Voting Rights

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August 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Ohio's Franklin County GOP Chairman Doug Preisse voted against the weekend voting process Ohio had during the…
August 17, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law has received the…
August 6, 2012
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
July 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A new report commissioned by the ACLU finds that many Pennsylvania residents who would not have the…
July 24, 2012
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
Recent studies are revealing that support for voter ID laws may be linked to resentment towards African-Americans...
July 17, 2012
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
theGRIO REPORT - A controversial voter identification law adopted earlier this year here could potentially prevent tens of thousands of…
July 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - One of every 13 African-Americans of voting age is disenfranchised because of laws in states that prevent…
July 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Addressing the 103rd NAACP Convention in Houston, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder likened new voter ID laws…
July 11, 2012
How is Pennsylvania's harsh voter ID law, which experts say could disenfranchise more than 750,000 people in November, just like…
July 10, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he opposes a new photo ID requirement in Texas elections because…
July 10, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to speak at the NAACP convention in Houston...
July 8, 2012
(AP) - When Edward and Mary Weidenbener went to vote in Indiana's primary in May, they didn't realize that state…
July 7, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says its newest battle is really an old…
July 5, 2012
OPINION - The jury is still out on Roberts, but before we consider him a new reliable swing vote or…
June 27, 2012
OPINION - The Republican strategy for winning the youth vote, black vote, and low-income vote has been to ensure that…
June 27, 2012
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - President Barack Obama's campaign has recruited a legion of lawyers to be on standby for this…
June 25, 2012
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican Gov. Terry Branstad has made Iowa one of the most difficult states in the…
June 12, 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A legal standoff has developed between Florida and the Obama administration over a contentious voter purge…