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The Criminal Justice System Has Created a New Era of Poll Taxes

The Criminal Justice System Has Created a New Era of Poll Taxes

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The intersection of the criminal justice system, wealth and voting

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New York Commission Meets to Design New Statewide Public Financing Program

The New York Public Finance Reform Commission met in Albany, NY to hold the third of five public hearings on the development of the state's small donor public financing system.
By
Aaron McKean
September 19, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance

Constitutional Challenges Facing Our Democracy

CLC’s founder and president Trevor Potter delivered the Constitution Day lecture at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana.
By
Maggie Christ
September 18, 2019
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights
Campaign Finance

FEC Symposium Draws Attention to Online Advertisement Disclosure Loopholes

FEC Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub sponsored a symposium on September 17, 2019, on the topic of digital disinformation and the threat to democracy.
September 18, 2019

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For Nine Years I Believed I Could Not Vote

I am from Memphis, and was a consistent voter. The poll workers put my name in the system, and a felony popped up, so they denied me. But I never had a felony conviction at all.

Lee Hoffman, plaintiff in Florida voting rights lawsuit

Military Vet on FL Poll Tax: ‘I Felt the Rug Ripped from Under My Feet’

When Florida passed a modern-day poll tax that ties my right to vote to my ability to pay off fines and fees – I felt like I had a rug ripped from under my feet.

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Florida is Trying to Silence Me With a Poll Tax

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I’ve Been a U.S. Citizen Since 2015. My State is Threatening to Purge Me From the Rolls

Partisan gerrymandering...is 'incompatible with democratic principles.' More effectively every day, that practice enables politicians to entrench themselves in power against the people's will. And only the courts can do anything to remedy the problem.
Justice Elena Kagan, Concurrence in Gill v. Whitford, June 18, 2018
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Editorial: The Federal Election Commission Needs Commissioners

USA Today
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Ends Presidential Campaign. Trump Responds in Tweet

The Colorado Sun
Colorado’s Lawmakers In Washington Use leadership PACs To Raise Extra Cash From Big-Moneyed Interests

Vox
Bill De Blasio Wants to Make Public Campaign Financing a Reality Nationwide

The Marshall Project
Tennessee's Voter Restoration Gauntlet

Salon
Drain the swamp? Trump Has Named More Lobbyists To Cabinet Than Bush Or Obama Did In 8 Years

Los Angeles Times
States Try To Combat Election Interference As Washington Deadlocks

Associated Press
Trump Stuffs Cabinet With Lobbyists

The Hoosier-Times
Trevor Potter: Supreme Court Wrong On Campaign Finance, Gerrymandering, Voting Laws