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Voter Purges
politics
Mar. 26, 2021
Georgia Republicans Take Revenge on Voting Rights After major Democratic wins, the embattled GOP passes a harsh law to claw back power.
By Ed Kilgore
politics
Mar. 9, 2021
Why the Voting-by-Mail Fight May Be a Sideshow Republicans and Democrats have seemingly fallen for Trump’s wrongful belief that it cost him the election.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
May 31, 2020
Let’s Nationalize the Way We Run Elections With guerrilla warfare over voting procedures threatening public confidence in election results, it’s time for some clear and uniform procedures.
By Ed Kilgore
June 11, 2018
Supreme Court Opens Door to More Red-State Voter Purges In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS finds a rationale for policing voting rolls in ways that disproportionately affect minorities.
By Ed Kilgore
Jan. 10, 2018
Are Republicans Violating Your Right Not to Vote? Maintaining the right to vote may depend on keeping people who don’t always vote on the rolls, as a Ohio case before the Supreme Court shows.
By Ed Kilgore
Aug. 8, 2017
Justice Department Changes Sides, Wants to Let States Purge Infrequent Voters In a policy reversal, the Justice Department now supports quick purges of infrequent voters, which especially affect minorities (and Democrats).
By Ed Kilgore