If Georgia's Election Law Was Supposed To Suppress the Vote, It Sure Did a Bad Job
After bracing for a supposed return of Jim Crow, Georgia saw a major increase in early votes in this week's primaries.
After bracing for a supposed return of Jim Crow, Georgia saw a major increase in early votes in this week's primaries.
Not by changing the filibuster rules, but by stressing them.
The defeat of Democrats' voting rights legislation could lead to meaningful progress on election integrity.
If Democrats' voting rights bills are blocked, Biden says, "we have no choice but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster."
An old strategy that’s worked for Democrats before may work again.
As awful as things are, Trump is not Milošević, Republicans are not unified behind him, Stacey Abrams is not a hero, and every day is not January 6.
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The bills call for reforms that would be nearly impossible to implement and will not prevent a repeat of 2020.
British political scientist David Runciman says the answer is "yes." And he makes a stronger case than you might think.
Each major party portrays the other as a deadly threat to democracy.
The Court's final opinions did not offer many surprises.
The lawsuit claims Georgia officials enacted restrictive provisions with the intent of curtailing the right to vote based on race.
The "For The People Act" was a flawed package that would have solved some problems while creating new headaches.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is right: Democrats have more to lose by ending the filibuster than by putting up with it.
GOP state legislators have introduced a raft of new bills aimed at restricting the fundamental right to vote.
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This awful gun control talking point won’t go away.
The state Senate approved some cynical changes to Georgia's absentee ballot laws under the guise of securing future elections from fraud that no one seems to be able to find.
Some of the changes are reasonable. But many of the new questions are badly designed and incorporate serious errors. Moreover, such tests raise the deeper issue of why immigrants are required to pass a test to get the right to vote, but natives are not.
The senator thinks people with felony records should lose the right to armed self-defense but not the right to cast a ballot.
An appeals court upheld a rule by the Ohio Secretary of State to limit each county to just one ballot box, overturning a previous ruling that said more boxes were needed.
The ruling is a major setback for civil liberties groups trying to re-enfranchise an estimated 775,000 Floridians with felony records.
Would requiring masks for in-person voting infringe constitutional rights?
The symposium includes contributions by Adam Thierer, Mikayla Novak, Max Borders, and myself. The relationship between exit and voice is as important an issue as ever.
Iowa was the last state in the U.S. with a lifetime voting ban for anyone with a felony record.
The Protect My Ballot campaign is out to stop ranked-choice voting.
The state has barred hundreds of thousands of residents with felony records from voting without first paying off their court fines and fees.
He has added strong anti-abortion and anti-vaccine views to his public profile, and said it was racist to think blacks needed to vote Democrat.
West Virginia and Delaware are letting citizens vote via their phones and tablets. Security experts warn the tech is still risky.
A law passed by Florida Republicans to limit a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to felony offenders violates the 14th and 24th Amendments, the judge ruled.
A president who can attach his own new conditions to federal grants to states could use that power to undermine state autonomy on many issues - especially now that federal spending has been massively expanded during the coronavirus crisis.
It is unconstitutional, the 11th Circuit holds, for Florida to deny voting rights to ex-felons solely because they have outstanding fines or fees. to vote And yes, "re-disenfranchise" is a real word.
"Equally guilty but wealthier felons are offered access to the ballot while these plaintiffs continue to be disenfranchised, perhaps forever."
You have this Democrat or this other Democrat. What other options do you need?
The Court argues that Amendment 4's language covers financial obligations, not just terms of imprisonment and supervised release.
Meanwhile, outgoing Gov. Matt Bevin made some controversial pardon choices as he headed for the door.
The ruling is a partial victory for civil liberties groups, who argue that lawmakers were subverting a constitutional amendment expected to restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians.
This is a giant step in advancing Prime Minister Nardendra Modi's vision of India as a Hindu nation.
Incarcerated people are already paying their debt to society. What good does it do the rest of the population to take away their right to have a say?
A Florida House committee advanced a bill that would require people with felony records to pay off their court debts before they could regain the right to vote.
More than 8 percent of the state's population is currently disenfranchised.
A Canadian Supreme Court decision striking down a law denying the right to vote to expats who have resided abroad for over five years raises broader questions about democratic theory.
Now the Party needs to register over 5,000 voters to get on the ballot in 2020, even though it already had that many before the state arbitrarily changed their registration.
Few will agree with Cambridge political scientist David Runciman's proposal to lower the voting age to 6. But standard reasons for rejecting the idea raise serious questions about many adult voters, too.
Watch the Oxford-style debate hosted by the Soho Forum.