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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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
More Floridians Votes Challenged by Tea Party, This Time Miami
by Brentin Mock on November 6 2012, 4:57PM
The state is still challenging the voting rights of people at the polls.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012
Voter ID Confusion and Tea Party Poll ‘Monitoring’ in Pennsylvania
by Kai Wright on November 6 2012, 3:04PM
Election Protection watchers are hearing lots of reports about conflict over voter ID requirements at Pennsylvania polling sites.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, /NOW Blog
Sheriff Deputies, Poll Worker Harass Latinos in Swing State Colorado
by Aura Bogado on November 6 2012, 1:59PM
Colorado’s Latino voters could well decide this election—but some will have to overcome harassment to cast their ballots.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Tea Party Group Blocks Florida Voters, Stops Water Handouts at Polls
by Brentin Mock on November 5 2012, 11:36AM
A Tampa group has filed dozens of last-minute voter challenges, in a troubling indication of ramped up suppression efforts. Meanwhile, as record turnout forced long lines, poll watchers have cried foul over bottled water.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Early Voting, Politics
Ready to Vote? Rampant Suppression Threatens Already Tight Race
by Aura Bogado on November 2 2012, 1:42AM
There are plenty more threats to the vote than there are days left to cast your ballot.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics
Why Vote? Because You Can Shift Power in the United States
by Aura Bogado on November 1 2012, 12:18PM
For some people of color, voting may be a matter of life and death.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics, Why Vote?
Florida Early Voters Show Up in Huge Numbers Despite Suppression Effort
by Brentin Mock on October 30 2012, 10:07AM
For two years, Florida’s tea party Republicans have been working to undo the huge turnout of black voters on the Sunday before Election Day. It didn’t work.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Early Voting, Politics
Suppression Surges as Election Nears
by Aura Bogado on October 26 2012, 9:09AM
With a week-and-a-half left until Election Day, voter suppression schemes slam swing states.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Early Voting, Politics
Dignity Beyond Voting: Undocumented Immigrants Cast Their Hopes
by Aura Bogado on October 25 2012, 9:25AM
Long locked out of the front door to electoral process, undocumented immigrants are creating a window of opportunity.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Immigration, Politics
In Virginia, 350K Would-Be Voters Wait for Democracy’s Slow Return
by Brentin Mock on October 24 2012, 9:28AM
Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell is restoring the voting rights of more formerly incarcerated residents than any previous administration. And it’s still a drop in the bucket.
Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Criminal Justice, Politics
Anonymous Funder Pulls ‘Voter Fraud’ Billboards Rather Than Reveal Itself
by Kai Wright on October 22 2012, 11:54AM
After widespread outrage, Clear Channel finally invoked its policy against anonymous political ads.
Topics: Voting Rights 2012, /NOW Blog, Politics
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