Investigative reporter Brentin Mock covers attempts to limit the electoral power of people of color, while editor Aura Bogado leads our team of community journalists, acting as eyes and ears in key districts around the country.
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At ‘Shelby v. Holder’ Hearing, Debate Over Southern Racism and Congressional Power
by Brentin Mock on February 28 2013, 11:30AM
Yesterday’s Supreme Court hearing about Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act revealed a lot about how some of us deal with race in America. Here, five major takeaways straight from the courthouse.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics, Voting Rights Act
North Carolina: A Case for the Voting Rights Act’s Modern Relevance
by Brentin Mock on February 27 2013, 8:59AM
As the Supreme Court weighs whether the feds should maintain oversight in Southern election law, North Carolina proves why the answer is obviously yes.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics, Voting Rights Act
What Is Alabama’s Problem With the Voting Rights Act?
by Brentin Mock on February 26 2013, 8:46AM
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case that could deeply gut the historic law. To understand where this is going, it’s crucial to know how we got here.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, History, Politics, Voting Rights Act
From Selma to the Roberts Court: Reflections on Voting Rights History
by Brentin Mock on February 21 2013, 9:36AM
Diane Nash, Dorie Ladner and others who led and joined the March 1965 demonstrations that created the Voting Rights Act speak with Colorlines about their work then—and now.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, History, Voting Rights Act
Voter Registration Has an Ugly History, and Some Want to Revive It
by Brentin Mock on February 4 2013, 9:29AM
Right wing machinations around voting haven’t stopped just because the election’s over. Now up: rebuilding the walls around registration.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Virginia Republicans’ Bizarre Notion of ‘Fair’ Voting
by Brentin Mock on January 30 2013, 9:07AM
If the state GOP’s effort to reconfigure electoral college tallying would have been law last year, hundreds of thousands of black voters would have waited hours in line for nothing.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
From Arizona to Montana, Native Voters Struggle for Democracy
by Aura Bogado on January 28 2013, 9:39AM
Natives have proven crucial to Democrats’ success across the West, but their struggle for democracy remains one of the least acknowledged, ugly realities of every election.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Why Were There Long Voting Lines in 2012? Virginia Holds Answers
by Brentin Mock on January 15 2013, 9:42AM
A congressional hearing seeks to find out what caused so much turmoil on Election Day.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Senate Hearing Recounts the Many Election Season Mishaps of 2012
by Brentin Mock on December 20 2012, 10:50AM
Elections administrators gathered for “The State of the Right to Vote After the 2012 Election” hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to unpack some of the shenanigans from last month.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
A Constitutional Case Against Felony Disenfranchisement Laws
by Brentin Mock on December 14 2012, 10:12AM
Obama’s recent court victory on early voting may have carved a legal path for fighting down felony disenfranchisement laws.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
The Election Is Over, but the Voting Rights Fight Is in Full Swing
by Aura Bogado on December 10 2012, 9:44AM
The biggest challenge voting rights advocates face right now is keeping people engaged without the spotlight of a presidential election.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Voting Rights Icon Lawrence Guyot’s Death Animates Fight Over Future
by Brentin Mock on December 6 2012, 10:54AM
Guyot’s memorials prompted a Wall Street Journal op-ed writer to insist that the civil rights past is irrelevant to the Voting Rights Act’s future.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Nevada Led the Country in Expanding the Vote. Now, It’s Eyeing Voter ID
by Aura Bogado on December 3 2012, 9:09AM
A Democratic secretary of state made registration easier and supported early voting, leading to dramatic turnout. So why is he now proposing a plan that could disenfranchise voters?
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Tea Party Crowd’s Answer for Why Romney Lost? Voter Fraud!
by Brentin Mock on November 27 2012, 10:25AM
An idea is spreading on the right that Republicans are unfairly constrained by a court ruling that bars the party from targeting “ballot security” measures at communities of color.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
What Took So Long? Explaining Arizona’s Ballot Count Fiasco
by Aura Bogado on November 21 2012, 10:45AM
Arizona is still counting ballots cast more than two weeks ago—but why did it issue so many provisional ballots to begin with?
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Election Returns, Politics
Voting Rights Haven’t Gotten Such Attention Since 1965. What Did We Learn?
by Brentin Mock on November 16 2012, 7:33AM
From early voting to poll watching, felony disenfranchisement to redistricting, 10 lessons from an election season in which voting itself was hotly debated.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Why the Voting Rights Act Likely Won’t Survive Supreme Court Review
by Brentin Mock on November 14 2012, 9:54AM
The Voting Rights Act is, in some ways, living on borrowed time.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Beyond Ballots: When Communities Are the Real Candidates
by Aura Bogado on November 13 2012, 10:32AM
Having voted and elected a leader, we have to ask ourselves, “Now what?” What will we as a community gain from the frenzied efforts to get us to vote?
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics, Second Term
Watch Colorado Poll Watcher Report ‘High Concentration of People of Color’
by Aura Bogado on November 7 2012, 2:50PM
A Republican poll watcher complains that too many people of color were voting in Aurora, Colorado on Election Day.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Undeterred by the Long, Slow Line Toward Democracy
by Brentin Mock on November 7 2012, 10:54AM
Those long, snaking lines were about more than a vote. The people most battered and excluded from the nation’s politics and economy are refusing to be ignored.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
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