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United States Supreme Court
Voters of color cannot be used as partisan pawns to gerrymander districts, as Black voters were in South Carolina. When they are, it is unconstitutional, and it should never be tolerated.
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Candace Bond Theriault
Bond-Theriault works through a Black, queer feminist lens to drive change and build power.
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Voting Rights Organizations Resolve to Protect Florida Voters as State Continues History of Voter Suppression
More than a decade later, National Voter Registration Day has been endorsed by national associations and the federal government. More than 5 million voters have been registered to vote on the holiday since 2012.
In the media
Gerren Keith Gaynor
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Young Black Girl Voting
Public policy organization Dēmos takes a deep dive into voter suppression and ballot access issues in ten states.
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Rayna Reid Rayford
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Capitalism’s endless economic growth prioritizes the individual over community and creates extreme inequality. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Anoa Changa
Ericka Taylor
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Six decades after the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, our work remains unfinished. However, hope is not lost.
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Taifa Smith Butler
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A study of 10 states’ voter purge policies released earlier this month identified potential barriers to voter participation and urged reform in Indiana and nine others.
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Alex Dalton
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Arizona is in litigation over a 2022 law that could allow for what some are calling “draconian purge practices” that lead to more Arizona voters being disenfranchised.
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Alex Gonzalez
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There are many good reasons for states to update their voter rolls in preparation for elections, but a new report contended many are too zealous about it, jeopardizing some people's right to vote.
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Farah Siddiqi

Evaluating ten states across a spectrum of voter removal practices on an important but often overlooked voting barrier: voter purges. Purges played a part in more than 19 million voters being removed between the 2020 and 2022 general elections.

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