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#disenfranchisement
  • Democracy & Government
    Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
    October 24, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    And possibly handed him the whole election.
  • Democracy & Government
    Trump's Judicial Nominee Defended NC's Voter Suppression Law
    October 20, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    Thomas Farr's nomination will move to the floor for a vote by the full Senate.
  • Democracy & Government
    Your Turn: Election Day Worries
    September 1, 2016
    | Karin Kamp
    In a highly unusual election season, there's lots of anxiety out there ahead of Nov. 8.
  • Civil Liberties
    1 in 13 Black Adults Prohibited From Voting in the US
    March 24, 2015
    | Katie Rose Quandt
    Disenfranchisement of ex-felons can have a measurable impact on election results.
  • Democracy & Government
    Oregon’s Radical Innovation: Make Democracy Easy
    March 19, 2015
    | John Nichols
    Oregon showed democracy is possible by making voting easy. If they can do it why not the USA?
  • New Voting Laws Show That the Struggle Continues
    March 6, 2015
    | Wendy Weiser
    After a surge in voting participation among African-Americans and other groups in 2008, many states enacted new voting restrictions.
  • New Strict Voter ID Laws Challenged in Court
    March 6, 2015
    | Anita Earls
    Since 2010, 16 states have passed voter ID laws and 11 states now have, or will soon have, what are considered “strict” voter identification requirements.
  • Civil Liberties
    Did Voting Restrictions Determine the Outcomes of Key Midterm Races?
    November 7, 2014
    | Ari Berman
    Since Republican legislatures implemented new voting restrictions after 2010 and SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, it’s become easier to buy an election and harder to vote in one.
  • Civil Liberties
    The Fight — and the Right — to Vote
    October 24, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    Two experts on American elections talk to Bill about the plot to keep citizens away from the ballot box.
  • Civil Liberties
    Elderly Woman Gets Caught in GOP's War on Voting
    September 25, 2014
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Eighty-seven-year-old Ruthelle Franks speaks out about being disenfranchised by Wisconsin's voter ID law.


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