Republicans are moving to suppress voting rights around the country, including here in New Mexico. Dorothy Cooper from Chattanooga, TN knows the importance of voting. She’s been voting in elections for over seventy years, and she doesn’t intend to miss the next one. This year the Tennessee legislature passed a law requiring voters to show […]
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Tag Archives: Voter Suppression
Protecting the Vote
December 1, 2011 
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In Texas, you can vote with a gun license but not with a student ID. It’s not just students who are finding themselves at risk of being disenfranchised as we approach the 2012 elections. In the past year, the GOP has launched a nationwide, politically motivated effort to restrict our most fundamental civil right: casting […]
Read moreMillions of Legal Voters Face New Barriers Report Warns
October 4, 2011 0 Comments
A wave of recent election laws sponsored by the Republican Party will make it more difficult for more than 5 million qualified voters to cast ballots in 2012, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. The center surveyed voting laws across the country and found that states had […]
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New York Times: “The Myth of Voter Fraud”
This year, Republican legislatures and governors have have advanced legislation in at least 35 states that could make it harder for millions of people—particularly the young, the poor, the elderly, and minorities—to cast a ballot in the 2012 election. It’s been, in short, what the New York Times calls “a record year for new legislation […]
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