Voter Suppression

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August 17, 2012
VIDEO - Republicans are passing voter ID laws all over the country, in what some political watchers believe is a…
August 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has decided to standardize early voting hours statewide, limiting them in…
August 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights groups, voting rights advocates, clergy and the state NAACP are among those protesting the restriction…
July 30, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Jim Greer, the former chair of the Florida Republican Party, has accused the GOP of engaging in…
June 27, 2012
OPINION - The Republican strategy for winning the youth vote, black vote, and low-income vote has been to ensure that…
March 7, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Urban League is calling on African-Americans to get out and vote come election time as…
December 23, 2011
TheGrio REPORT -- The Justice Department on Friday moved to block South Carolina's voter ID law, saying it unfairly burdens…
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 7, 2011
BALTIMORE (AP) - A political aide to former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to use Election…
December 7, 2011
VIDEO - On 'Politics Nation' on Tuesday, Rev. Al Sharpton highlighted an instance of voter fraud...only not the kind Republicans…
November 8, 2011
OPINION - Voters in the state of Mississippi, voters go to the polls today with the option to turn back…
October 5, 2011
TIMES FREE PRESS - Dorothy Cooper is 96 but she can remember only one election when she's been eligible to…
September 21, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled against Shelby County, Ala., which sued Attorney General Eric Holder to…
August 29, 2011
OPINION - It seems the GOP is on a campaign to rewrite American history and erase the lessons learned from…
July 25, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Benjamin Todd Jealous said legislation promoted by what he called racist elements in the tea party…
July 11, 2011
OPINION - As a civil rights lawyer who works in the trenches, I am well aware of the barriers that…
July 7, 2011
Former President Bill Clinton went after the GOP on Wednesday for their "disciplined, passionate, determined effort" to pass controversial voter…
June 29, 2011
Brazile writes that her sister in Florida was a victim of voter suppression during the 2000 election...