Denver saw a 2,150 percent increase in voters canceling their registrations. This is a stark example of the damage this commission is doing. And it’s only going to get worse.
North Carolina admitted that it eliminated voting on a Sunday before the election because “counties with Sunday voting in 2014 were disproportionately black” and “disproportionately Democratic.”
“Thanks to the Roberts Supreme Court and Congress we are celebrating the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act without the VRA. Commit to its restoration!” - Julian Bond
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, the bill many historians regard as the most influential legislation passed by Congress in the last half-century.
If anybody thinks there’s not racial discrimination in voting today, they’re not really paying attention.
Once Mississippi had large numbers of black voters, the calculus of politicians changed, and the system could not survive. Legal segregation came to an end. Ordinary people – sharecroppers, domestic workers, janitors – had stood up, together with their outside student supporters, and changed society.
By Albert R. Hunt New York Times WASHINGTON — The widespread condemnation of the vile prejudice expressed by a professional basketball team owner and a Nevada rancher underscored the progress America has made on race. On the same day Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, was banned...
Judges are at last starting to see voter ID for what it is: a concerted political effort by Republicans to keep opponents from the polls.