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When Voting and Religious Freedom Collide

March 3, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

Saturday caucuses can exclude Sabbath observant Jews, Seventh Day Adventists and other Saturday Sabbath observers. 

EAC Director Brian Newby Tries to Sidestep Long-Settled Voter Protections

March 9, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

Judge Richard J. Leon heard oral arguments today in a challenge to recent overnight changes to voter registration requirements that could really harm voters in Alabama, Georgia and Kansas.  

Victory for Democracy and Religious Freedom: D.C. GOP Accommodates Saturday Religious Observers

March 14, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

The District of Columbia Republican Party extended polling hours for its Saturday presidential nominating convention, accommodating the religious practices of Sabbath observant Jews.

Daphne, Ala. is Yet Another Example of How Voters Could Be Harmed Post-Shelby County v. Holder

April 15, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

The Voting Rights Institute sent a letter this week to the Department of Justice calling on it to investigate the Daphne City Council’s possible voting rights violations

Four Ways To Fight For Democracy

April 25, 2016
Issues
Campaign Finance
Redistricting
Voting Rights

The current state of American elections is deeply troubling, and it’s the result of many failures in our government. But there are steps we can take now to ensure that democracy survives.

Shelby County v. Holder’s Biggest and Most Harmful Impact May Be on Our Nation’s Smallest Towns

June 20, 2016
Case
Shelby County, AL v. Holder
Issues
Voting Rights

Voting changes at the local level now often go unnoticed and unchallenged – even though these changes could also drastically harm voters’ ability to access to the ballot.

2016 Republican Platform on Campaign Finance is a Far Cry from the Teddy Roosevelt Days

July 19, 2016
Issues
Campaign Finance
Voting Rights

Even though presumptive nominee Donald Trump spent much of the primary campaign blasting the current out-of-balance and “rigged” political system, the 2016 platform continues the GOP’s hostility toward reforming our democracy. 

Ready, Willing, and Able—to Vote: An Overview of the Issues Faced by People with Disabilities in Voting

July 14, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

Failure to Observe: The Federal Observer Program After Shelby County

July 21, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

Getting On The Wall: A Review of Edward Foley’s Voters as Fiduciaries

July 8, 2016
Case
Evenwel v. Abbott
Issues
Voting Rights

Yale Law School’s Jack Balkin once wrote in The Atlantic that ideas are either “off the wall” or “on the wall.” Constitutional litigation, he explained, is all about the reasonableness of your ideas.

Democrats Talk a Big Game on Reforming Our Political System, but Will They?

July 26, 2016
Issues
Campaign Finance
Voting Rights

The Democrats unveiled a 2016 platform that includes robust and specific campaign finance reform language and strong protections for voting rights. Will they match their rhetoric with action? 

A Fitting Remedy to Decades of Discrimination: Restoring Voting Rights to Virginians Who Have Served Their Time

August 22, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced today that he has restored voting rights to 13,000 individuals who have served their time for felony convictions.  

Donald Trump Calls on Supporters to Intimidate Minority Voters at the Polls

August 24, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, while calling on his supporters to get out the vote on Election Day, has taken it one step further in urging them to “protect” the election from “cheating.” Voter intimidation tactics are not new, but they are illegal. 

Advocating for Fair Elections in a Small Mississippi Town

August 29, 2016
Case
Fairley v. Hattiesburg
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

Voters are challenging, under the Voting Rights Act, a 2012 city council redistricting plan that secures a white majority on the city council, even though Hattiesburg has a majority black population. 

Victory in Georgia: 50,000 Voters Returned to Voting Rolls in Time for Election

October 6, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

More than 50,000 eligible voters in Georgia whose voter registration applications were improperly cancelled are now rightfully back on the voting rolls, just in time to cast a ballot in the 2016 election.

Voter Intimidation is Not New, But It Is a Crime

October 17, 2016
Issues
Voting Rights

Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s surrogates have doubled down on his calls for supporters to “make sure that this election is not stolen from us,” encouraging them to sign up as “Trump election observers” which voting rights advocates consider a call for intimidation. 

Tonight’s Debate is a Critical Chance for Voters to Hear Candidates’ Stance on Voting Rights and Vision for Campaign Finance Reform

October 19, 2016
Issues
Campaign Finance
Voting Rights

Leading up to the final presidential debate, this week’s headlines in the presidential election have revolved around candidate Donald Trump’s incendiary insistence that the election is rigged against him.

Our Democratic Rights Can Never Be Taken For Granted

September 11, 2012
Issues
Voting Rights

Still Fighting For MLK's Dream 49 Years On

August 29, 2012
Issues
Voting Rights

E-Counting the London Mayoral and Assembly Elections

May 21, 2012
Issues
Voting Rights

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