On AlterNet: voter suppression
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "voter suppression"
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. July 22, 2008.
Four voting rights groups urge the VA to become voter registration agencies
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. July 18, 2008.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs rejects a request by 19 secretaries of state to allow voter registration drives on VA facilities.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. July 10, 2008.
Officials overseeing the VA and state elections say the VA's policy is unnecessary and insulting to veterans who sacrificed for our country.
Attaturk, Firedoglake AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. May 12, 2008.
The Missouri Secretary of State estimates the amendment, if passed, would disenfranchise up to a quarter million citizens.
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Election 2008. May 6, 2008.
According to the AP, 12 nuns were turned away from voting by one of their own sisters.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Election 2008. May 5, 2008.
The North Carolina NAACP has filed a complaint of voter suppression against Women's Voices, Women Vote.
Pam Spaulding, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. May 1, 2008.
Are misleading robocalls by Women's Voices Women's Vote an honest mistake or voter suppression?
Project Vote, MyDD.com AlterNet: PEEK. April 11, 2008.
And other election-protection news.
Art Levine, Huffington Post. April 1, 2008.
African-American voters received illegal mailers threatening them with criminal punishment for voting -- and the FBI failed to investigate.
Project VoteMarch 10, 2008.
The Department of Justice finally gets in trouble for pressuring states to purge voters rather than ensuring their rights.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet AlterNet: Election 2008. February 5, 2008.
Delays cause voters to leave in Georgia; Anti-Obama mailer resurfaces in Massachusetts; Los Angeles ballot layout could undercount votes.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. January 24, 2008.
Since last Saturday's Caucus, the Obama campaign has logged 1,000 complaints -- including tactics by Clinton supporters that interfered with voting.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. January 23, 2008.
The campaign calls on state Democratic party to investigate
GottaLaff, Brave New Films AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. December 4, 2007.
GottaLaff: Ya think Tom DeLay, that darling of the Republican fraud sector has his hot-tub-shriveled fingerprints all over this one?
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 22, 2007.
Amanda Terkel: So for all those Washington Post reporters out there, let's go over the facts again.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. November 6, 2007.
In a half-dozen states voting today, civil rights activists and Democrats expect to see voter intimidation and suppression.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. May 29, 2007.
Maybe the House Judiciary Committee needs a refresher course in treacherous Jim Crow election tactics.
