JUNEAU, AK (August 3, 2023) – The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s (Tlingit & Haida) Executive Council voted yesterday to unanimously support the Frank Harrison, Elizabeth Peratrovich, and Miguel Trujillo Native American Voting Rights Act. The bi-partisan legislation has been brought forward in every Congress since 2019 and makes […]
“Today is another day of Michigan values holding strong against lies about our elections,” said one campaigner. Government ethics advocates on Tuesday welcomed the indictment of former Michigan attorney general candidate Matt DePerno and ex-state Rep. Daire Rendon, Republicans who prosecutors say illegally tampered with voting equipment as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn […]
“Ever since the people of Florida passed a constitutional amendment to grant people with felony convictions a new right to vote, the governor and the state have done everything in their power to prevent those 1.4 million new voters from actually voting,” said one lawyer for the plaintiffs. A voting rights group on Wednesday sued […]
At least 29 of the voter suppression laws passed since the Shelby v. Holder County decision would have been subject to the preclearance provision that the ruling ended. Since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Shelby County v. Holder exactly 10 years ago Sunday, at least 29 states have enacted nearly 100 restrictive laws […]