New Orleans When a legal election observer says that a recent Supreme Court decision is “likely to be a train wreck for communities of color,” any believer in voting rights has to cringe. I should quickly add, cringe again, because this is just the latest outrage in a series of decisions by the …
Category: Voting Rights
Stopping Voter Suppression on the Front Lines
Amsterdam Unbelievably, there are now organized teams of people working to suppress the vote, especially in battleground states, by convincing local election officials to needlessly, and illegally, purge voters from the roles. ACORN’s Voter Purge Project has monitored an increasing number of states since 2019, largely at the macro-level, looking for anomalies on large …
More Fronts Opening in the Voter Access Wars
New Orleans The election contest is now set. Nikki Haley dropped like a rock with Trump ascendant. The Biden campaign has sent the word out to the Democrats that if they are looking for another candidate, “they need to get over it.” Behind the headlines while the quarterbacks’ posture and preen, the battle …