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Demos and the ACLU of Ohio, on behalf of the civil rights-labor organization the Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI), sent a pre-litigation notice letter to Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted demanding that the State stop illegally removing voters from its voter registration rolls.
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In recent years, North Carolina has come under considerable public scrutiny for its failure to protect and promote the right to vote.
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Naila Awan
In my latest at Salon I explore a new working paper by political scientists Stephen Ansolabehere and Brian Schaffner, the most comprehensive examination of voters and nonvoters that has ever been performed. As I note my piece, studies of non-voters have been difficult because of small samples and
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Sean McElwee
Upwards of 140,000 Kentuckians can this week regain full voting status, and as many as 30,000 more will have their rights restored over time.
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Damon L. Daniels
What’s up with working-class whites? It’s a question that’s been asked for decades, and has been raised again recently in the discussion surrounding an Alec MacGillis piece examining Matt Bevin’s recent election gubernatorial win in Kentucky, which could leave many in Kentucky without Medicaid.
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Sean McElwee
Alabama’s driver’s license agency has been getting a lot of attention lately — for good reason.
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Stuart Naifeh
Expanding access to the polls is not a partisan issue—vetoing it is. The Democracy Act passed as a pro‑voter issue, and the governor’s veto does the exact opposite.
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Damon L. Daniels
This time next year, the election of 2016 will be over and America will have chosen its next president. But how many Americans will have actually participated in making this decision? In the 2012 presidential election, 1.3 million votes decided the winner in the ten states with the closest margins
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Liz Kennedy
As you read this, workers across the country from retail, fast food, home care, and the federal government are launching one of the biggest strikes yet, calling for $15 an hour and collective bargaining rights. Together, they make up the American working class, the backbone of our economy, and they
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Tamara Draut
I worked with a New Jersey coalition to pass this bill, and we watched it quickly move through the state legislature and reach Governor Chris Christie’s desk this past June. Even though the bill was supported by the vast majority of Governor Christie’s constituents, the bill then languished for over
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Damon L. Daniels