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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold Texas’ voter ID requirement for mail-in ballots, a decision which ...
Mainers spoke clearly when they signed the petition to bring forward voter ID requirements for Maine. The sheer volume of signatures that were collected demonstrates that Maine people want this.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to an immediate wave of Black voter participation. 60 years later, that participation is ...
The Republican National Committee and the Montana Republican Party last week filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit ...
If you believe mainstream media and political pundits, you'd think the Democratic Party was responsible for our voting rights ...
How did the wording of the citizens’ initiative question titled “An Act to Require an Individual to Present Photographic Identification for the Purpose of Voting” become the all-inclusive: “Do you ...
Thursday was the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in Morgantown, the Community Coalition for Social ...
It was August 6th, 1965, when president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, making it illegal to discriminate at ...
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, civil rights advocates call for renewed federal action to combat nationwide voting ...
Six decades later, as key protections erode and courts revisit core provisions, civil rights groups, legal experts and organizers are fighting to protect this essential pillar of democracy.
Voting Rights Act, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting. It prohibited jurisdictions that had engaged in egregious voting discrimination from implementing any change affecting voting ...