"19 states sue over Trump's voting executive order, arguing it's unconstitutional"
"Nineteen states are suing over President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order on voting that he signed last week, saying it is "an unconstitutional attempt to seize control of elections" that will create barriers to voting that could disenfranchise millions."
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #Republicans #VotingRights
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/nx-s1-5351751/voting-executive-order-lawsuit
Today we’re excited to welcome Rank MI Vote!
We’ll be discussing ranked choice voting—what it is, how it works, and how it can give you more power in choosing who represents you.
We’ll also dive into urgent conversations around the ongoing attacks on voting rights and share critical updates on the barriers to voting that continue to impact our communities.
Join here at […]
https://votingaccessforall.org/2025/04/join-vaac-for-our-weekly-community-meeting-today-at-1230-2/
EFF Joins #AmicusBrief Supporting #PerkinsCoie Law Firm Against #Unconstitutional #ExecutiveOrder
EFF has joined the #ACLU and other legal advocacy organizations across the ideological spectrum in filing an amicus brief asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie for its past work on #VotingRights lawsuits and its representation of the President’s prior political opponents.
#trump #maga #takeover
"The Senate is on the verge of confirming Harmeet Dhillon to lead the #CivilRights Division at the Department of Justice, putting someone who has spent years attacking #VotingRights, #AbortionRights, and #LGBTQrights in charge of protecting those rights for millions of Americans":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harmeet-dhillon-doj-civil-rights-voting_n_67ed7c26e4b0b937ab8f58f7
#politics #Trump #extremism
How do foreign nationals feel about Estonia’s decision to revoke their voting rights? | News https://www.byteseu.com/890032/ #Estonia #VotingRights
Interview: "The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has since January been obsessed with this race."
"The pivotal race on Tuesday will shape the majority of the state’s top court & have a far-reaching impact on issues like abortion & voting rights."
"A liberal victory would be widely interpreted as a rebuke of the Republican agenda."
~Wisconsinite John Nichols, The Nation
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/31/wisconsin_musk
Edit - and Musk lost!
#musk #wisconsin #trump #votingrights #uspol #abortionrights #racism .
ATTENTION: ALL HANDS ON DECK!
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is being voted on TODAY.
It would disenfranchise millions with strict in person requirements for voter registration, disproportionately impacting service members and civilians abroad, and make it harder for them to vote.
CALL YOUR REPS TODAY!
Go to https://5calls.org/ to find your reps, or if you don't have international minutes, check out https://resist.bot/
Interview: "The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has since January been obsessed with this race."
"The pivotal race on Tuesday will shape the majority of the state’s top court & have a far-reaching impact on issues like abortion & voting rights."
"A liberal victory would be widely interpreted as a rebuke of the Republican agenda."
~Wisconsinite John Nichols of The Nation
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/31/wisconsin_musk
#musk #wisconsin #trump #votingrights #uspol #abortionrights #racism .
ICYMI: SERAP Opposes Proposed Legislation to Penalize Non-Voters in Nigeria https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/serap-opposes-proposed-legislation-to.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #Nigeria #VotingRights #ElectoralReform #HumanRights #Democracy
Louisiana's recent election results delivered a stunning blow to Republican Governor Jeff Landry, highlighting the overwhelming impact of Black voters. His proposed amendments faced fierce opposition, with nearly two-thirds rejecting them, signaling a shift in grassroots political power led by activists. This outcome serves as a potent reminder of community engagement in democratic processes, urging other states to learn from Louisiana’s triumph. Read more about this pivotal moment [here](https://www.joyannreid.com/p/that-louisiana-win-is-a-bfd-and-a). #Louisiana #VotingRights #Grassroots #BlackVote #Democracy
Tell Congress to stop voter suppression and vote NO on the SAVE Act! Find a gathering at {link here} or by visiting our bio!
The SAVE Act would limit access to the polls by enacting the most restrictive voter ID requirement this country has ever seen.
#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #DOJ #GAPol #VotingRights
From Reuters.com: In a change of course, US Justice Dept drops challenge to Georgia voting law
https://www.aol.com/news/change-course-us-justice-dept-163831029.html
"The withdrawal is the latest tangible effect of recent court rulings that experts say make it difficult for coalitions to bring claims on behalf of groups of historically marginalized voters."
ATTENTION: ALL HANDS ON DECK!
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is being voted on TODAY.
It would disenfranchise millions with strict in person requirements for voter registration, disproportionately impacting service members and civilians abroad, and make it harder for them to vote.
CALL YOUR REPS TODAY!
Go to https://5calls.org/ to find your reps, or if you don't have international minutes, check out https://resist.bot/
How will the stripping of voting rights affect integration in Estonia? | News https://www.byteseu.com/879869/ #AndresKollist #ArnoldSinisalu #constitution #Estonia #integration #riigikogu #RussianCitizensInEstonia #VotingRights
Adam Cullen: Am I a danger to my community in Estonia as a US citizen? | Opinion https://www.byteseu.com/877315/ #AdamCullen #Estonia #Expats #LocalElections #VotingRights
Really, if you can, worthwhile to listen. Very good background on the insidious GOP 'SAVE' act & Trump's EO attacking our right to vote.
[Slate Amicus Podcast]: Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On Voting. Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, Wendy Weiser
#saveAct #executiveOrders #votingRights #voteSuppression
#Law #justice #courts
Trouble in #Trumpland? No wonder they want to restrict #VotingRights !
#Stefanik’s withdrawal suggests #Republicans are sweating their thin margins
By Andrew Howard, Ally Mutnick and Ben Jacobs
03/28/2025 04:45 AM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/stefaniks-withdrawal-suggests-republicans-are-sweating-their-thin-margins-00255984
#Elections #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Resist #TrumpRegrets #USPol
What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans
