Voting rights and access

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• Diane Rehm Show - A Look At Voter Access Across The U.S.
  n an election season already full of firsts, here’s another: this will be the first presidential election since the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013. And in 16 states new voting restrictions will be in place for the first time. Recently, thousands stood in line for hours waiting to cast their primary ballots in states like Utah, Arizona, and Idaho. Some warn this is a sign of what’s to come in the general election and beyond: roadblocks to voting that disproportionately affect minorities and the most vulnerable Americans. Others argue we’re closer now to a fair system. A look at access to voting across the U.S. Guests Ari Berman senior contributing writer, The Nation; author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America" Carrie Johnson justice correspondent, NPR Jan Baran head of the election law group at Wiley Rein LLP; former general counsel, Republican National Committee; author, "The Election Law Primer for Corporations." Guy-Uriel Charles professor of law, Duke Law School; founding director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race and Politics
• Do Voter Purges Discriminate Against the Poor and Minorities?
  Sean Holstege, News21, NBC News, Aug 24, 2016
• Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC)
  The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a non-profit organization with the sole mission of assisting states to improve the accuracy of America’s voter rolls and increase access to voter registration for all eligible citizens. ERIC is governed and managed by states who choose to join, and was formed in 2012 with assistance from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
• Facing South - 2015 - Concerns grow over voting rights for the South's language minorities
  By Allie Yee on March 20, 2015 12:26 PM
• Facing South - 2015 - DENYING A DREAM: Charlotte voters snared in N.C. crackdown on alleged non-citizens
  By Chris Kromm on May 15, 2015 11:47 AM. Additional research and reporting provided by Alex Kotch.
• Facing South - 2015 - INSTITUTE INDEX: Is North Carolina suppressing poor people's votes?
  By Sue Sturgis on May 15, 2015 12:42 PM
• Facing South - 2015 - INSTITUTE INDEX: The fight to restore the Voting Rights Act
  By Sue Sturgis on March 20, 2015 2:17 PM
• Facing South - 2015 - The lone Southern GOP cosponsor (so far) of the Voting Rights Act restoration bill
  By Alex Kotch on March 20, 2015 11:25 AM
• Facing South - Controversial anti-voter fraud program risks disenfranchising voters through racial bias, report finds
  Sue Sturgis, Institute for Southern Studies, September 2, 2016 Kris Kobach — who as chair of his state's Republican Party championed an illegal voter suppression technique called "caging" — launched a program called Interstate Crosscheck to compare voter registration data across states and ferret out evidence of double voting.
• Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina
  Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina, by James L. Leloudis and Robert R. Korstad.
  University of North Carolina Press 2020
  Fragile Democracy tells the story of race and voting rights, from the end of the Civil War until the present day. The website includes a digital exhibit with historical images.
• Greg Palast articles about voter suppression
  Includes multiple articles about voter suppression
• Many People Who Wanted to Vote Could Not
  More research is needed before we can definitively say whether or not voting problems affected the outcome of races. By Brennan Center Staff | Moyers & Co., November 16, 2016
• Mike Pence Used State Police To Suppress Voter Registration In Indiana, Advocacy Group Claims
  Julia Craven, Huffington Post, 10/15/2016 A raid this month seized 45,000 voter registration applications, most of them from black voters.
• NPR - Why Voter Rolls Can Be A Mess
  All Things Considered, June 16, 2016 This week, as part of the Nation Engaged project, NPR and some member stations will be talking about what the 2016 primary season has revealed about voters' confidence in the American electoral system. Part of running a fair election is knowing who the voters are. That means keeping an accurate list of who is eligible to vote. That has proved to be a difficult task in many states - including New York, where a spectacular meltdown angered thousands of voters and inflamed partisan passions during the state's April presidential primary.
• NY Times Editorial Board - Virginia's Century-Old Mentality on Race
  NY Times, The Editorial Board, July 30, 2016 White political leaders who amended the state Constitution [to bar felons from voting] in 1902 made no bones about that, saying that the goal was to “eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this state in less than five years, so that in no single county in the commonwealth will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in government affairs.” Another leading politician said that the laws would ensure “the elimination of every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”
• Republican States Send Voter Files to Kobach, While Claiming They Will “Resist” His Demand By Greg Palast for The Progressive
  Greg Palast, 2017
• Republican Voter Suppression Efforts Are Targeting Minorities, Journalist Says
  Fresh Air, NPR, October 23, 2018, with Terry Gross. Since the 2010 elections, 24 states have implemented new restrictions on voting. Alabama now requires a photo ID to cast a ballot. Other states such as Ohio and Georgia have enacted "use it or lose it" laws, which strike voters from registration rolls if they have not participated in an election within a prescribed period of time. Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot, says that many of the restrictions are part of a broader Republican strategy to tighten access to the ballot — an effort that was bolstered in 2013 by the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder ruling.
• State of Things - 'Give Us The Ballot:' The Story Of Voting Rights Since 1965
  'Give Us The Ballot:' The Story Of Voting Rights Since 1965 By Will Michaels & Frank Stasio WUNC Radio, The State of Things, 8/18/2015
• THE-NVRA-at-FIFTEEN-A-Report-to-Congress.pdf
  The National Voter Registration Act at Fifteen, by Estelle H. Rogers, Esq., 2009. Project VOTE, www.projectvote.org This report summarizes both the triumphs and failings of the 15–year old NVRA, and makes recommendations for finally and fully realizing its promise, with a focus on four key sections of the law:
• The sneaky new voter suppression tool in North Carolina, uncovered by one of our own
  The sneaky new voter suppression tool in North Carolina, uncovered by one of our own by Joan McCarter, The Daily Kos, Thu Oct 01, 2015 at 02:59 PM PDT
• Unbelievable GOP Statements on Voter Suppression
  Unbelievable GOP Statements on Voter Suppression
  by Karin Kamp, Moyers & Co, October 24, 2014
• Voter suppression: Ohio’s incredible tactics
  by Zenitha Prince. Special to the AFRO. Originally published April 16, 2014.
• Voter Suppression Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Voter Fraud
  Ari Berman, The Nation, Oct 20, 2016