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Voter fraud is such a rare occurrence that even a conservative news outlet is reporting on its virtual nonexistence. From Fox News Latino: “State officials in key presidential battleground states, many of them Republican, have found only a tiny fraction of the illegal voters they initially suspected existed. Searches in Colorado and Florida have yielded Read More
The best manipulative political arguments are made by taking a complicated issue and giving a simplistic answer to promote your own opinion. As the November election draws near, new voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10 million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting based on the simple concept Read More
Apparently, the state of Texas has justice, too. From CBS News: “A federal court has ruled against a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November. A three-judge panel in Washington ruled Thursday that the law imposes “strict, unforgiving burdens on the Read More
Latinos are not a monolithic group, but some people sure like lumping us together: From the National Journal: “In a lengthy, sweeping decision, a federal court in Washington on Tuesday unanimously struck down Texas’ new congressional map, ruling that the plan was enacted with ‘discriminatory purpose’ against Hispanics protected under the Voting Rights Act. The Read More
Republicans claim the sky is falling. As Talking Points Memo reports: “The GOP platform committee adopted language on Tuesday supporting states that have passed voter ID and proof of citizenship laws. The citizenship amendment, proposed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), would support laws that make voters prove their citizenship before they are Read More
As the conservative argument goes, voter ID laws are a desperately needed line of protection against attempts to pervert the democratic process. But hold on a sec, because our friends at HuffPo Latino Voices have something to add: “In a stipulation agreement signed earlier this month, [Pennsylvania] state officials conceded that they had no evidence Read More
Voter ID laws may keep a half-million eligible voters from fulfilling their duty this year, according to a study released by the Brennan Center for Justice on Wednesday. As Fox News Latino reports: “The report found that while legal precedent requires states to provide free voter IDs to eligible residents who don’t have them, even Read More
So far, this election’s most controversial debate (other than the recent return of the birthers) is arguably voter I.D. laws. Thirty-two states have already implemented some sort of voting identification law, and some of the strictest laws are in places where, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of census figures, the minority population has Read More