Voting Rights

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September 21, 2012

Black women rally against voter ID laws

WASHINGTON (AP) - With iPad in hand, Reese is going to community centers, homes and churches in nine Ohio cities,…
September 20, 2012

September 25th is National Voter Registration Day

theGRIO REPORT - In four days over 1100 organizations will come together in a national wide call for voter registration...
September 18, 2012

Pennsylvania high court wants review of voter ID access

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's highest court is ordering a lower court to determine whether voters are getting easy access…
September 13, 2012

Indiana pastor posts lynching photo to urge blacks to vote

theGRIO REPORT - An Indianapolis pastor says he hopes a graphic and disturbing image of an infamous lynching in the…
September 13, 2012

Divisive voter ID law goes before Pennsylvania high court

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pennsylvania's Supreme Court justices are hearing arguments over whether a new law requiring each voter to show…
September 5, 2012

Ohio Secretary of State: Restoring early voting 'will only serve to confuse voters'

theGRIO REPORT - Ohio's Secretary of State, Jon Husted refuses to reinstate early voting the final weekend before Election Day…
August 31, 2012

Judge restores 3 early voting days in Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge in Ohio on Friday granted a request from President Barack Obama's campaign to…
August 31, 2012

Testimony ending in South Carolina voter ID trial

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys are wrapping up testimony in the federal trial of South Carolina's voter identification law...
August 28, 2012

NAACP blasts GOP's 'withering attacks on voting rights'

theGRIO REPORT - At the start of the NAACP convention, the NAACP says the GOP is attacking the voting rights…
August 27, 2012

Trial opens challenging South Carolina voter ID

WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal trial over South Carolina's voter identification law got under way Monday with a state senator…
August 20, 2012

Ohio Republican: Early voting should not accomodate black voters

theGRIO REPORT - Ohio's Franklin County GOP Chairman Doug Preisse voted against the weekend voting process Ohio had during the…
August 17, 2012

Viviette Applewhite, 93-year-old plaintiff in Pa. voter ID case, gets card amid appeal

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law has received the…
August 6, 2012

Today in history: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
July 26, 2012

ACLU: Over 1 million Pennsylvanians think they have proper voter ID, but they don't

theGRIO REPORT - A new report commissioned by the ACLU finds that many Pennsylvania residents who would not have the…
July 24, 2012

Justice Department to investigate new voter ID law in Pennsyvlania

theGRIO REPORT - The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of Pennsylvania's new voter-ID…
July 20, 2012

Study: Voter ID laws support fueled by racial resentment

Recent studies are revealing that support for voter ID laws may be linked to resentment towards African-Americans...
July 17, 2012

Obama campaign sues over Ohio early voting law

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is suing Ohio's top elections official in a dispute over a…
July 16, 2012

Battleground 2012: Could a voter ID law hurt Obama's chances in Pennsylvania?

theGRIO REPORT - A controversial voter identification law adopted earlier this year here could potentially prevent tens of thousands of…
July 12, 2012

8 percent of blacks can't vote because of felony convictions, according to new report

theGRIO REPORT - One of every 13 African-Americans of voting age is disenfranchised because of laws in states that prevent…
July 11, 2012

How poll taxes have historically hurt black Americans

theGRIO REPORT - Addressing the 103rd NAACP Convention in Houston, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder likened new voter ID laws…