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Congress Must Keep Its Voting Rights Promise
If we are to remain and grow as a democracy, we must continue to strengthen and expand the voting franchise.
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Fifty Years After Freedom Summer, US Faces Greatest Curbs on Voting Rights Since Reconstruction
In a week marking the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Mississippi was in the news when African-American voters crossed party lines to help Republican Sen. Thad Cochran narrowly defeat …
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Brennan Center Urges Congress to Pass Democracy Restoration Act
Based on Brennan Center proposal, bill would restore voting rights to 4.4 million Americans.
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Bring Back Democracy to One Person, One Vote
To get the money out of politics, Ben Cohen and others are stamping all of their dollars with messages like “not to be used for buying elections.”
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Massive Turnout at North Carolina “Moral March” Puts Right-Wing Lawmakers on Notice
Outrage against the North Carolina legislature's racist, right-wing agenda mobilized tens of thousands to participate in Saturday's Moral March in Raleigh.
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Members of Congress Introduce a New Fix for the Voting Rights Act
Legislation introduced yesterday represents the first attempt by a bipartisan group in Congress to reinstate the vital protections of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court took away.
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How to Mess Up a Perfectly Good Democracy, as Seen From Down Under
Unlike the US, Australia's system prevents the “buying” of elections and citizens are required to vote rather than being prevented from voting.
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Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, “Worldwide Pattern of Criminal Conduct“
One of the world's largest ATM manufacturers and, formerly, one of the largest manufacturers of electronic voting systems, has been indicted by federal prosecutors for bribery and falsification of …
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Women May Have to Win Back the Right to Vote Less Than 100 Years After Gaining It
A new voter ID law in Texas that declares the only acceptable ID will be a valid photo ID with your legal name on it makes it harder for …
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Civil Rights Groups Challenge Texas’s Voter ID Law in Federal Court
The NAACP and two other groups are filing suit to halt the state's voter ID law after a Supreme Court ruling in June.