voter suppression

May 17, 2012 - Voter registration numbers show that Southern electorate in two key battleground states continues to grow more diverse. But will new voting restrictions undermine the power of black and Latino voters?

April 5, 2012 - A by-the-numbers look at the effort underway in Florida and other states to set up roadblocks to voter registration drives.

January 20, 2012 - When South Carolina residents go to the polls on Jan. 21 to choose a Republican presidential candidate, they won't have to show photo ID thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice's decision to block a state law that would have disproportionately disenfranchised minorities. But Gov. Nikki Haley plans to challenge the move.

October 14, 2011 - This year, state legislatures pushed a raft of bills that would make it more difficult to vote. Could those bills change the outcome of the 2012 elections?

October 28, 2010 - June 5, 2007. It was poised to be a big day in North Carolina political history: State senators were about to vote on H 91, a historic election reform bill bill that would allow voters to register and vote at the same time at hundreds of early voting sites across the state.

April 23, 2006 - For all the hype surrounding yesterday's "ground

April 27, 2005 - Last week, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) signed into law a measure requiring voters to show photo identification before voting.