Julie Kerr Julie Kerr

Kris Kobach and His 5,313 Fraudulent Voters

The voter-fraud crusaders who run President Trump's electoral-integrity commission have found their holy grail ...

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Schumer: Democrats eyeing ways to disband Trump's election commission

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that Democrats are mulling how to disband President Trump's voter fraud commission. 

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Connections: Discussing electoral reform

Voting reform remains a challenge to overcome in the U.S. and in individual states. According to the League of Women Voters, New York ranked 41st in voter turnout in 2016, with just more than 57 percent of eligible voters casting their ballots.

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Smattering Of Voting SNAFUs Reported During Low-Turnout NYC Primary Day

It's Primary Day in New York City (and will be until the polls close at 9 p.m.), in case you were wondering why you were seeing all of those "I Voted" stickers. And true to form with the city's elections, there's a smattering of chaos to go along with our low voter turnout.

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New York gets out the vote, or not: Editorial

On Tuesday, New Yorkers can head to the polls to cast ballots in local primaries. Well, some can. 

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A Vote Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

There are many people who live and breathe spreadsheets in this city. But Todd Breitbart’s columns and rows connect him not to dollars and cents but to neighborhoods, ethnic groups — and democracy.

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New York Sued Over Voter Roll Purges

New York is wrongly purging voter rolls to remove the names of supposedly inactive voters, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of a government watchdog group.

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Trump's voter suppression efforts must be defeated. Here's one thing we can do

So much news in the US recently has been upsetting, and rarely uplifting; but the champions of voting rights have reasons to be both aghast at recent headlines and encouraged by them.

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Essay: Time to end Tuesday Election Day tradition

President Trump’s faux commission on voter integrity is all about voter suppression. It is another sign of a disturbing trend in our broken politics and a move to restrict...

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Editorial Board: The Right to Vote: A Continuing Struggle

Things move fast these days, so fast, in fact, that Americans are getting accustomed to radical change almost overnight. The country’s lightning speed acceptance of...

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