Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In October 2024, investigative journalist Greg Palast published to YouTube a documentary, Vigilantes Inc., detailing voter suppression by "vigilante" challenges by self-appointed vote-fraud hunters, not government officials, who are targeting people to challenge and block the counting of their ballots. [179]
Broadly, voter suppression is any hurdle that prevents an eligible citizen from casting their vote. For some, the phrase "voter suppression" may invoke images of protesting crowds, like those at ...
Critics, including former House Representative Beto O'Rourke, have decried the efforts as "voter suppression". [235] [236] The Texas Democratic Party called the bills an "assault on voting rights". [237] On July 12, 2021, at least 59 Democratic lawmakers left the state to prevent Republicans from having quorum to act on their legislation. [238]
Instead, it seems that Americans heading to the polls on Tuesday might be more subject to issue, given reports of voter intimidation or attempted suppression have cropped up in key states.
Holder weakened the Voting Rights Act, leading to a wave of voter suppression laws. At least 19 states, including Tennessee, passed voter ID laws and limited access to mail-in voting between 2020 ...
Civil rights leaders believe that a decision handed down by the Supreme Court on Wednesday could lay the framework for post-election challenges. The high court's conservative majority ruled to ...
Richard L. Hasen outlines three main avenues for election subversion in the United States: 1) disqualify votes where a partisan body justifies changing the outcome, (2) fraudulent or suppressive election administration, and (3) actors disrupting the voting, the counting of votes, or the assumption of power by true winner.
Voter suppression in the United States consists of various legal and illegal efforts to prevent eligible citizens from exercising their right to vote. Such voter suppression efforts vary by state, local government, precinct, and election. Voter suppression has historically been used for racial, economic, gender, age and disability discrimination.