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Voting Rights

Supporters chant 'four more years' as U.S. President Barack Obama addresses a campaign event at the Palm Beach County Convention Center September 9, 2012 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Black women rally against voter ID laws

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - With iPad in hand, Reese is going to community centers, homes and churches in nine Ohio cities, looking up registrations to make sure voters have proper ID and everything else they need to cast ballots on Election Day...
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Two women vote in a recreation center in the presidential election November 4, 2008 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

September 25th is National Voter Registration Day

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - In four days over 1100 organizations will come together in a national wide call for voter registration...
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Voters show identification as they sign in to vote during the Republican primary election April 24, 2012 at Bodine High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Turnout is expected to be low as Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney continues his campaign as the presumptive GOP candidate. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

Pa. high court wants review of voter ID access

Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's highest court is ordering a lower court to determine whether voters are getting easy access to photo ID cards under a new law requiring photo identification at the polls...
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A roadside sign in Indianapolis shows an image of a historical lynching of two black men in the 1930s. The Greater St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church is using the sign to encourage nearby residents to vote. (Video still via Indianapolis' WISH-TV)

Pastor posts lynching photo to urge black vote

Todd Johnson
theGRIO REPORT - An Indianapolis pastor says he hopes a graphic and disturbing image of an infamous lynching in the 1930s of two black men will encourage more of the area's black residents to vote in this fall's election..
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Voters show identification as they sign in to vote during the Republican primary election April 24, 2012 at Bodine High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Turnout is expected to be low as Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney continues his campaign as the presumptive GOP candidate. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

Divisive voter ID law goes before Pa. high court

Marc Levy and Mary Claire Dale, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pennsylvania's Supreme Court justices are hearing arguments over whether a new law requiring each voter to show valid photo identification poses an unnecessary threat to the right to vote...
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Jon Husted (photo Husted4Ohio)

Ohio Secretary of State won't reinstate early vote

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - Ohio's Secretary of State, Jon Husted refuses to reinstate early voting the final weekend before Election Day because a change in the schedule would confuse voters...
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Diana Sizemore fills out her ballot at a polling station setup in Gaylord Towers as Ohio heads to the polls on March 6, 2012 in Steubenville, Ohio. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Judge: Ohio early voting restored

Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge in Ohio on Friday granted a request from President Barack Obama's campaign to give all voters in the swing state the option of casting their ballot in person during the three days before Election Day...
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Demonstrators hold signs at an NAACP-organized rally on the steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol to protest the state's new voter identification law on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 in Harrisburg, Pa. The law is being challenged in court as unconstitutional. Democrats say it's an election year stunt to steal the White House. Republicans say it's necessary to prevent voting fraud. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Testimony ending in South Carolina voter ID trial

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys are wrapping up testimony in the federal trial of South Carolina's voter identification law...
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NAACP blasts GOP's 'withering attacks' on voting

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - At the start of the NAACP convention, the NAACP says the GOP is attacking the voting rights of people of color...
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(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Trial opens challenging South Carolina voter ID

Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal trial over South Carolina's voter identification law got under way Monday with a state senator insisting his work on the law was aimed at fighting fraud and instilling public confidence in the election system...
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