New Orleans Britney Spears sang it loudly, “hit me one more time.” She wasn’t talking about decisions of the US Supreme Court and its historically ultra-conservative majority, but she could have been. This gut punch came from an analysis of the impact of their Shelby decision in 2013 that eliminated a central plank …
Category: Voting
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 …
Voting with Your Feet Also Determines Elections
Manchester Attorney General Jeff Landry in Louisiana is a hard right culture warrior and Republican provocateur. Yet, for the first time in a dozen years, he emerged as the winner with a majority of the vote in the so-called “jungle” primary, where candidates of all parties contend for a place in the general election. …