North Carolina Governor Says He Didn’t Shorten Early Voting, Just ‘Compacted The Calendar’
November 21st, 2013On Wednesday, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory offered a surprising explanation for the voter suppression measure that he signed into law in August, which reduced the state’s early voting period by seven days. According to McCrory, “we didn’t shorten early voting, we compacted the calendar.” “Compacting the calendar,” however, conveniently makes it more difficult for minority voters
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Voter ID Laws Have But One Intent: To Limit The Franchise
October 26th, 2013Belatedly, federal Judge Richard Posner has arrived at the obvious conclusion about voter identification laws: They are enacted as a barrier to the franchise, an un-American tactic hatched by conservatives to prevent certain people from voting. It’s too bad that his epiphany came so late. Posner is one of the nation’s most respected conservative jurists.
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Amazing How The Only Group Voter Suppression Doesn’t Target Is White Men
October 20th, 2013The Republican defense of laws requiring identification to vote usually goes like this: “Who doesn’t have ID? And why can’t they get it?” They’re forced to this defense because they can’t point to one election in modern American history that was swung by the phantom scourge of in-person voting fraud. They know they can’t because
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Eric Holder Announces Lawsuit Against North Carolina Voting Law
September 30th, 2013Attorney General Eric Holder announced during a Monday afternoon news conference that the Department of Justice will sue the state of North Carolina over its restrictive voting law. Speaking alongside Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels and three U.S. Attorneys from North Carolina, Holder declared that “the Justice Department expects to show that the clear
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WATCH: This Is Why Voter ID Laws Are About Voter Suppression
September 13th, 2013“Who doesn’t have voter ID?” is a popular question asked by Republicans who argue that the ID requirement for voting is just a simple way to ensure the “integrity” of our elections. There are many problems with that assertion — foremost: the integrity of our elections isn’t in doubt. The George W. Bush administration investigated
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