Category: Voter registration
Rathke: Surging voter registration in the United Kingdom
New Orleans Here’s an interesting voter registration story, but it’s not in the United States, but the United Kingdom. I had been hearing about this phenomenon for weeks whenever I spoke with our organizers in…
Rathke: Voter Purges Coming in Wisconsin and Georgia
New Orleans A Georgia judge allowed a 300,000 voter purge to happen hours ago in that state. A lawsuit filed by Fair Vote Action seeking to prevent the purge will happen later this week on…
What the New York Times gets right and wrong about ACORN
by Wade Rathke October 7, 2020 New Orleans P.T. Barnum, the famous 19th century impresario and huckster from Bridgeport, Connecticut is often quoted as saying, “Any kind of publicity is good publicity as long as…
Stopping Purges as Voter Registration Deadlines Hit
by Wade Rathke October 5, 2020 New Orleans We’re on the countdown to the election now. October 5th marks the last voter registration day for the majority of states. The flipping of pages on the…
Alabama just doesn’t like its people it seems
by Wade Rathke Little Rock There’s nothing new about states, particularly blood-red states, trying to suppress the vote. The Republican strategy continues to be not to change one iota in their far right, white grievance,…
Why so few young Americans vote
By John Holbein, University of Virginia The United States has one of the lowest rates of youth voter turnout in the world. The gap between 18- to 29-year-olds and those over 60, a common measuring stick,…
Reworking Don McLean’s “American Pie” YouTube creators The Founding Fathers post “The Day Democracy Died”
Across America people are concerned about the actions of wealthy and powerful people suppressing votes, removing voters from voter registration lists, putting up obstacles to make it difficult to even register to vote, eliminating voter protections…
Field testing voter purges and “drops”
Columbus As the Voter Purge Project moves forward, we are now analyzing the voter files on more than a dozen states on our way to double that number in coming weeks, many of them include the…
Georgia Governor Kemp loses vote purge suit brought by reporter Palast
Nicole Powers for The Palast Investigative Fund February 9 Atlanta In an extraordinary and unexpected move, Federal Judge Eleanor Ross has declared Gov. Brian Kemp the loser in a lawsuit brought by investigative journalist Greg Palast…
Government shouldn’t play gotcha on voting and benefits
New Orleans Talking to a reporter from Politico about voter purges and why there needed to be supplemental efforts other than failing to answer a letter in the US Mail to determine whether a voter…
“It’s always been Republicans suppressing votes,” Trump advisor says party will get even more aggressive in 2020
“It’s clear there’s no law Donald Trump and his right-wing machine won’t bend, break, or ignore to try to win the presidency.” by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Common Dreams Reporting on Friday shows a top advisor…
Unita Blackwell’s life and work is a beacon for us all
New Orleans At the end of every year, there’s a section in the New York Times about the “lives they lived” that looks at people large and small that died during the past year. Unita…
Kansas abandons technology trumpeted by Kris Kobach, Trump’s onetime Voter Fraud Czar
A system supposedly meant to root out voter fraud was beset by security and accuracy issues. by Jessica Huseman, Pro-Publica The Kansas Secretary of State’s office has announced it will indefinitely suspend the use of controversial…
