…densely populated counties may be home to one or more cities or towns. Most have long been divided into precincts, voting districts, or polling districts. These should be subject to…

What are leading Democrats trying to accomplish with their current push on voting rights?  It’s far from clear.  One approach to voting rights reform would have been to reach out…

…put representation in the House in jeopardy for states blocking voting. It mandates states lose a portion of their  congressional delegation if they unduly restrict the right to vote.” Tom Sullivan…

…a vote. We borrowed two voting machines from the county. They had not been used before in Oak Ridge. Anybody could vote who could present an envelope with a name…

…Barr in June 2020 saying that mail-in voting “opens the floodgates of fraud,” even though there is no credible evidence of substantial mail-in voter fraud. Barr voted by mail himself…

…passed and the states ratified the Fifteenth Amendment, protecting Black male voting. And then, when white reactionaries organized as the Ku Klux Klan to keep Black men and white Republicans…

…civil rights act to protect Black voting. Thurmond launched the longest filibuster in U.S. history to try to stop it. Republicans who hated the government’s postwar regulation of business saw…

…But I believe the country has moved beyond its tolerance for this type of disruption. And with many more GenZers voting in 2024, we may just get through this period…

…lot to say about Kari Lake and the RNC’s accusations. Last week, I talked about state and local propositions and the election again in Voting for politicians, unions, and propositions…

…Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965), ex-confederate state national politicians had been nominally Democrats; after these two monumental achievements (both of which were achieved under a Democratic…