Republican lawmakers and conservative activists
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. to keep minorities, students and those with lower or fixed incomes (including many of our seniors) from voting. One GOP official in Ohio said early voting cuts were necessary to check the power of
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To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. The Republican House speaker in New Hampshire said restrictions on college students voting were needed because
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To reduce turnout among these groups, Republican officials deployed a variety of tactics. Ohio Secretary of State
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. and Florida Governor
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. slashed the amount of time available for early voting, which is
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. by minority and low-income voters. GOP legislators in Pennsylvania enacted a photo ID law, and then
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. for allowing more than 700,000 Pennsylvanians who lacked photo ID to obtain one. Voter purges attempted by Gov. Scott and Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler
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Yet the untold story of the 2012 election is not the efforts of lawyers or activists, but the unyielding determination of everyday ordinary citizens determined to cast their ballots. They won on Tuesday. Here's why.
When Secretary Husted tried to change election rules last year, Ohioans responded by
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. toward a referendum that successfully suspended the law. After we successfully restored access for the last three days of early voting, the African-American community participated in record numbers, aided by a
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. on the Sunday before Election Day. Overall, the African-American share of the Ohio electorate was
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. than in 2008.
In Florida, 150 black pastors organized
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. -- named for the "lemon" they were handed when Gov. Scott cut early voting. Although the state reduced the number of early voting days from 14 to eight, and eliminated voting on the Sunday before Election Day, nearly as many voters --
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. -- voted early as in 2008.
On Election Day, voters stood with determination in unconscionably long lines, some that stretched for up to
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.. Though some voters were elderly, frail, missing work, or simply exhausted, they
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts., undeterred by the line and in fact galvanized by the bad intent. Voters and activists used social media to stand in solidarity as the hashtag
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When the dust settled, the very groups targeted for suppression and intimidation had voted in record numbers. Compared to 2008,
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