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By Bill Boyarsky — In many states, the number of eligible Latino citizens that could be affected by barriers to voting exceeds the margin of victory of the 2008 presidential election.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the real percentage of Americans who receive financial help from the federal government and the Massachusetts Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren gets nasty.
Posted on Sep 25, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — When Michelle Obama called voting rights “the movement of our era” in a speech Saturday night, she didn’t specifically mention the Republican-led crusade for restrictive voter identification laws. She didn’t have to.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, the sponsor of a strict voter ID law in Pennsylvania that will disproportionately disenfranchise poor and minority voters, is now saying the law will affect only the “lazy”—like the 47 percent of voters Mitt Romney was referring to in a recently leaked undercover video.
Posted on Sep 20, 2012
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By Bill Blum — Whatever petition the Supreme Court decides to take up, the suppression movement will find a welcome setting.
Posted on Jul 31, 2012
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President Mitt Romney? Although it might be unthinkable right now that the gaffe-prone GOP presidential candidate could win the election, Republicans have figured out a way to help make that a reality. Hint: It involves suppressing the rights of millions of Americans.
Posted on Jul 30, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why John McCain deserves (gasp!) major props and new estimates on disenfranchisement due to state voter ID laws.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — As the election season heats up, an increasing number of states are working to limit the number of people who are allowed to vote.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans are waging the most concerted campaign to prevent or discourage citizens from exercising their legitimate voting rights since the Jim Crow days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
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Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed after four decades of the largest rush of migrants from a single country in American history and may even be declining, a report by the Pew Hispanic Center says.
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By Amy Goodman — Across the country, state legislatures and governors are pushing laws that seek to restrict access to the voting booth, laws that will disproportionately harm people of color, low-income people, and young and elderly voters.
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DOJ
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During a speech in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, Eric Holder provided an exhaustive summary of the mostly bigoted and partisan efforts to disenfranchise voters across the country, and somewhere buried toward the end he came out with a brilliant idea. (more)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — An attack on the right to vote is under way across the country through laws designed to make it more difficult to cast a ballot.
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dailylobo.com
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Ousted U.S. Attorney David Iglesias says he believes he was fired, in part, for failing to meet the obsessive demands of a nonprofit organization with ties to the Republican Party that allegedly sought to limit the voting rights of minorities. Is there a more heinous political practice than the disenfranchisement of minority voters after so long a struggle?
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What good is a democracy without fair and clean elections? In this piece for Tom Paine, Art Levine looks ahead to the November vote, and explains ways concerned Americans can protect it.
Posted on Jul 20, 2006
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