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One Chart Shows the Depressingly Racist Truth About Voter ID Laws You Tried to Ignore

Republicans claim voter ID laws aren't racist, but numbers don't lie.

Sean McElwee, a researcher for progressive think tank Demos, compared measures of racist sentiments among white people in each of the 50 states (such as whether they believe blacks are trustworthy or intelligent) to dataon voting laws in each state, including when they were introduced and how strict they are.

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Tom McKay

7 Ways Student Debt Can Ruin Your Life

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Zeeshan Aleem

Democrats Look to Make Debt-Free College the Key Campaign Issue of 2016

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Jana Kasperkevic

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ New Bill Would Make Attending A Four-Year Public College Free

Senator Bernie Sanders may be shaking up the 2016 presidential election already, but he’s also continuing to make waves in Congress. The senator from Vermont has proposed something pretty radical: free college for all at public four-year colleges and universities for those who meet admission standards.
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Annie Wood

Texas’ Motor Vehicles Department Misfires on Voter Registration

During the 2012 and 2014 elections, thousands of Texans arrived at the polls having registered to vote at the Department of Public Safety (Texas’ motor vehicles department), only to be told that they were not on the voter rolls.

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Stuart Naifeh

North Carolina Voting Law Hits Black Voters: Study

North Carolina’s recent voting law changes will disproportionately affect black voters in the state, according to a study published Wednesday by Dartmouth University.  

“The study provides powerful ammunition for the pending legal challenges,” says Brenda Wright, a voting rights expert with the liberal think tank Demos. “It shows that virtually every key feature of North Carolina’s election legislation will disproportionately cut back on registration and voting by African Americans in North Carolina as compared to whites.”

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Adam Serwer

Our Flawed Voter Registration System

Having to register to vote is a practical barrier for some people, especially those who are poor and marginalized. So shifting that burden to the state leads to more people voting.

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Zachary Roth

How the Prison-Industrial Complex Is Corrupting American Elections

Voting matters. Though many Americans believe that voting is either useless or merely a civic duty, in reality it carries huge consequences for the decisions of politicians.

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Sean McElwee

Blacks’ Right to Vote ‘No Longer Endangered’? Look Again

Jeff Jacoby ends his June 29 column by asserting that black citizens’ right to vote “is no longer endangered anywhere in America.” What America is he talking about?

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Brenda Wright