96-year-old Dorothy Cooper's story is just the latest outrageous example of recent legislation, passed by Republican statehouses and governors, creating barriers to voting.
Read More96-year-old Dorothy Cooper's story is just the latest outrageous example of recent legislation, passed by Republican statehouses and governors, creating barriers to voting.
Read MoreRolling Stone's latest issue includes a report on the Republican campaign to suppress the Democratic voting blocs that elected Barack Obama in 2008—what one civil-rights advocate calls "the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century."
Read More"As we celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, we reflect on the life and legacy of this great man. But recent legislation on voting reminds us that there is still work to do. Since January, a majority of state legislatures have passed or considered election-law changes that, taken together, constitute the most concerted effort to restrict the right to vote since before the Voting Rights Act of 1965."
Read MoreIn at least 36 states across the country, Republican governors and legislators have been pushing photo ID bills, which would make it harder for hundreds of thousands of Americans to vote. Despite an overwhelming number of studies disputing claims of voter fraud, which is the purported basis for these laws, Republicans continue to introduce these proposals—often at the expense of minorities and young adults in particular.
Read MoreOn July 14, 2011, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus held a conference call with conservative bloggers and Republican leaders to perpetuate the myth of widespread voter fraud in American elections. Following this call, Priebus circulated misinformation that made the same erroneous claims used by Republican state legislatures to support harsh photo ID requirements in more than 30 states.
Read MoreIn yesterday's Washington Post, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach published an op-ed that argued for unnecessary and suppressive photo ID laws. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times false claims about the new photo ID laws are refuted, Republican policymakers continue to introduce them.
Read MoreOn March 9, 1970, Senator Ted Kennedy spoke to the importance of lowering the voting age to 18 in testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments: "By lowering the voting age we will improve the overall quality of our electorate, and make it more truly representative of our society. By adding our youth to the electorate, we will gain a group of enthusiastic, sensitive, idealistic and vigorous new voters." In 2008, young people embodied the spirit of Kennedy's words, voting in historic records to elect President Barack Obama.
Read MoreJust twenty-three years old, Tobin Van Ostern is a trail blazer in the political social media world. Back in 2006, at the age of 18, he partnered with Students for Barack Obama to help 80 online chapters grow to more than 1,000 online and offline chapters across the nation by 2008.
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