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Voter Suppression articles on Democracy Chronicles

Voter suppression is an illegal strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from exercising their right to vote. Also see our section on American democracy and our articles on Voter Turnout and Voter Access.

How Democrats Botched The Fight Over Voting

February 18, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

How Democrats Botched The Fight Over Voting

Over the past year Democrats told supporters that America’s future was at stake if they did not pass two doomed voting rights bills.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Democrats, Voter Access, Voter Suppression

Texas Voting Rules Causing High Number Of Ballot Rejections

February 14, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

Texas Voting Rules Causing High Number Of Ballot Rejections

Prior to next month’s state governor’s primary, new tighter voter ID rules have already resulted in a significant number of ballot rejections.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American State Elections, Voter Access, Voter ID, Voter Suppression

Texas Law Censoring Election Officials on Mail Voting Blocked

February 14, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

Texas Law Censoring Election Officials on Mail Voting Blocked

Texas’s S.B. 1 makes it a crime for elec­tion offi­cials and work­ers to encour­age vote by mail. This provision has been struck down.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Absentee and Mail Voting, Journalism and Free Speech, Voter Suppression

Georgia Republicans Try To Undo Local Elections

February 12, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

Georgia Republicans Try To Undo Local Elections

A new wave of power grabs by Georgia’s GOP legislators is threatening to wrest control of key local government bodies from Democrats.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American Local Elections, Minority Voting Rights, Voter Access, Voter Suppression

Florida’s Election Integrity Police Force And DeSantis

February 11, 2022 by Steve Schneider 2 Comments

Florida voters who died from Covid-19 were lifelong Republicans who consistently voted in primaries and general elections before the virus killed them.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American State Elections, Voter Access, Voter Registration, Voter Suppression

Supreme Court Backs Alabama’s Anti-Black Redistricting

February 9, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

Supreme Court Backs Alabama’s Anti-Black Redistricting

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama’s new congressional district maps that may disenfranchise black voters.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, Minority Voting Rights, Redistricting, Supreme Court, Voter Suppression

Rejected Mail Ballots Are Showing Racial Disparities

February 7, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

Rejected mail ballots are showing racial disparities

Black voters’ postal ballots were rejected at four times the rate of white voters’ mail ballots, according to Washington State auditors.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, Minority Voting Rights, Voter Suppression

5 Egregious Voter Suppression Laws From 2021

February 3, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

5 Egregious Voter Suppression Laws From 2021

2021 was, unfortunately, a banner year for new barriers to the right to vote. Among these egregious voter suppression laws, 5 stand out.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Voter Access, Voter Suppression

Trump Directly Involved In Plans To Seize Voting Machines

February 1, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

The new accounts show that Trump was directly involved than previously known in proposals to use national security agencies to seize voting machines.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American Corruption, Republicans, Voter Suppression, Voting Machines

How Georgians Were Disenfranchised by Voting Restrictions

January 30, 2022 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

How Georgians Were Disenfranchised by Voting Restrictions

After Georgia’s GOP-led legislature passed law restricting mail voting disenfranchisement by rejected mail ballot applications rose.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American State Elections, Voter Access, Voter Suppression

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