All posts tagged "Voting Rights"
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DEMOCRACY
Dem Lawmaker Introduces Amendment To Lower Voting Age From 18 To 16 In Federal Elections
March 6, 2019Progressive Democrat Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) on Tuesday introduced an amendment to the House election reform bill...
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DEMOCRACY
Supreme Court Upholds Controversial Ohio ‘Voter-Purge’ Law In Major Blow To Voting Rights
June 11, 2018By a 5-4 margin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state of Ohio...
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DEMOCRACY
New Jersey Becomes The 13th State To Automatically Register People To Vote
April 17, 2018New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) on Tuesday signed legislation that will automatically register people to...
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DEMOCRACY
100,000 Teens Pre-Registered To Vote In California, More Than 10% Amid ‘March For Our Lives’
April 6, 2018More than 100,000 teenagers have pre-registered to vote in California as part of a statewide program...
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DEMOCRACY
Maryland Passes Veto-Proof Automatic Voter Registration Bill, Joining 10 Other States
March 28, 2018Maryland’s Democratic-controlled legislature on Wednesday passed a veto-proof bill that would automatically register eligible citizens to...
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Authoritarianism
Federal Court Orders North Carolina To Redraw ‘Unconstitutional’ Congressional District Maps
January 9, 2018A federal court has ordered North Carolina’s GOP-controlled state legislature to once again redraw the state’s...
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DEMOCRACY
Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘Time To Terminate Gerrymandering’
October 3, 2017Speaking at an anti-gerrymandering rally outside the nation’s highest court on Tuesday, former California Gov. Arnold...
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DEMOCRACY
Supreme Court Blocks Rulings Requiring Texas To Redraw Congressional Districts
September 12, 2017The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order blocking a decision by the District Court for...
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DEMOCRACY
The Head Of Trump’s Voter Fraud Panel Confirms He’s A Paid Breitbart Columnist
September 1, 2017Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the head of President Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity, is a...
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DEMOCRACY
Illinois Becomes 10th State To Enact Automatic Voter Registration
August 28, 2017Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) on Monday signed into law a bill that provides automatic voter...
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NEWS
Iowa Woman Who Voted Twice For Trump Because Of His Claim Of ‘Rigged’ Election Pleads Guilty
July 8, 2017A woman in Des Moines, Iowa charged with voting twice for Donald Trump in the 2016...
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DEMOCRACY
Bush DHS Chief: Trump Voters Data Request Poses Danger To National Security
July 6, 2017Michael Chertoff, the secretary of Homeland Security under former President George W. Bush, argued on Thursday...
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NEWS
Trump’s Controversial Voter Fraud Commission May Have Violated Federal Law: Report
July 5, 2017President Trump’s voter fraud commission may have violated the law by ignoring federal requirements governing requests...
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DEMOCRACY
Arkansas Joins 44 States & DC: We Won’t Hand Over Voters’ ‘Most Sensitive Data’
July 5, 2017Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) is refusing to provide certain types of voter information to the...