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  • Fight to Vote
    The Voting Map: Deadlines and Restrictions
    October 9, 2020
    Your Voice Counts
  • Fight to Vote
    Introducing Electionland 2020
    August 10, 2020
    | Rachel Glickhouse
    This article is part of Electionland, ProPublica’s collaborative reporting project covering problems that prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots during the 2020 elections. 
  • Fight to Vote
    Revealed: US Spends Millions of Taxpayer Dollars on Ineffective Voting Restrictions
    July 23, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    Restrictive “voter identification” laws pushed by Republicans, and widely regarded to be ineffective and discriminatory, have cost taxpayers at least $36m in just a few states.

  • Fight to Vote
    'An Embarrassment': Trump's Justice Department Goes Quiet on Voting Rights
    July 21, 2020
    The department’s limited public activity has been striking, particularly as several states have seen voters wait hours in line to vote and jurisdictions are rapidly limiting in-person voting options because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Democracy & Government
    Texas Democrats Plan to Create a Voter Registration Army – Via Zoom
    July 8, 2020

    The effort comes as voter registration efforts, both in Texas and around the US have effectively stalled just months before the presidential election.

  • Democracy & Government
    Court Reinstates Wisconsin Voting Restrictions in Victory for Republicans
    July 7, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    The ruling reinstates a Republican-backed law that allows local election officials to offer only two weeks of early voting before election day.

  • Democracy & Government
    Georgia Voters Are Waiting Hours to Cast Ballots, in a Bad Omen for November
    June 11, 2020
    | Noah Lanard

    Thousands of Georgians had their registrations put on hold and weren’t sure if they’d be able to vote. Some voters were wrongly flagged as non-citizens; others had their ballots rejected because poll workers told them they had the wrong ID. Hundreds of polling places were shuttered before the election, and other precincts had four-hour lines. Absentee ballots were rejected because of signature mismatches or other minor errors.

  • Moyers on Democracy
    Republicans Admit They Lose When Elections Are Fair and Free
    April 8, 2020
    Voting rights. The Republican Party “would rather try to keep people from voting than lose,” David Daley tells Bill. Daley is a reporter who has written extensively about gerrymandering and voting rights — and fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections.
  • Democracy & Government
    Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
    October 24, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    And possibly handed him the whole election.
  • Voting Should Not Be a Partisan Issue
    August 4, 2015
    | Victoria Bassetti
    Our democracy is threatened when voting becomes a wedge issue between the parties.


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