News you missed: North Carolina voters score major victory
Also this week, New Mexico pledged to invest $300 million for early childhood education, and Kentucky announced a record number of registered voters.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 21, 2020Also this week, New Mexico pledged to invest $300 million for early childhood education, and Kentucky announced a record number of registered voters.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 21, 2020Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee are fighting to defend laws that make it harder for people to vote.
By Josh Israel - February 20, 2020A record number of Kentuckians are registered to vote, just in time for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s reelection race.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 19, 2020A federal court ruled that Florida cannot force former felons to repay their court costs before getting their right to vote back.
By Emily Singer - February 19, 2020Progressives notched victories on voting rights in both Virginia and North Dakota, and the House of Representatives took steps forward on the Equal Rights Amendment.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 14, 2020North Dakota will accept tribal IDs as identification at the voting booth moving forward.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 13, 2020A federal court struck down a Republican-backed law because it had ‘a discriminatory impact on American Indian, Hispanic, and African American voters in Arizona.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 27, 2020Secretary of State Michael Adams said he was ‘a little concerned’ about ‘potentially foreign actors’ interfering in the next election and suggested a voter ID law would stop them.
By Josh Israel - January 23, 2020Matt Lieberman is running on a platform that includes banning assault weapons and refusing to support justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. Will it work?
By Dan Desai Martin - January 23, 2020Nearly every single House Republican rejected the Voting Rights Advancement Act last month.
By Josh Israel - January 20, 2020Advocates are organizing to help inexperienced or previously disenfranchised voters cast a ballot.
By Associated Press - January 19, 2020Virginia became the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment the same week New Jersey’s governor signed legislation to protect health care and three states saw voting rights victories.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 17, 2020The court called the law ‘misleading’ and ‘contradictory.’
By Associated Press - January 17, 2020North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest condemned the NAACP’s opposition to the law as ‘ludicrous.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 13, 2020Virginia welcomes its first woman speaker of the House of Delegates the same week New York legislators pass a bill making it easier to vote, and Kansas worked to expand health care to 150,000 more residents.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 10, 2020A conservative law firm wants the state election board to be held in contempt for not purging 200,000 voters from the rolls.
By Associated Press - January 02, 2020New Jersey took positive steps to restore voting rights, and Virginia is poised to make progress on the same issue in the new year.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 20, 2019A judge ruled the state could purge the voters who didn’t respond to a letter asking for address confirmation within 30 days.
By Associated Press - December 16, 2019Localities rejected thousands of requests for absentee ballots because of missing or dissimilar-looking signatures.
By Josh Israel - December 16, 2019Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg graces the cover of Time magazine and voting rights take the spotlight in Kentucky.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 13, 2019A new executive order by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear will restore rights to those with nonviolent felony convictions, who previously lost their ability to vote.
By Josh Israel - December 12, 2019Democratic governors are partnering with Stacey Abrams to ensure voting rights are protected.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 09, 2019Kansas joins states like Colorado and Utah in embracing refugees in their states, while citizens in Alabama saw a new statue of Rosa Parks unveiled in Montgomery.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 06, 2019The Voting Rights Advancement Act aims to restore protections decimated by the Supreme Court in 2013.
By Josh Israel - December 06, 2019Florida’s Republican governor is seeking to overturn a voter-approved constitutional amendment giving those with nonviolent felony convictions the right to vote.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 05, 2019A federal judge ruled this week that the state must stop listing Republicans first on its ballots.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 15, 2019Georgia’s absentee ballot law ‘will have a disproportionate effect on minority voters,’ according to the lawsuit.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 07, 2019Abortion rights advocates also scored a big win in Alabama and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers moved to protect marginalized communities ahead of the 2020 census.
By Nick Vachon - November 01, 2019Virginians could see new movement on gun background checks and voting rights if Democrats win big on Tuesday.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 01, 2019The lawsuit targets Michigan’s signature match requirement for absentee ballots.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 30, 2019