Voting Rights Watch

Brentin Mock and Aura Bogado cover voter-suppression efforts nationwide in a 2012–2013 project in partnership with Colorlines.com.

Voting Rights Icon Lawrence Guyot’s Death Animates a Fight Over the Future

Voting Rights Icon Lawrence Guyot’s Death Animates a Fight Over the Future Voting Rights Icon Lawrence Guyot’s Death Animates a Fight Over the Future

Guyot's memorials prompted a Wall Street Journal op-ed writer to insist that the civil rights past is irrelevant to the Voting Rights Act’s future.

Dec 6, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch

Nevada Led the Country in Expanding the Vote. Now, It’s Eyeing Voter ID Nevada Led the Country in Expanding the Vote. Now, It’s Eyeing Voter ID

Nevada's Secretary of State wants to implement a costly voter ID registration system to combat nonexistent voter fraud.

Dec 3, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Aura Bogado and Voting Rights Watch

Tea Party Crowd’s Answer for Why Romney Lost? Voter Fraud! Tea Party Crowd’s Answer for Why Romney Lost? Voter Fraud!

An idea is spreading on the right that Republicans are unfairly constrained by a court ruling that bars the party from targeting “ballot security” measures at communiti...

Nov 27, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch

What Took So Long? Explaining Arizona’s Ballot Count Fiasco What Took So Long? Explaining Arizona’s Ballot Count Fiasco

Arizona is still counting ballots cast more than two weeks ago—but why did it issue so many provisional ballots to begin with?

Nov 21, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Voting Rights Watch

Voting Rights Haven’t Gotten Such Attention Since 1965. What Did We Learn?

Voting Rights Haven’t Gotten Such Attention Since 1965. What Did We Learn? Voting Rights Haven’t Gotten Such Attention Since 1965. What Did We Learn?

Here are ten lessons from an election season in which voting itself was hotly debated.

Nov 16, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch

Why the Voting Rights Act Likely Won’t Survive Supreme Court Review Why the Voting Rights Act Likely Won’t Survive Supreme Court Review

The Voting Rights Act is, in some ways, living on borrowed time. 

Nov 14, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch

Beyond Ballots: When Communities Are the Real Candidates Beyond Ballots: When Communities Are the Real Candidates

One week after Obama’s re-election, the work of social and economic justice movements is as clear as ever. 

Nov 13, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Aura Bogado, Noni M. Grant, and Voting Rights Watch

Watch a Colorado GOP Poll Watcher Report a ‘High Concentration of People of Color’ Watch a Colorado GOP Poll Watcher Report a ‘High Concentration of People of Color’

A Republican poll watcher complains that too many people of color were voting in Aurora, Colorado, on Election Day. 

Nov 7, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Aura Bogado and Voting Rights Watch

Undeterred by the Long, Slow Line Toward Democracy Undeterred by the Long, Slow Line Toward Democracy

Those long, snaking lines were about more than a vote. The people most battered and excluded from the nation's politics and economy refuse to be ignored.

Nov 7, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Brentin Mock and Voting Rights Watch

Voters in Predominantly Black Ohio Suburb Forced to Cast Provisional Ballots Voters in Predominantly Black Ohio Suburb Forced to Cast Provisional Ballots

A number of residents in Forest Park, a predominantly black suburb outside Cincinnati, are reporting they’re being forced to cast provisional ballots.

Nov 7, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch / Voting Rights Watch

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