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Voting Wrongs
We expose the injustices that deny the vote to millions — and cover the fight for true enfranchisement.
Conservative SCOTUS Justices Give “OK” to Racial Gerrymander in South Carolina
Pundits noted the “disastrous” decision “gives politicians the greenlight to racially gerrymander” elsewhere in the US.
1964’s Freedom Summer Offers a Model for the Voting Rights Work We Need to Do
I was part of Freedom Summer in 1964. Sixty years later, with voting rights under attack, I see how we need another.
Gerrymandering Denies Incarcerated People Fair Democratic Representation
The US Census counts incarcerated people as residents of prisons, not their home towns — with undemocratic results.
Millions of Voters Navigate New Voting Rules on Super Tuesday
New photo ID rules and other changes vary widely between individual states, districts and even polling locations.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over “Wildly Gerrymandered” Maps
The state Supreme Court will issue a ruling on the legality of the maps sometime in early 2024, well ahead of elections.
Federal Court Guts Enforcement of Voting Rights Act in “Catastrophic” Ruling
“This ruling is a travesty for democracy,” said ACLU lawyer Sophia Lin Lakin.
Virginia “Voting Rights Restoration” Process May Be a Form of Voter Suppression
“Modern voter suppression is like death by a million cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Truthout.
A 2023 Wave of “Election Subversion” Bills Threatens 2024 Results
Legislation in 38 states would set conditions for the kind of “chaos and delay” that Trump exploited in 2020.
The Right Has Expanded Its Dark Money Strategy for Dominating School Boards
The far right built an elaborate new infrastructure for attacking public education in the run-up to the midterms.
Right-Wing Dark Money Flooded the Midterm, But Young Voters Beat the Red Wave
GOP-aligned dark money groups spent big trying to generate a “red wave” in the midterms -- but they lost instead.