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After Georgia wins, voting rights advocates see a window for election reform

Democracy

How we got here: Report for America’s coverage of a divided nation

Infamy and anarchy. As the shocking images of yesterday’s violent occupation of the U.S. Capitol resounded worldwide, these...

Jan 07, 2021
Democracy

Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger: strong against Trump, weak on voting rights

ATLANTA — Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger took a call from President Donald Trump on Saturday unlike...

Jan 04, 2021
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Court fees and fines make voting near-impossible for ex-felons in Tennessee

In the summer of 2018, Sean Murray dialed his local news channel after seeing a segment on voter...

Dec 22, 2020
Rights

Can Georgia’s voting rights activists get out the vote one more time?

Leah Owenby, a lifelong Georgia resident, has voted in every presidential election since she turned 18. But Georgia’s...

Dec 21, 2020
Rights

‘Women doing whatever we want’: The little-known fight for women’s financial rights

At 25 years old, Oklahoma City-native Terry Neese wanted to buy a building to expand her small but...

Nov 30, 2020
Democracy

As last of Georgia ballots are counted, a look at how voter turnout hit record high

Updated at 6:45 p.m. ET on Nov. 5, 2020 ATLANTA – After just under 5 million Georgians cast...

Nov 05, 2020
Democracy

How Trump is trying to cloud the presidential election result

WASHINGTON & DETROIT — At about 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump falsely declared victory from...

Nov 04, 2020
ON THE GROUND WITH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

‘Passing the baton’: Civil Rights era elders are helping protestors channel activism into voting for change

This dispatch is part of a series in collaboration with PBS American Experience that explores the expansion of...

Nov 02, 2020
Rights

Washington state Latinos are pushing for ranked choice voting to boost equity

Evangelina “Bengie” Aguilar, 59, spent her childhood as a migrant farmworker. She was born in Arizona, but work...

Nov 02, 2020
Democracy

Scientists said to buy cheaper, safer voter machines. South Carolina spent $51 million on these instead

COLUMBIA, S.C. – It’s difficult to talk for long about voting technology and election security in South Carolina...

Nov 01, 2020
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