Supreme Court: States Cannot Demand Additional Proof of Citizenship To...
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that states cannot demand additional proof of citizenship to register to vote. Almost immediately after, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas filed an amendment to the...
View ArticleAutomatic for the People
There’s some great news about this year’s session of the Tennessee General Assembly. YES! You read that correctly. This year’s legislative session offers some truly good news. A pair of bills have been...
View Article800,000 Register to Vote in One Day
National Voter Registration Day was a huge success nationwide and in Tennessee: More than 800,000 people registered to vote last week on National Voter Registration Day, setting a new record for the...
View ArticleStop Voter Suppression
Tennessee has some of the country’s lowest voter participation rates, and some of our state legislators want to keep it that way by passing a bill to penalize voter registration drives. Today, Tuesday...
View ArticleSave Voter Registration
There’s a rally at the Capitol tomorrow (April 15th, 2019) to save voter registration. We’ve told you that large voter registration drives are under attack from those who want to suppress the vote and...
View ArticleHouse Votes to Criminalize Voter Registration Drives
Despite opposition from a coalition of groups from around Tennessee, the Tennessee House of Representatives yesterday voted to criminalize voter registration drives. Here’s more on the opposition: “A...
View ArticleStopping Voter Suppression
The Tennessee Journal reports that a number of groups have filed a lawsuit to prevent Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s voter suppression law from going into effect: Several groups are seeking to block...
View ArticlePoisoning the Soil
A federal judge weighs-in on Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s effort to suppress voter registration — TN HOLLER has more: U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger expressed much skepticism of Hargett’s bill...
View ArticleVoter Registration – What You Need to Know
Our friends at CivicTN with information you need if you’re part of a group registering voters in the face of Tennessee’s new (but federally blocked) voter registration law: On Oct. 1, a new law...
View ArticleSecretary of State Pushes New Voter Suppression Effort
Sam Stockard has the story in the Daily Memphian: Secretary of State Tre Hargett is pushing a new set of voter registration rules, including $50 levies per violation, even though a federal judge...
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