voter suppression

Two years after false claims of voter fraud fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, those same lies are shaping restrictive voter laws in a slew of states nationwide, explains Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. And they are targeting primarily voters of color.

What is happening today in America “is not normal.” That was the gist of President Biden’s prime-time speech Thursday delivered in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were both drafted.

The GOP’s relentless war on alleged rampant voter fraud targets not thousands, as many critics have noted, but millions of eligible voters.

Hundreds of ralliers gathered on Boston Common Saturday afternoon in support of the For the People Act, which would counter voter suppression and gerrymandering and limit money’s influence in politics.

The GOP’s dead person vote myth, though laughable, has been often trotted out as one of its vote fraud canons. Every claim has been painstakingly investigated to determine if there is anything to the charge.

Prominent Black business CEOs have rescued American democracy. They united in unequivocal opposition to efforts of numerous states to establish voting rights restrictions. They asserted that “voting is the lifeblood of our democracy … and is the most basic and fundamental right of all Americans.”