As Trump encourages intimidation at the polls, a nationwide coalition of voting rights advocates aims to fight back.
Voting Rights
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Trump’s Voter Fraud Fantasy
Donald Trump’s exhortations to supporters to monitor polling places in “certain areas” recycles voter fraud myths that increasingly are being rejected by scholars and federal courts.
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From a Contentious Election to a Stronger Democracy
Strengthening democracy is the key to all other reforms.
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Voting Rights: Will Court Protections Deliver?
Federal courts have overturned several state voting restrictions, but the struggle continues on the ground.
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North Carolina’s Fragile Voting Rights Victory
The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that rejected voting restrictions in North Carolina only because the Court’s current 4-4 split left the justices evenly divided. The stalemate underscores how the future of voting rights hangs on the high court’s composition.
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Reverend William Barber Is on a Mission from God: Change the Country’s Moral Narrative
A conversation with the architect of “Moral Mondays” on the struggle for voting rights, Fight for 15, and building toward a third Reconstruction.
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Q&A: Building a Movement for Democracy Reform
A conversation with Common Cause President Karen Hobert Flynn on voting rights, money in politics, and making sense of 2016.
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Court Deals Blow to Advocates Fighting Voter Registration Obstacles
Voting rights advocates trying to rein in the head of the beleaguered federal Election Assistance Commission are getting no favors from the courts. Last week, a D.C. Circuit Court judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking what critics say are voter-registration barriers that violate federal law. Back in January, Brian Newby, the commission’s executive […]
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Wisconsin Redistricting Lawsuit Could Reverberate Nationally
A federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn state legislative district lines could have sweeping implications for gerrymandered districts nationwide.
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Washington’s New Columbia State of Mind
In an aggressive new push for statehood, D.C. leaders have taken aim at national party platforms and state-level organizations.