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#voting rights act
  • Democracy & Government
    Obama Voices Support for Making Election Day a National Holiday
    May 13, 2016
    | Emily Atkin
    Making Election Day more accessible for everyone could boost America's low voter turnout.
  • Economy & Work
    The Labor Movement’s May Day Promise
    May 2, 2016
    | Erica Smiley
    Some cast the labor movement as dying or even dead, but even amid attacks on collective bargaining workers are finding innovative ways to organize.
  • Democracy & Government
    Why There May Be Trouble This November at Your Polling Place
    March 31, 2016
    | Theresa Riley
    Authors Ari Berman and Michael Waldman talk about the unequal history of voting in America, new voting rules and their concerns about what may happen later this year.
  • Civil Liberties
    Many Arizonans Couldn't Vote: Blame It on the Supreme Court
    March 23, 2016
    | Ari Berman
    Reducing the number of polling places in Phoenix had catastrophic consequences in the March 22 primary.
  • Civil Liberties
    North Carolina’s Voter-ID Law Could Block 218,000 Voters
    March 15, 2016
    | Ari Berman
    The controversial restriction takes effect for the first time in the March 15 primary.
  • Media
    How We Got Trumped by the Media
    March 12, 2016
    | John Nichols
    They’re so obsessed with the Donald that they can barely be bothered to cover the other candidates, much less the important issues.
  • Inequality
    Voters Were Blocked From the Polls on Super Tuesday by New Restrictions
    March 3, 2016
    | Ari Berman
    The 2016 election is the first in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.
  • Democracy & Government
    Hundreds of Thousands May Be Barred From Voting on Super Tuesday
    February 29, 2016
    | John Light
    SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, and voter ID laws have proliferated nationwide.
  • Democracy & Government
    Make the Candidates Talk About Voting Rights
    February 25, 2016
    | Gary May
    Where do the Republican presidential contenders stand on the issue of voter suppression?
  • Civil Liberties
    How the GOP Candidates Are Blocking the Vote
    January 29, 2016
    | Ari Berman
    Ted Cruz is leading the charge, but all of them support tough new voting restrictions.


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