Highlights New Proposal to Modernize Voting System, Bill Introduced Today | Brennan Center for Justice

gdacc wrote 4 months ago: Brennan Center Highlights New Proposal to Modernize Voting System, Bill Introduced Today | Brennan C … more →

Tags: voter participation, Voter Registration, Brennan Center for Justice, Early Voting, moderization, Voter Empowerment Act, voter registration, Voting Systems

"We have to fix that": What Obama can do about all those voting problems

needhamgrassroots wrote 7 months ago: From Greg Sargent/The Plum Line - During his victory speech, President Obama surprised and delighted … more →

Tags: Voting, Election/Voting Reforms

The Future of Voter Identification Laws2 comments

margaretrosemurphy wrote 7 months ago: With many states considering or passing voter identification laws and numerous court decisions regar … more →

Tags: News, Voter ID laws, Rick Hasen, voter-identification laws, Keesha Gaskins, René Rocha

Opinion: Voto Honesto program is not so honest to me

Maria Eugenia Alcón wrote 7 months ago: True the Vote, a Tea Party group focused on voter fraud, has announced a new program aimed at the La … more →

Tags: Politics, Hispanics, illegal voting, non-citizens, Republican, Tea Party, True the Vote, Turnout, vote

Democracy or bureacracy: Critics say a mountain of regulations may surpress Democrat vote

William Marsden wrote 7 months ago: MIAMI, Fla. – Marino Lopez-Blanco, 82, sits at the small polling booth in the Miami-Dade county voti … more →

Tags: News, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Republicans, U S election, Florida, Colorado, us election, Paul Ryan

Honorable Mention: Why Do You Vote?2 comments

voteitforward wrote 8 months ago: … more →

Tags: News, Video, Voting, election, vote it forward, vote, joanne roberts, fifty states

Introduction

Hell wrote 8 months ago: Voting rights demonstration in McComb, Miss., in 1962From the Erle Johnston Papers, McCain Library a … more →

Tags: Voting Rights Act, Racial Discrimination, USA, vote

U.S. should aim at raising not lowering voter turnout

Klas Bergman wrote 9 months ago: For an observer from Europe, where voter turnout is over 80, even 90 percent, while turnout in Ameri … more →

Tags: Elections 2012, obama, Law, Democrats, Republicans, america, Elections, Voter Turnout, voter IDs

Donor Diversity through Public Matching Funds

Elizabeth Monkus wrote 9 months ago: In May, the Brennan Center for Justice and the Campaign Finance Institute released a report on how p … more →

Tags: Judicial Elections & Campaign Finance, Elections, New York, Campaign Finance Institute, public financing, campaign donation, small donors

Travis Normand wrote 10 months ago: Reblogged from Robert Chesney's National Security Law Listserv Archive: From the Brennan Center … more →

Tags: reblogged

Opinion: Voter ID is offensive, unjust and un-American2 comments

Sandra Lilley wrote 10 months ago: Testifying on behalf of the ACLU in a suit challenging Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law, political scient … more →

Tags: Politics, Latinos, Matt Barreto, Voter ID, Voting, Pennsylvania

South Carolina Attorney General Admits Voter ID Won’t Prevent "Voter Fraud"

kstreet607 wrote 10 months ago: No one believed the GOP line that there was rampant voter fraud, hence the ID laws in several states … more →

Tags: South Carolina, United States Department of Justice, Pennsylvania, fraud, Electoral Fraud, Heritage Foundation, Voter ID laws (United States)

Millions of eligible voters affected by new voter ID laws, could impact election, says report

Sandra Lilley wrote 11 months ago: A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law  finds millions … more →

Tags: News, Access, Discrimination, Hispanics, jose aliseda, Latinos, Voter ID, eric holder, Mimi Bell

Governor Scott Sued Again: Florida's Unlawful Dual Election System

electionsmith wrote 11 months ago: As I’ve written before, the state of Florida is operating under a dual electoral system. This … more →

Tags: Florida, Voting Rights Act, ACLU, Voter Suppression, Governor Rick Scott

Toward Legislative Transparency: A Proposed Change to the New York State Constitution

AGLR Managing Editor wrote 1 year ago: By Anne Jeliff, Albany Government Law Review The New York State legislature has become synonymous wi … more →

Tags: Professional Responsibility, New York State, New York Constitution, assembly, Senate, legislature, Capital of inertia, CORRUPTION CENTRAL, Brennan Report

Dogmatism and the war on voter fraud5 comments

bauerinfrance wrote 1 year ago: Dogmatism: The tendency to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true, without consideration of ev … more →

Tags: Voter Fraud, GOP, dogmatism, ideologue, DoJ, bush, Psychology, Accommodation, assimilation


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