Voting Rights

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October 17, 2012
MIAMI (AP) - Tough new election laws aimed at forcing voters in many states to show photo identification at polling…
October 16, 2012
MIAMI (AP) - The legal fight over Florida's plan to purge almost 200 voters from the rolls because they aren't…
October 16, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with Democrats in refusing to block early voting in the battleground state…
October 15, 2012
VIDEO - First pop star Beyoncé cut an ad on behalf of the Obama campaign, now her rap icon husband…
October 11, 2012
  MIAMI (AP) — Kimberly Kelley of Tampa has provided Florida elections officials with thousands of names of people she
October 10, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - A panel of three federal judges upheld a South Carolina law requiring voters to show photo identification,…
October 5, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated in-person early voting in the swing state of Ohio…
October 5, 2012
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Florida can begin removing about 200 potentially ineligible voters from state rolls because they might…
October 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A new anti-'voter fraud' billboard in Cleveland, Ohio is stirring debate and allegations for voter intimidation...
October 2, 2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A judge postponed Pennsylvania's controversial voter identification requirement on Tuesday, ordering the state not to enforce…
September 28, 2012
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Dozens of volunteers armed with clipboards and voter registration forms gather at President Barack Obama's field…
September 27, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Republican Party of Florida has decided to fire a firm it has given more than a…
September 26, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - New voting laws in key states could force a lot more voters to cast provisional ballots this…
September 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - When Republican-led state legislatures and governors passed controversial voting bills throughout 2011 and earlier this year, the…
September 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Today is National Voter Registration Day, but it's also Election Day in more than two dozen states...
September 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A report released this month by voting rights groups Demos and Common Cause says robust enforcement of…
September 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Voting on Election Day sometimes has complications, particularly long lines. So in key battleground states, Team Obama…
September 24, 2012
First Lady Michelle Obama calls voting rights the "sit ins of our time" during her speech to the 42nd Congressional…
September 24, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - South Carolina is in federal court arguing that its new law requiring people prove their identity at…
September 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Congressional Black Caucus chairman Emanuel Cleaver said yesterday that blacks who decide not to vote 'ought to…