Disenfranchisement

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August 28, 2022
The NAACP backs efforts to bar a New Mexico-based county commissioner, who allegedly sought to disenfranchise voters, from public office.
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August 6, 2020
The Voting Rights Act turns 55 today but with a key provision taken from it, Black voting rights are still…
January 23, 2018
A proposed constitutional amendment has reached the 766,200 petition signatures needed to go on the ballot come November. The initiative…
November 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Voting rights advocates are asking a federal court to step in and stop what they call an…
October 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Rapper and ex-felon 2 Chainz has teamed up with the Respect My Vote! campaign to help educated…
October 17, 2012
MIAMI (AP) - Tough new election laws aimed at forcing voters in many states to show photo identification at polling…
September 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Pennsylvania House Representative Daryl Metcalfe told a local radio host yesterday morning that the state cannot carry…
August 10, 2012
VIDEO - Ohio has made voting harder for Democrats, and easier for Republicans...
July 11, 2012
How is Pennsylvania's harsh voter ID law, which experts say could disenfranchise more than 750,000 people in November, just like…
December 9, 2011
THE BIG ISSUE - South Carolina's voter ID law is one of the strictest in the nation, and that could…
December 8, 2011
THE BIG ISSUE - NBC News reporter Mara Schiavocampo explores the pros and cons of voting reform in the Palmetto…
January 4, 2011
OPINION - Republicans are making Obama their 'whipping boy' and perpetuating the voter fraud myth for two reasons...
December 14, 2010
OPINION - For black voters, Bush v. Gore is a stark reminder of the outdated voting equipment that led to…
March 17, 2010
State laws that ban convicted felons from voting are having the unintentional (or is it intentional?) effect of disenfranchising one…