The battle over voter ID
Tova Wang
Tova Andrea Wang is senior democracy fellow at Demos. Her work focuses primarily on voting rights, civil rights and liberties, immigration, campaign-finance reform, and media reform.
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Misidentified Priorities
Newly elected Republicans are pushing state-level voter-ID laws designed to disenfranchise minority voters.
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2004: A Report Card
Americans know the 2000 election was a fiasco. What they don’t know is that the 2004 election, in many ways, might have been even worse. The purported margin of victory in November has led many to believe that the process went relatively smoothly. But the appearance of a smooth election obscured troubling developments, from simple […]
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Bar None
This week, the House is expected to consider Republican-backed legislation that would impose a $250,000 cap on damages for pain and suffering in suits filed against doctors, health maintenance organizations and manufacturers of drugs and medical devices. The bill, which President Bush called for in his State of the Union address, is the latest installment […]
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Promise Keeper?
As a consolation prize for losing the majority leader’s post, Senate Republicans have given Trent Lott (R-Miss.) the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. The announcement has received little attention, but liberals should be elated. That’s because the position wields a tremendous amount of power in the area of federal election law. […]
