Aug 9, 2012
…among the many provision of the Voting Rights Act was the prohibition on the notorious poll tax, which was specifically designed to eliminate large (and poor) groups of otherwise eligible voters from casting their ballot. In inflation-adjusted dollars, your average 1965 poll tax cost $10.64. In contrast, today it can cost $25 for a birth [...]
Aug 8, 2012
this post jumps right in to the middle of a conversation regarding voter suppression and Photo ID laws. KEESHA GASKINS: Again, our research shows us that African American voters, Latino voters, voters over 65, young people 18 to 24 are all in populations that lack this type of ID at rates well beyond the 11 [...]
Aug 1, 2012
Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carole Aichele, testifying Tuesday during a state trial on the state’s controversial voter ID law, said she wasn’t sure about the details of the law, but stood by her unsupported claim that 99 percent of voters had valid identification. …Aichele also couldn’t provide any evidence that 99 percent of voters [...]
Jul 30, 2012
“House Republicans criticized the Justice Department for challenging voter ID laws. The critical lawmakers believe that DOJ is acting in a partisan manner and that DOJ’s actions show that the Obama Administration is more concerned with winning in November than protecting against election fraud.” That’s correct folks, Voter Suppression is just fine with Republicans in [...]
Jul 16, 2012
After one of the most powerful and courageous social movements in American history, one which took the lives of at least 40 people, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, LBJ famously signed the voting rights act in 1965 ending these practices. “Wherever, by clear and objective standards, states and counties are using regulations, or [...]
Jul 15, 2012
“I don’t sense that African-Americans are truly aware of what is in the process of happening or could happen to them,” says Rep. John Lewis, Democrat from Georgia. “People should be angry. There should be a sense of righteous indignation. African-Americans and people of good will, Latinos and young people, should be saying, ‘How [...]
Jun 3, 2012
Gov. Rick Scott (R) plans to ignore a Department of Justice demand that his administration stop purging its voter rolls in violation of federal law. Janell Ross reports that Scott ordered election officials to continue the purge, even in the face of evidence that a disproportionate amount of names on the list are voters of [...]
Jun 1, 2012
Breaking News from TPM: The Justice Department sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner Thursday evening demanding the state cease purging its voting rolls because the process it is using has not been cleared under the Voting Rights Act, TPM has learned. DOJ also said that Florida’s voter roll purge violated the [...]
