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A sad day in American politics: “In a move drawing fire from voter ID law supporters, the largest global election monitoring organization is sending an unprecedented number of observers to U.S. polling stations, paying particular attention to any signs of voter intimidation. The website of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe says that Read More
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
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
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
On February 28, Compton City Council members reached a settlement involving a 2010 suit filed by two Latinas, Felicitas Gonzalez and Flora Ruiz, who claimed Compton was violating the voting rights of its Latino citizens. In Compton, a historically black city that has in recent times become predominately Latino, city council elections are at-large. While Read More