Unpacking the Before and After of Voter Suppression
ATTORNEYS LAVERNE BERRY and Steve Miller have volunteered in each of the last three presidential elections. In 2008, 2012, and 2016 they joined a national effort…
The Fight Over Voting Rights Ahead Of Midterms
Some lawmakers seek to prevent many people from voting ahead of this fall’s midterms. Those efforts don’t show up in polls, but could affect the results.
Will New York's outdated voting laws finally be reformed?
The last-minute push to register to vote in the November 6 midterms is on. With New York's deadline looming, places like…
It's a Big Year for Voting Rights at the Ballot Box
States have spent much of the past decade enacting restrictive voting and voter registration laws, such as voter identification requirements. Voters in several states will decide…
Warning: Deadlines approach amid the state’s arcane voting laws: Editorial
First, the good news: Comparatively speaking, turnout was exceedingly high in New York’s primary elections last month.
Opinion: The Anti-Voter Supreme Court
After Heidi Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat, narrowly won a Senate seat in 2012, Republicans changed a voter-identification law in the state.
Advocates encourage voting rights for New York parolees
The politics of fear and the false connection between race, dangerousness, and criminality have served as obstacles to parole justice for far too long, according to…
Opinion: Voter Suppression Is No Excuse
“My message in this upcoming election is very simple: It’s vote,” Barack Obama told his former speechwriter…
The Myth of the Lazy Nonvoter
If history is any indicator, only around 40 percent of eligible voters will vote in the midterm elections. Most people assume that voter turnout remains this low because Americans are apathetic and simply don’t want to vote.
Letter: Change laws to make voting easier
I'm a woman of a certain age who has never missed voting in a primary or general election in more than four decades until the recent primary.