Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams New Hampshire residents and voting rights groups on Thursday launched a federal lawsuit against a Democratic consultant and two companies behind January robocalls featuring audio that mimicked Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden’s voice using artificial intelligence to discourage recipients from participating in the state’s primary election. …
Read More »Senate Dems Reintroduce Bill to ‘Restore Critical Safeguards’ of Voting Rights Act
Civil and voting rights advocates on Thursday cheered the reintroduction of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, legislation its sponsors say will “update and restore critical safeguards of the original Voting Rights Act.” Introduced by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris Calls Georgia ‘ground zero’ For Voting Rights In 2024 Election Season
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris called on Georgia voting rights advocates and elected officials to continue to fight for expanded access to the ballot box as the election cycle gears up for this November’s presidential election. Harris’ message was relayed during a roundtable discussion held …
Read More »In Reversal, Some States Make It Harder For People With Felony Convictions To Vote
Matt Vasilogambros, Pennsylvania Capital-Star The year started out strong for advocates trying to make it easier for people with felony convictions to regain their voting rights. In March, the Democratic-led legislatures in Minnesota and New Mexico enacted measures that cleared a pathway for residents serving prison time for felonies to …
Read More »Voting Rights Group Files Lawsuit Against DeSantis On Felon Voting Eligibility
Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix Calling the current system “a national embarrassment,” the group that pushed for a 2018 constitutional amendment designed to restore voting rights to felons who had completed their sentences has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Gov. Ron DeSantis and other election officials to “realize the …
Read More »Biden Pushes Voting Rights Reform While In Selma To Commemorate ‘Bloody Sunday’
Marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on Sunday to commemorate the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.“ President Joe Biden arrived in Alabama on Sunday morning. He addressed the crowd soon before the crossing, speaking to the nation about the protection and expansion of voting rights, and specifically calling …
Read More »Future Of U.S. Election Law At Stake As Supreme Court Hears North Carolina Case
Lynn Bonner, Missouri Independent North Carolina Republicans appeared to have at least three of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices on their side Wednesday in a case that could determine the future of elections nationwide, and leave decisions about federal elections in the hands of state legislatures and beyond the …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris Calls On Texans To Protect Reproductive And Voting Rights During Austin Visit
William Melhado and Trent Brown, The Texas Tribune Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday called Texas’ abortion ban “immoral” and urged Texans to protect reproductive rights when considering their choices in the upcoming November elections. “A democracy will be as strong as our willingness to fight for it,” she said …
Read More »Alabama Case That Could Limit Voting Rights Act Heard At Supreme Court
Ariana Figueroa, Michigan Advance U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case that challenges an Alabama redistricting map and could potentially eliminate remaining federal safeguards against racial gerrymandering. Voting rights advocates fear that the high court’s conservative majority will further weaken the Voting Rights Act, with implications …
Read More »Vice President Kamala Harris Talks Abortion, Voting Rights In Midterm-Focused Florida Trip
Errin Haines Originally published by The 19th ORLANDO, Fla. — Addressing thousands of her cheering sorority sisters at their annual convention Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered an emotional and fiery speech, thanking them for generations of service and calling for them to join the fight ahead. Her remarks were …
Read More »Florida Gave Voting Rights To People With Felony Convictions. Now Some Face Charges For Voting
by Kira Lerner, Florida Phoenix April 29, 2022 Florida authorities arrested a Black man while he was staying in a homeless shelter and charged him with voting illegally in a case tied to Republicans’ drive to root out election fraud. But Kelvin Bolton’s arrest raises questions about the rollout of …
Read More »Congressional Black Caucus Urges DOJ To Act To Protect Voting Rights
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, and Congressman Mondaire Jones led over 40 Congressional Black Caucus members in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to aggressively protect voting rights and fight against disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, voter purges, and other forms of voter suppression, vote dilution, and election subversion. “These …
Read More »Arizona Democratic Party Censures Sen. Sinema After She Blocks Voting Rights Legislation
On Saturday, leaders of the Arizona Democratic Party voted to censure Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema after she, along with West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin blocked changes to the filibuster that would have cleared the way for voting rights legislation. In a statement released, ADP said that last fall, its state …
Read More »Voting Rights Bills Once Again Blocked By Republicans
Senate Republicans once again blocked a pair of voting rights bills in a Wednesday evening procedural vote, holding firm in their opposition to a top priority of President Joe Biden and prompting Democrats to take up filibuster reform – even without full party support. In an expected loss, Democrats failed to …
Read More »Abortion Rights Groups Tie Their Fight To Voting Rights
Barbara Rodriguez, Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th The abortion rights group NARAL said Tuesday it will no longer back candidates who don’t support Democratic efforts to pass federal voting rights legislation, just hours after the similarly aligned Emily’s List said it will pull its endorsement of U.S. Sen. …
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