voter suppression

"I don't want us to elect the best bully. I want us to elect the best person," Abrams said during a SXSW appearance.

In 2018, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Nevada and Washington all approved bills to implement automatic voter registration, and New Mexico may soon follow.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said the bill should "encourage every eligible voter" to participate.

Carter asked Brian Kemp to step down from his role overseeing an election in which he is a candidate.

"Voter suppression isn't only about blocking the vote," said Abrams. "It is also about creating an atmosphere of fear, making sure their votes won't count."

The video is gaining attention amid accusations that Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is running for governor, is suppressing the vote of minorities, with more than 50,000 voter registrations on hold.

A Georgia county that is nearly two-thirds black may have almost all of its polling places shut down ahead of a gubernatorial election in which a candidate could become the country's first black female governor.

The Republican Party, with its foundation now in the solid South, has done all it can to drag the country back into the nineteenth century through egregious voter suppression, mass incarceration, and financial and economic deprivation.

Speakers at this year's "Power to the Polls" event on Sunday in Las Vegas gave special attention to women of color and black women especially, whose contributions to the feminist movement they said have been ignored and pushed to the side for too long.

The alleged voter suppression has disproportionately involved people of color, according to rights groups.

Kicking out Dreamers won't keep the American electorate white forever.

For years, a committed core of conservatives has been fighting against small "d" democracy, and the left has lacked the ability—or the imagination—to fight back.

The less popular Trump is, the more politicians of either stripe can stand up to him.

Democrats seem to believe their good manners will be rewarded by voters.

Democrats who try to bargain with Republicans might be played for suckers.

Democratic politicians need to resist voter suppression and engage with black communities outside election time.