voting rights
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.
February 24, 2012 -
Facing federal scrutiny over a new voter ID law, South Carolina Republicans pushed lurid stories of dead voters taking over the polls. But even as the story fell apart, Fox News and GOP lawmakers dug in -- and still are, despite new evidence that zombie voter hysteria was a bad B-movie hoax.
February 21, 2012 -
Democrats and voting rights advocates successfully rebuffed an effort to pass a voter photo ID requirement in North Carolina in 2011. Now state Republicans are giving mixed signals about whether voter ID is back on the agenda.
February 6, 2012 -
Karen Handel, the Komen Foundation VP now alleged to have spearheaded the decision to sever funding for Planned Parenthood, was earlier known for her controversial and litigation-prone reign as Georgia's elections chief.
February 2, 2012 -
After a brief hiatus, the battle over voting rights is heating up in states across the South and country as November approaches.
January 27, 2012 -
With South Carolina's new voter ID bill facing federal scrutiny, a Republican official claimed to have found over 900 cases of dead voters casting a ballot. But then the claims started to unravel, and officials won't release the list of supposedly suspect voters.
January 12, 2012 -
The Department of Justice has stepped up its involvement on voting rights in challenging voter ID laws. But the cases may push debate over the Voting Rights Act into a hostile Supreme Court.
