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'We can't just rally every four years:' Young people of color stand up to voter suppression in Florida and Texas
Florida and Texas lawmakers introduced voting rights legislation organizers say are designed to dis…
Gwen Aviles
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Meet the executive in charge of Bank of America's massive effort to give more mortgages to disenfranchised homebuyers, including one program that requires no down payment
AJ Barkley leads BofA's community and neighborhood lending program which has doled out $9.9 billion…
Kelsey Neubauer
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Michigan judge rejects GOP election lawsuit that could have disenfranchised Detroit voters saying the plaintiffs didn't provide 'any shred of evidence'
The lawsuit, filed by Republican candidate Kristina Karamo, had sought to prevent Detroit voters fr…
Charles R. Davis
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Some voters with disabilities say they feel like 'second class citizens' in their struggle to cast a ballot like the able bodied
Voters with disabilities face obstacles unfamiliar to most able-bodied people to ensure they can ca…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Over 1 million former convicts in Florida regained the right to vote — and this group is trying to register them for the 2020 elections
The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition is canvassing door to door to register voters, despite hur…
Katie Nixdorf,Kaitlyn Wang
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Georgia Republicans rebut Trump lawsuit that seeks to disenfranchise millions of voters
Lawyers for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Trump "seeks …
Charles Davis
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House committee votes to approve DC statehood as Democrats denounce the disenfranchisement of DC's 700,000 residents
The legislation is uniformly opposed by Republicans and is doomed in the Senate as long as the fili…
Eliza Relman
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A group of Michigan voters are suing the Trump campaign for disenfranchising Black voters, lawsuit alleges
The president's campaign has sought to toss out legally-cast ballots in targeted areas and a lawsui…
John L. Dorman
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Vote-by-mail applications in 43 states are not accessible to people with disabilities, possibly disenfranchising millions of voters
Inaccessible applications could disenfranchise the estimated 38 million people with disabilities wh…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Trump's demand to throw out ballots arriving after Election Day would break the law and disenfranchise military voters
Thousands of military ballots are potentially still coming in, but the commander in chief is determ…
Ryan Pickrell
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A federal judge threw out a major Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania, issuing a blistering opinion refusing to disenfranchise 7 million voters
The Trump campaign's lawyers argued earlier this week that they wanted Trump to be declared the win…
Michelle Mark
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Trump calls for strict voter ID laws, which critics say disenfranchises the poor and minorities
"Despite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential …
Alex Lockie
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We tried to pass a Louisiana literacy test used to disenfranchise black voters in the '60s
Following the Civil War, many southern states administered literacy tests to prospective voters. Ho…
Emmanuel Ocbazghi
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Emmanuel Ocbazghi
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AEREO CEO: The Networks Are Threatening To Disenfranchise People Who Can't Afford Cable
In the cable and satellite TV era, many probably don't realize you can get a lot of TV for free. If…
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Trump won't permanently lose his right to vote in Florida if he's convicted of any of the 91 felony charges he faces and he can thank voting rights activists for passing a constitutional amendment that Ron DeSantis opposed
Without civil rights activists' efforts in 2018, Trump's right to vote after a felony conviction wo…
Bryan Metzger
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I tackled my midlife crisis by visiting Kurt Cobain's Seattle shrine. The trip prompted me to quit my job.
A 41-year-old's trip to Cobain's Seattle shrine showed him that he was a man-boy living in the past…
Rob Furber
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Trump asks SCOTUS to overturn Colorado's ruling barring him from the state's primary ballot
Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a ruling barring him from the Colorado ballots.