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A Past Felony Conviction Does Not Bar You From Voting for Life

A Past Felony Conviction Does Not Bar You From Voting for Life

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Meet Kevin Wong, Who Learned He Could Vote From RestoreYourVote.org

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Georgia "Pending" Voter Registration Know Your Rights

You have the right to vote a regular ballot in this election even if your status is in “pending.” If you have any issues voting, call 866-OUR-VOTE for assistance.
October 17, 2018
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Voting Rights

Coalition of Civil Rights Groups File Suit to Stop Georgia’s Unlawful Suspension and Cancellation of Voter Registration Applications

A coalition of civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp to block the state from enforcing their "exact match" protocol that places tens of thousands of voter registration applications in suspense for errors as small as a misplaced hyphen, dash, or space.
October 11, 2018
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Voting Rights

Emails Show Request for Citizenship Question Came from Commerce, not DOJ

CLC has received responsive documents from the Department of Justice containing a series of email conversations about the request to add a controversial citizenship question to the census between John Gore, the acting head of DOJ’s civil rights division, and Arthur Gary, General Counsel in the Justice Management Division.
October 9, 2018
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Redistricting

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Gerrymandered districts before U.S. Supreme Court

Tired of Being Ignored: Wisconsin Voter Joins CLC Challenge to Gerrymandered Maps

"My assemblyman participated in the gerrymandering. My senator participated. My governor participated. They gleefully trampled on my constitutional right to have my vote count. They spent my tax dollars doing it, and more tax dollars to defend it in court."

John Paul, left, and Willie Mack, right

Alabamian Willie Mack - Who Believed He was Disqualified from Voting - Finally Can Cast a Ballot

"This feeling is the best," says first-time voter. 

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How the FEC is still allowing dark money groups to remain dark

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How RestoreYourVote.org Brought Me Back To The Ballot Box

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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Georgia So Desperate to Suppress Black Vote That They Stopped a Busload of Seniors From Voting

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Reps. Greg Walden and Kevin McCarthy Get Tons of Money From Big Pharma

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Senators Call Out NRA for Using Shell Corporation to Duck Campaign Finance Law, Senator Diane Feinstein Reports

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New: Georgia Sec. of State Hit With Another Lawsuit Over Voter Suppression

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Dark-money groups were ordered to reveal their donors. They didn’t.

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A Path for Former Convicts to Vote in Nevada

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Black conservatives and the struggle to vote for the GOP

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Senators Call for Investigation Into NRA’s Campaign Shell Game