“Demos Applauds Goals Of Voter Empowerment Act of 2012, Urges Expansion Of Americans’ Freedom To Vote”
See this press release.
Category Archives: voter registration
“House Bill Includes Voter Registration Modernization, A Brennan Center Proposal”
Brennan Center press release:
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law released the following statement on the Voter Empowerment Act, a bill introduced by House Democratic leaders today to help ensure all eligible Americans have the opportunity… Continue reading
“Florida Steps Up Effort to Scrub Illegal Voters”
NYT: “In an attempt to clear the voter rolls of noncitizens, a move that had set off criticism and a threatened lawsuit, Florida election officials decided on Thursday to use information from a federal database to check a list of… Continue reading
“Massachusetts Citizen and Community Groups Sue Commonwealth for Failing to Provide Voter Registration Opportunities”
See this press release.
“The Public Eye: Capital-area voter fraud suspects have criminal histories”
SacBee: “The owner and an employee of a company accused of fraudulent voter registration drives in Sacramento County have been convicted of crimes of deception in the past. The owner of Momentum Political Services, Monica Harris, has an extensive… Continue reading
“In Florida, Registering Voters A Whole New Game”
NPR reports.
“Voter apathy — not Florida’s new voting laws — may hurt turnout in 2012”
Must-read Miami Herald:
This isn’t Bull Connor siccing German shepherds on people. It’s also nothing like Florida’s Jim Crow-era constitutional provision denying former felons the right to vote in a state where more than half the prison population is black.… Continue reading
“Is Black and Latino Voter Registration Threatened or Not?”
This Nation report includes a response from the Washington Post to criticism of the article’s reliance on census dept. data.
“Civil rights groups launch voter registration drives earlier”
USA Today reports.
“GOP Voter Registration Firm Turns in Thousands of ‘Invalid’ Registration Forms in California”
The Brad Blog reports.
WaPo is Wrong on Minority Voter Registration Story: Piling on Edition
Michael McDonald puts the nail in the coffin.
Obama Campaign Questions WaPo Minority Voter Registration Numbers
Is Voter Registration Really Down Among African Americans and Latinos?
The other day I linked to this Washington Post report; ‘That figure fell 5 percent across the country, to about 11 million, according to the Census Bureau. But in some politically important swing states, the decline among Hispanics, who… Continue reading