On AlterNet: disenfranchisement

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "disenfranchisement"

The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 30, 2009.

Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda.

The Fraud Of Fraud

Digby, Hullabaloo. October 11, 2008.

The process of turning ACORN into a terrorist sleeper cell has begun and I see little hope that they aren't going to be successful.

New Study Details Massive Voter Roll Purges Underway in At Least 19 States

Brad Friedman, Brad Blog. October 1, 2008.

CBS Has Noticed Massive Voter Disenfranchisement, Why Hasn't Obama or the DNC?

Needed Now: A Constitutional Amendment Ensuring the Right to Vote

Advancement ProjectJuly 30, 2008.

The time has come to amend the Constitution to guarantee the individual right to vote, a prominent civil rights group declares.

Missouri Amendment Would Require Proof of Citizenship to Vote

Attaturk, Firedoglake. May 12, 2008.

The Missouri Secretary of State estimates the amendment, if passed, would disenfranchise up to a quarter million citizens.

Missouri Nuns Fight Voter Disenfranchisement

Jill C., Brilliant at Breakfast. May 9, 2008.

After their Indiana sisters were disenfranchised, Missouri nuns are mad as heck and not gonna take it anymore.

Voter Suppression Happens (in Indiana)

dday, Hullabaloo. May 6, 2008.

According to the AP, 12 nuns were turned away from voting by one of their own sisters.

Retricting Felon Voting Rights Is Bad For Everyone

Erin Ferns, Project Vote. March 6, 2008.

Excluding citizens from the most basic right of a representative democracy undermines communal bonds and weakens our civic society.

Voting Rights Activists Win Big Cases in Florida and Arizona

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. December 21, 2007.

Arizona: Activists move closer to proving electronic vote count theft. Florida: A law disenfranchising thousands of new voters is blocked.

Election Day 2007: New ID Laws Disenfranchise Voters

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. November 7, 2007.

NAACP officials in Georgia and Michigan report new voter ID laws stopped people from voting.

Voter Purging: A Legal Way for Republicans to Swing Elections?

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. September 11, 2007.

Now the Department of Justice, like the Republican Party, wants fewer registered voters in 2008.