swing states
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Robocall Disinformation Campaign Tells Flint Voters to Avoid Long Lines and Vote After Election Day
Modern-day voter suppression takes many forms: Disproportionately long lines at precincts in majority-Black neighborhoods, biased voter ID laws, and requiring the formerly incarcerated to pay off all their fines before voting, to name just a few. Political disinformation campaigns, in which individuals and groups spread information they know to be false or misleading, can also…
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Voters of Color in 2 Key Swing States Are Seeing Their Mail Ballots Returned at Higher Rates Than White Voters
Florida and Georgia—two crucial battleground states in the 2020 election—are rejecting mailed-in ballots from voters of color at substantially higher rates than those from white voters, according to a recent analysis by NBC News and the Democratic political data firm TargetSmart. According to NBC News, the data looks at mailed-in ballots across 11 different states.…
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Voter Suppression Reportedly on Rise in States Where Increasing Numbers of Democratic-Leaning Students Head to the Polls
College students headed to the polls in droves during the last presidential election, and with that number only expected to grow in next year’s race, Republican lawmakers have been throwing up roadblocks, especially in swing states. That’s because college students trend Democratic, according to recent polls, the New York Times reports. And attempts to suppress…
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Va. Gov. to Restore Voting Rights to 200,000 Ex-Offenders
In what some will surely call “executive advocacy” (or abuse), the governor of Virginia will sign a staggering number of individual clemency grants to restore the voting rights of thousands of ex-offenders in the state after a court decision Friday threatened to take them away, reports ThinkProgress. In a 4-3 decision late Friday, the Supreme…