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Voting Wrongs
We expose the injustices that deny the vote to millions — and cover the fight for true enfranchisement.
![Voting Wrongs](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0715-voting-wrongs.jpg)
![On election day at the Pittman Park Recreation Center polling location, thousands of voters line up to vote in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday November 6, 2018.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/09/2019_0912-voting-georgia-400x300.jpg)
More People Are Voting — But 1,688 Polling Places Have Closed in 6 Years
A wave of polling place closures has swept 13 states since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
![Without changing existing power relationships, restoring voting rights for people in prison is meaningless.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/08/2019_0811-prison-vote-400x300.jpg)
I’m in Prison, and I Need More Than a Vote to Participate in Democracy
Without changing existing power relationships, restoring voting rights for people in prison is meaningless.
![The United States continues to deprive many people of the vote -- a basic civic tool.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0717-whack-a-vote-10-400x300.jpg)
On Voting Rights, the US Is Behind Much of the World
The United States continues to deprive many people of this basic civic tool.
![Clarence Singleton registers to vote at the Lee County Supervisor of Elections office on January 8, 2019, in Fort Myers, Florida. Mr. Singleton was able to register to vote for the first time after his right to vote was taken away in 2008 as a new constitutional amendment took effect.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0725-felon-voting-rights-400x300.jpg)
Modern-Day “Poll Taxes” Disenfranchise Millions of Low-Income Voters
Fines related to jail sentences make the right to vote unaffordable for millions of formerly incarcerated people.
![A hand puts paper into a ballot box](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0722voting-400x300.jpg)
People on Parole Fight to Reclaim the Ballot
Shutting out parolees from the two most basic civic institutions, the jury and the ballot, threatens democracy.
![Julie Dodd (L) hands out voting paperwork and directs petitioners where to go during a naturalization ceremony](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0718-naturalization-ceremony-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Are a Voter Suppression Strategy
The GOP's vicious immigration policies seek to entrench white political power for generations.
![A man casts his ballot at polling station during New Jersey's primary elections](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2019/07/2019_0715-voting-booth-400x300.jpg)
15 States Have Already Taken Steps to Make the Electoral College Obsolete
Momentum is growing among state legislatures to award electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.