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US voter suppression

A series about voter suppression in America, in the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections

1 February 2019

  • A voter casts a ballot in Georgia’s primary election at a polling site in a high school gymnasium Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

    Racist voter suppression is rampant – and corporate silence is complicity

    Reverend William Barber and Rashad Robinson
    As millions of Super Bowl dollars flow into Atlanta, we say to Delta, Coca-Cola and others: stand up and protect our civil rights

17 December 2018

  • Opponents of an extraordinary session bill submitted by Wisconsin Republican legislators hold ‘Stop Lame Duck’ signs at a rally outside the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison, on 3 December.

    'A reason to stand up': Wisconsin activists fight threat to African American vote

    Voting rights advocates are mobilizing after Scott Walker signed a lame-duck bill limiting early voting

19 November 2018

  • Rebecca Solnit

    How many husbands control the votes of their wives? We'll never know

    Rebecca Solnit
    Door-to-door canvassers tell stories of husbands who bully, silence and control their wives into voting conservative

16 November 2018

  • Cas Mudde

    Voter suppression is an all-American problem we can fight – and win

    Cas Mudde
    It has been part of US history since its foundation. But the midterms have proven that vital progress against it can be achieved

10 November 2018

  • Election recount protest, Lauderdhill, USA - 09 Nov 2018<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ian Witlen/REX/Shutterstock (9972778m) Broward resident Joannie James counter protests along with other Gillum supporters as supporters of Rob DeSantis and Rck Scott protest the handling of election results while clashing with Andrew Gillum supporters outside of the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office in Lauderdhill, Florida Election recount protest, Lauderdhill, USA - 09 Nov 2018

    Trump accused of stifling democracy as midterm races remain on knife edge

    President claims without evidence that key races in Arizona, Georgia and Florida are being rigged against Republicans

24 October 2018

  • Garrett Muscatel, a Dartmouth student and a Democratic candidate for the New Hampshire house of representatives stands outside the campus’s historic library.

    'It's a poll tax': how New Hampshire became a battlefield for voting rights

    In two years, the Republican-controlled state government has passed two bills that Democrats argue target the voting rights of the state’s 90,000 college students

19 October 2018

  • Advocates for voting rights outside the supreme court, which will decide wether Ohio state has the ability to purge voters from registration rolls for failing to vote in a two year period, and for failing to respond to a mailer.

    Midterms: how the votes of vulnerable groups are being suppressed

  • Sheila Holcomb waited over a decade for the chance to ask Florida Governor Rick Scott and his administration to restore her right to vote.

    'I'm going to beg for mercy': a Florida woman's years-long struggle to vote

28 September 2018

  • Crystal Mason, who is facing five years in Texas prisons because she mistakenly cast a provisional ballot when she was not allowed to do so

    Crystal Mason begins prison sentence in Texas for crime of voting

    Mason, in a case seen as emblematic of voter suppression, faces over five years in prison for a mistaken vote that was not counted

24 September 2018

  • FILE - In this June 22, 2018 file photo, former first lady Michelle Obama speaks at the American Library Association annual conference in New Orleans. Obama is launching a book tour to promote her memoir “Becoming,” a tour featuring arenas and other performing centers to accommodate crowds likely far too big for any bookstore. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

    'I am frustrated too': Michelle Obama urges voters to register ahead of midterms

    When We All Vote kicks off in Las Vegas with a nonpartisan aim – registration and participation – in highly partisan times

23 September 2018

  • With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, and with so much riding at both national and state level on voter turnout, the stakes could not be higher.

    Thousands at risk from rightwing push to purge eligible voters from US rolls

    Conservative groups such as Pilf publish voters’ details online in what experts say amounts to ‘insidious modern-day intimidation’

16 September 2018

  • Poor People’s Campaign

    The war on poverty begins at the ballot box

    Reverend William Barber and Dr Liz Theoharis
    Voter suppression and gerrymandering have created unfair elections that keep poor people out of the democratic process

9 September 2018

  • Inside San Quentin State Prison<br>Inmates stand outside at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. San Quentin, home to the state’s only death row, houses 725 condemned inmates. On the November 8th California ballot voters have the chance to abolish the death penalty or speed up the process. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    US inmates mark end of prison strike with push to regain voting rights

    After 19 days of protest in prisons across the US, organisers see restoring the right to vote as a means of forwarding prison reform

28 August 2018

  • Crystal Mason, who is facing five years in Texas prisons because she mistakenly cast a provisional ballot when she was not allowed to do so

    US voter suppression: why this Texas woman is facing five years' prison

    Fort Worth is suffering a crisis of democracy – just 6% of electors voted in the last midterms – so why is it targeting two minority women who mistakenly cast ballots?
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