New Orleans Pennsylvania took a pass on making voting fair and other states continue to hardball voters. It all comes too close to home. One of the items on my list today is taking my mother out on the town. Unfortunately that means rolling her out on the street from the facility where she is …
Category: Voting Rights
Kansas’s Kris Kobach: Rightwing Voter Manipulator, Suppressor, and Demagogue
New Orleans I’ve been watching Kris Kobach closely for the last four years, ever since he claimed in the Topeka newspapers that he was running to become Secretary of State in Kansas in 2008 to stop ACORN from committing “voter fraud,” even though ACORN did not have an operating office, organizer, or registration program in …
Could More than 40% of Philly Voters Be Denied the Ballot?
New Orleans A headline from the Naked City blog by Daniel Denvir in Philadelphia caught my eye: “A Whopping 43 Percent of Philly Voters May Not Have Voter ID, According to New Data.” Holy-moly! No wonder the Republicans think their voter suppression effort in the Pennsylvania legislature, according to their leadership, may have handed the …