Voter ID

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March 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The League of Women Voters and Rock the Vote, two groups that have long conducted voter registration…
March 14, 2012
theGRIO REPORT- Attorney General Eric Holder is sharply criticizing the expansion of laws that would require photo identification to vote,…
March 13, 2012
OPINION - The Republican Party is obsessed with fraud. Like tax cuts, it is a cause célèbre, even where fraud…
March 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - This Easter, a group of black ministers are planning to take advantage of high attendance to combat…
March 9, 2012
VIDEO - Rev. Al Sharpton will lead a march in Montgomery, Alabama Friday, in a bid to highlight what he…
March 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT-Pennsylvania's state senate on Wednesday approved legislation that would require voters to present photo identification to cast ballots, joining…
March 7, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Urban League is calling on African-Americans to get out and vote come election time as…
February 7, 2012
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) - South Carolina is suing the U.S. Justice Department, saying it was wrong to block the…
January 1, 2012
MSNBC VIDEO -- The year 2012 is officially under way, and with it come a host of new laws that…
December 23, 2011
TheGrio REPORT -- The Justice Department on Friday moved to block South Carolina's voter ID law, saying it unfairly burdens…
December 14, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year's…
December 12, 2011
A U.S. Senate panel will hold a hearing in January on a Florida voting reform law that Democrats say will…
December 9, 2011
TheGRIO Q&A - The NAACP is currently fighting nationwide voter suppression through various initiatives President Ben Jealous told theGrio...
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…
December 8, 2011
NEWSONE - Plots to suppress the African American vote date back to the Reconstruction Era...
December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - An online advocacy group wants corporations that market to African Americans to stop giving money to a…
December 1, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Democratic National Committee went on offense Thursday, launching a major, public pushback against a raft of…
November 10, 2011
OPINION - Our nation is in the midst of a 100-year flood of extremist attacks on voting rights. The goal:…
November 9, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Kansas, Tennessee and Wisconsin are among the states that passed voter identification measures this year...