voter suppression

"I think without a change, we're going to see an escalation of these tactics, and we will be dealing with a kind of a return to the past," the ACLU said.

Anti-fraud laws are not about preventing voting. If they were, they would clearly be a miserable failure.

"I realized I had forgotten my wallet when I arrived at my polling location, and offered my press secretary card," Alabama GOP Chairman John Wahl told Newsweek.

It depends where you live.

A former aide to Meadows has said he was warned in advance about possible violence on January 6.

"We're going to meet this challenge of voter suppression by coming together and personally contacting over 2 million Texas voters," O'Rourke said.

"Let me take this opportunity to make clear that that plan, the McConnell Plan, that's what it is, is unacceptably insufficient and even offensive," Schumer said.

The department is suing the state over its new redistricting maps, saying the plans discriminate against Black and Latino voters.

"I think we should be extremely alarmed," the progressive New York congresswoman said in an interview.

Beto O'Rourke's PAC has raised more than $600,000 to keep Democratic lawmakers in Washington, D.C. and to deny Texas Republicans the quorum needed to pass a sweeping elections bill.

A group set up by Beto O'Rourke will donate the money to the 50-plus Democratic lawmakers who are trying to prevent the passage of voting restrictions.

"To me this is not about infighting with another Republican member. This is about election integrity period," Hice said at CPAC Sunday.

People on Twitter criticized Harris after she suggested it would be "almost impossible" for people in rural communities to provide photocopies of their IDs.

The Pennsylvania senator said he believes the Senate will have to change its rules "in order to protect voting rights with 51 votes."

The outgoing DeKalb County official warned about putting "dangerous demagogues" in charge of elections.

"As you know, the Constitution does provide for federal oversight of state elections," the Fox News Sunday anchor told the GOP senator.

"The question is are we able to maintain a process in which we listen to other voices?" Obama said on Friday.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) had found an area of "common ground" with Republicans by supporting "voter suppression" on Monday.

The West Virginia Democratic senator has come under fire for refusing to support the For the People Act following an op-ed he wrote for the Charleston Gazette-Mail.

"When you're pushed to the extreme, you respond to that with extreme," Texas state Representative Joe Moody said.

A review of IRS records reveals that brand-name corporations and corporate lobbying groups funneled millions of dollars to two major GOP groups that pushed to curtail voting rights and overturn the 2020 election.

"You cannot have those things you refuse to dream of," the Georgia Democrat said.

"I'm not sure why [former U.S. Attorney General Eric] Holder pre-cleared the Republican redistricting plans back in 2010," Ben Jealous said Friday.

When Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens and asked what sort of government the delegates of the Constitutional Convention had created, he answered, "A republic, if you can keep it." The "you" he was talking about is us.

Kemp defended the legislation, saying it makes it "easy to vote by expanding access to the polls and harder to cheat by ensuring the security of the ballot box."

Murray, the third-ranking Senate Democrat, has previously refrained from signaling support for overturning the filibuster, which typically requires a 60-vote bipartisan majority to pass legislation.

Cannon was charged with two felonies, one for allegedly "preventing or disrupting General Assembly sessions or other meetings of members" and one for willful obstruction. She was released on Thursday.

A lawsuit filed against Georgia's "Voter Suppression Bill" on Thursday alleges that it will impose "unjustifiable burdens disproportionately on the State's minority, young, poor, and disabled citizens."

"A decent man as president, a plan to protect us, it feels almost normal, but it's not," warns the latest Lincoln Project ad.

The Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia called Trump's strategy "unwinnable," saying the GOP needs "real leadership."