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Voting Rights
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Amid Confusion, Ohio (Kind Of) Postpones Elections Until June
Despite in-person voting closures today, there remains uncertainty about the fate of the primary election.
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Coronavirus Doesn’t Care It’s Election Year
Most states aren’t prepared to switch to a vote-by-mail system as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads.
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Will Democrats Give Unmarried Women a Reason and a Way to Vote?
Voting laws can make it hard for groups like single mothers to get to the polls. We need smarter laws—and more compelling campaigns.
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Six Years After Ferguson, Barriers to Voting Persist
Today’s Missouri primary may not see high voter participation in St. Louis’s African American community.
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How Alabama Tries to Suppress the Vote
On primary day, it’s disproportionately black and rural voters who have to surmount hurdles.
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Still Marching to Secure the Right to Vote
Fifty-five years after the beatings in Selma shocked the nation, Southern blacks are still dealing with voter suppression.
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All the Ways Your Vote May Not Be Counted in South Carolina
As voters go to the polls in today’s primary, they will encounter a host of obstacles the state has erected to diminish participation.
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South Carolina Closing Poll Stations Without Notice
The biggest county in the state, Greenville, will close 52 precincts.
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Los Angeles County’s Seismic Voting Shift
California unveils some of the biggest election changes in its history on Super Tuesday. After the Iowa debacle, will voters in the country’s largest voting jurisdiction pay enough attention to the new way they must vote?
