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Oct 15, 2011 · Her life has spanned nearly a century of progress: The 19th Amendment extended suffrage to women, the Civil Rights movement led to the dismantling of segregation laws, and the Voting Rights Act...
- August, 2014
- Summary
- Republicans Push Restrictive Voting Requirements
- Voter ID Laws Target Women
- Women’s Names on Forms Must Be Identical
- 96-Year-Old Woman Denied A Voter ID
- Voter Fraud Virtually Nonexistent
- Restrictive Laws Are Politically Motivated
- Reducing Early Voting Days, Times
- Voting Lines A Nightmare in Florida
At stake on the Nov. 4 general election is control of the U.S. Senate with just six seats in the balance. Democratic candidates and progressive challengers for Congressional and state legislative seats could be vulnerable to massive right wing super PAC spending and aggressive media attacks. Needed: a big turnout by the “Rising American Electorate ...
As we move closer to the mid-term general election on Nov. 4, there is a serious concern is that turn-out will be very low for this crucial election. Already tallies from primary elections this year show that voter apathy is running high. According to a Gallup survey taken in May, 53 percent of registered voters say they are less enthusiastic about...
Restrictive laws designed to reduce voter turnout have been on the rise in recent years, especially in districts where likely Democratic voters are concentrated. Designed primarily by Republicans who claim that the new laws prevent voter fraud, the laws have focused on reducing early voting days and on requiring voters to provide an official person...
Voter ID laws have a disproportionately negative effect on women. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, one third of all women have citizenship documents that do not identically match their current names primarily because of name changes at marriage. Roughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husband’s last name. That means that rough...
A related problem is that the U.S. Patriot Act requires women’s names on certain official government documents to be the same. Thanks to the Department of Homeland Security and the ever-tightening regulations on identification requirements, today a woman with a hyphenated name on one form of ID and just a maiden name on another is grounds for suspi...
Ninety-six year old Dorothy Cooper was denied the opportunity to vote in 2011, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Born in Georgia, she moved to Tennessee to work in her 20s and never left. She never needed a driver’s license, and has voted in every election but one since she became eligible to vote. When she attempted to get a free vote...
Though Republicans have claimed that these laws are aimed at preventing voter fraud, they have failed to demonstrate that voter fraud is a real problem. In-person impersonation at the polls — the kind of fraud that ID laws are supposed to prevent — is exceedingly rare. In the 2012 election there were only 10 incidents of voter impersonation fraud; ...
Restrictive voting laws are being proposed by Republicans because their Party benefits from them. As one Republican consultant stated, “A lot of us are campaign officials — or campaign professionals — and we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think that’s voter ID, sometimes we think that’s longer lines — whatever it may be...
Republican politicians around the country are also attempting to reduce the amount of early voting days – for the obvious reason: to limit certain groups’ ability to get to the polls. A majority of states already have some form of early voting, according to a Brennan Center for Justice 2013 report, Early Voting, What Works. In the 2013 legislative ...
An Ohio State University professor, Theodore Allen, concluded that in 2012 more than 200,000 people gave up and went home without voting in Florida. Some 49,000 voters in central Florida were estimated to have been discouraged from voting due to the long lines; 30,000 of those voters were estimated to have been Obama supporters, according to Allen ...
Dorothy Cooper, the 96-year-old Chattanooga woman who gained national attention as the face of the photo ID voting issue, has gone nationwide again. Or at least her story has.
Oct 6, 2011 · Dorothy Cooper, an elderly Black voter who tried to comply with new voting rules, was denied the ID card she needs to vote next year.
Oct 6, 2011 · To comply with Tennessee’s new photo voter ID law, Dorothy Cooper–reportedly a voter since at least the 1940s –“gathered up a bunch of documents and took them all to her local photo ID office in Chattanooga,” reports Gawker. She showed a voter registration card, her lease, a rent receipt, and birth certificate.
Oct 6, 2011 · Dorothy Cooper is 96 but she can remember only one election when she’s been eligible to vote but hasn’t. The retired domestic worker was born in a small North Georgia town before women had the...
Oct 7, 2011 · Dorothy Cooper, a 96-year-old woman who lives in Tennessee, has become mired in bureaucracy as a result of new Republican voter ID laws. She joins PoliticsNation to share her story.
