Ohio is one of several key battleground states that have attempted error-plagued voter purges.
Voting Rights
Watch before 2020 to identify and fight voter suppression tactics that kept Stacey Abrams from winning in Georgia.
Congress has held only one hearing on the current backlog and has not taken any follow-up action.
Tennessee is the first state to threaten civil penalties for submitting incomplete voter registration forms.
Abrams’s new initiative targets unlawful suppression tactics like the ones she faced in her gubernatorial race.
Without changing existing power relationships, restoring voting rights for people in prison is meaningless.
North Dakota is one step closer to ensuring thousands of Native American residents will never be able to vote.
The United States continues to deprive many people of this basic civic tool.
Fines related to jail sentences make the right to vote unaffordable for millions of formerly incarcerated people.
Shutting out parolees from the two most basic civic institutions, the jury and the ballot, threatens democracy.