Voting rights

U.S. 01/25/22, 15:11

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) explained that he inadvertently omitted a word in a remark about Black voters that sparked a massive backlash. The backlash emerged online after McConnell last Wednesday responded to a question asking if color voters would be negatively impacted if Democrats' sweeping election voting bill did not pass. He answered at ...

U.S. 08/25/21, 00:21

U.S. Congress approved framework for a $3.5 trillion budget bill and $1 trillion infrastructure plan with no House Republican votes on Aug. 24. In a party-line decision 220 Democrats voted for the Path Forward for Build Back Better Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, and 212 GOP House members opposed it. CNBC reported ...

Washington 07/31/21, 03:10

Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was arrested Thursday, July 29, while participating in a voting protest in Washington. Lee headed a march of Black voting rights activists outside a Senate Hart Building to protest the passing of Democrats-backed legislation on voting rights, For the People Act. The bills passed the House ...

D.C. 07/17/21, 00:25

Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) was arrested after leading a group of pro-voting rights demonstrators into the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday afternoon on July 15. “Today, I stood in solidarity with Black women across the country in defense of our constitutional right to vote,” Beatty said in ...

U.S. 06/13/21, 16:26

In an email to his supporters, former President Donald Trump stressed the importance of addressing “voting irregularities and fraud” or America’s future would be compromised. “The Department of Justice (DOJ) is adding more people onto its roles in order to fight against efforts to limit voting and, I assume, other illegal ...

U.S. 05/07/21, 03:59

On Thursday, May 6, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed into law the Georgia-style election bill backed by Republicans, which places more restrictions on mail-in voting and ballot drop boxes, reducing risks of forged voting results.  Senate Bill 90 puts a limit on where drop boxes shall be placed, as well ...

Europe 05/17/19, 02:03

The Council of Europe has gathered for a ministerial meeting that could restore Russia's voting rights in the continent's main human rights watchdog.The council suspended Russia's voting rights after it annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014 in a move that Ukraine and almost all of the world views as illegal. ...

2022 Campaign 05/13/19, 08:16

A Florida federal judge ruled that, for the 2020 presidential elections, 32 counties in the state had to cast ballots in Spanish. As noted in Palm Beach Post, Chief Justice Mark Walker of Florida Gainesville's Northern Division decided that for the Florida Primary Election scheduled to take place on March 17, ...

U.S. 05/03/19, 18:53

Florida felons will have to pay court-ordered financial obligations if they want their voting rights restored under a bill sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday that would implement a voter-approved constitutional amendment. The bill, though, caused outrage among Democrats who say Republicans are adding hurdles that don't reflect the ...

U.S. 05/02/19, 18:51

Most Florida felons will have their voting rights restored under a bill the Senate passed to implement a constitutional amendment approved by voters.The bill passed Thursday on a 22-17 vote and now goes back to the House.Voters approved a constitutional amendment in November that restored voting rights for felons who ...

U.S. 05/01/19, 15:28

A loud group of chanting protesters disrupted a Florida House session over proposals to ban sanctuary cities for immigrants, limit felon voting rights and other controversial bills.Chanting slogans such as "stand up fight back" and displaying banners that read "strong hearts fight back," about two dozen people brought debate in ...

Politics 04/29/19, 15:10

Bernie Sanders attracted controversy when he said he’d give the most gruesome felons in the country, including Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the right to vote while in prison.  Many prisons, like the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, house hundreds of prisoners and are located in rural towns across ...

Politics 04/28/19, 07:54

New Hampshire Democrats are looking for help from their party's presidential candidates in overturning a law they claim will make it harder for some college students to vote. At campaign events across the state, White House hopefuls are being pressed to speak out against the 2018 law. It subjects college students ...

U.S. 04/25/19, 07:39

Feminist author and activist Gloria Steinem once said, “Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven’t been a part of history.” But American women became an important part of hist

U.S. 04/24/19, 17:41

Legislation to restore voting rights to convicted felons except murderers and felony sex offenders has passed the Florida House. The Republican-dominated House voted 71-45 Wednesday for the bill that would implement a constitutional amendment approved by voters last November. The main issue is whether legislation is needed at all, and whether ...

2022 Campaign 04/24/19, 11:14

Democratic presidential contenders are facing a new debate over whether criminals in prison, even notorious ones like the Boston Marathon bomber, should be able to win back their right to vote. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says they should and that voting is "inherent to our democracy — yes, even for terrible ...

U.S. 04/23/19, 20:20

Legislation that would restore voting rights to convicted felons except murderers and felony sex offenders is another step closer to passage in the Florida House. Lawmakers debated a measure into the night Tuesday that would implement a constitutional amendment approved by voters last November. The main issue is whether legislation is ...

Politics 04/16/19, 16:02

Native American voters face poor access to polling sites, discrimination by poll workers and unfair identification requirements, tribal leaders told members of Congress who traveled Tuesday to a reservation in North Dakota where voting rights were a key issue in last year's U.S. Senate race. A House elections subcommittee's meeting at ...

U.S. 04/02/19, 06:12

President Trump says the count of people living in the country would be 'meaningless' without asking about their citizenship, and the issue will soon go before the Supreme Court

Politics 03/20/19, 15:10

In a matter of months, Stacey Abrams has gone from losing the Georgia governor's race to being a heavily recruited Democratic star, urged to run for Senate and mentioned as a possible presidential contender. It's a dramatic rise often fueled by the promotional spending of Fair Fight Action, a nonprofit she ...