Showing posts with label Voter Disenfranchisement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voter Disenfranchisement. Show all posts

Friday, October 5, 2018

Early voting has begun! Here's when it starts (and ends) in every state

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/2/1800834/-Early-voting-has-begun-Here-s-when-it-starts-and-ends-in-every-state
"Note that in some states, “early voting” may be referred to by another name (most commonly “in-person absentee voting”), and procedures for casting ballots early can vary, so please check with local election officials."

State Ballot Initiatives Challenge Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression

https://truthout.org/articles/state-ballot-initiatives-challenge-gerrymandering-and-voter-suppression/
"Across the country, voters are considering more than two dozen ballot initiatives aimed at expanding ballot access and voting rights, as well rooting out political corruption, according to civil rights advocates and nonpartisan good government groups who held a briefing with reporters on Tuesday. Call it “draining the swamp” if you like, but these efforts are driven by activists and everyday citizens who pounded the pavement collecting signatures, not by loudmouth politicians in Washington, DC."

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Voter Suppression Is Deeply Embedded in the Republican Party. Brett Kavanaugh Helped Put It There.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23585673/voter-suppression-republican-brett-kavanaugh-don-mcgahn/
"The entire Republican project ever since the Florida burglary of 2000—in which Kavanaugh was an accessory after the fact—has been to find a way to hang onto power while the party itself is shrinking down to an old, white, Southern base. Every institution of government that the Republicans have controlled for nearly 20 years has been tasked with this, and now they pretty much control all of them, at least until the first week of November. Brett Kavanaugh has been at the center of those efforts. So has Don McGahn. This is the part of the tale that is not about the president* at all."