voter suppression
Trump Supporters Are Intimidating Voters at the Polls
At a Virginia polling place, voters had to be given "escorts" to get past a group of chanting Trump supporters.
Mail-In Ballots From Black Voters in North Carolina Are Rejected Way More Than White Voters'
Meanwhile, the president is spreading misinformation about vote-by-mail in the state, calling it a "rigged election in waiting."
Trump Says He’s Going to Send Cops to the Polls on Election Day. He Can't Do That.
"We’re going to have sheriffs and we’re going to have law enforcement and we’re going to hopefully have U.S. Attorneys and everybody — attorney generals," Trump said.
LeBron James Is Fighting to Make Sure Felons Know They Can Vote
James joined VICE TV’s "Stick to Sports" to discuss his work with More than a Vote, a coalition of Black artists and athletes pushing back against voter suppression ahead of the 2020 election.
100 Years After Women's Suffrage, US Voters Still Face Countless Barriers
Native, formerly incarcerated, and immigrant women, among others, describe the obstacles that keep their communities from being fairly counted.
Georgia’s Elections Just Melted Down Again — and Could Get Worse Come November
Voters in the poorest and most heavily Black communities in Georgia were the ones where voting procedures broke down the worst.
Republicans Are Planning to Spend $20 Million So You Won’t Vote
The party is recruiting 50,000 volunteers in 15 states to “monitor polling places and challenge ballots and voters deemed suspicious.”
Republicans Allowed Coronavirus to Suppress the Vote in Wisconsin, and November's Elections are Next
In Milwaukee, home of most of the state’s African American population, local officials closed all but five of 180 polling places.
Young People Aren’t Apathetic. They’re Facing Major Voting Obstacles
“It’s hypocritical accusing us of not being engaged politically when there are a lot of barriers to us voting," one college student said.
Trump Says Polls That Show Him Losing ‘Suppress the Feelings’ of Voters
In an interview with Brian Kilmeade, Trump rated Fox News hosts on a scale of 1 to 10.
The Texas Official Who Threatened to Purge Thousands of Legal Voters Is Gone
Thousands of naturalized citizens were told to prove their citizenship or lose their registration.
Florida felons just got the right to vote. GOP leaders want to slow-walk it.
A new amendment gave felons the right to vote back in Florida. But Republicans in the state might undermine it.