Filmmaker and political activist Michael Moore points to Republican efforts to bar people from voting as the clearest sign that the GOP realize that they’re “in the crapper.” This speech was given at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington D.C. on October 2, 2011, but is every bit as relevant today as when […]
John Franks is a veteran who lives in Texas. He tried to vote with his VA government ID card and was told time and again by a judge that he was not permitted to vote because he didn’t have proper identification. Eventually, after threatening a lawsuit, he was finally allowed to vote but as he […]
Sarah Silverman takes on voter suppression laws, discussing the fact gun registration cards can be used for ID to while many other forms of traditional ID like social security cards, student IDs, veterans IDs, and student IDs are no longer valid for voting. So why not go out today and get a gun to insure […]
Election day is around the corner and, as The New York Times notes, “Republican officials and legislators around the country are battling down to the wire to preserve strict and discriminatory new voting laws that could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans.” U.S. Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner of Chicago issued a […]
State laws that make voters show IDs at polling places have put a price on ballot access and eroded turnout – especially among African Americans, young people and recently-registered voters – a non-partisan congressional watchdog concluded. A recent report by the Government Accountability Office report also found scant evidence of voter fraud that the new […]