Voter Intimidation

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December 5, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - A new NAACP report on the suppression of the black vote refers to recent right-wing political tactics…
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...
November 8, 2011
OPINION - Voters in the state of Mississippi, voters go to the polls today with the option to turn back…
November 3, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats asked secretaries of state in all 50 states to oppose new voter identification laws because…
October 25, 2011
theGRIO REPORT- Nearly 25 percent of African-Americans currently do not have a valid photo ID necessary to vote, according to…
October 7, 2011
VIDEO - Dorothy Cooper has been voting for over the past 70 years and this is the first time (including…
September 21, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled against Shelby County, Ala., which sued Attorney General Eric Holder to…
August 10, 2011
OPINION - The CBC is in the unique position to provide this kind of direction, and I believe they have…
July 11, 2011
OPINION - As a civil rights lawyer who works in the trenches, I am well aware of the barriers that…
June 29, 2011
Brazile writes that her sister in Florida was a victim of voter suppression during the 2000 election...
June 24, 2011
OPINION - If there is one time-honored tactic GOP politicians have mastered, it's voter suppression...
April 29, 2011
OPINION - The racially charged and xenophobic atmosphere in which many of these efforts are unfolding is undeniable...
January 4, 2011
OPINION - Republicans are making Obama their 'whipping boy' and perpetuating the voter fraud myth for two reasons...
November 2, 2010
A member of the New Black Panther Party was spotted by a local Fox station today at the same polling…
November 2, 2010
theGRIO VIDEO - MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tells theGrio's Todd Johnson race is playing a bigger role in this year's midterm…
November 1, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Here, theGrio identifies some of the most common problems that voters encounter at the polls and discuss…
October 26, 2010
OPINION - Unsurprisingly, efforts to restrict voter access have taken a turn for the worse this election cycle, creating a…
July 20, 2010
VIDEO - The debate continues over whether the U.S. Department of Justice mishandled the Philadelphia voter intimidation case...
July 7, 2010
OPINION - With the case against the New Black Panthers, there's only smoke and mirrors, and lots of racial hating…