Voting Rights

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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…
September 21, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - With iPad in hand, Reese is going to community centers, homes and churches in nine Ohio cities,…
September 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In four days over 1100 organizations will come together in a national wide call for voter registration...
September 18, 2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania's highest court is ordering a lower court to determine whether voters are getting easy access…
September 13, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - An Indianapolis pastor says he hopes a graphic and disturbing image of an infamous lynching in the…
September 13, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pennsylvania's Supreme Court justices are hearing arguments over whether a new law requiring each voter to show…
September 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Ohio's Secretary of State, Jon Husted refuses to reinstate early voting the final weekend before Election Day…
August 31, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal judge in Ohio on Friday granted a request from President Barack Obama's campaign to…
August 31, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys are wrapping up testimony in the federal trial of South Carolina's voter identification law...
August 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - At the start of the NAACP convention, the NAACP says the GOP is attacking the voting rights…
August 27, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal trial over South Carolina's voter identification law got under way Monday with a state senator…