Alarm over voter purges as 17 million Americans removed from rolls in two years

US election jurisdictions with histories of egregious voter discrimination have been purging voter rolls at a rate 40% beyond the national average, according to a watchdog report released Thursday.

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‘We Should Be Outraged’: Alabama Congresswoman Tackles Voter Suppression

Terri Sewell’s bill, the Voting Rights Advancement Act, is a first step to defending minority voters from attempts to block the ballot box.

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Civil Rights Groups Sue to Stop Texas's "Unlawful Purge" of Thousands of Voters

Officials are being accused of compiling a flawed list of voters that could see tens of thousands of naturalized citizens wrongly expunged from rolls.

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Election Rigging and the Decline of American Democracy

Formally democratic institutions can be severely weakened by those willing, even eager, to betray democratic principles in order to maintain power.

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Texas Organizations Fight Voter ID Law By Getting Latinos Out to Vote

From the NAACP to Jolt, Spread the Vote and Vote Latino, an array of organizations is working to register young Latino voters and turn the Lone Star State blue this November.

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The Supreme Court Just Cleared the Way for the Mass Disenfranchisement of Voters

Large numbers of voters—largely low income and minorities—could be blocked from casting ballots in November if they haven't participated in recent elections.

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Too Poor to Vote: How Alabama's "New Poll Tax" Bars Thousands of People From Voting

In Alabama and eight other states from Nevada to Tennessee, anyone who has lost the right to vote cannot regain it until they pay off any outstanding court fines, legal fees and victim restitution.

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At Least 44 States Refuse to Hand Over All Data to Trump’s “Fraud” Commission

The letter Kris Kobach sent to states last week requested names, addresses, dates of birth, political affiliation, last four digits of social security numbers, and a list of elections they voted in since 2006, among other data.

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Wisconsin ID Law Kept 200,000 Voters From Polls — and Trump Won by Just 22,748 Votes

Wisconsin's voter ID law may have suppressed a stunning 200,000 votes in the 2016 presidential election, keeping disproportionately Democratic and African-American voters from the polls – where President Trump won by a mere 22,748 votes.

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Part II: 34 Ways America’s Legal System Hurts the Poor

The German playwright Bertolt Brecht said many things about the law as it relates to capitalism. His most memorable quote: “The law was made for one thing alone," he wrote, "for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.”

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